Service Delivery Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Service Delivery
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire requiring Service Delivery skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 20 9
Rank change year-on-year -14 -11 +9
Contract jobs citing Service Delivery 12 25 89
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 3.27% 7.04% 20.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.83% 7.94% 25.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 1
10th Percentile £155 - -
25th Percentile £163 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £450 £300
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +50.00% -47.83%
75th Percentile £491 - -
90th Percentile £512 - -
East of England median daily rate £475 £363 £350
% change year-on-year +31.03% +3.57% -38.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 19 87
10th Percentile - £14.47 £14.84
25th Percentile - £14.84 £15.00
Median hourly rate - £15.14 £16.23
Median % change year-on-year - -6.72% +18.81%
75th Percentile - £17.85 £16.85
90th Percentile - £18.85 -
East of England median hourly rate £34.94 £15.14 £16.23
% change year-on-year +130.78% -6.72% +18.81%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 313 315 352
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 85.29% 88.73% 81.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 110 116
10th Percentile £183 £250 £225
25th Percentile £363 £402 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £520 £450
Median % change year-on-year -1.92% +15.56% -2.96%
75th Percentile £581 £625 £557
90th Percentile £633 £700 £638
East of England median daily rate £500 £500 £450
% change year-on-year - +11.11% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 94 134
10th Percentile £13.45 £13.94 £14.36
25th Percentile - £14.84 £15.00
Median hourly rate £14.22 £16.00 £16.23
Median % change year-on-year -11.13% -1.42% +11.93%
75th Percentile £23.75 £19.75 £16.85
90th Percentile £47.50 £43.75 £45.23
East of England median hourly rate £48.84 £22.63 £42.50
% change year-on-year +115.82% -46.75% +114.54%

Service Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Service Delivery job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

Service Delivery
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

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

Service Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Service Delivery in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 24 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Service Delivery in Cambridgeshire

Service Delivery
Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

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

Service Delivery
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 24 September 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
Cambridge +5 5 £400 -11.11% 16
Peterborough -4 3 £175 - 7
Ely - 1 £500 -
Service Delivery
East of England

Service Delivery
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (25.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 4 (33.33%) Azure
1 4 (33.33%) Entra ID
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (16.67%) OneDrive
2 2 (16.67%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (33.33%) DHCP
1 4 (33.33%) DNS
2 2 (16.67%) Firewall
2 2 (16.67%) Network Security
2 2 (16.67%) VPN
2 2 (16.67%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (8.33%) TCP/IP
3 1 (8.33%) VLAN
3 1 (8.33%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) MSI
General
1 5 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 4 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Finance
3 1 (8.33%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Delivery Manager
1 4 (33.33%) Service Delivery Manager
1 4 (33.33%) Service Manager
2 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) IT Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) IT Support
3 2 (16.67%) IT Support Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Operations Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Senior
3 2 (16.67%) Support Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Field Hardware Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior IT Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior IT Support
4 1 (8.33%) Service Delivery Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) VMware Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Onboarding
2 1 (8.33%) PKI
2 1 (8.33%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 5 (41.67%) Windows
2 2 (16.67%) Linux
2 2 (16.67%) Windows Server
3 1 (8.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (33.33%) Customer Service
2 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (25.00%) ITIL
3 3 (25.00%) Problem Management
3 3 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 3 (25.00%) Service Management
4 2 (16.67%) Agile
4 2 (16.67%) Change Management
4 2 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (16.67%) Identity Management
4 2 (16.67%) ITSM
4 2 (16.67%) Load Balancing
4 2 (16.67%) Patch Management
4 2 (16.67%) Runbook
4 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (16.67%) Vulnerability Remediation
5 1 (8.33%) Security Operations
5 1 (8.33%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 2 (16.67%) Bash
2 2 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) Azure Certification
2 1 (8.33%) Degree
2 1 (8.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (33.33%) SLA
2 1 (8.33%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Active Directory
1 2 (16.67%) Hyper-V
1 2 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (16.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (16.67%) VMware
3 1 (8.33%) HP
3 1 (8.33%) Juniper
3 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow