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 23 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 55 42
Rank change year-on-year -22 -13 +10
Contract jobs citing Service Management 60 26 71
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 2.90% 2.87% 3.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.25% 3.20% 4.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 14 39
10th Percentile £185 £135 £410
25th Percentile £208 £188 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £472 £225 £587
Median % change year-on-year +109.56% -61.70% +27.02%
75th Percentile £540 £425 £600
90th Percentile £613 - £663
England median daily rate £500 £528 £545
% change year-on-year -5.21% -3.21% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £16.17 - -
Median hourly rate £16.25 £22.14 £12.53
Median % change year-on-year -26.60% +76.70% -27.32%
75th Percentile £16.33 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £38.98 £30.00 £17.72
% change year-on-year +29.93% +69.30% -39.22%

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 1,846 812 1,622
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 89.09% 89.53% 88.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,219 494 1,002
10th Percentile £304 £231 £263
25th Percentile £403 £358 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.58% - -9.52%
75th Percentile £557 £567 £587
90th Percentile £675 £638 £669
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 23 46
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.43 £11.06
25th Percentile £15.25 £16.66 £12.15
Median hourly rate £22.54 £22.14 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.80% +47.60% +41.11%
75th Percentile £53.69 £36.45 £23.75
90th Percentile £65.53 £85.61 £53.75
England median hourly rate £27.21 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -22.26% - -

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 23 February 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 23 February 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 -44 24 £485 +117.87% 11
West Yorkshire -15 23 £513 +20.59% 10
North Yorkshire +2 7 £195 -
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 14 (23.33%) SharePoint
2 5 (8.33%) Confluence
3 2 (3.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 6 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (8.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (3.33%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (5.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.67%) NetSuite
2 1 (1.67%) SAP ERP
2 1 (1.67%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 16 (26.67%) Microsoft 365
2 13 (21.67%) Azure
3 12 (20.00%) Entra ID
4 10 (16.67%) OneDrive
5 6 (10.00%) Power Platform
6 4 (6.67%) PowerApps
7 2 (3.33%) AWS
7 2 (3.33%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (1.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (1.67%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (1.67%) Amazon ELB
8 1 (1.67%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.67%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.67%) Datadog
8 1 (1.67%) GCP
8 1 (1.67%) GitHub
8 1 (1.67%) OpenShift
8 1 (1.67%) SaaS
8 1 (1.67%) Serverless
8 1 (1.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (10.00%) Wi-Fi
2 4 (6.67%) LAN
3 3 (5.00%) DNS
3 3 (5.00%) Remote Desktop
3 3 (5.00%) TCP/IP
4 2 (3.33%) DHCP
5 1 (1.67%) BIG-IP
5 1 (1.67%) Firewall
5 1 (1.67%) Network Security
5 1 (1.67%) Unified Communications
5 1 (1.67%) VPN
5 1 (1.67%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.00%) Power BI
2 2 (3.33%) GIS
2 2 (3.33%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.67%) Data Mining
3 1 (1.67%) Electronic Patient Records
3 1 (1.67%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (15.00%) JIRA
2 1 (1.67%) Git
2 1 (1.67%) GitLab
2 1 (1.67%) Jenkins
General
1 21 (35.00%) Social Skills
2 12 (20.00%) Finance
3 8 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (8.33%) Retail
5 4 (6.67%) Banking
5 4 (6.67%) Influencing Skills
5 4 (6.67%) Public Sector
6 3 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (3.33%) Legal
7 2 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.67%) Billing
8 1 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.67%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 10 (16.67%) 2nd Line Support
1 10 (16.67%) IT Support
2 7 (11.67%) Service Manager
3 6 (10.00%) Analyst
4 5 (8.33%) Project Manager
5 4 (6.67%) Architect
5 4 (6.67%) Lead
5 4 (6.67%) SAP Manager
6 3 (5.00%) Business Analyst
6 3 (5.00%) Data Analyst
6 3 (5.00%) Microsoft 365 Business Analyst
6 3 (5.00%) Report Analyst
6 3 (5.00%) Service Design Manager
6 3 (5.00%) Service Transition Manager
6 3 (5.00%) Transition Manager
7 2 (3.33%) Field Engineer
7 2 (3.33%) Hardware Engineer
7 2 (3.33%) Infrastructure Manager
7 2 (3.33%) Programme Manager
7 2 (3.33%) SAP Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.33%) JSON
1 2 (3.33%) REST
1 2 (3.33%) Spring Boot
2 1 (1.67%) .NET
2 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (1.67%) Web Services
2 1 (1.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.33%) CMDB
1 5 (8.33%) Smartphone
2 4 (6.67%) Product Ownership
2 4 (6.67%) Virtual Team
3 3 (5.00%) Data Centre
3 3 (5.00%) PMI
4 2 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (3.33%) iPhone
4 2 (3.33%) Mainframe
4 2 (3.33%) Mobile App
4 2 (3.33%) NHS
5 1 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.67%) Culture of Ownership
5 1 (1.67%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.67%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.67%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.67%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.67%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.67%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 16 (26.67%) Windows
2 5 (8.33%) Mac OS
3 4 (6.67%) Windows 10
4 2 (3.33%) Linux
4 2 (3.33%) Unix
5 1 (1.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.67%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (61.67%) ITIL
2 20 (33.33%) ITSM
3 16 (26.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 15 (25.00%) Agile
5 11 (18.33%) Observability
5 11 (18.33%) Project Management
6 9 (15.00%) Incident Management
6 9 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (15.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 8 (13.33%) DevOps
7 8 (13.33%) Service Delivery
8 7 (11.67%) Risk Management
9 6 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
9 6 (10.00%) Customer Service
9 6 (10.00%) PRINCE2
9 6 (10.00%) Project Delivery
9 6 (10.00%) Service Design
10 5 (8.33%) Root Cause Analysis
11 4 (6.67%) Mentoring
11 4 (6.67%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 6 (10.00%) Python
2 4 (6.67%) Shell Script
3 3 (5.00%) Perl
3 3 (5.00%) SQL
4 2 (3.33%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.67%) C#
5 1 (1.67%) Java
5 1 (1.67%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.67%) Search Processing Language
5 1 (1.67%) VBA
Qualifications
1 5 (8.33%) PMI Certification
2 4 (6.67%) PMP
2 4 (6.67%) Security Cleared
3 3 (5.00%) Degree
4 2 (3.33%) ACSP
4 2 (3.33%) ACTC
5 1 (1.67%) CISM
5 1 (1.67%) CISSP
5 1 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.67%) ISEB
5 1 (1.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (1.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.33%) QA
3 1 (1.67%) GDPR
3 1 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.67%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.67%) PMO
3 1 (1.67%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (18.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (8.33%) Jamf Pro
3 4 (6.67%) SCCM
4 2 (3.33%) Ansible
4 2 (3.33%) Grafana
4 2 (3.33%) Kubernetes
5 1 (1.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 9 (15.00%) ServiceNow
3 5 (8.33%) Splunk
4 4 (6.67%) SAP
5 2 (3.33%) Apple
5 2 (3.33%) HP
6 1 (1.67%) AppDynamics
6 1 (1.67%) BMC
6 1 (1.67%) Canon
6 1 (1.67%) CheckPoint
6 1 (1.67%) Cribl.io
6 1 (1.67%) Dell
6 1 (1.67%) F5
6 1 (1.67%) Infoblox
6 1 (1.67%) LogicMonitor
6 1 (1.67%) New Relic
6 1 (1.67%) Oracle
6 1 (1.67%) Salesforce