Service Delivery Management Contracts in the UK excluding London

Service Delivery Management
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Service Delivery Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Service Delivery Management over the 6 months leading up to 8 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 323 370 431
Rank change year-on-year +47 +61 +46
Contract jobs citing Service Delivery Management 12 19 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.094% 0.093% 0.080%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.10% 0.11% 0.089%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 7 12
10th Percentile £331 - £507
25th Percentile £423 £400 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £553
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -9.54% +70.08%
75th Percentile £547 £525 £763
90th Percentile £563 £530 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £400 £525
% change year-on-year +31.25% -23.81% +6.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £13.25 £12.50
Median hourly rate - £13.50 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year - +3.85% -
75th Percentile - £13.88 £13.50
90th Percentile - £13.95 -
UK median hourly rate - £13.50 £13.00
% change year-on-year - +3.85% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Service Delivery Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,533 17,354 21,253
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.51% 84.54% 89.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,213 10,334 14,740
10th Percentile £235 £250 £256
25th Percentile £375 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £479 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.20% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £660 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 833 2,042 1,299
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.30 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.18 £15.50
Median hourly rate £27.13 £37.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.67% +7.14% +75.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.86 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £28.68 £36.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -21.44% +1.39% +44.00%

Service Delivery Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Service Delivery Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Service Delivery Management in the UK excluding London

Service Delivery Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Service Delivery Management in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Service Delivery Management in the UK excluding London

Service Delivery Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Service Delivery Management in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Service Delivery Management in the UK excluding London

Service Delivery Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Service Delivery Management in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Service Delivery Management in the UK excluding London

Service Delivery Management
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Service Delivery Management within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 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
West Midlands +14 5 £500 -4.76%
Midlands +12 5 £500 -4.76%
Scotland +19 3 £538 -
North of England - 3 £240 - 4
Yorkshire - 3 £240 -
South West - 2 - -
North East - 2 - - 2
South East +37 1 £425 -5.56% 7
Service Delivery Management
UK

Service Delivery Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) SAP Oil and Gas
1 1 (8.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (16.67%) Power Platform
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (8.33%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) Power BI
General
1 4 (33.33%) Finance
2 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Influencing Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Legal
2 2 (16.67%) Military
2 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
2 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Delivery Manager
2 5 (41.67%) Service Manager
3 3 (25.00%) Lead
3 3 (25.00%) Service Delivery Manager
4 2 (16.67%) Risk Manager
4 2 (16.67%) Supply Chain Manager
5 1 (8.33%) Coordinator
5 1 (8.33%) IT Manager
5 1 (8.33%) IT Services Delivery Manager
5 1 (8.33%) IT Services Manager
5 1 (8.33%) Operations Manager
5 1 (8.33%) Project Coordinator
5 1 (8.33%) Project Support Coordinator
5 1 (8.33%) Relationships Manager
5 1 (8.33%) SAP Support
5 1 (8.33%) Senior Manager
5 1 (8.33%) Senior Service Manager
5 1 (8.33%) Service Operations Manager
5 1 (8.33%) Service Relationship Manager
5 1 (8.33%) Software Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Management Information System
1 2 (16.67%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) Service Delivery
2 6 (50.00%) Service Management
3 5 (41.67%) Agile
3 5 (41.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (33.33%) ITIL
4 4 (33.33%) ITSM
4 4 (33.33%) Risk Management
4 4 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (25.00%) Change Management
5 3 (25.00%) DevOps
5 3 (25.00%) SDLC
5 3 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 3 (25.00%) Software Delivery
6 2 (16.67%) Analytics
6 2 (16.67%) Availability Management
6 2 (16.67%) Contract Management
6 2 (16.67%) Data Analytics
6 2 (16.67%) Internal Audit
6 2 (16.67%) Line Management
6 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (41.67%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) Ariba
1 1 (8.33%) Concur
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (8.33%) SAP
1 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow