Service Manager Jobs in the South East

Services Manager
England > South East

The median Services Manager salary in the South East is £47,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides salary 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 271 285 323
Rank change year-on-year +14 +38 -19
Permanent jobs requiring a Service Manager 134 92 192
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.72% 0.69% 0.90%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.76% 0.77% 0.94%
Number of salaries quoted 121 73 151
10th Percentile £32,750 £41,831 £41,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £50,000 £42,700
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £73,750
England median annual salary £51,910 £58,750 £55,000
% change year-on-year -11.64% +6.82% +4.76%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 17,582 11,899 20,479
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.31% 89.64% 96.02%
Number of salaries quoted 12,383 7,812 12,372
10th Percentile £27,750 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,713 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.53% +1.19% +9.09%

Service Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Service Manager in the South East

Service Manager
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Service Manager in the South East.

Salary trend for Service Manager in the South East

Service Manager
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Service Manager in the South East over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Service Manager in the South East

Service Manager
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Service Manager within the South East 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Hampshire -10 46 £47,500 -6.83% 9
Thames Valley +13 36 £42,500 -34.62% 16
Surrey +3 30 £61,250 +2.08% 7
Buckinghamshire -8 13 £33,500 -48.46% 3
Kent -17 13 £42,500 -22.73% 6
Berkshire +12 12 £62,500 -1.96% 11
Oxfordshire +2 11 £47,500 +18.75% 2
East Sussex +15 6 £50,000 -41.18% 1
West Sussex +9 3 £40,000 -30.43% 1
Service Manager
England

Service Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, Service Manager 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 across the South East region featuring Service Manager in the job title.

1 73 (54.48%) Service Delivery
2 53 (39.55%) SLA
3 44 (32.84%) ITIL
4 43 (32.09%) Microsoft
5 41 (30.60%) Service Management
5 41 (30.60%) Social Skills
6 34 (25.37%) Finance
7 31 (23.13%) Incident Management
8 30 (22.39%) ITSM
9 27 (20.15%) Stakeholder Management
10 23 (17.16%) Degree
11 20 (14.93%) Public Sector
12 19 (14.18%) Problem-Solving
12 19 (14.18%) Customer Service
12 19 (14.18%) Cybersecurity
12 19 (14.18%) Windows
13 18 (13.43%) PRINCE2
13 18 (13.43%) Project Management
14 17 (12.69%) Continuous Improvement
14 17 (12.69%) Azure
15 16 (11.94%) Microsoft Office
16 15 (11.19%) Presentation Skills
17 14 (10.45%) Service Delivery Management
17 14 (10.45%) Telecoms
17 14 (10.45%) Microsoft Excel
17 14 (10.45%) Security Cleared
18 13 (9.70%) APMP
18 13 (9.70%) People Management
18 13 (9.70%) Resource Management
18 13 (9.70%) PMO

Service Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 2 (1.49%) Confluence
2 1 (0.75%) SharePoint
Applications
1 16 (11.94%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (10.45%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (4.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 17 (12.69%) Azure
2 10 (7.46%) AWS
2 10 (7.46%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (6.72%) Cloud Computing
4 4 (2.99%) Power Platform
5 2 (1.49%) Google Docs
5 2 (1.49%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (7.46%) LAN
1 10 (7.46%) WAN
2 6 (4.48%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (1.49%) Firewall
3 2 (1.49%) Internet
3 2 (1.49%) NAS
4 1 (0.75%) DHCP
4 1 (0.75%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.99%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (1.49%) Bitbucket
1 2 (1.49%) GitLab
1 2 (1.49%) JIRA
General
1 41 (30.60%) Social Skills
2 34 (25.37%) Finance
3 20 (14.93%) Public Sector
4 15 (11.19%) Presentation Skills
5 14 (10.45%) Telecoms
6 10 (7.46%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (3.73%) Legal
8 4 (2.99%) Advertising
8 4 (2.99%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (2.24%) Financial Institution
9 3 (2.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.24%) Retail
10 2 (1.49%) Law
11 1 (0.75%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.75%) Electronics
11 1 (0.75%) Marketing
11 1 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.49%) .NET
1 2 (1.49%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.72%) NHS
1 9 (6.72%) PKI
2 7 (5.22%) Onboarding
3 2 (1.49%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (1.49%) Data Centre
3 2 (1.49%) Management Information System
4 1 (0.75%) Driving Licence
4 1 (0.75%) e-Learning
4 1 (0.75%) PMI
4 1 (0.75%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 19 (14.18%) Windows
2 13 (9.70%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.75%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (54.48%) Service Delivery
2 44 (32.84%) ITIL
3 41 (30.60%) Service Management
4 31 (23.13%) Incident Management
5 30 (22.39%) ITSM
6 27 (20.15%) Stakeholder Management
7 19 (14.18%) Customer Service
7 19 (14.18%) Cybersecurity
7 19 (14.18%) Problem-Solving
8 18 (13.43%) PRINCE2
8 18 (13.43%) Project Management
9 17 (12.69%) Continuous Improvement
10 14 (10.45%) Service Delivery Management
11 13 (9.70%) Contingency Planning
11 13 (9.70%) People Management
11 13 (9.70%) Resource Management
12 10 (7.46%) Risk Register
13 9 (6.72%) Customer Experience
13 9 (6.72%) Decision-Making
13 9 (6.72%) Information Governance
Programming Languages
1 6 (4.48%) C#
2 4 (2.99%) Java
2 4 (2.99%) Python
3 2 (1.49%) JavaScript
3 2 (1.49%) SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (17.16%) Degree
2 14 (10.45%) Security Cleared
3 13 (9.70%) APMP
4 10 (7.46%) DBS Check
5 5 (3.73%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (1.49%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.75%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.75%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.75%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (39.55%) SLA
2 13 (9.70%) PMO
3 11 (8.21%) Cyber Essentials
3 11 (8.21%) GDPR
4 7 (5.22%) Accessibility
5 4 (2.99%) ISO 22301
6 3 (2.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (1.49%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.75%) QA
System Software
1 4 (2.99%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (1.49%) Hyper-V
2 2 (1.49%) VMware Workstation
3 1 (0.75%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (0.75%) Ansible
1 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (0.75%) Terraform
Vendors
1 43 (32.09%) Microsoft
2 7 (5.22%) ServiceNow
2 7 (5.22%) VMware
3 2 (1.49%) Cisco
3 2 (1.49%) Dell
3 2 (1.49%) Google