Technical Services Manager Contract Job Trends in London

Technical Service Manager
England > London

The median Technical Service Manager daily rate in London is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 25 September 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 461 368 396
Rank change year-on-year -93 +28 +36
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Services Manager 4 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.020% 0.007% 0.006%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.021% 0.008% 0.007%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 1
10th Percentile £434 - -
25th Percentile £478 £438 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £650
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -30.77% -7.14%
75th Percentile £603 £463 £675
90th Percentile £635 - -
England median daily rate £560 £588 £525
% change year-on-year -4.68% +11.90% -20.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £29.00 - -
Median hourly rate £30.00 - -
75th Percentile £31.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £57.00 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 18,955 12,495 15,322
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.26% 92.75% 93.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,258 8,366 10,136
10th Percentile £360 £331 £342
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% -0.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £656 £670 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 402 205 181
10th Percentile £17.13 £17.00 £17.50
25th Percentile £21.93 £22.90 £23.80
Median hourly rate £40.00 £28.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.35% -18.57% -3.50%
75th Percentile £63.75 £49.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £81.25 £65.34 £75.00
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £46.18
% change year-on-year +68.99% -45.54% +2.62%

Technical Services Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Technical Services Manager' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Technical Services Manager job vacancy trend in London

Technical Services Manager
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Technical Services Manager job vacancies in London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Technical Services Manager job vacancies in London

Technical Services Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Services Manager in London over the 6 months to 25 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Services Manager in London

Technical Services Manager
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Technical Services Manager job vacancies in London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Technical Services Manager job vacancies in London

Technical Services 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 Technical Services Manager within the London region over the 6 months to 25 September 2026. 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 £410 - 2
Technical Services Manager
England

Technical Services Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 25 September 2026, Technical Services Manager contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring Technical Services Manager in the job title.

1 3 (75.00%) ITIL
1 3 (75.00%) ITSM
1 3 (75.00%) Service Delivery
1 3 (75.00%) Service Management
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Change Management
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (50.00%) PMI Certification
2 2 (50.00%) PMP
2 2 (50.00%) PRINCE2
2 2 (50.00%) Project Management
2 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (25.00%) AI
3 1 (25.00%) Analytical Thinking
3 1 (25.00%) AWS
3 1 (25.00%) Azure
3 1 (25.00%) Backlog Refinement
3 1 (25.00%) Big Data
3 1 (25.00%) Budget Management
3 1 (25.00%) Budgeting and Forecasting
3 1 (25.00%) Business Case
3 1 (25.00%) Change Advisory Board
3 1 (25.00%) Data Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (25.00%) JIRA
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Observability
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving

Technical Services Manager Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) CMDB
1 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) ITIL
1 3 (75.00%) ITSM
1 3 (75.00%) Service Delivery
1 3 (75.00%) Service Management
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Change Management
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (50.00%) PRINCE2
2 2 (50.00%) Project Management
2 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (25.00%) AI
3 1 (25.00%) Analytical Thinking
3 1 (25.00%) Budgeting and Forecasting
3 1 (25.00%) Data Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Re-Platforming
3 1 (25.00%) Resource Management
3 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 1 (25.00%) Waterfall
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) PMI Certification
1 2 (50.00%) PMP
2 1 (25.00%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) SLA
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow
1 1 (25.00%) VMware