Service Delivery Contracts in Berkshire

Service Delivery
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring Service Delivery skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Service Delivery over the 6 months leading up to 17 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 57 76
Rank change year-on-year -15 +19 -37
Contract jobs citing Service Delivery 20 59 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 1.78% 3.05% 2.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.90% 3.50% 2.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 23 17
10th Percentile £130 £189 £358
25th Percentile £338 £205 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £381 £210 £570
Median % change year-on-year +81.55% -63.16% +34.12%
75th Percentile £463 £400 £580
90th Percentile £475 £620 £656
South East median daily rate £436 £400 £488
% change year-on-year +9.06% -17.95% -3.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 5
10th Percentile - £18.73 -
25th Percentile - £19.06 £14.00
Median hourly rate £14.30 £20.25 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -29.38% +6.58% -26.92%
75th Percentile - £21.56 £19.50
90th Percentile - £21.98 £20.10
South East median hourly rate £24.00 £18.35 £19.00
% change year-on-year +30.79% -3.42% -25.49%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

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 Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,053 1,685 1,590
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 93.52% 86.99% 89.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 647 839 992
10th Percentile £325 £261 £332
25th Percentile £413 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% -4.57% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £638
90th Percentile £688 £675 £713
South East median daily rate £500 £501 £505
% change year-on-year -0.20% -0.79% +1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 109 53
10th Percentile £18.88 £17.40 £18.50
25th Percentile £32.05 £41.25 £24.50
Median hourly rate £61.50 £60.60 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.48% -3.81% +199.29%
75th Percentile £87.05 £71.75 £75.00
90th Percentile £88.87 £87.46 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £24.66 £50.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -50.68% -4.76% +133.33%

Service Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Service Delivery in Berkshire

Service Delivery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Service Delivery in Berkshire

Service Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Service Delivery in Berkshire over the 6 months to 17 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Service Delivery in Berkshire

Service Delivery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Service Delivery in Berkshire

Service Delivery
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

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 Berkshire region over the 6 months to 17 June 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
Reading +26 9 £325 +54.76% 107
Maidenhead - 3 £450 - 10
Slough -4 2 £436 -30.20% 203
Wokingham -8 1 - - 3
Service Delivery
South East

Service Delivery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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:

Applications
1 6 (30.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (15.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 3 (15.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (10.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (5.00%) AWS
3 1 (5.00%) Azure
3 1 (5.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.00%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (5.00%) 5G
2 1 (5.00%) Diameter Protocol
2 1 (5.00%) MPLS
2 1 (5.00%) VoIP
2 1 (5.00%) VoLTE
2 1 (5.00%) VoWiFi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) Power BI
General
1 8 (40.00%) Telecoms
2 6 (30.00%) Billing
3 3 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (10.00%) Finance
4 2 (10.00%) Public Sector
5 1 (5.00%) Electronics
5 1 (5.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (25.00%) Analyst
1 5 (25.00%) Designer
1 5 (25.00%) Solutions Designer
2 3 (15.00%) IT Analyst
2 3 (15.00%) Lead
2 3 (15.00%) Service Analyst
2 3 (15.00%) Service Desk Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) Delivery Manager
3 2 (10.00%) Financial Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) Service Delivery Manager
3 2 (10.00%) Service Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Field Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Incident Manager
4 1 (5.00%) IT Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Major Incident Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Network Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Service Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Telecoms Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Trainee
4 1 (5.00%) Trainee Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (25.00%) JSON
1 5 (25.00%) REST
1 5 (25.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (25.00%) Frameworx
1 5 (25.00%) TM Forum
2 1 (5.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (50.00%) ITIL
2 9 (45.00%) Customer Service
3 6 (30.00%) Service Management
3 6 (30.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 5 (25.00%) Agile
4 5 (25.00%) Business Strategy
4 5 (25.00%) CRM
4 5 (25.00%) Customer Experience
4 5 (25.00%) Microservices
4 5 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 5 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
4 5 (25.00%) UML
5 4 (20.00%) Incident Management
5 4 (20.00%) Mathematics
5 4 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (20.00%) Process Improvement
6 3 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (15.00%) ITSM
6 3 (15.00%) Statistics
6 3 (15.00%) SWOT Analysis
Qualifications
1 3 (15.00%) A+ Certification
1 3 (15.00%) MCSA
1 3 (15.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (10.00%) ACCA
2 2 (10.00%) CIMA
2 2 (10.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 2 (10.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (5.00%) AWS Certification
3 1 (5.00%) Azure Certification
3 1 (5.00%) CCNP
3 1 (5.00%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (5.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (5.00%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (5.00%) PMI Certification
3 1 (5.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) COBIT
1 1 (5.00%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (15.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 9 (45.00%) ServiceNow
2 5 (25.00%) Salesforce
3 4 (20.00%) Microsoft
4 3 (15.00%) Citrix
5 2 (10.00%) Hyperion
5 2 (10.00%) Oracle
5 2 (10.00%) SAP
6 1 (5.00%) BMC
6 1 (5.00%) Remedy