Service Manager Job Trends in Reading

Services Manager
Berkshire > Reading

The median Services Manager salary in Reading is £61,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 24 December 2025.

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

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 - 89
Rank change year-on-year - - +24
Permanent jobs requiring a Service Manager 2 0 10
As % of all permanent jobs in Reading 0.35% - 1.02%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.37% - 1.10%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile £44,125 - £50,450
25th Percentile £50,313 - £54,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 - £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -10.71%
75th Percentile £72,813 - £68,125
90th Percentile £79,375 - £70,750
Berkshire median annual salary £75,000 £35,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +114.29% -44.00% -3.85%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Reading

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Reading. 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 Reading with a recognized job title 534 762 913
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.87% 92.03% 92.97%
Number of salaries quoted 352 360 601
10th Percentile £30,000 £37,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £48,925 £38,130
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £61,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +11.36% -6.78%
75th Percentile £65,000 £80,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £93,750 £83,750
Berkshire median annual salary £49,000 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -24.62% +18.18% -4.35%

Service Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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 Reading.

Service Manager job vacancy trend in Reading

Service Manager
Salary Trend in Reading

Salary distribution trend for Service Manager job vacancies in Reading.

Salary distribution trend for Service Manager job vacancies in Reading

Service Manager
Salary Histogram in Reading

Salary distribution for jobs citing Service Manager in Reading over the 6 months to 24 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Service Manager in Reading

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

For the 6 months to 24 December 2025, 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 Reading region featuring Service Manager in the job title.

1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Asana
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (50.00%) Business Development
1 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Coaching
1 1 (50.00%) Commercial Awareness
1 1 (50.00%) Conflict Resolution
1 1 (50.00%) CRM
1 1 (50.00%) Customer Experience
1 1 (50.00%) Customer Service
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (50.00%) Data Management
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks
1 1 (50.00%) Dimensional Modelling
1 1 (50.00%) HubSpot
1 1 (50.00%) Kimball Methodology
1 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Product Marketing

Service Manager Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Asana
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
1 1 (50.00%) SAS EBI
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Marketing
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) e-Learning
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Business Development
1 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Coaching
1 1 (50.00%) Commercial Awareness
1 1 (50.00%) Conflict Resolution
1 1 (50.00%) CRM
1 1 (50.00%) Customer Experience
1 1 (50.00%) Customer Service
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Management
1 1 (50.00%) Dimensional Modelling
1 1 (50.00%) Kimball Methodology
1 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Product Marketing
1 1 (50.00%) Project Management
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Debt
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks
1 1 (50.00%) HubSpot
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft