Service Delivery Manager Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Service Delivery Manager
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The median Service Delivery Manager daily rate in Sheffield is £443, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 26 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 86 - 48
Rank change year-on-year - - +8
Contract jobs requiring a Service Delivery Manager 1 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 0.14% - 0.53%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% - 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £431 - £763
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £443 - £825
75th Percentile £454 - £888
90th Percentile - - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £443 - £825

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Sheffield

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Sheffield. 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 Sheffield with a recognized job title 658 243 342
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.65% 85.56% 90.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 454 141 220
10th Percentile £316 £220 £375
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £477 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.24% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £538 £600 £620
90th Percentile £600 £700 £720
South Yorkshire median daily rate £477 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -4.60% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 8
10th Percentile £14.98 £12.79 £12.52
25th Percentile £16.68 £14.35 £17.03
Median hourly rate £19.50 £18.10 £21.25
Median % change year-on-year +7.76% -14.85% +11.84%
75th Percentile £22.33 £20.38 £23.75
90th Percentile £24.02 £21.05 £26.00
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £19.50 £18.10 £22.50
% change year-on-year +7.76% -19.58% +18.42%

Service Delivery Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Service Delivery Manager' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield.

Service Delivery Manager job vacancy trend in Sheffield

Service Delivery Manager
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Service Delivery Manager job vacancies in Sheffield.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Service Delivery Manager job vacancies in Sheffield

Service Delivery Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield

For the 6 months to 26 December 2025, Service Delivery Manager contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Sheffield region featuring Service Delivery Manager in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) AppDynamics
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) KYC
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Major Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Problem Management

Service Delivery Manager Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) KYC
1 1 (100.00%) Major Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Problem Management
1 1 (100.00%) Project Management
1 1 (100.00%) Release Management
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Assessment
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Service Management
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) AppDynamics
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk