Technical Services Manager Contracts

Technical Service Manager
UK

The median Technical Service Manager daily rate in the UK is £425 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 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
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 586 706 824
Rank change year-on-year +120 +118 -156
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Services Manager 5 12 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.012% 0.020% 0.034%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.012% 0.021% 0.035%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 8 16
10th Percentile £411 £389 £388
25th Percentile £411 £400 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £485 £588
Median % change year-on-year -12.37% -17.45% +29.12%
75th Percentile £556 £634 £616
90th Percentile £628 £825 £663
UK excluding London median daily rate £423 £485 £528
% change year-on-year -12.89% -8.06% +14.67%

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 40,021 55,966 84,699
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.75% 94.62% 95.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,056 39,104 59,482
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £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 2,666 1,571 2,084
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.30 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.81
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +89.04% +5.80%
75th Percentile £61.29 £65.75 £49.19
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.71
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.26 £19.52
% change year-on-year -5.35% +116.50% +2.74%

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
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Services Manager over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram 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 7 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 4 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
Work from Home +130 4 £425 +0.59% 3
England +103 4 £425 -12.37% 32
UK excluding London +67 3 £423 -12.89% 20
North of England +28 3 £423 -15.50% 8
Yorkshire - 2 £423 - 4
London +93 1 £650 +34.02% 12
North West +19 1 - - 4

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

For the 6 months to 4 May 2024, 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 (60.00%) Agile
1 3 (60.00%) ServiceNow
1 3 (60.00%) Coaching
2 2 (40.00%) Technology Roadmap
2 2 (40.00%) Architectural Design
2 2 (40.00%) Backlog Refinement
2 2 (40.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
2 2 (40.00%) Technology Strategy
2 2 (40.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (40.00%) CMDB
2 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) ITSM
2 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) ITIL
2 2 (40.00%) Configuration Management
2 2 (40.00%) Service Management
3 1 (20.00%) Service Delivery
3 1 (20.00%) Change Management
3 1 (20.00%) Project Management
3 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (20.00%) Six Sigma
3 1 (20.00%) Hadoop
3 1 (20.00%) SaaS
3 1 (20.00%) PaaS
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (20.00%) IaaS
3 1 (20.00%) JIRA
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Data Analysis

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) IaaS
1 1 (20.00%) PaaS
1 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (20.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (20.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Influencing Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) CMDB
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Agile
1 3 (60.00%) Coaching
2 2 (40.00%) Architectural Design
2 2 (40.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
2 2 (40.00%) Backlog Refinement
2 2 (40.00%) Configuration Management
2 2 (40.00%) ITIL
2 2 (40.00%) ITSM
2 2 (40.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (40.00%) Service Management
2 2 (40.00%) Technology Roadmap
2 2 (40.00%) Technology Strategy
3 1 (20.00%) Agile Coaching
3 1 (20.00%) Contract Management
3 1 (20.00%) Customer Requirements
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
3 1 (20.00%) Service Delivery
3 1 (20.00%) Software Delivery
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft