Service Manager Contracts in Cheshire

Services Manager
North West > Cheshire

The median Services Manager daily rate in Cheshire is £332, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 28 August 2025.

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

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 56 40
Rank change year-on-year -14 -16 +22
DemandTrendContract jobs requiring a Service Manager 6 2 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 0.95% 0.40% 2.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.06% 0.42% 2.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 4
10th Percentile £230 - £424
25th Percentile £284 £513 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £332 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -36.79% +16.67% +20.00%
75th Percentile £439 £538 £469
90th Percentile £584 - £503
North West median daily rate £550 £375 £525
% change year-on-year +46.67% -28.57% +26.51%

All DemandTrendContract IT Job Vacancies
Cheshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Cheshire. 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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies in Cheshire with a recognized job title 566 476 353
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.42% 94.82% 86.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 430 311 218
10th Percentile £275 £311 £275
25th Percentile £358 £384 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.76% -7.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £520 £568 £588
90th Percentile £639 £640 £638
North West median daily rate £450 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -8.72% -1.40% +2.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 23 28
10th Percentile £12.82 £11.70 £14.70
25th Percentile £17.75 £13.49 £22.31
Median hourly rate £30.99 £35.00 £30.65
Median % change year-on-year -11.46% +14.20% +40.71%
75th Percentile £37.08 £43.75 £35.00
90th Percentile £58.63 £46.75 £40.00
North West median hourly rate £25.15 £32.90 £30.65
% change year-on-year -23.54% +7.33% +34.71%

Service Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Service Manager in Cheshire

Service Manager
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Service Manager job vacancies in Cheshire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Service Manager job vacancies in Cheshire

Service Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Service Manager in Cheshire over the 6 months to 28 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Service Manager in Cheshire

Service Manager
Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Service Manager job vacancies in Cheshire.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Service Manager job vacancies in Cheshire

Service Manager
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire region over the 6 months to 28 August 2025. 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Knutsford - 3 £330 - 1
Macclesfield - 1 £700 -
Crewe - 1 £225 -
Service Manager
North West

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

For the 6 months to 28 August 2025, 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 Cheshire region featuring Service Manager in the job title.

1 5 (83.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 4 (66.67%) Agile
2 4 (66.67%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (66.67%) ITIL
2 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 4 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (66.67%) Service Design
2 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
3 3 (50.00%) Service Management
3 3 (50.00%) ITSM
3 3 (50.00%) Finance
4 2 (33.33%) Publishing
4 2 (33.33%) Degree
4 2 (33.33%) Computer Science
4 2 (33.33%) Release Management
4 2 (33.33%) Test Management
4 2 (33.33%) Product Management
4 2 (33.33%) SaaS
4 2 (33.33%) Waterfall
4 2 (33.33%) ServiceNow
4 2 (33.33%) DevOps
4 2 (33.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 2 (33.33%) Management Information System
4 2 (33.33%) Wireless
4 2 (33.33%) Service Delivery
4 2 (33.33%) Change Management
4 2 (33.33%) Firewall
4 2 (33.33%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (33.33%) LAN
4 2 (33.33%) Presentation Skills

Service Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 4 (66.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) Firewall
1 2 (33.33%) LAN
1 2 (33.33%) Wireless
General
1 4 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (50.00%) Finance
3 2 (33.33%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (33.33%) Publishing
3 2 (33.33%) Telecoms
4 1 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (16.67%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 4 (66.67%) Agile
2 4 (66.67%) ITIL
2 4 (66.67%) Service Design
3 3 (50.00%) ITSM
3 3 (50.00%) Service Management
4 2 (33.33%) Acceptance Criteria
4 2 (33.33%) Change Management
4 2 (33.33%) Computer Science
4 2 (33.33%) Customer Service
4 2 (33.33%) DevOps
4 2 (33.33%) Product Management
4 2 (33.33%) Programme Delivery
4 2 (33.33%) Programme Governance
4 2 (33.33%) Project Delivery
4 2 (33.33%) Release Management
4 2 (33.33%) Service Delivery
4 2 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 2 (33.33%) Test Management
4 2 (33.33%) Waterfall
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Degree
1 2 (33.33%) ITIL Certification
1 2 (33.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) GxP
1 1 (16.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (33.33%) ServiceNow
3 1 (16.67%) Salesforce
3 1 (16.67%) SAP