Service Delivery Manager Contracts in London

Service Delivery Manager
England > London

The median Service Delivery Manager daily rate in London is £500, 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 332 355 419
Rank change year-on-year +23 +64 +91
Contract jobs requiring a Service Delivery Manager 21 36 74
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.17% 0.20% 0.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.22% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 24 55
10th Percentile £388 £294 £318
25th Percentile £400 £313 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -2.44%
75th Percentile £542 £500 £644
90th Percentile £733 £538 £750
England median daily rate £450 £450 £545
% change year-on-year - -17.43% +7.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £27.50 - £56.25
Median hourly rate £30.00 - £57.50
75th Percentile £32.50 - £58.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £50.00 £30.00 £12.95
% change year-on-year +66.67% +131.66% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 11,726 16,625 25,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 93.24% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,034 12,022 18,663
10th Percentile £341 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 336 290
10th Percentile £20.45 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.90 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.75 £65.00 £76.03
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Service Delivery Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Service Delivery Manager in London

Service Delivery Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Service Delivery Manager in London

Service Delivery Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Service Delivery Manager in London

Service Delivery Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Service Delivery Manager in London

Service Delivery Manager
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London 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
Central London +2 4 £556 +58.93% 2
West London +12 1 - - 3
Service Delivery Manager
England

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

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 London region featuring Service Delivery Manager in the job title.

1 21 (100.00%) Service Delivery
2 14 (66.67%) ITIL
3 10 (47.62%) Social Skills
4 9 (42.86%) Continuous Improvement
5 8 (38.10%) Service Management
6 6 (28.57%) Problem Management
7 5 (23.81%) Decision-Making
7 5 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (23.81%) Stakeholder Management
8 4 (19.05%) Agile
8 4 (19.05%) Risk Management
8 4 (19.05%) Windows
8 4 (19.05%) ServiceNow
8 4 (19.05%) Analytical Skills
9 3 (14.29%) Line Management
9 3 (14.29%) Data-Driven Decision Making
9 3 (14.29%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (14.29%) SIAM
9 3 (14.29%) Customer Experience
9 3 (14.29%) SLA
9 3 (14.29%) Change Management
9 3 (14.29%) Incident Management
9 3 (14.29%) Time Management
9 3 (14.29%) SC Cleared
9 3 (14.29%) Security Cleared
9 3 (14.29%) Data Analysis
9 3 (14.29%) Finance
9 3 (14.29%) Legal
10 2 (9.52%) Spring
10 2 (9.52%) Maven

Service Delivery Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 (9.52%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (4.76%) SAP Retail
1 1 (4.76%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 1 (4.76%) AWS
1 1 (4.76%) Azure
1 1 (4.76%) BigCommerce
1 1 (4.76%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.52%) MySQL
2 1 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (4.76%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (9.52%) JIRA
1 2 (9.52%) Maven
General
1 10 (47.62%) Social Skills
2 4 (19.05%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (14.29%) Finance
3 3 (14.29%) Legal
4 2 (9.52%) Public Sector
4 2 (9.52%) Retail
5 1 (4.76%) Banking
5 1 (4.76%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (4.76%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.52%) AngularJS
1 2 (9.52%) Bootstrap
1 2 (9.52%) CSS
1 2 (9.52%) J2EE
1 2 (9.52%) jQuery
1 2 (9.52%) REST
1 2 (9.52%) Sass
1 2 (9.52%) Spring
1 2 (9.52%) Spring MVC
1 2 (9.52%) VML
1 2 (9.52%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (14.29%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (4.76%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (19.05%) Windows
2 2 (9.52%) Linux
2 2 (9.52%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (100.00%) Service Delivery
2 14 (66.67%) ITIL
3 9 (42.86%) Continuous Improvement
4 8 (38.10%) Service Management
5 6 (28.57%) Problem Management
6 5 (23.81%) Decision-Making
6 5 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (23.81%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (19.05%) Agile
7 4 (19.05%) Risk Management
8 3 (14.29%) Change Management
8 3 (14.29%) Customer Experience
8 3 (14.29%) Data Analysis
8 3 (14.29%) Data-Driven Decision Making
8 3 (14.29%) Incident Management
8 3 (14.29%) Line Management
8 3 (14.29%) SIAM
8 3 (14.29%) Time Management
9 2 (9.52%) Root Cause Analysis
9 2 (9.52%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (9.52%) Java
1 2 (9.52%) JavaScript
1 2 (9.52%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 3 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.76%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (4.76%) PMI Certification
2 1 (4.76%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (14.29%) SLA
2 1 (4.76%) Accessibility
2 1 (4.76%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (19.05%) ServiceNow
2 2 (9.52%) SAP
2 2 (9.52%) Sun
3 1 (4.76%) Adobe
3 1 (4.76%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.76%) Salesforce
3 1 (4.76%) Sitecore
3 1 (4.76%) Zoho