Services Director Jobs

Service Director
UK

The median Service Director salary in the UK is £100,000 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 696 826 938
Rank change year-on-year +130 +112 +239
Permanent jobs requiring a Services Director 21 68 43
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.038% 0.069% 0.043%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.042% 0.072% 0.047%
Number of salaries quoted 14 24 21
10th Percentile £96,500 £57,500 £105,000
25th Percentile - £71,165 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £105,000 £120,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -12.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile £152,500 £145,000 £155,000
90th Percentile - - £157,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £100,000 £60,000 £120,000
% change year-on-year +66.67% -50.00% +100.00%

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 49,922 93,907 92,301
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.55% 94.63% 91.49%
Number of salaries quoted 27,447 67,290 58,243
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £80,627
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%

Services Director
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Services Director in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Services Director in the UK

Services Director
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Services Director.

Salary trend for Services Director in the UK

Services Director
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Services Director over the 6 months to 12 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Services Director in the UK

Services Director
Top 9 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Services Director within the UK 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
England +128 21 £100,000 -14.89% 61
London +104 12 £145,000 +7.41% 35
UK excluding London +127 9 £100,000 +66.67% 31
South East +98 4 £69,500 +20.87% 13
North of England +58 4 £100,000 +66.67% 5
Work from Home +131 3 £95,000 -32.14% 16
Yorkshire +70 2 £100,000 - 1
North West -2 2 £100,000 +66.67% 2
East of England - 1 - -

Services Director Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 12 May 2025, Services Director 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 Services Director in the job title.

1 13 (61.90%) Finance
2 9 (42.86%) Degree
3 8 (38.10%) Project Management
3 8 (38.10%) Master's Degree
4 7 (33.33%) Social Skills
4 7 (33.33%) Coaching
5 6 (28.57%) Business Development
5 6 (28.57%) WFM
5 6 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
5 6 (28.57%) Public Sector
5 6 (28.57%) Thought Leadership
6 5 (23.81%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (23.81%) MBA
7 4 (19.05%) Banking
7 4 (19.05%) Knowledge Management
7 4 (19.05%) Six Sigma Black Belt
7 4 (19.05%) Performance Management
7 4 (19.05%) Service Management
7 4 (19.05%) Six Sigma
7 4 (19.05%) Business Continuity
7 4 (19.05%) Information Security
7 4 (19.05%) PMI Certification
7 4 (19.05%) Analytics
7 4 (19.05%) Practice Management
7 4 (19.05%) Technology Transformation
8 3 (14.29%) Project Delivery
8 3 (14.29%) Technical Debt
8 3 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement Process
8 3 (14.29%) CMDB
8 3 (14.29%) Lean Six Sigma

Services Director 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.76%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (4.76%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (4.76%) Finacle
Cloud Services
1 3 (14.29%) AWS
1 3 (14.29%) Azure
2 1 (4.76%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (4.76%) GCP
2 1 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (4.76%) Power Platform
2 1 (4.76%) Stripe
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.76%) Power BI
1 1 (4.76%) Tableau
General
1 13 (61.90%) Finance
2 7 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 6 (28.57%) Public Sector
4 4 (19.05%) Banking
5 3 (14.29%) Law
6 1 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (4.76%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (4.76%) Financial Institution
6 1 (4.76%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (4.76%) Marketing
6 1 (4.76%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.76%) Smart Contracts
Miscellaneous
1 3 (14.29%) CMDB
1 3 (14.29%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.76%) Blockchain
2 1 (4.76%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.76%) Driving Licence
2 1 (4.76%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (4.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (4.76%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.76%) PMI
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (38.10%) Project Management
2 7 (33.33%) Coaching
3 6 (28.57%) Business Development
3 6 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
3 6 (28.57%) Thought Leadership
3 6 (28.57%) WFM
4 5 (23.81%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (19.05%) Analytics
5 4 (19.05%) Business Continuity
5 4 (19.05%) Information Security
5 4 (19.05%) Knowledge Management
5 4 (19.05%) Performance Management
5 4 (19.05%) Practice Management
5 4 (19.05%) Service Management
5 4 (19.05%) Six Sigma
5 4 (19.05%) Technology Transformation
6 3 (14.29%) BCP
6 3 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
6 3 (14.29%) Project Delivery
6 3 (14.29%) Technical Debt
Qualifications
1 9 (42.86%) Degree
2 8 (38.10%) Master's Degree
3 5 (23.81%) MBA
4 4 (19.05%) PMI Certification
4 4 (19.05%) Six Sigma Black Belt
5 3 (14.29%) PMP
5 3 (14.29%) Six Sigma Green Belt
5 3 (14.29%) Six Sigma Master Black Belt
6 1 (4.76%) CCIE
6 1 (4.76%) CCNA
6 1 (4.76%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (4.76%) CISM
6 1 (4.76%) CISSP
6 1 (4.76%) MCSE
6 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.52%) GDPR
2 1 (4.76%) Basel III
2 1 (4.76%) MiFID
2 1 (4.76%) PSD2
System Software
1 1 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 3 (14.29%) Microsoft
1 3 (14.29%) ServiceNow
2 1 (4.76%) Automation Anywhere
2 1 (4.76%) Blue Prism
2 1 (4.76%) CheckPoint
2 1 (4.76%) FIS
2 1 (4.76%) Fortinet
2 1 (4.76%) Google
2 1 (4.76%) Palo Alto
2 1 (4.76%) PayPal
2 1 (4.76%) Salesforce
2 1 (4.76%) Temenos
2 1 (4.76%) UiPath
2 1 (4.76%) VMware