Service Delivery Manager Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Service Delivery Manager
England > Yorkshire

The median Service Delivery Manager daily rate in Yorkshire is £443, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 21 March 2026.

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

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 131 81 102
Rank change year-on-year -50 +21 +17
Contract jobs requiring a Service Delivery Manager 6 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.27% 0.11% 0.058%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% 0.12% 0.063%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 1
10th Percentile £351 - -
25th Percentile £431 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £443 £300 £450
Median % change year-on-year +47.50% -33.33% -28.00%
75th Percentile £538 - -
90th Percentile £553 - -
England median daily rate £510 £488 £484
% change year-on-year +4.62% +0.72% -10.37%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Yorkshire. 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 Yorkshire with a recognized job title 2,051 868 1,594
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.10% 93.74% 91.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,350 566 978
10th Percentile £308 £221 £200
25th Percentile £400 £351 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - -14.29%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £562
90th Percentile £644 £631 £650
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 31 60
10th Percentile £14.25 £12.30 £11.17
25th Percentile £16.77 £16.79 £12.46
Median hourly rate £42.50 £21.24 £14.20
Median % change year-on-year +100.09% +49.55% -47.88%
75th Percentile £57.25 £28.75 £23.75
90th Percentile £68.75 £96.64 £53.75
England median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +7.14% +7.69% -23.53%

Service Delivery Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Service Delivery Manager job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Service Delivery Manager
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Service Delivery Manager job vacancies in Yorkshire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Service Delivery Manager job vacancies in Yorkshire

Service Delivery Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Service Delivery Manager in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 21 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Service Delivery Manager in Yorkshire

Service Delivery Manager
Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Service Delivery Manager job vacancies in Yorkshire.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Service Delivery Manager job vacancies in Yorkshire

Service Delivery Manager
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 21 March 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
South Yorkshire - 3 £496 -
West Yorkshire - 3 £438 - 6
Service Delivery Manager
England

Service Delivery Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire

For the 6 months to 21 March 2026, Service Delivery Manager 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 across the Yorkshire region featuring Service Delivery Manager in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Service Delivery
2 5 (83.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 5 (83.33%) ITSM
3 4 (66.67%) ITIL
3 4 (66.67%) Service Management
4 3 (50.00%) Incident Management
4 3 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
4 3 (50.00%) Major Incident Management
4 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
4 3 (50.00%) SLA
5 2 (33.33%) Availability Management
5 2 (33.33%) Customer Service
5 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (33.33%) Process Improvement
5 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
5 2 (33.33%) ServiceNow
5 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (16.67%) Agile
6 1 (16.67%) Ansible
6 1 (16.67%) AppDynamics
6 1 (16.67%) AWS
6 1 (16.67%) Azure
6 1 (16.67%) Backlog Management
6 1 (16.67%) Backlog Refinement
6 1 (16.67%) Change Management
6 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
6 1 (16.67%) Coaching
6 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
6 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (16.67%) Data Protection

Service Delivery Manager Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) GCP
1 1 (16.67%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) DNS
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
1 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) MongoDB
1 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (16.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Git
1 1 (16.67%) GitLab
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) CMDB
1 1 (16.67%) NHS
1 1 (16.67%) Onboarding
1 1 (16.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Unix
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Service Delivery
2 5 (83.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 5 (83.33%) ITSM
3 4 (66.67%) ITIL
3 4 (66.67%) Service Management
4 3 (50.00%) Incident Management
4 3 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
4 3 (50.00%) Major Incident Management
5 2 (33.33%) Availability Management
5 2 (33.33%) Customer Service
5 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (33.33%) Process Improvement
5 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (16.67%) Coaching
6 1 (16.67%) DevOps
6 1 (16.67%) KYC
6 1 (16.67%) Programme Delivery
6 1 (16.67%) Runbook
6 1 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 1 (16.67%) Virtual Team Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Java
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) SLA
2 1 (16.67%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Ansible
1 1 (16.67%) Grafana
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) ServiceNow
2 1 (16.67%) AppDynamics
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) Splunk