Service Delivery Contract Job Trends in Gloucestershire

Service Delivery
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Gloucestershire requiring Service Delivery skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 46 57
Rank change year-on-year +7 +11 0
Contract jobs citing Service Delivery 8 14 2
As % of all contract jobs in Gloucestershire 2.52% 3.19% 0.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.84% 3.62% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 2
10th Percentile £283 £428 £234
25th Percentile £338 £450 £280
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £473 £365
Median % change year-on-year -20.63% +29.45% -28.95%
75th Percentile £488 £522 £455
90th Percentile £575 £584 £505
South West median daily rate £361 £473 £525
% change year-on-year -23.70% -10.00% -8.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 282 387 444
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 88.96% 88.15% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 186 194 270
10th Percentile £225 £387 £362
25th Percentile £366 £476 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £660 £676 £675
90th Percentile £716 £738 £738
South West median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.24% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 32 53
10th Percentile £15.31 £23.05 £33.40
25th Percentile £26.85 £29.50 £48.72
Median hourly rate £36.00 £37.52 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% -46.41% +62.36%
75th Percentile £68.00 £71.50 £78.36
90th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £83.40
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £67.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -62.74% +12.50% -

Service Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Service Delivery job vacancy trend in Gloucestershire

Service Delivery
Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Service Delivery.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Service Delivery

Service Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram in Gloucestershire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Service Delivery in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 4 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Service Delivery in Gloucestershire

Service Delivery
Hourly Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Service Delivery.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Service Delivery

Service Delivery
Contract Job Locations in Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 4 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
Gloucester -8 3 £375 -11.76% 4
Cheltenham +13 2 £550 -8.33% 7
Service Delivery
South West

Service Delivery
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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:

Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (25.00%) assyst
2 1 (12.50%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) AWS
1 2 (25.00%) Azure
1 2 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (25.00%) npm
1 2 (25.00%) OpenShift
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) AMQP
2 1 (12.50%) DNS
2 1 (12.50%) Firewall
2 1 (12.50%) LAN
2 1 (12.50%) VoIP
2 1 (12.50%) WAN
2 1 (12.50%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) RDBMS
1 2 (25.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Git
2 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (25.00%) JIRA
2 2 (25.00%) Maven
General
1 6 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (62.50%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (25.00%) Finance
3 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Analyst
1 2 (25.00%) Applications Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Applications Support
1 2 (25.00%) Applications Support Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Automation Analyst
1 2 (25.00%) Service Analyst
1 2 (25.00%) Service Desk Manager
1 2 (25.00%) Service Manager
1 2 (25.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Digital Innovation Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Innovation Manager
2 1 (12.50%) PC Support
2 1 (12.50%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) AngularJS
1 2 (25.00%) Bootstrap
1 2 (25.00%) CSS
1 2 (25.00%) HTML
1 2 (25.00%) JSON
1 2 (25.00%) REST
1 2 (25.00%) SOAP
1 2 (25.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) CMDB
1 2 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) CentOS
1 2 (25.00%) Linux
1 2 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (12.50%) Android
2 1 (12.50%) Mac OS
2 1 (12.50%) Windows
2 1 (12.50%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (62.50%) ITSM
3 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 4 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (50.00%) Decision-Making
3 4 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (37.50%) ITIL
4 3 (37.50%) Problem Management
4 3 (37.50%) Service Management
5 2 (25.00%) Agile
5 2 (25.00%) CAD
5 2 (25.00%) Change Management
5 2 (25.00%) Data Protection
5 2 (25.00%) Incident Management
5 2 (25.00%) Information Security
5 2 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
5 2 (25.00%) Scrum
5 2 (25.00%) Test Automation
5 2 (25.00%) Validation
5 2 (25.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Java
1 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) DV Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Docker
2 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Ansible
1 2 (25.00%) Grafana
1 2 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) ServiceNow
2 2 (25.00%) IFS
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (25.00%) Oracle
3 1 (12.50%) Remedy