Service Manager Contracts in London

Services Manager
England > London

The median Services Manager daily rate in London is £518, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 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
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 284 290 309
Rank change year-on-year +6 +19 +32
Contract jobs requiring a Service Manager 72 101 187
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.58% 0.57% 0.71%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.62% 0.61% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 72 133
10th Percentile £350 £313 £365
25th Percentile £400 £400 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.50% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £600 £575 £638
90th Percentile £708 £649 £750
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £16.85
25th Percentile £27.50 - £31.63
Median hourly rate £30.00 - £57.50
75th Percentile £32.50 - £61.38
90th Percentile - - £62.95
England median hourly rate £30.00 £30.00 £12.95
% change year-on-year - +131.66% -60.15%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in 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 London with a recognized job title 11,654 16,475 24,945
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.34% 93.35% 95.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,988 11,905 18,104
10th Percentile £344 £325 £363
25th Percentile £429 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £680 £688 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 144 325 282
10th Percentile £20.24 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.02 £22.79
Median hourly rate £34.83 £27.50 £35.25
Median % change year-on-year +26.64% -21.99% +0.71%
75th Percentile £50.75 £46.48 £62.38
90th Percentile £65.00 £65.02 £79.80
England median hourly rate £30.26 £37.50 £44.77
% change year-on-year -19.31% -16.23% +94.63%

Service Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Service Manager in London

Service Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Service Manager in London

Service Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Service Manager in London over the 6 months to 12 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Service Manager in London

Service Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Service Manager in London

Service Manager
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 12 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
Central London +1 10 £600 +33.33% 9
East London +18 5 £350 +7.69% 1
West London +14 2 £525 +3.45% 3
Service Manager
England

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

For the 6 months to 12 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 London region featuring Service Manager in the job title.

1 45 (62.50%) ITIL
2 29 (40.28%) Service Delivery
3 27 (37.50%) Service Management
4 18 (25.00%) Finance
4 18 (25.00%) ServiceNow
5 17 (23.61%) Social Skills
6 13 (18.06%) Project Management
7 12 (16.67%) Security Cleared
8 11 (15.28%) SC Cleared
8 11 (15.28%) Stakeholder Management
9 10 (13.89%) Change Management
9 10 (13.89%) Project Delivery
10 9 (12.50%) ITSM
10 9 (12.50%) ITIL Certification
10 9 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
11 8 (11.11%) Agile
11 8 (11.11%) Service Design
12 7 (9.72%) Decision-Making
12 7 (9.72%) Problem-Solving
12 7 (9.72%) SLA
12 7 (9.72%) Transition Management
12 7 (9.72%) Problem Management
13 6 (8.33%) SaaS
13 6 (8.33%) Windows
13 6 (8.33%) Business Continuity
13 6 (8.33%) Risk Management
14 5 (6.94%) Service Catalogue
14 5 (6.94%) Knowledge Transfer
14 5 (6.94%) Regulatory Compliance
14 5 (6.94%) Analytical Skills

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

Application Platforms
1 2 (2.78%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 2 (2.78%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.39%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (1.39%) SAP Retail
1 1 (1.39%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 6 (8.33%) SaaS
2 4 (5.56%) AWS
2 4 (5.56%) Azure
2 4 (5.56%) Power Platform
3 2 (2.78%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (2.78%) OneDrive
4 1 (1.39%) Azure AI
4 1 (1.39%) Azure Cognitive Services
4 1 (1.39%) Azure Machine Learning
4 1 (1.39%) BigCommerce
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.78%) Firewall
1 2 (2.78%) VPN
1 2 (2.78%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.56%) Power BI
2 2 (2.78%) MySQL
2 2 (2.78%) Tableau
3 1 (1.39%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (4.17%) JIRA
2 2 (2.78%) Maven
General
1 18 (25.00%) Finance
2 17 (23.61%) Social Skills
3 5 (6.94%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (6.94%) Legal
4 4 (5.56%) Banking
4 4 (5.56%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.78%) Financial Institution
5 2 (2.78%) French Language
5 2 (2.78%) Retail
6 1 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.39%) International Banking
6 1 (1.39%) Police
6 1 (1.39%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.78%) AngularJS
1 2 (2.78%) Bootstrap
1 2 (2.78%) CSS
1 2 (2.78%) J2EE
1 2 (2.78%) jQuery
1 2 (2.78%) REST
1 2 (2.78%) Sass
1 2 (2.78%) Spring
1 2 (2.78%) Spring MVC
1 2 (2.78%) VML
1 2 (2.78%) Web Services
2 1 (1.39%) ARM Templates
2 1 (1.39%) PyTorch
2 1 (1.39%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 3 (4.17%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (2.78%) Replication
2 2 (2.78%) Video Conferencing
3 1 (1.39%) Data Centre
3 1 (1.39%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 6 (8.33%) Windows
2 2 (2.78%) Linux
2 2 (2.78%) Unix
2 2 (2.78%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (62.50%) ITIL
2 29 (40.28%) Service Delivery
3 27 (37.50%) Service Management
4 13 (18.06%) Project Management
5 11 (15.28%) Stakeholder Management
6 10 (13.89%) Change Management
6 10 (13.89%) Project Delivery
7 9 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
7 9 (12.50%) ITSM
8 8 (11.11%) Agile
8 8 (11.11%) Service Design
9 7 (9.72%) Decision-Making
9 7 (9.72%) Problem Management
9 7 (9.72%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (9.72%) Transition Management
10 6 (8.33%) Business Continuity
10 6 (8.33%) Risk Management
11 5 (6.94%) Cybersecurity
11 5 (6.94%) Knowledge Transfer
11 5 (6.94%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 2 (2.78%) Java
1 2 (2.78%) JavaScript
1 2 (2.78%) Python
2 1 (1.39%) R
2 1 (1.39%) SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 11 (15.28%) SC Cleared
3 9 (12.50%) ITIL Certification
4 4 (5.56%) Degree
5 1 (1.39%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (1.39%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.39%) PMP
5 1 (1.39%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (9.72%) SLA
2 1 (1.39%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.39%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 1 (1.39%) QA
System Software
1 2 (2.78%) Active Directory
1 2 (2.78%) Virtual Servers
2 1 (1.39%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (2.78%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (1.39%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.39%) Terraform
Vendors
1 18 (25.00%) ServiceNow
2 4 (5.56%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.78%) Salesforce
3 2 (2.78%) SAP
3 2 (2.78%) Sun
4 1 (1.39%) Adobe
4 1 (1.39%) BMC
4 1 (1.39%) Freshdesk
4 1 (1.39%) Remedy
4 1 (1.39%) Sitecore
4 1 (1.39%) Zoho