Service Delivery Contract Job Trends in Bedfordshire

Service Delivery
East of England > Bedfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bedfordshire requiring Service Delivery skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 30 28
Rank change year-on-year -7 -2 +9
Contract jobs citing Service Delivery 1 2 8
As % of all contract jobs in Bedfordshire 0.45% 1.08% 3.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.50% 1.32% 4.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - £314
25th Percentile £463 - £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - £563
75th Percentile £488 - £603
90th Percentile - - £631
East of England median daily rate £400 £360 £575
% change year-on-year +11.11% -37.39% +23.32%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bedfordshire

Service Delivery 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 Bedfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 200 151 181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 90.50% 81.18% 89.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 79 114
10th Percentile £313 £208 £313
25th Percentile £434 £381 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -
75th Percentile £600 £578 £571
90th Percentile £650 £675 £600
East of England median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 17 3
10th Percentile £37.50 £46.30 £53.00
25th Percentile £62.75 £54.70 £53.75
Median hourly rate £84.75 £59.40 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +42.68% +8.00% +0.64%
75th Percentile £91.50 £67.50 £60.25
90th Percentile £91.80 £70.30 £61.90
East of England median hourly rate £21.14 £27.67 £19.81
% change year-on-year -23.60% +39.68% -5.67%

Service Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Service Delivery job vacancy trend in Bedfordshire

Service Delivery
Daily Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Service Delivery.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Service Delivery

Service Delivery
Hourly Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Service Delivery.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Service Delivery

Service Delivery
Contract Job Locations in Bedfordshire

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 Bedfordshire region over the 6 months to 22 October 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
Luton -10 1 £475 -
Service Delivery
East of England

Service Delivery
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bedfordshire 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:

Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) SCCM