IT Service Management (ITSM)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for ITSM skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited ITSM over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 185 233 326
Rank change year-on-year +48 +93 +23
Permanent jobs citing ITSM 1,572 1,614 1,901
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.58% 1.60% 1.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.85% 1.67% 1.26%
Number of salaries quoted 1,160 1,178 1,367
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,000 £25,500
25th Percentile £32,750 £35,750 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £71,652 £63,750
90th Percentile £89,137 £89,897 £77,900
UK excluding London median annual salary £43,923 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -2.39% +5.88% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

ITSM is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,917 96,578 150,488
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.59% 95.61% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 59,883 56,844 82,330
10th Percentile £29,008 £34,000 £33,515
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,190 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.12% +1.98% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

ITSM
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing ITSM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for ITSM in the UK

ITSM
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing ITSM.

Salary trend for ITSM in the UK

ITSM
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing ITSM over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Salary histogram for ITSM in the UK

ITSM
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing ITSM within the UK over the 6 months to 10 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +52 1,369 £50,000 -1.86% 286
UK excluding London +15 1,013 £43,923 -2.39% 204
Work from Home +39 592 £58,700 +9.21% 119
London +76 477 £62,500 - 81
North of England +69 299 £41,774 -7.17% 63
South East -29 227 £52,500 +5.00% 37
Midlands -2 170 £47,500 - 38
North West +28 166 £41,774 -12.05% 29
South West -25 109 £45,000 +25.70% 26
West Midlands -13 105 £59,150 +17.24% 25
Yorkshire +85 94 £42,137 -6.36% 20
East of England +29 78 £37,500 +16.28% 25
Scotland -25 71 £50,000 -20.00% 7
East Midlands +13 63 £25,000 -29.08% 13
Wales +22 46 £55,000 +10.00% 8
North East +6 39 £42,407 +8.73% 14
Northern Ireland +28 12 £30,000 -25.00% 1
Isle of Man - 4 - - 1

ITSM
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
1 121 (7.70%) SharePoint
2 115 (7.32%) Microsoft Exchange
3 45 (2.86%) WebLogic
4 44 (2.80%) Oracle Service Bus
5 29 (1.84%) Confluence
6 22 (1.40%) SAS
7 15 (0.95%) CMS
8 6 (0.38%) IBM Notes
8 6 (0.38%) Skype for Business
9 2 (0.13%) Apache
9 2 (0.13%) IIS
9 2 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.13%) SharePoint Server
10 1 (0.064%) Exchange Server 2013
10 1 (0.064%) WebSphere
Applications
1 229 (14.57%) Microsoft Office
2 107 (6.81%) Microsoft Excel
3 44 (2.80%) MS Visio
4 28 (1.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.19%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.064%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 132 (8.40%) Remedy ITSM
2 34 (2.16%) Dynamics CRM
3 20 (1.27%) PlanetPress Connect
4 12 (0.76%) Elite 3E
5 7 (0.45%) NEC Housing
6 5 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
7 4 (0.25%) Carpe Diem
7 4 (0.25%) SAP ERP
7 4 (0.25%) SAP IS-U
7 4 (0.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 3 (0.19%) NetSuite
8 3 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
9 1 (0.064%) HFM
9 1 (0.064%) Oracle Applications
9 1 (0.064%) Primavera
9 1 (0.064%) Salesforce CRM
9 1 (0.064%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 372 (23.66%) Microsoft 365
2 250 (15.90%) Azure
3 93 (5.92%) Entra ID
4 57 (3.63%) SaaS
5 53 (3.37%) Power Platform
6 41 (2.61%) AWS
7 39 (2.48%) PaaS
8 36 (2.29%) OneDrive
9 34 (2.16%) IaaS
10 21 (1.34%) WhatsApp
11 19 (1.21%) Dynamics 365
12 15 (0.95%) Cloud Computing
13 14 (0.89%) GCP
14 13 (0.83%) Mimecast
15 12 (0.76%) Azure Monitor
16 11 (0.70%) Power Automate
17 9 (0.57%) GitHub
18 8 (0.51%) Azure DevOps
18 8 (0.51%) Azure Sentinel
18 8 (0.51%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 103 (6.55%) Firewall
2 78 (4.96%) TCP/IP
3 74 (4.71%) DNS
4 63 (4.01%) VPN
5 61 (3.88%) DHCP
6 60 (3.82%) WAN
7 50 (3.18%) LAN
8 38 (2.42%) VoIP
9 29 (1.84%) Wi-Fi
10 28 (1.78%) Network Security
11 24 (1.53%) Internet
12 21 (1.34%) SAN
13 20 (1.27%) Remote Desktop
14 19 (1.21%) Wireless
14 19 (1.21%) WLAN
15 16 (1.02%) SSH
16 15 (0.95%) Broadband
16 15 (0.95%) Skype
17 14 (0.89%) SD-WAN
18 13 (0.83%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (3.44%) SQL Server
2 49 (3.12%) Oracle Database
3 45 (2.86%) Oracle Database 11g
4 44 (2.80%) Oracle Database 10g
4 44 (2.80%) VLDB
5 34 (2.16%) Power BI
6 33 (2.10%) MySQL
7 25 (1.59%) Relational Database
8 24 (1.53%) Data Warehouse
9 7 (0.45%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (0.32%) Redis
11 4 (0.25%) MongoDB
11 4 (0.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 4 (0.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 3 (0.19%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (0.19%) Metadata
12 3 (0.19%) Oracle Database 12c
12 3 (0.19%) SAP HANA
13 2 (0.13%) Delta Lake
13 2 (0.13%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 99 (6.30%) JIRA
2 20 (1.27%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 13 (0.83%) Eclipse
4 6 (0.38%) GitLab
5 5 (0.32%) Postman
6 4 (0.25%) AdminStudio
6 4 (0.25%) InstallShield
6 4 (0.25%) MSI
7 3 (0.19%) Git
8 2 (0.13%) PowerBuilder
9 1 (0.064%) JMeter
9 1 (0.064%) Selenium
General
1 538 (34.22%) Social Skills
2 287 (18.26%) Finance
3 235 (14.95%) Analytical Skills
4 109 (6.93%) Public Sector
5 84 (5.34%) Banking
5 84 (5.34%) Legal
6 83 (5.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 65 (4.13%) Retail
8 60 (3.82%) Law
9 39 (2.48%) Presentation Skills
10 38 (2.42%) Influencing Skills
11 28 (1.78%) Organisational Skills
12 27 (1.72%) Telecoms
13 20 (1.27%) Manufacturing
14 19 (1.21%) Marketing
15 18 (1.15%) Financial Institution
16 16 (1.02%) Police
17 14 (0.89%) Local Government
18 10 (0.64%) Aerospace
18 10 (0.64%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 371 (23.60%) Analyst
2 192 (12.21%) Service Manager
3 159 (10.11%) Support Analyst
4 156 (9.92%) IT Support
5 150 (9.54%) Architect
6 146 (9.29%) IT Manager
7 122 (7.76%) Service Analyst
8 111 (7.06%) Senior
9 110 (7.00%) Lead
10 105 (6.68%) Service Desk Analyst
11 104 (6.62%) IT Analyst
12 87 (5.53%) ServiceNow Architect
13 85 (5.41%) IT Services Manager
14 81 (5.15%) Applications Support
15 76 (4.83%) Delivery Manager
16 75 (4.77%) Developer
16 75 (4.77%) Service Delivery Manager
17 73 (4.64%) Applications Support Analyst
18 68 (4.33%) ServiceNow Developer
19 63 (4.01%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (4.83%) HTML
2 69 (4.39%) CSS
3 67 (4.26%) Web Services
4 60 (3.82%) AngularJS
5 45 (2.86%) XML
6 41 (2.61%) SOAP
7 38 (2.42%) Twitter Bootstrap
8 34 (2.16%) REST
9 26 (1.65%) JSON
9 26 (1.65%) LDAP
10 19 (1.21%) Ajax
11 16 (1.02%) ODBC
11 16 (1.02%) OLE
12 13 (0.83%) JDBC
12 13 (0.83%) XHTML
13 9 (0.57%) Middleware
14 7 (0.45%) FIX Protocol
15 5 (0.32%) 802.1X
15 5 (0.32%) Node.js
15 5 (0.32%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 109 (6.93%) CMDB
2 108 (6.87%) Management Information System
3 69 (4.39%) Driving Licence
4 61 (3.88%) Smartphone
5 57 (3.63%) Product Ownership
6 55 (3.50%) Data Centre
7 48 (3.05%) Onboarding
8 38 (2.42%) Self-Motivation
9 31 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
10 26 (1.65%) Replication
11 20 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
11 20 (1.27%) Public Cloud
12 17 (1.08%) Video Conferencing
13 13 (0.83%) Digital Signage
14 12 (0.76%) iPad
15 11 (0.70%) Hedge funds
15 11 (0.70%) iPhone
16 9 (0.57%) Linux Command Line
16 9 (0.57%) PMI
17 8 (0.51%) EMC VNX
Operating Systems
1 394 (25.06%) Windows
2 147 (9.35%) Windows 10
3 113 (7.19%) Windows Server
4 101 (6.42%) Linux
5 65 (4.13%) Unix
6 45 (2.86%) Solaris
7 44 (2.80%) Android
7 44 (2.80%) Apple iOS
8 31 (1.97%) Mac OS
9 19 (1.21%) Windows Server 2008
9 19 (1.21%) Windows Server 2016
10 16 (1.02%) Windows Server 2019
11 13 (0.83%) Windows 7
12 9 (0.57%) Mac OS X
12 9 (0.57%) Windows Phone
12 9 (0.57%) Windows Server 2012
13 4 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 3 (0.19%) CentOS
14 3 (0.19%) Rocky
15 2 (0.13%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 884 (56.23%) Service Management
2 836 (53.18%) ITIL
3 404 (25.70%) Service Delivery
4 330 (20.99%) Customer Service
5 291 (18.51%) Problem-Solving
6 215 (13.68%) Change Management
7 211 (13.42%) Incident Management
8 188 (11.96%) Agile
9 184 (11.70%) Continuous Improvement
10 165 (10.50%) Project Management
11 149 (9.48%) Mentoring
12 148 (9.41%) Problem Management
13 139 (8.84%) Stakeholder Management
14 131 (8.33%) Actionable Insight
15 126 (8.02%) Cybersecurity
16 98 (6.23%) Coaching
16 98 (6.23%) Service Catalogue
17 93 (5.92%) Configuration Management
18 91 (5.79%) Asset Management
19 82 (5.22%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 89 (5.66%) JavaScript
2 88 (5.60%) SQL
3 78 (4.96%) PowerShell
4 49 (3.12%) PL/SQL
5 40 (2.54%) Python
6 21 (1.34%) Java
7 20 (1.27%) Perl
8 18 (1.15%) R
9 15 (0.95%) Bash
10 10 (0.64%) RPG
11 6 (0.38%) C#
11 6 (0.38%) T-SQL
12 5 (0.32%) C
12 5 (0.32%) PHP
13 4 (0.25%) ABAP
13 4 (0.25%) VB
14 2 (0.13%) Go
14 2 (0.13%) Ruby
15 1 (0.064%) C++
15 1 (0.064%) Swift
Qualifications
1 254 (16.16%) Security Cleared
2 245 (15.59%) Degree
3 203 (12.91%) SC Cleared
4 75 (4.77%) ITIL Certification
5 61 (3.88%) Microsoft Certification
6 54 (3.44%) A+ Certification
7 34 (2.16%) Computer Science Degree
8 31 (1.97%) DV Cleared
8 31 (1.97%) PMI Certification
9 30 (1.91%) DBS Check
10 25 (1.59%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 24 (1.53%) Cisco Certification
12 23 (1.46%) PMP
13 20 (1.27%) MCP
13 20 (1.27%) Network+ Certification
14 19 (1.21%) Master's Degree
15 18 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
16 17 (1.08%) CCNA
17 16 (1.02%) MCSA
18 14 (0.89%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 178 (11.32%) SLA
2 63 (4.01%) QA
3 34 (2.16%) COBIT
4 30 (1.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 23 (1.46%) Cyber Essentials
6 21 (1.34%) GDPR
7 20 (1.27%) Accessibility
8 17 (1.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 16 (1.02%) Data Quality
10 13 (0.83%) NIST
11 10 (0.64%) NCSC
12 9 (0.57%) GRC
13 7 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 6 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 20000
14 6 (0.38%) PMO
15 4 (0.25%) ISO 22301
15 4 (0.25%) ISO 9001
15 4 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 4 (0.25%) PCI DSS
16 3 (0.19%) ISO 14001
System Software
1 363 (23.09%) Active Directory
2 73 (4.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 47 (2.99%) Oracle RAC
4 40 (2.54%) Hyper-V
5 23 (1.46%) VMware ESXi
6 14 (0.89%) Docker
6 14 (0.89%) Terminal Services
7 11 (0.70%) IAG
8 10 (0.64%) Firmware
9 9 (0.57%) Virtual Desktop
10 5 (0.32%) XenDesktop
11 4 (0.25%) Microsoft App-V
11 4 (0.25%) XenApp
12 3 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
13 2 (0.13%) VMware Workstation
14 1 (0.064%) BitLocker
14 1 (0.064%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 105 (6.68%) Microsoft Intune
2 74 (4.71%) SCCM
3 46 (2.93%) Data Guard
4 44 (2.80%) Oracle RMAN
5 32 (2.04%) OpenView
6 23 (1.46%) SCOM
7 18 (1.15%) Single Sign-On
8 15 (0.95%) vCenter Server
9 14 (0.89%) WMI
10 13 (0.83%) AirWatch
11 12 (0.76%) Kubernetes
11 12 (0.76%) WSUS
12 10 (0.64%) Jamf Pro
12 10 (0.64%) Nagios
13 9 (0.57%) ZABBIX
14 8 (0.51%) Ansible
14 8 (0.51%) EMC NetWorker
15 6 (0.38%) HP UCMDB
15 6 (0.38%) Nessus
16 5 (0.32%) Kibana
Vendors
1 546 (34.73%) Microsoft
2 406 (25.83%) ServiceNow
3 132 (8.40%) Remedy
4 119 (7.57%) VMware
5 98 (6.23%) Oracle
6 83 (5.28%) BMC
7 82 (5.22%) Cisco
8 78 (4.96%) HP
9 52 (3.31%) Sun
10 35 (2.23%) Citrix
10 35 (2.23%) Veeam
11 32 (2.04%) Apple
11 32 (2.04%) Salesforce
12 31 (1.97%) Splunk
13 30 (1.91%) Meraki
14 27 (1.72%) SAP
15 21 (1.34%) Google
15 21 (1.34%) Snow
16 20 (1.27%) FNZ
16 20 (1.27%) SolarWinds