Service Manager Job Trends in Milton Keynes

Services Manager
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The median Services Manager salary in Milton Keynes is £83,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 11 January 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 53 60
Rank change year-on-year -3 +7 +14
Permanent jobs requiring a Service Manager 2 1 8
As % of all permanent jobs in Milton Keynes 0.33% 0.29% 1.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.35% 0.30% 1.27%
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 3
10th Percentile £58,375 - £32,250
25th Percentile £67,188 £98,250 £35,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £83,750 £98,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.97% +131.76% -15.00%
75th Percentile £99,688 £98,750 £44,875
90th Percentile £108,125 - £45,550
Buckinghamshire median annual salary £83,750 £98,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year -14.97% +131.76% -37.04%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Milton Keynes

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Milton Keynes. 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 Milton Keynes with a recognized job title 568 336 629
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.42% 96.00% 95.74%
Number of salaries quoted 388 235 426
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,171 £30,500
25th Percentile £44,688 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £69,063 £73,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £92,000 £77,500
Buckinghamshire median annual salary £47,500 £57,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% +14.00% -9.09%

Service Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

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 Milton Keynes.

Service Manager job vacancy trend in Milton Keynes

Service Manager
Salary Trend in Milton Keynes

Salary distribution trend for Service Manager job vacancies in Milton Keynes.

Salary distribution trend for Service Manager job vacancies in Milton Keynes

Service Manager
Salary Histogram in Milton Keynes

Salary distribution for jobs citing Service Manager in Milton Keynes over the 6 months to 11 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Service Manager in Milton Keynes

Service Manager Skill Set
Top 21 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Milton Keynes

For the 6 months to 11 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 Milton Keynes region featuring Service Manager in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (50.00%) Business Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Operations
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (50.00%) Data Management
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) Problem Management
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Service Management
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Strategic Thinking
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Technology Strategy

Service Manager Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Milton Keynes 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Data Lake
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Mainframe
1 1 (50.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Business Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Operations
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Data Management
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) Problem Management
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Service Management
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Strategic Thinking
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Technology Strategy
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001