Service Manager Jobs in the UK excluding London

Services Manager
UK > UK excluding London

The median Services Manager salary in the UK excluding London is £50,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 23 August 2025.

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

6 months to
23 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 445 313 324
Rank change year-on-year -132 +11 +68
DemandTrendPermanent jobs requiring a Service Manager 161 468 387
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.36% 0.75% 0.90%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.41% 0.79% 1.00%
Number of salaries quoted 115 381 309
10th Percentile £31,000 £35,000 £38,475
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -13.64% +9.62%
75th Percentile £58,880 £58,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £75,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,480
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.88% +0.87%

All DemandTrendPermanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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.

DemandTrendPermanent vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 39,419 59,584 38,632
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 88.43% 95.22% 90.15%
Number of salaries quoted 21,377 37,017 25,628
10th Percentile £25,480 £28,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

Service Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Service Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Service Manager in the UK excluding London

Service Manager
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for Service Manager job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Salary distribution trend for Service Manager job vacancies in the UK excluding London

Service Manager
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Service Manager in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 23 August 2025.

Salary histogram for Service Manager in the UK excluding London

Service Manager
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Service Manager within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 23 August 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
DemandTrendPermanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +2 60 £50,000 +5.26% 52
North of England -116 41 £45,000 - 54
Midlands +10 35 £42,500 -24.78% 28
West Midlands -1 26 £40,000 -35.74% 18
North West -52 24 £48,750 +8.33% 28
South West +10 13 £55,000 +37.50% 17
East Midlands +17 9 £48,250 +28.67% 10
Yorkshire -35 9 £40,000 -23.81% 19
North East +12 8 £42,500 -5.56% 8
Northern Ireland +35 7 £64,000 +60.00% 5
East of England -60 3 £32,500 -38.10% 16
Scotland +41 1 - - 8
Wales -10 1 £70,000 +100.00% 2
Service Manager
UK

Service Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 23 August 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 UK excluding London region featuring Service Manager in the job title.

1 73 (45.34%) Service Delivery
2 50 (31.06%) Social Skills
3 48 (29.81%) ITIL
4 41 (25.47%) Continuous Improvement
5 33 (20.50%) Project Management
5 33 (20.50%) Service Management
6 31 (19.25%) Finance
7 24 (14.91%) Microsoft
7 24 (14.91%) Customer Service
8 23 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
9 20 (12.42%) Degree
10 19 (11.80%) Incident Management
11 18 (11.18%) ITSM
12 16 (9.94%) Security Cleared
12 16 (9.94%) Line Management
13 15 (9.32%) SLA
14 14 (8.70%) Change Management
14 14 (8.70%) Microsoft 365
15 13 (8.07%) Telecoms
15 13 (8.07%) Asset Management
16 12 (7.45%) Retail
16 12 (7.45%) JIRA
16 12 (7.45%) Law
16 12 (7.45%) Stakeholder Management
16 12 (7.45%) SharePoint
16 12 (7.45%) Analytical Skills
16 12 (7.45%) Process Improvement
16 12 (7.45%) Organisational Skills
17 11 (6.83%) People Management
17 11 (6.83%) Microsoft Excel

Service Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 12 (7.45%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.24%) IBM Domino
2 2 (1.24%) IBM Notes
Applications
1 11 (6.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.48%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (4.35%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (1.24%) Infor M3
3 1 (0.62%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 14 (8.70%) Microsoft 365
2 9 (5.59%) Azure
3 4 (2.48%) SaaS
4 2 (1.24%) Power Platform
5 1 (0.62%) AWS
5 1 (0.62%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (0.62%) Azure Stack
5 1 (0.62%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (0.62%) Entra ID
5 1 (0.62%) IaaS
5 1 (0.62%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.35%) Intranet
2 6 (3.73%) VLAN
2 6 (3.73%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (1.86%) VSAT
4 2 (1.24%) Network Security
5 1 (0.62%) DHCP
5 1 (0.62%) DNS
5 1 (0.62%) Firewall
5 1 (0.62%) Internet
5 1 (0.62%) LAN
5 1 (0.62%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.62%) VPN
5 1 (0.62%) WAN
5 1 (0.62%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.24%) Power BI
2 1 (0.62%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (0.62%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (7.45%) JIRA
General
1 50 (31.06%) Social Skills
2 31 (19.25%) Finance
3 13 (8.07%) Telecoms
4 12 (7.45%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (7.45%) Law
4 12 (7.45%) Organisational Skills
4 12 (7.45%) Retail
5 9 (5.59%) Public Sector
6 8 (4.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (3.73%) Advertising
8 4 (2.48%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.86%) Aerospace
9 3 (1.86%) Automotive
9 3 (1.86%) Banking
9 3 (1.86%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.86%) Dutch Language
9 3 (1.86%) Electronics
9 3 (1.86%) Marketing
9 3 (1.86%) Military
10 2 (1.24%) Billing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.86%) EDI
2 1 (0.62%) Middleware
2 1 (0.62%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.59%) Management Information System
2 7 (4.35%) Onboarding
3 6 (3.73%) Fibre Optics
4 4 (2.48%) IoT
4 4 (2.48%) Renewable Energy
5 3 (1.86%) Digital Signage
5 3 (1.86%) Driving Licence
6 2 (1.24%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.24%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.24%) Private Cloud
6 2 (1.24%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.62%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.62%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 9 (5.59%) Windows
2 3 (1.86%) Windows 10
3 2 (1.24%) Linux
3 2 (1.24%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.62%) Unix
4 1 (0.62%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (45.34%) Service Delivery
2 48 (29.81%) ITIL
3 41 (25.47%) Continuous Improvement
4 33 (20.50%) Project Management
4 33 (20.50%) Service Management
5 24 (14.91%) Customer Service
6 23 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
7 19 (11.80%) Incident Management
8 18 (11.18%) ITSM
9 16 (9.94%) Line Management
10 14 (8.70%) Change Management
11 13 (8.07%) Asset Management
12 12 (7.45%) Process Improvement
12 12 (7.45%) Stakeholder Management
13 11 (6.83%) People Management
14 10 (6.21%) Computer Science
14 10 (6.21%) Contract Management
15 9 (5.59%) Performance Metrics
16 8 (4.97%) Agile
16 8 (4.97%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 3 (1.86%) PowerShell
2 1 (0.62%) Python
2 1 (0.62%) R
Qualifications
1 20 (12.42%) Degree
2 16 (9.94%) Security Cleared
3 9 (5.59%) SC Cleared
4 8 (4.97%) DV Cleared
5 7 (4.35%) AAT
5 7 (4.35%) ACCA
5 7 (4.35%) CIMA
5 7 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (4.35%) ITIL Certification
6 3 (1.86%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.24%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 2 (1.24%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.62%) APMP
8 1 (0.62%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.62%) CBAP
8 1 (0.62%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (9.32%) SLA
2 6 (3.73%) GDPR
3 4 (2.48%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.24%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.24%) ISO 9001
5 2 (1.24%) NIST
5 2 (1.24%) QA
6 1 (0.62%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.62%) PMO
6 1 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (1.24%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 24 (14.91%) Microsoft
2 9 (5.59%) ServiceNow
3 7 (4.35%) BMC
3 7 (4.35%) Remedy
4 2 (1.24%) Cisco
4 2 (1.24%) IBM
4 2 (1.24%) Infor
4 2 (1.24%) Lotus
4 2 (1.24%) Splunk
4 2 (1.24%) VMware
5 1 (0.62%) SAP