Service Delivery Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Service Delivery
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Service Delivery skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 83 100
Rank change year-on-year -6 +17 +52
Contract jobs citing Service Delivery 34 37 29
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.85% 1.89% 1.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.06% 2.06% 1.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 22 23
10th Percentile £327 £407 £243
25th Percentile £413 £507 £294
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £588 £390
Median % change year-on-year -9.79% +50.64% -23.15%
75th Percentile £626 £666 £581
90th Percentile £763 £814 £673
Central London median daily rate £530 £575 £390
% change year-on-year -7.83% +47.44% -16.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £26.57 - -
Central London median hourly rate £26.57 £22.50 -
% change year-on-year +18.09% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of London

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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,652 1,797 2,170
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 89.83% 91.97% 89.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,162 1,093 1,548
10th Percentile £350 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.74% - -2.13%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £765 £788 £800
Central London median daily rate £540 £575 £573
% change year-on-year -6.09% +0.44% -0.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 13 10
10th Percentile £19.94 £15.60 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.50 £22.00 £17.48
Median hourly rate £28.00 £42.50 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -34.12% +61.90% -30.46%
75th Percentile £42.30 £112.00 £44.56
90th Percentile £45.56 £132.40 £74.13
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.66
% change year-on-year -25.40% +26.56% -20.99%

Service Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Service Delivery job vacancy trend in the City of London

Service Delivery
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Service Delivery.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Service Delivery

Service Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Service Delivery in the City of London over the 6 months to 8 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Service Delivery in the City of London

Service Delivery
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Service Delivery.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Service Delivery

Service Delivery
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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 4 (11.76%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.94%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.94%) Chatbot
2 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.94%) NetSuite
1 1 (2.94%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 12 (35.29%) Azure
2 7 (20.59%) AWS
2 7 (20.59%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (8.82%) Entra ID
4 2 (5.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (5.88%) GCP
4 2 (5.88%) Google Workspace
4 2 (5.88%) Power Platform
4 2 (5.88%) SaaS
4 2 (5.88%) Slack
4 2 (5.88%) SuccessFactors
5 1 (2.94%) Amazon Glacier
5 1 (2.94%) Amazon Kinesis
5 1 (2.94%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (2.94%) IaaS
5 1 (2.94%) PowerApps
5 1 (2.94%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 1 (2.94%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 1 (2.94%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (14.71%) VPN
2 4 (11.76%) DHCP
2 4 (11.76%) DNS
3 3 (8.82%) Firewall
4 2 (5.88%) LAN
4 2 (5.88%) WAN
4 2 (5.88%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (2.94%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.82%) Tableau
2 2 (5.88%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.94%) DynamoDB
3 1 (2.94%) Oracle Database
3 1 (2.94%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 6 (17.65%) JIRA
2 1 (2.94%) Jenkins
General
1 21 (61.76%) Social Skills
2 10 (29.41%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (23.53%) Finance
4 5 (14.71%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (11.76%) Legal
5 4 (11.76%) Public Sector
6 3 (8.82%) Banking
7 2 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (2.94%) Back Office
8 1 (2.94%) French Language
8 1 (2.94%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (2.94%) Investment Banking
8 1 (2.94%) Law
8 1 (2.94%) Marketing
8 1 (2.94%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (2.94%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (23.53%) Lead
2 6 (17.65%) Analyst
3 4 (11.76%) Architect
4 3 (8.82%) Lead Architect
4 3 (8.82%) Lead Solutions Architect
4 3 (8.82%) Senior
4 3 (8.82%) Service Desk Engineer
4 3 (8.82%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (5.88%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Applications Manager
5 2 (5.88%) Applications Support
5 2 (5.88%) Applications Support Manager
5 2 (5.88%) Data Scientist
5 2 (5.88%) Operations Analyst
5 2 (5.88%) Support Manager
6 1 (2.94%) 2nd Line Support
6 1 (2.94%) Business Analyst
6 1 (2.94%) Operations Manager
6 1 (2.94%) Process Analyst
6 1 (2.94%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.94%) ActiveMQ
1 1 (2.94%) Kafka
1 1 (2.94%) LangChain
1 1 (2.94%) LangGraph
1 1 (2.94%) NumPy
1 1 (2.94%) Pandas
1 1 (2.94%) RESTful
1 1 (2.94%) scikit-learn
1 1 (2.94%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.88%) Cloud Native
1 2 (5.88%) Onboarding
2 1 (2.94%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (2.94%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (2.94%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (2.94%) Management Information System
2 1 (2.94%) Mobile Banking
2 1 (2.94%) NHS
2 1 (2.94%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.94%) Public Cloud
2 1 (2.94%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 4 (11.76%) Windows
2 2 (5.88%) Linux
2 2 (5.88%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.94%) Mac OS
3 1 (2.94%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (47.06%) ITIL
2 11 (32.35%) Continuous Improvement
3 10 (29.41%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (26.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 8 (23.53%) Process Improvement
5 8 (23.53%) Roadmaps
6 7 (20.59%) Stakeholder Management
7 6 (17.65%) ITSM
8 5 (14.71%) Agile
8 5 (14.71%) Change Management
8 5 (14.71%) Performance Metrics
8 5 (14.71%) Project Management
8 5 (14.71%) Root Cause Analysis
9 4 (11.76%) Customer Service
9 4 (11.76%) High Availability
9 4 (11.76%) Incident Management
9 4 (11.76%) Mentoring
9 4 (11.76%) Project Delivery
9 4 (11.76%) Visualisation
10 3 (8.82%) Backlog Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (14.71%) PowerShell
2 3 (8.82%) SQL
3 1 (2.94%) Bash
3 1 (2.94%) Java
3 1 (2.94%) PL/SQL
3 1 (2.94%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (14.71%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 4 (11.76%) SC Cleared
2 4 (11.76%) Security Cleared
3 2 (5.88%) Azure Certification
3 2 (5.88%) Degree
3 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.94%) Network+ Certification
4 1 (2.94%) Six Sigma Green Belt
4 1 (2.94%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (17.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (14.71%) GDPR
3 4 (11.76%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (8.82%) SLA
5 2 (5.88%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (2.94%) Accessibility
6 1 (2.94%) HIPAA
6 1 (2.94%) ISO 9001
6 1 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 1 (2.94%) PMO
6 1 (2.94%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (17.65%) Active Directory
2 2 (5.88%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.94%) Docker
3 1 (2.94%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (17.65%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (5.88%) Ansible
2 2 (5.88%) SCCM
2 2 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (26.47%) Microsoft
2 3 (8.82%) Google
2 3 (8.82%) Salesforce
2 3 (8.82%) ServiceNow
3 2 (5.88%) SAP
4 1 (2.94%) Alteryx
4 1 (2.94%) Citrix
4 1 (2.94%) Datto
4 1 (2.94%) Foundry
4 1 (2.94%) LogRhythm
4 1 (2.94%) Oracle
4 1 (2.94%) Remedy
4 1 (2.94%) Sophos
4 1 (2.94%) Veeam
4 1 (2.94%) VMware
4 1 (2.94%) Zscaler