Services Director Contracts

Service Director
UK

The median Service Director daily rate in the UK is £988 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 573 697 823
Rank change year-on-year +124 +126 -168
Contract jobs requiring a Services Director 6 3 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.014% 0.005% 0.042%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.015% 0.005% 0.044%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 30
10th Percentile £659 - £550
25th Percentile £780 £613 £725
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £988 £625 £850
Median % change year-on-year +58.00% -26.47% +9.68%
75th Percentile £1,263 £638 £959
90th Percentile £1,363 - £975
UK excluding London median daily rate £738 £625 £788
% change year-on-year +18.00% -20.63% +57.50%

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 40,413 56,730 84,732
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.61% 95.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,320 39,605 59,435
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 £726
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,653 1,602 2,109
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.28 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.09% +95.65% +0.24%
75th Percentile £60.25 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.50 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £42.37 £19.50
% change year-on-year -10.30% +117.26% +2.47%

Services Director
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Services Director in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Services Director in the UK

Services Director
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Services Director.

Daily rate trend for Services Director in the UK

Services Director
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Services Director over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Services Director in the UK

Services Director
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 Services Director within the UK over the 6 months to 26 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 +117 6 £988 +58.00% 25
London +114 5 £1,000 - 8
Work from Home - 2 £669 - 13
UK excluding London +69 1 £738 +18.00% 15
South East - 1 £738 - 5

Services Director Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, Services Director 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 Services Director in the job title.

1 2 (33.33%) Service Management
1 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (16.67%) Risk Assessment
2 1 (16.67%) Programme Management
2 1 (16.67%) ITIL
2 1 (16.67%) Configuration Management
2 1 (16.67%) Quality Management
2 1 (16.67%) CIPFA
2 1 (16.67%) Service Delivery
2 1 (16.67%) Change Management
2 1 (16.67%) ITSM
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Legal
2 1 (16.67%) Incident Management
2 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (16.67%) Marketing
2 1 (16.67%) Release Management
2 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) IT Strategy
2 1 (16.67%) Data Strategy
2 1 (16.67%) Customer-Centricity
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Operations
2 1 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (16.67%) Housing Association
2 1 (16.67%) Business Case
2 1 (16.67%) Major Incident Management
2 1 (16.67%) Technology Strategy
2 1 (16.67%) Customer Experience
2 1 (16.67%) Customer Service

Services Director 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:

General
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
1 1 (16.67%) Legal
1 1 (16.67%) Marketing
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Housing Association
1 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
1 1 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Service Management
1 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (16.67%) Business Case
2 1 (16.67%) Change Management
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Operations
2 1 (16.67%) Configuration Management
2 1 (16.67%) Customer-Centricity
2 1 (16.67%) Data Strategy
2 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (16.67%) Incident Management
2 1 (16.67%) IT Strategy
2 1 (16.67%) ITIL
2 1 (16.67%) ITSM
2 1 (16.67%) Major Incident Management
2 1 (16.67%) Programme Management
2 1 (16.67%) Quality Management
2 1 (16.67%) Release Management
2 1 (16.67%) Risk Assessment
2 1 (16.67%) Service Delivery
2 1 (16.67%) Technology Strategy
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) CIPFA
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared