ITSM Job Trends in the South East

IT Service Management (ITSM)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring ITSM skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 110 127 182
Rank change year-on-year +17 +55 -27
Permanent jobs citing ITSM 214 125 224
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.52% 1.83% 1.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.08% 2.04% 1.64%
Number of salaries quoted 138 77 165
10th Percentile £27,500 £29,350 £29,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £32,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% +5.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £122,500 £65,000
England median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -1.96%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 10,286 6,138 13,667
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 73.15% 89.84% 84.76%
Number of salaries quoted 6,587 3,311 9,856
10th Percentile £29,750 £29,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £78,339
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -12.00%

ITSM
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing ITSM relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South East.

ITSM job vacancy trend in the South East

ITSM
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing ITSM.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing ITSM

ITSM
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing ITSM in the South East over the 6 months to 18 April 2026.

Salary histogram for ITSM in the South East

ITSM
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing ITSM within the South East region over the 6 months to 18 April 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Thames Valley -21 65 £38,750 +3.33% 21
Kent +10 62 £52,500 +69.35% 1
Berkshire -7 44 £37,500 -6.25% 10
Hampshire +15 43 £51,250 +2.50% 11
Surrey -22 40 £47,500 -13.64% 5
Buckinghamshire -14 17 £54,397 +67.37% 4
Oxfordshire -14 4 £32,500 -23.53% 7
West Sussex -19 3 £62,500 +135.85% 6
ITSM
England

ITSM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 8 (3.74%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.40%) OpenStack
3 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 38 (17.76%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (2.80%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.47%) Acrobat
3 1 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.47%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.87%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 56 (26.17%) Microsoft 365
2 35 (16.36%) AWS
3 29 (13.55%) Azure
4 22 (10.28%) SaaS
5 14 (6.54%) Power Platform
6 9 (4.21%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (3.74%) Nutanix
7 8 (3.74%) PowerApps
8 5 (2.34%) Entra ID
9 4 (1.87%) Azure Sentinel
9 4 (1.87%) ClickUp
9 4 (1.87%) GCP
10 2 (0.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (0.93%) Google Workspace
11 1 (0.47%) Dynamics 365
11 1 (0.47%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 15 (7.01%) DHCP
1 15 (7.01%) DNS
2 11 (5.14%) Firewall
3 9 (4.21%) Cisco Firepower
3 9 (4.21%) Cisco IOS
3 9 (4.21%) Cisco ISE
3 9 (4.21%) Junos
3 9 (4.21%) NX-OS
4 8 (3.74%) Remote Desktop
5 6 (2.80%) TCP/IP
5 6 (2.80%) VPN
5 6 (2.80%) Wireless
6 5 (2.34%) VLAN
7 3 (1.40%) 5G
8 2 (0.93%) Structured Cabling
9 1 (0.47%) Internet
9 1 (0.47%) LAN
9 1 (0.47%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.80%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.40%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.47%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.47%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 33 (15.42%) JIRA
2 3 (1.40%) GitLab
2 3 (1.40%) Zephyr
General
1 101 (47.20%) Social Skills
2 19 (8.88%) Finance
2 19 (8.88%) Marketing
3 17 (7.94%) Documentation Skills
3 17 (7.94%) Retail
4 16 (7.48%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (7.01%) French Language
6 14 (6.54%) Presentation Skills
7 10 (4.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (3.74%) Swedish Language
9 4 (1.87%) Law
10 3 (1.40%) Games
10 3 (1.40%) Legal
10 3 (1.40%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.93%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.93%) Italian Language
11 2 (0.93%) Japanese Language
11 2 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.93%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 59 (27.57%) Analyst
2 35 (16.36%) Applications Support
2 35 (16.36%) Applications Support Analyst
3 32 (14.95%) Support Analyst
4 29 (13.55%) Service Analyst
4 29 (13.55%) Service Desk Analyst
5 24 (11.21%) Lead
6 21 (9.81%) Cloud Engineer
7 20 (9.35%) IT Support
8 19 (8.88%) Sales Executive
9 18 (8.41%) Infrastructure Support
10 17 (7.94%) Infrastructure Manager
10 17 (7.94%) Infrastructure Support Manager
10 17 (7.94%) Support Engineer
10 17 (7.94%) Support Manager
11 14 (6.54%) 2nd Line Support
12 13 (6.07%) Network Engineer
13 12 (5.61%) IT Manager
14 10 (4.67%) IT Support Engineer
14 10 (4.67%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.80%) Middleware
2 5 (2.34%) REST
3 4 (1.87%) ARM Templates
4 2 (0.93%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (0.93%) Kafka
4 2 (0.93%) SOAP
5 1 (0.47%) LDAP
5 1 (0.47%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 24 (11.21%) Onboarding
2 14 (6.54%) Hybrid Cloud
3 12 (5.61%) Self-Motivation
4 10 (4.67%) PKI
5 8 (3.74%) Public Cloud
6 5 (2.34%) Analytical Mindset
6 5 (2.34%) Clustering
7 4 (1.87%) ARM Cortex
7 4 (1.87%) Driving Licence
7 4 (1.87%) Product Ownership
7 4 (1.87%) Security Operations Centre
8 3 (1.40%) IoT
8 3 (1.40%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (0.93%) CMDB
9 2 (0.93%) Data Centre
9 2 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.47%) Cyber Security Posture
10 1 (0.47%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.47%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.47%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 65 (30.37%) Windows
2 34 (15.89%) Windows 10
3 27 (12.62%) Windows Server
4 8 (3.74%) Linux
5 1 (0.47%) Android
5 1 (0.47%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.47%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (43.93%) ITIL
2 74 (34.58%) Service Management
3 48 (22.43%) Change Management
4 44 (20.56%) Customer Service
5 43 (20.09%) Continuous Improvement
6 30 (14.02%) Problem-Solving
7 25 (11.68%) Security Operations
8 24 (11.21%) DevOps
9 23 (10.75%) Agile
10 22 (10.28%) Business Development
11 20 (9.35%) Emotional Intelligence
11 20 (9.35%) Infrastructure Monitoring
11 20 (9.35%) Patch Management
11 20 (9.35%) Software Deployment
12 19 (8.88%) Decision-Making
12 19 (8.88%) Incident Management
12 19 (8.88%) Service Delivery
13 18 (8.41%) Business Strategy
13 18 (8.41%) Coaching
13 18 (8.41%) Performance Metrics
Programming Languages
1 18 (8.41%) SQL
2 11 (5.14%) Python
3 9 (4.21%) PowerShell
4 5 (2.34%) JavaScript
5 4 (1.87%) Bicep
5 4 (1.87%) Kusto Query Language
6 3 (1.40%) Bash
6 3 (1.40%) Perl
7 1 (0.47%) C#
Qualifications
1 44 (20.56%) Degree
2 25 (11.68%) Microsoft Certification
3 24 (11.21%) MCSE
4 23 (10.75%) Security Cleared
5 20 (9.35%) DV Cleared
6 17 (7.94%) AWS Certification
7 10 (4.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 9 (4.21%) SC Cleared
9 4 (1.87%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (1.40%) ISTQB
10 3 (1.40%) LPIC
11 2 (0.93%) A+ Certification
11 2 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.93%) Linux+ Certification
11 2 (0.93%) NVQ Level 3
12 1 (0.47%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (12.62%) SLA
2 24 (11.21%) QA
3 2 (0.93%) GDPR
4 1 (0.47%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.47%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.47%) ISO 9001
4 1 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 1 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.47%) NIST
System Software
1 59 (27.57%) Active Directory
2 14 (6.54%) Hyper-V
3 13 (6.07%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (4.21%) Firmware
4 9 (4.21%) VMware NSX
5 6 (2.80%) Docker
6 1 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 35 (16.36%) SCCM
2 14 (6.54%) vCenter Server
3 12 (5.61%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (3.27%) Terraform
5 4 (1.87%) SCOM
6 3 (1.40%) Ansible
6 3 (1.40%) Kubernetes
6 3 (1.40%) Puppet
7 2 (0.93%) Kibana
8 1 (0.47%) Nagios
8 1 (0.47%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 78 (36.45%) ServiceNow
2 64 (29.91%) Microsoft
3 34 (15.89%) SolarWinds
4 16 (7.48%) VMware
5 15 (7.01%) Salesforce
6 10 (4.67%) BMC
7 9 (4.21%) Broadcom
7 9 (4.21%) Cisco
7 9 (4.21%) HP
7 9 (4.21%) Juniper
8 8 (3.74%) Dell
8 8 (3.74%) Dell Compellent
8 8 (3.74%) Nimble Storage
8 8 (3.74%) Palo Alto
8 8 (3.74%) Qualys
9 7 (3.27%) HubSpot
10 6 (2.80%) MuleSoft
11 5 (2.34%) Google
12 4 (1.87%) McAfee
12 4 (1.87%) Remedy