Service Delivery Management Contracts

Service Delivery Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 505 574 666
Rank change year-on-year +69 +92 +133
Contract jobs citing Service Delivery Management 15 24 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.051% 0.055% 0.077%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.056% 0.064% 0.086%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 9 35
10th Percentile £350 - £400
25th Percentile £424 - £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £400 £525
Median % change year-on-year +31.25% -23.81% +6.49%
75th Percentile £563 £525 £640
90th Percentile £600 £528 £728
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £563
% change year-on-year -2.50% -11.11% +73.08%
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% -74.00%
75th Percentile - £13.88 £13.50
90th Percentile - £13.95 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £13.50 £13.00
% change year-on-year - +3.85% -74.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,648 37,562 53,490
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.82% 86.33% 89.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,170 24,188 37,115
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £745 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,066 2,451 1,742
10th Percentile £14.35 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.26 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £36.42
Median % change year-on-year -18.31% -2.53% +45.69%
75th Percentile £61.50 £59.95 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £36.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -24.66% +4.29% +75.00%

Service Delivery Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Service Delivery Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Service Delivery Management in the UK

Service Delivery Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Service Delivery Management.

Daily rate trend for Service Delivery Management in the UK

Service Delivery Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Service Delivery Management over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Service Delivery Management in the UK

Service Delivery Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Service Delivery Management.

Hourly rate trend for Service Delivery Management in the UK

Service Delivery Management
Top 11 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 2 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
UK excluding London +52 11 £488 -2.50% 9
England +43 10 £450 - 12
Work from Home +46 6 £538 +19.44% 3
West Midlands +15 4 £500 -4.76%
Midlands +11 4 £500 -4.76%
Scotland +15 3 £538 -
London +40 2 £625 +56.25% 4
South West - 2 - -
South East +41 1 £425 -5.56% 3
Yorkshire - 1 £240 - 1
North of England - 1 £240 - 5

Service Delivery Management
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:

Business Applications
1 2 (13.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (6.67%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (6.67%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (6.67%) SaaS
General
1 7 (46.67%) Finance
2 4 (26.67%) Legal
3 3 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (13.33%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (13.33%) Military
5 1 (6.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) Delivery Manager
2 5 (33.33%) Service Manager
3 3 (20.00%) Lead
3 3 (20.00%) Service Delivery Manager
4 2 (13.33%) IT Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Client Services Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Coordinator
5 1 (6.67%) IT Director
5 1 (6.67%) IT Services Delivery Manager
5 1 (6.67%) IT Services Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Junior
5 1 (6.67%) Operations Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Relationships Manager
5 1 (6.67%) SAP Manager
5 1 (6.67%) SAP Support
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Service Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Service Delivery Director
5 1 (6.67%) Services Director
5 1 (6.67%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (6.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (6.67%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (6.67%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (100.00%) Service Delivery
2 8 (53.33%) Service Management
3 6 (40.00%) Agile
3 6 (40.00%) Risk Management
3 6 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 5 (33.33%) DevOps
5 4 (26.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (26.67%) ITIL
5 4 (26.67%) ITSM
5 4 (26.67%) Project Management
6 3 (20.00%) Budget Management
6 3 (20.00%) Change Management
6 3 (20.00%) Contract Management
6 3 (20.00%) SDLC
6 3 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 3 (20.00%) Software Delivery
7 2 (13.33%) Availability Management
7 2 (13.33%) Internal Audit
7 2 (13.33%) Line Management
7 2 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.67%) Smalltalk
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (33.33%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Active Directory
1 1 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) SAP
2 1 (6.67%) Ariba
2 1 (6.67%) CheckPoint
2 1 (6.67%) Concur
2 1 (6.67%) Extreme Networks
2 1 (6.67%) F5
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.67%) Palo Alto
2 1 (6.67%) ServiceNow
2 1 (6.67%) VMware