IT Services Manager Contract Job Trends in England

IT Service Manager
UK > England

The median IT Service Manager daily rate in England is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 5 September 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
5 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 468 460 528
Rank change year-on-year -8 +68 +119
Contract jobs requiring an IT Services Manager 35 63 84
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.13% 0.19% 0.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.21% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 32 58
10th Percentile £362 £285 £350
25th Percentile £458 £468 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £581 £510
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% +13.97% -6.21%
75th Percentile £609 £638 £724
90th Percentile £675 £675 £823
UK median daily rate £515 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -6.36% +10.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £56.25
Median hourly rate - - £57.50
75th Percentile - - £58.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £22.56 £57.50
% change year-on-year - -60.77% +94.92%

All DemandTrendContract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 25,035 30,207 40,332
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.38% 93.06% 94.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,144 19,286 28,324
10th Percentile £281 £304 £305
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.69% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,339 1,563 1,311
10th Percentile £13.54 £14.41 £15.21
25th Percentile £17.30 £21.25 £19.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £46.23 £43.86
Median % change year-on-year -45.60% +5.40% +66.34%
75th Percentile £55.00 £67.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +63.46%

IT Services Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Services Manager in England

IT Services Manager
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for IT Services Manager job vacancies in England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for IT Services Manager job vacancies in England

IT Services Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IT Services Manager in England over the 6 months to 5 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IT Services Manager in England

IT Services Manager
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for IT Services Manager job vacancies in England.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for IT Services Manager job vacancies in England

IT Services Manager
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 5 September 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +21 14 £563 -6.25% 8
North of England -28 6 £545 +91.23% 10
South West +2 4 £613 -2.00% 2
West Midlands -9 4 £515 -12.34% 6
Midlands -16 4 £515 -12.34% 7
North West -16 4 £550 +99.10% 4
East of England - 3 £500 - 2
Yorkshire -14 2 £540 -1.82% 3
South East +22 1 - - 9
IT Services Manager
UK

IT Services Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 5 September 2025, 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 England region featuring IT Services Manager in the job title.

1 25 (71.43%) ITIL
2 19 (54.29%) Service Delivery
3 14 (40.00%) Service Management
4 12 (34.29%) ITSM
5 11 (31.43%) Change Management
5 11 (31.43%) Finance
5 11 (31.43%) ServiceNow
6 10 (28.57%) Social Skills
7 8 (22.86%) Stakeholder Management
8 7 (20.00%) Risk Management
8 7 (20.00%) Project Management
8 7 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
8 7 (20.00%) Security Cleared
8 7 (20.00%) SC Cleared
9 6 (17.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 6 (17.14%) Business Continuity
10 5 (14.29%) Banking
10 5 (14.29%) SLA
10 5 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
10 5 (14.29%) Problem Management
11 4 (11.43%) Continuous Improvement
11 4 (11.43%) PRINCE2
11 4 (11.43%) ITIL Certification
11 4 (11.43%) Supplier Management
11 4 (11.43%) Roadmaps
11 4 (11.43%) Public Sector
12 3 (8.57%) Knowledge Transfer
12 3 (8.57%) Service Catalogue
12 3 (8.57%) Knowledge Management
12 3 (8.57%) Incident Management

IT Services Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 2 (5.71%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (2.86%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 2 (5.71%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (2.86%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.86%) Remote Desktop
Development Applications
1 2 (5.71%) JIRA
General
1 11 (31.43%) Finance
2 10 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 5 (14.29%) Banking
4 4 (11.43%) Public Sector
5 3 (8.57%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (8.57%) Legal
6 2 (5.71%) Financial Institution
6 2 (5.71%) International Banking
6 2 (5.71%) Military
7 1 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.86%) Fire and Rescue
7 1 (2.86%) Investment Banking
7 1 (2.86%) Police
7 1 (2.86%) Portuguese Language
7 1 (2.86%) Spanish Language
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.57%) Replication
2 2 (5.71%) CMDB
2 2 (5.71%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.86%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.86%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.86%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.71%) Windows
1 2 (5.71%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (71.43%) ITIL
2 19 (54.29%) Service Delivery
3 14 (40.00%) Service Management
4 12 (34.29%) ITSM
5 11 (31.43%) Change Management
6 8 (22.86%) Stakeholder Management
7 7 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
7 7 (20.00%) Project Management
7 7 (20.00%) Risk Management
8 6 (17.14%) Business Continuity
8 6 (17.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 5 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
9 5 (14.29%) Problem Management
10 4 (11.43%) Continuous Improvement
10 4 (11.43%) PRINCE2
10 4 (11.43%) Roadmaps
10 4 (11.43%) Supplier Management
11 3 (8.57%) Acceptance Criteria
11 3 (8.57%) Scenario Testing
11 3 (8.57%) Service Catalogue
Qualifications
1 7 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 7 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (11.43%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (5.71%) DV Cleared
3 2 (5.71%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 2 (5.71%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (14.29%) SLA
2 2 (5.71%) ISO 22301
2 2 (5.71%) ISO 31000
2 2 (5.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.86%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 2 (5.71%) Active Directory
1 2 (5.71%) Virtual Servers
Vendors
1 11 (31.43%) ServiceNow
2 2 (5.71%) BMC
2 2 (5.71%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.71%) Remedy
3 1 (2.86%) Atlassian
3 1 (2.86%) Foundry
3 1 (2.86%) Oracle