Service Delivery Manager Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Service Delivery Manager
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The median Service Delivery Manager daily rate in South Yorkshire 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 88 - 53
Rank change year-on-year - - +6
Contract jobs requiring a Service Delivery Manager 2 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.25% - 0.46%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.28% - 0.51%
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 - - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £381 £300 £750
% change year-on-year +26.87% -60.00% +33.33%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in South Yorkshire. 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 South Yorkshire with a recognized job title 704 270 394
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.68% 86.82% 90.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 481 161 245
10th Percentile £313 £188 £355
25th Percentile £400 £356 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £477 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.60% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £538 £600 £610
90th Percentile £611 £694 £720
Yorkshire median daily rate £481 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +6.94% -10.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 9
10th Percentile £14.98 £12.79 £12.56
25th Percentile £16.68 £14.35 £18.50
Median hourly rate £19.50 £18.10 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.76% -19.58% +18.42%
75th Percentile £22.33 £20.38 £23.75
90th Percentile £24.02 £21.05 £35.00
Yorkshire median hourly rate £29.68 £22.50 £21.31
% change year-on-year +31.91% +5.58% -0.88%

Service Delivery Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Service Delivery Manager job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Service Delivery Manager
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

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

Service Delivery Manager
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 26 December 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
Sheffield - 1 £443 - 1
Service Delivery Manager
Yorkshire

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

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 South Yorkshire region featuring Service Delivery Manager in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Ansible
2 1 (50.00%) AppDynamics
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Backlog Refinement
2 1 (50.00%) Change Management
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) GitLab
2 1 (50.00%) Grafana
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) ITSM
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) KYC
2 1 (50.00%) Linux

Service Delivery Manager Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Unix
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Backlog Refinement
2 1 (50.00%) Change Management
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) ITSM
2 1 (50.00%) KYC
2 1 (50.00%) Major Incident Management
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Project Management
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Runbook
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Service Management
2 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) AppDynamics
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
1 1 (50.00%) Splunk