Service Manager Contracts in South Yorkshire

Services Manager
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The median Services Manager daily rate in South Yorkshire is £279, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 28 August 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
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 56 46
Rank change year-on-year -13 -10 +21
DemandTrendContract jobs requiring a Service Manager 4 4 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 0.63% 0.87% 1.98%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.70% 1.00% 2.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 6
10th Percentile £258 £404 £419
25th Percentile £271 £431 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £279 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -41.26% +5.56% -10.00%
75th Percentile £280 - £780
90th Percentile - - £888
Yorkshire median daily rate £340 £475 £550
% change year-on-year -28.42% -13.64% +15.79%

All DemandTrendContract IT Job Vacancies
South Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in South Yorkshire. 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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies in South Yorkshire with a recognized job title 574 402 429
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.11% 87.01% 94.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 390 237 284
10th Percentile £280 £250 £277
25th Percentile £364 £425 £437
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £514 £568
Median % change year-on-year -12.45% -9.51% +13.60%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £675
90th Percentile £607 £626 £743
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 7
10th Percentile £15.55 £15.88 £11.77
25th Percentile £18.10 £20.13 £15.27
Median hourly rate £18.21 £21.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.31% +5.00% +11.89%
75th Percentile £18.50 £21.88 £27.00
90th Percentile £18.51 £22.00 £38.75
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £20.87 £20.25
% change year-on-year +6.09% +3.06% +6.58%

Service Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Service Manager in South Yorkshire

Service Manager
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Service Manager job vacancies in South Yorkshire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Service Manager job vacancies in South Yorkshire

Service Manager
Hourly Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Service Manager job vacancies in South Yorkshire.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Service Manager job vacancies in South Yorkshire

Service Manager
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 28 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Sheffield -14 4 £279 -41.26% 3
Service Manager
Yorkshire

Service Manager Skill Set
Top 20 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire

For the 6 months to 28 August 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 South Yorkshire region featuring Service Manager in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Change Management
1 4 (100.00%) Banking
1 4 (100.00%) Google
1 4 (100.00%) JIRA
1 4 (100.00%) QA
1 4 (100.00%) Mule
1 4 (100.00%) GitHub
1 4 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 4 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) Microservices
1 4 (100.00%) GCP
1 4 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 4 (100.00%) Sonatype Nexus
1 4 (100.00%) Availability Management
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) Distributed Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Onboarding
2 3 (75.00%) ITIL

Service Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 4 (100.00%) Mule
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) GCP
1 4 (100.00%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 4 (100.00%) JIRA
1 4 (100.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (100.00%) Banking
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Distributed Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
1 4 (100.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Availability Management
1 4 (100.00%) Change Management
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) Microservices
2 3 (75.00%) ITIL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Google