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 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 209 202 222
Rank change year-on-year -7 +20 +33
Permanent jobs citing ITSM 549 1,013 949
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.40% 1.43% 1.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.51% 1.70% 1.66%
Number of salaries quoted 421 689 640
10th Percentile £23,750 £24,393 £27,450
25th Percentile £29,750 £31,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £43,923 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.93% -2.39% +5.88%
75th Percentile £55,000 £62,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £77,500
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
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 36,419 59,619 57,237
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.92% 83.98% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 18,159 41,251 29,495
10th Percentile £27,000 £27,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,716 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £66,100 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £82,500
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 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 12 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 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
North of England -38 151 £42,312 +1.29% 126
Midlands +31 130 £35,000 -26.32% 70
South East +16 128 £48,500 -7.62% 154
North West -59 94 £45,000 +7.72% 71
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% 37
Scotland +53 11 £34,250 -31.50% 33
North East +17 10 £22,500 -46.94% 20
Northern Ireland +36 9 £52,500 +75.00% 4
Wales -3 2 £70,000 +27.27% 13
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 72 (13.11%) SharePoint
2 40 (7.29%) Confluence
3 32 (5.83%) Microsoft Exchange
4 23 (4.19%) IIS
5 6 (1.09%) Apache
5 6 (1.09%) nginx
Applications
1 59 (10.75%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (1.28%) MS Visio
3 5 (0.91%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.18%) Weka
Business Applications
1 14 (2.55%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.36%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.18%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.18%) iTrent
3 1 (0.18%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 150 (27.32%) Azure
2 141 (25.68%) Microsoft 365
3 71 (12.93%) AWS
4 47 (8.56%) SaaS
5 44 (8.01%) Power Platform
6 34 (6.19%) Entra ID
6 34 (6.19%) Power Automate
7 32 (5.83%) PowerApps
8 29 (5.28%) OneDrive
9 10 (1.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 10 (1.82%) Azure Sentinel
9 10 (1.82%) PaaS
10 8 (1.46%) AWS CloudTrail
11 6 (1.09%) Azure Logic Apps
11 6 (1.09%) GitHub
11 6 (1.09%) IaaS
12 5 (0.91%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (0.91%) AWS Step Functions
12 5 (0.91%) Dynamics 365
12 5 (0.91%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 35 (6.38%) Firewall
2 30 (5.46%) WAN
3 27 (4.92%) DNS
4 23 (4.19%) VPN
5 21 (3.83%) TCP/IP
6 17 (3.10%) Remote Desktop
7 16 (2.91%) LAN
7 16 (2.91%) VLAN
8 15 (2.73%) SD-WAN
8 15 (2.73%) Wi-Fi
9 12 (2.19%) DHCP
10 10 (1.82%) VoIP
11 9 (1.64%) Wireless
12 8 (1.46%) MPLS
13 7 (1.28%) SAN
14 5 (0.91%) BGP
14 5 (0.91%) OSPF
15 4 (0.73%) Cisco IOS
15 4 (0.73%) NAS
15 4 (0.73%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (7.10%) Power BI
2 32 (5.83%) SQL Server
3 27 (4.92%) Big Data
4 26 (4.74%) Data Lake
4 26 (4.74%) Tableau
5 11 (2.00%) Amazon RDS
6 7 (1.28%) Relational Database
7 6 (1.09%) MariaDB
8 5 (0.91%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (0.55%) BusinessObjects
9 3 (0.55%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.36%) GIS
10 2 (0.36%) Oracle Database
10 2 (0.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (0.18%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (0.18%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 1 (0.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 89 (16.21%) JIRA
2 5 (0.91%) Git
3 2 (0.36%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.18%) Vagrant
General
1 218 (39.71%) Social Skills
2 89 (16.21%) Law
3 60 (10.93%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (6.01%) Finance
5 32 (5.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 29 (5.28%) Retail
7 26 (4.74%) Public Sector
8 17 (3.10%) Legal
9 14 (2.55%) Banking
10 12 (2.19%) Marketing
11 11 (2.00%) Back Office
11 11 (2.00%) Local Government
12 9 (1.64%) Games
13 8 (1.46%) Manufacturing
14 7 (1.28%) Private Banking
15 5 (0.91%) Organisational Skills
16 4 (0.73%) Advertising
16 4 (0.73%) Police
17 3 (0.55%) Automotive
17 3 (0.55%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 146 (26.59%) Analyst
2 115 (20.95%) IT Support
3 85 (15.48%) Lead
4 64 (11.66%) Support Analyst
5 55 (10.02%) IT Analyst
6 51 (9.29%) Service Analyst
6 51 (9.29%) Service Manager
7 46 (8.38%) IT Manager
8 44 (8.01%) IT Support Analyst
9 42 (7.65%) Service Desk Analyst
10 38 (6.92%) Senior
11 36 (6.56%) Service Desk Manager
12 32 (5.83%) Support Engineer
13 31 (5.65%) Team Leader
14 24 (4.37%) SQL Analyst
14 24 (4.37%) SQL Support Analyst
15 22 (4.01%) 2nd Line Support
16 21 (3.83%) IT Engineer
16 21 (3.83%) IT Services Manager
17 19 (3.46%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (3.10%) .NET
2 13 (2.37%) REST
2 13 (2.37%) SOAP
2 13 (2.37%) Web Services
3 5 (0.91%) LDAP
4 4 (0.73%) AngularJS
5 3 (0.55%) ARM Templates
5 3 (0.55%) JSON
5 3 (0.55%) XML
6 2 (0.36%) EDI
6 2 (0.36%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (0.36%) RESTful
7 1 (0.18%) ADO
7 1 (0.18%) Ajax
7 1 (0.18%) CSS
7 1 (0.18%) HTML
7 1 (0.18%) Kafka
7 1 (0.18%) Spring
7 1 (0.18%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 41 (7.47%) Management Information System
2 32 (5.83%) Onboarding
3 28 (5.10%) Self-Motivation
4 27 (4.92%) CMDB
5 21 (3.83%) Client/Server
6 16 (2.91%) Driving Licence
6 16 (2.91%) Product Ownership
7 13 (2.37%) Private Cloud
8 10 (1.82%) Data Centre
9 8 (1.46%) Hybrid Cloud
10 6 (1.09%) Video Conferencing
11 5 (0.91%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (0.91%) Mobile App
11 5 (0.91%) Public Cloud
12 4 (0.73%) Anti-Spyware
12 4 (0.73%) Operational Technology
13 3 (0.55%) Enterprise Software
13 3 (0.55%) iPad
13 3 (0.55%) iPhone
14 2 (0.36%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 162 (29.51%) Windows
2 41 (7.47%) Linux
3 40 (7.29%) Windows Server
4 33 (6.01%) Mac OS
5 29 (5.28%) Windows 10
6 15 (2.73%) Apple iOS
7 9 (1.64%) Android
8 7 (1.28%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (0.73%) Windows Server 2012
9 4 (0.73%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.36%) VMS
11 1 (0.18%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 280 (51.00%) ITIL
2 273 (49.73%) Service Management
3 149 (27.14%) Customer Service
4 146 (26.59%) Problem-Solving
5 106 (19.31%) Service Delivery
6 102 (18.58%) Agile
7 88 (16.03%) Incident Management
8 80 (14.57%) Continuous Improvement
8 80 (14.57%) Project Management
9 79 (14.39%) Change Management
10 60 (10.93%) Mentoring
11 47 (8.56%) Stakeholder Management
12 45 (8.20%) Computer Science
12 45 (8.20%) Problem Management
12 45 (8.20%) Root Cause Analysis
13 43 (7.83%) DevOps
13 43 (7.83%) Process Improvement
14 42 (7.65%) Analytics
15 41 (7.47%) Business Intelligence
15 41 (7.47%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 71 (12.93%) SQL
2 50 (9.11%) PowerShell
3 26 (4.74%) Python
4 18 (3.28%) JavaScript
5 9 (1.64%) Bash
6 4 (0.73%) C#
6 4 (0.73%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (0.36%) Perl
7 2 (0.36%) PL/SQL
7 2 (0.36%) R
8 1 (0.18%) Bicep
8 1 (0.18%) Java
Qualifications
1 106 (19.31%) Degree
2 40 (7.29%) Microsoft Certification
2 40 (7.29%) Security Cleared
3 35 (6.38%) ITIL Certification
4 30 (5.46%) SC Cleared
5 16 (2.91%) Cisco Certification
6 15 (2.73%) CCNA
7 13 (2.37%) DBS Check
8 12 (2.19%) Computer Science Degree
8 12 (2.19%) Network+ Certification
9 11 (2.00%) A+ Certification
10 10 (1.82%) CCNP
10 10 (1.82%) DV Cleared
10 10 (1.82%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 10 (1.82%) MCSE
11 9 (1.64%) Azure Certification
11 9 (1.64%) MCITP
11 9 (1.64%) MCP
12 8 (1.46%) MCSA
13 7 (1.28%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (16.21%) SLA
2 28 (5.10%) Data Quality
3 26 (4.74%) QA
4 11 (2.00%) Cyber Essentials
5 7 (1.28%) GDPR
6 6 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 4 (0.73%) Accessibility
7 4 (0.73%) Government Security Classifications
7 4 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.36%) COBIT
8 2 (0.36%) GRC
8 2 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 19770
8 2 (0.36%) NCSC
8 2 (0.36%) NIST
8 2 (0.36%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.18%) PMO
System Software
1 90 (16.39%) Active Directory
2 22 (4.01%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (3.10%) Hyper-V
4 16 (2.91%) Virtual Desktop
5 6 (1.09%) Firmware
5 6 (1.09%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (0.91%) BitLocker
6 5 (0.91%) Docker
7 4 (0.73%) vSphere
8 3 (0.55%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.36%) pfSense
10 1 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 40 (7.29%) Microsoft Intune
2 18 (3.28%) SCCM
3 14 (2.55%) Ansible
4 9 (1.64%) Terraform
5 6 (1.09%) Kubernetes
5 6 (1.09%) Progress Chef
5 6 (1.09%) WSUS
6 5 (0.91%) FortiGate
6 5 (0.91%) Puppet
6 5 (0.91%) SCOM
6 5 (0.91%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (0.91%) ZABBIX
7 4 (0.73%) Autotask
7 4 (0.73%) vCenter Server
8 3 (0.55%) Avamar
8 3 (0.55%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.55%) VxRail
9 2 (0.36%) cPanel
9 2 (0.36%) Failover Clustering
9 2 (0.36%) SCSM
Vendors
1 215 (39.16%) Microsoft
2 152 (27.69%) ServiceNow
3 37 (6.74%) Oracle
3 37 (6.74%) VMware
4 26 (4.74%) Cisco
5 14 (2.55%) Remedy
6 13 (2.37%) SolarWinds
7 11 (2.00%) Meraki
8 9 (1.64%) Apple
8 9 (1.64%) iManage
8 9 (1.64%) MobileIron
8 9 (1.64%) Zscaler
9 8 (1.46%) Citrix
9 8 (1.46%) Salesforce
9 8 (1.46%) Veeam
10 7 (1.28%) Avaloq
10 7 (1.28%) Draytek
10 7 (1.28%) HP
11 6 (1.09%) Avaya
11 6 (1.09%) WatchGuard