Service Management Job Trends in Bedford

Service Management
Bedfordshire > Bedford

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Bedford requiring Service Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 - 24
Rank change year-on-year - - +10
Permanent jobs citing Service Management 1 0 4
As % of all permanent jobs in Bedford 0.87% - 3.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.16% - 4.30%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £33,250 - £17,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £34,500 - £23,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -69.68%
75th Percentile £35,750 - £31,000
90th Percentile - - -
Bedfordshire median annual salary £36,625 £40,000 £23,500
% change year-on-year -8.44% +70.21% -65.19%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Bedford

Service Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Bedford.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 86 48 93
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bedford 74.78% 81.36% 77.50%
Number of salaries quoted 67 40 75
10th Percentile £29,000 £37,950 £24,875
25th Percentile £30,000 £47,188 £25,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £50,000 £36,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +36.99% -36.52%
75th Percentile £57,875 £53,000 £56,250
90th Percentile £70,000 £56,500 £61,250
Bedfordshire median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% -8.70%

Service Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedford

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Service Management relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Bedford.

Service Management job vacancy trend in Bedford

Service Management
Salary Trend in Bedford

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bedford citing Service Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bedford citing Service Management

Service Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bedford 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:

General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Applications Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Applications Support
1 1 (100.00%) Applications Support Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Low-Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Intelligent Automation
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Kalman Filter
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) SLA