Service Manager Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Services Manager
England > Yorkshire

The median Services Manager daily rate in Yorkshire is £463, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 October 2025.

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

6 months to
17 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 120 96 89
Rank change year-on-year -24 -7 +3
Contract jobs requiring a Service Manager 9 7 27
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.54% 0.48% 1.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.58% 0.53% 1.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 4 15
10th Percentile £272 £152 £413
25th Percentile £280 £303 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £431 £550
Median % change year-on-year +7.43% -21.73% +22.22%
75th Percentile £540 £494 £788
90th Percentile £585 £528 £853
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Yorkshire. 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 Yorkshire with a recognized job title 1,551 1,313 1,952
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.49% 90.36% 95.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,022 769 1,275
10th Percentile £254 £262 £239
25th Percentile £380 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year -2.05% -2.91% +3.00%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £638 £650 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -2.38% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 56 33
10th Percentile £17.48 £14.86 £13.92
25th Percentile £19.85 £16.25 £17.22
Median hourly rate £25.04 £23.34 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year +7.27% +9.53% +11.89%
75th Percentile £81.25 £39.69 £23.75
90th Percentile - £48.75 £41.60
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year -41.51% -6.89% +66.53%

Service Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Service Manager' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Service Manager job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Service Manager
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Service Manager job vacancies in Yorkshire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Service Manager job vacancies in Yorkshire

Service Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Service Manager in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 17 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Service Manager in Yorkshire

Service Manager
Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Service Manager job vacancies in Yorkshire.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Service Manager job vacancies in Yorkshire

Service Manager
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Service Manager within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 17 October 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 Yorkshire -23 5 £280 -34.96% 2
West Yorkshire -12 4 £501 +828.24% 6
Service Manager
England

Service Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire

For the 6 months to 17 October 2025, Service 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 Yorkshire region featuring Service Manager in the job title.

1 5 (55.56%) ITIL
1 5 (55.56%) Stakeholder Management
2 4 (44.44%) Availability Management
2 4 (44.44%) Change Management
2 4 (44.44%) CI/CD
2 4 (44.44%) DevOps
2 4 (44.44%) GCP
2 4 (44.44%) GitHub
2 4 (44.44%) Google
2 4 (44.44%) Jenkins
2 4 (44.44%) JIRA
2 4 (44.44%) Kubernetes
2 4 (44.44%) Microservices
2 4 (44.44%) Mule
2 4 (44.44%) QA
2 4 (44.44%) Sonatype Nexus
3 3 (33.33%) Service Design
3 3 (33.33%) Service Management
3 3 (33.33%) Supplier Management
4 2 (22.22%) Incident Management
4 2 (22.22%) ITSM
4 2 (22.22%) Migration
4 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (22.22%) Project Delivery
4 2 (22.22%) SharePoint
5 1 (11.11%) Analytical Thinking
5 1 (11.11%) Azure
5 1 (11.11%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (11.11%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (11.11%) CheckPoint

Service Manager Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 4 (44.44%) Mule
2 2 (22.22%) SharePoint
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) GCP
1 4 (44.44%) GitHub
2 1 (11.11%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
Development Applications
1 4 (44.44%) Jenkins
1 4 (44.44%) JIRA
1 4 (44.44%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 7 (77.78%) Social Skills
2 4 (44.44%) Banking
3 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 5 (55.56%) Onboarding
2 4 (44.44%) Distributed Applications
2 4 (44.44%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (11.11%) CMDB
3 1 (11.11%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) ITIL
1 5 (55.56%) Stakeholder Management
2 4 (44.44%) Availability Management
2 4 (44.44%) Change Management
2 4 (44.44%) CI/CD
2 4 (44.44%) DevOps
2 4 (44.44%) Microservices
3 3 (33.33%) Service Design
3 3 (33.33%) Service Management
3 3 (33.33%) Supplier Management
4 2 (22.22%) Incident Management
4 2 (22.22%) ITSM
4 2 (22.22%) Migration
4 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (22.22%) Project Delivery
5 1 (11.11%) Analytical Thinking
5 1 (11.11%) Collaborative Working
5 1 (11.11%) Knowledge Transfer
5 1 (11.11%) Security Operations
5 1 (11.11%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (44.44%) QA
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) Kubernetes
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (11.11%) SCOM
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Google
2 1 (11.11%) CheckPoint
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) ServiceNow