Technical Services Manager Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Technical Service Manager
England > West Midlands

The median Technical Service Manager daily rate in the West Midlands is £640, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 5 February 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Services Manager 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.080% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.090% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £571 - -
25th Percentile £594 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £640 - -
75th Percentile £692 - -
90th Percentile £719 - -
England median daily rate £475 £430 £450
% change year-on-year +10.59% -4.56% +12.50%

All Contract IT Job Roles
West Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the West Midlands. 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 West Midlands with a recognized job title 2,234 1,398 1,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.07% 91.91% 92.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,452 886 1,142
10th Percentile £263 £200 £220
25th Percentile £400 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -3.85%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £588
90th Percentile £688 £700 £675
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 85 58 125
10th Percentile £14.00 £13.95 £12.65
25th Percentile £17.09 £17.00 £15.12
Median hourly rate £25.00 £23.71 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.44% +5.38% +26.98%
75th Percentile £30.00 £31.15 £43.75
90th Percentile £40.00 £45.13 £67.50
England median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -14.29% - -2.10%

Technical Services Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Technical Services Manager' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Technical Services Manager job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Technical Services Manager
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Technical Services Manager job vacancies in the West Midlands.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Technical Services Manager job vacancies in the West Midlands

Technical Services Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Services Manager in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 5 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Services Manager in the West Midlands

Technical Services Manager
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 5 February 2026. 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
Birmingham - 1 £725 -
Shropshire - 1 £555 - 1
Technical Services Manager
England

Technical Services Manager Skill Set
Top 25 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 5 February 2026, Technical Services Manager contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the West Midlands region featuring Technical Services Manager in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Adobe
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (50.00%) CISSP
2 1 (50.00%) Customer Experience
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) GCIH
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (50.00%) LiveCycle
2 1 (50.00%) Major Incident Management
2 1 (50.00%) QA
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Scala
2 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Security Operations
2 1 (50.00%) Service Delivery Management
2 1 (50.00%) Service Design
2 1 (50.00%) Service Management
2 1 (50.00%) SLA
2 1 (50.00%) User Experience
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management

Technical Services Manager Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) LiveCycle
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) Intrusion Detection
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Customer Experience
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) Major Incident Management
2 1 (50.00%) Security Operations
2 1 (50.00%) Service Delivery Management
2 1 (50.00%) Service Design
2 1 (50.00%) Service Management
2 1 (50.00%) User Experience
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (50.00%) CISSP
1 1 (50.00%) GCIH
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
1 1 (50.00%) SLA
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Adobe