Service Delivery Manager Contracts in the UK excluding London

Service Delivery Manager
UK > UK excluding London

The median Service Delivery Manager daily rate in the UK excluding London is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 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
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 310 348 383
Rank change year-on-year +38 +35 +65
Contract jobs requiring a Service Delivery Manager 24 46 72
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.19% 0.22% 0.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.24% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 23 57
10th Percentile £313 £383 £415
25th Percentile £409 £446 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -8.70% +15.58%
75th Percentile £588 £650 £625
90th Percentile £619 £1,000 £763
UK median daily rate £450 £450 £540
% change year-on-year - -16.67% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 2
Median hourly rate £70.00 £30.00 £12.95
Median % change year-on-year +133.33% +131.66% -
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £30.00 £12.95
% change year-on-year +66.67% +131.66% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 11,771 19,161 22,551
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.14% 92.57% 94.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,545 11,699 15,818
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £598 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 836 2,248 1,160
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.79 £15.75 £18.08
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.22% -6.94% +117.95%
75th Percentile £64.50 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £28.88 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.71% -19.07% +94.45%

Service Delivery Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

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

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

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

Service Delivery Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Service Delivery Manager in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

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

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

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

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

Service Delivery Manager
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 Manager within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 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
South East +34 6 £511 -48.88% 13
South West +24 6 £475 -11.63% 13
Midlands +9 5 £450 -18.18% 14
West Midlands +11 4 £450 -18.18% 10
Scotland - 3 £553 - 5
East of England +38 2 - - 3
North of England +2 2 £350 -29.01% 9
Yorkshire +8 1 £300 -33.33% 4
East Midlands +7 1 - - 4
North West +1 1 £400 -18.86% 3
Service Delivery Manager
UK

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

For the 6 months to 3 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 UK excluding London region featuring Service Delivery Manager in the job title.

1 24 (100.00%) Service Delivery
2 19 (79.17%) ITIL
3 10 (41.67%) Service Management
3 10 (41.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 9 (37.50%) Social Skills
5 7 (29.17%) Problem Management
5 7 (29.17%) Security Cleared
6 6 (25.00%) ITSM
6 6 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 6 (25.00%) SLA
7 5 (20.83%) ITIL Certification
7 5 (20.83%) SC Cleared
7 5 (20.83%) Banking
8 4 (16.67%) Telecoms
8 4 (16.67%) Finance
8 4 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 4 (16.67%) Mentoring
9 3 (12.50%) Line Management
9 3 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
9 3 (12.50%) Customer Service
9 3 (12.50%) Service Delivery Management
9 3 (12.50%) Contract Negotiation
9 3 (12.50%) Risk Management
9 3 (12.50%) Retail
9 3 (12.50%) Agile
9 3 (12.50%) Performance Management
10 2 (8.33%) JIRA
10 2 (8.33%) Billing
10 2 (8.33%) Information Management
10 2 (8.33%) Logistics

Service Delivery Manager Skill Set
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 1 (4.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 2 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (4.17%) Azure
2 1 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (4.17%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.33%) Cisco Firepower
1 2 (8.33%) Firewall
1 2 (8.33%) Intranet
Development Applications
1 2 (8.33%) JIRA
2 1 (4.17%) Bugzilla
2 1 (4.17%) Git
2 1 (4.17%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.17%) Selenium
2 1 (4.17%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 9 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 5 (20.83%) Banking
3 4 (16.67%) Finance
3 4 (16.67%) Telecoms
4 3 (12.50%) Retail
5 2 (8.33%) Back Office
5 2 (8.33%) Billing
5 2 (8.33%) Legal
5 2 (8.33%) Manufacturing
5 2 (8.33%) Military
5 2 (8.33%) Public Sector
6 1 (4.17%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (4.17%) Law
6 1 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.33%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.17%) NHS
2 1 (4.17%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.17%) Windows
1 1 (4.17%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (100.00%) Service Delivery
2 19 (79.17%) ITIL
3 10 (41.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 10 (41.67%) Service Management
4 7 (29.17%) Problem Management
5 6 (25.00%) ITSM
5 6 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (16.67%) Mentoring
6 4 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 3 (12.50%) Agile
7 3 (12.50%) Contract Negotiation
7 3 (12.50%) Customer Service
7 3 (12.50%) Line Management
7 3 (12.50%) Performance Management
7 3 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (12.50%) Risk Management
7 3 (12.50%) Service Delivery Management
8 2 (8.33%) Information Management
8 2 (8.33%) Logistics
8 2 (8.33%) Programme Management
Qualifications
1 7 (29.17%) Security Cleared
2 5 (20.83%) ITIL Certification
2 5 (20.83%) SC Cleared
3 2 (8.33%) CISA
3 2 (8.33%) CISM
3 2 (8.33%) CISSP
3 2 (8.33%) GIAC
3 2 (8.33%) ISACA
3 2 (8.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 2 (8.33%) SANS
4 1 (4.17%) DV Cleared
4 1 (4.17%) PMI Certification
4 1 (4.17%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (25.00%) SLA
2 1 (4.17%) COBIT
2 1 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 1 (4.17%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (8.33%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 2 (8.33%) Cisco
1 2 (8.33%) Microsoft
1 2 (8.33%) Tenable
2 1 (4.17%) Remedy
2 1 (4.17%) ServiceNow