Service Delivery Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Service Delivery
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring Service Delivery skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 40 44
Rank change year-on-year -28 +4 +16
Contract jobs citing Service Delivery 14 18 28
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 1.46% 3.75% 3.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.70% 4.06% 4.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 17 24
10th Percentile £368 - -
25th Percentile £427 £235 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £449 £400 £550
Median % change year-on-year +12.13% -27.27% -
75th Percentile £472 £425 -
90th Percentile £568 £450 £600
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £400 £550
% change year-on-year +25.00% -27.27% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 825 443 695
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 86.12% 92.29% 85.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 501 279 432
10th Percentile £350 £275 £300
25th Percentile £419 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -7.83%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £578
90th Percentile £675 £600 £638
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -6.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 3 27
10th Percentile £14.25 £31.53 £11.75
25th Percentile £15.69 £31.62 £12.15
Median hourly rate £35.00 £33.11 £12.30
Median % change year-on-year +5.71% +169.19% -38.50%
75th Percentile £43.96 £66.51 £13.87
90th Percentile £74.00 £85.74 £19.15
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £24.00 £22.14 £13.02
% change year-on-year +8.40% +70.11% -31.50%

Service Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Service Delivery job vacancy trend in Leeds

Service Delivery
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

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

Service Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Service Delivery in Leeds over the 6 months to 12 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Service Delivery in Leeds

Service Delivery
Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

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

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

Service Delivery
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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 2 (14.29%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (7.14%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 2 (14.29%) AWS
1 2 (14.29%) Azure
1 2 (14.29%) Power Platform
2 1 (7.14%) Adobe Analytics
2 1 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (7.14%) AWS KMS
2 1 (7.14%) GCP
2 1 (7.14%) GitHub
2 1 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) DNS
1 1 (7.14%) Firewall
1 1 (7.14%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) Power BI
2 1 (7.14%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (7.14%) MongoDB
2 1 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (7.14%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (28.57%) JIRA
2 1 (7.14%) CircleCI
2 1 (7.14%) Git
2 1 (7.14%) GitLab
2 1 (7.14%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 4 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (21.43%) Finance
4 2 (14.29%) Banking
4 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
5 1 (7.14%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (7.14%) Law
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Analyst
2 4 (28.57%) Service Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Delivery Manager
3 2 (14.29%) Service Delivery Manager
3 2 (14.29%) Service Manager
3 2 (14.29%) Support Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Coordinator
4 1 (7.14%) Data Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Head of Technology
4 1 (7.14%) Lead
4 1 (7.14%) Performance Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Service Delivery Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Service Delivery Coordinator
4 1 (7.14%) Service Design Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) SystmOne Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) .NET
1 1 (7.14%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Linux
1 1 (7.14%) Unix
1 1 (7.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (64.29%) Service Management
2 8 (57.14%) Continuous Improvement
2 8 (57.14%) ITIL
3 7 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (28.57%) Actionable Insight
4 4 (28.57%) Agile
4 4 (28.57%) ITSM
4 4 (28.57%) Knowledge Transfer
4 4 (28.57%) Service Design
5 3 (21.43%) Change Management
5 3 (21.43%) DevOps
5 3 (21.43%) Incident Management
5 3 (21.43%) Problem Management
5 3 (21.43%) Process Improvement
6 2 (14.29%) Coaching
6 2 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
6 2 (14.29%) Dashboard Development
6 2 (14.29%) Prototyping
6 2 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
6 2 (14.29%) SIAM
Programming Languages
1 2 (14.29%) SQL
2 1 (7.14%) Bash
2 1 (7.14%) C#
2 1 (7.14%) Go
2 1 (7.14%) Java
2 1 (7.14%) PowerShell
2 1 (7.14%) Python
2 1 (7.14%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 5 (35.71%) SC Cleared
3 1 (7.14%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (7.14%) DBS Check
3 1 (7.14%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (21.43%) SLA
2 2 (14.29%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (7.14%) Data Quality
3 1 (7.14%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Ansible
1 1 (7.14%) Grafana
1 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
1 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) ServiceNow
2 2 (14.29%) Remedy
2 2 (14.29%) Splunk
3 1 (7.14%) Adobe
3 1 (7.14%) Oracle