Service Management Contracts in Yorkshire

Service Management
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire requiring Service Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Service Management over the 6 months leading up to 1 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 34 64
Rank change year-on-year -20 +30 +7
Contract jobs citing Service Management 52 88 52
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 4.17% 5.13% 2.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.48% 6.10% 2.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 56 34
10th Percentile £188 £211 £161
25th Percentile £240 £493 £214
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £538 £440
Median % change year-on-year -11.63% +22.16% -2.22%
75th Percentile £575 £556 £575
90th Percentile £600 £600 £614
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 4 2
Median hourly rate £22.14 £13.85 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year +59.86% -35.01% +0.28%
England median hourly rate £21.02 £19.23 £28.88
% change year-on-year +9.28% -33.40% +44.38%

All Process and 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 1,160 1,443 1,950
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 93.10% 84.04% 90.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 710 865 1,268
10th Percentile £263 £277 £275
25th Percentile £380 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £580 £625
90th Percentile £625 £650 £700
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 67 56
10th Percentile £15.13 £11.57 £9.80
25th Percentile £18.29 £12.15 £10.63
Median hourly rate £22.14 £13.23 £13.16
Median % change year-on-year +67.35% +0.53% -29.63%
75th Percentile £25.15 £21.75 £21.31
90th Percentile £33.76 £54.75 £46.74
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £37.50
% change year-on-year -34.02% +1.65% +46.03%

Service Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Job postings citing Service Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Service Management in Yorkshire

Service Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Service Management in Yorkshire.

Daily rate trend for Service Management in Yorkshire

Service Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Service Management in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Service Management in Yorkshire

Service Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Service Management in Yorkshire.

Hourly rate trend for Service Management in Yorkshire

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 1 July 2025. 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 46 £475 -13.64% 63
South Yorkshire -45 3 £475 -9.52% 27
North Yorkshire +10 2 £140 -30.00% 21
Service Management
England

Service Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.92%) Confluence
1 1 (1.92%) Umbraco
Applications
1 22 (42.31%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (5.77%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (3.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 19 (36.54%) Entra ID
1 19 (36.54%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (1.92%) AWS
2 1 (1.92%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.92%) Firewall
1 1 (1.92%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (1.92%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 1 (1.92%) Jenkins
1 1 (1.92%) JIRA
General
1 32 (61.54%) Social Skills
2 29 (55.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 20 (38.46%) Retail
4 12 (23.08%) Police
5 7 (13.46%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (9.62%) Telecoms
7 3 (5.77%) Public Sector
8 2 (3.85%) Finance
9 1 (1.92%) Banking
9 1 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.92%) Fire and Rescue
9 1 (1.92%) Legal
9 1 (1.92%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 19 (36.54%) Support Manager
2 17 (32.69%) 1st Line Support
3 16 (30.77%) Analyst
4 12 (23.08%) 1st Line Support Manager
4 12 (23.08%) IT Manager
4 12 (23.08%) IT Support
4 12 (23.08%) IT Support Manager
5 11 (21.15%) Support Analyst
6 6 (11.54%) Support Assistant
7 3 (5.77%) Developer
7 3 (5.77%) Service Analyst
7 3 (5.77%) Service Desk Analyst
8 2 (3.85%) Administrator
8 2 (3.85%) Architect
8 2 (3.85%) DevOps Administrator
8 2 (3.85%) DevOps Developer
8 2 (3.85%) ServiceNow Administrator
8 2 (3.85%) ServiceNow Developer
8 2 (3.85%) Support Engineer
9 1 (1.92%) ServiceNow Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.85%) REST
1 2 (3.85%) SOAP
2 1 (1.92%) .NET
2 1 (1.92%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 20 (38.46%) Smartphone
2 19 (36.54%) iPhone
3 3 (5.77%) CMDB
4 2 (3.85%) NHS
5 1 (1.92%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.92%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.92%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.92%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.92%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.92%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.92%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.92%) Replication
5 1 (1.92%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 19 (36.54%) Mac OS
2 2 (3.85%) Windows
3 1 (1.92%) HPUX
3 1 (1.92%) Linux
3 1 (1.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.92%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (65.38%) ITIL
2 33 (63.46%) ITSM
3 27 (51.92%) Customer Service
4 25 (48.08%) Incident Management
5 20 (38.46%) Problem-Solving
6 19 (36.54%) Mobile Device Management
7 12 (23.08%) Decision-Making
8 11 (21.15%) Information Security
8 11 (21.15%) Performance Measurement
9 7 (13.46%) Service Delivery
10 4 (7.69%) Change Management
10 4 (7.69%) DevOps
10 4 (7.69%) Service Catalogue
11 3 (5.77%) Agile
11 3 (5.77%) Continuous Improvement
11 3 (5.77%) Requirements Gathering
11 3 (5.77%) Roadmaps
11 3 (5.77%) SDLC
12 2 (3.85%) Disaster Recovery
12 2 (3.85%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 1 (1.92%) C#
1 1 (1.92%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (3.85%) SC Cleared
1 2 (3.85%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.92%) ACSP
2 1 (1.92%) ACTC
2 1 (1.92%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (21.15%) SLA
2 1 (1.92%) PMO
2 1 (1.92%) QA
System Software
1 20 (38.46%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 19 (36.54%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (1.92%) Terraform
Vendors
1 25 (48.08%) ServiceNow
2 19 (36.54%) Apple
2 19 (36.54%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.92%) BMC
3 1 (1.92%) IBM
3 1 (1.92%) Sun
3 1 (1.92%) Unisys