Service Management Contracts

Service Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Service Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Service Management over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 78 87 109
Rank change year-on-year +9 +22 +20
Contract jobs citing Service Management 1,155 1,637 2,211
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.68% 2.77% 2.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.10% 3.08% 2.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 770 1,179 1,502
10th Percentile £282 £240 £200
25th Percentile £425 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £518
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -3.47% +9.05%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £613
90th Percentile £731 £739 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £475 £463
% change year-on-year +10.53% +2.70% +4.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 42 80
10th Percentile £12.53 £17.50 £11.36
25th Percentile £15.46 £20.11 £12.69
Median hourly rate £17.72 £51.75 £18.12
Median % change year-on-year -65.76% +185.67% -21.78%
75th Percentile £20.74 £65.00 £27.63
90th Percentile £48.75 £65.75 £46.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.50 £48.50 £17.00
% change year-on-year -63.91% +185.29% -22.73%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Service Management 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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,262 53,150 80,380
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.35% 89.86% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,013 36,862 56,431
10th Percentile £300 £325 £341
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,440 1,756 1,916
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.95 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.14% +44.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £64.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%

Service Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Service Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Service Management in the UK

Service Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Service Management.

Daily rate trend for Service Management in the UK

Service Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Service Management over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Service Management in the UK

Service Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Service Management.

Hourly rate trend for Service Management in the UK

Service Management
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Service Management over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Service Management in the UK

Service Management
Top 16 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Service Management within the UK over the 6 months to 4 May 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
England +7 977 £525 +5.00% 402
UK excluding London +16 717 £525 +10.53% 318
Work from Home +20 444 £525 - 158
London -25 324 £505 -0.49% 111
North of England +43 192 £500 +11.11% 97
South East -9 167 £575 +20.42% 62
South West +26 149 £503 -12.52% 44
North West +28 104 £493 +12.05% 53
Yorkshire +27 79 £550 +15.79% 27
Scotland +4 76 £563 +25.00% 24
Midlands +25 73 £468 -10.95% 55
East of England -12 50 £525 +90.91% 27
West Midlands +29 47 £450 -10.00% 37
East Midlands +14 25 £500 -9.09% 17
Wales -4 14 £535 +16.30% 10
North East +21 12 £488 +57.26% 19

Service Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 81 (7.01%) Confluence
2 64 (5.54%) SharePoint
3 39 (3.38%) Microsoft Exchange
4 35 (3.03%) SharePoint Server
5 9 (0.78%) CMS
6 7 (0.61%) IBM HTTP Server
6 7 (0.61%) WebSphere
6 7 (0.61%) WebSphere Application Server
6 7 (0.61%) WebSphere Portal
7 5 (0.43%) Skype for Business
8 3 (0.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.17%) Exchange Server 2007
9 2 (0.17%) Exchange Server 2010
10 1 (0.087%) Apache
10 1 (0.087%) IIS
10 1 (0.087%) Tomcat
Applications
1 72 (6.23%) Microsoft Office
2 35 (3.03%) Microsoft Excel
3 13 (1.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (1.04%) Microsoft Project
5 6 (0.52%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.087%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.087%) Gliffy
Business Applications
1 34 (2.94%) Remedy ITSM
2 20 (1.73%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.52%) SAP ERP
4 4 (0.35%) Maximo
5 3 (0.26%) Remedy AR System
5 3 (0.26%) Shopify
6 2 (0.17%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 2 (0.17%) SAP MM
6 2 (0.17%) SystmOne
7 1 (0.087%) Cloudability
7 1 (0.087%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.087%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.087%) SAP HCM
7 1 (0.087%) SAP IS-U
7 1 (0.087%) SAP PM
7 1 (0.087%) SAP Retail
7 1 (0.087%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 163 (14.11%) Azure
2 84 (7.27%) Microsoft 365
3 78 (6.75%) AWS
4 45 (3.90%) Power Platform
5 36 (3.12%) Azure Stack
6 29 (2.51%) Entra ID
7 28 (2.42%) GCP
7 28 (2.42%) SaaS
8 23 (1.99%) IaaS
9 19 (1.65%) Azure Monitor
10 18 (1.56%) Azure DevOps
11 17 (1.47%) Azure Storage
12 14 (1.21%) OneDrive
12 14 (1.21%) PaaS
13 12 (1.04%) Amazon EC2
14 9 (0.78%) Serverless
15 7 (0.61%) Power Automate
16 6 (0.52%) AWS CodeBuild
16 6 (0.52%) AWS CodeDeploy
16 6 (0.52%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 83 (7.19%) Firewall
2 37 (3.20%) BGP
3 32 (2.77%) DHCP
3 32 (2.77%) DNS
4 17 (1.47%) LAN
4 17 (1.47%) WAN
5 16 (1.39%) Network Security
6 14 (1.21%) VPN
7 12 (1.04%) Wireless
8 10 (0.87%) HTTP
9 9 (0.78%) HTTPS
10 8 (0.69%) Cisco ASA
10 8 (0.69%) Skype
11 7 (0.61%) VSAN
12 6 (0.52%) Cisco ISE
12 6 (0.52%) TCP/IP
13 5 (0.43%) AMQP
13 5 (0.43%) SAN
14 4 (0.35%) SNA
15 3 (0.26%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (3.46%) Power BI
2 13 (1.13%) Amazon RDS
3 12 (1.04%) Big Data
3 12 (1.04%) Data Lake
3 12 (1.04%) SQL Server
4 11 (0.95%) Relational Database
5 8 (0.69%) MySQL
6 6 (0.52%) InfluxDB
6 6 (0.52%) Oracle Database
6 6 (0.52%) Tableau
7 5 (0.43%) Data Mining
7 5 (0.43%) GIS
7 5 (0.43%) MariaDB
7 5 (0.43%) Oracle Reports
8 3 (0.26%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (0.26%) Metadata
8 3 (0.26%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (0.26%) SAP HANA
9 2 (0.17%) Flink
9 2 (0.17%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 101 (8.74%) JIRA
2 17 (1.47%) Jenkins
3 7 (0.61%) Robot Framework
3 7 (0.61%) Sonatype Nexus
4 5 (0.43%) Git
4 5 (0.43%) IBM UrbanCode
5 3 (0.26%) Cucumber
5 3 (0.26%) Maven
5 3 (0.26%) Selenium
5 3 (0.26%) WebDriver
6 2 (0.17%) HP UFT
6 2 (0.17%) Hudson
6 2 (0.17%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.087%) Axure RP
7 1 (0.087%) Gatling
7 1 (0.087%) GitLab
7 1 (0.087%) JMeter
7 1 (0.087%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.087%) webpack
General
1 408 (35.32%) Social Skills
2 203 (17.58%) Finance
3 184 (15.93%) Public Sector
4 145 (12.55%) Analytical Skills
5 90 (7.79%) Banking
6 45 (3.90%) Telecoms
7 40 (3.46%) Presentation Skills
8 33 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
9 27 (2.34%) Legal
10 25 (2.16%) Influencing Skills
10 25 (2.16%) Marketing
11 20 (1.73%) Retail
12 18 (1.56%) Manufacturing
13 15 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 14 (1.21%) Back Office
15 13 (1.13%) Law
16 12 (1.04%) Military
17 11 (0.95%) Electronics
18 10 (0.87%) Local Government
19 8 (0.69%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 223 (19.31%) Analyst
2 161 (13.94%) Architect
3 128 (11.08%) Service Manager
4 84 (7.27%) Service Architect
5 80 (6.93%) Service Analyst
6 69 (5.97%) Lead
7 60 (5.19%) Consultant
8 52 (4.50%) Business Analyst
9 51 (4.42%) Banking Analyst
10 49 (4.24%) Senior
11 43 (3.72%) Developer
12 42 (3.64%) IT Analyst
13 41 (3.55%) IT Manager
14 38 (3.29%) Delivery Manager
14 38 (3.29%) Support Engineer
15 37 (3.20%) Support Analyst
16 36 (3.12%) IT Services Manager
16 36 (3.12%) Transition Manager
17 35 (3.03%) Service Transition Manager
18 34 (2.94%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (3.64%) Web Services
2 27 (2.34%) REST
3 17 (1.47%) ARM Templates
3 17 (1.47%) Middleware
4 14 (1.21%) CSS
5 13 (1.13%) SOAP
6 11 (0.95%) HTML
7 10 (0.87%) J2EE
8 9 (0.78%) AngularJS
9 8 (0.69%) RabbitMQ
10 6 (0.52%) .NET
11 5 (0.43%) Flash
11 5 (0.43%) Twitter Bootstrap
12 4 (0.35%) LDAP
12 4 (0.35%) RESTful
12 4 (0.35%) XML
13 3 (0.26%) jQuery
13 3 (0.26%) Spring
13 3 (0.26%) Spring MVC
13 3 (0.26%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 101 (8.74%) Management Information System
2 72 (6.23%) CMDB
3 43 (3.72%) PKI
3 43 (3.72%) Self-Motivation
4 37 (3.20%) Private Cloud
5 36 (3.12%) Data Centre
6 33 (2.86%) Virtual Team
7 16 (1.39%) Linux Command Line
8 15 (1.30%) Product Ownership
9 13 (1.13%) Onboarding
10 12 (1.04%) Clustering
10 12 (1.04%) LIMS
10 12 (1.04%) Operational Technology
11 6 (0.52%) Driving Licence
11 6 (0.52%) NHS
12 5 (0.43%) Public Cloud
12 5 (0.43%) SCADA
13 4 (0.35%) Analytical Mindset
13 4 (0.35%) Enterprise Software
13 4 (0.35%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 162 (14.03%) Windows
2 70 (6.06%) Linux
3 69 (5.97%) Windows Server
4 59 (5.11%) Windows 10
5 46 (3.98%) Windows Server 2019
6 43 (3.72%) Windows Server 2016
7 25 (2.16%) Windows Server 2012
8 21 (1.82%) Apple iOS
8 21 (1.82%) Windows NT
9 15 (1.30%) Unix
10 8 (0.69%) Android
11 7 (0.61%) Mac OS
12 4 (0.35%) Windows 7
13 2 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 2 (0.17%) VMS
14 1 (0.087%) CentOS
14 1 (0.087%) Solaris
14 1 (0.087%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.087%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 593 (51.34%) ITIL
2 406 (35.15%) ITSM
3 214 (18.53%) Agile
4 185 (16.02%) Problem-Solving
5 176 (15.24%) Change Management
6 160 (13.85%) Service Delivery
7 128 (11.08%) Continuous Improvement
8 125 (10.82%) Customer Service
9 113 (9.78%) Problem Management
10 106 (9.18%) Stakeholder Management
11 104 (9.00%) Asset Management
11 104 (9.00%) Project Management
12 103 (8.92%) Service Design
13 97 (8.40%) Incident Management
14 90 (7.79%) Configuration Management
15 78 (6.75%) DevOps
16 76 (6.58%) Analytics
17 75 (6.49%) Roadmaps
18 72 (6.23%) Project Delivery
19 68 (5.89%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 62 (5.37%) PowerShell
2 42 (3.64%) SQL
3 25 (2.16%) Java
3 25 (2.16%) Python
4 22 (1.90%) C#
5 19 (1.65%) VB
5 19 (1.65%) VBScript
6 17 (1.47%) Bicep
6 17 (1.47%) JavaScript
7 8 (0.69%) Swift
8 6 (0.52%) Bash
8 6 (0.52%) Go
8 6 (0.52%) Shell Script
9 4 (0.35%) C
10 2 (0.17%) C++
10 2 (0.17%) VBA
11 1 (0.087%) ABAP
11 1 (0.087%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.087%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.087%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 465 (40.26%) Security Cleared
2 292 (25.28%) SC Cleared
3 196 (16.97%) DV Cleared
4 101 (8.74%) Degree
5 40 (3.46%) ITIL Certification
6 34 (2.94%) Microsoft Certification
7 29 (2.51%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 25 (2.16%) BPSS Clearance
9 21 (1.82%) Cisco Certification
10 19 (1.65%) AWS Certification
11 13 (1.13%) Computer Science Degree
12 10 (0.87%) CCNA
12 10 (0.87%) MCP
12 10 (0.87%) MCSE
13 9 (0.78%) CCNP
14 7 (0.61%) Master's Degree
15 5 (0.43%) A+ Certification
15 5 (0.43%) CCSA
15 5 (0.43%) JNCIA
15 5 (0.43%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (6.06%) SLA
2 46 (3.98%) QA
3 36 (3.12%) Government Security Classifications
4 30 (2.60%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 22 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 16 (1.39%) Data Quality
7 13 (1.13%) JSP 440
8 9 (0.78%) Disclosure Scotland
9 8 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials
10 7 (0.61%) RMADS
11 5 (0.43%) Accessibility
11 5 (0.43%) GDPR
11 5 (0.43%) NIST
11 5 (0.43%) PMO
12 4 (0.35%) COBIT
13 3 (0.26%) NCSC
13 3 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 2 (0.17%) GxP
14 2 (0.17%) ISO 22301
14 2 (0.17%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 108 (9.35%) Active Directory
2 28 (2.42%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (1.99%) Virtual Desktop
4 21 (1.82%) Firmware
5 18 (1.56%) Virtual Machines
6 12 (1.04%) VMware NSX
7 10 (0.87%) Docker
8 7 (0.61%) VMware ESXi
9 6 (0.52%) vSphere
10 4 (0.35%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 4 (0.35%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.17%) Hyper-V
12 1 (0.087%) BitLocker
12 1 (0.087%) NFS
12 1 (0.087%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 59 (5.11%) SCCM
2 48 (4.16%) SCOM
3 46 (3.98%) Terraform
4 41 (3.55%) WSUS
5 36 (3.12%) Microsoft Intune
6 33 (2.86%) Ansible
7 29 (2.51%) Kubernetes
8 21 (1.82%) Sysprep
9 20 (1.73%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 16 (1.39%) OPNET
10 16 (1.39%) Puppet
11 10 (0.87%) Progress Chef
12 7 (0.61%) vCenter Server
13 6 (0.52%) Grafana
13 6 (0.52%) Prometheus
13 6 (0.52%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
14 5 (0.43%) Docker Swarm
14 5 (0.43%) IBM BigFix
14 5 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
14 5 (0.43%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 239 (20.69%) Microsoft
2 190 (16.45%) ServiceNow
3 59 (5.11%) Atlassian
4 41 (3.55%) Remedy
4 41 (3.55%) SAP
5 32 (2.77%) VMware
6 27 (2.34%) Cisco
7 26 (2.25%) Oracle
8 17 (1.47%) BMC
8 17 (1.47%) Google
9 13 (1.13%) Dell
10 11 (0.95%) InterSystems
10 11 (0.95%) SolarWinds
11 10 (0.87%) Okta
12 9 (0.78%) Apple
13 8 (0.69%) Citrix
13 8 (0.69%) IBM
13 8 (0.69%) Juniper
13 8 (0.69%) Palo Alto
13 8 (0.69%) Salesforce