ITSM Jobs in England

IT Service Management (ITSM)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring ITSM skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited ITSM over the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 195 184 229
Rank change year-on-year -11 +45 +93
Permanent jobs citing ITSM 806 1,369 1,441
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.65% 1.59% 1.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.75% 1.86% 1.68%
Number of salaries quoted 614 1,035 1,042
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,000 £29,088
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £35,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £50,950
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -1.86% +5.60%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £71,652
90th Percentile £77,500 £87,500 £88,750
UK median annual salary £45,000 £51,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -11.76% -2.86% +5.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

ITSM 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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 45,933 73,419 85,900
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 94.08% 85.47% 95.62%
Number of salaries quoted 24,038 53,988 50,920
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £34,308
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £76,250 £73,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £101,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

ITSM
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing ITSM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for ITSM in England

ITSM
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing ITSM in England.

Salary trend for ITSM in England

ITSM
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing ITSM in England over the 6 months to 12 May 2025.

Salary histogram for ITSM in England

ITSM
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing ITSM within the England region over the 6 months to 12 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -7 273 £62,500 - 267
North of England -38 151 £42,312 +1.29% 124
Midlands +31 130 £35,000 -26.32% 70
South East +16 128 £48,500 -7.62% 152
North West -59 94 £45,000 +7.72% 70
East Midlands +52 82 £29,000 +16.00% 22
South West +60 64 £45,000 - 47
East of England +23 58 £42,500 +13.33% 72
West Midlands +4 48 £51,447 -13.02% 46
Yorkshire +26 47 £42,500 +0.86% 38
North East +17 10 £22,500 -46.94% 18
ITSM
UK

ITSM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 76 (9.43%) SharePoint
2 55 (6.82%) Microsoft Exchange
3 44 (5.46%) Confluence
4 25 (3.10%) IIS
5 8 (0.99%) Apache
6 6 (0.74%) nginx
7 2 (0.25%) Tomcat
Applications
1 89 (11.04%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (0.99%) MS Visio
3 6 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (0.50%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.12%) Camtasia
6 1 (0.12%) Final Cut Pro
6 1 (0.12%) Weka
Business Applications
1 28 (3.47%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.25%) Magento
2 2 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.25%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.12%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.12%) Elite 3E
3 1 (0.12%) iTrent
3 1 (0.12%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 208 (25.81%) Azure
2 200 (24.81%) Microsoft 365
3 83 (10.30%) AWS
4 56 (6.95%) Entra ID
5 55 (6.82%) SaaS
6 53 (6.58%) Power Platform
7 34 (4.22%) Power Automate
8 33 (4.09%) PowerApps
9 31 (3.85%) OneDrive
10 13 (1.61%) Azure Logic Apps
11 12 (1.49%) Dynamics 365
12 11 (1.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 11 (1.36%) Azure Sentinel
13 10 (1.24%) Azure Monitor
13 10 (1.24%) PaaS
14 9 (1.12%) GitHub
15 8 (0.99%) AWS CloudTrail
15 8 (0.99%) Nutanix
16 7 (0.87%) Azure Data Factory
16 7 (0.87%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 47 (5.83%) DNS
2 38 (4.71%) Firewall
2 38 (4.71%) VPN
2 38 (4.71%) WAN
3 25 (3.10%) TCP/IP
3 25 (3.10%) VLAN
4 22 (2.73%) DHCP
4 22 (2.73%) LAN
5 20 (2.48%) Remote Desktop
6 18 (2.23%) SD-WAN
7 15 (1.86%) VoIP
7 15 (1.86%) Wi-Fi
8 14 (1.74%) SAN
9 13 (1.61%) Network Security
10 11 (1.36%) Wireless
11 8 (0.99%) Cisco IOS
11 8 (0.99%) MPLS
11 8 (0.99%) NAS
12 6 (0.74%) PBX
12 6 (0.74%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (5.83%) SQL Server
2 40 (4.96%) Power BI
3 27 (3.35%) Big Data
4 26 (3.23%) Data Lake
4 26 (3.23%) Tableau
5 18 (2.23%) Relational Database
6 13 (1.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 11 (1.36%) Amazon RDS
7 11 (1.36%) DB2
8 6 (0.74%) MariaDB
8 6 (0.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 5 (0.62%) Azure SQL Database
9 5 (0.62%) GIS
10 3 (0.37%) BusinessObjects
10 3 (0.37%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.25%) Oracle Database
12 1 (0.12%) Elasticsearch
12 1 (0.12%) MongoDB
12 1 (0.12%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 97 (12.03%) JIRA
2 9 (1.12%) Visual Studio
3 7 (0.87%) Git
4 4 (0.50%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.25%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.12%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.12%) Eclipse
6 1 (0.12%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.12%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.12%) Vagrant
6 1 (0.12%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 336 (41.69%) Social Skills
2 143 (17.74%) Law
3 122 (15.14%) Analytical Skills
4 112 (13.90%) Finance
5 53 (6.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 42 (5.21%) Public Sector
7 31 (3.85%) Marketing
7 31 (3.85%) Retail
8 30 (3.72%) Banking
9 27 (3.35%) Legal
10 23 (2.85%) Manufacturing
11 22 (2.73%) Telecoms
12 15 (1.86%) Electronics
13 14 (1.74%) Games
14 13 (1.61%) Investment Banking
14 13 (1.61%) Local Government
14 13 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
15 10 (1.24%) Back Office
16 9 (1.12%) Financial Institution
17 8 (0.99%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 226 (28.04%) Analyst
2 155 (19.23%) IT Support
3 109 (13.52%) Support Analyst
4 106 (13.15%) Lead
5 88 (10.92%) Senior
6 77 (9.55%) IT Analyst
6 77 (9.55%) IT Manager
6 77 (9.55%) Service Manager
7 74 (9.18%) Service Analyst
8 57 (7.07%) IT Support Analyst
9 50 (6.20%) Service Desk Analyst
10 41 (5.09%) Service Desk Manager
10 41 (5.09%) Support Engineer
11 39 (4.84%) Applications Support
11 39 (4.84%) Architect
12 37 (4.59%) Team Leader
13 35 (4.34%) IT Engineer
14 33 (4.09%) 2nd Line Support
15 30 (3.72%) ServiceNow Architect
16 28 (3.47%) Support Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (3.97%) .NET
2 23 (2.85%) SOAP
3 19 (2.36%) Web Services
4 18 (2.23%) REST
5 9 (1.12%) .NET Framework
5 9 (1.12%) ASP.NET
5 9 (1.12%) LDAP
6 8 (0.99%) AngularJS
7 7 (0.87%) CSS
7 7 (0.87%) HTML
8 6 (0.74%) XML
9 5 (0.62%) Elastic Stack
10 4 (0.50%) Ajax
10 4 (0.50%) JSON
10 4 (0.50%) LangChain
11 3 (0.37%) ARM Templates
11 3 (0.37%) EDI
11 3 (0.37%) Lightning Web Components
12 2 (0.25%) React
12 2 (0.25%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 62 (7.69%) Management Information System
2 54 (6.70%) CMDB
3 35 (4.34%) Onboarding
4 34 (4.22%) Self-Motivation
5 24 (2.98%) Product Ownership
6 21 (2.61%) Client/Server
6 21 (2.61%) Data Centre
7 15 (1.86%) Driving Licence
8 13 (1.61%) Private Cloud
8 13 (1.61%) Video Conferencing
9 10 (1.24%) Hedge funds
10 8 (0.99%) Hybrid Cloud
11 7 (0.87%) Blackberry
11 7 (0.87%) Mobile App
12 6 (0.74%) Cloud Native
13 5 (0.62%) Clustering
13 5 (0.62%) Data Protection Act
13 5 (0.62%) iPad
13 5 (0.62%) Operational Technology
13 5 (0.62%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 236 (29.28%) Windows
2 70 (8.68%) Windows 10
3 62 (7.69%) Windows Server
4 52 (6.45%) Linux
5 44 (5.46%) Mac OS
6 24 (2.98%) Apple iOS
7 18 (2.23%) Android
8 13 (1.61%) Windows Server 2019
9 11 (1.36%) Windows Server 2012
10 10 (1.24%) Windows Server 2016
11 6 (0.74%) Unix
12 5 (0.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 2 (0.25%) VMS
14 1 (0.12%) Mac OS X
14 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 432 (53.60%) ITIL
2 416 (51.61%) Service Management
3 225 (27.92%) Problem-Solving
4 197 (24.44%) Service Delivery
5 180 (22.33%) Customer Service
6 131 (16.25%) Change Management
6 131 (16.25%) Incident Management
7 129 (16.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 121 (15.01%) Agile
9 94 (11.66%) Project Management
10 81 (10.05%) Computer Science
11 77 (9.55%) Cybersecurity
12 72 (8.93%) Stakeholder Management
13 69 (8.56%) Business Strategy
13 69 (8.56%) Mentoring
13 69 (8.56%) Roadmaps
14 66 (8.19%) Problem Management
15 59 (7.32%) Root Cause Analysis
16 57 (7.07%) Business Intelligence
17 54 (6.70%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 94 (11.66%) SQL
2 68 (8.44%) PowerShell
3 33 (4.09%) Python
4 29 (3.60%) JavaScript
5 18 (2.23%) C#
6 16 (1.99%) PL/SQL
7 11 (1.36%) VB.NET
8 9 (1.12%) Bash
8 9 (1.12%) Java
8 9 (1.12%) T-SQL
9 5 (0.62%) Kusto Query Language
10 4 (0.50%) C
10 4 (0.50%) C++
11 3 (0.37%) Apex Code
11 3 (0.37%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.25%) Perl
12 2 (0.25%) R
12 2 (0.25%) Ruby
13 1 (0.12%) Gremlin
13 1 (0.12%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 158 (19.60%) Degree
2 55 (6.82%) ITIL Certification
3 52 (6.45%) Security Cleared
4 47 (5.83%) Microsoft Certification
5 40 (4.96%) Computer Science Degree
6 31 (3.85%) PMI Certification
6 31 (3.85%) PMP
7 30 (3.72%) SC Cleared
8 27 (3.35%) CISSP
9 20 (2.48%) Cisco Certification
10 19 (2.36%) CCNA
11 18 (2.23%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 17 (2.11%) Network+ Certification
13 15 (1.86%) DV Cleared
14 14 (1.74%) A+ Certification
14 14 (1.74%) DBS Check
15 10 (1.24%) Azure Certification
15 10 (1.24%) CCNP
15 10 (1.24%) MCSE
16 9 (1.12%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 119 (14.76%) SLA
2 52 (6.45%) QA
3 28 (3.47%) Data Quality
4 27 (3.35%) Cyber Essentials
5 24 (2.98%) GDPR
6 13 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 12 (1.49%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 6 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 5 (0.62%) GRC
9 5 (0.62%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.50%) Accessibility
10 4 (0.50%) Government Security Classifications
11 3 (0.37%) ISO 22301
11 3 (0.37%) NCSC
11 3 (0.37%) NIST
12 2 (0.25%) COBIT
12 2 (0.25%) ISO 9001
12 2 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 19770
12 2 (0.25%) PMO
13 1 (0.12%) SOC 2
System Software
1 138 (17.12%) Active Directory
2 33 (4.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (2.73%) Hyper-V
4 20 (2.48%) Virtual Desktop
5 10 (1.24%) VMware ESXi
6 6 (0.74%) Firmware
7 5 (0.62%) BitLocker
8 4 (0.50%) Docker
8 4 (0.50%) vSphere
9 3 (0.37%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 3 (0.37%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (0.37%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.25%) pfSense
10 2 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 59 (7.32%) Microsoft Intune
2 37 (4.59%) SCCM
3 20 (2.48%) Ansible
4 13 (1.61%) Progress Chef
5 10 (1.24%) Terraform
5 10 (1.24%) WSUS
6 8 (0.99%) Puppet
6 8 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
7 7 (0.87%) Kubernetes
7 7 (0.87%) SCOM
8 5 (0.62%) FortiGate
8 5 (0.62%) Grafana
8 5 (0.62%) ZABBIX
9 4 (0.50%) Autotask
9 4 (0.50%) vCenter Server
10 3 (0.37%) Avamar
10 3 (0.37%) Computer Incident Response Team
10 3 (0.37%) Prometheus
10 3 (0.37%) VxRail
11 2 (0.25%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 302 (37.47%) Microsoft
2 258 (32.01%) ServiceNow
3 52 (6.45%) VMware
4 43 (5.33%) Oracle
5 37 (4.59%) Cisco
6 28 (3.47%) Remedy
7 21 (2.61%) SAP
8 20 (2.48%) SolarWinds
9 17 (2.11%) Citrix
10 14 (1.74%) Meraki
11 13 (1.61%) Veeam
12 12 (1.49%) Apple
13 11 (1.36%) Okta
13 11 (1.36%) Salesforce
14 10 (1.24%) HP
14 10 (1.24%) iManage
15 9 (1.12%) MobileIron
15 9 (1.12%) Splunk
15 9 (1.12%) Zscaler
16 8 (0.99%) Snow