Senior Service Manager Contracts

Senior Service Manager
UK

The median Senior Service Manager daily rate in the UK is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 10 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 575 628 773
Rank change year-on-year +53 +145 -67
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Service Manager 15 58 75
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.034% 0.10% 0.086%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.037% 0.11% 0.090%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 48 37
10th Percentile £500 £415 £509
25th Percentile £506 £491 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £625
Median % change year-on-year - -12.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £653 £706 £700
90th Percentile £730 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £610 £503 £638
% change year-on-year +21.27% -21.10% +25.93%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 40,530 52,517 83,153
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.88% 94.52% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,076 36,648 58,643
10th Percentile £280 £313 £316
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £539 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.64% +2.71% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,932 1,488 1,934
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.39 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.75 £49.96
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.33 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +7.99%

Senior Service Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Service Manager in the UK

Senior Service Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Service Manager in the UK

Senior Service Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Service Manager over the 6 months to 10 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Service Manager in the UK

Senior Service Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Service Manager in the UK

Senior Service Manager
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Service Manager within the UK over the 6 months to 10 June 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
England +59 15 £550 - 16
London +64 10 £550 -12.00% 8
Work from Home +101 8 £502 -16.36% 6
UK excluding London +16 5 £610 +21.27% 6
North of England +28 3 £500 -20.00% 5
Yorkshire +12 3 £500 -20.00% 2
South East +2 2 £720 +50.00%

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

For the 6 months to 10 June 2024, Senior 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 featuring Senior Service Manager in the job title.

1 11 (73.33%) Service Management
2 8 (53.33%) Agile
3 7 (46.67%) ITIL
3 7 (46.67%) Social Skills
4 6 (40.00%) Risk Management
4 6 (40.00%) Finance
4 6 (40.00%) SC Cleared
4 6 (40.00%) Security Cleared
5 5 (33.33%) Service Delivery
6 4 (26.67%) Migration
6 4 (26.67%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (26.67%) Public Sector
7 3 (20.00%) Confluence
7 3 (20.00%) Problem Management
7 3 (20.00%) Business Case
7 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (20.00%) Service Catalogue
7 3 (20.00%) Supplier Management
7 3 (20.00%) Incident Management
7 3 (20.00%) JIRA
7 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
8 2 (13.33%) Adobe
8 2 (13.33%) Dell
8 2 (13.33%) Intel
8 2 (13.33%) Java
8 2 (13.33%) JavaScript
8 2 (13.33%) J2EE
8 2 (13.33%) MySQL
8 2 (13.33%) Unix
8 2 (13.33%) Windows

Senior Service Manager Skill Set
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 3 (20.00%) Confluence
2 2 (13.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 2 (13.33%) AWS
1 2 (13.33%) Azure
1 2 (13.33%) BigCommerce
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (20.00%) JIRA
2 2 (13.33%) Maven
General
1 7 (46.67%) Social Skills
2 6 (40.00%) Finance
3 4 (26.67%) Public Sector
4 2 (13.33%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (13.33%) Marketing
4 2 (13.33%) Retail
5 1 (6.67%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) AngularJS
1 2 (13.33%) CSS
1 2 (13.33%) J2EE
1 2 (13.33%) jQuery
1 2 (13.33%) REST
1 2 (13.33%) Sass
1 2 (13.33%) Spring
1 2 (13.33%) Spring MVC
1 2 (13.33%) Twitter Bootstrap
1 2 (13.33%) VML
1 2 (13.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Management Information System
2 1 (6.67%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (13.33%) Linux
1 2 (13.33%) Unix
1 2 (13.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (73.33%) Service Management
2 8 (53.33%) Agile
3 7 (46.67%) ITIL
4 6 (40.00%) Risk Management
5 5 (33.33%) Service Delivery
6 4 (26.67%) Migration
6 4 (26.67%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (20.00%) Business Case
7 3 (20.00%) Incident Management
7 3 (20.00%) Problem Management
7 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (20.00%) Service Catalogue
7 3 (20.00%) Supplier Management
8 2 (13.33%) Customer Acquisition
8 2 (13.33%) Customer Experience
8 2 (13.33%) Customer Service
8 2 (13.33%) Decision-Making
8 2 (13.33%) Supplier Relationship Management
8 2 (13.33%) Technical Debt
8 2 (13.33%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 2 (13.33%) Java
1 2 (13.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 6 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) Degree
2 1 (6.67%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) SLA
2 1 (6.67%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (13.33%) Adobe
2 2 (13.33%) Dell
2 2 (13.33%) Google
2 2 (13.33%) Intel
2 2 (13.33%) Salesforce
2 2 (13.33%) SAP
2 2 (13.33%) Sitecore
3 1 (6.67%) Foundry
3 1 (6.67%) VMware