Service Manager Contracts in London

Services Manager
England > London

The median Services Manager daily rate in London is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 281 321 326
Rank change year-on-year +40 +5 +36
Contract jobs requiring a Service Manager 112 175 292
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.64% 0.68% 0.75%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.68% 0.72% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 124 207
10th Percentile £313 £363 £380
25th Percentile £405 £436 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.31% -0.48% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £607
90th Percentile £638 £724 £646
England median daily rate £493 £501 £500
% change year-on-year -1.50% +0.10% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 3
10th Percentile - £16.85 £31.46
25th Percentile - £31.63 £31.77
Median hourly rate - £57.50 £32.60
Median % change year-on-year - +76.38% -
75th Percentile - £61.38 £35.18
90th Percentile - £62.95 £36.04
England median hourly rate £30.00 £12.95 £32.50
% change year-on-year +131.66% -60.15% -0.34%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in 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 contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in London with a recognized job title 16,399 24,342 36,962
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.57% 95.15% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,837 17,773 27,187
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £440 £463 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 327 278 414
10th Percentile £16.00 £17.83 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.22 £22.53 £23.24
Median hourly rate £27.81 £36.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.75% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £47.18 £63.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £67.40 £82.33 £67.50
England median hourly rate £37.75 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.11% +88.21% +11.47%

Service Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Service Manager in London

Service Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Service Manager in London.

Daily rate trend for Service Manager in London

Service Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Service Manager in London over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Service Manager in London

Service Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Service Manager in London.

Hourly rate trend for Service Manager in London

Service Manager
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Service Manager within the London region over the 6 months to 2 June 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London +39 21 £455 -13.33% 12
South London +2 4 £550 +4.76% 3
West London +19 2 £508 +6.84% 2
East London -8 2 £325 -2.26% 3
North London - 2 - -
Service Manager
England

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

For the 6 months to 2 June 2024, Service Manager contract 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 contract job ads across the London region featuring Service Manager in the job title.

1 66 (58.93%) ITIL
2 46 (41.07%) Service Management
3 37 (33.04%) Service Delivery
3 37 (33.04%) Security Cleared
4 35 (31.25%) SC Cleared
5 30 (26.79%) Social Skills
6 28 (25.00%) Service Design
7 24 (21.43%) Public Sector
8 22 (19.64%) ITSM
9 20 (17.86%) ServiceNow
10 18 (16.07%) Finance
11 16 (14.29%) Microsoft
12 14 (12.50%) Agile
13 13 (11.61%) Customer Service
13 13 (11.61%) Onboarding
14 12 (10.71%) SIAM
14 12 (10.71%) SLA
15 11 (9.82%) Acceptance Criteria
16 10 (8.93%) Continuous Improvement
16 10 (8.93%) Azure
17 9 (8.04%) SAP
17 9 (8.04%) DevOps
18 8 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
18 8 (7.14%) Windows
18 8 (7.14%) Stakeholder Management
18 8 (7.14%) ITIL Certification
18 8 (7.14%) Project Management
19 7 (6.25%) Risk Management
19 7 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
19 7 (6.25%) Microsoft 365

Service Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 4 (3.57%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.68%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 2 (1.79%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.89%) Apache
4 1 (0.89%) CMS
4 1 (0.89%) Confluence
4 1 (0.89%) IIS
4 1 (0.89%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (3.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.79%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.89%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (2.68%) SAP ERP
1 3 (2.68%) Shopify
2 1 (0.89%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 10 (8.93%) Azure
2 7 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (4.46%) AWS
4 3 (2.68%) BigCommerce
4 3 (2.68%) SaaS
4 3 (2.68%) WhatsApp
5 2 (1.79%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (1.79%) GCP
6 1 (0.89%) Entra ID
6 1 (0.89%) IaaS
6 1 (0.89%) Mimecast
6 1 (0.89%) OneDrive
6 1 (0.89%) PaaS
6 1 (0.89%) Power Platform
6 1 (0.89%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.89%) DHCP
1 1 (0.89%) DNS
1 1 (0.89%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.57%) MySQL
2 1 (0.89%) MariaDB
2 1 (0.89%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (2.68%) JIRA
1 3 (2.68%) Maven
General
1 30 (26.79%) Social Skills
2 24 (21.43%) Public Sector
3 18 (16.07%) Finance
4 7 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (5.36%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (4.46%) Marketing
7 4 (3.57%) Banking
8 3 (2.68%) French Language
8 3 (2.68%) Legal
8 3 (2.68%) Retail
9 1 (0.89%) Local Government
9 1 (0.89%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.89%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.89%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.89%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.68%) AngularJS
1 3 (2.68%) CSS
1 3 (2.68%) J2EE
1 3 (2.68%) jQuery
1 3 (2.68%) REST
1 3 (2.68%) Sass
1 3 (2.68%) Spring
1 3 (2.68%) Spring MVC
1 3 (2.68%) Twitter Bootstrap
1 3 (2.68%) VML
1 3 (2.68%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 13 (11.61%) Onboarding
2 6 (5.36%) Management Information System
3 5 (4.46%) CMDB
4 2 (1.79%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (1.79%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.89%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 8 (7.14%) Windows
2 3 (2.68%) Linux
2 3 (2.68%) Unix
3 1 (0.89%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (58.93%) ITIL
2 46 (41.07%) Service Management
3 37 (33.04%) Service Delivery
4 28 (25.00%) Service Design
5 22 (19.64%) ITSM
6 14 (12.50%) Agile
7 13 (11.61%) Customer Service
8 12 (10.71%) SIAM
9 11 (9.82%) Acceptance Criteria
10 10 (8.93%) Continuous Improvement
11 9 (8.04%) DevOps
12 8 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
12 8 (7.14%) Project Management
12 8 (7.14%) Stakeholder Management
13 7 (6.25%) Risk Management
14 6 (5.36%) Business Analysis
14 6 (5.36%) Impact Assessments
14 6 (5.36%) Process Improvement
15 5 (4.46%) Project Delivery
15 5 (4.46%) Service Catalogue
Programming Languages
1 3 (2.68%) Java
1 3 (2.68%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 37 (33.04%) Security Cleared
2 35 (31.25%) SC Cleared
3 8 (7.14%) ITIL Certification
4 5 (4.46%) Degree
5 3 (2.68%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.79%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 1 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.89%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.89%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (10.71%) SLA
2 6 (5.36%) QA
3 1 (0.89%) ISO 22301
3 1 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 3 (2.68%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.89%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (2.68%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.89%) Terraform
Vendors
1 20 (17.86%) ServiceNow
2 16 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 9 (8.04%) SAP
4 5 (4.46%) Google
5 4 (3.57%) Salesforce
6 3 (2.68%) Adobe
6 3 (2.68%) Dell
6 3 (2.68%) Intel
6 3 (2.68%) Sitecore
7 2 (1.79%) VMware
8 1 (0.89%) Citrix
8 1 (0.89%) Darktrace
8 1 (0.89%) HP
8 1 (0.89%) Remedy
8 1 (0.89%) Snow