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 4 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 48 39
Rank change year-on-year -27 -9 +28
Contract jobs citing Service Management 83 64 79
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 2.93% 4.32% 5.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.48% 4.70% 6.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 24 54
10th Percentile £190 £164 £211
25th Percentile £200 £240 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £443 £349 £550
Median % change year-on-year +26.84% -36.50% +4.76%
75th Percentile £524 £500 £559
90th Percentile £694 £584 £600
England median daily rate £522 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.30% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 16 2
10th Percentile - £17.48 £15.73
25th Percentile - £21.05 £16.56
Median hourly rate £28.00 £22.14 £17.96
Median % change year-on-year +26.47% +23.31% -15.74%
75th Percentile - - £19.35
90th Percentile - - £20.18
England median hourly rate £74.26 £20.66 £26.00
% change year-on-year +259.44% -20.54% -26.24%

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 2,384 1,362 1,274
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 84.30% 91.84% 83.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,443 852 777
10th Percentile £327 £265 £313
25th Percentile £413 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £580
90th Percentile £669 £618 £650
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 61 49
10th Percentile £15.00 £16.50 -
25th Percentile £16.82 £18.35 £12.15
Median hourly rate £22.81 £22.14 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% +64.00% -32.50%
75th Percentile £28.00 £25.15 £22.00
90th Percentile £43.96 £34.46 £36.75
England median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +78.93% -40.82% -

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 4 August 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 4 August 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
South Yorkshire +11 39 £498 +52.02% 9
West Yorkshire -41 27 £450 -5.26% 21
North Yorkshire -2 8 £200 +42.86% 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 15 (18.07%) SharePoint
2 3 (3.61%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.41%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (2.41%) Chatbot
1 2 (2.41%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.20%) Maple
2 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (3.61%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 24 (28.92%) Microsoft 365
2 23 (27.71%) Azure
3 22 (26.51%) Entra ID
4 15 (18.07%) OneDrive
5 3 (3.61%) Microsoft Copilot
5 3 (3.61%) SaaS
6 2 (2.41%) Copilot Studio
6 2 (2.41%) PaaS
6 2 (2.41%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (1.20%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.20%) Amazon ELB
7 1 (1.20%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.20%) AWS
7 1 (1.20%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.20%) Datadog
7 1 (1.20%) OpenShift
7 1 (1.20%) Rubrik
7 1 (1.20%) Serverless
7 1 (1.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.61%) Firewall
2 2 (2.41%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (1.20%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (1.20%) LAN
3 1 (1.20%) Network Security
3 1 (1.20%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (1.20%) VoIP
Development Applications
1 9 (10.84%) JIRA
2 3 (3.61%) Browser DevTools
2 3 (3.61%) Fiddler
3 1 (1.20%) Hudson
General
1 30 (36.14%) Social Skills
2 27 (32.53%) Finance
3 12 (14.46%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (12.05%) Banking
5 7 (8.43%) Public Sector
6 5 (6.02%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (4.82%) Law
7 4 (4.82%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (3.61%) Financial Institution
9 2 (2.41%) Legal
9 2 (2.41%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.20%) Games
10 1 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.20%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (18.07%) 2nd Line Support
2 12 (14.46%) Analyst
3 9 (10.84%) Lead
4 8 (9.64%) Project Manager
5 7 (8.43%) Service Analyst
5 7 (8.43%) Technical Manager
5 7 (8.43%) Technical Project Manager
6 6 (7.23%) Architect
7 4 (4.82%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
7 4 (4.82%) Product Owner
7 4 (4.82%) Senior
7 4 (4.82%) Service Manager
7 4 (4.82%) Support Engineer
8 3 (3.61%) 2nd Line Engineer
8 3 (3.61%) Data Analyst
8 3 (3.61%) Delivery Manager
8 3 (3.61%) IT Engineer
8 3 (3.61%) IT Support
8 3 (3.61%) IT Support Engineer
8 3 (3.61%) Service Desk Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.82%) OAuth
1 4 (4.82%) OpenID
1 4 (4.82%) SAML
2 3 (3.61%) FIDO
2 3 (3.61%) OAuth2
3 1 (1.20%) JSON
3 1 (1.20%) REST
3 1 (1.20%) Web Services
3 1 (1.20%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (14.46%) Product Ownership
2 9 (10.84%) Onboarding
3 6 (7.23%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (4.82%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (3.61%) AI Agents
5 3 (3.61%) Cloud Native
5 3 (3.61%) CMDB
5 3 (3.61%) Data Centre
5 3 (3.61%) Distributed Computing
5 3 (3.61%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.41%) CCTV
6 2 (2.41%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (2.41%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.20%) Cloud Security Posture
7 1 (1.20%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (1.20%) Freedom of Information
7 1 (1.20%) IoT
7 1 (1.20%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.20%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.20%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 22 (26.51%) Windows
2 3 (3.61%) Android
2 3 (3.61%) Apple iOS
2 3 (3.61%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.20%) Linux
3 1 (1.20%) Mac OS
3 1 (1.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.20%) Ubuntu
3 1 (1.20%) Unix
3 1 (1.20%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (50.60%) ITIL
2 32 (38.55%) ITSM
3 29 (34.94%) Continuous Improvement
4 24 (28.92%) Stakeholder Management
5 20 (24.10%) Service Delivery
6 19 (22.89%) Problem-Solving
7 17 (20.48%) Agile
8 14 (16.87%) Change Management
8 14 (16.87%) Problem Management
8 14 (16.87%) Roadmaps
9 13 (15.66%) DevOps
10 12 (14.46%) Cybersecurity
10 12 (14.46%) Data Protection
11 11 (13.25%) Risk Management
12 10 (12.05%) Incident Management
13 9 (10.84%) Disaster Recovery
13 9 (10.84%) Observability
14 7 (8.43%) Customer Service
14 7 (8.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 7 (8.43%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (1.20%) Java
1 1 (1.20%) PowerShell
1 1 (1.20%) Python
1 1 (1.20%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 12 (14.46%) Security Cleared
2 9 (10.84%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.02%) Degree
4 3 (3.61%) Master's Degree
4 3 (3.61%) PMI Certification
4 3 (3.61%) PMP
5 2 (2.41%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.41%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.20%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (1.20%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.02%) SLA
2 3 (3.61%) QA
3 2 (2.41%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (2.41%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (2.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 2 (2.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.20%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.20%) PMO
System Software
1 20 (24.10%) Active Directory
2 4 (4.82%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.20%) BitLocker
3 1 (1.20%) Firmware
3 1 (1.20%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (1.20%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (15.66%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (4.82%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (3.61%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 2 (2.41%) SCCM
5 1 (1.20%) Grafana
5 1 (1.20%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (1.20%) Terraform
Vendors
1 24 (28.92%) Microsoft
2 16 (19.28%) ServiceNow
3 5 (6.02%) Cisco
4 3 (3.61%) CyberArk
4 3 (3.61%) Palo Alto
4 3 (3.61%) Remedy
5 2 (2.41%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.20%) Apple
6 1 (1.20%) BMC
6 1 (1.20%) Citrix
6 1 (1.20%) Cribl.io
6 1 (1.20%) HP
6 1 (1.20%) IFS
6 1 (1.20%) LogicMonitor
6 1 (1.20%) McAfee
6 1 (1.20%) MobileIron
6 1 (1.20%) New Relic
6 1 (1.20%) Palantir
6 1 (1.20%) Splunk
6 1 (1.20%) Veeam