Service Manager Contracts in England

Services Manager
UK > England

The median Services Manager daily rate in England is £500, 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 309 311 285
Rank change year-on-year +2 -26 +23
Contract jobs requiring a Service Manager 180 241 455
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.74% 0.65% 0.90%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.80% 0.70% 0.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 169 342
10th Percentile £331 £313 £357
25th Percentile £400 £423 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £600 £580 £594
90th Percentile £661 £640 £712
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 8 5
10th Percentile £27.10 £26.11 £9.38
25th Percentile £27.25 £29.75 -
Median hourly rate £30.00 £30.00 £12.95
Median % change year-on-year - +131.66% -62.41%
75th Percentile £51.25 £40.91 £58.75
90th Percentile £62.50 £72.90 £61.90
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £30.00 £12.95
% change year-on-year - +131.66% -60.22%

All Contract 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 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Service Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Service Manager in England

Service Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Service Manager in England

Service Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Service Manager in England

Service Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Service Manager in England

Service Manager
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Service Manager in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Service Manager in England

Service 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 Service Manager within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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 +8 69 £515 +3.00% 104
South West +39 36 £500 -13.04% 25
South East +43 27 £465 -10.14% 64
North of England +14 24 £425 -12.19% 43
North West +12 12 £525 +6.49% 22
Yorkshire +9 12 £425 -10.53% 17
Midlands +14 11 £450 -13.88% 37
West Midlands +15 9 £450 -18.18% 25
East of England +30 5 £443 -11.40% 20
East Midlands +1 2 £350 -30.00% 12
Service Manager
UK

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

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 England region featuring Service Manager in the job title.

1 116 (64.44%) ITIL
2 77 (42.78%) Service Management
3 74 (41.11%) Service Delivery
4 59 (32.78%) Security Cleared
5 52 (28.89%) SC Cleared
6 43 (23.89%) Social Skills
7 41 (22.78%) Continuous Improvement
8 38 (21.11%) Finance
9 35 (19.44%) ServiceNow
10 34 (18.89%) ITSM
10 34 (18.89%) ITIL Certification
11 33 (18.33%) Stakeholder Management
12 31 (17.22%) Project Management
13 30 (16.67%) Change Management
13 30 (16.67%) Problem Management
14 22 (12.22%) SLA
14 22 (12.22%) Public Sector
15 21 (11.67%) Analytical Skills
15 21 (11.67%) Service Design
16 20 (11.11%) Incident Management
16 20 (11.11%) Agile
17 19 (10.56%) Service Catalogue
18 17 (9.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 16 (8.89%) Root Cause Analysis
19 16 (8.89%) Risk Management
19 16 (8.89%) Problem-Solving
20 15 (8.33%) Collaborative Working
20 15 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
20 15 (8.33%) Microsoft
21 14 (7.78%) Banking

Service 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 10 (5.56%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 2 (1.11%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.11%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.56%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (2.22%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.56%) OpenText VIM for SAP
2 1 (0.56%) SAP Retail
2 1 (0.56%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 14 (7.78%) Azure
2 11 (6.11%) Microsoft 365
3 10 (5.56%) Power Platform
4 7 (3.89%) SaaS
5 4 (2.22%) AWS
6 2 (1.11%) OneDrive
7 1 (0.56%) Azure AI
7 1 (0.56%) Azure Cognitive Services
7 1 (0.56%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.56%) Azure Machine Learning
7 1 (0.56%) BigCommerce
Communications & Networking
1 12 (6.67%) Firewall
2 9 (5.00%) VPN
3 7 (3.89%) Internet
4 6 (3.33%) Network Security
5 2 (1.11%) Cisco Firepower
5 2 (1.11%) Intranet
5 2 (1.11%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.56%) Power BI
2 2 (1.11%) MySQL
3 1 (0.56%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (0.56%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (2.22%) JIRA
2 2 (1.11%) Maven
3 1 (0.56%) Bugzilla
3 1 (0.56%) Git
3 1 (0.56%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.56%) Selenium
3 1 (0.56%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 43 (23.89%) Social Skills
2 38 (21.11%) Finance
3 22 (12.22%) Public Sector
4 21 (11.67%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
6 14 (7.78%) Banking
7 11 (6.11%) Legal
8 9 (5.00%) Military
9 8 (4.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (4.44%) Telecoms
10 5 (2.78%) Retail
11 3 (1.67%) Police
12 2 (1.11%) Automotive
12 2 (1.11%) Back Office
12 2 (1.11%) Billing
12 2 (1.11%) Fire and Rescue
12 2 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (1.11%) Law
12 2 (1.11%) Local Government
12 2 (1.11%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.11%) AngularJS
1 2 (1.11%) Bootstrap
1 2 (1.11%) CSS
1 2 (1.11%) J2EE
1 2 (1.11%) jQuery
1 2 (1.11%) REST
1 2 (1.11%) Sass
1 2 (1.11%) Spring
1 2 (1.11%) Spring MVC
1 2 (1.11%) VML
1 2 (1.11%) Web Services
2 1 (0.56%) ARM Templates
2 1 (0.56%) PyTorch
2 1 (0.56%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.00%) Video Conferencing
2 5 (2.78%) Management Information System
3 4 (2.22%) Onboarding
4 3 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (1.67%) Infotainment
4 3 (1.67%) IoT
4 3 (1.67%) Mobile App
4 3 (1.67%) Replication
5 2 (1.11%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.11%) PMI
6 1 (0.56%) CMDB
6 1 (0.56%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.89%) Windows
2 3 (1.67%) Windows 10
3 2 (1.11%) Linux
3 2 (1.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (64.44%) ITIL
2 77 (42.78%) Service Management
3 74 (41.11%) Service Delivery
4 41 (22.78%) Continuous Improvement
5 34 (18.89%) ITSM
6 33 (18.33%) Stakeholder Management
7 31 (17.22%) Project Management
8 30 (16.67%) Change Management
8 30 (16.67%) Problem Management
9 21 (11.67%) Service Design
10 20 (11.11%) Agile
10 20 (11.11%) Incident Management
11 19 (10.56%) Service Catalogue
12 17 (9.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 16 (8.89%) Problem-Solving
13 16 (8.89%) Risk Management
13 16 (8.89%) Root Cause Analysis
14 15 (8.33%) Collaborative Working
15 14 (7.78%) Customer Service
15 14 (7.78%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 2 (1.11%) Java
1 2 (1.11%) JavaScript
1 2 (1.11%) Python
2 1 (0.56%) R
2 1 (0.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 59 (32.78%) Security Cleared
2 52 (28.89%) SC Cleared
3 34 (18.89%) ITIL Certification
4 6 (3.33%) DV Cleared
5 5 (2.78%) Degree
5 5 (2.78%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 4 (2.22%) PMI Certification
7 3 (1.67%) PMP
8 2 (1.11%) CISA
8 2 (1.11%) CISM
8 2 (1.11%) CISSP
8 2 (1.11%) GIAC
8 2 (1.11%) ISACA
8 2 (1.11%) SANS
9 1 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.56%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.56%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (12.22%) SLA
2 2 (1.11%) ISO 22301
2 2 (1.11%) ISO 31000
2 2 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (1.11%) PMO
2 2 (1.11%) QA
3 1 (0.56%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.56%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (0.56%) COBIT
3 1 (0.56%) COSHH
3 1 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.56%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 1 (0.56%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 3 (1.67%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.11%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (0.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (4.44%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (1.11%) FortiGate
2 2 (1.11%) OPNET
3 1 (0.56%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 35 (19.44%) ServiceNow
2 15 (8.33%) Microsoft
3 7 (3.89%) Remedy
4 4 (2.22%) BMC
4 4 (2.22%) SAP
5 2 (1.11%) Cisco
5 2 (1.11%) Foundry
5 2 (1.11%) Oracle
5 2 (1.11%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.11%) Sun
5 2 (1.11%) Tenable
5 2 (1.11%) TOWER Software
6 1 (0.56%) Adobe
6 1 (0.56%) Freshdesk
6 1 (0.56%) Sitecore
6 1 (0.56%) Workday
6 1 (0.56%) Zoho