Service Manager Jobs in the South East

Services Manager
England > South East

The median Services Manager salary in the South East is £50,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 262 322 328
Rank change year-on-year +60 +6 -21
Permanent jobs requiring a Service Manager 125 92 165
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.75% 0.61% 0.84%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.80% 0.67% 0.87%
Number of salaries quoted 111 72 128
10th Percentile £32,750 £41,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,957 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £67,500 £78,625 £74,875
England median annual salary £54,825 £60,000 £56,500
% change year-on-year -8.63% +6.19% +10.78%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the South East. 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 East with a recognized job title 15,620 13,675 18,997
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.89% 90.62% 96.39%
Number of salaries quoted 11,331 8,566 12,620
10th Percentile £27,500 £29,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,750 £39,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,899 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.15% +1.50% +9.09%

Service Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Service Manager in the South East

Service Manager
Salary Trend in the South East

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

Salary trend for Service Manager in the South East

Service Manager
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Service Manager in the South East over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Service Manager in the South East

Service Manager
Job Locations in the South East

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 East region over the 6 months to 26 April 2024. 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
Hampshire +15 39 £51,250 +13.89% 9
Thames Valley +28 37 £43,750 -32.69% 9
Surrey +23 26 £60,000 - 4
Buckinghamshire -10 15 £33,500 -49.55% 2
Berkshire +15 14 £62,500 -3.85% 3
Kent +7 12 £42,500 -22.73% 2
East Sussex +19 8 £50,000 -41.18% 1
Oxfordshire +19 8 £57,500 +21.05% 4
West Sussex +20 3 £40,000 -30.43% 1
Service Manager
England

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

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, 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 East region featuring Service Manager in the job title.

1 71 (56.80%) Service Delivery
2 48 (38.40%) ITIL
3 43 (34.40%) Service Management
4 42 (33.60%) SLA
5 38 (30.40%) Microsoft
6 37 (29.60%) Social Skills
7 35 (28.00%) Finance
8 33 (26.40%) ITSM
9 26 (20.80%) Stakeholder Management
9 26 (20.80%) Incident Management
10 20 (16.00%) Public Sector
11 19 (15.20%) Customer Service
11 19 (15.20%) Problem-Solving
11 19 (15.20%) Windows
11 19 (15.20%) Azure
11 19 (15.20%) Cybersecurity
12 18 (14.40%) Continuous Improvement
12 18 (14.40%) Degree
13 16 (12.80%) Microsoft Office
13 16 (12.80%) Service Delivery Management
14 15 (12.00%) PRINCE2
14 15 (12.00%) Project Management
15 14 (11.20%) Microsoft Excel
15 14 (11.20%) Security Cleared
16 13 (10.40%) Telecoms
16 13 (10.40%) Analytical Skills
16 13 (10.40%) Windows Server
17 12 (9.60%) Presentation Skills
18 11 (8.80%) GDPR
18 11 (8.80%) Cyber Essentials

Service Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (1.60%) Confluence
2 1 (0.80%) SharePoint
Applications
1 16 (12.80%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (11.20%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (4.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.60%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 19 (15.20%) Azure
2 10 (8.00%) AWS
2 10 (8.00%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (7.20%) Cloud Computing
4 5 (4.00%) SaaS
5 4 (3.20%) Power Platform
6 2 (1.60%) Google Docs
Communications & Networking
1 10 (8.00%) LAN
1 10 (8.00%) WAN
2 5 (4.00%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (1.60%) Firewall
3 2 (1.60%) Internet
3 2 (1.60%) NAS
4 1 (0.80%) DHCP
4 1 (0.80%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.20%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (2.40%) JIRA
2 2 (1.60%) Bitbucket
2 2 (1.60%) GitLab
General
1 37 (29.60%) Social Skills
2 35 (28.00%) Finance
3 20 (16.00%) Public Sector
4 13 (10.40%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (10.40%) Telecoms
5 12 (9.60%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (4.00%) Legal
7 4 (3.20%) Advertising
7 4 (3.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (3.20%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (3.20%) Law
8 3 (2.40%) Retail
9 2 (1.60%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.80%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.80%) Electronics
10 1 (0.80%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.60%) .NET
1 2 (1.60%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.20%) NHS
1 9 (7.20%) PKI
2 7 (5.60%) Onboarding
3 2 (1.60%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (1.60%) Management Information System
4 1 (0.80%) CMDB
4 1 (0.80%) Data Centre
4 1 (0.80%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (0.80%) Driving Licence
4 1 (0.80%) e-Learning
4 1 (0.80%) PMI
4 1 (0.80%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (0.80%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 19 (15.20%) Windows
2 13 (10.40%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.80%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (56.80%) Service Delivery
2 48 (38.40%) ITIL
3 43 (34.40%) Service Management
4 33 (26.40%) ITSM
5 26 (20.80%) Incident Management
5 26 (20.80%) Stakeholder Management
6 19 (15.20%) Customer Service
6 19 (15.20%) Cybersecurity
6 19 (15.20%) Problem-Solving
7 18 (14.40%) Continuous Improvement
8 16 (12.80%) Service Delivery Management
9 15 (12.00%) PRINCE2
9 15 (12.00%) Project Management
10 10 (8.00%) Risk Register
11 9 (7.20%) Change Management
11 9 (7.20%) Customer Experience
11 9 (7.20%) Decision-Making
11 9 (7.20%) Information Governance
11 9 (7.20%) Infrastructure Management
11 9 (7.20%) Major Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (4.80%) C#
2 4 (3.20%) Java
2 4 (3.20%) Python
3 2 (1.60%) JavaScript
3 2 (1.60%) SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (14.40%) Degree
2 14 (11.20%) Security Cleared
3 10 (8.00%) DBS Check
4 8 (6.40%) APMP
4 8 (6.40%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (1.60%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.80%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (0.80%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.80%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (33.60%) SLA
2 11 (8.80%) Cyber Essentials
2 11 (8.80%) GDPR
3 8 (6.40%) PMO
4 7 (5.60%) Accessibility
5 4 (3.20%) ISO 22301
6 3 (2.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (1.60%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.80%) QA
System Software
1 4 (3.20%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (1.60%) Hyper-V
2 2 (1.60%) VMware Workstation
3 1 (0.80%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (0.80%) Ansible
1 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (0.80%) Terraform
Vendors
1 38 (30.40%) Microsoft
2 8 (6.40%) ServiceNow
3 7 (5.60%) VMware
4 3 (2.40%) Dell
5 2 (1.60%) Cisco
5 2 (1.60%) Google
5 2 (1.60%) Oracle
5 2 (1.60%) SAP
6 1 (0.80%) NEC