Service Manager Contracts in London

Services Manager
England > London

The median Services Manager daily rate in London is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024.

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

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 288 310 340
Rank change year-on-year +22 +30 +33
Contract jobs requiring a Service Manager 112 174 281
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.63% 0.69% 0.73%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.68% 0.73% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 118 200
10th Percentile £340 £363 £381
25th Percentile £413 £427 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.31% -0.48% +5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £604
90th Percentile £638 £723 £650
England median daily rate £493 £501 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% +0.20% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
Median hourly rate - £57.50 £32.60
Median % change year-on-year - +76.38% -
England median hourly rate £30.00 £12.95 £27.00
% change year-on-year +131.66% -52.04% -17.20%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 16,560 23,906 36,699
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.67% 95.05% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,921 17,459 27,030
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £440 £463 £475
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 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 324 281 404
10th Percentile £16.00 £17.98 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.17 £22.63 £23.75
Median hourly rate £27.81 £36.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.75% +2.86% +7.12%
75th Percentile £46.59 £63.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £66.85 £82.25 £67.50
England median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -12.22% +87.50% +14.01%

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 12 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 12 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 +45 20 £453 -13.81% 7
South London +4 5 £550 +2.04% 2
East London -6 3 £325 -2.26% 5
West London +16 2 £508 +6.84% 2
Service Manager
England

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

For the 6 months to 12 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 51 (45.54%) Service Management
3 41 (36.61%) Security Cleared
4 39 (34.82%) Service Delivery
4 39 (34.82%) SC Cleared
5 31 (27.68%) Social Skills
6 29 (25.89%) Service Design
7 24 (21.43%) Public Sector
8 23 (20.54%) ITSM
9 17 (15.18%) Finance
10 16 (14.29%) Microsoft
10 16 (14.29%) Agile
10 16 (14.29%) ServiceNow
11 13 (11.61%) Onboarding
11 13 (11.61%) SLA
12 12 (10.71%) Customer Service
13 11 (9.82%) SIAM
13 11 (9.82%) Azure
14 9 (8.04%) ITIL Certification
14 9 (8.04%) Windows
14 9 (8.04%) Problem-Solving
14 9 (8.04%) Acceptance Criteria
14 9 (8.04%) DevOps
14 9 (8.04%) Continuous Improvement
15 8 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
15 8 (7.14%) SAP
16 7 (6.25%) Project Management
16 7 (6.25%) Risk Management
16 7 (6.25%) Stakeholder Management
16 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%) 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
Business Applications
1 3 (2.68%) SAP ERP
1 3 (2.68%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 11 (9.82%) Azure
2 7 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (4.46%) AWS
4 3 (2.68%) BigCommerce
4 3 (2.68%) WhatsApp
5 2 (1.79%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (1.79%) Entra ID
5 2 (1.79%) GCP
5 2 (1.79%) SaaS
6 1 (0.89%) IaaS
6 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Purview
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 31 (27.68%) Social Skills
2 24 (21.43%) Public Sector
3 17 (15.18%) Finance
4 8 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (4.46%) Influencing Skills
5 5 (4.46%) Marketing
6 4 (3.57%) Banking
7 3 (2.68%) French Language
7 3 (2.68%) Legal
7 3 (2.68%) Retail
8 1 (0.89%) Local Government
8 1 (0.89%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.89%) Pharmaceutical
8 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 3 (2.68%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (2.68%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.79%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.79%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.89%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.89%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (8.04%) Windows
2 3 (2.68%) Linux
2 3 (2.68%) Unix
3 1 (0.89%) Android
3 1 (0.89%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.89%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (58.93%) ITIL
2 51 (45.54%) Service Management
3 39 (34.82%) Service Delivery
4 29 (25.89%) Service Design
5 23 (20.54%) ITSM
6 16 (14.29%) Agile
7 12 (10.71%) Customer Service
8 11 (9.82%) SIAM
9 9 (8.04%) Acceptance Criteria
9 9 (8.04%) Continuous Improvement
9 9 (8.04%) DevOps
9 9 (8.04%) Problem-Solving
10 7 (6.25%) Project Management
10 7 (6.25%) Risk Management
10 7 (6.25%) Stakeholder Management
11 6 (5.36%) Project Delivery
11 6 (5.36%) Service Catalogue
12 5 (4.46%) Business Analysis
12 5 (4.46%) Impact Assessments
12 5 (4.46%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (2.68%) Java
1 3 (2.68%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 41 (36.61%) Security Cleared
2 39 (34.82%) SC Cleared
3 9 (8.04%) 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 13 (11.61%) SLA
2 5 (4.46%) QA
3 1 (0.89%) ISO 22301
3 1 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 4 (3.57%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.89%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (0.89%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (3.57%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.89%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (0.89%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (14.29%) Microsoft
1 16 (14.29%) ServiceNow
2 8 (7.14%) SAP
3 5 (4.46%) Google
4 4 (3.57%) Salesforce
5 3 (2.68%) Adobe
5 3 (2.68%) Dell
5 3 (2.68%) Intel
5 3 (2.68%) Sitecore
6 2 (1.79%) VMware
7 1 (0.89%) CA
7 1 (0.89%) Cadence
7 1 (0.89%) Citrix
7 1 (0.89%) Darktrace
7 1 (0.89%) Foundry
7 1 (0.89%) HP
7 1 (0.89%) Snow