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 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 83 83 108
Rank change year-on-year 0 +25 +28
Contract jobs citing Service Management 1,101 1,570 2,173
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.55% 2.78% 2.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.99% 3.10% 2.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 749 1,149 1,493
10th Percentile £265 £250 £206
25th Percentile £425 £410 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £608 £630 £619
90th Percentile £713 £743 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +10.53% - +7.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 27 84
10th Percentile £12.53 £17.00 £11.48
25th Percentile £15.24 £17.99 £15.59
Median hourly rate £18.36 £35.25 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -47.91% +76.25% -14.62%
75th Percentile £25.06 £65.00 £31.38
90th Percentile £28.75 £124.00 £56.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.50 £23.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -25.52% +17.50% -13.83%

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 36,816 50,571 79,556
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.44% 89.70% 90.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,638 35,025 55,934
10th Percentile £300 £325 £348
25th Percentile £413 £438 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,533 1,671 1,865
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.57 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +9.70%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.88%

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 2 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 2 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 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
England -1 922 £522 +0.38% 427
UK excluding London +7 667 £525 +10.53% 312
Work from Home +8 413 £525 -2.78% 190
London -19 324 £500 -4.76% 134
North of England +40 174 £500 +8.11% 67
South East -17 154 £578 +20.31% 71
South West +17 144 £500 -9.09% 48
North West +25 86 £493 +3.79% 39
Yorkshire +31 78 £550 +22.22% 21
Scotland +6 72 £575 +27.78% 23
Midlands +2 58 £459 -12.62% 63
East of England -15 48 £525 +90.91% 27
West Midlands -6 31 £450 - 41
East Midlands +5 26 £480 -18.30% 22
Wales +6 16 £535 +45.08% 15
North East +13 10 £463 +49.19% 12
Northern Ireland +1 2 £550 - 7

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 73 (6.63%) Confluence
2 57 (5.18%) SharePoint
3 43 (3.91%) Microsoft Exchange
4 29 (2.63%) 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 59 (5.36%) Microsoft Office
2 38 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
3 13 (1.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (0.64%) Microsoft Project
4 7 (0.64%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.27%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.18%) Gliffy
Business Applications
1 32 (2.91%) Remedy ITSM
2 14 (1.27%) 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 (0.091%) Cloudability
7 1 (0.091%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.091%) SAP HCM
7 1 (0.091%) SAP IS-U
7 1 (0.091%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 164 (14.90%) Azure
2 81 (7.36%) Microsoft 365
3 69 (6.27%) AWS
4 60 (5.45%) Power Platform
5 40 (3.63%) SaaS
6 31 (2.82%) Entra ID
7 30 (2.72%) Azure Stack
8 26 (2.36%) GCP
9 22 (2.00%) Azure Monitor
10 20 (1.82%) Azure Storage
11 19 (1.73%) Azure DevOps
12 18 (1.63%) IaaS
13 14 (1.27%) PaaS
14 11 (1.00%) Serverless
15 9 (0.82%) OneDrive
15 9 (0.82%) Power Automate
16 8 (0.73%) PowerApps
17 7 (0.64%) Amazon EC2
17 7 (0.64%) Amazon S3
17 7 (0.64%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 71 (6.45%) Firewall
2 32 (2.91%) DNS
3 31 (2.82%) DHCP
4 30 (2.72%) BGP
5 17 (1.54%) LAN
6 16 (1.45%) WAN
7 14 (1.27%) Network Security
8 12 (1.09%) VPN
9 10 (0.91%) HTTPS
9 10 (0.91%) Wireless
10 8 (0.73%) HTTP
10 8 (0.73%) Skype
11 6 (0.54%) AMQP
11 6 (0.54%) Cisco ASA
11 6 (0.54%) Cisco ISE
11 6 (0.54%) SAN
11 6 (0.54%) VSAN
12 4 (0.36%) TCP/IP
13 3 (0.27%) BIG-IP
13 3 (0.27%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (4.90%) Power BI
2 20 (1.82%) SQL Server
3 15 (1.36%) Big Data
3 15 (1.36%) Relational Database
4 12 (1.09%) MySQL
4 12 (1.09%) Tableau
5 10 (0.91%) Data Lake
6 8 (0.73%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (0.64%) InfluxDB
8 6 (0.54%) Oracle Database
9 5 (0.45%) Data Mining
9 5 (0.45%) GIS
9 5 (0.45%) MariaDB
9 5 (0.45%) Oracle Reports
9 5 (0.45%) Tableau Server
10 4 (0.36%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (0.36%) Qlik Sense
11 3 (0.27%) Metadata
11 3 (0.27%) PostgreSQL
11 3 (0.27%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 93 (8.45%) JIRA
2 8 (0.73%) Jenkins
2 8 (0.73%) Sonatype Nexus
3 7 (0.64%) 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 (0.091%) Gatling
8 1 (0.091%) GitLab
8 1 (0.091%) JMeter
8 1 (0.091%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.091%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.091%) webpack
General
1 374 (33.97%) Social Skills
2 182 (16.53%) Public Sector
3 170 (15.44%) Finance
4 124 (11.26%) Analytical Skills
5 70 (6.36%) Banking
6 37 (3.36%) Presentation Skills
7 32 (2.91%) Legal
8 29 (2.63%) Telecoms
9 28 (2.54%) Organisational Skills
10 22 (2.00%) Influencing Skills
11 20 (1.82%) Retail
12 19 (1.73%) Marketing
13 14 (1.27%) Back Office
14 13 (1.18%) Military
15 12 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 12 (1.09%) Law
16 10 (0.91%) Local Government
17 9 (0.82%) Manufacturing
18 7 (0.64%) Pharmaceutical
19 6 (0.54%) French Language
Job Titles
1 189 (17.17%) Analyst
2 140 (12.72%) Architect
3 139 (12.62%) Service Manager
4 75 (6.81%) Service Architect
5 72 (6.54%) Service Analyst
6 62 (5.63%) Consultant
7 55 (5.00%) Lead
8 53 (4.81%) Developer
8 53 (4.81%) Senior
9 46 (4.18%) Support Engineer
10 44 (4.00%) Service Transition Manager
10 44 (4.00%) Transition Manager
11 43 (3.91%) Business Analyst
12 41 (3.72%) IT Manager
13 37 (3.36%) Support Analyst
14 35 (3.18%) Delivery Manager
14 35 (3.18%) Incident Manager
15 34 (3.09%) IT Analyst
15 34 (3.09%) IT Services Manager
16 33 (3.00%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (4.09%) Web Services
2 28 (2.54%) REST
3 21 (1.91%) ARM Templates
4 20 (1.82%) CSS
5 17 (1.54%) HTML
5 17 (1.54%) Middleware
6 13 (1.18%) AngularJS
7 11 (1.00%) SOAP
8 10 (0.91%) J2EE
9 9 (0.82%) RabbitMQ
10 8 (0.73%) .NET
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 95 (8.63%) Management Information System
2 63 (5.72%) CMDB
3 43 (3.91%) PKI
4 38 (3.45%) Data Centre
5 37 (3.36%) Self-Motivation
6 33 (3.00%) Virtual Team
7 31 (2.82%) Private Cloud
8 22 (2.00%) Linux Command Line
9 20 (1.82%) Onboarding
10 15 (1.36%) Product Ownership
11 12 (1.09%) Clustering
11 12 (1.09%) LIMS
12 8 (0.73%) Enterprise Software
13 6 (0.54%) Driving Licence
13 6 (0.54%) NHS
13 6 (0.54%) Operational Technology
14 5 (0.45%) SCADA
15 4 (0.36%) Data Protection Act
15 4 (0.36%) FMCG
15 4 (0.36%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 152 (13.81%) Windows
2 76 (6.90%) Linux
3 70 (6.36%) Windows Server
4 46 (4.18%) Windows 10
5 44 (4.00%) Windows Server 2019
6 42 (3.81%) Windows Server 2016
7 22 (2.00%) Windows Server 2012
8 18 (1.63%) Apple iOS
9 17 (1.54%) Windows NT
10 15 (1.36%) Unix
11 6 (0.54%) Android
12 5 (0.45%) Mac OS
13 2 (0.18%) CentOS
13 2 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 2 (0.18%) VMS
13 2 (0.18%) Windows 7
14 1 (0.091%) Solaris
14 1 (0.091%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.091%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 560 (50.86%) ITIL
2 391 (35.51%) ITSM
3 215 (19.53%) Agile
4 168 (15.26%) Problem-Solving
5 156 (14.17%) Service Delivery
6 148 (13.44%) Change Management
7 117 (10.63%) Continuous Improvement
8 114 (10.35%) Customer Service
9 113 (10.26%) Problem Management
10 104 (9.45%) Incident Management
11 102 (9.26%) Project Management
12 99 (8.99%) Stakeholder Management
13 94 (8.54%) Service Design
14 93 (8.45%) Asset Management
15 92 (8.36%) Configuration Management
16 86 (7.81%) DevOps
17 85 (7.72%) Analytics
18 73 (6.63%) Release Management
19 67 (6.09%) Business Intelligence
20 65 (5.90%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 64 (5.81%) PowerShell
2 63 (5.72%) SQL
3 27 (2.45%) C#
3 27 (2.45%) Java
3 27 (2.45%) Python
4 24 (2.18%) JavaScript
5 22 (2.00%) Bicep
5 22 (2.00%) VB
6 20 (1.82%) VBScript
7 8 (0.73%) Swift
8 7 (0.64%) Go
8 7 (0.64%) Shell Script
9 5 (0.45%) Bash
9 5 (0.45%) PL/SQL
10 4 (0.36%) C
11 3 (0.27%) C++
12 2 (0.18%) Apex Code
12 2 (0.18%) VB.NET
12 2 (0.18%) VBA
13 1 (0.091%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 449 (40.78%) Security Cleared
2 294 (26.70%) SC Cleared
3 176 (15.99%) DV Cleared
4 105 (9.54%) Degree
5 36 (3.27%) ITIL Certification
6 29 (2.63%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 29 (2.63%) Microsoft Certification
7 23 (2.09%) BPSS Clearance
8 18 (1.63%) Cisco Certification
9 16 (1.45%) Computer Science Degree
10 12 (1.09%) Master's Degree
11 11 (1.00%) AWS Certification
11 11 (1.00%) MCSE
12 8 (0.73%) CCNA
12 8 (0.73%) PMI Certification
13 7 (0.64%) PMP
14 6 (0.54%) CCNP
15 5 (0.45%) CCSA
15 5 (0.45%) MCP
15 5 (0.45%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (6.36%) SLA
2 39 (3.54%) QA
3 30 (2.72%) Government Security Classifications
4 27 (2.45%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 18 (1.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (1.18%) Data Quality
7 9 (0.82%) JSP 440
8 7 (0.64%) Disclosure Scotland
8 7 (0.64%) RMADS
9 6 (0.54%) PMO
10 5 (0.45%) Accessibility
10 5 (0.45%) COBIT
10 5 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
10 5 (0.45%) NIST
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
13 2 (0.18%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 105 (9.54%) Active Directory
2 26 (2.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (2.27%) Virtual Desktop
4 21 (1.91%) Virtual Machines
5 17 (1.54%) Firmware
6 11 (1.00%) Docker
7 7 (0.64%) VMware NSX
8 6 (0.54%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (0.45%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 5 (0.45%) Virtual Servers
9 5 (0.45%) vSphere
10 3 (0.27%) Hyper-V
11 1 (0.091%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.091%) NFS
11 1 (0.091%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 52 (4.72%) SCCM
2 44 (4.00%) SCOM
3 40 (3.63%) WSUS
4 35 (3.18%) Terraform
5 33 (3.00%) Kubernetes
5 33 (3.00%) Microsoft Intune
6 27 (2.45%) Ansible
7 23 (2.09%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 17 (1.54%) Sysprep
9 12 (1.09%) OPNET
10 10 (0.91%) Puppet
11 7 (0.64%) Grafana
11 7 (0.64%) Progress Chef
11 7 (0.64%) Prometheus
12 6 (0.54%) Docker Swarm
12 6 (0.54%) vCenter Server
13 4 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
13 4 (0.36%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
14 3 (0.27%) IBM BigFix
14 3 (0.27%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 229 (20.80%) Microsoft
2 188 (17.08%) ServiceNow
3 54 (4.90%) Atlassian
4 41 (3.72%) Remedy
5 30 (2.72%) Oracle
6 29 (2.63%) SAP
7 26 (2.36%) VMware
8 21 (1.91%) Cisco
9 17 (1.54%) BMC
9 17 (1.54%) Google
10 12 (1.09%) Dell
11 11 (1.00%) Apple
11 11 (1.00%) InterSystems
12 9 (0.82%) Okta
13 8 (0.73%) IBM
13 8 (0.73%) Juniper
13 8 (0.73%) Salesforce
14 7 (0.64%) Cadence
14 7 (0.64%) CheckPoint
14 7 (0.64%) Citrix