Service Manager Contracts in Edinburgh

Services Manager
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median Services Manager daily rate in Edinburgh is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 69 106
Rank change year-on-year +10 +37 +4
Contract jobs requiring a Service Manager 8 3 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 1.28% 0.37% 0.46%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.38% 0.39% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 2
10th Percentile £350 £465 £463
25th Percentile £378 £488 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £506
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +3.70% +6.58%
75th Percentile £581 £563 £548
90th Percentile £645 £585 £564
Scotland median daily rate £381 £600 £450
% change year-on-year -36.58% +33.33% -5.26%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Edinburgh

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Edinburgh. 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 Edinburgh with a recognized job title 581 778 1,245
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.96% 95.46% 95.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 329 441 887
10th Percentile £211 £206 £247
25th Percentile £400 £409 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £479 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.34% +0.84% -
75th Percentile £550 £575 £545
90th Percentile £638 £663 £625
Scotland median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - +4.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 55 12
10th Percentile - £16.10 £13.62
25th Percentile £17.30 £17.86 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.44 £50.00 £21.26
Median % change year-on-year -55.13% +135.18% -10.48%
75th Percentile £25.59 £60.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £42.35 £66.00 £54.43
Scotland median hourly rate £20.94 £33.25 £23.18
% change year-on-year -37.02% +43.44% -10.53%

Service Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Service Manager in Edinburgh

Service Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for Service Manager in Edinburgh

Service Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Service Manager in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Service Manager in Edinburgh

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

For the 6 months to 1 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 Edinburgh region featuring Service Manager in the job title.

1 6 (75.00%) ITIL
1 6 (75.00%) Service Management
1 6 (75.00%) Project Delivery
2 5 (62.50%) Finance
3 4 (50.00%) Commercial Awareness
4 2 (25.00%) Business Development
4 2 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 2 (25.00%) Programme Management
4 2 (25.00%) Budgeting and Resource Allocation
4 2 (25.00%) Resource Allocation
4 2 (25.00%) Budgeting
5 1 (12.50%) IT Strategy
5 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
5 1 (12.50%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (12.50%) Budget Management
5 1 (12.50%) Agile
5 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (12.50%) Service Delivery
5 1 (12.50%) Change Management
5 1 (12.50%) Risk Management
5 1 (12.50%) CRM
5 1 (12.50%) ERP
5 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
5 1 (12.50%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (12.50%) Azure
5 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 1 (12.50%) Waterfall
5 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365

Service Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) Azure
1 1 (12.50%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (12.50%) Entra ID
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
General
1 5 (62.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (12.50%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) ITIL
1 6 (75.00%) Project Delivery
1 6 (75.00%) Service Management
2 4 (50.00%) Commercial Awareness
3 2 (25.00%) Budgeting
3 2 (25.00%) Budgeting and Resource Allocation
3 2 (25.00%) Business Development
3 2 (25.00%) Programme Management
3 2 (25.00%) Resource Allocation
4 1 (12.50%) Agile
4 1 (12.50%) Budget Management
4 1 (12.50%) Change Management
4 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (12.50%) CRM
4 1 (12.50%) ERP
4 1 (12.50%) Risk Management
4 1 (12.50%) Service Delivery
4 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (12.50%) Waterfall
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 20000
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft