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

6 months to
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 52 39
Rank change year-on-year -33 -13 +15
Contract jobs citing Service Management 62 39 69
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 2.61% 3.90% 4.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.98% 4.21% 4.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 17 38
10th Percentile £209 £207 £256
25th Percentile £427 £240 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £472 £425 £550
Median % change year-on-year +10.94% -22.73% +10.00%
75th Percentile £555 £488 £600
90th Percentile £638 £553 £670
England median daily rate £520 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -0.95% - +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% -27.32%
75th Percentile £25.08 - £15.17
90th Percentile £26.83 - £18.51
England median hourly rate £65.67 £22.14 £17.72
% change year-on-year +196.59% +24.94% -65.76%

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 2,079 926 1,444
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 87.65% 92.60% 86.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,352 585 867
10th Percentile £313 £256 £263
25th Percentile £406 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.47% - -9.52%
75th Percentile £555 £550 £575
90th Percentile £638 £638 £650
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 33 63
10th Percentile £14.25 £12.53 £11.30
25th Percentile £15.29 £17.08 £12.15
Median hourly rate £23.58 £21.24 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.99% +57.33% +27.00%
75th Percentile £57.25 £28.75 £21.35
90th Percentile £68.75 £85.61 £48.40
England median hourly rate £41.94 £31.64 £35.00
% change year-on-year +32.55% -9.60% -6.67%

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 20 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 20 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 -34 29 £513 +20.59% 24
South Yorkshire -27 26 £468 +102.16% 8
North Yorkshire - 6 £198 - 3
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 (11.29%) SharePoint
2 4 (6.45%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (3.23%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (3.23%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (4.84%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.61%) NetSuite
2 1 (1.61%) SAP ERP
2 1 (1.61%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 10 (16.13%) Microsoft 365
2 8 (12.90%) Azure
3 4 (6.45%) Entra ID
3 4 (6.45%) OneDrive
4 3 (4.84%) Power Platform
4 3 (4.84%) PowerApps
5 2 (3.23%) AWS
5 2 (3.23%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (3.23%) OpenShift
5 2 (3.23%) SaaS
6 1 (1.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (1.61%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (1.61%) Amazon ELB
6 1 (1.61%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.61%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.61%) Datadog
6 1 (1.61%) GCP
6 1 (1.61%) GitHub
6 1 (1.61%) PaaS
6 1 (1.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.45%) LAN
1 4 (6.45%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (4.84%) DNS
2 3 (4.84%) Remote Desktop
2 3 (4.84%) TCP/IP
3 2 (3.23%) DHCP
3 2 (3.23%) Network Security
4 1 (1.61%) BIG-IP
4 1 (1.61%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (1.61%) Firewall
4 1 (1.61%) Unified Communications
4 1 (1.61%) VoIP
4 1 (1.61%) VPN
4 1 (1.61%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.23%) GIS
2 1 (1.61%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (1.61%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.61%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.61%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (14.52%) JIRA
2 2 (3.23%) Browser DevTools
2 2 (3.23%) Fiddler
3 1 (1.61%) Git
3 1 (1.61%) GitLab
3 1 (1.61%) Hudson
3 1 (1.61%) Jenkins
General
1 21 (33.87%) Finance
1 21 (33.87%) Social Skills
2 6 (9.68%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (9.68%) Banking
3 5 (8.06%) Retail
4 4 (6.45%) Public Sector
5 3 (4.84%) Legal
6 2 (3.23%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.61%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.61%) Local Government
7 1 (1.61%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (17.74%) Project Manager
2 8 (12.90%) Analyst
3 7 (11.29%) Service Manager
3 7 (11.29%) Technical Manager
3 7 (11.29%) Technical Project Manager
4 6 (9.68%) Architect
5 5 (8.06%) Delivery Manager
5 5 (8.06%) Service Analyst
6 4 (6.45%) SAP Manager
6 4 (6.45%) Service Delivery Manager
7 3 (4.84%) Business Analyst
7 3 (4.84%) Lead
7 3 (4.84%) Microsoft 365 Business Analyst
7 3 (4.84%) Transformation Manager
8 2 (3.23%) 2nd Line Support
8 2 (3.23%) Coordinator
8 2 (3.23%) Field Engineer
8 2 (3.23%) Field Hardware Engineer
8 2 (3.23%) Lead Architect
8 2 (3.23%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.23%) FIDO
1 2 (3.23%) JSON
1 2 (3.23%) OAuth
1 2 (3.23%) OAuth2
1 2 (3.23%) OpenID
1 2 (3.23%) REST
1 2 (3.23%) SAML
2 1 (1.61%) .NET
2 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (1.61%) Web Services
2 1 (1.61%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (12.90%) Product Ownership
2 5 (8.06%) CMDB
2 5 (8.06%) Onboarding
3 3 (4.84%) Cloud Native
3 3 (4.84%) PMI
3 3 (4.84%) Smartphone
3 3 (4.84%) Virtual Team
4 2 (3.23%) Data Centre
4 2 (3.23%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (3.23%) Distributed Computing
4 2 (3.23%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (3.23%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.23%) NHS
5 1 (1.61%) CCTV
5 1 (1.61%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.61%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.61%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.61%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.61%) Freedom of Information
5 1 (1.61%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 10 (16.13%) Windows
2 4 (6.45%) Windows 10
3 3 (4.84%) Mac OS
4 2 (3.23%) Linux
4 2 (3.23%) Unix
5 1 (1.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.61%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.61%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (45.16%) ITIL
2 23 (37.10%) Stakeholder Management
3 21 (33.87%) ITSM
4 20 (32.26%) Continuous Improvement
5 17 (27.42%) Agile
6 16 (25.81%) Service Delivery
7 14 (22.58%) DevOps
7 14 (22.58%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (16.13%) Cybersecurity
8 10 (16.13%) Roadmaps
9 8 (12.90%) CI/CD
9 8 (12.90%) Incident Management
9 8 (12.90%) Risk Management
9 8 (12.90%) Service Design
9 8 (12.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 7 (11.29%) Customer Service
10 7 (11.29%) Observability
10 7 (11.29%) Project Management
11 6 (9.68%) Change Management
12 5 (8.06%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 3 (4.84%) Python
2 2 (3.23%) PowerShell
3 1 (1.61%) C#
3 1 (1.61%) Java
3 1 (1.61%) JavaScript
3 1 (1.61%) Search Processing Language
3 1 (1.61%) Shell Script
3 1 (1.61%) SQL
3 1 (1.61%) VBA
Qualifications
1 12 (19.35%) Security Cleared
2 8 (12.90%) SC Cleared
3 6 (9.68%) PMI Certification
4 5 (8.06%) Degree
4 5 (8.06%) PMP
5 2 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (3.23%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.61%) CISM
6 1 (1.61%) CISSP
6 1 (1.61%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.84%) SLA
2 2 (3.23%) Actionable Recommendations
2 2 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.23%) PMO
2 2 (3.23%) QA
3 1 (1.61%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.61%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (1.61%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.61%) GDPR
3 1 (1.61%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 7 (11.29%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.61%) Docker
2 1 (1.61%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.61%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (1.61%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (6.45%) Microsoft Intune
1 4 (6.45%) SCCM
2 3 (4.84%) Jamf Pro
3 2 (3.23%) Ansible
3 2 (3.23%) Grafana
3 2 (3.23%) Kubernetes
3 2 (3.23%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (3.23%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 1 (1.61%) Terraform
Vendors
1 18 (29.03%) Microsoft
2 9 (14.52%) ServiceNow
3 4 (6.45%) SAP
4 2 (3.23%) CyberArk
4 2 (3.23%) HP
4 2 (3.23%) Splunk
5 1 (1.61%) AppDynamics
5 1 (1.61%) BMC
5 1 (1.61%) Canon
5 1 (1.61%) Cisco
5 1 (1.61%) Citrix
5 1 (1.61%) Dell
5 1 (1.61%) F5
5 1 (1.61%) IFS
5 1 (1.61%) Infoblox
5 1 (1.61%) Mitel
5 1 (1.61%) New Relic
5 1 (1.61%) Oracle
5 1 (1.61%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.61%) VMware