Service Delivery Management Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Service Delivery Management
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Service Delivery Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 103 108
Rank change year-on-year -35 +5 +50
Contract jobs citing Service Delivery Management 2 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.087% 0.063% 0.057%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.10% 0.072% 0.067%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £718 - -
25th Percentile £725 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 - -
75th Percentile £775 - -
90th Percentile £783 - -
England median daily rate £535 £475 £410
% change year-on-year +12.63% +15.85% -20.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £13.25
Median hourly rate - - £13.50
75th Percentile - - £13.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate - - £13.50

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,981 1,384 1,496
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 86.13% 86.55% 84.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,253 861 994
10th Percentile £263 £220 £275
25th Percentile £402 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £612 £600
90th Percentile £675 £725 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 47 58
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.70 £14.77
25th Percentile £16.25 £16.51 £17.73
Median hourly rate £20.00 £21.59 £27.63
Median % change year-on-year -7.36% -21.85% +59.52%
75th Percentile £27.21 £34.38 £54.06
90th Percentile £35.60 £52.50 £69.13
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +27.14%

Service Delivery Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Service Delivery Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Service Delivery Management job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Service Delivery Management
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Service Delivery Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Service Delivery Management

Service Delivery Management
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Service Delivery Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Service Delivery Management

Service Delivery Management
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 6 January 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
Birmingham -10 1 £725 -
Service Delivery Management
England

Service Delivery Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) Intrusion Detection
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Delivery Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Operations Director
1 1 (50.00%) Service Delivery Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Service Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Delivery Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Service Delivery Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Services Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 2 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 2 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (50.00%) Budgeting
2 1 (50.00%) Coaching
2 1 (50.00%) Cost Control
2 1 (50.00%) Cost Reduction
2 1 (50.00%) Major Incident Management
2 1 (50.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 1 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Presales
2 1 (50.00%) Product Roadmap
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) SFIA
2 1 (50.00%) SOAR
2 1 (50.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Value Proposition
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CISSP
1 2 (100.00%) GCIH
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) BC Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) CISM
2 1 (50.00%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) NIST