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 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 31 8 15
Rank change year-on-year -23 +7 +27
Contract jobs citing Service Delivery 16 73 42
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 4.46% 18.39% 8.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.91% 22.26% 9.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 10
10th Percentile - - £271
25th Percentile - - £523
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £300 £575
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -47.83% +9.52%
75th Percentile - - £641
90th Percentile - - £789
East of England median daily rate £400 £360 £575
% change year-on-year +11.11% -37.39% +23.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 71 29
10th Percentile £13.18 £15.00 -
25th Percentile £14.95 £15.62 £13.41
Median hourly rate £15.57 £16.23 £13.66
Median % change year-on-year -4.07% +18.81% -
75th Percentile £16.71 £16.85 £13.91
90th Percentile £18.85 - £14.16
East of England median hourly rate £16.00 £16.23 £13.66
% change year-on-year -1.42% +18.81% -

All Process and 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 326 328 461
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 90.81% 82.62% 90.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 115 178
10th Percentile £258 £266 £225
25th Percentile £400 £340 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £485 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.64% +2.11% -
75th Percentile £625 £579 £560
90th Percentile £700 £638 £616
East of England median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 100 194
10th Percentile £13.80 £15.00 £13.41
25th Percentile £14.38 £15.62 £14.25
Median hourly rate £16.00 £16.23 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.42% +11.93% -6.45%
75th Percentile £21.50 £18.06 £20.00
90th Percentile £43.75 £49.13 £22.00
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 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
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 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
Peterborough -5 12 - - 6
Cambridge - 2 £450 - 7
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:

Applications
1 12 (75.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 12 (75.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (31.25%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (6.25%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 5 (31.25%) Wi-Fi
General
1 10 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 3 (18.75%) Polish Language
3 2 (12.50%) German Language
3 2 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (12.50%) Spanish Language
4 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (56.25%) Analyst
2 8 (50.00%) Service Analyst
3 5 (31.25%) Service Desk Analyst
3 5 (31.25%) Technical Analyst
3 5 (31.25%) Technical Services Analyst
4 3 (18.75%) Customer Analyst
4 3 (18.75%) Customer Service Analyst
4 3 (18.75%) IT Analyst
5 2 (12.50%) IT Support
6 1 (6.25%) Business Analyst
6 1 (6.25%) Deployment Manager
6 1 (6.25%) Programme Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 2 (12.50%) Windows
1 2 (12.50%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (81.25%) Incident Management
2 12 (75.00%) Customer Service
2 12 (75.00%) Mathematics
2 12 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (31.25%) ITIL
4 2 (12.50%) Business Transformation
4 2 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (6.25%) Actionable Insight
5 1 (6.25%) AIOps
5 1 (6.25%) Business Case
5 1 (6.25%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 1 (6.25%) Decision-Making
5 1 (6.25%) DevOps
5 1 (6.25%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 1 (6.25%) Observability
5 1 (6.25%) Proactive Management
5 1 (6.25%) Programme Governance
5 1 (6.25%) Roadmaps
5 1 (6.25%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 1 (6.25%) Site Reliability Engineering
Qualifications
1 5 (31.25%) A+ Certification
1 5 (31.25%) MCSA
1 5 (31.25%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared
2 2 (12.50%) Security Cleared
3 1 (6.25%) APMG
System Software
1 5 (31.25%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Grafana
1 1 (6.25%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 12 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (31.25%) Citrix
2 5 (31.25%) ServiceNow
3 1 (6.25%) Dynatrace
3 1 (6.25%) Splunk