Service Management Job Trends

Service Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Service Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 162 113 144
Rank change year-on-year -49 +31 -18
Permanent jobs citing Service Management 1,123 1,081 1,899
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.35% 2.64% 2.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.77% 2.84% 2.39%
Number of salaries quoted 811 621 1,477
10th Percentile £29,375 £31,000 £26,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £88,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,000 £52,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +15.56% -5.26%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Service Management 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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 63,393 38,022 79,332
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 76.08% 92.93% 86.08%
Number of salaries quoted 39,190 22,514 58,792
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,008
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,688 £50,000
% change year-on-year -6.87% +7.38% -7.94%

Service Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Service Management relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Service Management job vacancy trend in the UK

Service Management
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Service Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Service Management

Service Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Service Management over the 6 months to 10 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Service Management in the UK

Service Management
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Service Management within the UK over the 6 months to 10 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
England -47 1,005 £52,679 -7.17% 367
UK excluding London -57 720 £46,000 -11.54% 317
London +5 324 £69,250 +6.54% 89
Work from Home -24 288 £50,000 -14.16% 157
North of England -70 180 £45,497 -3.20% 73
South East -52 173 £50,001 -14.89% 109
Midlands +2 126 £40,000 -5.88% 50
South West -56 91 £37,500 -31.11% 34
East of England -20 89 £56,000 +17.89% 45
Yorkshire -8 82 £46,000 +19.48% 28
North West -81 76 £50,000 -4.76% 39
East Midlands -21 65 £35,000 +11.11% 15
West Midlands +11 61 £53,500 +3.28% 35
Scotland -14 29 £60,000 -2.04% 13
Wales -14 22 £51,054 +34.02% 6
North East -38 22 £45,497 +18.17% 7
Northern Ireland -38 10 £40,750 -22.38%

Service Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 59 (5.25%) SharePoint
2 54 (4.81%) Microsoft Exchange
3 20 (1.78%) Confluence
4 5 (0.45%) WebSphere
4 5 (0.45%) WebSphere Application Server
5 4 (0.36%) Documentum
6 3 (0.27%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.18%) CMS
7 2 (0.18%) Gentran
7 2 (0.18%) IIS
8 1 (0.089%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.089%) WordPress
Applications
1 55 (4.90%) Microsoft Office
2 31 (2.76%) Microsoft Excel
3 15 (1.34%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.18%) Maya
4 2 (0.18%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.089%) Acrobat
5 1 (0.089%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.089%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 29 (2.58%) Dynamics CRM
2 23 (2.05%) Remedy ITSM
3 9 (0.80%) Dynamics NAV
3 9 (0.80%) Magento
3 9 (0.80%) Shopify
4 7 (0.62%) SAP S/4HANA
5 6 (0.53%) Elite 3E
5 6 (0.53%) Salesforce CRM
6 5 (0.45%) Oracle ERP
7 4 (0.36%) Dynamics GP
7 4 (0.36%) Integrated Workplace Management System
8 2 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
8 2 (0.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 1 (0.089%) Exchequer
9 1 (0.089%) Oracle 11i
9 1 (0.089%) SAP CO
9 1 (0.089%) SAP CX
9 1 (0.089%) SAP FI
9 1 (0.089%) SAP FI/CO
9 1 (0.089%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 247 (21.99%) Azure
2 208 (18.52%) Microsoft 365
3 74 (6.59%) Entra ID
4 68 (6.06%) AWS
5 51 (4.54%) Power Platform
6 43 (3.83%) SaaS
7 35 (3.12%) Azure DevOps
8 29 (2.58%) Dynamics 365
9 26 (2.32%) OneDrive
10 22 (1.96%) GCP
11 17 (1.51%) PaaS
11 17 (1.51%) Power Automate
12 14 (1.25%) Google Workspace
12 14 (1.25%) Microsoft Purview
13 12 (1.07%) IaaS
14 11 (0.98%) Azure Sentinel
15 9 (0.80%) GitHub
16 8 (0.71%) Cloud Computing
16 8 (0.71%) Microsoft Copilot
16 8 (0.71%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 70 (6.23%) WAN
2 50 (4.45%) Firewall
3 49 (4.36%) LAN
4 46 (4.10%) SD-WAN
5 45 (4.01%) VPN
6 43 (3.83%) DNS
7 39 (3.47%) DHCP
8 29 (2.58%) Wi-Fi
9 24 (2.14%) TCP/IP
10 22 (1.96%) Wireless
11 19 (1.69%) Cisco IOS
11 19 (1.69%) VLAN
11 19 (1.69%) VoIP
12 14 (1.25%) Broadband
13 13 (1.16%) 4G
14 9 (0.80%) BGP
14 9 (0.80%) Network Security
14 9 (0.80%) WAAS
15 8 (0.71%) Junos
15 8 (0.71%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (2.94%) Power BI
2 28 (2.49%) SQL Server
3 6 (0.53%) Data Lake
4 5 (0.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 4 (0.36%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (0.27%) BigQuery
6 3 (0.27%) Delta Lake
6 3 (0.27%) MySQL
6 3 (0.27%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (0.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (0.18%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.18%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.089%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.089%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.089%) FileMaker
8 1 (0.089%) InfluxDB
8 1 (0.089%) Oracle Database 12c
8 1 (0.089%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.089%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.089%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 140 (12.47%) JIRA
2 14 (1.25%) Eclipse
3 7 (0.62%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 6 (0.53%) Git
4 6 (0.53%) GitLab
5 3 (0.27%) MLflow
6 2 (0.18%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.18%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.089%) ScriptRunner
General
1 364 (32.41%) Social Skills
2 220 (19.59%) Finance
3 123 (10.95%) Analytical Skills
4 81 (7.21%) Marketing
5 73 (6.50%) Law
6 72 (6.41%) Public Sector
7 69 (6.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 63 (5.61%) Organisational Skills
9 62 (5.52%) Retail
10 48 (4.27%) Banking
10 48 (4.27%) Presentation Skills
11 45 (4.01%) Legal
12 28 (2.49%) Manufacturing
13 22 (1.96%) Influencing Skills
14 21 (1.87%) Telecoms
15 15 (1.34%) Automotive
15 15 (1.34%) Documentation Skills
16 13 (1.16%) Back Office
17 11 (0.98%) Police
18 9 (0.80%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 155 (13.80%) Service Manager
2 139 (12.38%) IT Support
3 134 (11.93%) Analyst
4 127 (11.31%) IT Manager
5 117 (10.42%) Lead
6 109 (9.71%) Senior
7 76 (6.77%) Support Analyst
8 74 (6.59%) Support Engineer
9 66 (5.88%) Delivery Manager
10 60 (5.34%) Architect
11 57 (5.08%) Applications Support
12 52 (4.63%) IT Engineer
13 49 (4.36%) IT Analyst
14 48 (4.27%) IT Services Manager
15 41 (3.65%) Sales Executive
16 40 (3.56%) 2nd Line Support
16 40 (3.56%) Consultant
17 39 (3.47%) Service Delivery Manager
18 38 (3.38%) Support Manager
19 37 (3.29%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (1.60%) Middleware
2 16 (1.42%) REST
3 14 (1.25%) SOAP
4 10 (0.89%) .NET
5 7 (0.62%) EDI
5 7 (0.62%) Kafka
6 5 (0.45%) Node.js
6 5 (0.45%) OpenTelemetry
6 5 (0.45%) SAP Fiori
7 4 (0.36%) ModSecurity
7 4 (0.36%) Oracle Fusion
7 4 (0.36%) Web Services
8 3 (0.27%) PySpark
9 2 (0.18%) Elastic Stack
9 2 (0.18%) JSON
9 2 (0.18%) LAMP
9 2 (0.18%) RabbitMQ
9 2 (0.18%) WAMP
10 1 (0.089%) FIX Protocol
10 1 (0.089%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 70 (6.23%) Onboarding
2 66 (5.88%) Management Information System
3 49 (4.36%) CMDB
3 49 (4.36%) Product Ownership
4 39 (3.47%) Self-Motivation
5 38 (3.38%) Enterprise Software
6 25 (2.23%) Data Centre
7 24 (2.14%) Hybrid Cloud
8 19 (1.69%) Driving Licence
9 18 (1.60%) Analytical Mindset
9 18 (1.60%) Cloud Native
10 17 (1.51%) Legacy Systems
11 16 (1.42%) Video Conferencing
12 13 (1.16%) Virtual Team
13 12 (1.07%) Reinsurance
14 11 (0.98%) Data Protection Act
15 10 (0.89%) Data Structures
15 10 (0.89%) PKI
16 8 (0.71%) IoT
17 7 (0.62%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 174 (15.49%) Windows
2 78 (6.95%) Windows Server
3 59 (5.25%) Windows 10
4 36 (3.21%) Android
5 31 (2.76%) Linux
6 25 (2.23%) Apple iOS
7 16 (1.42%) Mac OS
8 10 (0.89%) Windows 7
8 10 (0.89%) Windows 8
9 6 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 5 (0.45%) Ubuntu
10 5 (0.45%) Unix
11 3 (0.27%) CentOS
12 2 (0.18%) Debian
12 2 (0.18%) VMS
12 2 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.089%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 567 (50.49%) ITIL
2 527 (46.93%) ITSM
3 336 (29.92%) Continuous Improvement
4 309 (27.52%) Service Delivery
5 236 (21.02%) Problem-Solving
6 157 (13.98%) Agile
7 156 (13.89%) Change Management
8 148 (13.18%) Roadmaps
9 142 (12.64%) Stakeholder Management
10 134 (11.93%) Incident Management
11 119 (10.60%) DevOps
12 115 (10.24%) CRM
13 106 (9.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 104 (9.26%) Decision-Making
15 102 (9.08%) Customer Service
16 98 (8.73%) Mentoring
17 94 (8.37%) User Experience
18 92 (8.19%) Problem Management
19 87 (7.75%) Migration
20 83 (7.39%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 72 (6.41%) SQL
2 63 (5.61%) PowerShell
3 33 (2.94%) Python
4 15 (1.34%) JavaScript
5 14 (1.25%) T-SQL
6 7 (0.62%) Bash
7 6 (0.53%) Java
8 5 (0.45%) Go
9 4 (0.36%) C#
10 3 (0.27%) Ruby
11 2 (0.18%) COBOL
11 2 (0.18%) Perl
12 1 (0.089%) Google Apps Script
12 1 (0.089%) Groovy
12 1 (0.089%) PHP
12 1 (0.089%) RPG
12 1 (0.089%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 149 (13.27%) Degree
2 135 (12.02%) Security Cleared
3 81 (7.21%) SC Cleared
4 45 (4.01%) Computer Science Degree
5 39 (3.47%) DV Cleared
6 37 (3.29%) Microsoft Certification
7 33 (2.94%) PMP
8 32 (2.85%) PMI Certification
9 31 (2.76%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 29 (2.58%) ITIL Certification
11 27 (2.40%) A+ Certification
12 20 (1.78%) Azure Certification
12 20 (1.78%) Cisco Certification
13 16 (1.42%) AWS Certification
14 15 (1.34%) BPSS Clearance
14 15 (1.34%) CISSP
15 14 (1.25%) Master's Degree
16 13 (1.16%) CCNP
17 10 (0.89%) CCIE
18 9 (0.80%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (5.88%) SLA
2 37 (3.29%) QA
3 29 (2.58%) GDPR
4 28 (2.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 27 (2.40%) Cyber Essentials
6 23 (2.05%) PMO
7 22 (1.96%) GRC
8 19 (1.69%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 14 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 13 (1.16%) Data Quality
11 10 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 19770
11 10 (0.89%) NIST
12 7 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 6 (0.53%) GAAP
13 6 (0.53%) IFRS
14 5 (0.45%) PCI DSS
15 4 (0.36%) Accessibility
16 3 (0.27%) WCAG
17 2 (0.18%) COBIT
17 2 (0.18%) JSP 440
System Software
1 126 (11.22%) Active Directory
2 45 (4.01%) VMware Infrastructure
3 27 (2.40%) Hyper-V
4 14 (1.25%) VMware NSX
5 13 (1.16%) Firmware
5 13 (1.16%) Virtual Machines
6 10 (0.89%) VMware Workstation
7 6 (0.53%) Docker
8 4 (0.36%) Terminal Services
8 4 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.089%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 61 (5.43%) Microsoft Intune
2 54 (4.81%) SCCM
3 27 (2.40%) Ansible
4 19 (1.69%) Terraform
5 15 (1.34%) Jamf Pro
6 14 (1.25%) Autotask
6 14 (1.25%) vCenter Server
7 12 (1.07%) Kubernetes
8 11 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (0.53%) Grafana
10 4 (0.36%) Nagios
10 4 (0.36%) Prometheus
11 3 (0.27%) SCOM
12 2 (0.18%) Dell DRAC
12 2 (0.18%) FortiGate
12 2 (0.18%) Kibana
12 2 (0.18%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.18%) VxRail
13 1 (0.089%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 1 (0.089%) CASB
Vendors
1 301 (26.80%) Microsoft
2 239 (21.28%) ServiceNow
3 69 (6.14%) Cisco
4 56 (4.99%) VMware
5 53 (4.72%) Salesforce
6 50 (4.45%) BMC
7 34 (3.03%) Remedy
8 31 (2.76%) HubSpot
9 29 (2.58%) Apple
10 26 (2.32%) SolarWinds
11 20 (1.78%) Meraki
12 18 (1.60%) Fortinet
13 17 (1.51%) Google
14 16 (1.42%) Oracle
14 16 (1.42%) SAP
15 14 (1.25%) Freshdesk
16 13 (1.16%) Adobe
16 13 (1.16%) Palo Alto
16 13 (1.16%) Starlink
16 13 (1.16%) Zscaler