Service Manager Contracts in London

Services Manager
England > London

The median Services Manager daily rate in London is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 293 304 338
Rank change year-on-year +11 +34 -15
Contract jobs requiring a Service Manager 99 199 279
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.56% 0.74% 0.72%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.60% 0.77% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 141 205
10th Percentile £313 £363 £390
25th Percentile £393 £426 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +3.70%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £595
90th Percentile £650 £750 £638
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 5
10th Percentile - £16.85 £31.67
25th Percentile - £31.63 £32.29
Median hourly rate - £57.50 £34.45
Median % change year-on-year - +66.91% -27.47%
75th Percentile - £61.38 £36.61
90th Percentile - £62.95 £37.00
England median hourly rate £30.00 £12.95 £34.45
% change year-on-year +131.66% -62.41% +5.64%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in London with a recognized job title 16,618 25,758 37,088
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.21% 95.30% 95.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,017 18,663 27,056
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £444 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £675
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 336 290 451
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.00 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.53 £22.06
Median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.54% - +11.64%
75th Percentile £43.75 £60.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £76.03 £67.50
England median hourly rate £36.31 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -19.32% +100.00% +0.36%

Service Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Service Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Service Manager in London

Service Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Service Manager in London

Service Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Service Manager in London over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Service Manager in London

Service Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Service Manager in London

Service Manager
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 Manager within the London region over the 6 months to 30 April 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 +39 18 £450 -14.29% 10
South London +7 4 £550 +7.32% 1
West London +13 3 £485 +2.11% 3
North London - 2 - - 1
East London -6 1 £250 -37.50%
Service Manager
England

Service Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 30 April 2024, Service Manager contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring Service Manager in the job title.

1 48 (48.48%) ITIL
2 37 (37.37%) Service Delivery
3 29 (29.29%) Service Management
4 26 (26.26%) Social Skills
5 24 (24.24%) Security Cleared
6 23 (23.23%) SC Cleared
7 22 (22.22%) Public Sector
8 19 (19.19%) Service Design
9 18 (18.18%) Microsoft
10 17 (17.17%) ITSM
10 17 (17.17%) Agile
11 15 (15.15%) Finance
11 15 (15.15%) ServiceNow
12 13 (13.13%) Customer Service
13 11 (11.11%) Azure
13 11 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
13 11 (11.11%) DevOps
13 11 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
13 11 (11.11%) SAP
14 9 (9.09%) SIAM
14 9 (9.09%) Acceptance Criteria
15 8 (8.08%) Onboarding
15 8 (8.08%) Project Management
16 7 (7.07%) Risk Management
16 7 (7.07%) Windows
16 7 (7.07%) SLA
16 7 (7.07%) Business Analysis
16 7 (7.07%) Problem-Solving
16 7 (7.07%) Microsoft 365
17 6 (6.06%) Process Improvement

Service Manager Skill Set
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 6 (6.06%) SharePoint
2 3 (3.03%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (1.01%) Apache
3 1 (1.01%) CMS
3 1 (1.01%) Confluence
3 1 (1.01%) IIS
3 1 (1.01%) Mendix
3 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.01%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (4.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (2.02%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.01%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (3.03%) SAP ERP
1 3 (3.03%) SAP S/4HANA
1 3 (3.03%) Shopify
2 1 (1.01%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 11 (11.11%) Azure
2 7 (7.07%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (6.06%) AWS
4 3 (3.03%) BigCommerce
4 3 (3.03%) GCP
4 3 (3.03%) SaaS
5 2 (2.02%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (2.02%) WhatsApp
6 1 (1.01%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.01%) IaaS
6 1 (1.01%) Mimecast
6 1 (1.01%) OneDrive
6 1 (1.01%) PaaS
6 1 (1.01%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.01%) PowerApps
6 1 (1.01%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.01%) DHCP
1 1 (1.01%) DNS
1 1 (1.01%) GSM
1 1 (1.01%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.04%) MySQL
2 1 (1.01%) MariaDB
2 1 (1.01%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.01%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 3 (3.03%) JIRA
1 3 (3.03%) Maven
General
1 26 (26.26%) Social Skills
2 22 (22.22%) Public Sector
3 15 (15.15%) Finance
4 6 (6.06%) Marketing
5 5 (5.05%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (4.04%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (3.03%) French Language
7 3 (3.03%) Legal
7 3 (3.03%) Retail
8 2 (2.02%) Local Government
8 2 (2.02%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.01%) Banking
9 1 (1.01%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.01%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.03%) AngularJS
1 3 (3.03%) CSS
1 3 (3.03%) J2EE
1 3 (3.03%) jQuery
1 3 (3.03%) REST
1 3 (3.03%) Sass
1 3 (3.03%) Spring
1 3 (3.03%) Spring MVC
1 3 (3.03%) Twitter Bootstrap
1 3 (3.03%) VML
1 3 (3.03%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.08%) Onboarding
2 5 (5.05%) CMDB
2 5 (5.05%) Management Information System
3 3 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (2.02%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (2.02%) FMCG
4 2 (2.02%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.01%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.01%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 7 (7.07%) Windows
2 3 (3.03%) Linux
2 3 (3.03%) Unix
3 1 (1.01%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (48.48%) ITIL
2 37 (37.37%) Service Delivery
3 29 (29.29%) Service Management
4 19 (19.19%) Service Design
5 17 (17.17%) Agile
5 17 (17.17%) ITSM
6 13 (13.13%) Customer Service
7 11 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
7 11 (11.11%) DevOps
7 11 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
8 9 (9.09%) Acceptance Criteria
8 9 (9.09%) SIAM
9 8 (8.08%) Project Management
10 7 (7.07%) Business Analysis
10 7 (7.07%) Problem-Solving
10 7 (7.07%) Risk Management
11 6 (6.06%) Impact Assessments
11 6 (6.06%) Process Improvement
12 5 (5.05%) Knowledge Transfer
12 5 (5.05%) Service Catalogue
Programming Languages
1 3 (3.03%) Java
1 3 (3.03%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 24 (24.24%) Security Cleared
2 23 (23.23%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.05%) Degree
4 3 (3.03%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (2.02%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.02%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.02%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 1 (1.01%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.01%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.07%) SLA
2 6 (6.06%) QA
3 1 (1.01%) GxP
3 1 (1.01%) ISO 22301
3 1 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 1 (1.01%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (2.02%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.01%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (3.03%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (1.01%) Terraform
Vendors
1 18 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 15 (15.15%) ServiceNow
3 11 (11.11%) SAP
4 6 (6.06%) Google
5 5 (5.05%) Salesforce
6 3 (3.03%) Adobe
6 3 (3.03%) Dell
6 3 (3.03%) Intel
6 3 (3.03%) Sitecore
7 2 (2.02%) VMware
8 1 (1.01%) Darktrace
8 1 (1.01%) HP
8 1 (1.01%) Remedy