Service Manager Contracts in the North of England

Services Manager
England > North of England

The median Services Manager daily rate in the North of England is £425, 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 142 156 145
Rank change year-on-year +14 -11 -7
Contract jobs requiring a Service Manager 24 29 75
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.73% 0.61% 1.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.78% 0.65% 1.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 20 62
10th Percentile £400 £363 £329
25th Percentile £406 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £484 £500
Median % change year-on-year -12.19% -3.20% +11.11%
75th Percentile £528 £500 £588
90th Percentile £575 £552 £649
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North of 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 the North of England with a recognized job title 3,078 4,441 5,553
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.41% 93.14% 95.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,038 2,789 3,920
10th Percentile £230 £263 £285
25th Percentile £364 £385 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.29% -4.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £580 £600
90th Percentile £646 £673 £680
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 394 162
10th Percentile £12.86 £11.02 £13.96
25th Percentile £16.16 £12.53 £18.82
Median hourly rate £24.50 £19.34 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year +26.68% -36.67% +65.08%
75th Percentile £49.38 £45.97 £49.40
90th Percentile £80.22 £60.00 £65.68
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Service Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Service Manager in the North of England

Service Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Service Manager in the North of England

Service Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Service Manager in the North of England

Service Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Service Manager in the North of England

Service Manager
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of 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
North West +12 12 £525 +6.49% 29
Yorkshire +9 12 £425 -10.53% 24
Service Manager
England

Service Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 North of England region featuring Service Manager in the job title.

1 13 (54.17%) ITIL
2 12 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 11 (45.83%) Service Management
3 11 (45.83%) ServiceNow
4 8 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
5 6 (25.00%) Service Delivery
5 6 (25.00%) SIAM
6 5 (20.83%) Customer Service
6 5 (20.83%) IT Strategy
7 4 (16.67%) Banking
7 4 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
7 4 (16.67%) ITSM
7 4 (16.67%) Finance
7 4 (16.67%) Project Management
7 4 (16.67%) Problem Management
7 4 (16.67%) Incident Management
7 4 (16.67%) Social Skills
8 3 (12.50%) Business Strategy
8 3 (12.50%) Service Design
8 3 (12.50%) Supplier Management
8 3 (12.50%) SC Cleared
8 3 (12.50%) Security Cleared
8 3 (12.50%) ITIL Certification
8 3 (12.50%) Risk Management
8 3 (12.50%) Change Management
8 3 (12.50%) Agile
9 2 (8.33%) Programme Management
9 2 (8.33%) TOWER Software
9 2 (8.33%) Management Information System
9 2 (8.33%) Transition Management

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

Cloud Services
1 2 (8.33%) Azure
2 1 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
Development Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Bugzilla
1 1 (4.17%) Git
1 1 (4.17%) Jenkins
1 1 (4.17%) JIRA
1 1 (4.17%) Selenium
1 1 (4.17%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 4 (16.67%) Banking
1 4 (16.67%) Finance
1 4 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.33%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.17%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.17%) Windows
1 1 (4.17%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (54.17%) ITIL
2 12 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 11 (45.83%) Service Management
4 8 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
5 6 (25.00%) Service Delivery
5 6 (25.00%) SIAM
6 5 (20.83%) Customer Service
6 5 (20.83%) IT Strategy
7 4 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
7 4 (16.67%) Incident Management
7 4 (16.67%) ITSM
7 4 (16.67%) Problem Management
7 4 (16.67%) Project Management
8 3 (12.50%) Agile
8 3 (12.50%) Business Strategy
8 3 (12.50%) Change Management
8 3 (12.50%) Risk Management
8 3 (12.50%) Service Design
8 3 (12.50%) Supplier Management
9 2 (8.33%) Scorecard
Qualifications
1 3 (12.50%) ITIL Certification
1 3 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 3 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.33%) ISO 22301
1 2 (8.33%) ISO 31000
1 2 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.17%) PMO
2 1 (4.17%) QA
Vendors
1 11 (45.83%) ServiceNow
2 2 (8.33%) TOWER Software
3 1 (4.17%) BMC
3 1 (4.17%) Microsoft