IT Services Delivery Manager Contracts

IT Service Delivery Manager
UK

The median IT Service Delivery Manager daily rate in the UK is £538 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 20 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 569 693 814
Rank change year-on-year +124 +121 -145
Contract jobs requiring an IT Services Delivery Manager 14 23 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.032% 0.038% 0.030%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.035% 0.040% 0.031%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 20 14
10th Percentile £399 £379 £307
25th Percentile £513 £441 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £475 £481
Median % change year-on-year +13.16% -1.30% +20.31%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £586
90th Percentile £650 £648 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £463 £488
% change year-on-year +18.92% -5.13% +14.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £57.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 40,284 57,177 85,797
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.53% 95.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,293 39,889 60,217
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £747 £750 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £493 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,613 1,625 2,127
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.32 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.25 £19.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.00 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +95.65% +0.48%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.75 £63.18
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.50 £43.00 £19.50
% change year-on-year -15.12% +120.51% +2.63%

IT Services Delivery Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured IT Services Delivery Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for IT Services Delivery Manager in the UK

IT Services Delivery Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IT Services Delivery Manager.

Daily rate trend for IT Services Delivery Manager in the UK

IT Services Delivery Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IT Services Delivery Manager over the 6 months to 20 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for IT Services Delivery Manager in the UK

IT Services Delivery Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IT Services Delivery Manager.

Hourly rate trend for IT Services Delivery Manager in the UK

IT Services Delivery Manager
Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IT Services Delivery Manager within the UK over the 6 months to 20 April 2024. 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
England +114 14 £538 +13.16% 4
UK excluding London +67 11 £550 +18.92%
Midlands - 10 £550 -
East Midlands - 8 - -
Work from Home +132 2 £550 - 1
London +85 2 £499 +2.31% 3
West Midlands - 2 £550 -
North of England +33 1 £525 +16.67%
North West +20 1 £525 +21.74%

IT Services Delivery Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 20 April 2024, IT Services 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 featuring IT Services Delivery Manager in the job title.

1 14 (100.00%) Service Delivery
2 12 (85.71%) Service Management
3 11 (78.57%) Change Management
4 10 (71.43%) Microsoft
4 10 (71.43%) Business Analysis
4 10 (71.43%) Problem Management
4 10 (71.43%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (64.29%) Azure
5 9 (64.29%) Information Security
5 9 (64.29%) Finance
6 8 (57.14%) Legal
6 8 (57.14%) Migration
6 8 (57.14%) ITSM
6 8 (57.14%) IT Governance
6 8 (57.14%) AWS
6 8 (57.14%) SaaS
6 8 (57.14%) Apple iOS
6 8 (57.14%) People Management
6 8 (57.14%) Performance Metrics
6 8 (57.14%) Swift
6 8 (57.14%) Service Delivery Management
6 8 (57.14%) Decision-Making
6 8 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (57.14%) Okta
7 5 (35.71%) ITIL
8 3 (21.43%) ServiceNow
9 2 (14.29%) Service Design
9 2 (14.29%) Customer-Centricity
9 2 (14.29%) Regulatory Compliance
9 2 (14.29%) BPSS Clearance

IT Services Delivery Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 10 (71.43%) Microsoft 365
2 9 (64.29%) Azure
3 8 (57.14%) AWS
3 8 (57.14%) SaaS
4 1 (7.14%) Power Platform
4 1 (7.14%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) Intranet
General
1 9 (64.29%) Finance
2 8 (57.14%) Legal
3 2 (14.29%) Billing
4 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
4 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) Cloud Native
1 1 (7.14%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 8 (57.14%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) Service Delivery
2 12 (85.71%) Service Management
3 11 (78.57%) Change Management
4 10 (71.43%) Business Analysis
4 10 (71.43%) Problem Management
5 9 (64.29%) Information Security
6 8 (57.14%) Decision-Making
6 8 (57.14%) IT Governance
6 8 (57.14%) ITSM
6 8 (57.14%) Migration
6 8 (57.14%) People Management
6 8 (57.14%) Performance Metrics
6 8 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (57.14%) Service Delivery Management
7 5 (35.71%) ITIL
8 2 (14.29%) Availability Management
8 2 (14.29%) Incident Management
8 2 (14.29%) Information Management
8 2 (14.29%) PRINCE2
8 2 (14.29%) Supplier Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (57.14%) Swift
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (14.29%) Degree
1 2 (14.29%) ITIL Certification
1 2 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 2 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (71.43%) Microsoft
2 8 (57.14%) Okta
3 3 (21.43%) ServiceNow
4 2 (14.29%) SAP