IT Service Management (ITSM)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring ITSM skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited ITSM over the 6 months leading up to 10 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 199 193 210
Rank change year-on-year -6 +17 +136
Permanent jobs citing ITSM 941 1,546 1,662
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.67% 1.43% 1.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.80% 1.72% 1.87%
Number of salaries quoted 634 1,118 1,109
10th Percentile £26,075 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £32,027 £32,750 £35,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,875 £88,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £44,462 £47,500
% change year-on-year -10.03% -6.40% +11.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

ITSM falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 52,267 89,997 88,845
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 92.93% 82.99% 95.44%
Number of salaries quoted 26,121 62,089 53,799
10th Percentile £28,250 £29,500 £33,850
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £55,000 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% -9.54% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,236 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,584 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.17% -9.09% +4.76%

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 June 2025.

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 June 2025. 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 -7 846 £45,500 -9.00% 563
UK excluding London -19 522 £40,000 -10.03% 411
Work from Home +8 332 £54,500 -7.16% 251
London +50 314 £65,000 - 215
North of England -56 137 £35,500 -15.02% 108
Midlands +21 120 £35,000 -33.46% 57
South East +15 118 £45,500 -10.78% 114
North West -80 72 £37,750 -16.11% 56
East Midlands +54 70 £27,000 +8.00% 32
East of England +15 60 £43,000 +14.67% 52
South West +59 59 £51,729 +18.24% 39
Yorkshire +30 50 £40,000 -4.25% 32
West Midlands +3 50 £50,667 -13.02% 23
North East +27 15 £22,500 -46.14% 20
Scotland +69 14 £40,000 -11.11% 42
Northern Ireland +47 14 £52,500 +75.00% 2
Wales -15 2 £70,000 +75.00% 7
Channel Islands - 2 £39,500 - 8

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 76 (8.08%) SharePoint
2 62 (6.59%) Microsoft Exchange
3 42 (4.46%) Confluence
4 13 (1.38%) IIS
5 5 (0.53%) Apache
6 2 (0.21%) nginx
Applications
1 81 (8.61%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (0.74%) MS Visio
3 5 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (0.43%) Chatbot
4 4 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.11%) Camtasia
5 1 (0.11%) Final Cut Pro
5 1 (0.11%) Weka
Business Applications
1 38 (4.04%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (0.53%) SAP Business One
3 2 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.21%) Magento
3 2 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.21%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.11%) Elite 3E
4 1 (0.11%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 212 (22.53%) Azure
2 200 (21.25%) Microsoft 365
3 69 (7.33%) AWS
4 65 (6.91%) Entra ID
5 64 (6.80%) SaaS
6 51 (5.42%) Power Platform
7 37 (3.93%) OneDrive
8 35 (3.72%) PowerApps
9 34 (3.61%) Power Automate
10 12 (1.28%) Azure Sentinel
10 12 (1.28%) PaaS
11 11 (1.17%) Azure Logic Apps
11 11 (1.17%) Google Workspace
12 10 (1.06%) Azure Monitor
13 9 (0.96%) Nutanix
14 8 (0.85%) Azure Data Factory
14 8 (0.85%) GitHub
14 8 (0.85%) IaaS
15 7 (0.74%) Cloud Computing
15 7 (0.74%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 79 (8.40%) Broadband
2 48 (5.10%) DNS
3 47 (4.99%) VPN
4 44 (4.68%) Firewall
5 32 (3.40%) WAN
6 30 (3.19%) VLAN
7 26 (2.76%) LAN
8 25 (2.66%) Wi-Fi
9 23 (2.44%) DHCP
9 23 (2.44%) TCP/IP
10 19 (2.02%) Remote Desktop
11 17 (1.81%) SD-WAN
12 15 (1.59%) VoIP
13 13 (1.38%) Network Security
14 12 (1.28%) Wireless
15 11 (1.17%) SAN
16 8 (0.85%) Cisco IOS
16 8 (0.85%) MPLS
17 7 (0.74%) OSPF
18 6 (0.64%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (4.46%) Power BI
2 35 (3.72%) SQL Server
3 26 (2.76%) Big Data
3 26 (2.76%) Data Lake
3 26 (2.76%) Tableau
4 14 (1.49%) Relational Database
5 11 (1.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 9 (0.96%) Amazon RDS
6 9 (0.96%) DB2
7 4 (0.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (0.32%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (0.32%) BusinessObjects
8 3 (0.32%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (0.32%) GIS
9 2 (0.21%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.21%) MariaDB
9 2 (0.21%) Metadata
9 2 (0.21%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.11%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.11%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 94 (9.99%) JIRA
2 10 (1.06%) Git
3 9 (0.96%) Visual Studio
4 7 (0.74%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.43%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (0.21%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (0.21%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.11%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.11%) Vagrant
General
1 436 (46.33%) Social Skills
2 155 (16.47%) Law
3 125 (13.28%) Finance
4 121 (12.86%) Analytical Skills
5 93 (9.88%) Games
6 62 (6.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 50 (5.31%) Public Sector
8 35 (3.72%) Retail
9 32 (3.40%) Marketing
10 30 (3.19%) Manufacturing
11 28 (2.98%) Banking
12 27 (2.87%) Presentation Skills
13 24 (2.55%) Telecoms
14 23 (2.44%) Legal
15 21 (2.23%) Electronics
16 18 (1.91%) Organisational Skills
17 15 (1.59%) Back Office
18 9 (0.96%) Investment Banking
19 8 (0.85%) Front Office
19 8 (0.85%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 234 (24.87%) Analyst
2 182 (19.34%) Senior
3 149 (15.83%) IT Support
4 118 (12.54%) Support Analyst
5 101 (10.73%) IT Manager
6 94 (9.99%) ServiceNow Manager
7 86 (9.14%) IT Analyst
7 86 (9.14%) Senior Manager
8 84 (8.93%) Lead
9 79 (8.40%) Engineering Manager
10 78 (8.29%) Senior Service Manager
11 74 (7.86%) Service Manager
12 72 (7.65%) Architect
13 68 (7.23%) Service Analyst
14 60 (6.38%) IT Support Analyst
14 60 (6.38%) ServiceNow Architect
15 41 (4.36%) Service Desk Analyst
16 40 (4.25%) IT Services Manager
16 40 (4.25%) Support Engineer
17 39 (4.14%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (2.34%) SOAP
2 19 (2.02%) .NET
3 18 (1.91%) REST
3 18 (1.91%) Web Services
4 9 (0.96%) .NET Framework
4 9 (0.96%) ASP.NET
5 8 (0.85%) XML
6 7 (0.74%) AngularJS
6 7 (0.74%) JSON
6 7 (0.74%) LDAP
7 6 (0.64%) CSS
7 6 (0.64%) HTML
8 5 (0.53%) Elastic Stack
9 4 (0.43%) LangChain
10 3 (0.32%) ARM Templates
10 3 (0.32%) YAML
11 2 (0.21%) Ajax
11 2 (0.21%) EDI
11 2 (0.21%) Lightning Web Components
11 2 (0.21%) React
Miscellaneous
1 147 (15.62%) Management Information System
2 93 (9.88%) Product Ownership
3 79 (8.40%) Video\Live Streaming
4 53 (5.63%) CMDB
5 36 (3.83%) Onboarding
5 36 (3.83%) Self-Motivation
6 26 (2.76%) Enterprise Software
7 23 (2.44%) Data Centre
8 17 (1.81%) Driving Licence
9 16 (1.70%) Video Conferencing
10 14 (1.49%) Hybrid Cloud
11 11 (1.17%) Fibre Optics
12 10 (1.06%) Client/Server
13 9 (0.96%) Operational Technology
14 7 (0.74%) Blackberry
14 7 (0.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 7 (0.74%) Hedge funds
14 7 (0.74%) Mobile App
15 6 (0.64%) Cloud Native
16 5 (0.53%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 228 (24.23%) Windows
2 67 (7.12%) Windows 10
3 59 (6.27%) Windows Server
4 51 (5.42%) Mac OS
5 37 (3.93%) Linux
6 27 (2.87%) Apple iOS
7 19 (2.02%) Android
8 13 (1.38%) Windows Server 2012
8 13 (1.38%) Windows Server 2019
9 12 (1.28%) Windows Server 2016
10 9 (0.96%) Unix
11 5 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 1 (0.11%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 419 (44.53%) ITIL
1 419 (44.53%) Service Management
2 281 (29.86%) Service Delivery
3 245 (26.04%) Problem-Solving
4 205 (21.79%) Incident Management
5 192 (20.40%) Change Management
6 190 (20.19%) Computer Science
7 186 (19.77%) Customer Service
8 163 (17.32%) Roadmaps
9 160 (17.00%) Continuous Improvement
10 124 (13.18%) Problem Management
11 120 (12.75%) Agile
12 102 (10.84%) Project Management
13 87 (9.25%) Deployment Automation
14 86 (9.14%) Validation
15 83 (8.82%) Software Engineering
16 81 (8.61%) Software Delivery
17 80 (8.50%) Business Strategy
18 79 (8.40%) Mentoring
19 74 (7.86%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 88 (9.35%) SQL
2 84 (8.93%) PowerShell
3 42 (4.46%) Python
4 29 (3.08%) JavaScript
5 20 (2.13%) PL/SQL
6 15 (1.59%) Bash
6 15 (1.59%) C#
7 13 (1.38%) Java
8 9 (0.96%) T-SQL
8 9 (0.96%) VB.NET
9 6 (0.64%) Shell Script
10 5 (0.53%) Kusto Query Language
11 4 (0.43%) C
11 4 (0.43%) C++
12 2 (0.21%) Apex Code
12 2 (0.21%) Perl
12 2 (0.21%) R
12 2 (0.21%) Ruby
13 1 (0.11%) Gremlin
13 1 (0.11%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 263 (27.95%) Degree
2 142 (15.09%) Computer Science Degree
3 51 (5.42%) Security Cleared
4 46 (4.89%) Microsoft Certification
5 42 (4.46%) ITIL Certification
6 34 (3.61%) PMI Certification
6 34 (3.61%) PMP
7 30 (3.19%) SC Cleared
8 28 (2.98%) CISSP
9 17 (1.81%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 16 (1.70%) Cisco Certification
11 15 (1.59%) A+ Certification
11 15 (1.59%) DV Cleared
12 14 (1.49%) CCNA
12 14 (1.49%) Network+ Certification
13 11 (1.17%) Azure Certification
13 11 (1.17%) DBS Check
14 10 (1.06%) CCNP
14 10 (1.06%) MCITP
15 9 (0.96%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (10.63%) SLA
2 45 (4.78%) QA
3 33 (3.51%) Cyber Essentials
4 28 (2.98%) Data Quality
4 28 (2.98%) GDPR
5 19 (2.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 17 (1.81%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 11 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 10 (1.06%) Accessibility
9 9 (0.96%) COBIT
10 6 (0.64%) PCI DSS
11 5 (0.53%) NCSC
11 5 (0.53%) NIST
12 4 (0.43%) GRC
12 4 (0.43%) PMO
13 3 (0.32%) ISO 22301
13 3 (0.32%) ISO 9001
14 1 (0.11%) Government Security Classifications
14 1 (0.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 1 (0.11%) SOC 2
System Software
1 146 (15.52%) Active Directory
2 29 (3.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (2.02%) Hyper-V
4 17 (1.81%) Virtual Desktop
5 10 (1.06%) Firmware
6 7 (0.74%) BitLocker
7 5 (0.53%) Docker
7 5 (0.53%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.43%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.32%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 3 (0.32%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (0.32%) vSphere
10 2 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 66 (7.01%) Microsoft Intune
2 35 (3.72%) SCCM
3 18 (1.91%) Ansible
4 14 (1.49%) Progress Chef
5 10 (1.06%) Kubernetes
5 10 (1.06%) Terraform
6 9 (0.96%) Grafana
7 8 (0.85%) Autotask
8 7 (0.74%) FortiGate
8 7 (0.74%) SCOM
9 6 (0.64%) Puppet
9 6 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (0.64%) WSUS
10 5 (0.53%) Jamf Pro
10 5 (0.53%) vCenter Server
10 5 (0.53%) ZABBIX
11 4 (0.43%) Prometheus
12 2 (0.21%) Failover Clustering
12 2 (0.21%) SCSM
13 1 (0.11%) Kibana
Vendors
1 367 (39.00%) ServiceNow
2 293 (31.14%) Microsoft
3 48 (5.10%) VMware
4 40 (4.25%) Oracle
5 38 (4.04%) Remedy
6 35 (3.72%) Cisco
7 31 (3.29%) SAP
8 23 (2.44%) SolarWinds
9 17 (1.81%) Meraki
9 17 (1.81%) Okta
10 16 (1.70%) BMC
11 15 (1.59%) Apple
12 14 (1.49%) Citrix
12 14 (1.49%) Google
12 14 (1.49%) Salesforce
13 13 (1.38%) Splunk
14 12 (1.28%) HP
15 11 (1.17%) MobileIron
15 11 (1.17%) Zscaler
16 10 (1.06%) iManage
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