Service Manager Job Trends in Berkshire

Services Manager
South East > Berkshire

The median Services Manager salary in Berkshire is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 January 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 116 131
Rank change year-on-year +3 +15 +18
Permanent jobs requiring a Service Manager 13 7 14
As % of all permanent jobs in Berkshire 0.67% 0.42% 0.67%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.72% 0.51% 0.71%
Number of salaries quoted 7 5 7
10th Percentile £48,550 - £50,300
25th Percentile £54,250 - £56,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £35,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +114.29% -44.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £84,375 - £67,625
90th Percentile £85,000 - £71,500
South East median annual salary £56,000 £47,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +17.89% -13.64% -4.35%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Berkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Berkshire. 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 permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Berkshire with a recognized job title 1,801 1,363 1,969
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.22% 82.66% 94.12%
Number of salaries quoted 905 705 1,442
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £47,500 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +18.18% -4.35%
75th Percentile £67,500 £81,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £84,500 £95,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £50,000 £56,509 £52,500
% change year-on-year -11.52% +7.64% -4.55%

Service Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Service Manager job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Service Manager
Salary Trend in Berkshire

Salary distribution trend for Service Manager job vacancies in Berkshire.

Salary distribution trend for Service Manager job vacancies in Berkshire

Service Manager
Salary Histogram in Berkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Service Manager in Berkshire over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Service Manager in Berkshire

Service Manager
Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Service Manager within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 12 January 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Slough - 7 £75,000 - 1
Bracknell - 2 £55,500 - 1
Reading - 2 £61,250 - 1
Service Manager
South East

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

For the 6 months to 12 January 2026, Service Manager 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 permanent job ads across the Berkshire region featuring Service Manager in the job title.

1 7 (53.85%) Project Management
2 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (15.38%) QA
3 2 (15.38%) Software Testing
3 2 (15.38%) Test Management
3 2 (15.38%) Test Strategy
4 1 (7.69%) Agile
4 1 (7.69%) Asana
4 1 (7.69%) Azure
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (7.69%) Business Development
4 1 (7.69%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (7.69%) Coaching
4 1 (7.69%) Commercial Awareness
4 1 (7.69%) Conflict Resolution
4 1 (7.69%) CRM
4 1 (7.69%) Customer Experience
4 1 (7.69%) Customer Service
4 1 (7.69%) Data Engineering
4 1 (7.69%) Data Governance
4 1 (7.69%) Data Lake
4 1 (7.69%) Data Management
4 1 (7.69%) Data Quality
4 1 (7.69%) Databricks
4 1 (7.69%) Dimensional Modelling
4 1 (7.69%) HubSpot
4 1 (7.69%) Kimball Methodology
4 1 (7.69%) Mentoring
4 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
4 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel

Service Manager Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire 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 (7.69%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (7.69%) Asana
1 1 (7.69%) Azure
1 1 (7.69%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (7.69%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) Data Lake
1 1 (7.69%) Power BI
1 1 (7.69%) SAS EBI
1 1 (7.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (7.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 11 (84.62%) Finance
2 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Marketing
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Data Centre
1 1 (7.69%) e-Learning
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Project Management
2 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (15.38%) Software Testing
3 2 (15.38%) Test Management
3 2 (15.38%) Test Strategy
4 1 (7.69%) Agile
4 1 (7.69%) Business Development
4 1 (7.69%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (7.69%) Coaching
4 1 (7.69%) Commercial Awareness
4 1 (7.69%) CRM
4 1 (7.69%) Data Engineering
4 1 (7.69%) Data Governance
4 1 (7.69%) Data Management
4 1 (7.69%) Dimensional Modelling
4 1 (7.69%) Kimball Methodology
4 1 (7.69%) Mentoring
4 1 (7.69%) Product Marketing
4 1 (7.69%) Technical Debt
4 1 (7.69%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.69%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) QA
2 1 (7.69%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (7.69%) Databricks
1 1 (7.69%) HubSpot
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft