Service Management Contracts

Service Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Service Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Service Management over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 82 86 108
Rank change year-on-year +4 +22 +32
Contract jobs citing Service Management 1,098 1,546 2,155
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.51% 2.78% 2.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.95% 3.11% 2.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 754 1,124 1,490
10th Percentile £263 £250 £213
25th Percentile £425 £410 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% +10.53%
75th Percentile £608 £630 £619
90th Percentile £700 £743 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £475 £484
% change year-on-year +10.53% -1.86% +7.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 24 82
10th Percentile £12.53 £17.00 £11.40
25th Percentile £14.65 £18.06 £15.72
Median hourly rate £19.00 £35.13 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year -45.91% +71.34% -11.68%
75th Percentile £26.75 £65.50 £32.13
90th Percentile £28.75 £149.50 £56.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.36 £22.40 £20.00
% change year-on-year -18.04% +12.00% -13.64%

All Process and 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 contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,178 49,770 79,013
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.13% 89.61% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,737 34,458 55,587
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,579 1,678 1,852
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.96 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%
75th Percentile £61.28 £65.00 £50.15
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
% change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -

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 12 June 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 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Service Management in the UK

Service Management
Top 17 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 12 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
England +1 924 £525 +0.96% 388
UK excluding London +8 660 £525 +10.53% 289
Work from Home +8 416 £525 -2.78% 183
London -24 325 £513 -2.38% 107
North of England +40 181 £500 +13.64% 70
South East -17 157 £600 +23.71% 59
South West +7 132 £500 -13.04% 50
Yorkshire +30 88 £550 +25.00% 25
North West +29 85 £493 +9.56% 38
Midlands 0 63 £459 -12.62% 58
Scotland +2 62 £600 +33.33% 21
East of England -24 46 £525 +90.91% 23
West Midlands -4 33 £450 -5.26% 33
East Midlands +9 29 £480 -18.53% 25
Wales +12 19 £535 +29.70% 12
North East +8 8 £475 +53.23% 10
Northern Ireland -4 2 £550 - 5

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 72 (6.56%) Confluence
2 54 (4.92%) SharePoint
3 43 (3.92%) Microsoft Exchange
4 27 (2.46%) SharePoint Server
5 9 (0.82%) CMS
6 7 (0.64%) IBM HTTP Server
6 7 (0.64%) WebSphere
6 7 (0.64%) WebSphere Application Server
6 7 (0.64%) WebSphere Portal
7 3 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.27%) Skype for Business
8 2 (0.18%) Exchange Server 2007
8 2 (0.18%) Exchange Server 2010
9 1 (0.091%) Apache
9 1 (0.091%) IIS
9 1 (0.091%) Tomcat
Applications
1 53 (4.83%) Microsoft Office
2 39 (3.55%) Microsoft Excel
3 13 (1.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (0.73%) Microsoft Project
5 7 (0.64%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.36%) Chatbot
6 4 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.18%) Gliffy
8 1 (0.091%) Trello
Business Applications
1 30 (2.73%) Remedy ITSM
2 15 (1.37%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.55%) SAP ERP
4 4 (0.36%) Maximo
4 4 (0.36%) Shopify
5 3 (0.27%) Remedy AR System
6 2 (0.18%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 2 (0.18%) Relativity
6 2 (0.18%) SAP IS-U
6 2 (0.18%) SystmOne
6 2 (0.18%) Veritas eDiscovery
7 1 (0.091%) Cloudability
7 1 (0.091%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.091%) SAP HCM
7 1 (0.091%) SAP SM
7 1 (0.091%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 174 (15.85%) Azure
2 78 (7.10%) Microsoft 365
3 77 (7.01%) Power Platform
4 73 (6.65%) AWS
5 42 (3.83%) SaaS
6 32 (2.91%) Entra ID
7 28 (2.55%) Azure Stack
7 28 (2.55%) GCP
8 23 (2.09%) Azure Monitor
9 21 (1.91%) Azure Storage
10 20 (1.82%) Azure DevOps
11 17 (1.55%) IaaS
12 16 (1.46%) PaaS
13 11 (1.00%) Serverless
14 9 (0.82%) OneDrive
14 9 (0.82%) Power Automate
15 8 (0.73%) PowerApps
16 7 (0.64%) AWS Lambda
16 7 (0.64%) Dynamics 365
16 7 (0.64%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 66 (6.01%) Firewall
2 31 (2.82%) DNS
3 30 (2.73%) DHCP
4 27 (2.46%) BGP
5 16 (1.46%) LAN
6 14 (1.28%) WAN
7 13 (1.18%) Network Security
8 12 (1.09%) VPN
9 11 (1.00%) HTTPS
10 9 (0.82%) Wireless
11 8 (0.73%) HTTP
12 7 (0.64%) SAN
13 6 (0.55%) AMQP
13 6 (0.55%) Cisco ASA
13 6 (0.55%) Cisco ISE
13 6 (0.55%) Skype
14 5 (0.46%) VSAN
15 4 (0.36%) BIG-IP
16 3 (0.27%) VoIP
17 2 (0.18%) GSM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (6.28%) Power BI
2 27 (2.46%) Relational Database
3 23 (2.09%) MySQL
4 21 (1.91%) SQL Server
5 18 (1.64%) Qlik Sense
6 16 (1.46%) Big Data
7 12 (1.09%) Tableau
8 10 (0.91%) Data Lake
9 8 (0.73%) Amazon RDS
10 7 (0.64%) InfluxDB
11 6 (0.55%) Azure SQL Database
11 6 (0.55%) Oracle Database
11 6 (0.55%) Tableau Server
12 5 (0.46%) Data Mining
12 5 (0.46%) GIS
12 5 (0.46%) MariaDB
12 5 (0.46%) Oracle Reports
13 4 (0.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 3 (0.27%) PostgreSQL
14 3 (0.27%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 89 (8.11%) JIRA
2 9 (0.82%) Jenkins
3 8 (0.73%) Sonatype Nexus
4 7 (0.64%) Robot Framework
5 5 (0.46%) Git
5 5 (0.46%) IBM UrbanCode
6 4 (0.36%) Selenium
7 3 (0.27%) Cucumber
7 3 (0.27%) Maven
7 3 (0.27%) Visual Studio
7 3 (0.27%) WebDriver
8 2 (0.18%) GitLab
8 2 (0.18%) HP UFT
8 2 (0.18%) Hudson
8 2 (0.18%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.091%) Gatling
9 1 (0.091%) JMeter
9 1 (0.091%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.091%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.091%) webpack
General
1 362 (32.97%) Social Skills
2 185 (16.85%) Public Sector
3 171 (15.57%) Finance
4 132 (12.02%) Analytical Skills
5 65 (5.92%) Banking
6 38 (3.46%) Presentation Skills
7 33 (3.01%) Legal
8 32 (2.91%) Telecoms
9 28 (2.55%) Organisational Skills
10 21 (1.91%) Influencing Skills
11 19 (1.73%) Marketing
12 18 (1.64%) Retail
13 15 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 14 (1.28%) Back Office
15 12 (1.09%) Law
16 11 (1.00%) Military
17 10 (0.91%) Local Government
17 10 (0.91%) Manufacturing
18 7 (0.64%) Billing
18 7 (0.64%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 182 (16.58%) Analyst
2 145 (13.21%) Service Manager
3 139 (12.66%) Architect
4 72 (6.56%) Service Analyst
4 72 (6.56%) Service Architect
5 59 (5.37%) Consultant
6 58 (5.28%) Lead
7 57 (5.19%) Developer
8 53 (4.83%) Senior
9 49 (4.46%) Support Engineer
10 43 (3.92%) Service Transition Manager
10 43 (3.92%) Transition Manager
11 41 (3.73%) IT Manager
12 39 (3.55%) Business Analyst
12 39 (3.55%) Delivery Manager
13 37 (3.37%) Support Analyst
14 35 (3.19%) Incident Manager
15 34 (3.10%) IT Services Manager
15 34 (3.10%) Service Desk Analyst
16 32 (2.91%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (4.28%) Web Services
2 31 (2.82%) CSS
3 30 (2.73%) REST
4 28 (2.55%) HTML
5 24 (2.19%) AngularJS
6 22 (2.00%) ARM Templates
7 17 (1.55%) Middleware
8 11 (1.00%) SOAP
9 10 (0.91%) .NET
9 10 (0.91%) J2EE
10 9 (0.82%) RabbitMQ
11 5 (0.46%) Twitter Bootstrap
12 4 (0.36%) Flash
12 4 (0.36%) RESTful
12 4 (0.36%) VML
12 4 (0.36%) XML
13 3 (0.27%) LDAP
13 3 (0.27%) React Native
13 3 (0.27%) Spring
13 3 (0.27%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 93 (8.47%) Management Information System
2 59 (5.37%) CMDB
3 39 (3.55%) PKI
4 37 (3.37%) Self-Motivation
5 36 (3.28%) Data Centre
6 34 (3.10%) Virtual Team
7 29 (2.64%) Private Cloud
8 25 (2.28%) Linux Command Line
9 21 (1.91%) Onboarding
10 16 (1.46%) Product Ownership
11 12 (1.09%) LIMS
12 11 (1.00%) Clustering
13 8 (0.73%) Enterprise Software
14 7 (0.64%) Operational Technology
15 6 (0.55%) Data Protection Act
15 6 (0.55%) NHS
16 5 (0.46%) Driving Licence
16 5 (0.46%) Public Cloud
16 5 (0.46%) SCADA
17 4 (0.36%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 145 (13.21%) Windows
2 81 (7.38%) Linux
3 65 (5.92%) Windows Server
4 43 (3.92%) Windows Server 2019
5 41 (3.73%) Windows 10
5 41 (3.73%) Windows Server 2016
6 20 (1.82%) Windows Server 2012
7 18 (1.64%) Apple iOS
8 16 (1.46%) Unix
9 15 (1.37%) Windows NT
10 8 (0.73%) Android
11 5 (0.46%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.18%) CentOS
12 2 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 2 (0.18%) VMS
12 2 (0.18%) Windows 7
13 1 (0.091%) Solaris
13 1 (0.091%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.091%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 555 (50.55%) ITIL
2 386 (35.15%) ITSM
3 217 (19.76%) Agile
4 170 (15.48%) Problem-Solving
5 153 (13.93%) Service Delivery
6 136 (12.39%) Change Management
7 126 (11.48%) Problem Management
8 114 (10.38%) Continuous Improvement
9 111 (10.11%) Customer Service
10 105 (9.56%) Incident Management
11 104 (9.47%) Project Management
12 102 (9.29%) Stakeholder Management
13 91 (8.29%) Service Design
14 90 (8.20%) DevOps
15 86 (7.83%) Analytics
15 86 (7.83%) Configuration Management
16 84 (7.65%) Asset Management
17 83 (7.56%) Business Intelligence
18 72 (6.56%) Release Management
19 67 (6.10%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 76 (6.92%) SQL
2 65 (5.92%) PowerShell
3 35 (3.19%) JavaScript
4 30 (2.73%) C#
5 28 (2.55%) Java
5 28 (2.55%) Python
6 23 (2.09%) Bicep
6 23 (2.09%) VB
7 21 (1.91%) VBScript
8 8 (0.73%) Swift
9 7 (0.64%) Go
9 7 (0.64%) Shell Script
10 6 (0.55%) PL/SQL
11 5 (0.46%) C++
12 4 (0.36%) C
12 4 (0.36%) VB.NET
13 3 (0.27%) Bash
13 3 (0.27%) R
14 2 (0.18%) Apex Code
14 2 (0.18%) VBA
Qualifications
1 444 (40.44%) Security Cleared
2 296 (26.96%) SC Cleared
3 169 (15.39%) DV Cleared
4 112 (10.20%) Degree
5 37 (3.37%) ITIL Certification
6 31 (2.82%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 24 (2.19%) BPSS Clearance
7 24 (2.19%) Computer Science Degree
7 24 (2.19%) Microsoft Certification
8 20 (1.82%) PMI Certification
9 19 (1.73%) PMP
10 18 (1.64%) Master's Degree
11 17 (1.55%) Cisco Certification
12 11 (1.00%) AWS Certification
12 11 (1.00%) MCSE
13 7 (0.64%) CCNA
14 6 (0.55%) CCNP
15 5 (0.46%) CCSA
15 5 (0.46%) JNCIA
16 4 (0.36%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (5.65%) SLA
2 33 (3.01%) QA
3 28 (2.55%) Government Security Classifications
4 27 (2.46%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 19 (1.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 11 (1.00%) Data Quality
7 7 (0.64%) JSP 440
7 7 (0.64%) PMO
7 7 (0.64%) RMADS
8 6 (0.55%) COBIT
8 6 (0.55%) Disclosure Scotland
9 5 (0.46%) Accessibility
9 5 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
9 5 (0.46%) NIST
10 4 (0.36%) GDPR
10 4 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.27%) ISO 9001
12 2 (0.18%) GxP
12 2 (0.18%) ISO 22301
12 2 (0.18%) NCSC
System Software
1 102 (9.29%) Active Directory
2 25 (2.28%) Virtual Desktop
3 24 (2.19%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (2.00%) Virtual Machines
5 15 (1.37%) Firmware
6 12 (1.09%) Docker
7 6 (0.55%) VMware NSX
8 5 (0.46%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.36%) Hyper-V
9 4 (0.36%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 4 (0.36%) Virtual Servers
9 4 (0.36%) vSphere
10 1 (0.091%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.091%) NFS
10 1 (0.091%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 48 (4.37%) SCCM
2 41 (3.73%) SCOM
3 39 (3.55%) WSUS
4 35 (3.19%) Terraform
5 34 (3.10%) Kubernetes
6 32 (2.91%) Microsoft Intune
7 26 (2.37%) Ansible
8 22 (2.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 15 (1.37%) Sysprep
10 10 (0.91%) Puppet
11 8 (0.73%) OPNET
12 7 (0.64%) Grafana
12 7 (0.64%) Progress Chef
12 7 (0.64%) Prometheus
13 6 (0.55%) Docker Swarm
14 5 (0.46%) vCenter Server
15 4 (0.36%) IBM BigFix
15 4 (0.36%) Jamf Pro
15 4 (0.36%) Tivoli
16 3 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 227 (20.67%) Microsoft
2 200 (18.21%) ServiceNow
3 53 (4.83%) Atlassian
4 39 (3.55%) Remedy
5 32 (2.91%) SAP
6 30 (2.73%) Oracle
7 24 (2.19%) VMware
8 18 (1.64%) Cisco
9 17 (1.55%) BMC
10 15 (1.37%) Google
11 11 (1.00%) InterSystems
12 10 (0.91%) Dell
13 9 (0.82%) Cadence
13 9 (0.82%) Salesforce
14 8 (0.73%) Apple
14 8 (0.73%) IBM
14 8 (0.73%) Okta
15 7 (0.64%) CheckPoint
15 7 (0.64%) Citrix
16 6 (0.55%) Juniper