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 9 May 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
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 303 306 346
Rank change year-on-year +3 +40 +1
Contract jobs requiring a Service Manager 97 189 277
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.55% 0.72% 0.72%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.59% 0.76% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 134 205
10th Percentile £313 £366 £390
25th Percentile £400 £440 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £595
90th Percentile £650 £750 £638
England median daily rate £500 £501 £500
% change year-on-year -0.20% +0.20% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 3
10th Percentile - £16.85 £31.46
25th Percentile - £31.63 £31.77
Median hourly rate - £57.50 £32.60
Median % change year-on-year - +76.38% -31.37%
75th Percentile - £61.38 £35.18
90th Percentile - £62.95 £36.04
England median hourly rate £30.00 £12.95 £32.50
% change year-on-year +131.66% -60.15% -0.34%

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 16,495 25,012 36,533
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.29% 95.24% 95.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,929 18,143 26,715
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £445 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £683 £700 £684
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 328 281 442
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.00 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.75 £22.68
Median hourly rate £27.50 £36.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.61% +2.86% +9.38%
75th Percentile £45.18 £62.68 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.01 £80.00 £68.06
England median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £22.55
% change year-on-year -17.38% +99.60% +2.48%

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 9 May 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 9 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 +49 19 £450 -14.29% 11
South London +3 4 £550 +4.76%
West London +17 2 £508 +6.84% 5
North London - 2 - - 1
East London -7 1 £250 -37.50% 1
Service Manager
England

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

For the 6 months to 9 May 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 54 (55.67%) ITIL
2 36 (37.11%) Service Delivery
3 34 (35.05%) Service Management
4 28 (28.87%) SC Cleared
4 28 (28.87%) Security Cleared
5 25 (25.77%) Service Design
6 24 (24.74%) Social Skills
7 22 (22.68%) Public Sector
8 17 (17.53%) ITSM
9 16 (16.49%) Microsoft
10 15 (15.46%) Finance
10 15 (15.46%) ServiceNow
11 13 (13.40%) Customer Service
11 13 (13.40%) Agile
12 11 (11.34%) Onboarding
13 10 (10.31%) Continuous Improvement
13 10 (10.31%) Azure
14 9 (9.28%) Stakeholder Management
14 9 (9.28%) SAP
14 9 (9.28%) DevOps
14 9 (9.28%) SIAM
15 8 (8.25%) Acceptance Criteria
15 8 (8.25%) Project Management
16 7 (7.22%) Windows
16 7 (7.22%) SLA
16 7 (7.22%) Business Analysis
16 7 (7.22%) Microsoft 365
16 7 (7.22%) Problem-Solving
17 6 (6.19%) Process Improvement
17 6 (6.19%) QA

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 5 (5.15%) SharePoint
2 3 (3.09%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (1.03%) Apache
3 1 (1.03%) CMS
3 1 (1.03%) Confluence
3 1 (1.03%) IIS
3 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.03%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (4.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (2.06%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.03%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (3.09%) SAP ERP
1 3 (3.09%) Shopify
2 1 (1.03%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (1.03%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 10 (10.31%) Azure
2 7 (7.22%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (5.15%) AWS
4 3 (3.09%) BigCommerce
4 3 (3.09%) SaaS
5 2 (2.06%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (2.06%) GCP
5 2 (2.06%) WhatsApp
6 1 (1.03%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.03%) IaaS
6 1 (1.03%) Mimecast
6 1 (1.03%) OneDrive
6 1 (1.03%) PaaS
6 1 (1.03%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.03%) PowerApps
6 1 (1.03%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.03%) DHCP
1 1 (1.03%) DNS
1 1 (1.03%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.12%) MySQL
2 1 (1.03%) MariaDB
2 1 (1.03%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.03%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 3 (3.09%) JIRA
1 3 (3.09%) Maven
General
1 24 (24.74%) Social Skills
2 22 (22.68%) Public Sector
3 15 (15.46%) Finance
4 5 (5.15%) Influencing Skills
4 5 (5.15%) Marketing
5 3 (3.09%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.09%) French Language
5 3 (3.09%) Legal
5 3 (3.09%) Retail
6 2 (2.06%) Local Government
7 1 (1.03%) Banking
7 1 (1.03%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.03%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.09%) AngularJS
1 3 (3.09%) CSS
1 3 (3.09%) J2EE
1 3 (3.09%) jQuery
1 3 (3.09%) REST
1 3 (3.09%) Sass
1 3 (3.09%) Spring
1 3 (3.09%) Spring MVC
1 3 (3.09%) Twitter Bootstrap
1 3 (3.09%) VML
1 3 (3.09%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 11 (11.34%) Onboarding
2 5 (5.15%) CMDB
2 5 (5.15%) Management Information System
3 2 (2.06%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (2.06%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (2.06%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.03%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 7 (7.22%) Windows
2 3 (3.09%) Linux
2 3 (3.09%) Unix
3 1 (1.03%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (55.67%) ITIL
2 36 (37.11%) Service Delivery
3 34 (35.05%) Service Management
4 25 (25.77%) Service Design
5 17 (17.53%) ITSM
6 13 (13.40%) Agile
6 13 (13.40%) Customer Service
7 10 (10.31%) Continuous Improvement
8 9 (9.28%) DevOps
8 9 (9.28%) SIAM
8 9 (9.28%) Stakeholder Management
9 8 (8.25%) Acceptance Criteria
9 8 (8.25%) Project Management
10 7 (7.22%) Business Analysis
10 7 (7.22%) Problem-Solving
11 6 (6.19%) Process Improvement
11 6 (6.19%) Risk Management
12 5 (5.15%) Impact Assessments
12 5 (5.15%) Service Catalogue
13 4 (4.12%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 3 (3.09%) Java
1 3 (3.09%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 28 (28.87%) SC Cleared
1 28 (28.87%) Security Cleared
2 5 (5.15%) Degree
3 3 (3.09%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (2.06%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (2.06%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 1 (1.03%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.03%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.03%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.22%) SLA
2 6 (6.19%) QA
3 1 (1.03%) ISO 22301
3 1 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 2 (2.06%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.03%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (3.09%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (1.03%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (16.49%) Microsoft
2 15 (15.46%) ServiceNow
3 9 (9.28%) SAP
4 5 (5.15%) Google
5 4 (4.12%) Salesforce
6 3 (3.09%) Adobe
6 3 (3.09%) Dell
6 3 (3.09%) Intel
6 3 (3.09%) Sitecore
7 2 (2.06%) VMware
8 1 (1.03%) Darktrace
8 1 (1.03%) HP
8 1 (1.03%) Remedy