IT Services Manager Contracts in Wales

IT Service Manager
UK > Wales

The median IT Service Manager daily rate in Wales is £488, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 24 June 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
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 43 58
Rank change year-on-year +5 +15 +11
Contract jobs requiring an IT Services Manager 1 1 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 0.33% 0.24% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.36% 0.26% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £469 £161 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £163 -
Median % change year-on-year +200.00% - -
75th Percentile £506 £164 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £510 £575 £500
% change year-on-year -11.30% +15.00% -4.76%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Wales

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Wales. 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 Wales with a recognized job title 278 382 517
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.36% 90.74% 95.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 192 249 389
10th Percentile £182 £143 £180
25th Percentile £268 £256 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £450 £488
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £488 £540 £586
90th Percentile £600 £625 £644
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +1.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 46 36
10th Percentile £13.08 £11.75 £13.63
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.48 £15.81
Median hourly rate £21.01 £20.24 £18.14
Median % change year-on-year +3.83% +11.55% +0.78%
75th Percentile £41.25 £43.19 £22.44
90th Percentile £45.00 £79.38 £41.25
UK median hourly rate £27.36 £37.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year -27.03% -12.79% +72.00%

IT Services Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Services Manager in Wales

IT Services Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

Daily rate trend for IT Services Manager in Wales

IT Services Manager
Contract Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IT Services Manager within the Wales region over the 6 months to 24 June 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
South Wales +11 1 £488 +200.00% 1
IT Services Manager
UK

IT Services Manager Skill Set
Top 21 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales

For the 6 months to 24 June 2025, IT 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 across the Wales region featuring IT Services Manager in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 1 (100.00%) Project Management
1 1 (100.00%) Service Management
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Confluence
1 1 (100.00%) Waterfall
1 1 (100.00%) Portfolio Management
1 1 (100.00%) Process Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Dependency Management
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Budgeting and Forecasting
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Asana
1 1 (100.00%) PMO
1 1 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Business Case

IT Services Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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 (100.00%) Confluence
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Asana
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Budgeting and Forecasting
1 1 (100.00%) Business Case
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Dependency Management
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
1 1 (100.00%) Portfolio Management
1 1 (100.00%) Process Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Project Management
1 1 (100.00%) Service Management
1 1 (100.00%) Waterfall
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) PMO