Senior Service Manager Jobs

Senior Service Manager
UK

The median Senior Service Manager salary in the UK is £85,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 11 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
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 684 734 922
Rank change year-on-year +50 +188 +175
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Service Manager 22 164 59
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.040% 0.17% 0.058%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.044% 0.17% 0.064%
Number of salaries quoted 13 55 26
10th Percentile £54,250 £40,000 £44,955
25th Percentile £60,000 £40,988 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £41,774 £56,250
Median % change year-on-year +103.48% -25.74% -22.41%
75th Percentile £105,000 £72,500 £84,063
90th Percentile £107,500 £73,410 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £41,774 £52,500
% change year-on-year +55.60% -20.43% -19.23%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 UK with a recognized job title 49,511 93,886 92,389
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.48% 94.63% 91.46%
Number of salaries quoted 27,626 67,255 58,266
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,443 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.41% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -5.66% +6.00%

Senior Service Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Service Manager in the UK

Senior Service Manager
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Service Manager.

Salary trend for Senior Service Manager in the UK

Senior Service Manager
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Service Manager over the 6 months to 11 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Service Manager in the UK

Senior Service Manager
Top 11 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Service Manager within the UK over the 6 months to 11 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
England +22 22 £85,000 +103.48% 80
UK excluding London +144 14 £65,000 +55.60% 27
South East +104 9 £83,750 +34.00% 12
Work from Home +130 8 £101,250 +142.38% 30
London +17 6 £100,000 +46.33% 63
North of England +41 3 £45,000 +7.72% 8
Midlands +63 2 £55,500 -38.33% 1
East Midlands - 2 £55,500 -
Yorkshire +57 1 - - 4
North East +48 1 £45,000 +7.72%
North West -7 1 - - 4

Senior Service Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 11 May 2025, Senior 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 featuring Senior Service Manager in the job title.

1 16 (72.73%) Finance
2 10 (45.45%) Service Delivery
2 10 (45.45%) Continuous Improvement
2 10 (45.45%) Mentoring
2 10 (45.45%) Social Skills
3 9 (40.91%) Azure
4 8 (36.36%) Coaching
5 7 (31.82%) Project Management
6 6 (27.27%) Microsoft
6 6 (27.27%) Agile
7 5 (22.73%) Data Management
7 5 (22.73%) Incident Management
7 5 (22.73%) Problem Management
7 5 (22.73%) Dimensional Modelling
7 5 (22.73%) Data Integration
7 5 (22.73%) DevOps
7 5 (22.73%) Analytics
7 5 (22.73%) Data Governance
7 5 (22.73%) Data Quality
7 5 (22.73%) ITIL
7 5 (22.73%) Business Intelligence
7 5 (22.73%) CI/CD
7 5 (22.73%) Technical Leadership
7 5 (22.73%) Customer Service
7 5 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (22.73%) Data Engineering
7 5 (22.73%) Data Strategy
8 4 (18.18%) PRINCE2
8 4 (18.18%) Windows
8 4 (18.18%) VoIP

Senior Service Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 9 (40.91%) Azure
2 4 (18.18%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (18.18%) VLAN
1 4 (18.18%) VoIP
General
1 16 (72.73%) Finance
2 10 (45.45%) Social Skills
3 2 (9.09%) Games
3 2 (9.09%) Law
3 2 (9.09%) Telecoms
4 1 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.55%) Banking
4 1 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
Miscellaneous
1 4 (18.18%) CCTV
2 2 (9.09%) Cyber Defence
2 2 (9.09%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.55%) Mobile App
3 1 (4.55%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.55%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (18.18%) Mac OS
1 4 (18.18%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (45.45%) Continuous Improvement
1 10 (45.45%) Mentoring
1 10 (45.45%) Service Delivery
2 8 (36.36%) Coaching
3 7 (31.82%) Project Management
4 6 (27.27%) Agile
5 5 (22.73%) Analytics
5 5 (22.73%) Business Intelligence
5 5 (22.73%) CI/CD
5 5 (22.73%) Data Engineering
5 5 (22.73%) Data Governance
5 5 (22.73%) Data Integration
5 5 (22.73%) Data Management
5 5 (22.73%) DevOps
5 5 (22.73%) Dimensional Modelling
5 5 (22.73%) Incident Management
5 5 (22.73%) ITIL
5 5 (22.73%) Problem Management
5 5 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (22.73%) Technical Leadership
Qualifications
1 2 (9.09%) CCSAS
1 2 (9.09%) CREST Certified
2 1 (4.55%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (4.55%) PMI Certification
2 1 (4.55%) PMP
2 1 (4.55%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (22.73%) Data Quality
2 4 (18.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 17025
3 2 (9.09%) NCSC
3 2 (9.09%) QA
3 2 (9.09%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (18.18%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 6 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.55%) Cvent
2 1 (4.55%) ServiceNow