ITSM Jobs in the UK excluding London

IT Service Management (ITSM)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 221 210 212
Rank change year-on-year -11 +2 +53
Permanent jobs citing ITSM 532 996 984
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.35% 1.34% 1.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.46% 1.62% 1.77%
Number of salaries quoted 384 681 612
10th Percentile £24,000 £24,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £29,750 £31,000 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £43,500 £46,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.05% -6.45% +9.41%
75th Percentile £56,725 £62,200 £63,469
90th Percentile £66,600 £68,857 £77,500
UK median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% +5.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,483 61,419 55,450
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.65% 82.37% 95.58%
Number of salaries quoted 17,392 42,187 28,711
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £36,750 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,574 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.15% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,443 £55,000 £60,899
% change year-on-year +4.44% -9.69% +1.50%

ITSM
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing ITSM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for ITSM in the UK excluding London

ITSM
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing ITSM in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for ITSM in the UK excluding London

ITSM
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing ITSM in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for ITSM in the UK excluding London

ITSM
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing ITSM within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 30 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
North of England -58 141 £40,000 -4.25% 299
Midlands +37 124 £35,000 -30.00% 250
South East +15 124 £50,000 -1.96% 401
North West -72 80 £40,000 -5.07% 138
East Midlands +53 74 £28,500 +14.00% 108
South West +59 58 £51,729 +14.95% 170
East of England +21 57 £43,000 +14.67% 212
West Midlands -3 50 £50,667 -13.69% 124
Yorkshire +22 49 £40,000 -4.25% 124
Scotland +71 14 £40,000 -11.11% 61
Northern Ireland +44 14 £52,500 +75.00% 18
North East +22 12 £22,500 -46.14% 39
Wales -4 2 £70,000 +75.00% 40
Channel Islands - 2 £39,500 - 2
ITSM
UK

ITSM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 68 (12.78%) SharePoint
2 38 (7.14%) Confluence
3 31 (5.83%) Microsoft Exchange
4 18 (3.38%) IIS
5 5 (0.94%) Apache
6 3 (0.56%) nginx
Applications
1 51 (9.59%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (1.32%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.19%) Weka
Business Applications
1 19 (3.57%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (0.56%) SAP Business One
3 2 (0.38%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.38%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.19%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.19%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 143 (26.88%) Azure
2 131 (24.62%) Microsoft 365
3 60 (11.28%) AWS
4 41 (7.71%) Power Platform
5 40 (7.52%) SaaS
6 36 (6.77%) Entra ID
7 34 (6.39%) Power Automate
7 34 (6.39%) PowerApps
8 30 (5.64%) OneDrive
9 12 (2.26%) PaaS
10 10 (1.88%) Azure Sentinel
11 9 (1.69%) Google Workspace
12 8 (1.50%) IaaS
13 5 (0.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 5 (0.94%) AWS CloudFormation
13 5 (0.94%) AWS Lambda
13 5 (0.94%) AWS Step Functions
13 5 (0.94%) GitHub
13 5 (0.94%) Serverless
14 4 (0.75%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 38 (7.14%) Firewall
2 26 (4.89%) DNS
3 24 (4.51%) VPN
3 24 (4.51%) WAN
4 22 (4.14%) Broadband
5 20 (3.76%) VLAN
5 20 (3.76%) Wi-Fi
6 19 (3.57%) TCP/IP
7 16 (3.01%) LAN
7 16 (3.01%) Remote Desktop
8 15 (2.82%) DHCP
9 14 (2.63%) SD-WAN
10 10 (1.88%) VoIP
11 8 (1.50%) MPLS
11 8 (1.50%) Wireless
12 7 (1.32%) Cisco IOS
12 7 (1.32%) OSPF
12 7 (1.32%) SAN
13 6 (1.13%) BGP
14 5 (0.94%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (7.14%) Power BI
2 26 (4.89%) Big Data
2 26 (4.89%) Data Lake
2 26 (4.89%) Tableau
3 25 (4.70%) SQL Server
4 10 (1.88%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (1.13%) Relational Database
6 3 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (0.56%) BusinessObjects
6 3 (0.56%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (0.56%) GIS
6 3 (0.56%) MariaDB
7 2 (0.38%) Oracle Database
7 2 (0.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.19%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.19%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 1 (0.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 79 (14.85%) JIRA
2 4 (0.75%) Git
3 1 (0.19%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.19%) Vagrant
General
1 222 (41.73%) Social Skills
2 86 (16.17%) Law
3 46 (8.65%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (6.20%) Finance
5 32 (6.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 30 (5.64%) Games
7 28 (5.26%) Retail
8 22 (4.14%) Public Sector
9 17 (3.20%) Legal
10 13 (2.44%) Banking
11 11 (2.07%) Back Office
12 8 (1.50%) Local Government
12 8 (1.50%) Marketing
13 7 (1.32%) Manufacturing
13 7 (1.32%) Private Banking
14 4 (0.75%) Advertising
14 4 (0.75%) Police
15 3 (0.56%) Automotive
15 3 (0.56%) Influencing Skills
15 3 (0.56%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 142 (26.69%) Analyst
2 105 (19.74%) IT Support
3 69 (12.97%) Lead
4 68 (12.78%) Support Analyst
5 61 (11.47%) Senior
6 60 (11.28%) IT Analyst
7 44 (8.27%) IT Support Analyst
7 44 (8.27%) Service Manager
8 43 (8.08%) IT Manager
9 42 (7.89%) Service Analyst
10 33 (6.20%) Service Desk Analyst
11 29 (5.45%) Support Engineer
12 25 (4.70%) Service Desk Manager
12 25 (4.70%) Team Leader
13 24 (4.51%) SQL Analyst
13 24 (4.51%) SQL Support Analyst
14 23 (4.32%) Senior Manager
15 22 (4.14%) 2nd Line Support
15 22 (4.14%) Engineering Manager
15 22 (4.14%) ServiceNow Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (2.63%) Web Services
2 12 (2.26%) REST
3 11 (2.07%) .NET
3 11 (2.07%) SOAP
4 5 (0.94%) LDAP
5 4 (0.75%) AngularJS
5 4 (0.75%) JSON
5 4 (0.75%) XML
6 3 (0.56%) ARM Templates
7 2 (0.38%) CSS
7 2 (0.38%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (0.38%) HTML
8 1 (0.19%) ADO
8 1 (0.19%) Ajax
8 1 (0.19%) EDI
8 1 (0.19%) Kafka
8 1 (0.19%) Spring
8 1 (0.19%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 62 (11.65%) Management Information System
2 30 (5.64%) Product Ownership
3 28 (5.26%) Onboarding
4 24 (4.51%) Self-Motivation
5 22 (4.14%) CMDB
5 22 (4.14%) Video\Live Streaming
6 17 (3.20%) Client/Server
7 15 (2.82%) Driving Licence
8 10 (1.88%) Data Centre
8 10 (1.88%) Hybrid Cloud
9 9 (1.69%) Private Cloud
10 6 (1.13%) Fibre Optics
11 5 (0.94%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (0.94%) Mobile App
11 5 (0.94%) Public Cloud
12 4 (0.75%) Anti-Spyware
12 4 (0.75%) Operational Technology
12 4 (0.75%) Video Conferencing
13 3 (0.56%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 149 (28.01%) Windows
2 37 (6.95%) Windows Server
3 34 (6.39%) Mac OS
4 33 (6.20%) Linux
5 23 (4.32%) Windows 10
6 14 (2.63%) Apple iOS
7 9 (1.69%) Android
8 6 (1.13%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (0.75%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.56%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 1 (0.19%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 254 (47.74%) ITIL
2 244 (45.86%) Service Management
3 133 (25.00%) Customer Service
4 127 (23.87%) Problem-Solving
5 113 (21.24%) Service Delivery
6 103 (19.36%) Incident Management
7 98 (18.42%) Agile
7 98 (18.42%) Change Management
8 84 (15.79%) Continuous Improvement
9 75 (14.10%) Computer Science
9 75 (14.10%) Project Management
10 59 (11.09%) Mentoring
11 54 (10.15%) Problem Management
12 46 (8.65%) Root Cause Analysis
12 46 (8.65%) Stakeholder Management
13 44 (8.27%) Roadmaps
14 42 (7.89%) Analytics
15 40 (7.52%) Business Intelligence
16 39 (7.33%) Business Strategy
17 35 (6.58%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 64 (12.03%) SQL
2 54 (10.15%) PowerShell
3 28 (5.26%) Python
4 17 (3.20%) JavaScript
5 12 (2.26%) Bash
6 4 (0.75%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (0.38%) C#
7 2 (0.38%) Perl
7 2 (0.38%) PL/SQL
7 2 (0.38%) R
8 1 (0.19%) Bicep
8 1 (0.19%) Java
Qualifications
1 131 (24.62%) Degree
2 42 (7.89%) Computer Science Degree
3 41 (7.71%) Microsoft Certification
4 38 (7.14%) Security Cleared
5 30 (5.64%) ITIL Certification
6 28 (5.26%) SC Cleared
7 14 (2.63%) Cisco Certification
8 13 (2.44%) CCNA
9 12 (2.26%) Network+ Certification
10 11 (2.07%) A+ Certification
11 10 (1.88%) Azure Certification
11 10 (1.88%) DBS Check
11 10 (1.88%) DV Cleared
12 9 (1.69%) CCNP
12 9 (1.69%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 9 (1.69%) MCITP
12 9 (1.69%) MCSE
13 8 (1.50%) MCP
13 8 (1.50%) MCSA
14 7 (1.32%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (14.66%) SLA
2 28 (5.26%) Data Quality
3 16 (3.01%) QA
4 11 (2.07%) Cyber Essentials
5 7 (1.32%) Accessibility
6 6 (1.13%) GDPR
6 6 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 5 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.75%) COBIT
9 3 (0.56%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.38%) NCSC
10 2 (0.38%) NIST
11 1 (0.19%) Government Security Classifications
11 1 (0.19%) GRC
11 1 (0.19%) PMO
11 1 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 84 (15.79%) Active Directory
2 18 (3.38%) Hyper-V
2 18 (3.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (2.44%) Virtual Desktop
4 10 (1.88%) Firmware
5 7 (1.32%) BitLocker
6 5 (0.94%) Docker
7 4 (0.75%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.75%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.56%) vSphere
9 1 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 42 (7.89%) Microsoft Intune
2 20 (3.76%) SCCM
3 11 (2.07%) Ansible
4 9 (1.69%) Terraform
5 6 (1.13%) Autotask
5 6 (1.13%) FortiGate
5 6 (1.13%) Kubernetes
6 5 (0.94%) SCOM
6 5 (0.94%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (0.94%) vCenter Server
6 5 (0.94%) WSUS
6 5 (0.94%) ZABBIX
7 4 (0.75%) Progress Chef
8 3 (0.56%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.56%) Puppet
9 2 (0.38%) Failover Clustering
9 2 (0.38%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (0.38%) SCSM
10 1 (0.19%) Control-M
10 1 (0.19%) Nagios
Vendors
1 200 (37.59%) Microsoft
2 153 (28.76%) ServiceNow
3 32 (6.02%) Oracle
3 32 (6.02%) VMware
4 25 (4.70%) Cisco
5 19 (3.57%) Remedy
6 16 (3.01%) SolarWinds
7 12 (2.26%) Meraki
8 11 (2.07%) Apple
8 11 (2.07%) MobileIron
9 10 (1.88%) Google
10 9 (1.69%) BMC
10 9 (1.69%) iManage
10 9 (1.69%) Salesforce
10 9 (1.69%) Zscaler
11 8 (1.50%) Citrix
11 8 (1.50%) HP
12 7 (1.32%) Avaloq
12 7 (1.32%) McAfee
12 7 (1.32%) Veeam