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 25 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 11 9
Rank change year-on-year -14 -2 +15
Contract jobs citing Service Delivery 13 35 83
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 3.80% 10.57% 19.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.38% 11.90% 24.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 1
10th Percentile £150 £205 -
25th Percentile £156 £246 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £318 £300
Median % change year-on-year +25.98% +5.83% -61.29%
75th Percentile £508 £386 -
90th Percentile £555 £424 -
East of England median daily rate £425 £225 £350
% change year-on-year +88.89% -35.71% -35.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 25 81
10th Percentile - - £14.16
25th Percentile £17.12 £14.84 £15.00
Median hourly rate £17.39 £15.14 £16.23
Median % change year-on-year +14.83% -6.72% +18.81%
75th Percentile £17.65 £16.85 £16.85
90th Percentile - £18.85 -
East of England median hourly rate £17.39 £15.14 £16.23
% change year-on-year +14.83% -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 297 294 343
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 86.84% 88.82% 80.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 108 110
10th Percentile £168 £213 £219
25th Percentile £361 £379 £327
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £441
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +13.38% -2.00%
75th Percentile £580 £607 £550
90th Percentile £671 £700 £638
East of England median daily rate £500 £500 £425
% change year-on-year - +17.65% -15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 80 145
10th Percentile £13.45 £14.38 £14.16
25th Percentile - £14.84 £15.00
Median hourly rate £14.22 £16.27 £16.23
Median % change year-on-year -12.57% +0.22% +11.93%
75th Percentile £20.44 £21.50 £21.37
90th Percentile £38.18 £44.96 £48.75
East of England median hourly rate £40.00 £31.20 £43.00
% change year-on-year +28.21% -27.44% +117.06%

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 25 August 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 25 August 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 +2 6 £500 +11.11% 6
Peterborough -6 2 £175 - 4
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 (23.08%) SharePoint
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (23.08%) Azure
1 3 (23.08%) Entra ID
2 2 (15.38%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (15.38%) OneDrive
2 2 (15.38%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (23.08%) DHCP
1 3 (23.08%) DNS
2 2 (15.38%) Firewall
2 2 (15.38%) Network Security
2 2 (15.38%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (7.69%) LAN
3 1 (7.69%) TCP/IP
3 1 (7.69%) VLAN
3 1 (7.69%) VPN
3 1 (7.69%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) JIRA
1 1 (7.69%) MSI
General
1 6 (46.15%) Social Skills
2 4 (30.77%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Finance
3 1 (7.69%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Delivery Manager
1 4 (30.77%) Service Delivery Manager
1 4 (30.77%) Service Manager
2 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Break Fix Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Field Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Field Hardware Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Hardware Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Operations Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) IT Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) IT Manager
4 1 (7.69%) IT Support
4 1 (7.69%) IT Technician
4 1 (7.69%) Senior
4 1 (7.69%) Service Delivery Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Support Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) VMware Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Onboarding
2 1 (7.69%) PKI
2 1 (7.69%) Product Ownership
2 1 (7.69%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 5 (38.46%) Windows
2 2 (15.38%) Linux
2 2 (15.38%) Windows Server
3 1 (7.69%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) Continuous Improvement
2 5 (38.46%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (30.77%) Customer Service
3 4 (30.77%) Problem Management
4 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (23.08%) ITIL
5 2 (15.38%) Agile
5 2 (15.38%) Change Management
5 2 (15.38%) Identity Management
5 2 (15.38%) ITSM
5 2 (15.38%) Load Balancing
5 2 (15.38%) Patch Management
5 2 (15.38%) Root Cause Analysis
5 2 (15.38%) Runbook
5 2 (15.38%) Service Management
5 2 (15.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (15.38%) Time Management
5 2 (15.38%) Vulnerability Remediation
6 1 (7.69%) Analytics
6 1 (7.69%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 3 (23.08%) PowerShell
2 2 (15.38%) Bash
2 2 (15.38%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (38.46%) SC Cleared
1 5 (38.46%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) Azure Certification
2 1 (7.69%) DBS Check
2 1 (7.69%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) SLA
2 1 (7.69%) Accessibility
2 1 (7.69%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (7.69%) QA
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) Active Directory
1 2 (15.38%) Hyper-V
1 2 (15.38%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (15.38%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Microsoft
2 2 (15.38%) HP
2 2 (15.38%) ServiceNow
2 2 (15.38%) VMware
3 1 (7.69%) Juniper