Service Delivery Contracts in the East Midlands

Service Delivery
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 33 42 42
Rank change year-on-year +9 0 +8
Contract jobs citing Service Delivery 23 24 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 4.29% 3.10% 4.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.98% 3.98% 4.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 8 29
10th Percentile £185 £175 £348
25th Percentile £201 £254 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £475 £563
Median % change year-on-year -31.51% -15.64% +20.97%
75th Percentile £481 £495 £594
90th Percentile £537 £583 £625
England median daily rate £450 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% +4.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £24.88
Median hourly rate £23.00 - £25.66
75th Percentile - - £26.44
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £16.23 £14.80 £24.81
% change year-on-year +9.66% -40.35% +76.21%

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 462 603 918
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 86.19% 78.01% 88.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 298 404 692
10th Percentile £200 £192 £213
25th Percentile £323 £269 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £419 £450
Median % change year-on-year +6.81% -7.00% +2.27%
75th Percentile £525 £553 £573
90th Percentile £591 £625 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 57 74
10th Percentile - £11.41 £12.07
25th Percentile £13.81 £12.75 £16.25
Median hourly rate £18.36 £17.00 £18.56
Median % change year-on-year +7.97% -8.39% +3.10%
75th Percentile £24.54 £26.15 £31.50
90th Percentile £33.15 £45.79 £58.50
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Service Delivery in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Service Delivery in the East Midlands

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 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Service Delivery in the East Midlands

Service Delivery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Service Delivery in the East Midlands.

Hourly rate trend 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 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
Derbyshire +15 8 £408 - 15
Northamptonshire 0 8 £273 -44.23% 5
Nottinghamshire +4 6 £350 - 15
Leicestershire +6 1 £250 -48.45% 13
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 2 (8.70%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (17.39%) AWS
2 3 (13.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 3 (13.04%) Amazon Glacier
2 3 (13.04%) Amazon Kinesis
2 3 (13.04%) Amazon S3
2 3 (13.04%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (13.04%) Serverless
3 2 (8.70%) Azure
3 2 (8.70%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (4.35%) GCP
4 1 (4.35%) OneDrive
4 1 (4.35%) Power Platform
4 1 (4.35%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.35%) DHCP
1 1 (4.35%) DNS
1 1 (4.35%) Firewall
1 1 (4.35%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.04%) DynamoDB
2 1 (4.35%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (4.35%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (13.04%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (26.09%) Social Skills
2 5 (21.74%) Finance
2 5 (21.74%) Influencing Skills
2 5 (21.74%) Telecoms
3 3 (13.04%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (4.35%) Local Government
4 1 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (30.43%) Lead
2 4 (17.39%) Architect
2 4 (17.39%) Coordinator
2 4 (17.39%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (13.04%) Analyst
4 2 (8.70%) AWS Architect
4 2 (8.70%) AWS Solution Architect
4 2 (8.70%) Java Architect
4 2 (8.70%) Java Solutions Architect
4 2 (8.70%) Service Desk Manager
4 2 (8.70%) Service Manager
4 2 (8.70%) Team Leader
5 1 (4.35%) Category Manager
5 1 (4.35%) Cutover Manager
5 1 (4.35%) Delivery Manager
5 1 (4.35%) ERP Manager
5 1 (4.35%) IT Analyst
5 1 (4.35%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
5 1 (4.35%) Server Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Technical Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.04%) ActiveMQ
1 3 (13.04%) Kafka
1 3 (13.04%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.04%) EPoS
1 3 (13.04%) Public Cloud
2 1 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (4.35%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (13.04%) Windows
2 2 (8.70%) Linux
3 1 (4.35%) CentOS
3 1 (4.35%) Rocky
3 1 (4.35%) Ubuntu
3 1 (4.35%) Windows 10
3 1 (4.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (39.13%) Continuous Improvement
1 9 (39.13%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (30.43%) ITIL
3 5 (21.74%) Conflict Resolution
3 5 (21.74%) Contract Negotiation
3 5 (21.74%) Customer Service
3 5 (21.74%) Proactive Management
3 5 (21.74%) Risk Management
3 5 (21.74%) Supplier Management
3 5 (21.74%) Supplier Relationship Management
4 4 (17.39%) Containerisation
4 4 (17.39%) Contract Management
4 4 (17.39%) Statistics
5 3 (13.04%) Agile
5 3 (13.04%) Creative Problem-Solving
5 3 (13.04%) Inventory Management
5 3 (13.04%) Project Planning
5 3 (13.04%) SDLC
5 3 (13.04%) Technical Leadership
5 3 (13.04%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 3 (13.04%) Java
2 1 (4.35%) Bash
2 1 (4.35%) PowerShell
2 1 (4.35%) Python
2 1 (4.35%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (4.35%) Degree
1 1 (4.35%) SC Cleared
1 1 (4.35%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (34.78%) SLA
2 1 (4.35%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (4.35%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (17.39%) Docker
2 1 (4.35%) Firmware
2 1 (4.35%) Hyper-V
2 1 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (4.35%) Ansible
1 1 (4.35%) FortiGate
1 1 (4.35%) Kubernetes
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (4.35%) Podman
Vendors
1 3 (13.04%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.35%) Cisco
2 1 (4.35%) Google
2 1 (4.35%) VMware