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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 32 50
Rank change year-on-year -8 +18 +10
Contract jobs citing Service Delivery 33 25 11
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 3.72% 4.20% 1.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.44% 4.84% 1.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 12 3
10th Percentile £245 £313 £269
25th Percentile £402 £341 £341
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £431 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.47% -9.32% -
75th Percentile £519 £496 £493
90th Percentile £590 £523 £496
England median daily rate £450 £514 £500
% change year-on-year -12.41% +2.75% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 0 3
10th Percentile £16.17 - £17.43
25th Percentile £16.35 - £18.59
Median hourly rate £17.87 - £20.51
75th Percentile - - £42.76
90th Percentile £24.39 - £56.10
England median hourly rate £20.01 £16.23 £18.00
% change year-on-year +23.29% -9.83% -7.86%

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 744 516 602
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 83.88% 86.72% 83.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 459 319 426
10th Percentile £188 £250 £213
25th Percentile £354 £340 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £423 £430 £452
Median % change year-on-year -1.74% -4.76% -2.90%
75th Percentile £530 £550 £573
90th Percentile £625 £640 £680
England median daily rate £505 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -3.81% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 22 44
10th Percentile £16.13 £15.29 £12.30
25th Percentile £16.35 £17.00 £16.56
Median hourly rate £18.87 £22.05 £21.90
Median % change year-on-year -14.40% +0.69% +30.10%
75th Percentile £25.00 £25.02 £51.50
90th Percentile £25.15 £39.09 £62.30
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% -22.22% +24.47%

Service Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Service Delivery job vacancy trend 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 24 December 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Service Delivery in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 24 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Service Delivery in the East Midlands

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 24 December 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 -1 20 £513 +46.43% 18
Derbyshire +2 8 - - 13
Lincolnshire - 3 - - 6
Northamptonshire -15 2 £276 -31.00% 12
Service Delivery
England

Service Delivery
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 (3.03%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (3.03%) assyst
Cloud Services
1 5 (15.15%) Azure
2 3 (9.09%) AWS
2 3 (9.09%) Entra ID
3 2 (6.06%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.03%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (3.03%) Hadoop
1 1 (3.03%) RDBMS
1 1 (3.03%) Relational Database
1 1 (3.03%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 1 (3.03%) JIRA
General
1 10 (30.30%) Social Skills
2 6 (18.18%) Finance
3 5 (15.15%) Marketing
3 5 (15.15%) Organisational Skills
3 5 (15.15%) Retail
4 4 (12.12%) Electronics
4 4 (12.12%) Manufacturing
4 4 (12.12%) Public Sector
4 4 (12.12%) Telecoms
5 1 (3.03%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.03%) Banking
5 1 (3.03%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 21 (63.64%) Analyst
2 5 (15.15%) Help Desk Analyst
3 4 (12.12%) Support Engineer
4 3 (9.09%) Head of IT
4 3 (9.09%) Technical Engineer
4 3 (9.09%) Technical Support
4 3 (9.09%) Technical Support Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) 1st Line Support
5 2 (6.06%) 1st Line Support Analyst
5 2 (6.06%) CloudOps Manager
5 2 (6.06%) Operations Manager
5 2 (6.06%) Senior
5 2 (6.06%) Support Analyst
6 1 (3.03%) Insight Manager
6 1 (3.03%) Senior Architect
6 1 (3.03%) Senior Data Architect
6 1 (3.03%) Senior Technical Manager
6 1 (3.03%) Senior Transformation Manager
6 1 (3.03%) Transformation Manager
6 1 (3.03%) Transformation Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.15%) Security Posture
2 2 (6.06%) Cloud Security Posture
2 2 (6.06%) Public Cloud
3 1 (3.03%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.03%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.03%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (12.12%) Windows
2 3 (9.09%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (45.45%) Coaching
2 7 (21.21%) Customer Service
2 7 (21.21%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (12.12%) Digital Marketing
4 4 (12.12%) Knowledge Management
4 4 (12.12%) Programme Management
4 4 (12.12%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (9.09%) Hardware Maintenance
5 3 (9.09%) Identity Management
5 3 (9.09%) Incident Response
5 3 (9.09%) ITIL
5 3 (9.09%) Line Management
5 3 (9.09%) Logistics
5 3 (9.09%) Migration
5 3 (9.09%) Patch Management
5 3 (9.09%) Storage Management
5 3 (9.09%) Workflow
5 3 (9.09%) Workflow Management
6 2 (6.06%) Cloud Operations
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.03%) Java
1 1 (3.03%) SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (60.61%) SC Cleared
1 20 (60.61%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.06%) SLA
2 1 (3.03%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.03%) GRC
System Software
1 1 (3.03%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 4 (12.12%) SAP
2 3 (9.09%) Samsung
2 3 (9.09%) ServiceNow
3 2 (6.06%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.03%) Ab Initio
4 1 (3.03%) Computacenter
4 1 (3.03%) Genesys
4 1 (3.03%) Informatica
4 1 (3.03%) Teradata