IT Services Manager Contracts in the UK excluding London

IT Service Manager
UK > UK excluding London

The median IT Service Manager daily rate in the UK excluding London is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 24 June 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
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 324 365 393
Rank change year-on-year +41 +28 +22
Contract jobs requiring an IT Services Manager 33 40 50
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.24% 0.19% 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 0.20% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 11 38
10th Percentile £400 £325 £350
25th Percentile £463 £489 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £440
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +30.68% -15.79%
75th Percentile £575 £613 £547
90th Percentile £615 £625 £590
UK median daily rate £510 £575 £500
% change year-on-year -11.30% +15.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
Median hourly rate £70.00 £22.56 -
Median % change year-on-year +210.28% - -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £22.56 £57.50
% change year-on-year +210.28% -60.77% +144.68%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 12,381 19,636 21,542
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.37% 92.47% 94.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,743 11,699 14,909
10th Percentile £220 £213 £231
25th Percentile £363 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +1.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 969 2,517 1,118
10th Percentile £13.49 £12.56 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.84 £15.96 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% - +100.00%
75th Percentile £58.58 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.44 £75.50
UK median hourly rate £27.36 £37.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year -27.03% -12.79% +72.00%

IT Services Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Services Manager in the UK excluding London

IT Services Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IT Services Manager in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for IT Services Manager in the UK excluding London

IT Services Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IT Services Manager in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 24 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IT Services Manager in the UK excluding London

IT Services Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IT Services Manager in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for IT Services Manager in the UK excluding London

IT Services Manager
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IT Services Manager within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 24 June 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
South East +56 11 £500 -1.53% 10
North of England +30 7 £550 +25.71% 22
North West +10 5 £550 +25.71% 8
West Midlands +7 5 £483 -17.87% 3
Midlands +2 5 £483 -17.87% 4
East of England - 4 £500 - 3
Scotland +3 3 £513 - 4
South West +24 2 £330 -44.61% 7
Yorkshire +4 2 £625 - 12
Wales +5 1 £488 +200.00% 1
IT Services Manager
UK

IT Services Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 24 June 2025, IT Services 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 UK excluding London region featuring IT Services Manager in the job title.

1 20 (60.61%) ITIL
2 15 (45.45%) Service Delivery
3 14 (42.42%) Service Management
4 10 (30.30%) Security Cleared
4 10 (30.30%) Public Sector
5 9 (27.27%) Contract Management
5 9 (27.27%) Azure
5 9 (27.27%) SC Cleared
5 9 (27.27%) Continuous Improvement
5 9 (27.27%) Cybersecurity
5 9 (27.27%) SharePoint
5 9 (27.27%) Disaster Recovery
6 8 (24.24%) Firewall
6 8 (24.24%) ITSM
6 8 (24.24%) Microsoft
6 8 (24.24%) Penetration Testing
6 8 (24.24%) Analytics
6 8 (24.24%) ServiceNow
6 8 (24.24%) Microsoft 365
6 8 (24.24%) Social Skills
7 7 (21.21%) Security Monitoring
7 7 (21.21%) Power BI
7 7 (21.21%) Power Platform
7 7 (21.21%) Video Conferencing
7 7 (21.21%) Case Management
7 7 (21.21%) Incident Management
7 7 (21.21%) Internet
7 7 (21.21%) VPN
7 7 (21.21%) Business Intelligence
7 7 (21.21%) Change Management

IT Services Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 9 (27.27%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.03%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Chatbot
1 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (6.06%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 9 (27.27%) Azure
2 8 (24.24%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (21.21%) Power Platform
4 1 (3.03%) Asana
4 1 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 8 (24.24%) Firewall
2 7 (21.21%) Internet
2 7 (21.21%) VPN
3 6 (18.18%) Network Security
4 2 (6.06%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (21.21%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (3.03%) JIRA
General
1 10 (30.30%) Public Sector
2 8 (24.24%) Social Skills
3 4 (12.12%) Finance
3 4 (12.12%) Military
4 2 (6.06%) Back Office
4 2 (6.06%) Billing
4 2 (6.06%) Legal
4 2 (6.06%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.03%) Banking
5 1 (3.03%) Fire and Rescue
5 1 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.03%) Law
5 1 (3.03%) Police
Miscellaneous
1 7 (21.21%) Video Conferencing
2 1 (3.03%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (60.61%) ITIL
2 15 (45.45%) Service Delivery
3 14 (42.42%) Service Management
4 9 (27.27%) Continuous Improvement
4 9 (27.27%) Contract Management
4 9 (27.27%) Cybersecurity
4 9 (27.27%) Disaster Recovery
5 8 (24.24%) Analytics
5 8 (24.24%) ITSM
5 8 (24.24%) Penetration Testing
6 7 (21.21%) Business Intelligence
6 7 (21.21%) Case Management
6 7 (21.21%) Change Management
6 7 (21.21%) Incident Management
6 7 (21.21%) Security Monitoring
7 6 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
8 5 (15.15%) Antivirus Management
8 5 (15.15%) Problem Management
8 5 (15.15%) Risk Management
8 5 (15.15%) Server Management
Qualifications
1 10 (30.30%) Security Cleared
2 9 (27.27%) SC Cleared
3 6 (18.18%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (6.06%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.09%) SLA
2 2 (6.06%) ISO 22301
2 2 (6.06%) ISO 31000
2 2 (6.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (3.03%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (3.03%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (18.18%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 8 (24.24%) Microsoft
1 8 (24.24%) ServiceNow
2 3 (9.09%) BMC
3 2 (6.06%) Remedy
4 1 (3.03%) Atlassian
4 1 (3.03%) Foundry