Service Delivery Contracts in Cheshire

Service Delivery
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 53 59
Rank change year-on-year +8 +6 -19
Contract jobs citing Service Delivery 13 5 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 2.90% 0.99% 0.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.98% 1.18% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 2 2
10th Percentile £381 £501 £277
25th Percentile £398 £503 £348
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £404 £513 £465
Median % change year-on-year -21.27% +10.22% +9.41%
75th Percentile £520 £528 £583
90th Percentile £537 £534 £653
North West median daily rate £425 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -26.09% +4.55% +18.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Median hourly rate - £14.00 £18.82
Median % change year-on-year - -25.61% -62.36%
North West median hourly rate £19.50 £16.05 £42.50
% change year-on-year +21.53% -62.25% +146.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 436 425 483
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 97.10% 84.33% 91.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 294 285 328
10th Percentile £317 £276 £275
25th Percentile £358 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.05% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £550 £580 £575
90th Percentile £638 £635 £660
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 30 23
10th Percentile £19.00 £13.70 £19.06
25th Percentile £25.94 £16.61 £23.15
Median hourly rate £35.20 £26.66 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year +32.03% -12.70% +29.96%
75th Percentile £85.44 £42.31 £35.00
90th Percentile £86.00 £44.13 £39.20
North West median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%

Service Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Service Delivery in Cheshire

Service Delivery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for Service Delivery in Cheshire

Service Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Service Delivery in Cheshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Service Delivery in Cheshire

Service Delivery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Service Delivery in Cheshire

Service Delivery
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Knutsford - 7 £405 -
Warrington - 5 £401 - 3
Service Delivery
North West

Service Delivery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (15.38%) CICS
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (15.38%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 4 (30.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 4 (30.77%) Amazon Glacier
1 4 (30.77%) Amazon Kinesis
1 4 (30.77%) Amazon S3
1 4 (30.77%) AWS
1 4 (30.77%) AWS Lambda
1 4 (30.77%) Serverless
2 2 (15.38%) Azure
2 2 (15.38%) Entra ID
2 2 (15.38%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (15.38%) OneDrive
2 2 (15.38%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (23.08%) BGP
1 3 (23.08%) EIGRP
1 3 (23.08%) IPv4
1 3 (23.08%) MPLS
1 3 (23.08%) OSPF
1 3 (23.08%) SD-WAN
1 3 (23.08%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (30.77%) DynamoDB
2 2 (15.38%) Easytrieve
Development Applications
1 4 (30.77%) Jenkins
2 2 (15.38%) JIRA
General
1 4 (30.77%) Presentation Skills
2 3 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (23.08%) Telecoms
3 2 (15.38%) Banking
3 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Architect
1 4 (30.77%) Solutions Architect
2 3 (23.08%) IP Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) AWS Architect
3 2 (15.38%) AWS Solution Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Designer
3 2 (15.38%) Java Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Java Solutions Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Mainframe Designer
3 2 (15.38%) Tester
3 2 (15.38%) Transmission Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) IP Network Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Network Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Network Operations Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Operations Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Telecoms Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (30.77%) ActiveMQ
1 4 (30.77%) Kafka
1 4 (30.77%) RESTful
2 2 (15.38%) REST
2 2 (15.38%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Public Cloud
2 2 (15.38%) Mainframe
2 2 (15.38%) Onboarding
2 2 (15.38%) Virtual Team
2 2 (15.38%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (61.54%) Agile
2 8 (61.54%) SDLC
3 5 (38.46%) ITIL
4 4 (30.77%) Budget Control
4 4 (30.77%) CI/CD
4 4 (30.77%) Containerisation
4 4 (30.77%) Contingency Planning
4 4 (30.77%) Creative Problem-Solving
4 4 (30.77%) Data Pipeline
4 4 (30.77%) Decision-Making
4 4 (30.77%) Event-Driven
4 4 (30.77%) Microservices
4 4 (30.77%) Migration
4 4 (30.77%) Project Planning
5 3 (23.08%) Change Management
5 3 (23.08%) Collaborative Working
5 3 (23.08%) Configuration Management
5 3 (23.08%) Network Planning
6 2 (15.38%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 4 (30.77%) Java
2 2 (15.38%) COBOL
2 2 (15.38%) JCL
2 2 (15.38%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) CCNP
1 3 (23.08%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (15.38%) SC Cleared
2 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) QA
System Software
1 4 (30.77%) Docker
2 2 (15.38%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (15.38%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) BMC
1 3 (23.08%) Cisco
1 3 (23.08%) Huawei
1 3 (23.08%) Remedy
2 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 2 (15.38%) ServiceNow