Service Management Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Service Management
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring Service Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 58 43
Rank change year-on-year -20 -15 +5
Contract jobs citing Service Management 58 25 68
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 2.96% 2.60% 3.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.33% 2.96% 4.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 13 36
10th Percentile £185 £146 £419
25th Percentile £275 £188 £498
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £232 £581
Median % change year-on-year +105.72% -60.17% +22.36%
75th Percentile £539 £425 £600
90th Percentile £575 £475 £765
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £16.17 - -
Median hourly rate £16.25 - £12.53
75th Percentile £16.33 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £29.60 £30.00 £17.72
% change year-on-year -1.33% +69.30% -30.25%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Yorkshire

Service Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,743 844 1,593
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 89.06% 87.64% 88.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,161 502 992
10th Percentile £290 £232 £275
25th Percentile £400 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £550 £573 £588
90th Percentile £656 £650 £675
England median daily rate £501 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.67% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 23 47
10th Percentile £14.25 £12.74 £11.07
25th Percentile £15.29 £16.00 £12.58
Median hourly rate £25.15 £22.50 £17.06
Median % change year-on-year +11.78% +31.93% +60.44%
75th Percentile £55.00 £38.75 £23.75
90th Percentile £68.75 £85.61 £53.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year -26.03% -6.85% +4.29%

Service Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Service Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Service Management job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Service Management
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Service Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Service Management

Service Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Service Management in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 29 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Service Management in Yorkshire

Service Management
Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Service Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Service Management

Service Management
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Service Management within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 29 January 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Yorkshire -11 23 £519 +22.06% 14
South Yorkshire -42 23 £485 +117.87% 11
North Yorkshire +3 6 £195 - 1
Service Management
England

Service Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 13 (22.41%) SharePoint
2 3 (5.17%) Confluence
3 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 7 (12.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (8.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (5.17%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (3.45%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (3.45%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.72%) NetSuite
2 1 (1.72%) SAP ERP
2 1 (1.72%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 15 (25.86%) Microsoft 365
2 12 (20.69%) Azure
3 11 (18.97%) Entra ID
4 9 (15.52%) OneDrive
5 7 (12.07%) Power Platform
6 5 (8.62%) PowerApps
7 2 (3.45%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (1.72%) AWS
8 1 (1.72%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.72%) GCP
8 1 (1.72%) GitHub
8 1 (1.72%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.90%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (3.45%) DNS
2 2 (3.45%) LAN
2 2 (3.45%) Remote Desktop
2 2 (3.45%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.72%) DHCP
3 1 (1.72%) Firewall
3 1 (1.72%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.90%) Power BI
2 3 (5.17%) Relational Database
3 2 (3.45%) Data Mining
3 2 (3.45%) GIS
4 1 (1.72%) Electronic Patient Records
4 1 (1.72%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.72%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (10.34%) JIRA
2 1 (1.72%) Git
2 1 (1.72%) GitLab
2 1 (1.72%) Jenkins
General
1 21 (36.21%) Social Skills
2 13 (22.41%) Finance
3 9 (15.52%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (8.62%) Banking
4 5 (8.62%) Retail
5 4 (6.90%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (6.90%) Public Sector
6 3 (5.17%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (5.17%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (3.45%) Legal
8 1 (1.72%) Billing
8 1 (1.72%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 10 (17.24%) 2nd Line Support
1 10 (17.24%) IT Support
2 7 (12.07%) Analyst
2 7 (12.07%) Service Manager
3 5 (8.62%) Project Manager
4 4 (6.90%) Lead
4 4 (6.90%) Service Transition Manager
4 4 (6.90%) Transition Manager
5 3 (5.17%) Business Analyst
5 3 (5.17%) Data Analyst
5 3 (5.17%) Microsoft 365 Business Analyst
5 3 (5.17%) Report Analyst
5 3 (5.17%) SAP Manager
5 3 (5.17%) Transformation Manager
6 2 (3.45%) Delivery Manager
6 2 (3.45%) Hardware Engineer
6 2 (3.45%) Infrastructure Manager
6 2 (3.45%) Infrastructure Programme Manager
6 2 (3.45%) SAP Project Manager
6 2 (3.45%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.45%) Spring Boot
2 1 (1.72%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.90%) Data Centre
1 4 (6.90%) Smartphone
2 3 (5.17%) CMDB
2 3 (5.17%) Mainframe
2 3 (5.17%) PMI
2 3 (5.17%) Product Ownership
2 3 (5.17%) Virtual Team
3 2 (3.45%) iPhone
3 2 (3.45%) Mobile App
3 2 (3.45%) NHS
3 2 (3.45%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.72%) Culture of Ownership
4 1 (1.72%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (1.72%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.72%) Driving Licence
4 1 (1.72%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.72%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.72%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 14 (24.14%) Windows
2 4 (6.90%) Mac OS
3 3 (5.17%) Windows 10
4 1 (1.72%) Linux
4 1 (1.72%) Unix
4 1 (1.72%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (67.24%) ITIL
2 20 (34.48%) ITSM
3 16 (27.59%) Stakeholder Management
4 12 (20.69%) Agile
5 11 (18.97%) Project Management
6 10 (17.24%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (15.52%) Observability
7 9 (15.52%) Service Delivery
8 8 (13.79%) DevOps
8 8 (13.79%) Incident Management
9 7 (12.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 6 (10.34%) Continuous Improvement
10 6 (10.34%) Customer Service
10 6 (10.34%) PRINCE2
10 6 (10.34%) Risk Management
10 6 (10.34%) Root Cause Analysis
11 5 (8.62%) Mentoring
11 5 (8.62%) Project Delivery
11 5 (8.62%) Service Design
12 4 (6.90%) Dependency Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (6.90%) Perl
1 4 (6.90%) Python
1 4 (6.90%) Shell Script
2 3 (5.17%) SQL
3 1 (1.72%) C#
3 1 (1.72%) Java
3 1 (1.72%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (8.62%) Degree
1 5 (8.62%) PMI Certification
2 4 (6.90%) PMP
3 3 (5.17%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (5.17%) Security Cleared
4 2 (3.45%) ACSP
4 2 (3.45%) ACTC
5 1 (1.72%) CISM
5 1 (1.72%) CISSP
5 1 (1.72%) ISEB
5 1 (1.72%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (1.72%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.17%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.45%) QA
3 1 (1.72%) GDPR
3 1 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.72%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.72%) PMO
3 1 (1.72%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (24.14%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.72%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (17.24%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (6.90%) Jamf Pro
3 3 (5.17%) SCCM
4 2 (3.45%) Kubernetes
5 1 (1.72%) Ansible
5 1 (1.72%) Grafana
Vendors
1 10 (17.24%) ServiceNow
2 8 (13.79%) Microsoft
3 5 (8.62%) Splunk
4 3 (5.17%) SAP
5 2 (3.45%) Apple
5 2 (3.45%) HP
6 1 (1.72%) AppDynamics
6 1 (1.72%) Canon
6 1 (1.72%) CheckPoint
6 1 (1.72%) Dell
6 1 (1.72%) Oracle
6 1 (1.72%) Salesforce