Service Management Manager Contracts

Service Management Manager
UK

The median Service Management Manager daily rate in the UK is £450 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 582 714 806
Rank change year-on-year +132 +92 -130
Contract jobs requiring a Service Management Manager 4 8 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.009% 0.013% 0.028%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.010% 0.014% 0.030%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 23
10th Percentile £296 £452 £315
25th Percentile £347 £470 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -9.09% +52.78%
75th Percentile £503 £663 £613
90th Percentile £508 £760 £664
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £440 £550
% change year-on-year +13.64% -20.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £28.75
Median hourly rate - - £29.50
75th Percentile - - £30.25
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 40,482 56,783 84,604
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.58% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,407 39,621 59,331
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,642 1,607 2,111
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.28 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.45 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.68 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.71% +95.65% +1.41%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.60 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.63%

Service Management Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Service Management Manager in the UK

Service Management Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Service Management Manager in the UK

Service Management Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Service Management Manager over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Service Management Manager in the UK

Service Management Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Service Management Manager.

Hourly rate trend for Service Management Manager in the UK

Service Management Manager
Top 6 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 Manager within the UK over the 6 months to 25 April 2024. 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 +115 3 £500 - 4
London +101 2 £391 -39.81% 2
Work from Home +123 1 £400 -20.00% 2
UK excluding London +70 1 £500 +13.64% 1
North of England +33 1 £500 +13.64% 1
North West +16 1 £500 +13.64%

Service Management Manager Skill Set
Top 24 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, Service Management 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 featuring Service Management Manager in the job title.

1 2 (50.00%) Agile
1 2 (50.00%) ITIL
1 2 (50.00%) Service Management
1 2 (50.00%) Change Management
1 2 (50.00%) ITSM
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (25.00%) Remedy
2 1 (25.00%) Asset Management
2 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (25.00%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Service Continuity Management
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Metrics
2 1 (25.00%) Power BI

Service Management Manager 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 (25.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Power BI
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
1 2 (50.00%) Change Management
1 2 (50.00%) ITIL
1 2 (50.00%) ITSM
1 2 (50.00%) Service Management
2 1 (25.00%) Asset Management
2 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Metrics
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Service Continuity Management
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Remedy