Technical Services Manager Contracts

Technical Service Manager
UK

The median Technical Service Manager daily rate in the UK is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 July 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
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 535 585 674
Rank change year-on-year +50 +89 +178
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Services Manager 4 5 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.013% 0.012% 0.020%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.014% 0.012% 0.021%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 6
10th Percentile £410 £411 £400
25th Percentile £425 £412 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £513 £594
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% -13.68% -1.04%
75th Percentile - £638 £775
90th Percentile - £660 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate - £423 £618
% change year-on-year - -31.58% +17.06%

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 28,823 40,432 52,711
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.00% 93.00% 94.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,389 25,993 36,631
10th Percentile £288 £285 £313
25th Percentile £401 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +1.42%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £494 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% -1.20% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,297 2,846 1,533
10th Percentile £13.85 £12.86 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.44 £16.65 £19.00
Median hourly rate £26.50 £37.50 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -29.33% -12.79% +68.63%
75th Percentile £55.25 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.45 £74.00 £76.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -37.13% - +96.08%

Technical Services Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Services Manager in the UK

Technical Services Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Services Manager in the UK

Technical Services Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Technical Services Manager.

Hourly rate trend for Technical Services Manager in the UK

Technical Services Manager
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Services Manager within the UK over the 6 months to 3 July 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 +57 3 £450 +5.88% 32
London +49 3 £450 -30.77% 9
Work from Home +29 1 - - 9

Technical Services Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 3 July 2025, Technical Services 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 Technical Services Manager in the job title.

1 3 (75.00%) Banking
1 3 (75.00%) Investment Banking
1 3 (75.00%) Planview
1 3 (75.00%) Project Management
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
1 3 (75.00%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (75.00%) Project Governance
1 3 (75.00%) Project Delivery
1 3 (75.00%) Budget Management
2 2 (50.00%) Big Data
2 2 (50.00%) Splunk
2 2 (50.00%) SIEM
3 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Impact Assessments
3 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (25.00%) Datadog
3 1 (25.00%) Patch Management
3 1 (25.00%) Fintech
3 1 (25.00%) PMO
3 1 (25.00%) Runbook
3 1 (25.00%) Commercial Awareness
3 1 (25.00%) Tech Ops
3 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (25.00%) VMware
3 1 (25.00%) Service Management
3 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) ITIL
3 1 (25.00%) Dell
3 1 (25.00%) CMDB
3 1 (25.00%) Problem Management

Technical Services 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Datadog
1 1 (25.00%) IaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Big Data
General
1 3 (75.00%) Banking
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
1 3 (75.00%) Investment Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) CMDB
1 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Budget Management
1 3 (75.00%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (75.00%) Project Delivery
1 3 (75.00%) Project Governance
1 3 (75.00%) Project Management
2 2 (50.00%) SIEM
3 1 (25.00%) Commercial Awareness
3 1 (25.00%) Fintech
3 1 (25.00%) Impact Assessments
3 1 (25.00%) ITIL
3 1 (25.00%) Patch Management
3 1 (25.00%) Problem Management
3 1 (25.00%) Runbook
3 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Service Management
3 1 (25.00%) Tech Ops
3 1 (25.00%) Technical Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) PMO
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Planview
2 2 (50.00%) Splunk
3 1 (25.00%) Dell
3 1 (25.00%) SolarWinds
3 1 (25.00%) VMware