Service Delivery Contracts in Cardiff

Service Delivery
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cardiff 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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 - 36
Rank change year-on-year - - +12
Contract jobs citing Service Delivery 8 0 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cardiff 4.76% - 1.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.16% - 1.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 3
10th Percentile £304 - -
25th Percentile £325 - £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £448 - £413
Median % change year-on-year - - -23.26%
75th Percentile £476 - £453
90th Percentile £482 - £459
South Wales median daily rate £448 - £413
% change year-on-year - - -22.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cardiff

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 Cardiff.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 155 152 263
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 92.26% 74.15% 88.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 124 205
10th Percentile £193 £168 £190
25th Percentile £300 £379 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £488 £553 £583
90th Percentile £650 £632 £638
South Wales median daily rate £400 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -19.19% -1.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 5
10th Percentile £12.21 £12.87 -
25th Percentile £12.43 £14.54 £13.00
Median hourly rate £17.79 £18.57 £16.45
Median % change year-on-year -4.20% +12.92% -15.12%
75th Percentile £23.75 £21.67 £23.75
90th Percentile £38.75 - £24.50
South Wales median hourly rate £22.50 £20.24 £18.14
% change year-on-year +11.19% +11.55% -15.11%

Service Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Job vacancy trend for Service Delivery in Cardiff

Service Delivery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

Daily rate trend for Service Delivery in Cardiff

Service Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram in Cardiff

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Service Delivery in Cardiff over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Service Delivery in Cardiff

Service Delivery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

Hourly rate trend for Service Delivery in Cardiff

Service Delivery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cardiff 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 2 (25.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) AWS
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
1 3 (37.50%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) DNS
2 2 (25.00%) BGP
2 2 (25.00%) Cisco Firepower
2 2 (25.00%) DHCP
2 2 (25.00%) Firewall
2 2 (25.00%) IPv4
2 2 (25.00%) OSPF
2 2 (25.00%) VPN
2 2 (25.00%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Selenium
1 1 (12.50%) SpecFlow
General
1 4 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
3 2 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (25.00%) Welsh Language
4 1 (12.50%) Digital Health
4 1 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Cloud Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Designer
2 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Lead
2 2 (25.00%) Lead Designer
2 2 (25.00%) Lead Service Designer
2 2 (25.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Senior
2 2 (25.00%) Senior Network Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Service Designer
3 1 (12.50%) Principal Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Principal Solutions Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) CSS
1 1 (12.50%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) NHS
2 3 (37.50%) Cloud Native
3 2 (25.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Agile
2 3 (37.50%) Cloud Security
2 3 (37.50%) Data Privacy
2 3 (37.50%) DevSecOps
2 3 (37.50%) Migration
2 3 (37.50%) Roadmaps
2 3 (37.50%) Strategic Roadmap
2 3 (37.50%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (25.00%) Change Management
3 2 (25.00%) Coaching
3 2 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 2 (25.00%) IT Strategy
3 2 (25.00%) ITIL
3 2 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (25.00%) Open Source
3 2 (25.00%) Service Design
3 2 (25.00%) TOGAF
3 2 (25.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 1 (12.50%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) C#
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) Degree
1 4 (50.00%) Master's Degree
2 2 (25.00%) AWS Certification
2 2 (25.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Azure Certification
2 2 (25.00%) CCIE
2 2 (25.00%) CCNP
2 2 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (25.00%) CITP
2 2 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Cisco Prime
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Google
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 2 (25.00%) Cisco
2 2 (25.00%) Ekahau
2 2 (25.00%) Palo Alto
2 2 (25.00%) VMware