Service Delivery Contracts

Service Delivery
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Service Delivery skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Service Delivery over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 109 114 123
Rank change year-on-year +5 +9 +35
Contract jobs citing Service Delivery 884 1,325 1,942
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.04% 2.22% 2.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.37% 2.46% 2.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 549 870 1,269
10th Percentile £200 £270 £261
25th Percentile £300 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £510
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +2.94% +13.33%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £606
90th Percentile £676 £701 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £550 £475
% change year-on-year -13.64% +15.79% +8.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 94 123
10th Percentile £13.29 £13.29 £11.34
25th Percentile £14.16 £13.41 £13.25
Median hourly rate £14.80 £24.81 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.35% +71.10% -22.77%
75th Percentile £16.85 £49.88 £25.50
90th Percentile £26.87 £65.75 £37.92
UK excluding London median hourly rate £14.80 £24.62 £13.50
% change year-on-year -39.89% +82.37% -27.57%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Service Delivery is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,374 53,774 80,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.91% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,095 37,304 56,474
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,763 1,928
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +80.00% -8.17%

Service Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Service Delivery in the UK

Service Delivery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Service Delivery in the UK

Service Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Service Delivery over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Service Delivery in the UK

Service Delivery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Service Delivery in the UK

Service Delivery
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Service Delivery over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Service Delivery in the UK

Service Delivery
Top 16 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 within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 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
England +12 774 £500 -4.76% 682
UK excluding London -2 561 £475 -13.64% 533
London +18 247 £505 +1.00% 205
Work from Home -6 229 £519 -3.76% 274
South East +17 162 £375 -25.00% 128
North of England -9 141 £550 - 120
East of England +3 81 £375 -21.05% 66
Yorkshire +18 78 £545 -0.91% 34
Midlands -27 64 £499 -7.21% 93
North West -30 61 £575 +4.55% 77
South West -23 60 £488 -18.75% 68
Scotland -2 52 £417 -24.14% 50
West Midlands -17 37 £513 +2.50% 51
East Midlands -1 24 £475 -15.64% 42
Wales +14 2 £188 -51.61% 20
North East 0 2 £590 -5.60% 11

Service Delivery
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:

Application Platforms
1 30 (3.39%) Microsoft Exchange
2 23 (2.60%) SharePoint
3 9 (1.02%) Confluence
4 7 (0.79%) CMS
5 4 (0.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 4 (0.45%) Mendix
5 4 (0.45%) Skype for Business
6 2 (0.23%) IBM Notes
6 2 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.11%) Apache
7 1 (0.11%) IBM HTTP Server
7 1 (0.11%) IIS
7 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.11%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.11%) WebSphere Application Server
7 1 (0.11%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 74 (8.37%) Microsoft Office
2 72 (8.14%) Microsoft Excel
3 46 (5.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.34%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 11 (1.24%) Remedy ITSM
1 11 (1.24%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.34%) Infor SunSystems
2 3 (0.34%) SAP ERP
2 3 (0.34%) Shopify
3 2 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.23%) SystmOne
4 1 (0.11%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.11%) OPENHousing
4 1 (0.11%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.11%) SAP MDM
4 1 (0.11%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.11%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 1 (0.11%) SAP SD
4 1 (0.11%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 93 (10.52%) Microsoft 365
2 86 (9.73%) Azure
3 42 (4.75%) AWS
4 35 (3.96%) SaaS
5 23 (2.60%) Power Platform
6 16 (1.81%) SuccessFactors
7 15 (1.70%) IaaS
8 14 (1.58%) PaaS
9 12 (1.36%) Entra ID
9 12 (1.36%) OneDrive
10 11 (1.24%) Cloud Computing
10 11 (1.24%) Power Automate
11 7 (0.79%) PowerApps
12 5 (0.57%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 5 (0.57%) Azure DevOps
12 5 (0.57%) Azure Sentinel
12 5 (0.57%) Azure Storage
12 5 (0.57%) Dynamics 365
13 3 (0.34%) Azure Key Vault
13 3 (0.34%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 45 (5.09%) Firewall
2 27 (3.05%) LAN
3 23 (2.60%) VPN
4 19 (2.15%) Network Security
5 17 (1.92%) SD-WAN
6 15 (1.70%) WAN
7 14 (1.58%) DNS
7 14 (1.58%) VLAN
7 14 (1.58%) Wi-Fi
8 13 (1.47%) Internet
9 11 (1.24%) DHCP
10 10 (1.13%) Unified Communications
11 8 (0.90%) Ethernet
11 8 (0.90%) MPLS
12 7 (0.79%) WLAN
13 6 (0.68%) TCP/IP
14 4 (0.45%) ADSL
14 4 (0.45%) OSPF
14 4 (0.45%) PSTN
14 4 (0.45%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (2.38%) Power BI
2 9 (1.02%) SQL Server
3 6 (0.68%) MySQL
3 6 (0.68%) Tableau
4 5 (0.57%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (0.57%) Data Mining
4 5 (0.57%) Oracle Database
5 4 (0.45%) Apache Cassandra
5 4 (0.45%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (0.45%) GIS
5 4 (0.45%) NoSQL
5 4 (0.45%) Redis
5 4 (0.45%) SAP HANA
6 3 (0.34%) Oracle Database 10g
6 3 (0.34%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.23%) BigQuery
7 2 (0.23%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (0.23%) Qlik Sense
7 2 (0.23%) RDBMS
7 2 (0.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 16 (1.81%) JIRA
2 5 (0.57%) Bitbucket
2 5 (0.57%) Git
3 4 (0.45%) Gatling
3 4 (0.45%) Maven
3 4 (0.45%) Mockito
3 4 (0.45%) ScalaTest
4 3 (0.34%) Oracle APEX
5 2 (0.23%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.23%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.11%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.11%) Gradle
6 1 (0.11%) Hudson
6 1 (0.11%) IBM UrbanCode
6 1 (0.11%) Yeoman
General
1 286 (32.35%) Social Skills
2 158 (17.87%) Finance
3 103 (11.65%) Public Sector
4 92 (10.41%) Analytical Skills
5 49 (5.54%) Telecoms
6 33 (3.73%) Organisational Skills
7 31 (3.51%) Local Government
8 26 (2.94%) Marketing
9 24 (2.71%) Legal
10 23 (2.60%) Presentation Skills
11 22 (2.49%) Banking
12 16 (1.81%) Influencing Skills
13 14 (1.58%) Manufacturing
13 14 (1.58%) Retail
14 12 (1.36%) French Language
14 12 (1.36%) German Language
14 12 (1.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 9 (1.02%) Pharmaceutical
16 8 (0.90%) Police
17 6 (0.68%) Law
Job Titles
1 137 (15.50%) Service Manager
2 125 (14.14%) Analyst
3 117 (13.24%) Delivery Manager
4 101 (11.43%) Service Delivery Manager
5 63 (7.13%) Service Analyst
6 61 (6.90%) Senior
7 55 (6.22%) Lead
8 45 (5.09%) Developer
9 44 (4.98%) Service Desk Analyst
10 42 (4.75%) Support Engineer
11 35 (3.96%) Architect
11 35 (3.96%) Consultant
12 34 (3.85%) IT Manager
12 34 (3.85%) Project Manager
13 29 (3.28%) ServiceNow Developer
14 28 (3.17%) 1st Line Support
15 27 (3.05%) Customer Analyst
15 27 (3.05%) Customer Service Analyst
16 26 (2.94%) Network Engineer
17 23 (2.60%) IT Services Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (3.62%) Web Services
2 18 (2.04%) CSS
3 16 (1.81%) HTML
4 10 (1.13%) AngularJS
4 10 (1.13%) RESTful
5 9 (1.02%) REST
6 8 (0.90%) Node.js
7 7 (0.79%) .NET
7 7 (0.79%) Spring
7 7 (0.79%) Spring MVC
8 5 (0.57%) Play Framework
9 4 (0.45%) Akka
9 4 (0.45%) J2EE
9 4 (0.45%) JPA
9 4 (0.45%) Middleware
9 4 (0.45%) RAML
9 4 (0.45%) spray
9 4 (0.45%) Swagger
9 4 (0.45%) Visualforce
9 4 (0.45%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 52 (5.88%) Management Information System
2 25 (2.83%) Onboarding
3 24 (2.71%) Driving Licence
4 21 (2.38%) Product Ownership
5 17 (1.92%) Replication
6 15 (1.70%) CMDB
7 14 (1.58%) Self-Motivation
8 13 (1.47%) Data Centre
9 8 (0.90%) Operational Technology
10 7 (0.79%) Digital Signage
10 7 (0.79%) FMCG
10 7 (0.79%) Private Cloud
10 7 (0.79%) Virtual Team
11 6 (0.68%) BYOD
11 6 (0.68%) Data Protection Act
11 6 (0.68%) Hybrid Cloud
11 6 (0.68%) PKI
12 5 (0.57%) Video Conferencing
13 4 (0.45%) Blackberry
13 4 (0.45%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 143 (16.18%) Windows
2 46 (5.20%) Windows 10
3 43 (4.86%) Linux
4 32 (3.62%) Windows 7
5 19 (2.15%) Unix
6 17 (1.92%) Windows Server
7 12 (1.36%) Apple iOS
8 10 (1.13%) Android
9 9 (1.02%) Windows Server 2016
10 8 (0.90%) Windows Server 2019
11 7 (0.79%) Solaris
11 7 (0.79%) VMS
12 6 (0.68%) Mac OS
13 4 (0.45%) OpenVMS
14 3 (0.34%) AIX
14 3 (0.34%) Ubuntu
15 2 (0.23%) Windows XP
16 1 (0.11%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 267 (30.20%) ITIL
2 219 (24.77%) Problem-Solving
3 187 (21.15%) Customer Service
4 157 (17.76%) Service Management
5 106 (11.99%) Agile
6 102 (11.54%) ITSM
7 90 (10.18%) Continuous Improvement
8 83 (9.39%) Change Management
9 82 (9.28%) Incident Management
10 78 (8.82%) Project Delivery
11 75 (8.48%) Roadmaps
12 64 (7.24%) Project Management
13 56 (6.33%) Stakeholder Management
14 55 (6.22%) Decision-Making
15 53 (6.00%) Mathematics
16 50 (5.66%) Problem Management
17 46 (5.20%) Asset Management
18 42 (4.75%) Risk Management
19 39 (4.41%) Information Security
19 39 (4.41%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 29 (3.28%) SQL
2 16 (1.81%) JavaScript
3 12 (1.36%) Java
4 10 (1.13%) PowerShell
5 8 (0.90%) Swift
6 6 (0.68%) Python
7 5 (0.57%) C#
7 5 (0.57%) Scala
8 4 (0.45%) Apex Code
8 4 (0.45%) COBOL
8 4 (0.45%) DCL
9 3 (0.34%) Bash
9 3 (0.34%) C++
9 3 (0.34%) VB.NET
10 2 (0.23%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.11%) C
11 1 (0.11%) Groovy
11 1 (0.11%) R
11 1 (0.11%) Ruby
11 1 (0.11%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 205 (23.19%) Security Cleared
2 124 (14.03%) SC Cleared
3 73 (8.26%) Degree
4 72 (8.14%) DV Cleared
5 25 (2.83%) Microsoft Certification
6 24 (2.71%) MCP
7 18 (2.04%) A+ Certification
8 16 (1.81%) MCSA
9 15 (1.70%) ITIL Certification
10 13 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
11 10 (1.13%) Cisco Certification
12 8 (0.90%) Azure Certification
12 8 (0.90%) DBS Check
12 8 (0.90%) PMP
13 7 (0.79%) BC Cleared
13 7 (0.79%) CCNA
13 7 (0.79%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 7 (0.79%) PMI Certification
14 5 (0.57%) AWS Certification
14 5 (0.57%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 127 (14.37%) SLA
2 31 (3.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 29 (3.28%) QA
4 19 (2.15%) NIST
5 17 (1.92%) Data Quality
6 12 (1.36%) GDPR
7 8 (0.90%) Accessibility
7 8 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 6 (0.68%) GxP
9 5 (0.57%) Disclosure Scotland
9 5 (0.57%) ISO 9001
9 5 (0.57%) PMO
10 4 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.23%) WCAG
12 1 (0.11%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.11%) GRC
System Software
1 86 (9.73%) Active Directory
2 18 (2.04%) Firmware
3 11 (1.24%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.79%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.57%) Docker
6 3 (0.34%) SRDF
6 3 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.34%) vSphere
7 2 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.11%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 32 (3.62%) SCCM
2 23 (2.60%) Microsoft Intune
3 16 (1.81%) Ansible
4 15 (1.70%) NetBackup
5 14 (1.58%) Puppet
6 7 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (0.68%) Kubernetes
8 4 (0.45%) Grafana
8 4 (0.45%) Prometheus
9 3 (0.34%) EMC TimeFinder
9 3 (0.34%) Terraform
9 3 (0.34%) WSUS
10 2 (0.23%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.23%) IBM BigFix
10 2 (0.23%) Rundeck
10 2 (0.23%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 263 (29.75%) Microsoft
2 119 (13.46%) ServiceNow
3 34 (3.85%) Citrix
3 34 (3.85%) SAP
4 31 (3.51%) Oracle
5 24 (2.71%) Cisco
6 21 (2.38%) HP
7 15 (1.70%) Veritas
8 14 (1.58%) VMware
9 13 (1.47%) Google
10 12 (1.36%) Dell
10 12 (1.36%) Remedy
11 10 (1.13%) Salesforce
12 8 (0.90%) BMC
12 8 (0.90%) Okta
12 8 (0.90%) Workday
13 7 (0.79%) Apple
14 6 (0.68%) Avaya
15 5 (0.57%) Juniper
15 5 (0.57%) NetApp