Service Management Contracts in the South West

Service Management
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 36 53 57
Rank change year-on-year +17 +4 +2
Contract jobs citing Service Management 144 135 141
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 4.43% 3.97% 3.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.39% 4.44% 4.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 107 105
10th Percentile £363 £340 £329
25th Percentile £456 £513 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +15.79%
75th Percentile £576 £663 £620
90th Percentile £628 £731 £668
England median daily rate £522 £520 £525
% change year-on-year +0.38% -0.95% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 7
10th Percentile - £17.00 £12.90
25th Percentile - £24.44 £14.13
Median hourly rate - £56.75 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year - +243.94% -67.00%
75th Percentile - £83.75 £55.50
90th Percentile - £132.50 £58.26
England median hourly rate £17.50 £35.25 £19.83
% change year-on-year -50.35% +77.74% -14.37%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 advertised in the South West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,671 3,042 3,253
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 82.08% 89.42% 88.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,693 2,208 2,335
10th Percentile £226 £313 £300
25th Percentile £405 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £549 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.37% +9.80% +5.82%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £600
90th Percentile £700 £725 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 359 314 204
10th Percentile £13.86 £9.80 £15.90
25th Percentile £29.75 £15.29 £21.13
Median hourly rate £55.00 £59.90 £48.38
Median % change year-on-year -8.18% +23.82% +7.50%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £63.64
90th Percentile £75.00 £83.07 £68.90
England median hourly rate £37.50 £37.15 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.94% +48.60% +11.11%

Service Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Service Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Service Management in the South West

Service Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Service Management in the South West

Service Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Service Management in the South West over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Service Management in the South West

Service Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Service Management in the South West

Service Management
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 South West region over the 6 months to 2 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
Wiltshire +3 83 £495 -10.00% 17
Gloucestershire +18 21 £550 -6.78% 2
Bristol -10 20 £420 -25.33% 18
Somerset +2 7 £578 -26.20% 6
Devon +2 5 £600 +185.71% 8
Dorset +6 1 - - 1
Service Management
England

Service Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 36 (25.00%) Confluence
2 33 (22.92%) SharePoint
3 29 (20.14%) SharePoint Server
4 7 (4.86%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (1.39%) CMS
6 1 (0.69%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 13 (9.03%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 22 (15.28%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 38 (26.39%) Azure
2 30 (20.83%) Azure Stack
3 14 (9.72%) Power Platform
4 10 (6.94%) AWS
5 7 (4.86%) Amazon EC2
5 7 (4.86%) Amazon S3
5 7 (4.86%) AWS Lambda
5 7 (4.86%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (4.86%) Serverless
6 6 (4.17%) OpenShift
7 4 (2.78%) Entra ID
8 2 (1.39%) GCP
8 2 (1.39%) IaaS
8 2 (1.39%) OneDrive
9 1 (0.69%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.69%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.69%) PaaS
9 1 (0.69%) PowerApps
9 1 (0.69%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 35 (24.31%) Firewall
2 29 (20.14%) BGP
3 8 (5.56%) Network Security
4 6 (4.17%) AMQP
5 5 (3.47%) Skype
5 5 (3.47%) VSAN
6 4 (2.78%) DHCP
6 4 (2.78%) DNS
7 3 (2.08%) LAN
7 3 (2.08%) WAN
8 2 (1.39%) SMTP
8 2 (1.39%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.69%) 4G
9 1 (0.69%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (9.03%) Power BI
2 7 (4.86%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (4.86%) InfluxDB
2 7 (4.86%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 37 (25.69%) JIRA
2 7 (4.86%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.39%) HP UFT
3 2 (1.39%) LoadRunner
General
1 76 (52.78%) Social Skills
2 25 (17.36%) Public Sector
3 17 (11.81%) Organisational Skills
4 12 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (6.94%) Telecoms
6 3 (2.08%) Electronics
6 3 (2.08%) Finance
6 3 (2.08%) Law
6 3 (2.08%) Manufacturing
6 3 (2.08%) Marketing
6 3 (2.08%) Military
6 3 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.69%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 32 (22.22%) Service Manager
2 18 (12.50%) Analyst
3 16 (11.11%) IT Manager
3 16 (11.11%) IT Services Manager
4 14 (9.72%) Microsoft Engineer
5 13 (9.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 11 (7.64%) Service Analyst
7 8 (5.56%) Architect
8 7 (4.86%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 6 (4.17%) Author
9 6 (4.17%) Service Desk Analyst
10 5 (3.47%) Service Architect
10 5 (3.47%) Service Management Analyst
10 5 (3.47%) Service Transition Manager
10 5 (3.47%) Technical Author
10 5 (3.47%) Transition Manager
10 5 (3.47%) Virtualisation Engineer
11 4 (2.78%) Applications Manager
11 4 (2.78%) DevOps Engineer
11 4 (2.78%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.17%) RabbitMQ
2 5 (3.47%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 31 (21.53%) Private Cloud
2 14 (9.72%) PKI
3 11 (7.64%) Management Information System
4 7 (4.86%) Linux Command Line
5 5 (3.47%) Clustering
5 5 (3.47%) CMDB
6 3 (2.08%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.39%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.39%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.39%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.69%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.69%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 42 (29.17%) Windows
2 15 (10.42%) Linux
3 10 (6.94%) Windows 10
4 5 (3.47%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.39%) CentOS
5 2 (1.39%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (64.58%) ITIL
2 80 (55.56%) ITSM
3 40 (27.78%) Agile
4 35 (24.31%) Capacity Management
5 31 (21.53%) Network Management
6 30 (20.83%) Security Monitoring
7 25 (17.36%) Continuous Improvement
8 24 (16.67%) Service Delivery
9 15 (10.42%) Change Management
9 15 (10.42%) Configuration Management
10 14 (9.72%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 14 (9.72%) Project Delivery
11 13 (9.03%) Business Intelligence
11 13 (9.03%) Project Management
12 12 (8.33%) Waterfall
13 11 (7.64%) Backlog Management
13 11 (7.64%) Knowledge Transfer
14 10 (6.94%) Change Control
14 10 (6.94%) NsoIT
14 10 (6.94%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (7.64%) SQL
2 7 (4.86%) Go
2 7 (4.86%) Java
2 7 (4.86%) Python
3 6 (4.17%) Shell Script
4 5 (3.47%) PowerShell
5 4 (2.78%) C
6 2 (1.39%) Bash
Qualifications
1 112 (77.78%) Security Cleared
2 63 (43.75%) SC Cleared
3 52 (36.11%) DV Cleared
4 15 (10.42%) Degree
5 11 (7.64%) Microsoft Certification
6 9 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (3.47%) CCNA
7 5 (3.47%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (3.47%) Master's Degree
7 5 (3.47%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 4 (2.78%) Chartered Engineer
9 2 (1.39%) ISEB
9 2 (1.39%) MCSE
10 1 (0.69%) CISA
10 1 (0.69%) CISM
10 1 (0.69%) CISSP
10 1 (0.69%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.69%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (20.83%) Government Security Classifications
2 9 (6.25%) JSP 440
3 7 (4.86%) SLA
4 4 (2.78%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (2.08%) Accessibility
5 3 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 3 (2.08%) NIST
6 2 (1.39%) COBIT
6 2 (1.39%) NCSC
6 2 (1.39%) QA
System Software
1 10 (6.94%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (6.25%) Active Directory
3 7 (4.86%) Docker
4 5 (3.47%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (3.47%) VMware NSX
5 2 (1.39%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 2 (1.39%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (1.39%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (1.39%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 22 (15.28%) SCOM
2 11 (7.64%) OPNET
3 9 (6.25%) Ansible
4 7 (4.86%) Grafana
4 7 (4.86%) Kubernetes
4 7 (4.86%) Progress Chef
4 7 (4.86%) Prometheus
4 7 (4.86%) Terraform
5 6 (4.17%) Docker Swarm
6 5 (3.47%) vCenter Server
7 4 (2.78%) SCCM
8 2 (1.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (1.39%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (1.39%) WSUS
9 1 (0.69%) Check_MK
9 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 52 (36.11%) Microsoft
2 34 (23.61%) Atlassian
3 22 (15.28%) Remedy
4 10 (6.94%) VMware
5 7 (4.86%) BMC
5 7 (4.86%) Cisco
6 6 (4.17%) ServiceNow
7 3 (2.08%) Cadence
7 3 (2.08%) SAP
8 2 (1.39%) Darktrace
8 2 (1.39%) Dell
8 2 (1.39%) OpenText
8 2 (1.39%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.39%) SolarWinds
9 1 (0.69%) Citrix
9 1 (0.69%) Fortinet
9 1 (0.69%) Juniper
9 1 (0.69%) Splunk