Service Management Contracts in London

Service Management
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 135 108 129
Rank change year-on-year -27 +21 +64
Contract jobs citing Service Management 317 624 843
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.81% 2.41% 2.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.05% 2.65% 2.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 191 460 611
10th Percentile £250 £305 £300
25th Percentile £400 £448 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% +10.00%
75th Percentile £653 £675 £638
90th Percentile £750 £743 £738
England median daily rate £525 £503 £525
% change year-on-year +4.48% -4.29% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 9 11
10th Percentile £23.25 £20.44 £16.50
25th Percentile £28.13 £21.00 £18.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +66.67% -43.24%
75th Percentile £48.13 £58.00 £21.86
90th Percentile £53.75 £59.80 £32.60
England median hourly rate £17.50 £51.75 £18.56
% change year-on-year -66.18% +178.86% -13.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,492 23,515 35,613
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.65% 90.89% 92.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,111 16,974 26,028
10th Percentile £343 £375 £388
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £593 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.17% +3.04% +9.52%
75th Percentile £681 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 307 266 415
10th Percentile £15.77 £18.25 £17.18
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.43 £23.91
Median hourly rate £27.84 £37.17 £37.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.10% +0.46% +13.85%
75th Percentile £48.75 £63.75 £51.00
90th Percentile £66.85 £82.38 £67.88
England median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.29% +45.58% +8.70%

Service Management
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Service Management in London

Service Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Service Management in London

Service Management
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Service Management in London over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Service Management in London

Service Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Service Management in London

Service Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Service Management in London over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Service Management in London

Service Management
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 18 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
Central London +17 33 £455 -10.12% 23
South London +7 9 £550 +4.76% 1
West London +7 6 £400 -15.79% 4
East London -7 3 £550 +94.69% 11
Service Management
England

Service Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 23 (7.26%) Confluence
2 13 (4.10%) SharePoint
3 11 (3.47%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (1.26%) CMS
5 3 (0.95%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.63%) Exchange Server 2007
6 2 (0.63%) Exchange Server 2010
7 1 (0.32%) Apache
7 1 (0.32%) IBM HTTP Server
7 1 (0.32%) IIS
7 1 (0.32%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.32%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.32%) WebSphere Application Server
7 1 (0.32%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 18 (5.68%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (4.10%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (2.84%) Microsoft Project
4 5 (1.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (1.58%) MS Visio
5 4 (1.26%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.32%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.32%) Gliffy
Business Applications
1 7 (2.21%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.95%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (0.95%) SAP ERP
2 3 (0.95%) Shopify
3 2 (0.63%) SystmOne
4 1 (0.32%) Cloudability
4 1 (0.32%) Relativity
4 1 (0.32%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 58 (18.30%) Azure
2 29 (9.15%) AWS
3 17 (5.36%) GCP
3 17 (5.36%) Microsoft 365
3 17 (5.36%) Power Platform
4 13 (4.10%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (2.21%) IaaS
6 6 (1.89%) Google Workspace
7 5 (1.58%) PowerApps
8 4 (1.26%) Lucidchart
8 4 (1.26%) Serverless
9 3 (0.95%) Azure Functions
9 3 (0.95%) Azure Service Bus
9 3 (0.95%) BigCommerce
9 3 (0.95%) Entra ID
9 3 (0.95%) Figma
9 3 (0.95%) IBM Blueworks
9 3 (0.95%) SaaS
10 2 (0.63%) Azure Logic Apps
10 2 (0.63%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.58%) DHCP
1 5 (1.58%) DNS
1 5 (1.58%) Firewall
1 5 (1.58%) HTTPS
2 3 (0.95%) BIG-IP
2 3 (0.95%) SAN
2 3 (0.95%) VPN
3 2 (0.63%) HTTP
3 2 (0.63%) Intranet
3 2 (0.63%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.63%) VoIP
3 2 (0.63%) WAN
4 1 (0.32%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (0.32%) IP Telephony
4 1 (0.32%) iSCSI
4 1 (0.32%) LAN
4 1 (0.32%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.32%) Skype
4 1 (0.32%) SMTP
4 1 (0.32%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (4.10%) Power BI
2 11 (3.47%) Big Data
2 11 (3.47%) Data Lake
3 5 (1.58%) Tableau
4 4 (1.26%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (1.26%) MySQL
5 3 (0.95%) Relational Database
5 3 (0.95%) SAP HANA
5 3 (0.95%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.63%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (0.32%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.32%) DB2
7 1 (0.32%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.32%) Flink
7 1 (0.32%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.32%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 27 (8.52%) JIRA
2 3 (0.95%) Git
2 3 (0.95%) Maven
3 1 (0.32%) IBM UrbanCode
3 1 (0.32%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.32%) SonarQube
3 1 (0.32%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.32%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (0.32%) Visual Studio
General
1 85 (26.81%) Finance
2 80 (25.24%) Social Skills
3 41 (12.93%) Banking
3 41 (12.93%) Public Sector
4 31 (9.78%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (3.79%) Presentation Skills
6 9 (2.84%) Influencing Skills
6 9 (2.84%) Local Government
6 9 (2.84%) Marketing
7 7 (2.21%) Retail
8 6 (1.89%) Legal
8 6 (1.89%) Telecoms
9 5 (1.58%) French Language
9 5 (1.58%) Pharmaceutical
10 4 (1.26%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.26%) Military
11 3 (0.95%) Electronics
11 3 (0.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (0.95%) Law
12 2 (0.63%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 78 (24.61%) Analyst
2 48 (15.14%) Architect
3 38 (11.99%) Service Manager
4 26 (8.20%) Banking Analyst
5 24 (7.57%) Business Analyst
5 24 (7.57%) Service Analyst
6 23 (7.26%) IT Analyst
7 22 (6.94%) Lead
8 19 (5.99%) Service Architect
8 19 (5.99%) Service Transition Manager
8 19 (5.99%) Transition Manager
9 18 (5.68%) Applications Support
10 17 (5.36%) Data Analyst
10 17 (5.36%) Delivery Manager
11 16 (5.05%) Consultant
11 16 (5.05%) Senior
11 16 (5.05%) Support Analyst
11 16 (5.05%) Support Engineer
12 15 (4.73%) Applications Engineer
13 14 (4.42%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (3.15%) REST
1 10 (3.15%) Web Services
2 7 (2.21%) .NET
3 6 (1.89%) CSS
4 5 (1.58%) AngularJS
4 5 (1.58%) Twitter Bootstrap
5 4 (1.26%) J2EE
6 3 (0.95%) HTML
6 3 (0.95%) jQuery
6 3 (0.95%) Sass
6 3 (0.95%) Spring
6 3 (0.95%) Spring MVC
6 3 (0.95%) VML
7 2 (0.63%) ActiveX
7 2 (0.63%) ASP.NET
7 2 (0.63%) JSON
7 2 (0.63%) Middleware
7 2 (0.63%) SOAP
8 1 (0.32%) DCOM
8 1 (0.32%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (7.26%) CMDB
2 21 (6.62%) Management Information System
3 13 (4.10%) Data Centre
4 11 (3.47%) Onboarding
5 10 (3.15%) Product Ownership
6 7 (2.21%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (1.58%) Linux Command Line
7 5 (1.58%) NHS
8 4 (1.26%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (1.26%) Smartphone
9 3 (0.95%) Driving Licence
9 3 (0.95%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (0.63%) Cyber Threat
10 2 (0.63%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.63%) FMCG
10 2 (0.63%) Mainframe
10 2 (0.63%) PACS
10 2 (0.63%) Smartcard
11 1 (0.32%) Handset
11 1 (0.32%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 26 (8.20%) Windows
2 22 (6.94%) Linux
3 8 (2.52%) Windows 10
4 7 (2.21%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.26%) Android
5 4 (1.26%) Unix
6 2 (0.63%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.63%) VMS
6 2 (0.63%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.32%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 177 (55.84%) ITIL
2 121 (38.17%) ITSM
3 71 (22.40%) Agile
4 66 (20.82%) Change Management
5 47 (14.83%) Service Design
6 41 (12.93%) Problem-Solving
7 39 (12.30%) Service Delivery
8 38 (11.99%) DevOps
8 38 (11.99%) Project Management
9 36 (11.36%) Continuous Improvement
9 36 (11.36%) Incident Management
10 29 (9.15%) Stakeholder Management
11 25 (7.89%) Analytics
12 24 (7.57%) Cybersecurity
12 24 (7.57%) SDLC
13 23 (7.26%) User Experience
14 22 (6.94%) Customer Service
14 22 (6.94%) Project Delivery
15 21 (6.62%) Asset Management
15 21 (6.62%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 20 (6.31%) PowerShell
2 16 (5.05%) SQL
3 8 (2.52%) Python
4 7 (2.21%) JavaScript
5 6 (1.89%) C#
6 5 (1.58%) Java
7 3 (0.95%) C++
8 2 (0.63%) VB
8 2 (0.63%) VB.NET
8 2 (0.63%) VBA
8 2 (0.63%) VBScript
9 1 (0.32%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.32%) Bash
9 1 (0.32%) Bicep
9 1 (0.32%) R
Qualifications
1 86 (27.13%) Security Cleared
2 67 (21.14%) SC Cleared
3 32 (10.09%) DV Cleared
4 21 (6.62%) Degree
4 21 (6.62%) ITIL Certification
5 13 (4.10%) AWS Certification
6 7 (2.21%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (1.89%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 4 (1.26%) A+ Certification
8 4 (1.26%) MCITP
9 3 (0.95%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 2 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.32%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.32%) CTC Cleared
11 1 (0.32%) ECDL
11 1 (0.32%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.32%) MBA
11 1 (0.32%) MCP
11 1 (0.32%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (4.73%) SLA
2 6 (1.89%) QA
3 5 (1.58%) PMO
4 2 (0.63%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 2 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.32%) GDPR
5 1 (0.32%) ISO 22301
5 1 (0.32%) NIST
5 1 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 23 (7.26%) Active Directory
2 6 (1.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.95%) vSphere
4 2 (0.63%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.32%) BitLocker
5 1 (0.32%) Docker
5 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 1 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.32%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.32%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 14 (4.42%) Terraform
2 11 (3.47%) Ansible
2 11 (3.47%) Puppet
3 4 (1.26%) SCCM
4 3 (0.95%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.63%) SCOM
6 1 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.32%) Kubernetes
6 1 (0.32%) OPNET
Vendors
1 57 (17.98%) Microsoft
2 43 (13.56%) ServiceNow
3 18 (5.68%) SAP
4 9 (2.84%) Atlassian
4 9 (2.84%) Google
5 6 (1.89%) VMware
6 5 (1.58%) Citrix
6 5 (1.58%) Dell
6 5 (1.58%) Salesforce
7 4 (1.26%) Freshdesk
8 3 (0.95%) Adobe
8 3 (0.95%) Alteryx
8 3 (0.95%) Bloomberg
8 3 (0.95%) F5
8 3 (0.95%) Intel
8 3 (0.95%) Oracle
8 3 (0.95%) Refinitiv
8 3 (0.95%) Remedy
8 3 (0.95%) Sitecore
8 3 (0.95%) Veeam