Service Director
UK

The median Service Director salary in the UK is £107,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 May 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
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 818 936 1199
Rank change year-on-year +118 +263 -330
Permanent jobs requiring a Services Director 72 41 45
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.072% 0.041% 0.028%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.076% 0.045% 0.029%
Number of salaries quoted 26 21 17
10th Percentile £57,500 £105,000 £60,000
25th Percentile £71,165 - £75,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £107,500 £120,000 £110,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.42% +9.09% -2.22%
75th Percentile £145,000 £155,000 £126,250
90th Percentile £147,500 £157,500 £131,900
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £120,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -50.00% +100.00% -48.94%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 94,593 90,744 154,424
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.69% 91.51% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 67,603 57,335 84,442
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,521
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

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 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Services Director in the UK

Services Director
Top 15 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 18 May 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
England +103 46 £120,000 - 31
UK excluding London -2 46 £60,000 -50.00% 15
London +119 24 £135,000 -6.90% 18
Scotland - 20 - -
Work from Home +65 11 £140,000 +16.67% 6
North of England +55 10 £60,000 -50.00% 6
North West +5 6 £60,000 -50.00% 3
South West - 5 - -
Midlands -13 4 £60,000 -55.56%
Yorkshire - 4 - - 3
South East +4 3 £57,500 -45.82% 8
East Midlands -7 3 £60,000 -55.56%
Northern Ireland +22 2 - -
Wales +8 2 - -
West Midlands +7 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 18 May 2024, 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 49 (68.06%) Finance
2 28 (38.89%) Service Management
2 28 (38.89%) Service Delivery
3 25 (34.72%) Thought Leadership
4 24 (33.33%) Business Development
5 21 (29.17%) Business Case
6 20 (27.78%) Actionable Insight
7 19 (26.39%) Creative Thinking
7 19 (26.39%) Strategic Thinking
8 18 (25.00%) Budgeting
9 17 (23.61%) QA
9 17 (23.61%) Internal Audit
9 17 (23.61%) Mentoring
10 12 (16.67%) Social Skills
11 10 (13.89%) Roadmaps
12 9 (12.50%) Change Management
13 8 (11.11%) Agile
13 8 (11.11%) Line Management
14 7 (9.72%) ITIL
15 6 (8.33%) Degree
15 6 (8.33%) CMDB
15 6 (8.33%) Microsoft
15 6 (8.33%) ITIL Certification
16 5 (6.94%) Banking
16 5 (6.94%) ITSM
16 5 (6.94%) Problem Management
16 5 (6.94%) Incident Management
16 5 (6.94%) Test Automation
16 5 (6.94%) Process Improvement
16 5 (6.94%) Trend Analysis

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 (1.39%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (1.39%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (4.17%) AWS
1 3 (4.17%) Azure
2 1 (1.39%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (1.39%) OneDrive
General
1 49 (68.06%) Finance
2 12 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 5 (6.94%) Banking
3 5 (6.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (5.56%) Law
5 3 (4.17%) Public Sector
5 3 (4.17%) Retail
6 2 (2.78%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.78%) Back Office
6 2 (2.78%) Financial Institution
6 2 (2.78%) Social Housing
7 1 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.39%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.17%) RESTful
1 3 (4.17%) Spring
1 3 (4.17%) Spring Boot
1 3 (4.17%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.33%) CMDB
2 2 (2.78%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.39%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (1.39%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (38.89%) Service Delivery
1 28 (38.89%) Service Management
2 25 (34.72%) Thought Leadership
3 24 (33.33%) Business Development
4 21 (29.17%) Business Case
5 20 (27.78%) Actionable Insight
6 19 (26.39%) Creative Thinking
6 19 (26.39%) Strategic Thinking
7 18 (25.00%) Budgeting
8 17 (23.61%) Internal Audit
8 17 (23.61%) Mentoring
9 10 (13.89%) Roadmaps
10 9 (12.50%) Change Management
11 8 (11.11%) Agile
11 8 (11.11%) Line Management
12 7 (9.72%) ITIL
13 5 (6.94%) Incident Management
13 5 (6.94%) ITSM
13 5 (6.94%) Problem Management
13 5 (6.94%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (4.17%) Java
Qualifications
1 6 (8.33%) Degree
1 6 (8.33%) ITIL Certification
2 3 (4.17%) AWS Certification
2 3 (4.17%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (1.39%) DBS Check
3 1 (1.39%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (23.61%) QA
2 3 (4.17%) SLA
3 1 (1.39%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.39%) GDPR
3 1 (1.39%) ISO 9001
Vendors
1 6 (8.33%) Microsoft
2 4 (5.56%) Salesforce
3 3 (4.17%) Pega
3 3 (4.17%) SAP
4 1 (1.39%) ServiceNow