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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 82 83 107
Rank change year-on-year +1 +24 +28
Contract jobs citing Service Management 1,105 1,592 2,224
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.60% 2.78% 2.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.02% 3.10% 2.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 747 1,158 1,510
10th Percentile £266 £240 £202
25th Percentile £425 £401 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.95% -4.71% +10.53%
75th Percentile £604 £625 £618
90th Percentile £713 £741 £679
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £475 £470
% change year-on-year +10.53% +1.17% +6.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 34 91
10th Percentile £12.53 £17.50 £11.36
25th Percentile £15.24 £20.11 £15.56
Median hourly rate £17.72 £41.75 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -57.56% +108.75% -13.83%
75th Percentile £19.75 £65.00 £31.75
90th Percentile £26.65 £84.00 £56.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.50 £25.81 £19.83
% change year-on-year -32.19% +30.14% -14.37%

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 36,622 51,397 80,021
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.09% 89.76% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,613 35,611 56,174
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £439 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,439 1,690 1,913
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.77 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.54%

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 20 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 20 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 20 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 +1 930 £525 +3.45% 446
UK excluding London +10 680 £525 +10.53% 323
Work from Home +18 424 £525 -2.78% 171
London -28 316 £500 -4.76% 151
North of England +35 173 £493 +9.56% 68
South East -14 157 £575 +21.05% 78
South West +22 154 £500 -13.04% 53
North West +22 92 £493 +3.79% 33
Scotland +9 75 £575 +27.78% 20
Yorkshire +23 73 £550 +15.79% 22
Midlands -2 59 £468 -10.95% 63
East of England -11 49 £525 +90.91% 27
West Midlands +8 33 £463 +2.78% 35
East Midlands +10 25 £460 -21.70% 27
Wales +4 15 £535 +17.58% 18
North East +14 10 £488 +57.26% 17

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 82 (7.42%) Confluence
2 62 (5.61%) SharePoint
3 41 (3.71%) Microsoft Exchange
4 35 (3.17%) SharePoint Server
5 9 (0.81%) CMS
6 7 (0.63%) IBM HTTP Server
6 7 (0.63%) WebSphere
6 7 (0.63%) WebSphere Application Server
6 7 (0.63%) WebSphere Portal
7 4 (0.36%) Skype for Business
8 3 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.18%) Exchange Server 2007
9 2 (0.18%) Exchange Server 2010
10 1 (0.090%) Apache
10 1 (0.090%) IIS
10 1 (0.090%) Tomcat
Applications
1 68 (6.15%) Microsoft Office
2 38 (3.44%) Microsoft Excel
3 12 (1.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (1.00%) Microsoft Project
5 7 (0.63%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.18%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.090%) Gliffy
Business Applications
1 32 (2.90%) Remedy ITSM
2 17 (1.54%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.54%) SAP ERP
4 4 (0.36%) Maximo
5 3 (0.27%) Remedy AR System
5 3 (0.27%) Shopify
6 2 (0.18%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 2 (0.18%) Relativity
6 2 (0.18%) SystmOne
6 2 (0.18%) Veritas eDiscovery
7 1 (0.090%) Cloudability
7 1 (0.090%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.090%) SAP HCM
7 1 (0.090%) SAP IS-U
7 1 (0.090%) SAP MM
7 1 (0.090%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 163 (14.75%) Azure
2 81 (7.33%) Microsoft 365
3 70 (6.33%) AWS
4 50 (4.52%) Power Platform
5 36 (3.26%) Azure Stack
6 33 (2.99%) SaaS
7 29 (2.62%) Entra ID
8 27 (2.44%) GCP
9 19 (1.72%) Azure DevOps
9 19 (1.72%) Azure Monitor
10 17 (1.54%) Azure Storage
10 17 (1.54%) IaaS
11 13 (1.18%) OneDrive
12 10 (0.90%) Serverless
13 9 (0.81%) Power Automate
14 8 (0.72%) PaaS
14 8 (0.72%) PowerApps
15 6 (0.54%) Amazon EC2
15 6 (0.54%) Amazon S3
15 6 (0.54%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 74 (6.70%) Firewall
2 36 (3.26%) BGP
3 30 (2.71%) DHCP
3 30 (2.71%) DNS
4 16 (1.45%) Network Security
5 15 (1.36%) LAN
6 14 (1.27%) WAN
7 13 (1.18%) VPN
8 11 (1.00%) Wireless
9 10 (0.90%) HTTP
9 10 (0.90%) HTTPS
10 9 (0.81%) Skype
11 7 (0.63%) Cisco ASA
12 6 (0.54%) Cisco ISE
12 6 (0.54%) VSAN
13 5 (0.45%) AMQP
13 5 (0.45%) TCP/IP
14 4 (0.36%) SAN
15 3 (0.27%) BIG-IP
15 3 (0.27%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (4.07%) Power BI
2 18 (1.63%) SQL Server
3 11 (1.00%) Big Data
3 11 (1.00%) Data Lake
4 10 (0.90%) Relational Database
5 8 (0.72%) MySQL
6 7 (0.63%) Amazon RDS
7 6 (0.54%) InfluxDB
7 6 (0.54%) Oracle Database
7 6 (0.54%) Tableau
8 5 (0.45%) Data Mining
8 5 (0.45%) GIS
8 5 (0.45%) MariaDB
8 5 (0.45%) Oracle Reports
9 4 (0.36%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (0.27%) Metadata
10 3 (0.27%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (0.27%) SAP HANA
11 2 (0.18%) Flink
11 2 (0.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 101 (9.14%) JIRA
2 8 (0.72%) Sonatype Nexus
3 7 (0.63%) Jenkins
3 7 (0.63%) Robot Framework
4 5 (0.45%) Git
4 5 (0.45%) IBM UrbanCode
5 4 (0.36%) Selenium
6 3 (0.27%) Cucumber
6 3 (0.27%) Maven
6 3 (0.27%) WebDriver
7 2 (0.18%) HP UFT
7 2 (0.18%) Hudson
7 2 (0.18%) LoadRunner
7 2 (0.18%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.090%) GitLab
8 1 (0.090%) JMeter
8 1 (0.090%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.090%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.090%) TestRail
8 1 (0.090%) webpack
General
1 388 (35.11%) Social Skills
2 180 (16.29%) Public Sector
3 177 (16.02%) Finance
4 133 (12.04%) Analytical Skills
5 75 (6.79%) Banking
6 38 (3.44%) Presentation Skills
7 33 (2.99%) Legal
7 33 (2.99%) Organisational Skills
8 29 (2.62%) Telecoms
9 21 (1.90%) Influencing Skills
10 19 (1.72%) Marketing
10 19 (1.72%) Retail
11 14 (1.27%) Back Office
12 12 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 12 (1.09%) Law
12 12 (1.09%) Military
13 10 (0.90%) Local Government
13 10 (0.90%) Pharmaceutical
14 8 (0.72%) Manufacturing
15 6 (0.54%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 200 (18.10%) Analyst
2 142 (12.85%) Architect
3 133 (12.04%) Service Manager
4 76 (6.88%) Service Architect
5 72 (6.52%) Service Analyst
6 61 (5.52%) Consultant
7 58 (5.25%) Lead
8 48 (4.34%) Developer
8 48 (4.34%) Senior
9 45 (4.07%) Business Analyst
10 43 (3.89%) Transition Manager
11 42 (3.80%) Service Transition Manager
11 42 (3.80%) Support Engineer
12 41 (3.71%) IT Analyst
13 40 (3.62%) IT Manager
14 39 (3.53%) Banking Analyst
15 36 (3.26%) Delivery Manager
15 36 (3.26%) IT Services Manager
15 36 (3.26%) Support Analyst
16 31 (2.81%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (3.98%) Web Services
2 29 (2.62%) REST
3 18 (1.63%) ARM Templates
4 17 (1.54%) Middleware
5 15 (1.36%) CSS
6 13 (1.18%) SOAP
7 12 (1.09%) HTML
8 10 (0.90%) J2EE
9 9 (0.81%) AngularJS
10 8 (0.72%) .NET
10 8 (0.72%) RabbitMQ
11 5 (0.45%) Flash
11 5 (0.45%) Twitter Bootstrap
12 4 (0.36%) RESTful
12 4 (0.36%) XML
13 3 (0.27%) jQuery
13 3 (0.27%) LDAP
13 3 (0.27%) Spring
13 3 (0.27%) Spring MVC
13 3 (0.27%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 101 (9.14%) Management Information System
2 67 (6.06%) CMDB
3 44 (3.98%) PKI
4 39 (3.53%) Data Centre
5 37 (3.35%) Private Cloud
5 37 (3.35%) Self-Motivation
6 33 (2.99%) Virtual Team
7 18 (1.63%) Linux Command Line
8 16 (1.45%) Onboarding
8 16 (1.45%) Product Ownership
9 12 (1.09%) Clustering
9 12 (1.09%) LIMS
10 7 (0.63%) Enterprise Software
11 6 (0.54%) Driving Licence
11 6 (0.54%) NHS
11 6 (0.54%) Operational Technology
12 5 (0.45%) SCADA
13 4 (0.36%) Analytical Mindset
13 4 (0.36%) FMCG
13 4 (0.36%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 158 (14.30%) Windows
2 71 (6.43%) Linux
3 69 (6.24%) Windows Server
4 54 (4.89%) Windows 10
5 43 (3.89%) Windows Server 2019
6 41 (3.71%) Windows Server 2016
7 25 (2.26%) Windows Server 2012
8 21 (1.90%) Apple iOS
9 19 (1.72%) Windows NT
10 14 (1.27%) Unix
11 8 (0.72%) Android
12 7 (0.63%) Mac OS
13 4 (0.36%) Windows 7
14 2 (0.18%) CentOS
14 2 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 2 (0.18%) VMS
15 1 (0.090%) Solaris
15 1 (0.090%) Windows Server 2008
15 1 (0.090%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 563 (50.95%) ITIL
2 386 (34.93%) ITSM
3 210 (19.00%) Agile
4 174 (15.75%) Problem-Solving
5 162 (14.66%) Change Management
6 156 (14.12%) Service Delivery
7 118 (10.68%) Customer Service
8 116 (10.50%) Continuous Improvement
9 107 (9.68%) Project Management
10 105 (9.50%) Problem Management
11 102 (9.23%) Service Design
12 97 (8.78%) Asset Management
12 97 (8.78%) Stakeholder Management
13 96 (8.69%) Incident Management
14 89 (8.05%) Configuration Management
15 79 (7.15%) DevOps
16 77 (6.97%) Analytics
17 71 (6.43%) Release Management
18 70 (6.33%) Project Delivery
19 64 (5.79%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 64 (5.79%) PowerShell
2 52 (4.71%) SQL
3 26 (2.35%) Python
4 25 (2.26%) Java
5 24 (2.17%) C#
6 19 (1.72%) Bicep
6 19 (1.72%) JavaScript
6 19 (1.72%) VB
6 19 (1.72%) VBScript
7 8 (0.72%) Swift
8 6 (0.54%) Go
8 6 (0.54%) Shell Script
9 5 (0.45%) Bash
10 4 (0.36%) C
11 3 (0.27%) C++
12 2 (0.18%) VB.NET
12 2 (0.18%) VBA
13 1 (0.090%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.090%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.090%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 452 (40.90%) Security Cleared
2 292 (26.43%) SC Cleared
3 183 (16.56%) DV Cleared
4 94 (8.51%) Degree
5 37 (3.35%) ITIL Certification
6 33 (2.99%) Microsoft Certification
7 27 (2.44%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 24 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
9 20 (1.81%) Cisco Certification
10 12 (1.09%) AWS Certification
10 12 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
10 12 (1.09%) MCSE
11 10 (0.90%) CCNA
12 8 (0.72%) CCNP
12 8 (0.72%) Master's Degree
13 5 (0.45%) A+ Certification
13 5 (0.45%) CCSA
13 5 (0.45%) JNCIA
13 5 (0.45%) MCP
13 5 (0.45%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (6.43%) SLA
2 41 (3.71%) QA
3 36 (3.26%) Government Security Classifications
4 30 (2.71%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 17 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (1.18%) Data Quality
7 12 (1.09%) JSP 440
8 9 (0.81%) Disclosure Scotland
9 7 (0.63%) RMADS
10 5 (0.45%) Accessibility
10 5 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
10 5 (0.45%) NIST
10 5 (0.45%) PMO
11 4 (0.36%) COBIT
11 4 (0.36%) GDPR
11 4 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.27%) NCSC
13 2 (0.18%) GxP
13 2 (0.18%) ISO 22301
14 1 (0.090%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 103 (9.32%) Active Directory
2 25 (2.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (1.99%) Virtual Desktop
4 19 (1.72%) Firmware
5 18 (1.63%) Virtual Machines
6 10 (0.90%) Docker
7 7 (0.63%) VMware NSX
8 6 (0.54%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (0.45%) vSphere
10 4 (0.36%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 4 (0.36%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.090%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.090%) Hyper-V
11 1 (0.090%) NFS
11 1 (0.090%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 54 (4.89%) SCCM
2 48 (4.34%) SCOM
3 40 (3.62%) WSUS
4 35 (3.17%) Terraform
5 34 (3.08%) Microsoft Intune
6 29 (2.62%) Kubernetes
7 27 (2.44%) Ansible
8 20 (1.81%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 19 (1.72%) Sysprep
10 15 (1.36%) OPNET
11 11 (1.00%) Puppet
12 6 (0.54%) Grafana
12 6 (0.54%) Progress Chef
12 6 (0.54%) Prometheus
12 6 (0.54%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 6 (0.54%) vCenter Server
13 5 (0.45%) Docker Swarm
13 5 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
14 4 (0.36%) IBM BigFix
14 4 (0.36%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 242 (21.90%) Microsoft
2 180 (16.29%) ServiceNow
3 60 (5.43%) Atlassian
4 39 (3.53%) Remedy
5 32 (2.90%) SAP
6 31 (2.81%) Oracle
7 25 (2.26%) VMware
8 23 (2.08%) Cisco
9 17 (1.54%) Google
10 15 (1.36%) BMC
11 11 (1.00%) InterSystems
12 10 (0.90%) Okta
13 9 (0.81%) Apple
13 9 (0.81%) Dell
14 8 (0.72%) IBM
14 8 (0.72%) Juniper
15 7 (0.63%) Cadence
15 7 (0.63%) CheckPoint
15 7 (0.63%) Citrix
15 7 (0.63%) Salesforce