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 19 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
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 329 362 426
Rank change year-on-year +33 +64 +75
Contract jobs requiring a Service Delivery Manager 21 34 69
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.17% 0.19% 0.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.21% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 22 52
10th Percentile £390 £313 £314
25th Percentile £400 £322 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £594 £500 £622
90th Percentile £711 £534 £750
England median daily rate £475 £445 £543
% change year-on-year +6.74% -17.97% +8.50%
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 11,586 16,333 24,623
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.25% 93.45% 95.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,924 11,811 17,900
10th Percentile £349 £325 £363
25th Percentile £429 £445 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £523 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.38% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 318 280
10th Percentile £20.24 £16.00 £18.00
25th Percentile £24.09 £20.07 £22.50
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.64% -21.43% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £46.05 £60.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £65.32 £80.23
England median hourly rate £30.00 £36.92 £44.77
% change year-on-year -18.73% -17.54% +94.63%

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 19 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 19 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 0 4 £594 +69.64% 5
West London - 1 - -
Service Delivery Manager
England

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

For the 6 months to 19 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 15 (71.43%) ITIL
3 11 (52.38%) Social Skills
4 9 (42.86%) Service Management
5 8 (38.10%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (28.57%) Problem Management
7 5 (23.81%) Stakeholder Management
7 5 (23.81%) ServiceNow
7 5 (23.81%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (23.81%) Decision-Making
7 5 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (19.05%) Risk Management
8 4 (19.05%) Finance
8 4 (19.05%) Windows
9 3 (14.29%) SLA
9 3 (14.29%) Legal
9 3 (14.29%) Change Management
9 3 (14.29%) Incident Management
9 3 (14.29%) Data Analysis
9 3 (14.29%) Agile
9 3 (14.29%) SC Cleared
9 3 (14.29%) Security Cleared
9 3 (14.29%) Data-Driven Decision Making
9 3 (14.29%) Time Management
9 3 (14.29%) Line Management
9 3 (14.29%) SIAM
9 3 (14.29%) Customer Experience
9 3 (14.29%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (9.52%) Customer Service
10 2 (9.52%) User Experience

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%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (9.52%) JIRA
1 2 (9.52%) Maven
General
1 11 (52.38%) Social Skills
2 5 (23.81%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (19.05%) Finance
4 3 (14.29%) Legal
5 2 (9.52%) Retail
6 1 (4.76%) Banking
6 1 (4.76%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (4.76%) Public Sector
6 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 15 (71.43%) ITIL
3 9 (42.86%) Service Management
4 8 (38.10%) Continuous Improvement
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%) Risk Management
8 3 (14.29%) Agile
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%) Service Design
9 2 (9.52%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (9.52%) Java
1 2 (9.52%) JavaScript
2 1 (4.76%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 3 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 2 (9.52%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (4.76%) PMI Certification
3 1 (4.76%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (14.29%) SLA
2 1 (4.76%) Accessibility
2 1 (4.76%) QA
Vendors
1 5 (23.81%) 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