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 26 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 44 61
Rank change year-on-year +5 +17 +7
Contract jobs citing Service Delivery 33 21 12
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 3.88% 2.80% 1.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.47% 3.32% 1.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 13 3
10th Percentile £324 £279 £269
25th Percentile £432 £313 £341
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £418 £475
Median % change year-on-year +13.77% -12.11% -0.52%
75th Percentile £522 £495 £493
90th Percentile £537 £520 £496
England median daily rate £450 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -10.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 0 3
10th Percentile £16.17 - £17.43
25th Percentile £17.44 - £18.59
Median hourly rate £17.87 - £20.51
75th Percentile - - £42.76
90th Percentile - - £56.10
England median hourly rate £17.87 £16.23 £17.95
% change year-on-year +10.10% -9.56% +21.87%

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 738 632 694
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 86.72% 84.38% 84.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 517 388 503
10th Percentile £213 £267 £205
25th Percentile £350 £356 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £445 £480
Median % change year-on-year -6.74% -7.29% +1.05%
75th Percentile £523 £541 £601
90th Percentile £638 £613 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 28 53
10th Percentile £16.17 £14.90 £13.00
25th Percentile £17.87 £17.00 £16.66
Median hourly rate £19.69 £23.25 £22.28
Median % change year-on-year -15.33% +4.38% +31.28%
75th Percentile £25.15 £50.00 £51.50
90th Percentile £25.83 £51.50 £69.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £44.50
% change year-on-year -37.63% -9.38% +27.14%

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 26 October 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 26 October 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 +7 25 £481 +29.63% 11
Northamptonshire -8 6 £435 +8.83% 7
Derbyshire +1 2 £508 +2.53% 7
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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (21.21%) AWS
2 5 (15.15%) Azure
3 3 (9.09%) Entra ID
4 2 (6.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (6.06%) Amazon Glacier
4 2 (6.06%) Amazon Kinesis
4 2 (6.06%) Amazon S3
4 2 (6.06%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (6.06%) SaaS
4 2 (6.06%) Serverless
5 1 (3.03%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.06%) DMZ
1 2 (6.06%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.06%) DynamoDB
1 2 (6.06%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (12.12%) Jenkins
2 2 (6.06%) Git
2 2 (6.06%) Gradle
2 2 (6.06%) Maven
General
1 5 (15.15%) Organisational Skills
1 5 (15.15%) Retail
1 5 (15.15%) Social Skills
2 3 (9.09%) Finance
3 2 (6.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (6.06%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (60.61%) Analyst
2 6 (18.18%) Architect
2 6 (18.18%) Solutions Architect
3 5 (15.15%) Help Desk Analyst
4 3 (9.09%) 1st Line Support
4 3 (9.09%) 1st Line Support Analyst
4 3 (9.09%) Head of IT
5 2 (6.06%) AWS Architect
5 2 (6.06%) AWS Solution Architect
5 2 (6.06%) Digital Product Owner
5 2 (6.06%) Java Architect
5 2 (6.06%) Java Solutions Architect
5 2 (6.06%) Product Owner
5 2 (6.06%) Support Analyst
6 1 (3.03%) 1st Line Service Desk Analyst
6 1 (3.03%) Service Analyst
6 1 (3.03%) Service Desk Analyst
6 1 (3.03%) Service Desk Support
6 1 (3.03%) Service Desk Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (12.12%) RESTful
2 2 (6.06%) ActiveMQ
2 2 (6.06%) Kafka
2 2 (6.06%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.09%) Security Posture
2 2 (6.06%) Product Ownership
2 2 (6.06%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.09%) Android
1 3 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (45.45%) Coaching
2 7 (21.21%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (15.15%) Customer Service
4 4 (12.12%) Agile
4 4 (12.12%) CI/CD
4 4 (12.12%) Microservices
4 4 (12.12%) Roadmaps
5 3 (9.09%) Identity Management
5 3 (9.09%) Incident Response
5 3 (9.09%) Knowledge Management
5 3 (9.09%) Line Management
5 3 (9.09%) Patch Management
6 2 (6.06%) Adaptive Web Design
6 2 (6.06%) Architectural Design
6 2 (6.06%) Creative Problem-Solving
6 2 (6.06%) Iteration Planning
6 2 (6.06%) Project Delivery
6 2 (6.06%) Runbook
6 2 (6.06%) Software Delivery
6 2 (6.06%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 4 (12.12%) Java
Qualifications
1 16 (48.48%) SC Cleared
1 16 (48.48%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.06%) Degree
System Software
1 4 (12.12%) Docker
2 1 (3.03%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 3 (9.09%) Microsoft
1 3 (9.09%) Samsung
2 1 (3.03%) Computacenter