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 3 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 81 94 111
Rank change year-on-year +13 +17 +26
Contract jobs citing Service Delivery 38 33 35
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.25% 1.58% 1.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.39% 1.72% 1.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 21 28
10th Percentile £343 £338 £228
25th Percentile £450 £463 £280
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £481
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +14.29% -8.33%
75th Percentile £713 £600 £638
90th Percentile £838 £675 £690
Central London median daily rate £544 £538 £475
% change year-on-year +1.16% +13.16% -1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £18.02 - -
25th Percentile £19.45 - -
Median hourly rate £21.86 - -
75th Percentile £24.23 - -
90th Percentile £25.64 - -
Central London median hourly rate £21.86 - -

All Process and 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 1,589 1,919 2,506
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 94.08% 91.60% 89.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,102 1,174 1,756
10th Percentile £328 £372 £363
25th Percentile £419 £469 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £581
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -0.95% +0.96%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £695
90th Percentile £750 £783 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 17 17
10th Percentile £16.90 £16.70 £14.25
25th Percentile £21.07 £23.13 £17.00
Median hourly rate £27.75 £42.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.71% +54.55% -36.40%
75th Percentile £44.63 £112.00 £52.50
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £70.75
Central London median hourly rate £27.75 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -20.71% +27.27% -36.05%

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 3 November 2025.

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 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (2.63%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (13.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.63%) Chatbot
2 1 (2.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.63%) NetSuite
1 1 (2.63%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 5 (13.16%) Azure
1 5 (13.16%) Power Platform
2 4 (10.53%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (10.53%) SaaS
3 2 (5.26%) AWS
3 2 (5.26%) SuccessFactors
4 1 (2.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (2.63%) Amazon Glacier
4 1 (2.63%) Amazon Kinesis
4 1 (2.63%) Amazon S3
4 1 (2.63%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (2.63%) Azure AI
4 1 (2.63%) Entra ID
4 1 (2.63%) IaaS
4 1 (2.63%) Nutanix
4 1 (2.63%) OneDrive
4 1 (2.63%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
4 1 (2.63%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 1 (2.63%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.53%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (7.89%) LAN
2 3 (7.89%) WAN
3 1 (2.63%) DHCP
3 1 (2.63%) DNS
3 1 (2.63%) SD-WAN
3 1 (2.63%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.63%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (13.16%) Power BI
2 4 (10.53%) Data Mining
3 1 (2.63%) DynamoDB
3 1 (2.63%) Oracle Database
3 1 (2.63%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (7.89%) JIRA
2 1 (2.63%) Jenkins
General
1 20 (52.63%) Social Skills
2 11 (28.95%) Finance
3 9 (23.68%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (23.68%) Banking
4 5 (13.16%) Investment Banking
5 4 (10.53%) Legal
6 3 (7.89%) Back Office
6 3 (7.89%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (7.89%) Public Sector
7 2 (5.26%) French Language
7 2 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (5.26%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (2.63%) Law
8 1 (2.63%) Marketing
8 1 (2.63%) Retail
8 1 (2.63%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (13.16%) Consultant
2 4 (10.53%) Lead
2 4 (10.53%) Risk Consultant
2 4 (10.53%) Senior
2 4 (10.53%) Senior Consultant
3 3 (7.89%) Analyst
3 3 (7.89%) Architect
3 3 (7.89%) Delivery Manager
4 2 (5.26%) Data Scientist
4 2 (5.26%) IT Manager
4 2 (5.26%) IT Operations Manager
4 2 (5.26%) Network Architect
4 2 (5.26%) Operations Manager
4 2 (5.26%) Service Delivery Manager
4 2 (5.26%) Service Manager
5 1 (2.63%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (2.63%) Digital Architect
5 1 (2.63%) Installation Technician
5 1 (2.63%) Mobile Product Manager
5 1 (2.63%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.63%) ActiveMQ
1 1 (2.63%) Kafka
1 1 (2.63%) LangChain
1 1 (2.63%) LangGraph
1 1 (2.63%) NumPy
1 1 (2.63%) Pandas
1 1 (2.63%) RESTful
1 1 (2.63%) scikit-learn
1 1 (2.63%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.53%) Market Risk
2 3 (7.89%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.63%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (2.63%) Driving Licence
3 1 (2.63%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.63%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.63%) Mobile Banking
3 1 (2.63%) NHS
3 1 (2.63%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.63%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.63%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.53%) Windows
2 2 (5.26%) Mac OS
3 1 (2.63%) Apple iOS
3 1 (2.63%) Windows 10
3 1 (2.63%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (39.47%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (28.95%) ITIL
3 10 (26.32%) Continuous Improvement
4 9 (23.68%) Agile
4 9 (23.68%) Stakeholder Management
5 6 (15.79%) Analytics
5 6 (15.79%) Service Management
6 5 (13.16%) Business Intelligence
6 5 (13.16%) Decision-Making
6 5 (13.16%) ITSM
6 5 (13.16%) Process Improvement
6 5 (13.16%) Project Delivery
6 5 (13.16%) Roadmaps
6 5 (13.16%) Scrum
6 5 (13.16%) SDLC
6 5 (13.16%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 4 (10.53%) Migration
7 4 (10.53%) Project Management
7 4 (10.53%) Scenario Testing
7 4 (10.53%) Stress Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (13.16%) SQL
2 1 (2.63%) Java
2 1 (2.63%) PL/SQL
2 1 (2.63%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (10.53%) Security Cleared
2 3 (7.89%) Degree
2 3 (7.89%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.26%) ACCA
4 1 (2.63%) CCAB
4 1 (2.63%) CIMA
4 1 (2.63%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.63%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.53%) Basel II
2 1 (2.63%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.63%) GAAP
2 1 (2.63%) GDPR
2 1 (2.63%) HIPAA
2 1 (2.63%) IFRS
2 1 (2.63%) ISO 9001
2 1 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 1 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.63%) PMO
2 1 (2.63%) SLA
2 1 (2.63%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (7.89%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.63%) Docker
2 1 (2.63%) Hyper-V
2 1 (2.63%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.63%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (5.26%) SCCM
2 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 5 (13.16%) Microsoft
2 3 (7.89%) ServiceNow
3 2 (5.26%) Citrix
3 2 (5.26%) SAP
3 2 (5.26%) VMware
4 1 (2.63%) Alteryx
4 1 (2.63%) Foundry
4 1 (2.63%) Google
4 1 (2.63%) IBM
4 1 (2.63%) LogRhythm
4 1 (2.63%) Oracle
4 1 (2.63%) Remedy
4 1 (2.63%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.63%) Sophos
4 1 (2.63%) Zscaler