Service Transition Manager Contracts

Service Transition Manager
UK

The median Service Transition Manager daily rate in the UK is £575 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 May 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
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 521 632 663
Rank change year-on-year +111 +31 -77
Contract jobs requiring a Service Transition Manager 70 73 184
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.13% 0.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.13% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 51 141
10th Percentile £450 £406 £406
25th Percentile £508 £460 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £535 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.48% +7.00% +6.67%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £563
90th Percentile £685 £713 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +15.00% +5.26% +5.93%

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 39,936 54,901 83,261
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.75% 94.65% 95.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,997 38,348 58,485
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £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 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,673 1,536 2,031
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.25 £19.06 £15.75
Median hourly rate £36.65 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.56% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.13 £64.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.43 £19.67
% change year-on-year -5.73% +115.78% +3.50%

Service Transition Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Service Transition Manager in the UK

Service Transition Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Service Transition Manager in the UK

Service Transition Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Service Transition Manager over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Service Transition Manager in the UK

Service Transition Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Service Transition Manager in the UK

Service Transition Manager
Top 13 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Service Transition Manager within the UK over the 6 months to 9 May 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 +103 58 £556 +4.95% 10
Work from Home +133 33 £550 +11.39% 2
UK excluding London +43 33 £575 +15.00% 3
London +92 31 £545 -10.10% 6
South East +19 10 £550 +12.82% 1
Scotland - 9 £600 -
South West +14 7 £595 +10.80%
North of England +19 3 £563 +7.14%
Midlands +33 2 £550 +2.42% 2
West Midlands +22 2 £550 +2.42% 2
Yorkshire +15 2 £563 +0.99%
East of England +5 2 £475 -
North West +9 1 - -

Service Transition Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 9 May 2024, Service Transition 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 Transition Manager in the job title.

1 40 (57.14%) ITIL
1 40 (57.14%) Service Management
2 34 (48.57%) Service Design
3 19 (27.14%) Acceptance Criteria
4 15 (21.43%) Social Skills
4 15 (21.43%) SC Cleared
4 15 (21.43%) Security Cleared
5 14 (20.00%) Service Delivery
6 11 (15.71%) Project Delivery
7 8 (11.43%) Onboarding
7 8 (11.43%) Transition Management
8 7 (10.00%) Public Sector
8 7 (10.00%) Knowledge Transfer
8 7 (10.00%) Impact Assessments
8 7 (10.00%) Change Management
8 7 (10.00%) Agile
8 7 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
8 7 (10.00%) Project Management
8 7 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
9 6 (8.57%) Critical Path Analysis
9 6 (8.57%) ITSM
9 6 (8.57%) SAP
9 6 (8.57%) Conflict Resolution
9 6 (8.57%) Work Breakdown Structure
9 6 (8.57%) ServiceNow
10 5 (7.14%) SFIA
10 5 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (7.14%) Risk Management
10 5 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 4 (5.71%) Programme Management

Service Transition 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (2.86%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.43%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (2.86%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (2.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (1.43%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (1.43%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (2.86%) Azure
1 2 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (1.43%) SaaS
2 1 (1.43%) ShareGate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.43%) Geospatial Data
1 1 (1.43%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 3 (4.29%) JIRA
General
1 15 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 7 (10.00%) Public Sector
3 5 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (4.29%) Law
5 2 (2.86%) Finance
5 2 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (2.86%) Retail
5 2 (2.86%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.43%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.43%) Dutch Language
6 1 (1.43%) Electronics
6 1 (1.43%) Legal
6 1 (1.43%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.43%) Marketing
Miscellaneous
1 8 (11.43%) Onboarding
2 2 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.43%) CMDB
3 1 (1.43%) Data Structures
3 1 (1.43%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (57.14%) ITIL
1 40 (57.14%) Service Management
2 34 (48.57%) Service Design
3 19 (27.14%) Acceptance Criteria
4 14 (20.00%) Service Delivery
5 11 (15.71%) Project Delivery
6 8 (11.43%) Transition Management
7 7 (10.00%) Agile
7 7 (10.00%) Change Management
7 7 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 7 (10.00%) Impact Assessments
7 7 (10.00%) Knowledge Transfer
7 7 (10.00%) Project Management
7 7 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
8 6 (8.57%) Conflict Resolution
8 6 (8.57%) Critical Path Analysis
8 6 (8.57%) ITSM
8 6 (8.57%) Work Breakdown Structure
9 5 (7.14%) Risk Management
9 5 (7.14%) SFIA
Qualifications
1 15 (21.43%) SC Cleared
1 15 (21.43%) Security Cleared
2 2 (2.86%) ISEB
2 2 (2.86%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.43%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 2 (2.86%) COBIT
2 2 (2.86%) QA
3 1 (1.43%) ISO 9000
3 1 (1.43%) PMO
Vendors
1 6 (8.57%) SAP
1 6 (8.57%) ServiceNow
2 1 (1.43%) Cadence
2 1 (1.43%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.43%) Remedy