IT Services Manager Contracts in the UK excluding London

IT Service Manager
UK > UK excluding London

The median IT Service Manager daily rate in the UK excluding London is £575 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 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
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 359 402 437
Rank change year-on-year +43 +35 -27
Contract jobs requiring an IT Services Manager 32 55 88
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.16% 0.23% 0.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.24% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 45 70
10th Percentile £441 £350 £363
25th Percentile £519 £403 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +27.78% -10.00% +11.26%
75th Percentile £613 £550 £584
90th Percentile £625 £634 £646
UK median daily rate £575 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +21.05% -9.52% +16.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - £18.26
25th Percentile - - £19.41
Median hourly rate - - £23.50
75th Percentile - - £27.00
90th Percentile - - £31.92
UK median hourly rate £33.90 £57.50 £25.25
% change year-on-year -41.04% +127.72% -22.57%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 19,029 22,515 29,590
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.56% 94.22% 95.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,619 15,794 20,727
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £394 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £598 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,245 1,162 1,474
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.24
25th Percentile £15.75 £17.81 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.26 £19.52
Median % change year-on-year -5.35% +116.50% +2.74%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £42.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.81
% change year-on-year -18.89% +89.04% +5.80%

IT Services Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Services Manager in the UK excluding London

IT Services Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IT Services Manager in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for IT Services Manager in the UK excluding London

IT Services Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IT Services Manager in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for IT Services Manager in the UK excluding London

IT Services Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IT Services Manager in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for IT Services Manager in the UK excluding London

IT Services Manager
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IT Services Manager within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 4 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
Midlands +37 12 £550 - 4
South West +28 12 £617 +35.49%
East Midlands +30 8 - - 3
South East +8 5 £551 +32.51% 1
West Midlands +26 4 £550 -10.20% 1
North West +7 2 £525 +19.32% 11
North of England +6 2 £525 +19.32% 17
East of England +9 1 £450 -23.40% 5
IT Services Manager
UK

IT Services Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 4 May 2024, IT Services 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 UK excluding London region featuring IT Services Manager in the job title.

1 30 (93.75%) Service Management
2 25 (78.13%) Service Delivery
3 20 (62.50%) ITIL
3 20 (62.50%) ITSM
4 12 (37.50%) Change Management
5 10 (31.25%) Microsoft
5 10 (31.25%) Business Analysis
6 9 (28.13%) Problem Management
6 9 (28.13%) Finance
6 9 (28.13%) Legal
6 9 (28.13%) Service Delivery Management
6 9 (28.13%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (25.00%) Okta
7 8 (25.00%) Decision-Making
7 8 (25.00%) People Management
7 8 (25.00%) Performance Metrics
7 8 (25.00%) Swift
7 8 (25.00%) Migration
7 8 (25.00%) Information Security
7 8 (25.00%) IT Governance
7 8 (25.00%) Azure
7 8 (25.00%) AWS
7 8 (25.00%) SaaS
7 8 (25.00%) Apple iOS
7 8 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 8 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
8 7 (21.88%) Security Cleared
8 7 (21.88%) Release Management
8 7 (21.88%) SC Cleared
9 6 (18.75%) Service Design

IT Services Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (3.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (9.38%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 8 (25.00%) AWS
1 8 (25.00%) Azure
1 8 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
1 8 (25.00%) SaaS
General
1 9 (28.13%) Finance
1 9 (28.13%) Legal
2 3 (9.38%) Telecoms
3 2 (6.25%) Social Skills
4 1 (3.13%) Billing
4 1 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (3.13%) Public Sector
Operating Systems
1 8 (25.00%) Apple iOS
2 1 (3.13%) Unix
2 1 (3.13%) Windows
2 1 (3.13%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (93.75%) Service Management
2 25 (78.13%) Service Delivery
3 20 (62.50%) ITIL
3 20 (62.50%) ITSM
4 12 (37.50%) Change Management
5 10 (31.25%) Business Analysis
6 9 (28.13%) Problem Management
6 9 (28.13%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (28.13%) Service Delivery Management
7 8 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 8 (25.00%) Decision-Making
7 8 (25.00%) Information Security
7 8 (25.00%) IT Governance
7 8 (25.00%) Migration
7 8 (25.00%) People Management
7 8 (25.00%) Performance Metrics
8 7 (21.88%) Release Management
9 6 (18.75%) Service Design
10 5 (15.63%) Project Delivery
11 4 (12.50%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 8 (25.00%) Swift
Qualifications
1 7 (21.88%) SC Cleared
1 7 (21.88%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.25%) ISEB
3 1 (3.13%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (3.13%) Degree
3 1 (3.13%) DV Cleared
3 1 (3.13%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.25%) COBIT
1 2 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 1 (3.13%) SLA
Vendors
1 10 (31.25%) Microsoft
2 8 (25.00%) Okta
3 3 (9.38%) BMC
3 3 (9.38%) Remedy
3 3 (9.38%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.13%) SAP