Service Management Consultant Contracts in the UK excluding London

Service Management Consultant
UK > UK excluding London

The median Service Management Consultant daily rate in the UK excluding London is £564, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 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
12 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 367 371 434
Rank change year-on-year +4 +63 +79
Contract jobs requiring a Service Management Consultant 2 8 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.013% 0.044% 0.014%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.014% 0.047% 0.014%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 7 3
10th Percentile £543 £272 £305
25th Percentile £547 £391 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £564 £540 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.40% +8.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £582 £565 £613
90th Percentile £585 £590 £680
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £500
% change year-on-year -2.78% +8.00% -4.76%

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 13,827 16,847 21,004
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.27% 92.05% 94.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,465 10,270 14,211
10th Percentile £217 £220 £225
25th Percentile £363 £375 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +1.01%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £682 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -0.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,221 1,735 1,150
10th Percentile £13.27 £14.05 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.32 £19.05 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.08 £45.00 £35.25
Median % change year-on-year -44.28% +27.66% +65.88%
75th Percentile £53.99 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £77.05
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £41.80
% change year-on-year -41.51% +2.87% +62.77%

Service Management Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Service Management Consultant in the UK excluding London

Service Management Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Service Management Consultant in the UK excluding London

Service Management Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Service Management Consultant in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Service Management Consultant in the UK excluding London

Service Management Consultant
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 Service Management Consultant within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South West +30 1 £553 +2.31% 1
North West -4 1 £575 +15.00% 1
North of England -18 1 £575 -2.54% 1
Service Management Consultant
UK

Service Management Consultant Skill Set
Top 25 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 12 August 2025, Service Management Consultant 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 Service Management Consultant in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) BMC
1 2 (100.00%) Remedy
1 2 (100.00%) Service Management
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 2 (100.00%) ServiceNow
1 2 (100.00%) Remedy ITSM
1 2 (100.00%) ITSM
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Business Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) APMP
2 1 (50.00%) Service Design
2 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Technology Transformation
2 1 (50.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (50.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) PRINCE2
2 1 (50.00%) MS Visio
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft

Service Management Consultant 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:

Applications
1 1 (50.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Remedy ITSM
General
1 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Influencing Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) ITSM
1 2 (100.00%) Service Management
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Business Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) PRINCE2
2 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Service Design
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Technology Transformation
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) APMP
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) BMC
1 2 (100.00%) Remedy
1 2 (100.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft