ITSM Jobs in the South West

IT Service Management (ITSM)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 121 189 160
Rank change year-on-year +68 -29 +6
Permanent jobs citing ITSM 58 104 113
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 1.64% 1.06% 1.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.76% 1.30% 1.80%
Number of salaries quoted 45 62 54
10th Percentile - £26,300 £27,000
25th Percentile £29,750 £33,719 £28,844
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,729 £45,000 £38,279
Median % change year-on-year +14.95% +17.56% +18.04%
75th Percentile £61,098 £60,625 £57,500
90th Percentile £69,427 £70,750 £68,750
England median annual salary £46,000 £50,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year -8.00% -3.85% +4.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,300 7,971 6,271
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 93.04% 81.38% 94.59%
Number of salaries quoted 1,860 5,719 3,481
10th Percentile £27,225 £28,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £39,294
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,500 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.96% -6.48% +8.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £69,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

ITSM
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing ITSM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for ITSM in the South West

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Salary Trend in the South West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing ITSM in the South West.

Salary trend for ITSM in the South West

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Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing ITSM in the South West over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for ITSM in the South West

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Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing ITSM within the South West region over the 6 months to 31 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
Bristol +50 22 £57,500 +24.32% 9
Devon +33 17 £31,500 -30.00% 1
Wiltshire +26 13 £56,745 +57.63% 1
Dorset +35 3 £29,500 +7.27% 2
Gloucestershire +61 2 - - 11
ITSM
England

ITSM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 5 (8.62%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (5.17%) nginx
2 3 (5.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (5.17%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.72%) Weka
Business Applications
1 2 (3.45%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 10 (17.24%) Azure
1 10 (17.24%) Microsoft 365
2 8 (13.79%) AWS
3 6 (10.34%) Entra ID
4 4 (6.90%) SaaS
5 3 (5.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (5.17%) AWS CloudTrail
5 3 (5.17%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 3 (5.17%) IaaS
6 2 (3.45%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 9 (15.52%) Remote Desktop
2 6 (10.34%) VPN
3 5 (8.62%) LAN
4 4 (6.90%) Firewall
5 3 (5.17%) Broadband
5 3 (5.17%) MPLS
5 3 (5.17%) SD-WAN
5 3 (5.17%) Unified Communications
5 3 (5.17%) WAN
5 3 (5.17%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (3.45%) DHCP
6 2 (3.45%) DNS
6 2 (3.45%) Wireless
7 1 (1.72%) BGP
7 1 (1.72%) Cisco Firepower
7 1 (1.72%) InfiniBand
7 1 (1.72%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.17%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (5.17%) Azure SQL Database
1 3 (5.17%) MariaDB
1 3 (5.17%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.72%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 6 (10.34%) JIRA
General
1 22 (37.93%) Social Skills
2 9 (15.52%) Retail
3 7 (12.07%) Banking
3 7 (12.07%) Private Banking
4 6 (10.34%) Games
5 5 (8.62%) Finance
6 1 (1.72%) Back Office
6 1 (1.72%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 15 (25.86%) Analyst
2 11 (18.97%) IT Manager
3 9 (15.52%) 2nd Line Support
4 8 (13.79%) Change and Release Manager
4 8 (13.79%) Change Manager
4 8 (13.79%) IT Change Manager
4 8 (13.79%) Release Manager
4 8 (13.79%) Service Analyst
5 5 (8.62%) Senior
5 5 (8.62%) Support Analyst
6 4 (6.90%) Administrator
7 3 (5.17%) Desktop Analyst
7 3 (5.17%) Desktop Support
7 3 (5.17%) Desktop Support Analyst
7 3 (5.17%) Engineering Manager
7 3 (5.17%) Lead
7 3 (5.17%) Senior Manager
7 3 (5.17%) Senior Service Manager
7 3 (5.17%) Systems Administrator
7 3 (5.17%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.45%) Web Services
2 1 (1.72%) Ajax
2 1 (1.72%) AngularJS
2 1 (1.72%) CSS
2 1 (1.72%) EDI
2 1 (1.72%) HTML
2 1 (1.72%) LDAP
2 1 (1.72%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (20.69%) Management Information System
2 5 (8.62%) Product Ownership
3 3 (5.17%) CMDB
3 3 (5.17%) Video Conferencing
3 3 (5.17%) Video\Live Streaming
4 2 (3.45%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (3.45%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (1.72%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.72%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.72%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 10 (17.24%) Windows
2 4 (6.90%) Linux
3 3 (5.17%) Windows 10
3 3 (5.17%) Windows Server 2016
3 3 (5.17%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (1.72%) Android
4 1 (1.72%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (70.69%) Service Management
2 36 (62.07%) ITIL
3 21 (36.21%) Customer Service
4 18 (31.03%) Change Management
5 16 (27.59%) Service Delivery
6 14 (24.14%) Agile
7 13 (22.41%) Problem-Solving
8 12 (20.69%) DevOps
8 12 (20.69%) Project Delivery
9 11 (18.97%) Configuration Management
9 11 (18.97%) Incident Management
10 9 (15.52%) Case Management
11 8 (13.79%) Product Management
11 8 (13.79%) Release Management
12 7 (12.07%) Computer Science
12 7 (12.07%) Continuous Improvement
12 7 (12.07%) Roadmaps
13 5 (8.62%) Incident Response
14 4 (6.90%) CI/CD
14 4 (6.90%) SIAM
Programming Languages
1 4 (6.90%) PowerShell
2 3 (5.17%) SQL
3 1 (1.72%) Bash
3 1 (1.72%) JavaScript
3 1 (1.72%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (15.52%) Degree
1 9 (15.52%) MCITP
1 9 (15.52%) Microsoft Certification
1 9 (15.52%) Network+ Certification
2 7 (12.07%) Computer Science Degree
2 7 (12.07%) ITIL Certification
2 7 (12.07%) SC Cleared
2 7 (12.07%) Security Cleared
3 4 (6.90%) AWS Certification
3 4 (6.90%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 4 (6.90%) Azure Certification
4 2 (3.45%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.72%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (31.03%) SLA
2 8 (13.79%) QA
System Software
1 5 (8.62%) Active Directory
2 3 (5.17%) VMware ESXi
2 3 (5.17%) vSphere
3 1 (1.72%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 5 (8.62%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (5.17%) Terraform
3 2 (3.45%) Autotask
3 2 (3.45%) SCCM
4 1 (1.72%) FortiGate
4 1 (1.72%) Nagios
4 1 (1.72%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 17 (29.31%) ServiceNow
2 12 (20.69%) Microsoft
3 7 (12.07%) Avaloq
4 3 (5.17%) CheckPoint
4 3 (5.17%) Extreme Networks
4 3 (5.17%) SolarWinds
4 3 (5.17%) VMware
4 3 (5.17%) Zscaler
5 2 (3.45%) Meraki
5 2 (3.45%) Oracle
6 1 (1.72%) Cisco
6 1 (1.72%) IBM
6 1 (1.72%) IBM Sterling