Service Delivery Manager Contracts in England

Service Delivery Manager
UK > England

The median Service Delivery Manager daily rate in England is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

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

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 442 453 506
Rank change year-on-year +11 +53 +108
Contract jobs requiring a Service Delivery Manager 43 89 147
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.18% 0.24% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.26% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 54 117
10th Percentile £353 £200 £363
25th Percentile £400 £313 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £545
Median % change year-on-year - -17.43% +7.65%
75th Percentile £571 £538 £625
90th Percentile £628 £650 £750
UK median daily rate £450 £450 £540
% change year-on-year - -16.67% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 3
10th Percentile £31.75 - -
25th Percentile £38.13 £29.75 -
Median hourly rate £50.00 £30.00 £12.95
Median % change year-on-year +66.67% +131.66% -
75th Percentile £60.63 £51.57 £35.85
90th Percentile £66.25 £72.90 £49.59
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £30.00 £12.95
% change year-on-year +66.67% +131.66% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Service Delivery Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Service Delivery Manager in England

Service Delivery Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Service Delivery Manager in England

Service Delivery Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Service Delivery Manager in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Service Delivery Manager in England

Service Delivery Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Service Delivery Manager in England

Service Delivery Manager
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Service Delivery Manager in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Service Delivery Manager in England

Service Delivery Manager
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Service Delivery Manager within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
London +23 21 £500 +11.11% 55
South East +44 6 £511 -48.88% 30
South West +40 6 £475 -11.63% 17
Midlands +13 5 £450 -18.18% 30
West Midlands +12 4 £450 -18.18% 19
East of England +30 2 - - 15
North of England +10 2 £350 -29.01% 28
North West +8 1 £400 -18.86% 10
Yorkshire +8 1 £300 -33.33% 14
East Midlands +3 1 - - 10
Service Delivery Manager
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Service Delivery 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 England region featuring Service Delivery Manager in the job title.

1 43 (100.00%) Service Delivery
2 30 (69.77%) ITIL
3 19 (44.19%) Continuous Improvement
4 18 (41.86%) Social Skills
5 16 (37.21%) Service Management
6 12 (27.91%) Problem Management
7 11 (25.58%) Security Cleared
8 9 (20.93%) SC Cleared
8 9 (20.93%) Stakeholder Management
8 9 (20.93%) SLA
9 8 (18.60%) ITSM
10 7 (16.28%) Finance
10 7 (16.28%) Problem-Solving
11 6 (13.95%) Decision-Making
11 6 (13.95%) Line Management
11 6 (13.95%) Risk Management
11 6 (13.95%) Agile
11 6 (13.95%) Banking
11 6 (13.95%) ITIL Certification
12 5 (11.63%) Windows
12 5 (11.63%) Retail
12 5 (11.63%) Telecoms
12 5 (11.63%) Legal
12 5 (11.63%) Change Management
12 5 (11.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 5 (11.63%) ServiceNow
12 5 (11.63%) Incident Management
12 5 (11.63%) Customer Service
13 4 (9.30%) Contract Negotiation
13 4 (9.30%) Analytical Skills

Service Delivery Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (4.65%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.33%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (2.33%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (2.33%) SAP Retail
1 1 (2.33%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 2 (4.65%) Azure
1 2 (4.65%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (2.33%) AWS
2 1 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (2.33%) BigCommerce
2 1 (2.33%) Power Platform
2 1 (2.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.65%) Cisco Firepower
1 2 (4.65%) Firewall
1 2 (4.65%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.65%) MySQL
2 1 (2.33%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.33%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (2.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (6.98%) JIRA
2 2 (4.65%) Maven
3 1 (2.33%) Bugzilla
3 1 (2.33%) Git
3 1 (2.33%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.33%) Selenium
3 1 (2.33%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 18 (41.86%) Social Skills
2 7 (16.28%) Finance
3 6 (13.95%) Banking
4 5 (11.63%) Legal
4 5 (11.63%) Retail
4 5 (11.63%) Telecoms
5 4 (9.30%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (6.98%) Public Sector
7 2 (4.65%) Back Office
7 2 (4.65%) Billing
7 2 (4.65%) Manufacturing
7 2 (4.65%) Military
8 1 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (2.33%) Law
8 1 (2.33%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.65%) AngularJS
1 2 (4.65%) Bootstrap
1 2 (4.65%) CSS
1 2 (4.65%) J2EE
1 2 (4.65%) jQuery
1 2 (4.65%) REST
1 2 (4.65%) Sass
1 2 (4.65%) Spring
1 2 (4.65%) Spring MVC
1 2 (4.65%) VML
1 2 (4.65%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.98%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (4.65%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.33%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (11.63%) Windows
2 2 (4.65%) Linux
2 2 (4.65%) Unix
3 1 (2.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (100.00%) Service Delivery
2 30 (69.77%) ITIL
3 19 (44.19%) Continuous Improvement
4 16 (37.21%) Service Management
5 12 (27.91%) Problem Management
6 9 (20.93%) Stakeholder Management
7 8 (18.60%) ITSM
8 7 (16.28%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (13.95%) Agile
9 6 (13.95%) Decision-Making
9 6 (13.95%) Line Management
9 6 (13.95%) Risk Management
10 5 (11.63%) Change Management
10 5 (11.63%) Customer Service
10 5 (11.63%) Incident Management
10 5 (11.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 4 (9.30%) Contract Negotiation
11 4 (9.30%) Time Management
12 3 (6.98%) Data Analysis
12 3 (6.98%) Performance Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (4.65%) Java
1 2 (4.65%) JavaScript
1 2 (4.65%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (25.58%) Security Cleared
2 9 (20.93%) SC Cleared
3 6 (13.95%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (4.65%) CISA
4 2 (4.65%) CISM
4 2 (4.65%) CISSP
4 2 (4.65%) GIAC
4 2 (4.65%) ISACA
4 2 (4.65%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 2 (4.65%) PMI Certification
4 2 (4.65%) PMP
4 2 (4.65%) SANS
5 1 (2.33%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (20.93%) SLA
2 1 (2.33%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.33%) COBIT
2 1 (2.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (2.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (4.65%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 5 (11.63%) ServiceNow
2 4 (9.30%) Microsoft
3 3 (6.98%) SAP
4 2 (4.65%) Cisco
4 2 (4.65%) Sun
4 2 (4.65%) Tenable
5 1 (2.33%) Adobe
5 1 (2.33%) Oracle
5 1 (2.33%) Remedy
5 1 (2.33%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.33%) Sitecore
5 1 (2.33%) Workday
5 1 (2.33%) Zoho