Service Delivery Manager Contracts in England

Service Delivery Manager
UK > England

The median Service Delivery Manager daily rate in England is £435 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 20 May 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 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 449 503 599
Rank change year-on-year +54 +96 -58
Contract jobs requiring a Service Delivery Manager 82 143 178
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.23% 0.30% 0.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 0.31% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 111 116
10th Percentile £200 £363 £396
25th Percentile £313 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £545 £506
Median % change year-on-year -20.18% +7.65% +9.46%
75th Percentile £500 £625 £588
90th Percentile £615 £750 £647
UK median daily rate £400 £540 £500
% change year-on-year -25.93% +8.00% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £29.75 - -
Median hourly rate £30.00 £12.95 -
Median % change year-on-year +131.66% - -
75th Percentile £51.57 £35.85 -
90th Percentile £72.90 £49.59 -
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £12.95 -
% change year-on-year +131.66% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 33,767 45,838 67,777
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.60% 95.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,422 32,556 48,342
10th Percentile £281 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.14%
75th Percentile £644 £663 £644
90th Percentile £750 £760 £744
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +8.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,441 1,340 1,860
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.63
Median hourly rate £37.18 £44.77 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.94% +94.63% +5.80%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.05 £64.78
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

Service Delivery Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Service Delivery Manager in England

Service Delivery Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Service Delivery Manager in England

Service Delivery Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Service Delivery Manager in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Service Delivery Manager in England

Service Delivery Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Service Delivery Manager in England

Service Delivery Manager
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Service Delivery Manager in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Service Delivery Manager in England

Service Delivery Manager
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 20 May 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
London +67 34 £450 -10.00% 11
South West +14 12 £375 -38.78% 5
North of England +21 11 £493 -10.36% 5
Midlands +5 11 £545 -7.50% 11
North West +17 10 £493 -8.70% 2
South East +11 8 £1,000 +90.48% 7
East Midlands +9 8 - - 7
West Midlands +16 3 £545 +3.81% 4
Yorkshire +11 1 £450 -35.71% 2
Service Delivery Manager
UK

Service Delivery Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 20 May 2024, Service 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 across the England region featuring Service Delivery Manager in the job title.

1 82 (100.00%) Service Delivery
2 27 (32.93%) Service Management
3 26 (31.71%) Security Cleared
4 25 (30.49%) SC Cleared
4 25 (30.49%) Finance
4 25 (30.49%) ITIL
5 19 (23.17%) ITSM
6 18 (21.95%) Microsoft
7 16 (19.51%) Social Skills
8 15 (18.29%) Problem-Solving
8 15 (18.29%) Customer Service
8 15 (18.29%) SLA
9 14 (17.07%) Change Management
10 13 (15.85%) Azure
10 13 (15.85%) Problem Management
10 13 (15.85%) Decision-Making
11 12 (14.63%) Microsoft 365
11 12 (14.63%) Continuous Improvement
12 11 (13.41%) AWS
12 11 (13.41%) Legal
12 11 (13.41%) Performance Metrics
12 11 (13.41%) Service Delivery Management
13 10 (12.20%) SaaS
14 9 (10.98%) Information Security
14 9 (10.98%) People Management
15 8 (9.76%) Service Design
15 8 (9.76%) Swift
15 8 (9.76%) Okta
15 8 (9.76%) Migration
15 8 (9.76%) Stakeholder Management

Service Delivery Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (3.66%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 2 (2.44%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (3.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.44%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (3.66%) SAP ERP
1 3 (3.66%) Shopify
2 1 (1.22%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 13 (15.85%) Azure
2 12 (14.63%) Microsoft 365
3 11 (13.41%) AWS
4 10 (12.20%) SaaS
5 3 (3.66%) BigCommerce
6 1 (1.22%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.22%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (7.32%) SD-WAN
2 3 (3.66%) VPN
3 1 (1.22%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.66%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (3.66%) Maven
General
1 25 (30.49%) Finance
2 16 (19.51%) Social Skills
3 11 (13.41%) Legal
4 7 (8.54%) Public Sector
5 6 (7.32%) Local Government
5 6 (7.32%) Telecoms
6 5 (6.10%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (4.88%) Police
8 3 (3.66%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (3.66%) Billing
8 3 (3.66%) French Language
8 3 (3.66%) Marketing
8 3 (3.66%) Retail
9 1 (1.22%) Automotive
9 1 (1.22%) Mandarin Language
9 1 (1.22%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.22%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.66%) AngularJS
1 3 (3.66%) CSS
1 3 (3.66%) J2EE
1 3 (3.66%) jQuery
1 3 (3.66%) REST
1 3 (3.66%) Sass
1 3 (3.66%) Spring
1 3 (3.66%) Spring MVC
1 3 (3.66%) Twitter Bootstrap
1 3 (3.66%) VML
1 3 (3.66%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.10%) Management Information System
2 2 (2.44%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (1.22%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.22%) CMDB
3 1 (1.22%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 8 (9.76%) Apple iOS
2 5 (6.10%) Windows
3 3 (3.66%) Linux
3 3 (3.66%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (100.00%) Service Delivery
2 27 (32.93%) Service Management
3 25 (30.49%) ITIL
4 19 (23.17%) ITSM
5 15 (18.29%) Customer Service
5 15 (18.29%) Problem-Solving
6 14 (17.07%) Change Management
7 13 (15.85%) Decision-Making
7 13 (15.85%) Problem Management
8 12 (14.63%) Continuous Improvement
9 11 (13.41%) Performance Metrics
9 11 (13.41%) Service Delivery Management
10 9 (10.98%) Information Security
10 9 (10.98%) People Management
11 8 (9.76%) Business Analysis
11 8 (9.76%) IT Governance
11 8 (9.76%) Migration
11 8 (9.76%) Service Design
11 8 (9.76%) Stakeholder Management
12 7 (8.54%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (9.76%) Swift
2 3 (3.66%) Java
2 3 (3.66%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 26 (31.71%) Security Cleared
2 25 (30.49%) SC Cleared
3 7 (8.54%) Degree
4 4 (4.88%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.22%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.22%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (18.29%) SLA
2 1 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 1 (1.22%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (1.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 18 (21.95%) Microsoft
2 8 (9.76%) Okta
2 8 (9.76%) SAP
3 4 (4.88%) Salesforce
4 3 (3.66%) Adobe
4 3 (3.66%) Dell
4 3 (3.66%) Google
4 3 (3.66%) Intel
4 3 (3.66%) Sitecore
5 2 (2.44%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.22%) Cadence
6 1 (1.22%) NEC
6 1 (1.22%) Oracle
6 1 (1.22%) Remedy