Service Management Architect Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Service Management Architect
North West > Manchester

The median Service Management Architect daily rate in Manchester is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 February 2026.

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

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Service Management Architect 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.48% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.52% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £563 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - -
75th Percentile £681 - -
90th Percentile £738 - -
North West median daily rate £575 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Manchester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Manchester. 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 Manchester with a recognized job title 1,147 971 1,525
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.20% 93.73% 93.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 769 610 1,099
10th Percentile £311 £313 £306
25th Percentile £381 £400 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £480
Median % change year-on-year - -6.25% -3.52%
75th Percentile £550 £555 £575
90th Percentile £638 £675 £669
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 31 78
10th Percentile £18.26 £15.90 £12.00
25th Percentile £21.46 £20.25 £13.36
Median hourly rate £36.50 £32.50 £19.75
Median % change year-on-year +12.31% +64.56% -51.23%
75th Percentile £59.06 £33.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £60.00 £73.75
North West median hourly rate £41.94 £29.52 £28.65
% change year-on-year +42.10% +3.02% +10.19%

Service Management Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Service Management Architect' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Service Management Architect job vacancy trend in Manchester

Service Management Architect
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Service Management Architect job vacancies in Manchester.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Service Management Architect job vacancies in Manchester

Service Management Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Service Management Architect in Manchester over the 6 months to 2 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Service Management Architect in Manchester

Service Management Architect
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Service Management Architect within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 2 February 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
Salford - 3 £663 - 1
Service Management Architect
North West

Service Management Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester

For the 6 months to 2 February 2026, Service Management Architect 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 Manchester region featuring Service Management Architect in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Service Management
2 5 (83.33%) Enterprise Architecture
2 5 (83.33%) ITSM
3 4 (66.67%) BMC
4 3 (50.00%) Configuration Management
4 3 (50.00%) Data Modelling
4 3 (50.00%) ITIL
4 3 (50.00%) ServiceNow
4 3 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (33.33%) Architecture Governance
5 2 (33.33%) Architecture Roadmap
5 2 (33.33%) Data Quality
5 2 (33.33%) Decision-Making
5 2 (33.33%) Dynatrace
5 2 (33.33%) ETL
5 2 (33.33%) GAP Analysis
5 2 (33.33%) Integration Patterns
5 2 (33.33%) Knowledge Transfer
5 2 (33.33%) Middleware
5 2 (33.33%) Network Monitoring
5 2 (33.33%) Observability
5 2 (33.33%) PaaS
5 2 (33.33%) Risk Management
5 2 (33.33%) Roadmaps
5 2 (33.33%) SaaS
5 2 (33.33%) SCCM
5 2 (33.33%) SolarWinds
5 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (33.33%) Workflow
6 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering

Service Management Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 2 (33.33%) PaaS
1 2 (33.33%) SaaS
General
1 6 (100.00%) Retail
2 2 (33.33%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 5 (83.33%) CMDB
2 3 (50.00%) Taxonomies
3 2 (33.33%) Data Centre
3 2 (33.33%) Data Structures
3 2 (33.33%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Service Management
2 5 (83.33%) Enterprise Architecture
2 5 (83.33%) ITSM
3 3 (50.00%) Configuration Management
3 3 (50.00%) Data Modelling
3 3 (50.00%) ITIL
3 3 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (33.33%) Architecture Governance
4 2 (33.33%) Architecture Roadmap
4 2 (33.33%) Decision-Making
4 2 (33.33%) ETL
4 2 (33.33%) GAP Analysis
4 2 (33.33%) Integration Patterns
4 2 (33.33%) Knowledge Transfer
4 2 (33.33%) Network Monitoring
4 2 (33.33%) Observability
4 2 (33.33%) Risk Management
4 2 (33.33%) Roadmaps
4 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (33.33%) Workflow
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) BMC
2 3 (50.00%) ServiceNow
3 2 (33.33%) Dynatrace
3 2 (33.33%) SolarWinds