Service Manager Contracts in the City of London

Services Manager
Central London > City of London

The median Services Manager daily rate in the City of London is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 May 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
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 112 108 156
Rank change year-on-year -4 +48 +6
Contract jobs requiring a Service Manager 10 17 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.57% 0.78% 0.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.61% 0.82% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 15 11
10th Percentile £465 £328 £375
25th Percentile £506 £356 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -14.29% -0.94%
75th Percentile £675 £619 £702
90th Percentile £711 £720 £750
Central London median daily rate £600 £450 £525
% change year-on-year +33.33% -14.29% -0.94%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
City of London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the City of 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 City of London with a recognized job title 1,634 2,075 3,462
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.05% 95.10% 95.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,025 1,474 2,351
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £463 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £563 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% -6.25% +6.19%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £820
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £588
% change year-on-year +4.55% -6.38% +4.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 15 23
10th Percentile £22.00 £15.62 £15.50
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.22 £18.50
Median hourly rate £31.00 £23.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.78% -34.29% -5.41%
75th Percentile £48.75 £27.25 £58.75
90th Percentile £92.75 £40.00 £87.64
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £25.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +16.28% -28.57% -5.41%

Service Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Service Manager in the City of London

Service Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Service Manager in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Service Manager in the City of London

Service Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Service Manager in the City of London over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Service Manager in the City of London

Service Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Service Manager in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Service Manager in the City of London

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

For the 6 months to 4 May 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 City of London region featuring Service Manager in the job title.

1 6 (60.00%) ITIL
2 4 (40.00%) Service Management
2 4 (40.00%) Service Delivery
3 3 (30.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (30.00%) Security Cleared
3 3 (30.00%) Finance
3 3 (30.00%) Project Management
3 3 (30.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (20.00%) Data Governance
4 2 (20.00%) SaaS
4 2 (20.00%) PRINCE2
4 2 (20.00%) Change Management
4 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (20.00%) Banking
4 2 (20.00%) Analytics
4 2 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow
5 1 (10.00%) Performance Monitoring
5 1 (10.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (10.00%) Line Management
5 1 (10.00%) Mentoring
5 1 (10.00%) Coaching
5 1 (10.00%) User Experience
5 1 (10.00%) Power BI
5 1 (10.00%) Service Design
5 1 (10.00%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (10.00%) Budgeting and Forecasting
5 1 (10.00%) Assortment Planning
5 1 (10.00%) Merchandise Planning

Service Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) SaaS
2 1 (10.00%) AWS
2 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Power BI
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (30.00%) Finance
2 2 (20.00%) Banking
3 1 (10.00%) Financial Institution
3 1 (10.00%) International Banking
3 1 (10.00%) Legal
3 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (10.00%) Retail
3 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (10.00%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) ITIL
2 4 (40.00%) Service Delivery
2 4 (40.00%) Service Management
3 3 (30.00%) Project Management
3 3 (30.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (20.00%) Analytics
4 2 (20.00%) Change Management
4 2 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (20.00%) Data Governance
4 2 (20.00%) PRINCE2
4 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (10.00%) Agile
5 1 (10.00%) Business Continuity
5 1 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (10.00%) Data Management
5 1 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (10.00%) Performance Monitoring
5 1 (10.00%) Process Improvement
5 1 (10.00%) Project Planning
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 1 (10.00%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (10.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Virtual Servers
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) SAP
1 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow