Service Delivery Manager Contracts in England

Service Delivery Manager
UK > England

The median Service Delivery Manager daily rate in England is £463 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 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
26 Apr 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 454 513 602
Rank change year-on-year +59 +89 -70
Contract jobs requiring a Service Delivery Manager 91 146 165
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.24% 0.29% 0.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% 0.30% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 117 107
10th Percentile £200 £363 £373
25th Percentile £314 £440 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £545 £500
Median % change year-on-year -15.14% +9.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £550 £625 £588
90th Percentile £650 £750 £644
UK median daily rate £450 £540 £500
% change year-on-year -16.67% +8.00% +9.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £29.75 - -
Median hourly rate £30.00 £12.95 -
Median % change year-on-year +131.66% - -
75th Percentile £51.57 £35.85 -
90th Percentile £72.90 £49.59 -
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £12.95 -
% change year-on-year +131.66% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 34,467 47,939 67,846
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.73% 94.60% 95.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,885 33,999 48,181
10th Percentile £275 £310 £313
25th Percentile £411 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £640 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,421 1,437 1,912
10th Percentile £13.00 £14.28 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.96 £44.53 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% +97.91% +0.36%
75th Percentile £60.25 £65.75 £48.62
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.35 £62.24
UK median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.09% +95.65% +0.24%

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 26 April 2024.

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 26 April 2024.

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 26 April 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
London +76 38 £450 -10.00% 11
Midlands +19 14 £550 -6.65% 5
South West +27 12 £538 -12.24% 3
North of England +18 11 £493 -10.36% 7
North West +20 10 £493 -6.98% 5
South East +17 8 £1,000 +86.05% 4
East Midlands +14 8 - - 3
West Midlands +30 6 £550 +4.76% 2
East of England +12 2 £513 +13.89% 1
Yorkshire +13 1 £450 -35.71% 2
Service Delivery Manager
UK

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

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, 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 90 (98.90%) Service Delivery
2 33 (36.26%) Service Management
3 29 (31.87%) ITIL
4 28 (30.77%) Security Cleared
5 25 (27.47%) Finance
6 23 (25.27%) SC Cleared
6 23 (25.27%) Social Skills
7 21 (23.08%) Microsoft
8 18 (19.78%) ITSM
9 15 (16.48%) Problem Management
9 15 (16.48%) Customer Service
9 15 (16.48%) Problem-Solving
10 14 (15.38%) Decision-Making
10 14 (15.38%) SLA
11 13 (14.29%) Change Management
11 13 (14.29%) Azure
11 13 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
12 12 (13.19%) Microsoft 365
13 11 (12.09%) AWS
13 11 (12.09%) Legal
13 11 (12.09%) Service Delivery Management
13 11 (12.09%) Performance Metrics
14 10 (10.99%) Service Design
14 10 (10.99%) SaaS
14 10 (10.99%) Business Analysis
15 9 (9.89%) People Management
15 9 (9.89%) Stakeholder Management
15 9 (9.89%) Information Security
15 9 (9.89%) Public Sector
16 8 (8.79%) Okta

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 5 (5.49%) SharePoint
2 3 (3.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 3 (3.30%) Mendix
3 1 (1.10%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (3.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (3.30%) SAP ERP
1 3 (3.30%) Shopify
2 1 (1.10%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 13 (14.29%) Azure
2 12 (13.19%) Microsoft 365
3 11 (12.09%) AWS
4 10 (10.99%) SaaS
5 3 (3.30%) BigCommerce
6 1 (1.10%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.10%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.59%) SD-WAN
2 3 (3.30%) VPN
3 1 (1.10%) GSM
3 1 (1.10%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.30%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (3.30%) Maven
General
1 25 (27.47%) Finance
2 23 (25.27%) Social Skills
3 11 (12.09%) Legal
4 9 (9.89%) Public Sector
5 6 (6.59%) Telecoms
6 5 (5.49%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (3.30%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (3.30%) Billing
7 3 (3.30%) French Language
7 3 (3.30%) Local Government
7 3 (3.30%) Marketing
7 3 (3.30%) Retail
8 1 (1.10%) Automotive
8 1 (1.10%) Mandarin Language
8 1 (1.10%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.10%) Police
8 1 (1.10%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.10%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.30%) AngularJS
1 3 (3.30%) CSS
1 3 (3.30%) J2EE
1 3 (3.30%) jQuery
1 3 (3.30%) REST
1 3 (3.30%) Sass
1 3 (3.30%) Spring
1 3 (3.30%) Spring MVC
1 3 (3.30%) Twitter Bootstrap
1 3 (3.30%) VML
1 3 (3.30%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.49%) Management Information System
2 2 (2.20%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (1.10%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.10%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (8.79%) Apple iOS
2 5 (5.49%) Windows
3 3 (3.30%) Linux
3 3 (3.30%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (98.90%) Service Delivery
2 33 (36.26%) Service Management
3 29 (31.87%) ITIL
4 18 (19.78%) ITSM
5 15 (16.48%) Customer Service
5 15 (16.48%) Problem Management
5 15 (16.48%) Problem-Solving
6 14 (15.38%) Decision-Making
7 13 (14.29%) Change Management
7 13 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
8 11 (12.09%) Performance Metrics
8 11 (12.09%) Service Delivery Management
9 10 (10.99%) Business Analysis
9 10 (10.99%) Service Design
10 9 (9.89%) Information Security
10 9 (9.89%) People Management
10 9 (9.89%) Stakeholder Management
11 8 (8.79%) Agile
11 8 (8.79%) Incident Management
11 8 (8.79%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 8 (8.79%) Swift
2 3 (3.30%) Java
2 3 (3.30%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 28 (30.77%) Security Cleared
2 23 (25.27%) SC Cleared
3 7 (7.69%) Degree
4 5 (5.49%) ITIL Certification
5 3 (3.30%) DV Cleared
6 2 (2.20%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.10%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.10%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (15.38%) SLA
2 3 (3.30%) GxP
2 3 (3.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (2.20%) QA
4 1 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 20000
Systems Management
1 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (1.10%) Terraform
Vendors
1 21 (23.08%) Microsoft
2 8 (8.79%) Okta
2 8 (8.79%) SAP
3 4 (4.40%) Salesforce
3 4 (4.40%) ServiceNow
4 3 (3.30%) Adobe
4 3 (3.30%) Dell
4 3 (3.30%) Google
4 3 (3.30%) Intel
4 3 (3.30%) Sitecore
5 1 (1.10%) NEC
5 1 (1.10%) Oracle
5 1 (1.10%) Remedy
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