Services Director Contracts

Service Director
UK

The median Service Director daily rate in the UK is £856 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 20 May 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 573 691 834
Rank change year-on-year +118 +143 -146
Contract jobs requiring a Services Director 6 3 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.014% 0.005% 0.033%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.015% 0.006% 0.034%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 24
10th Percentile £655 - £550
25th Percentile £712 £613 £707
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £856 £625 £850
Median % change year-on-year +37.00% -26.47% +11.48%
75th Percentile £997 £638 £975
90th Percentile £1,188 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £738 £625 £681
% change year-on-year +18.00% -8.26% +36.25%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

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

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 39,468 54,175 84,246
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.79% 94.61% 95.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,716 37,826 59,224
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +8.47%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £489 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.20% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,674 1,504 2,051
10th Percentile £12.83 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.82
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +4.19%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Services Director in the UK

Services Director
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Services Director over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Services Director in the UK

Services Director
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Services Director within the UK over the 6 months to 20 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +117 5 £975 +56.00% 35
London +103 4 £988 - 18
Work from Home - 3 £720 - 7
UK excluding London +52 1 £738 +18.00% 17
South East - 1 £738 - 7

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

For the 6 months to 20 May 2024, Services Director 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 featuring Services Director in the job title.

1 3 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (16.67%) Risk Assessment
2 1 (16.67%) Programme Management
2 1 (16.67%) ITIL
2 1 (16.67%) Configuration Management
2 1 (16.67%) Service Management
2 1 (16.67%) Quality Management
2 1 (16.67%) CIPFA
2 1 (16.67%) Service Delivery
2 1 (16.67%) Change Management
2 1 (16.67%) ITSM
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Legal
2 1 (16.67%) Incident Management
2 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (16.67%) Marketing
2 1 (16.67%) Release Management
2 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (16.67%) ServiceNow
2 1 (16.67%) Performance Metrics
2 1 (16.67%) IT Strategy
2 1 (16.67%) Data Strategy
2 1 (16.67%) Strategic Thinking
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Operations
2 1 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (16.67%) Data-Driven Decision Making
2 1 (16.67%) Housing Association

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:

General
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
1 1 (16.67%) Legal
1 1 (16.67%) Marketing
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Housing Association
1 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
1 1 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (16.67%) Change Management
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Operations
2 1 (16.67%) Configuration Management
2 1 (16.67%) Data Strategy
2 1 (16.67%) Data-Driven Decision Making
2 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (16.67%) Incident Management
2 1 (16.67%) IT Strategy
2 1 (16.67%) ITIL
2 1 (16.67%) ITSM
2 1 (16.67%) Performance Metrics
2 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (16.67%) Programme Management
2 1 (16.67%) Quality Management
2 1 (16.67%) Release Management
2 1 (16.67%) Risk Assessment
2 1 (16.67%) Service Delivery
2 1 (16.67%) Service Management
2 1 (16.67%) Strategic Thinking
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) CIPFA
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) ServiceNow