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 6 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
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 296 315 344
Rank change year-on-year +19 +29 -8
Contract jobs requiring a Service Manager 97 199 280
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.54% 0.74% 0.72%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.58% 0.78% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 141 208
10th Percentile £313 £363 £391
25th Percentile £398 £426 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £578 £638 £596
90th Percentile £650 £750 £638
England median daily rate £500 £501 £500
% change year-on-year -0.15% +0.15% +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 16,617 25,468 37,159
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.23% 95.25% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,021 18,449 27,170
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £443 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £676 £700 £681
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 338 290 447
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.00 £16.40
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.53 £22.21
Median hourly rate £27.66 £35.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.55% +0.71% +10.62%
75th Percentile £43.75 £61.50 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £78.20 £67.75
England median hourly rate £36.50 £44.32 £22.50
% change year-on-year -17.64% +96.98% +2.27%

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 6 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 6 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 +43 18 £450 -14.29% 12
South London +5 4 £550 +7.32%
West London +21 3 £485 +2.11% 2
North London - 2 - - 1
East London -10 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 6 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 49 (50.52%) ITIL
2 36 (37.11%) Service Delivery
3 30 (30.93%) Service Management
4 25 (25.77%) Security Cleared
4 25 (25.77%) Social Skills
5 24 (24.74%) SC Cleared
6 22 (22.68%) Public Sector
7 20 (20.62%) Service Design
8 17 (17.53%) ITSM
8 17 (17.53%) Microsoft
9 15 (15.46%) Finance
9 15 (15.46%) Agile
9 15 (15.46%) ServiceNow
10 13 (13.40%) Customer Service
11 11 (11.34%) Continuous Improvement
11 11 (11.34%) Azure
12 10 (10.31%) Stakeholder Management
12 10 (10.31%) SAP
12 10 (10.31%) DevOps
13 9 (9.28%) SIAM
13 9 (9.28%) Acceptance Criteria
14 8 (8.25%) Onboarding
14 8 (8.25%) Project Management
15 7 (7.22%) Risk Management
15 7 (7.22%) Windows
15 7 (7.22%) SLA
15 7 (7.22%) Business Analysis
15 7 (7.22%) Problem-Solving
15 7 (7.22%) Microsoft 365
16 6 (6.19%) 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 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 2 (2.06%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.03%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 11 (11.34%) Azure
2 7 (7.22%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (6.19%) AWS
4 3 (3.09%) BigCommerce
4 3 (3.09%) GCP
4 3 (3.09%) SaaS
5 2 (2.06%) Azure DevOps
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%) GSM
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 25 (25.77%) Social Skills
2 22 (22.68%) Public Sector
3 15 (15.46%) Finance
4 6 (6.19%) Marketing
5 5 (5.15%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (4.12%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (3.09%) French Language
7 3 (3.09%) Legal
7 3 (3.09%) Retail
8 2 (2.06%) Local Government
8 2 (2.06%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.03%) Banking
9 1 (1.03%) Pharmaceutical
9 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 8 (8.25%) Onboarding
2 5 (5.15%) CMDB
2 5 (5.15%) Management Information System
3 3 (3.09%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (2.06%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (2.06%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.03%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.03%) FMCG
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 49 (50.52%) ITIL
2 36 (37.11%) Service Delivery
3 30 (30.93%) Service Management
4 20 (20.62%) Service Design
5 17 (17.53%) ITSM
6 15 (15.46%) Agile
7 13 (13.40%) Customer Service
8 11 (11.34%) Continuous Improvement
9 10 (10.31%) DevOps
9 10 (10.31%) Stakeholder Management
10 9 (9.28%) Acceptance Criteria
10 9 (9.28%) SIAM
11 8 (8.25%) Project Management
12 7 (7.22%) Business Analysis
12 7 (7.22%) Problem-Solving
12 7 (7.22%) Risk Management
13 6 (6.19%) Impact Assessments
13 6 (6.19%) Process Improvement
14 5 (5.15%) Project Delivery
14 5 (5.15%) Service Catalogue
Programming Languages
1 3 (3.09%) Java
1 3 (3.09%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 25 (25.77%) Security Cleared
2 24 (24.74%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.15%) Degree
4 3 (3.09%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (2.06%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.06%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.06%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 1 (1.03%) PMI Certification
6 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 17 (17.53%) Microsoft
2 15 (15.46%) ServiceNow
3 10 (10.31%) SAP
4 6 (6.19%) Google
5 5 (5.15%) 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