ITSM Contracts with Work from Home Options

IT Service Management (ITSM)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 112 144 210
Rank change year-on-year +32 +66 -28
Contract jobs citing ITSM 291 429 573
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.97% 1.74% 1.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.23% 1.94% 1.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 310 427
10th Percentile £308 £210 £250
25th Percentile £425 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +10.41%
75th Percentile £556 £588 £600
90th Percentile £688 £651 £675
UK median daily rate £499 £456 £500
% change year-on-year +9.37% -8.80% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 8
10th Percentile - - £11.55
25th Percentile - - £12.38
Median hourly rate - £14.00 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year - -15.15% -10.81%
75th Percentile - - £18.00
90th Percentile - - £24.15
UK median hourly rate £14.59 £15.78 £13.66
% change year-on-year -7.59% +15.54% -26.16%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,021 22,109 40,018
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.98% 89.70% 91.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,736 15,644 29,065
10th Percentile £325 £363 £361
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.82% +2.90% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £631
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 565 507 537
10th Percentile £14.93 £18.63 £14.15
25th Percentile £25.00 £27.86 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £53.35 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.40% +35.06% +61.22%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.15 £80.00 £71.00
UK median hourly rate £36.27 £35.65 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.75% +38.82% +5.35%

ITSM
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing ITSM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

ITSM trend for jobs with a WFH option

ITSM
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing ITSM.

ITSM daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

ITSM
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing ITSM over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

ITSM daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

ITSM
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing ITSM.

ITSM hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

ITSM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 20 (6.87%) Confluence
1 20 (6.87%) SharePoint
2 17 (5.84%) SharePoint Server
3 5 (1.72%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 7 (2.41%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.69%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 17 (5.84%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (1.37%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.34%) SAP HCM
3 1 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 37 (12.71%) Azure
2 17 (5.84%) Azure Stack
2 17 (5.84%) Power Platform
3 12 (4.12%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (3.44%) IaaS
5 8 (2.75%) AWS
6 5 (1.72%) Entra ID
6 5 (1.72%) SaaS
6 5 (1.72%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 3 (1.03%) GitHub
7 3 (1.03%) OneDrive
7 3 (1.03%) PaaS
8 2 (0.69%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (0.69%) Amazon S3
8 2 (0.69%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (0.69%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (0.69%) GCP
8 2 (0.69%) Route 53
8 2 (0.69%) Serverless
8 2 (0.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 27 (9.28%) Firewall
2 24 (8.25%) BGP
3 7 (2.41%) IPsec
3 7 (2.41%) OSPF
4 6 (2.06%) Cisco ASA
4 6 (2.06%) Cisco Firepower
4 6 (2.06%) Cisco ISE
4 6 (2.06%) EIGRP
4 6 (2.06%) HSRP
4 6 (2.06%) NetScaler
5 5 (1.72%) SNMP
5 5 (1.72%) Spanning Tree
5 5 (1.72%) VPN
5 5 (1.72%) Wi-Fi
6 4 (1.37%) Network Security
7 3 (1.03%) SMS
8 2 (0.69%) DHCP
8 2 (0.69%) DNS
8 2 (0.69%) Unified Communications
8 2 (0.69%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (5.84%) Power BI
2 3 (1.03%) SQL Server
3 2 (0.69%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (0.69%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.34%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.34%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 33 (11.34%) JIRA
2 6 (2.06%) GitLab
3 4 (1.37%) Git
3 4 (1.37%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.37%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (0.34%) Visual Studio
General
1 104 (35.74%) Social Skills
2 57 (19.59%) Finance
3 40 (13.75%) Banking
4 38 (13.06%) Public Sector
5 32 (11.00%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (3.44%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (2.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (2.06%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (2.06%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.03%) Publishing
8 3 (1.03%) Retail
9 2 (0.69%) French Language
9 2 (0.69%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.69%) Marketing
9 2 (0.69%) Spanish Language
10 1 (0.34%) Automotive
10 1 (0.34%) Electronics
10 1 (0.34%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.34%) Law
10 1 (0.34%) Legal
Job Titles
1 57 (19.59%) Analyst
2 38 (13.06%) Consultant
3 37 (12.71%) Developer
4 34 (11.68%) IT Analyst
5 33 (11.34%) Architect
6 31 (10.65%) ServiceNow Developer
7 27 (9.28%) Banking Analyst
8 23 (7.90%) Data Analyst
9 19 (6.53%) Service Analyst
9 19 (6.53%) Service Manager
10 17 (5.84%) Microsoft Engineer
10 17 (5.84%) ServiceNow Consultant
11 14 (4.81%) Business Analyst
11 14 (4.81%) Service Architect
11 14 (4.81%) ServiceNow Architect
12 13 (4.47%) Infrastructure Analyst
13 12 (4.12%) Business IT Analyst
13 12 (4.12%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
13 12 (4.12%) Management Consultant
14 11 (3.78%) ITSM Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (9.62%) Web Services
2 15 (5.15%) XML
3 11 (3.78%) JSON
4 8 (2.75%) HTML
5 7 (2.41%) CSS
5 7 (2.41%) REST
5 7 (2.41%) SOAP
6 5 (1.72%) AngularJS
6 5 (1.72%) Jinja
6 5 (1.72%) Lightning Web Components
7 4 (1.37%) Ajax
7 4 (1.37%) jQuery
8 3 (1.03%) Kafka
8 3 (1.03%) Node.js
8 3 (1.03%) RESTful
8 3 (1.03%) YAML
9 2 (0.69%) ActiveMQ
10 1 (0.34%) .NET
10 1 (0.34%) Middleware
10 1 (0.34%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 35 (12.03%) CMDB
2 17 (5.84%) Private Cloud
3 12 (4.12%) Management Information System
4 6 (2.06%) Product Ownership
5 4 (1.37%) Onboarding
5 4 (1.37%) Virtual Team
6 3 (1.03%) Operational Technology
7 2 (0.69%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (0.69%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (0.69%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (0.69%) NHS
7 2 (0.69%) Video Conferencing
8 1 (0.34%) Blackberry
8 1 (0.34%) FMCG
8 1 (0.34%) iPad
8 1 (0.34%) iPhone
8 1 (0.34%) Life Science
8 1 (0.34%) PKI
8 1 (0.34%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.34%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 34 (11.68%) Windows
2 9 (3.09%) Linux
3 7 (2.41%) Windows 10
4 6 (2.06%) Unix
5 5 (1.72%) Windows Server
6 4 (1.37%) Android
7 3 (1.03%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 184 (63.23%) ITIL
2 172 (59.11%) Service Management
3 70 (24.05%) Change Management
4 57 (19.59%) Agile
5 42 (14.43%) Service Delivery
6 40 (13.75%) Asset Management
7 35 (12.03%) Problem-Solving
8 34 (11.68%) Configuration Management
9 30 (10.31%) Customer Service
10 27 (9.28%) Incident Management
11 26 (8.93%) IT Asset Management
12 25 (8.59%) DevOps
13 24 (8.25%) Network Management
14 23 (7.90%) Capacity Management
15 21 (7.22%) Operations Management
16 20 (6.87%) Continuous Improvement
17 19 (6.53%) Security Monitoring
18 18 (6.19%) Problem Management
18 18 (6.19%) Project Management
18 18 (6.19%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (5.15%) JavaScript
2 10 (3.44%) Python
3 5 (1.72%) Apex Code
3 5 (1.72%) Perl
3 5 (1.72%) SQL
3 5 (1.72%) Tcl
4 4 (1.37%) Go
4 4 (1.37%) PowerShell
4 4 (1.37%) Ruby
4 4 (1.37%) SOQL
5 1 (0.34%) Bash
5 1 (0.34%) C#
5 1 (0.34%) Java
5 1 (0.34%) PHP
Qualifications
1 91 (31.27%) Security Cleared
2 61 (20.96%) SC Cleared
3 30 (10.31%) DV Cleared
4 23 (7.90%) ITIL Certification
5 11 (3.78%) Degree
6 8 (2.75%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (2.41%) CCNP
7 7 (2.41%) Cisco Certification
8 6 (2.06%) CCNA
8 6 (2.06%) PMI Certification
8 6 (2.06%) PMP
9 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.69%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 1 (0.34%) CISM
10 1 (0.34%) CompTIA CySA+
10 1 (0.34%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.34%) GCIH
10 1 (0.34%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.34%) MCP
10 1 (0.34%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (9.28%) SLA
2 17 (5.84%) Government Security Classifications
3 7 (2.41%) QA
4 3 (1.03%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.03%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (0.69%) PMO
6 1 (0.34%) GRC
6 1 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 11 (3.78%) Active Directory
2 7 (2.41%) Firmware
3 3 (1.03%) BitLocker
3 3 (1.03%) vCloud
3 3 (1.03%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.03%) VMware NSX
3 3 (1.03%) vSphere
4 1 (0.34%) Docker
4 1 (0.34%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (5.84%) SCOM
2 13 (4.47%) Ansible
3 5 (1.72%) Progress Chef
3 5 (1.72%) Puppet
4 4 (1.37%) Autotask
4 4 (1.37%) SCCM
4 4 (1.37%) Terraform
5 2 (0.69%) Jamf Pro
5 2 (0.69%) Kubernetes
5 2 (0.69%) Salt
6 1 (0.34%) Argo
6 1 (0.34%) Grafana
6 1 (0.34%) Istio
6 1 (0.34%) Kibana
6 1 (0.34%) Nessus
6 1 (0.34%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 101 (34.71%) ServiceNow
2 35 (12.03%) Microsoft
3 17 (5.84%) Atlassian
3 17 (5.84%) Remedy
4 13 (4.47%) VMware
5 8 (2.75%) Cisco
5 8 (2.75%) Citrix
6 7 (2.41%) SolarWinds
7 6 (2.06%) Palo Alto
7 6 (2.06%) Qualys
7 6 (2.06%) Salesforce
8 5 (1.72%) SAP
9 4 (1.37%) BMC
9 4 (1.37%) Freshdesk
9 4 (1.37%) Splunk
10 3 (1.03%) Arista
10 3 (1.03%) Cadence
10 3 (1.03%) TOWER Software
11 2 (0.69%) Bloomberg
11 2 (0.69%) Reuters