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 27 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 44 37
Rank change year-on-year -44 -7 +21
Contract jobs citing Service Management 61 43 77
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 2.51% 4.24% 4.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.88% 4.56% 5.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 17 42
10th Percentile £209 £207 £401
25th Percentile £427 £240 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £472 £425 £550
Median % change year-on-year +10.94% -22.73% +12.82%
75th Percentile £555 £488 £600
90th Percentile £641 £553 £650
England median daily rate £513 £535 £525
% change year-on-year -4.21% +1.90% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 5
10th Percentile £17.35 - -
25th Percentile £19.13 - -
Median hourly rate £22.13 £22.14 £12.53
Median % change year-on-year -0.07% +76.70% -41.72%
75th Percentile £25.08 - £15.17
90th Percentile £26.83 - £18.51
England median hourly rate £71.92 £22.14 £17.72
% change year-on-year +224.82% +24.94% -67.78%

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 2,118 942 1,459
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 87.30% 92.81% 86.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,367 595 871
10th Percentile £313 £251 £263
25th Percentile £406 £365 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.47% - -9.52%
75th Percentile £556 £550 £577
90th Percentile £650 £638 £650
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 33 65
10th Percentile £14.25 £12.53 £11.30
25th Percentile £15.96 £17.08 £12.15
Median hourly rate £23.79 £21.24 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year +11.99% +57.33% +27.00%
75th Percentile £57.25 £28.75 £22.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £85.61 £53.75
England median hourly rate £44.00 £30.45 £35.58
% change year-on-year +44.50% -14.41% -5.13%

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 27 April 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 27 April 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 -29 29 £513 +20.59% 22
South Yorkshire -27 25 £468 +102.16% 6
North Yorkshire - 6 £198 - 5
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 7 (11.48%) SharePoint
2 3 (4.92%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (3.28%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (3.28%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.64%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (4.92%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.64%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 9 (14.75%) Azure
1 9 (14.75%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (6.56%) Entra ID
2 4 (6.56%) OneDrive
2 4 (6.56%) Power Platform
3 3 (4.92%) PowerApps
4 2 (3.28%) AWS
4 2 (3.28%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (3.28%) Microsoft Copilot
4 2 (3.28%) OpenShift
4 2 (3.28%) SaaS
5 1 (1.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (1.64%) Amazon ELB
5 1 (1.64%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (1.64%) Datadog
5 1 (1.64%) GCP
5 1 (1.64%) GitHub
5 1 (1.64%) PaaS
5 1 (1.64%) Serverless
5 1 (1.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.56%) LAN
1 4 (6.56%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (4.92%) Remote Desktop
3 2 (3.28%) DNS
3 2 (3.28%) Network Security
3 2 (3.28%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.64%) BIG-IP
4 1 (1.64%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (1.64%) DHCP
4 1 (1.64%) Firewall
4 1 (1.64%) Unified Communications
4 1 (1.64%) VoIP
4 1 (1.64%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.28%) GIS
2 1 (1.64%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.64%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.64%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (14.75%) JIRA
2 2 (3.28%) Browser DevTools
2 2 (3.28%) Fiddler
3 1 (1.64%) Git
3 1 (1.64%) GitLab
3 1 (1.64%) Hudson
3 1 (1.64%) Jenkins
General
1 20 (32.79%) Finance
1 20 (32.79%) Social Skills
2 6 (9.84%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (9.84%) Banking
3 5 (8.20%) Retail
4 4 (6.56%) Public Sector
5 3 (4.92%) Legal
6 2 (3.28%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (3.28%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.64%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.64%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.64%) Local Government
7 1 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (18.03%) Project Manager
2 8 (13.11%) Analyst
3 7 (11.48%) Technical Manager
3 7 (11.48%) Technical Project Manager
4 6 (9.84%) Architect
4 6 (9.84%) Service Manager
5 5 (8.20%) Delivery Manager
5 5 (8.20%) Service Analyst
6 4 (6.56%) Service Delivery Manager
7 3 (4.92%) Business Analyst
7 3 (4.92%) Lead
7 3 (4.92%) Microsoft 365 Business Analyst
7 3 (4.92%) SAP Manager
7 3 (4.92%) Transformation Manager
8 2 (3.28%) Coordinator
8 2 (3.28%) Field Engineer
8 2 (3.28%) Field Hardware Engineer
8 2 (3.28%) Infrastructure Manager
8 2 (3.28%) Programme Manager
8 2 (3.28%) Transformation Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.28%) FIDO
1 2 (3.28%) JSON
1 2 (3.28%) OAuth
1 2 (3.28%) OAuth2
1 2 (3.28%) OpenID
1 2 (3.28%) REST
1 2 (3.28%) SAML
2 1 (1.64%) .NET
2 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (1.64%) Web Services
2 1 (1.64%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (14.75%) Product Ownership
2 5 (8.20%) CMDB
2 5 (8.20%) Onboarding
3 3 (4.92%) Cloud Native
3 3 (4.92%) PMI
3 3 (4.92%) Smartphone
3 3 (4.92%) Virtual Team
4 2 (3.28%) AI Agents
4 2 (3.28%) Data Centre
4 2 (3.28%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (3.28%) Distributed Computing
4 2 (3.28%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.64%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.64%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (1.64%) Culture of Ownership
5 1 (1.64%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.64%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.64%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.64%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.64%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 9 (14.75%) Windows
2 3 (4.92%) Mac OS
2 3 (4.92%) Windows 10
3 2 (3.28%) Linux
3 2 (3.28%) Unix
4 1 (1.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.64%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (44.26%) ITIL
2 22 (36.07%) Stakeholder Management
3 20 (32.79%) Continuous Improvement
3 20 (32.79%) ITSM
4 18 (29.51%) Agile
5 15 (24.59%) Service Delivery
6 14 (22.95%) DevOps
6 14 (22.95%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (16.39%) Roadmaps
8 9 (14.75%) Cybersecurity
9 8 (13.11%) CI/CD
9 8 (13.11%) Risk Management
9 8 (13.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 7 (11.48%) Incident Management
10 7 (11.48%) Observability
10 7 (11.48%) Project Management
10 7 (11.48%) Service Design
11 6 (9.84%) Change Management
11 6 (9.84%) Customer Service
12 5 (8.20%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 3 (4.92%) Python
2 1 (1.64%) C#
2 1 (1.64%) Java
2 1 (1.64%) JavaScript
2 1 (1.64%) PowerShell
2 1 (1.64%) Search Processing Language
2 1 (1.64%) Shell Script
2 1 (1.64%) SQL
2 1 (1.64%) VBA
Qualifications
1 12 (19.67%) Security Cleared
2 8 (13.11%) SC Cleared
3 6 (9.84%) PMI Certification
4 5 (8.20%) Degree
4 5 (8.20%) PMP
5 2 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (3.28%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.64%) CISM
6 1 (1.64%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.92%) SLA
2 2 (3.28%) Actionable Recommendations
2 2 (3.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.28%) PMO
2 2 (3.28%) QA
3 1 (1.64%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.64%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (1.64%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.64%) GDPR
3 1 (1.64%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (9.84%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.64%) Docker
2 1 (1.64%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.64%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (1.64%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (4.92%) Jamf Pro
1 3 (4.92%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (4.92%) SCCM
2 2 (3.28%) Ansible
2 2 (3.28%) Grafana
2 2 (3.28%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.28%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (3.28%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 1 (1.64%) Terraform
Vendors
1 18 (29.51%) Microsoft
2 10 (16.39%) ServiceNow
3 3 (4.92%) SAP
4 2 (3.28%) CyberArk
4 2 (3.28%) HP
4 2 (3.28%) Splunk
5 1 (1.64%) AppDynamics
5 1 (1.64%) BMC
5 1 (1.64%) Canon
5 1 (1.64%) Citrix
5 1 (1.64%) Cribl.io
5 1 (1.64%) Dell
5 1 (1.64%) IFS
5 1 (1.64%) Infoblox
5 1 (1.64%) LogicMonitor
5 1 (1.64%) Mitel
5 1 (1.64%) New Relic
5 1 (1.64%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.64%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.64%) VMware