Senior Service Manager Contracts in the UK excluding London

Senior Service Manager
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior Service Manager daily rate in the UK excluding London is £577, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 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
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 317 400 433
Rank change year-on-year +83 +33 +68
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Service Manager 17 3 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.13% 0.015% 0.096%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.016% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 18
10th Percentile £468 - £408
25th Percentile £523 - £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £577 £500 £501
Median % change year-on-year +15.40% -0.10% -21.49%
75th Percentile £634 - £624
90th Percentile £669 - £661
UK median daily rate £540 £502 £538
% change year-on-year +7.50% -6.63% -10.42%

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 11,776 19,130 22,540
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.12% 92.57% 94.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,547 11,679 15,813
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £598 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 842 2,253 1,158
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.66 £15.75 £18.01
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.37
Median % change year-on-year -29.22% -6.64% +117.03%
75th Percentile £64.50 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £28.88 £36.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.89% -18.89% +91.49%

Senior Service Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Service Manager in the UK excluding London

Senior Service Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Service Manager in the UK excluding London

Senior Service Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Service Manager in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Service Manager in the UK excluding London

Senior Service 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 Senior Service Manager within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 4 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
South East - 8 £525 - 13
North of England +21 7 £600 +20.00% 8
North West - 6 £600 - 3
Yorkshire +9 1 - - 5
South West - 1 £554 - 1
Scotland - 1 - - 3
Senior Service Manager
UK

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

For the 6 months to 4 May 2025, Senior 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 UK excluding London region featuring Senior Service Manager in the job title.

1 8 (47.06%) Security Cleared
2 7 (41.18%) SC Cleared
3 6 (35.29%) Azure
3 6 (35.29%) Cybersecurity
3 6 (35.29%) SharePoint
3 6 (35.29%) Firewall
3 6 (35.29%) Penetration Testing
3 6 (35.29%) Contract Management
4 5 (29.41%) Security Monitoring
4 5 (29.41%) Power Platform
4 5 (29.41%) Public Sector
4 5 (29.41%) Case Management
4 5 (29.41%) VPN
4 5 (29.41%) Business Intelligence
4 5 (29.41%) Microsoft
4 5 (29.41%) Internet
4 5 (29.41%) Disaster Recovery
4 5 (29.41%) Power BI
4 5 (29.41%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (29.41%) Video Conferencing
4 5 (29.41%) Network Security
5 4 (23.53%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (23.53%) Analytics
5 4 (23.53%) Antivirus Management
6 3 (17.65%) Server Management
6 3 (17.65%) Storage Management
6 3 (17.65%) Social Skills
6 3 (17.65%) IT Strategy
6 3 (17.65%) Service Management
6 3 (17.65%) ITIL

Senior Service 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 6 (35.29%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 6 (35.29%) Azure
2 5 (29.41%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (29.41%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 6 (35.29%) Firewall
2 5 (29.41%) Internet
2 5 (29.41%) Network Security
2 5 (29.41%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (29.41%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) JIRA
General
1 5 (29.41%) Public Sector
2 3 (17.65%) Social Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Finance
3 2 (11.76%) Military
4 1 (5.88%) Aviation
4 1 (5.88%) Banking
4 1 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
Miscellaneous
1 5 (29.41%) Video Conferencing
2 1 (5.88%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (35.29%) Contract Management
1 6 (35.29%) Cybersecurity
1 6 (35.29%) Penetration Testing
2 5 (29.41%) Business Intelligence
2 5 (29.41%) Case Management
2 5 (29.41%) Disaster Recovery
2 5 (29.41%) Security Monitoring
3 4 (23.53%) Analytics
3 4 (23.53%) Antivirus Management
4 3 (17.65%) IT Strategy
4 3 (17.65%) ITIL
4 3 (17.65%) Server Management
4 3 (17.65%) Service Management
4 3 (17.65%) Storage Management
5 2 (11.76%) Business Forecasting
5 2 (11.76%) Change Management
5 2 (11.76%) Design for Test
5 2 (11.76%) ITSM
5 2 (11.76%) Project Management
5 2 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 8 (47.06%) Security Cleared
2 7 (41.18%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.88%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 20000
1 1 (5.88%) QA
1 1 (5.88%) SLA
Systems Management
1 4 (23.53%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (5.88%) SCSM
Vendors
1 5 (29.41%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.88%) Remedy
2 1 (5.88%) ServiceNow
2 1 (5.88%) SolarWinds