City of London Services Delivery Manager Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Services Delivery Manager role in IT contracts within the City of London region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Services Delivery Manager in their job title over the 3 months to 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Service Delivery Manager
Location Berkshire Bristol Buckinghamshire Cardiff Cheshire City of London Clapham Dartford East Midlands East of England England Glasgow Guildford Hampshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Kent Leeds London Manchester Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Norfolk North West Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Portsmouth Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Surrey Swansea Swindon Telford UK Uxbridge Wales Walsall West Midlands West Wales West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	210	185
Rank change on same period last year	-25
Matching contract IT job ads	16	14
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.021 %	0.014 %
As % of the category below	0.195 %	0.210 %
Daily rates quoted	12	5
Average minimum daily rate	£439	£365
Average daily rate	£463	£370
% change on same period last year	+25.12 %
Average maximum daily rate	£487	£375
UK excluding London average daily rate	£390	£395
% change on same period last year	-1.18 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£48.25	£36.85
% change on same period last year	+30.92 %
Job Titles City of London
Matching contract IT job ads	8220	6670
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	10.85 %	6.643 %
Daily rates quoted	4487	2711
Average minimum daily rate	£419	£442
Average daily rate	£457	£474
% change on same period last year	-3.66 %
Average maximum daily rate	£495	£506
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£354
% change on same period last year	+0.32 %
Hourly rates quoted	348	219
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.35	£21.88
Average hourly rate	£25.10	£23.16
% change on same period last year	+8.36 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.85	£24.44
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.60	£25.69
% change on same period last year	-8.13 %
Services Delivery Manager London

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

Services Delivery Manager
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Services Delivery Manager across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Services Delivery Manager across the City of London region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Services Delivery Manager across the City of London region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Services Delivery Manager across the City of London region.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited Services Delivery Manager in their job title mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with Services Delivery Manager in their job title.

1 32 (100.00 %) Service Delivery 2 18 (56.25 %) ITIL 3 10 (31.25 %) SLA 3 10 (31.25 %) Banking 4 9 (28.13 %) Finance 5 7 (21.88 %) Remedy 5 7 (21.88 %) Project Management 6 5 (15.63 %) UNIX 6 5 (15.63 %) Investment Banking 7 4 (12.50 %) ITIL Certification 7 4 (12.50 %) BMC 7 4 (12.50 %) Change Management 7 4 (12.50 %) Service Management 8 3 (9.375 %) Health 8 3 (9.375 %) Lotus

8 3 (9.375 %) NHS 8 3 (9.375 %) SharePoint 8 3 (9.375 %) Windows 8 3 (9.375 %) Lotus Notes 8 3 (9.375 %) SQL 8 3 (9.375 %) Risk Management 8 3 (9.375 %) Asset Management 8 3 (9.375 %) Insurance 8 3 (9.375 %) Fund Management 9 2 (6.250 %) MS PowerPoint 9 2 (6.250 %) Investment Management 9 2 (6.250 %) Spreadsheet 9 2 (6.250 %) Windows XP 9 2 (6.250 %) MS Exchange 9 2 (6.250 %) Business Continuity

Services Delivery Manager
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited Services Delivery Manager in their job title mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with Services Delivery Manager in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 3 (9.375 %) SharePoint 1 3 (9.375 %) Lotus Notes 2 2 (6.250 %) MS Exchange	Applications 1 2 (6.250 %) MS PowerPoint 1 2 (6.250 %) Spreadsheet 1 2 (6.250 %) MS Office 2 1 (3.125 %) MS Project 2 1 (3.125 %) MS Excel
General 1 10 (31.25 %) Banking 2 9 (28.13 %) Finance 3 5 (15.63 %) Investment Banking 4 3 (9.375 %) Health 4 3 (9.375 %) Insurance 5 2 (6.250 %) Front Office 6 1 (3.125 %) Telecoms	Miscellaneous 1 3 (9.375 %) NHS 2 2 (6.250 %) Equities 3 1 (3.125 %) Statistics
Operating Systems 1 5 (15.63 %) UNIX 2 3 (9.375 %) Windows 3 2 (6.250 %) Windows XP	Processes & Methodologies 1 32 (100.00 %) Service Delivery 2 18 (56.25 %) ITIL 3 7 (21.88 %) Project Management 4 4 (12.50 %) Change Management 4 4 (12.50 %) Service Management 5 3 (9.375 %) Risk Management 5 3 (9.375 %) Asset Management 5 3 (9.375 %) Fund Management 6 2 (6.250 %) Investment Management 6 2 (6.250 %) Business Continuity 7 1 (3.125 %) BCP 7 1 (3.125 %) Configuration Management 7 1 (3.125 %) Risk Assessment 7 1 (3.125 %) PRINCE2 7 1 (3.125 %) Operations Management 7 1 (3.125 %) Release Management 7 1 (3.125 %) Supplier Management
Programming Languages 1 3 (9.375 %) SQL	Qualifications 1 4 (12.50 %) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 10 (31.25 %) SLA 2 1 (3.125 %) ISO9000	Systems Management 1 1 (3.125 %) BMC PATROL
Vendors 1 7 (21.88 %) Remedy 2 4 (12.50 %) BMC 3 3 (9.375 %) Lotus 4 1 (3.125 %) Citrix 4 1 (3.125 %) Reuters 4 1 (3.125 %) Bloomberg