ITSM Contracts in Berkshire

IT Service Management (ITSM)
South East > Berkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for ITSM skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited ITSM over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 76 83 87
Rank change year-on-year +7 +4 -4
Contract jobs citing ITSM 45 32 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 2.33% 1.81% 1.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.66% 2.01% 2.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 18 28
10th Percentile £457 £342 £311
25th Percentile £475 £416 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £538 £580 £625
90th Percentile £589 £612 £711
South East median daily rate £485 £468 £490
% change year-on-year +3.53% -4.40% +2.62%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

ITSM is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,694 1,590 2,136
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 87.77% 89.73% 89.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 856 993 1,350
10th Percentile £235 £349 £267
25th Percentile £375 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% +5.00% +7.41%
75th Percentile £608 £638 £588
90th Percentile £675 £702 £650
South East median daily rate £510 £504 £500
% change year-on-year +1.29% +0.70% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 53 38
10th Percentile £17.15 £18.50 £13.00
25th Percentile £41.25 £26.13 £17.00
Median hourly rate £60.80 £63.00 £21.03
Median % change year-on-year -3.49% +199.64% -0.12%
75th Percentile £71.89 £74.79 £34.97
90th Percentile £87.46 £79.19 £67.72
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £52.50 £21.99
% change year-on-year -9.52% +138.80% -20.05%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing ITSM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for ITSM in Berkshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ITSM in Berkshire.

Daily rate trend for ITSM in Berkshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ITSM in Berkshire over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for ITSM in Berkshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing ITSM in Berkshire.

Hourly rate trend for ITSM in Berkshire

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Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ITSM within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 1 June 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Wokingham +15 16 £488 -7.08% 1
Ascot - 11 - -
Newbury - 8 £525 -
Reading -28 4 £588 +3.07% 7
ITSM
South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 2 (4.44%) Confluence
1 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (2.22%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 16 (35.56%) OpenShift
2 5 (11.11%) SaaS
3 4 (8.89%) Azure
4 3 (6.67%) AWS
4 3 (6.67%) Azure API Management
4 3 (6.67%) Azure Event Grid
4 3 (6.67%) Azure Logic Apps
4 3 (6.67%) Entra ID
4 3 (6.67%) IaaS
4 3 (6.67%) PaaS
5 2 (4.44%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (2.22%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 1 (2.22%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 16 (35.56%) VPN
2 11 (24.44%) Cisco Nexus
2 11 (24.44%) DMZ
2 11 (24.44%) Firewall
3 3 (6.67%) Network Security
4 2 (4.44%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (24.44%) Elasticsearch
1 11 (24.44%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.22%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (6.67%) JIRA
1 3 (6.67%) Visual Studio
General
1 11 (24.44%) Banking
1 11 (24.44%) Investment Banking
2 3 (6.67%) Social Skills
3 2 (4.44%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.22%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (35.56%) Site Engineer
1 16 (35.56%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 11 (24.44%) Blue Coat Engineer
2 11 (24.44%) Cisco Engineer
2 11 (24.44%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 11 (24.44%) Juniper Engineer
2 11 (24.44%) Network Engineer
3 9 (20.00%) Developer
4 8 (17.78%) ServiceNow Developer
5 4 (8.89%) Lead
6 3 (6.67%) Cisco Security Engineer
6 3 (6.67%) Consultant
6 3 (6.67%) Data Engineer
6 3 (6.67%) Data Network Engineer
6 3 (6.67%) Network Security Engineer
6 3 (6.67%) Security Engineer
7 2 (4.44%) IT Engineer
7 2 (4.44%) Salesforce Consultant
7 2 (4.44%) Service Desk Engineer
8 1 (2.22%) Salesforce Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (24.44%) Kafka
2 4 (8.89%) Web Services
3 3 (6.67%) .NET
4 1 (2.22%) CSS
4 1 (2.22%) HTML
4 1 (2.22%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (2.22%) Middleware
4 1 (2.22%) Visualforce
4 1 (2.22%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 3 (6.67%) Public Cloud
3 2 (4.44%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.44%) Windows
1 2 (4.44%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (40.00%) DevOps
2 16 (35.56%) Microservices
2 16 (35.56%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 15 (33.33%) GitOps
4 14 (31.11%) High Availability
5 13 (28.89%) Agile
5 13 (28.89%) Containerisation
5 13 (28.89%) Task Automation
6 11 (24.44%) Architectural Patterns
6 11 (24.44%) Change Control
6 11 (24.44%) Design Patterns
7 10 (22.22%) Change Management
7 10 (22.22%) Collaborative Working
7 10 (22.22%) Incident Response
7 10 (22.22%) Performance Tuning
7 10 (22.22%) Software Engineering
8 4 (8.89%) Service Management
9 3 (6.67%) Cryptography
9 3 (6.67%) Data Protection
9 3 (6.67%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 4 (8.89%) Java
1 4 (8.89%) Python
2 3 (6.67%) C#
2 3 (6.67%) PHP
2 3 (6.67%) Ruby
3 1 (2.22%) Apex Code
3 1 (2.22%) JavaScript
3 1 (2.22%) SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (55.56%) SC Cleared
1 25 (55.56%) Security Cleared
2 3 (6.67%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 20000
1 1 (2.22%) QA
System Software
1 5 (11.11%) Active Directory
2 3 (6.67%) Docker
2 3 (6.67%) Hyper-V
2 3 (6.67%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 16 (35.56%) Kubernetes
2 11 (24.44%) Argo
2 11 (24.44%) Grafana
2 11 (24.44%) Istio
2 11 (24.44%) Kibana
2 11 (24.44%) Prometheus
3 3 (6.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (24.44%) Blue Coat
1 11 (24.44%) CheckPoint
1 11 (24.44%) Cisco
1 11 (24.44%) Fortinet
1 11 (24.44%) Juniper
2 9 (20.00%) ServiceNow
3 7 (15.56%) Microsoft
4 3 (6.67%) VMware
5 2 (4.44%) Bloomberg
5 2 (4.44%) Citrix
5 2 (4.44%) Reuters
5 2 (4.44%) Salesforce