Service Delivery Contracts in Hertfordshire

Service Delivery
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hertfordshire 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 20 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 58 53
Rank change year-on-year +15 -5 +5
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Service Delivery 7 6 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 1.56% 0.87% 2.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.71% 1.00% 3.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 14
10th Percentile £420 £203 £202
25th Percentile £450 £298 £320
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £388 £483
Median % change year-on-year +29.03% -19.69% +52.45%
75th Percentile - £463 £675
90th Percentile - £508 £719
East of England median daily rate £225 £350 £500
% change year-on-year -35.71% -30.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 3
10th Percentile £15.11 - -
25th Percentile £15.59 - -
Median hourly rate £16.90 £24.00 £12.95
Median % change year-on-year -29.58% +85.33% -56.10%
75th Percentile £17.70 - £35.85
90th Percentile £17.87 - £49.59
East of England median hourly rate £15.14 £16.23 £13.66
% change year-on-year -6.72% +18.81% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 409 603 656
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 90.89% 87.14% 87.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 188 188 365
10th Percentile £244 £213 £260
25th Percentile £444 £306 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £400 £538
Median % change year-on-year +32.00% -25.58% +7.50%
75th Percentile £575 £566 £675
90th Percentile £675 £650 £738
East of England median daily rate £500 £425 £500
% change year-on-year +17.65% -15.00% +3.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 123 251 134
10th Percentile £16.93 £21.25 £17.73
25th Percentile £30.06 £38.12 £49.00
Median hourly rate £54.00 £50.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -23.08% +18.18%
75th Percentile £66.75 £63.75 £71.88
90th Percentile £76.25 £70.00 £90.00
East of England median hourly rate £36.75 £43.00 £19.81
% change year-on-year -14.53% +117.06% -3.37%

Service Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

Job postings citing Service Delivery as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire.

Job vacancy trend for Service Delivery in Hertfordshire

Service Delivery
Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

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

Service Delivery
Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

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

Service Delivery
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 20 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Stevenage +12 2 £500 - 10
Watford +5 2 £400 -5.88% 4
Hatfield -6 2 - - 7
Welwyn Garden City - 1 - -
Service Delivery
East of England

Service Delivery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 1 (14.29%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) AWS
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) GCP
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (14.29%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 2 (28.57%) Finance
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Service Manager
2 2 (28.57%) Delivery Manager
2 2 (28.57%) IT Manager
2 2 (28.57%) IT Services Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Installation Technician
3 1 (14.29%) Lead
3 1 (14.29%) PMO Lead
3 1 (14.29%) Programme Delivery Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Programme Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Programme Test Manager
3 1 (14.29%) QA Manager
3 1 (14.29%) QA Test Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Senior PMO
3 1 (14.29%) Service Delivery Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Test Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Test Programme Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (14.29%) Driving Licence
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Agile
1 3 (42.86%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (42.86%) ITIL
1 3 (42.86%) Roadmaps
2 2 (28.57%) Incident Management
2 2 (28.57%) Project Management
2 2 (28.57%) Resource Management
2 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (28.57%) Strategic Planning
3 1 (14.29%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (14.29%) Content Management
3 1 (14.29%) Data Protection
3 1 (14.29%) Decision-Making
3 1 (14.29%) Knowledge Management
3 1 (14.29%) PRINCE2
3 1 (14.29%) Problem Management
3 1 (14.29%) Programme Delivery
3 1 (14.29%) Resource Allocation
3 1 (14.29%) Service Management
3 1 (14.29%) Test Automation
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
1 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 2 (28.57%) DV Cleared
2 2 (28.57%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) QA
2 1 (14.29%) PMO
2 1 (14.29%) SLA
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
1 1 (14.29%) Planview