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 24 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
24 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 492 627 644
Rank change year-on-year +135 +17 -47
Contract jobs requiring a Service Transition Manager 77 68 189
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.18% 0.12% 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.13% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 47 145
10th Percentile £451 £392 £406
25th Percentile £508 £460 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £508
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% +3.45% +9.73%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £575
90th Percentile £690 £660 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +15.00% - +11.61%

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 39,539 53,460 83,539
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.80% 94.63% 95.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,741 37,320 58,759
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% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +11.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,737 1,489 2,014
10th Percentile £12.82 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.90
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +87.50% +6.90%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.99 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

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 24 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 14 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 24 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 +101 64 £550 +7.32% 19
UK excluding London +47 38 £575 +15.00% 8
Work from Home +130 36 £545 +10.38% 10
London +102 34 £539 +2.67% 12
South East +10 12 £569 +16.67% 3
Scotland - 9 £600 -
South West +17 7 £595 +10.80%
Midlands +31 5 £525 -1.87% 4
West Midlands +17 4 £516 -3.50% 3
North of England +28 3 £563 +6.13% 1
Yorkshire +13 2 £563 +4.36% 1
East of England +8 2 £475 -
North West +26 1 - -
East Midlands +19 1 £525 -2.23% 1

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

For the 6 months to 24 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 48 (62.34%) ITIL
2 45 (58.44%) Service Management
3 33 (42.86%) Service Design
4 21 (27.27%) Acceptance Criteria
5 19 (24.68%) Social Skills
5 19 (24.68%) Security Cleared
6 18 (23.38%) SC Cleared
7 14 (18.18%) Service Delivery
8 12 (15.58%) Project Delivery
9 9 (11.69%) Project Management
10 8 (10.39%) Stakeholder Management
10 8 (10.39%) Transition Management
10 8 (10.39%) Onboarding
10 8 (10.39%) Public Sector
11 7 (9.09%) Knowledge Transfer
11 7 (9.09%) Agile
11 7 (9.09%) ITIL Certification
11 7 (9.09%) Change Management
11 7 (9.09%) ITSM
11 7 (9.09%) Risk Management
12 6 (7.79%) SAP
12 6 (7.79%) Critical Path Analysis
12 6 (7.79%) Impact Assessments
12 6 (7.79%) Conflict Resolution
12 6 (7.79%) Work Breakdown Structure
12 6 (7.79%) Continuous Improvement
13 5 (6.49%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 5 (6.49%) ServiceNow
13 5 (6.49%) SFIA
13 5 (6.49%) Inclusion and Diversity

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 1 (1.30%) Confluence
1 1 (1.30%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.60%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (2.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (1.30%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 3 (3.90%) Azure
2 2 (2.60%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (2.60%) SaaS
3 1 (1.30%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.30%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 3 (3.90%) JIRA
General
1 19 (24.68%) Social Skills
2 8 (10.39%) Public Sector
3 5 (6.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (5.19%) Law
5 3 (3.90%) Finance
6 2 (2.60%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (2.60%) Retail
6 2 (2.60%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.30%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.30%) Dutch Language
7 1 (1.30%) Electronics
7 1 (1.30%) Legal
7 1 (1.30%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.30%) Marketing
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.39%) Onboarding
2 2 (2.60%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.30%) CMDB
3 1 (1.30%) Data Centre
3 1 (1.30%) Data Structures
3 1 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.30%) Mainframe
3 1 (1.30%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.30%) NHS
3 1 (1.30%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (62.34%) ITIL
2 45 (58.44%) Service Management
3 33 (42.86%) Service Design
4 21 (27.27%) Acceptance Criteria
5 14 (18.18%) Service Delivery
6 12 (15.58%) Project Delivery
7 9 (11.69%) Project Management
8 8 (10.39%) Stakeholder Management
8 8 (10.39%) Transition Management
9 7 (9.09%) Agile
9 7 (9.09%) Change Management
9 7 (9.09%) ITSM
9 7 (9.09%) Knowledge Transfer
9 7 (9.09%) Risk Management
10 6 (7.79%) Conflict Resolution
10 6 (7.79%) Continuous Improvement
10 6 (7.79%) Critical Path Analysis
10 6 (7.79%) Impact Assessments
10 6 (7.79%) Work Breakdown Structure
11 5 (6.49%) SFIA
Qualifications
1 19 (24.68%) Security Cleared
2 18 (23.38%) SC Cleared
3 7 (9.09%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (2.60%) DV Cleared
4 2 (2.60%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.49%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 2 (2.60%) COBIT
2 2 (2.60%) QA
3 1 (1.30%) ISO 9000
3 1 (1.30%) PMO
Vendors
1 6 (7.79%) SAP
2 5 (6.49%) ServiceNow
3 1 (1.30%) Cadence
3 1 (1.30%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.30%) Netskope
3 1 (1.30%) Remedy