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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 49 68
Rank change year-on-year -2 +19 -4
Contract jobs citing Service Management 67 58 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 4.34% 3.86% 2.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.79% 4.61% 2.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 31 34
10th Percentile £196 £210 £347
25th Percentile £299 £376 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £365 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year -30.48% -8.70% +27.78%
75th Percentile £544 £558 £598
90th Percentile £575 £588 £625
England median daily rate £500 £500 £528
% change year-on-year - -5.30% +0.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 1 2
10th Percentile £17.48 - -
25th Percentile £17.55 - -
Median hourly rate £22.14 £15.17 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year +45.95% -28.81% +0.28%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £21.71 £23.25 £55.00
% change year-on-year -6.62% -57.73% +161.90%

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 1,398 1,259 1,857
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 90.60% 83.88% 89.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 891 758 1,196
10th Percentile £250 £309 £306
25th Percentile £375 £408 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £583 £621
90th Percentile £638 £657 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 44 35
10th Percentile £15.00 £12.15 £12.00
25th Percentile £18.10 £12.55 £16.13
Median hourly rate £22.14 £17.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.51% -12.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £25.15 £30.00 £25.27
90th Percentile £69.75 £45.75 £44.30
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.79
% change year-on-year -41.51% -1.81% +51.01%

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
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 17 September 2025.

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 17 September 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 +29 45 £488 +11.43% 35
South Yorkshire -39 14 £415 -20.95% 12
North Yorkshire +6 4 £140 - 8
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 2 (2.99%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.49%) Confluence
2 1 (1.49%) Umbraco
Applications
1 24 (35.82%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (17.91%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (11.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 24 (35.82%) Entra ID
2 23 (34.33%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (10.45%) Power Platform
4 4 (5.97%) Azure
5 3 (4.48%) PowerApps
6 2 (2.99%) OneDrive
7 1 (1.49%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.48%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (1.49%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (10.45%) Power BI
2 3 (4.48%) Data Mining
2 3 (4.48%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (2.99%) JIRA
2 1 (1.49%) Jenkins
General
1 42 (62.69%) Social Skills
2 27 (40.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 20 (29.85%) Retail
4 13 (19.40%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (14.93%) Finance
5 10 (14.93%) Police
6 6 (8.96%) Telecoms
7 5 (7.46%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (5.97%) Banking
9 3 (4.48%) Billing
9 3 (4.48%) Public Sector
10 2 (2.99%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (2.99%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (1.49%) Fire and Rescue
11 1 (1.49%) Legal
11 1 (1.49%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 21 (31.34%) Analyst
2 19 (28.36%) Support Manager
3 17 (25.37%) 1st Line Support
4 14 (20.90%) IT Support
5 13 (19.40%) IT Manager
6 12 (17.91%) 1st Line Support Manager
6 12 (17.91%) IT Support Manager
7 9 (13.43%) Support Analyst
8 6 (8.96%) Developer
8 6 (8.96%) Support Assistant
9 5 (7.46%) Data Analyst
9 5 (7.46%) ServiceNow Developer
10 3 (4.48%) IT Analyst
10 3 (4.48%) Report Analyst
10 3 (4.48%) Service Analyst
10 3 (4.48%) Service Desk Analyst
10 3 (4.48%) Service Manager
11 2 (2.99%) Infrastructure Analyst
11 2 (2.99%) Mac Engineer
11 2 (2.99%) Transition Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.99%) REST
1 2 (2.99%) SOAP
2 1 (1.49%) .NET
2 1 (1.49%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 21 (31.34%) iPhone
1 21 (31.34%) Smartphone
2 8 (11.94%) Data Centre
3 7 (10.45%) Mainframe
4 3 (4.48%) CMDB
4 3 (4.48%) Mobile App
4 3 (4.48%) NHS
4 3 (4.48%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.99%) Smartcard
6 1 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.49%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.49%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.49%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.49%) Replication
6 1 (1.49%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 21 (31.34%) Mac OS
2 4 (5.97%) Windows
3 1 (1.49%) HPUX
3 1 (1.49%) Linux
3 1 (1.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.49%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (74.63%) ITIL
2 40 (59.70%) ITSM
3 28 (41.79%) Customer Service
4 27 (40.30%) Incident Management
5 21 (31.34%) Mobile Device Management
6 20 (29.85%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (14.93%) Decision-Making
8 9 (13.43%) Information Security
8 9 (13.43%) Performance Measurement
9 7 (10.45%) Budgeting
9 7 (10.45%) Cost Management
9 7 (10.45%) Virtual Environments
10 5 (7.46%) Change Management
10 5 (7.46%) Data Mapping
10 5 (7.46%) Impact Analysis
10 5 (7.46%) Service Delivery
11 4 (5.97%) Analytics
11 4 (5.97%) Data Visualisation
11 4 (5.97%) Root Cause Analysis
11 4 (5.97%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 5 (7.46%) SQL
2 4 (5.97%) Perl
2 4 (5.97%) Python
2 4 (5.97%) Shell Script
3 1 (1.49%) C#
Qualifications
1 3 (4.48%) ACSP
1 3 (4.48%) ACTC
1 3 (4.48%) Degree
2 2 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (13.43%) SLA
2 2 (2.99%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.49%) PMO
3 1 (1.49%) QA
System Software
1 25 (37.31%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 21 (31.34%) Jamf Pro
2 2 (2.99%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.49%) Terraform
Vendors
1 33 (49.25%) ServiceNow
2 25 (37.31%) Microsoft
3 21 (31.34%) Apple
4 4 (5.97%) Splunk
5 1 (1.49%) BMC
5 1 (1.49%) IBM
5 1 (1.49%) Unisys