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 4 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 31 43
Rank change year-on-year -10 +12 +11
Contract jobs citing Service Delivery 42 24 20
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 4.38% 4.26% 2.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.18% 4.93% 3.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 11 5
10th Percentile £245 £266 £211
25th Percentile £402 £313 £220
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £356 £460
Median % change year-on-year +26.40% -22.61% -18.22%
75th Percentile £519 £435 £488
90th Percentile £590 £490 £645
England median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 0 3
10th Percentile £14.56 - £17.43
25th Percentile £16.17 - £18.59
Median hourly rate £16.35 - £20.51
75th Percentile £17.87 - £42.76
90th Percentile £23.77 - £56.10
England median hourly rate £19.64 £16.23 £16.86
% change year-on-year +21.01% -3.74% -23.36%

All Process & 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 811 487 650
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 84.66% 86.50% 82.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 465 295 447
10th Percentile £190 £250 £188
25th Percentile £353 £350 £288
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £430 £445
Median % change year-on-year -1.16% -3.37% -1.11%
75th Percentile £525 £538 £550
90th Percentile £610 £606 £664
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 101 20 62
10th Percentile £14.96 £16.81 £11.26
25th Percentile £16.35 £17.00 £14.00
Median hourly rate £17.87 £23.34 £17.61
Median % change year-on-year -23.44% +32.58% +4.60%
75th Percentile £24.36 £30.44 £32.13
90th Percentile £25.15 £41.21 £51.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £35.25
% change year-on-year -28.14% -0.71% +0.71%

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 4 February 2026.

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 4 February 2026.

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 4 February 2026. 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 23 £513 +51.85% 16
Derbyshire +4 14 - - 3
Lincolnshire - 3 - - 8
Northamptonshire -26 2 £276 -22.47% 5
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 (2.38%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.38%) assyst
Cloud Services
1 11 (26.19%) AWS
2 10 (23.81%) Azure
3 3 (7.14%) Entra ID
3 3 (7.14%) GCP
4 2 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.14%) MySQL
1 3 (7.14%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.38%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.38%) Hadoop
2 1 (2.38%) RDBMS
2 1 (2.38%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.38%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 1 (2.38%) JIRA
General
1 10 (23.81%) Social Skills
2 8 (19.05%) Retail
3 6 (14.29%) Finance
3 6 (14.29%) Local Government
4 5 (11.90%) Fire and Rescue
4 5 (11.90%) Marketing
4 5 (11.90%) Organisational Skills
4 5 (11.90%) Police
5 4 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (9.52%) Electronics
5 4 (9.52%) Manufacturing
5 4 (9.52%) Public Sector
5 4 (9.52%) Telecoms
6 1 (2.38%) Banking
Job Titles
1 22 (52.38%) Analyst
2 5 (11.90%) Help Desk Analyst
2 5 (11.90%) Help Desk Technician
2 5 (11.90%) ICT Technician
3 4 (9.52%) Support Engineer
4 3 (7.14%) 2nd Line Support
4 3 (7.14%) Head of IT
4 3 (7.14%) Technical Engineer
4 3 (7.14%) Technical Support
4 3 (7.14%) Technical Support Engineer
5 2 (4.76%) 1st Line Support
5 2 (4.76%) 1st Line Support Analyst
5 2 (4.76%) CloudOps Manager
5 2 (4.76%) Operations Manager
5 2 (4.76%) Senior
5 2 (4.76%) Support Analyst
6 1 (2.38%) Senior Architect
6 1 (2.38%) Senior Data Architect
6 1 (2.38%) Senior Technical Manager
6 1 (2.38%) Senior Technical Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.90%) Driving Licence
1 5 (11.90%) Security Posture
2 3 (7.14%) Mobile Payment
3 2 (4.76%) Cloud Security Posture
3 2 (4.76%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.38%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.38%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.38%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 9 (21.43%) Windows
2 6 (14.29%) Android
3 5 (11.90%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (33.33%) Coaching
2 9 (21.43%) ITSM
2 9 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (19.05%) ITIL
4 7 (16.67%) Customer Service
5 6 (14.29%) Agile
5 6 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
5 6 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
5 6 (14.29%) Data Protection
6 5 (11.90%) Business Continuity
6 5 (11.90%) Mathematics
7 4 (9.52%) Digital Marketing
7 4 (9.52%) Knowledge Management
7 4 (9.52%) Programme Management
7 4 (9.52%) Stakeholder Management
8 3 (7.14%) Hardware Maintenance
8 3 (7.14%) Line Management
8 3 (7.14%) Mobile Device Management
8 3 (7.14%) Patch Management
8 3 (7.14%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.38%) Java
1 1 (2.38%) SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (45.24%) SC Cleared
1 19 (45.24%) Security Cleared
2 5 (11.90%) NVQ Level 3
3 2 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.76%) SLA
2 1 (2.38%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.38%) GRC
System Software
1 5 (11.90%) Hyper-V
1 5 (11.90%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.38%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 5 (11.90%) VMware
2 4 (9.52%) SAP
3 3 (7.14%) Genesys
3 3 (7.14%) Google
3 3 (7.14%) Samsung
3 3 (7.14%) ServiceNow
4 2 (4.76%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.38%) Ab Initio
5 1 (2.38%) Computacenter
5 1 (2.38%) Informatica
5 1 (2.38%) Teradata