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

6 months to
9 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 54 44
Rank change year-on-year -22 -10 +3
Contract jobs citing Service Management 62 25 67
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 3.12% 2.69% 3.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.49% 3.04% 4.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 13 34
10th Percentile £185 £135 £404
25th Percentile £275 £188 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £472 £230 £575
Median % change year-on-year +105.00% -60.00% +21.05%
75th Percentile £539 £425 £589
90th Percentile £596 - £682
England median daily rate £500 £535 £535
% change year-on-year -6.54% - +7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £16.17 - -
Median hourly rate £16.25 - £12.53
75th Percentile £16.33 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £29.60 £30.00 £17.72
% change year-on-year -1.33% +69.30% -31.34%

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 1,775 822 1,648
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 89.42% 88.39% 88.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,186 495 1,013
10th Percentile £300 £230 £263
25th Percentile £401 £363 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.58% - -9.52%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £588
90th Percentile £675 £650 £675
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 24 51
10th Percentile £14.25 £12.96 £11.11
25th Percentile £15.25 £16.25 £12.34
Median hourly rate £22.92 £25.00 £15.23
Median % change year-on-year -8.32% +64.15% +43.27%
75th Percentile £53.13 £38.75 £23.75
90th Percentile £57.93 £80.10 £53.75
England median hourly rate £25.47 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -27.23% - -

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 9 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 9 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 -42 25 £485 +117.87% 10
West Yorkshire -15 24 £513 +20.59% 10
North Yorkshire +2 7 £195 - 2
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 (22.58%) SharePoint
2 5 (8.06%) Confluence
3 2 (3.23%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 7 (11.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (8.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (4.84%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (3.23%) 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 16 (25.81%) Microsoft 365
2 13 (20.97%) Azure
3 12 (19.35%) Entra ID
4 10 (16.13%) OneDrive
5 7 (11.29%) Power Platform
6 5 (8.06%) PowerApps
7 2 (3.23%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (1.61%) AWS
8 1 (1.61%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.61%) GCP
8 1 (1.61%) GitHub
8 1 (1.61%) OpenShift
8 1 (1.61%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (9.68%) Wi-Fi
2 4 (6.45%) LAN
3 3 (4.84%) DNS
3 3 (4.84%) Remote Desktop
3 3 (4.84%) TCP/IP
4 2 (3.23%) DHCP
5 1 (1.61%) BIG-IP
5 1 (1.61%) Firewall
5 1 (1.61%) Network Security
5 1 (1.61%) Unified Communications
5 1 (1.61%) VPN
5 1 (1.61%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.45%) Power BI
2 3 (4.84%) Relational Database
3 2 (3.23%) Data Mining
3 2 (3.23%) GIS
4 1 (1.61%) Electronic Patient Records
4 1 (1.61%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.61%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (14.52%) JIRA
2 1 (1.61%) Git
2 1 (1.61%) GitLab
2 1 (1.61%) Jenkins
General
1 23 (37.10%) Social Skills
2 13 (20.97%) Finance
3 9 (14.52%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (8.06%) Banking
4 5 (8.06%) Retail
5 4 (6.45%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (6.45%) Public Sector
6 3 (4.84%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (4.84%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (3.23%) Legal
8 1 (1.61%) Billing
8 1 (1.61%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 10 (16.13%) 2nd Line Support
1 10 (16.13%) IT Support
2 8 (12.90%) Service Manager
3 7 (11.29%) Analyst
4 5 (8.06%) Project Manager
5 4 (6.45%) Lead
5 4 (6.45%) SAP Manager
5 4 (6.45%) Service Transition Manager
5 4 (6.45%) Transition Manager
6 3 (4.84%) Business Analyst
6 3 (4.84%) Data Analyst
6 3 (4.84%) Microsoft 365 Business Analyst
6 3 (4.84%) Report Analyst
6 3 (4.84%) Senior
6 3 (4.84%) Service Design Manager
6 3 (4.84%) Transformation Manager
7 2 (3.23%) Developer
7 2 (3.23%) Field Engineer
7 2 (3.23%) IT Manager
7 2 (3.23%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.23%) Spring Boot
2 1 (1.61%) .NET
2 1 (1.61%) JSON
2 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (1.61%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.06%) Smartphone
2 4 (6.45%) CMDB
2 4 (6.45%) Data Centre
2 4 (6.45%) Product Ownership
2 4 (6.45%) Virtual Team
3 3 (4.84%) Mainframe
3 3 (4.84%) PMI
4 2 (3.23%) iPhone
4 2 (3.23%) Mobile App
4 2 (3.23%) NHS
4 2 (3.23%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.61%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.61%) Culture of Ownership
5 1 (1.61%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.61%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.61%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.61%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.61%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (1.61%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 16 (25.81%) Windows
2 5 (8.06%) Mac OS
3 4 (6.45%) Windows 10
4 1 (1.61%) Linux
4 1 (1.61%) Unix
4 1 (1.61%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (62.90%) ITIL
2 21 (33.87%) ITSM
3 17 (27.42%) Stakeholder Management
4 14 (22.58%) Agile
5 11 (17.74%) Project Management
6 10 (16.13%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (14.52%) Incident Management
7 9 (14.52%) Observability
7 9 (14.52%) Service Delivery
7 9 (14.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 8 (12.90%) DevOps
9 7 (11.29%) Risk Management
10 6 (9.68%) Continuous Improvement
10 6 (9.68%) Customer Service
10 6 (9.68%) Mentoring
10 6 (9.68%) PRINCE2
10 6 (9.68%) Project Delivery
10 6 (9.68%) Root Cause Analysis
10 6 (9.68%) Service Design
11 4 (6.45%) Impact Analysis
Programming Languages
1 6 (9.68%) Python
2 5 (8.06%) Shell Script
3 4 (6.45%) Perl
4 3 (4.84%) SQL
5 2 (3.23%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.61%) C#
6 1 (1.61%) Java
6 1 (1.61%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.61%) VBA
Qualifications
1 5 (8.06%) Degree
1 5 (8.06%) PMI Certification
2 4 (6.45%) PMP
3 3 (4.84%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (4.84%) Security Cleared
4 2 (3.23%) ACSP
4 2 (3.23%) ACTC
5 1 (1.61%) CISM
5 1 (1.61%) CISSP
5 1 (1.61%) ISEB
5 1 (1.61%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (1.61%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.84%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.23%) QA
3 1 (1.61%) GDPR
3 1 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.61%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.61%) PMO
3 1 (1.61%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (24.19%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.61%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (17.74%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (8.06%) Jamf Pro
3 4 (6.45%) SCCM
4 2 (3.23%) Ansible
4 2 (3.23%) Kubernetes
5 1 (1.61%) Grafana
Vendors
1 11 (17.74%) Microsoft
2 10 (16.13%) ServiceNow
3 5 (8.06%) Splunk
4 4 (6.45%) SAP
5 2 (3.23%) Apple
5 2 (3.23%) HP
6 1 (1.61%) AppDynamics
6 1 (1.61%) Canon
6 1 (1.61%) CheckPoint
6 1 (1.61%) Dell
6 1 (1.61%) F5
6 1 (1.61%) Infoblox
6 1 (1.61%) Oracle
6 1 (1.61%) Salesforce