Service Delivery Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Service Delivery
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Service Delivery skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 49 51
Rank change year-on-year +16 +2 +8
Contract jobs citing Service Delivery 38 19 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 4.82% 2.39% 2.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.63% 2.89% 2.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 10 6
10th Percentile £185 £320 £290
25th Percentile £269 £386 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £442 £493 £498
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% -1.01% +6.42%
75th Percentile £521 £508 £500
90th Percentile £531 £559 £519
England median daily rate £450 £495 £513
% change year-on-year -9.09% -3.41% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 0 3
10th Percentile - - £17.43
25th Percentile £16.17 - £18.59
Median hourly rate £17.87 - £20.51
75th Percentile - - £42.76
90th Percentile - - £56.10
England median hourly rate £17.83 £16.23 £18.50
% change year-on-year +9.86% -12.27% +35.43%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 675 658 737
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 85.55% 82.87% 86.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 470 410 533
10th Percentile £223 £263 £213
25th Percentile £341 £360 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £450 £490
Median % change year-on-year -8.89% -8.16% +5.38%
75th Percentile £500 £575 £600
90th Percentile £626 £625 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 34 48
10th Percentile £15.25 £12.75 £12.70
25th Percentile £17.87 £15.03 £16.56
Median hourly rate £18.87 £17.66 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.85% -35.78% +48.65%
75th Percentile £25.15 £41.61 £53.75
90th Percentile - £50.00 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.90
% change year-on-year -41.51% -2.05% +51.38%

Service Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing Service Delivery as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Service Delivery in the East Midlands

Service Delivery
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Service Delivery.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Service Delivery

Service Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Service Delivery in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Service Delivery in the East Midlands

Service Delivery
Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Service Delivery.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Service Delivery

Service Delivery
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 18 September 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
Nottinghamshire +15 25 £481 -3.75% 11
Northamptonshire -10 9 £338 -31.05% 7
Derbyshire +2 4 £508 +2.53% 8
Service Delivery
England

Service Delivery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 1 (2.63%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 8 (21.05%) AWS
2 6 (15.79%) Azure
3 3 (7.89%) Entra ID
4 2 (5.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (5.26%) Amazon Glacier
4 2 (5.26%) Amazon Kinesis
4 2 (5.26%) Amazon S3
4 2 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (5.26%) SaaS
4 2 (5.26%) Serverless
5 1 (2.63%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.26%) DMZ
1 2 (5.26%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.26%) DynamoDB
1 2 (5.26%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (10.53%) Jenkins
2 2 (5.26%) Git
2 2 (5.26%) Gradle
2 2 (5.26%) Maven
General
1 8 (21.05%) Social Skills
2 5 (13.16%) Organisational Skills
2 5 (13.16%) Retail
3 3 (7.89%) Finance
4 2 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (44.74%) Analyst
2 7 (18.42%) Architect
2 7 (18.42%) Solutions Architect
3 5 (13.16%) Help Desk Analyst
4 4 (10.53%) Coordinator
5 3 (7.89%) Head of IT
5 3 (7.89%) Lead
6 2 (5.26%) 1st Line Support
6 2 (5.26%) 1st Line Support Analyst
6 2 (5.26%) AWS Architect
6 2 (5.26%) AWS Solution Architect
6 2 (5.26%) Digital Product Owner
6 2 (5.26%) Java Architect
6 2 (5.26%) Java Solutions Architect
6 2 (5.26%) Product Owner
6 2 (5.26%) Team Leader
7 1 (2.63%) Infrastructure Analyst
7 1 (2.63%) Service Analyst
7 1 (2.63%) Service Desk Analyst
7 1 (2.63%) Technical Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.53%) RESTful
2 2 (5.26%) ActiveMQ
2 2 (5.26%) Kafka
2 2 (5.26%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.89%) EPoS
1 3 (7.89%) Security Posture
2 2 (5.26%) Product Ownership
2 2 (5.26%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.53%) Windows
2 3 (7.89%) Android
3 1 (2.63%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (28.95%) Coaching
1 11 (28.95%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (23.68%) Customer Service
3 5 (13.16%) Roadmaps
4 4 (10.53%) Agile
4 4 (10.53%) CI/CD
4 4 (10.53%) Microservices
4 4 (10.53%) Statistics
5 3 (7.89%) Containerisation
5 3 (7.89%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (7.89%) Identity Management
5 3 (7.89%) Incident Response
5 3 (7.89%) Inventory Management
5 3 (7.89%) Knowledge Management
5 3 (7.89%) Line Management
5 3 (7.89%) Mentoring
5 3 (7.89%) Patch Management
5 3 (7.89%) Service Management
5 3 (7.89%) Technical Leadership
5 3 (7.89%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 4 (10.53%) Java
2 1 (2.63%) Bash
2 1 (2.63%) PowerShell
2 1 (2.63%) Python
Qualifications
1 13 (34.21%) SC Cleared
1 13 (34.21%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.26%) Degree
System Software
1 5 (13.16%) Docker
2 1 (2.63%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.63%) Hyper-V
2 1 (2.63%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (2.63%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (2.63%) Podman
Vendors
1 3 (7.89%) Microsoft
1 3 (7.89%) Samsung
2 1 (2.63%) Google
2 1 (2.63%) VMware