Service Manager Contracts in England

Services Manager
UK > England

The median Services Manager daily rate in England is £508, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 27 July 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
27 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 351 312 287
Rank change year-on-year -39 -25 +4
Contract jobs requiring a Service Manager 166 239 380
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.60% 0.70% 0.82%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.66% 0.75% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 161 266
10th Percentile £359 £363 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year +1.50% -3.85% +0.97%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £588
90th Percentile £668 £638 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £520
% change year-on-year - -3.85% +1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 5
10th Percentile £53.94 £22.46 £9.38
25th Percentile £67.33 £29.75 -
Median hourly rate £89.63 £30.00 £12.95
Median % change year-on-year +198.77% +131.66% -60.28%
75th Percentile - £30.25 £58.75
90th Percentile - - £61.90
UK median hourly rate £89.63 £26.28 £12.95
% change year-on-year +241.06% +102.93% -60.28%

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 25,339 31,938 43,601
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.75% 92.96% 94.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,468 21,084 30,793
10th Percentile £288 £300 £308
25th Percentile £402 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -0.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,282 2,007 1,363
10th Percentile £13.75 £13.86 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.79 £19.22 £19.06
Median hourly rate £26.30 £43.00 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year -38.84% -1.71% +70.37%
75th Percentile £55.43 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £42.03 £43.00
% change year-on-year -40.16% -2.26% +67.45%

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 27 July 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 27 July 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 27 July 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 66 £523 -0.48% 96
South West +6 26 £483 -16.09% 20
South East +28 24 £415 -27.19% 48
North of England -16 23 £469 +5.34% 52
North West -14 19 £550 +46.67% 31
Midlands -14 12 £483 -12.27% 31
West Midlands -5 10 £483 -17.87% 23
East of England +13 5 £472 -8.00% 18
Yorkshire -18 4 £431 -6.76% 13
East Midlands -12 2 - - 8
Service Manager
UK

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

For the 6 months to 27 July 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.

1 110 (66.27%) ITIL
2 82 (49.40%) Service Delivery
3 75 (45.18%) Service Management
4 53 (31.93%) Social Skills
5 48 (28.92%) Security Cleared
6 45 (27.11%) SC Cleared
7 42 (25.30%) ITSM
8 41 (24.70%) ServiceNow
9 39 (23.49%) Change Management
10 36 (21.69%) Stakeholder Management
11 34 (20.48%) Finance
12 30 (18.07%) ITIL Certification
13 28 (16.87%) Continuous Improvement
14 27 (16.27%) Project Management
15 24 (14.46%) Service Design
16 23 (13.86%) Analytical Skills
17 21 (12.65%) Risk Management
18 20 (12.05%) Microsoft
19 19 (11.45%) Agile
19 19 (11.45%) Problem-Solving
19 19 (11.45%) Public Sector
20 18 (10.84%) Problem Management
21 17 (10.24%) Cybersecurity
22 15 (9.04%) SLA
22 15 (9.04%) Service Catalogue
23 14 (8.43%) Acceptance Criteria
23 14 (8.43%) Military
23 14 (8.43%) Firewall
23 14 (8.43%) JIRA
24 13 (7.83%) Decision-Making

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 (6.02%) SharePoint
2 6 (3.61%) Confluence
3 1 (0.60%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.60%) Mule
Applications
1 4 (2.41%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.60%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (2.41%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.60%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 12 (7.23%) Microsoft 365
2 11 (6.63%) SaaS
3 10 (6.02%) Azure
3 10 (6.02%) Power Platform
4 2 (1.20%) OneDrive
5 1 (0.60%) AWS
5 1 (0.60%) GCP
5 1 (0.60%) GitHub
5 1 (0.60%) IaaS
5 1 (0.60%) OCI
5 1 (0.60%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (8.43%) Firewall
2 11 (6.63%) VPN
3 7 (4.22%) Internet
4 6 (3.61%) Network Security
5 2 (1.20%) Cisco Firepower
5 2 (1.20%) DHCP
5 2 (1.20%) DNS
5 2 (1.20%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.20%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (1.20%) Wireless
6 1 (0.60%) LAN
6 1 (0.60%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (0.60%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (6.02%) Power BI
2 2 (1.20%) Tableau
3 1 (0.60%) MySQL
3 1 (0.60%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 14 (8.43%) JIRA
2 1 (0.60%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.60%) Maven
2 1 (0.60%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 53 (31.93%) Social Skills
2 34 (20.48%) Finance
3 23 (13.86%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (11.45%) Public Sector
5 14 (8.43%) Military
6 12 (7.23%) Legal
7 9 (5.42%) Banking
8 6 (3.61%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (3.61%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (3.01%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (2.41%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.81%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.81%) Publishing
11 3 (1.81%) Retail
11 3 (1.81%) Retail Banking
12 2 (1.20%) Aerospace
12 2 (1.20%) French Language
12 2 (1.20%) International Banking
13 1 (0.60%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.60%) AngularJS
1 1 (0.60%) Bootstrap
1 1 (0.60%) CSS
1 1 (0.60%) J2EE
1 1 (0.60%) jQuery
1 1 (0.60%) REST
1 1 (0.60%) Sass
1 1 (0.60%) Spring
1 1 (0.60%) Spring MVC
1 1 (0.60%) VML
1 1 (0.60%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.42%) Video Conferencing
2 6 (3.61%) Onboarding
3 5 (3.01%) Management Information System
4 3 (1.81%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (1.81%) Data Centre
4 3 (1.81%) Replication
5 2 (1.20%) CMDB
5 2 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.60%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.60%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (0.60%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.60%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (0.60%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (0.60%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.61%) Windows
2 3 (1.81%) Windows 10
3 2 (1.20%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.60%) Linux
4 1 (0.60%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (66.27%) ITIL
2 82 (49.40%) Service Delivery
3 75 (45.18%) Service Management
4 42 (25.30%) ITSM
5 39 (23.49%) Change Management
6 36 (21.69%) Stakeholder Management
7 28 (16.87%) Continuous Improvement
8 27 (16.27%) Project Management
9 24 (14.46%) Service Design
10 21 (12.65%) Risk Management
11 19 (11.45%) Agile
11 19 (11.45%) Problem-Solving
12 18 (10.84%) Problem Management
13 17 (10.24%) Cybersecurity
14 15 (9.04%) Service Catalogue
15 14 (8.43%) Acceptance Criteria
16 13 (7.83%) Decision-Making
16 13 (7.83%) Project Delivery
17 12 (7.23%) Incident Management
17 12 (7.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1 (0.60%) Java
1 1 (0.60%) JavaScript
1 1 (0.60%) Korn
Qualifications
1 48 (28.92%) Security Cleared
2 45 (27.11%) SC Cleared
3 30 (18.07%) ITIL Certification
4 11 (6.63%) Degree
5 7 (4.22%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.20%) A+ Certification
6 2 (1.20%) CISA
6 2 (1.20%) CISM
6 2 (1.20%) CISSP
6 2 (1.20%) GIAC
6 2 (1.20%) ISACA
6 2 (1.20%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 2 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.20%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 2 (1.20%) SANS
7 1 (0.60%) ACCA
7 1 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (9.04%) SLA
2 7 (4.22%) QA
3 2 (1.20%) GDPR
3 2 (1.20%) ISO 22301
3 2 (1.20%) ISO 31000
3 2 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.60%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.60%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.60%) COSHH
4 1 (0.60%) GxP
4 1 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 1 (0.60%) NEBOSH
4 1 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (2.41%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.20%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 8 (4.82%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (1.20%) FortiGate
2 2 (1.20%) OPNET
3 1 (0.60%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 41 (24.70%) ServiceNow
2 20 (12.05%) Microsoft
3 7 (4.22%) Remedy
4 5 (3.01%) BMC
5 4 (2.41%) Cisco
5 4 (2.41%) Oracle
6 3 (1.81%) SAP
7 2 (1.20%) CheckPoint
7 2 (1.20%) Palo Alto
7 2 (1.20%) Tenable
8 1 (0.60%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.60%) Foundry
8 1 (0.60%) Google
8 1 (0.60%) IBM
8 1 (0.60%) Sun
8 1 (0.60%) Workday