Service Management Contracts in Reading

Service Management
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 13 November 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Nov 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 58 50 39
Rank change year-on-year -8 -11 +2
Contract jobs citing Service Management 36 37 62
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 3.29% 3.46% 4.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.72% 3.81% 4.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 33 50
10th Percentile £350 £403 £381
25th Percentile £500 £563 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £538
Median % change year-on-year - +11.58% +19.50%
75th Percentile £608 £615 £575
90th Percentile £675 - £705
Berkshire median daily rate £581 £600 £526
% change year-on-year -3.13% +14.18% +16.78%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

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 in Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 969 971 1,267
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 88.49% 90.92% 88.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 532 631 778
10th Percentile £350 £238 £338
25th Percentile £450 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% - +7.14%
75th Percentile £650 £624 £638
90th Percentile £700 £700 £688
Berkshire median daily rate £540 £501 £500
% change year-on-year +7.78% +0.20% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 14 7
10th Percentile £18.88 £29.04 £29.43
25th Percentile £45.94 £59.32 £42.70
Median hourly rate £60.53 £63.40 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.52% +15.26% +17.65%
75th Percentile £64.40 £67.42 £75.75
90th Percentile £78.66 £75.18 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £59.47 £61.72 £48.75
% change year-on-year -3.64% +26.60% +4.28%

Service Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Service Management in Reading

Service Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Service Management in Reading

Service Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Service Management in Reading over the 6 months to 13 November 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Service Management in Reading

Service Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Hourly rate trend for Service Management in Reading

Service Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 9 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 12 (33.33%) Azure
2 9 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
2 9 (25.00%) Azure Storage
2 9 (25.00%) Entra ID
2 9 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.78%) SaaS
4 1 (2.78%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
4 1 (2.78%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 13 (36.11%) Firewall
2 9 (25.00%) DHCP
2 9 (25.00%) DNS
3 4 (11.11%) 4G
3 4 (11.11%) 5G
4 3 (8.33%) 5G NR
4 3 (8.33%) LTE
4 3 (8.33%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (2.78%) 3G
5 1 (2.78%) 3GPP
Development Applications
1 3 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 18 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (11.11%) Finance
4 3 (8.33%) Telecoms
5 2 (5.56%) Legal
6 1 (2.78%) Marketing
6 1 (2.78%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (25.00%) Active Directory Engineer
1 9 (25.00%) Active Directory Support
1 9 (25.00%) Active Directory Support Engineer
1 9 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
1 9 (25.00%) Support Engineer
2 4 (11.11%) Senior
2 4 (11.11%) Senior Manager
3 3 (8.33%) Cybersecurity Manager
3 3 (8.33%) IT Manager
3 3 (8.33%) Project Manager
3 3 (8.33%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
3 3 (8.33%) Security Manager
3 3 (8.33%) Security Project Manager
3 3 (8.33%) Senior Project Manager
4 2 (5.56%) Analyst
4 2 (5.56%) Change Manager
4 2 (5.56%) Network Analyst
4 2 (5.56%) Network Infrastructure Analyst
4 2 (5.56%) Release Manager
4 2 (5.56%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (25.00%) ARM Templates
2 4 (11.11%) RFC 2544
3 1 (2.78%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (2.78%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 12 (33.33%) Self-Motivation
2 9 (25.00%) PKI
3 4 (11.11%) Data Centre
3 4 (11.11%) Fibre Optics
4 3 (8.33%) Cloud Native
5 2 (5.56%) Operational Technology
5 2 (5.56%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (2.78%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (25.00%) Linux
1 9 (25.00%) Windows
1 9 (25.00%) Windows Server
1 9 (25.00%) Windows Server 2016
1 9 (25.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (58.33%) ITIL
2 14 (38.89%) DevOps
3 13 (36.11%) Agile
3 13 (36.11%) Release Management
4 11 (30.56%) CI/CD
4 11 (30.56%) Continuous Improvement
4 11 (30.56%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (27.78%) Analytics
6 9 (25.00%) Identity Management
6 9 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 9 (25.00%) Log Analytics
6 9 (25.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
6 9 (25.00%) Privileged Identity Management
6 9 (25.00%) RBAC
7 8 (22.22%) Collaborative Working
7 8 (22.22%) ITSM
8 7 (19.44%) Stakeholder Management
9 6 (16.67%) Knowledge Transfer
9 6 (16.67%) SIAM
10 5 (13.89%) Case Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (25.00%) Bicep
1 9 (25.00%) C#
1 9 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 9 (25.00%) VB
1 9 (25.00%) VBScript
2 2 (5.56%) Python
3 1 (2.78%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 16 (44.44%) Degree
2 13 (36.11%) SC Cleared
2 13 (36.11%) Security Cleared
3 9 (25.00%) DV Cleared
3 9 (25.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (2.78%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 2 (5.56%) GRC
System Software
1 9 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 9 (25.00%) Virtual Desktop
1 9 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (25.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 9 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 9 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 9 (25.00%) SCCM
1 9 (25.00%) SCOM
1 9 (25.00%) WSUS
2 2 (5.56%) Ansible
Vendors
1 11 (30.56%) Microsoft
2 5 (13.89%) ServiceNow
3 4 (11.11%) Cisco
4 3 (8.33%) Ericsson
5 1 (2.78%) Nokia
5 1 (2.78%) Salesforce