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 5 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 53 38
Rank change year-on-year -27 -15 +13
Contract jobs citing Service Management 65 26 67
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 2.98% 2.90% 3.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.35% 3.22% 4.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 14 35
10th Percentile £185 £135 £405
25th Percentile £208 £188 £501
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £225 £587
Median % change year-on-year +108.00% -61.70% +23.68%
75th Percentile £543 £425 £600
90th Percentile £614 - £689
England median daily rate £507 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.52% -3.67% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 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 £45.46 £29.00 £17.72
% change year-on-year +56.76% +63.66% -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 1,941 808 1,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 89.08% 90.18% 87.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,271 495 929
10th Percentile £306 £231 £260
25th Percentile £402 £358 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% - -9.52%
75th Percentile £550 £567 £575
90th Percentile £650 £638 £669
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 27 47
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.84 £11.11
25th Percentile £15.25 £16.79 £12.15
Median hourly rate £22.81 £22.14 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% +47.60% +41.11%
75th Percentile £55.00 £28.75 £23.25
90th Percentile £68.75 £63.56 £53.75
England median hourly rate £29.32 £35.00 £33.78
% change year-on-year -16.23% +3.63% -5.26%

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 5 March 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 5 March 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 -12 26 £513 +20.59% 11
South Yorkshire -43 26 £492 +121.12% 8
North Yorkshire - 7 £195 - 1
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 (21.54%) SharePoint
2 5 (7.69%) Confluence
3 2 (3.08%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (6.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (4.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (3.08%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (3.08%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (4.62%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.54%) NetSuite
2 1 (1.54%) SAP ERP
2 1 (1.54%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 15 (23.08%) Microsoft 365
2 14 (21.54%) Azure
3 10 (15.38%) Entra ID
3 10 (15.38%) OneDrive
4 6 (9.23%) Power Platform
5 4 (6.15%) PowerApps
6 2 (3.08%) AWS
6 2 (3.08%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (3.08%) OpenShift
7 1 (1.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (1.54%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.54%) Amazon ELB
7 1 (1.54%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.54%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.54%) Datadog
7 1 (1.54%) GCP
7 1 (1.54%) GitHub
7 1 (1.54%) SaaS
7 1 (1.54%) Serverless
7 1 (1.54%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.15%) LAN
1 4 (6.15%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (4.62%) DNS
2 3 (4.62%) Remote Desktop
2 3 (4.62%) TCP/IP
3 2 (3.08%) DHCP
4 1 (1.54%) BIG-IP
4 1 (1.54%) Firewall
4 1 (1.54%) Network Security
4 1 (1.54%) Unified Communications
4 1 (1.54%) VPN
4 1 (1.54%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.62%) Power BI
2 2 (3.08%) GIS
2 2 (3.08%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.54%) Data Mining
3 1 (1.54%) Electronic Patient Records
3 1 (1.54%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.54%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (15.38%) JIRA
2 1 (1.54%) Git
2 1 (1.54%) GitLab
2 1 (1.54%) Jenkins
General
1 23 (35.38%) Social Skills
2 14 (21.54%) Finance
3 11 (16.92%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (9.23%) Banking
5 5 (7.69%) Retail
6 4 (6.15%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (6.15%) Public Sector
7 3 (4.62%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (3.08%) Legal
8 2 (3.08%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.54%) Billing
9 1 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.54%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.54%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 10 (15.38%) 2nd Line Support
1 10 (15.38%) Analyst
1 10 (15.38%) IT Support
2 7 (10.77%) Service Manager
3 5 (7.69%) Architect
3 5 (7.69%) Lead
3 5 (7.69%) Project Manager
4 4 (6.15%) SAP Manager
4 4 (6.15%) Service Analyst
5 3 (4.62%) Business Analyst
5 3 (4.62%) Data Analyst
5 3 (4.62%) Microsoft 365 Business Analyst
5 3 (4.62%) Report Analyst
5 3 (4.62%) Service Design Manager
5 3 (4.62%) Service Transition Manager
5 3 (4.62%) Transition Manager
6 2 (3.08%) Field Hardware Engineer
6 2 (3.08%) Service Delivery Manager
6 2 (3.08%) Splunk Engineer
6 2 (3.08%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.08%) JSON
1 2 (3.08%) REST
1 2 (3.08%) Spring Boot
2 1 (1.54%) .NET
2 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (1.54%) Web Services
2 1 (1.54%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.69%) CMDB
2 4 (6.15%) Data Centre
2 4 (6.15%) Product Ownership
2 4 (6.15%) Virtual Team
3 3 (4.62%) PMI
3 3 (4.62%) Smartphone
4 2 (3.08%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (3.08%) Mainframe
4 2 (3.08%) NHS
5 1 (1.54%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.54%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.54%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (1.54%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.54%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (1.54%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.54%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.54%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.54%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.54%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.54%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 17 (26.15%) Windows
2 4 (6.15%) Windows 10
3 3 (4.62%) Mac OS
4 2 (3.08%) Linux
4 2 (3.08%) Unix
5 1 (1.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.54%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.54%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (61.54%) ITIL
2 20 (30.77%) ITSM
3 17 (26.15%) Agile
3 17 (26.15%) Stakeholder Management
4 13 (20.00%) Service Delivery
5 12 (18.46%) Observability
5 12 (18.46%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (16.92%) Project Management
7 10 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
7 10 (15.38%) Service Design
8 9 (13.85%) DevOps
8 9 (13.85%) Risk Management
8 9 (13.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 7 (10.77%) Incident Management
10 6 (9.23%) PRINCE2
10 6 (9.23%) Project Delivery
11 5 (7.69%) CI/CD
11 5 (7.69%) Problem Management
11 5 (7.69%) Root Cause Analysis
11 5 (7.69%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 6 (9.23%) Python
2 4 (6.15%) Shell Script
3 3 (4.62%) Perl
3 3 (4.62%) SQL
4 2 (3.08%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.54%) C#
5 1 (1.54%) Java
5 1 (1.54%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.54%) Search Processing Language
5 1 (1.54%) VBA
Qualifications
1 8 (12.31%) Security Cleared
2 6 (9.23%) PMI Certification
3 5 (7.69%) PMP
4 4 (6.15%) Degree
5 3 (4.62%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.54%) CISM
6 1 (1.54%) CISSP
6 1 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.54%) ISEB
6 1 (1.54%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (1.54%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.62%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.08%) Actionable Recommendations
2 2 (3.08%) QA
3 1 (1.54%) GDPR
3 1 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.54%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.54%) PMO
3 1 (1.54%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.54%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (18.46%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (6.15%) SCCM
3 3 (4.62%) Jamf Pro
4 2 (3.08%) Ansible
4 2 (3.08%) Grafana
4 2 (3.08%) Kubernetes
5 1 (1.54%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 8 (12.31%) ServiceNow
3 5 (7.69%) Splunk
4 4 (6.15%) SAP
5 2 (3.08%) HP
6 1 (1.54%) AppDynamics
6 1 (1.54%) BMC
6 1 (1.54%) Canon
6 1 (1.54%) CheckPoint
6 1 (1.54%) Cribl.io
6 1 (1.54%) Dell
6 1 (1.54%) F5
6 1 (1.54%) Infoblox
6 1 (1.54%) LogicMonitor
6 1 (1.54%) New Relic
6 1 (1.54%) Oracle
6 1 (1.54%) Salesforce