Service Delivery Engineer Contract Job Trends

Service Delivery Engineer
UK

The median Service Delivery Engineer daily rate in the UK is £494, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 April 2026.

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

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 620 - 583
Rank change year-on-year - - +131
Contract jobs requiring a Service Delivery Engineer 2 0 4
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.004% - 0.009%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.005% - 0.010%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £468 - -
25th Percentile £474 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 - -
75th Percentile £509 - -
90th Percentile £513 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £494 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 42,592 27,248 40,561
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.22% 92.60% 92.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,414 17,867 26,505
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £406 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £475 £493
% change year-on-year +2.63% -3.65% -1.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,707 994 2,611
10th Percentile £14.96 £14.55 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.35 £19.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £41.94 £30.45 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +37.73% -13.00% -22.22%
75th Percentile £65.60 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.70 £75.43 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.00 £29.53 £36.27
% change year-on-year +45.64% -18.60% -14.17%

Service Delivery Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Service Delivery Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK

Service Delivery Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Service Delivery Engineer job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Service Delivery Engineer job vacancies in the UK

Service Delivery Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Service Delivery Engineer job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Service Delivery Engineer job vacancies in the UK

Service Delivery Engineer
Top 5 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Service Delivery Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 19 April 2026. 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 - 2 £494 - 3
UK excluding London - 2 £494 - 3
South East - 1 £510 - 3
Work from Home - 1 £478 - 1
East of England - 1 £478 -

Service Delivery Engineer Skill Set
Top 26 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 19 April 2026, Service Delivery Engineer 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 featuring Service Delivery Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (50.00%) OneDrive
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Power BI
2 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) SCCM
2 1 (50.00%) Scorecard
2 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Service Management
2 1 (50.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (50.00%) SLA
2 1 (50.00%) Visualisation

Service Delivery Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (50.00%) OneDrive
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Scorecard
2 1 (50.00%) Service Management
2 1 (50.00%) Visualisation
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (50.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft