Service Management Architect Contracts

Service Management Architect
UK

The median Service Management Architect daily rate in the UK is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 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
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 513 594 706
Rank change year-on-year +81 +112 +141
Contract jobs requiring a Service Management Architect 7 4 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.024% 0.009% 0.010%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.026% 0.010% 0.011%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 4
10th Percentile £536 - £556
25th Percentile £553 - £584
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - £650
Median % change year-on-year - - -13.33%
75th Percentile £638 - £750
90th Percentile £728 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £775 - £700

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 27,138 40,367 56,304
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.49% 92.78% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,714 26,265 39,350
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.55% -1.50% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,034 2,668 1,565
10th Percentile £14.06 £12.86 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.40
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.02 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.49% -19.95% +91.49%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.50 £42.43
% change year-on-year -29.11% -6.91% +117.60%

Service Management Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Service Management Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Service Management Architect in the UK

Service Management Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Service Management Architect.

Daily rate trend for Service Management Architect in the UK

Service Management Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Service Management Architect over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Service Management Architect in the UK

Service Management Architect
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Service Management Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 2 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
England +58 7 £575 -
London +44 6 £575 -
North West - 1 £775 -
UK excluding London - 1 £775 -
North of England - 1 £775 -

Service Management Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 2 May 2025, Service Management Architect 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 featuring Service Management Architect in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) ITIL
1 7 (100.00%) Service Management
2 6 (85.71%) ITSM
3 5 (71.43%) ServiceNow
4 4 (57.14%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (28.57%) Enterprise Architecture
5 2 (28.57%) BMC
5 2 (28.57%) SLA
5 2 (28.57%) Service Delivery
5 2 (28.57%) Blog
5 2 (28.57%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 2 (28.57%) Azure
5 2 (28.57%) AWS
5 2 (28.57%) Service Design
5 2 (28.57%) Decision-Making
5 2 (28.57%) IT Strategy
5 2 (28.57%) Strategic Roadmap
5 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
5 2 (28.57%) Technology Strategy
5 2 (28.57%) Roadmaps
5 2 (28.57%) Service Catalogue
6 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
6 1 (14.29%) Customer Service
6 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
6 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
6 1 (14.29%) Observability
6 1 (14.29%) Master's Degree
6 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 1 (14.29%) Service-Level Objective

Service Management Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) AWS
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) GitLab
1 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Blog
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
2 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) ITIL
1 7 (100.00%) Service Management
2 6 (85.71%) ITSM
3 4 (57.14%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (28.57%) Decision-Making
4 2 (28.57%) Enterprise Architecture
4 2 (28.57%) IT Strategy
4 2 (28.57%) Roadmaps
4 2 (28.57%) Service Catalogue
4 2 (28.57%) Service Delivery
4 2 (28.57%) Service Design
4 2 (28.57%) Strategic Roadmap
4 2 (28.57%) Technology Strategy
5 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
5 1 (14.29%) Customer Service
5 1 (14.29%) Data Modelling
5 1 (14.29%) Observability
5 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (14.29%) Service-Level Objective
5 1 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
1 1 (14.29%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (14.29%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) ISO/IEC 20000
1 2 (28.57%) SLA
2 1 (14.29%) COBIT
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Ansible
1 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
1 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) ServiceNow
2 2 (28.57%) BMC
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 1 (14.29%) Remedy