Service Manager Jobs in the South West

Services Manager
England > South West

The median Services Manager salary in the South West is £47,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 175 211 217
Rank change year-on-year +36 +6 +61
Permanent jobs requiring a Service Manager 12 82 47
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.33% 0.88% 0.70%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.36% 0.92% 0.78%
Number of salaries quoted 11 65 41
10th Percentile £42,500 £35,000 £37,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% +15.79%
75th Percentile £68,568 £63,750 £63,750
90th Percentile - £72,500 £68,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +6.68%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the South West. 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 the South West with a recognized job title 3,373 8,932 6,001
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.80% 96.22% 89.09%
Number of salaries quoted 2,020 6,537 3,764
10th Percentile £27,250 £28,000 £29,075
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,365 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,250 £77,500 £79,450
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%

Service Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings that featured Service Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Service Manager in the South West

Service Manager
Salary Trend in the South West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Service Manager in the South West.

Salary trend for Service Manager in the South West

Service Manager
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Service Manager in the South West over the 6 months to 12 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Service Manager in the South West

Service Manager
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Service Manager within the South West region over the 6 months to 12 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Wiltshire +39 9 £56,064 -10.30% 6
Somerset -9 2 £47,500 -5.00% 7
Gloucestershire +54 1 £52,500 -12.50% 6
Service Manager
England

Service Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West

For the 6 months to 12 May 2025, Service Manager job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the South West region featuring Service Manager in the job title.

1 11 (91.67%) Service Delivery
2 8 (66.67%) ITIL
3 7 (58.33%) Service Management
4 6 (50.00%) Configuration Management
4 6 (50.00%) Problem Management
5 5 (41.67%) ITSM
6 4 (33.33%) Retail
6 4 (33.33%) Business Analysis
6 4 (33.33%) JIRA
6 4 (33.33%) AWS
6 4 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (33.33%) ServiceNow
6 4 (33.33%) Customer-Centricity
6 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
6 4 (33.33%) Incident Response
6 4 (33.33%) Service Catalogue
7 3 (25.00%) Incident Management
8 2 (16.67%) CMDB
8 2 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
8 2 (16.67%) Network Architecture
8 2 (16.67%) Asset Management
8 2 (16.67%) Migration
8 2 (16.67%) Business Continuity
8 2 (16.67%) Risk Management
8 2 (16.67%) Workflow
8 2 (16.67%) Windows
8 2 (16.67%) SIAM
8 2 (16.67%) nginx
8 2 (16.67%) MariaDB
8 2 (16.67%) Amazon RDS

Service Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (16.67%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 4 (33.33%) AWS
2 2 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (16.67%) AWS CloudTrail
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (16.67%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 4 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 4 (33.33%) Retail
1 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Finance
2 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (91.67%) Service Delivery
2 8 (66.67%) ITIL
3 7 (58.33%) Service Management
4 6 (50.00%) Configuration Management
4 6 (50.00%) Problem Management
5 5 (41.67%) ITSM
6 4 (33.33%) Business Analysis
6 4 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (33.33%) Customer-Centricity
6 4 (33.33%) Incident Response
6 4 (33.33%) Service Catalogue
7 3 (25.00%) Incident Management
8 2 (16.67%) Asset Management
8 2 (16.67%) Business Continuity
8 2 (16.67%) Migration
8 2 (16.67%) Network Architecture
8 2 (16.67%) Risk Management
8 2 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
8 2 (16.67%) SIAM
8 2 (16.67%) Workflow
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (16.67%) DBS Check
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) ServiceNow
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft