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 13 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 43 38
Rank change year-on-year -28 -5 +23
Contract jobs citing Service Delivery 15 11 27
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 1.76% 2.52% 3.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.02% 2.72% 3.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 8 23
10th Percentile £398 £234 -
25th Percentile £435 £341 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £438 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% -20.45% -
75th Percentile £552 £613 -
90th Percentile £639 £729 £600
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £438 £550
% change year-on-year +14.29% -20.45% -

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 742 405 694
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 87.09% 92.68% 86.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 483 271 420
10th Percentile £314 £263 £281
25th Percentile £419 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £460 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -8.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £569 £550 £588
90th Percentile £629 £638 £675
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £463 £498
% change year-on-year +8.11% -7.04% -5.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 10 23
10th Percentile - £17.08 £11.75
25th Percentile £14.25 £31.54 £12.15
Median hourly rate £14.38 £41.00 £12.30
Median % change year-on-year -64.94% +233.33% -72.38%
75th Percentile £33.13 £98.08 £12.53
90th Percentile £74.00 £102.00 £15.25
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £15.38 £27.50 £12.53
% change year-on-year -44.09% +119.47% -53.59%

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 13 April 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (13.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (13.33%) SystmOne
2 1 (6.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (6.67%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (20.00%) Azure
2 2 (13.33%) AWS
2 2 (13.33%) GCP
2 2 (13.33%) Power Platform
3 1 (6.67%) Adobe Analytics
3 1 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (6.67%) AWS KMS
3 1 (6.67%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (6.67%) GitHub
3 1 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (6.67%) PaaS
3 1 (6.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) DNS
1 2 (13.33%) TCP/IP
2 1 (6.67%) DHCP
2 1 (6.67%) Firewall
2 1 (6.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) Power BI
2 1 (6.67%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (6.67%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (6.67%) MongoDB
2 1 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (6.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) JIRA
2 1 (6.67%) CircleCI
2 1 (6.67%) Git
2 1 (6.67%) GitLab
2 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (53.33%) Social Skills
2 5 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (20.00%) Finance
3 3 (20.00%) Public Sector
4 2 (13.33%) Banking
5 1 (6.67%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (6.67%) Law
5 1 (6.67%) Legal
5 1 (6.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) Analyst
2 4 (26.67%) Service Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) Delivery Manager
3 2 (13.33%) Service Delivery Manager
3 2 (13.33%) Service Manager
4 1 (6.67%) 2nd Line Support
4 1 (6.67%) Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Coordinator
4 1 (6.67%) Data Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Head of Technology
4 1 (6.67%) IT Support Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Performance Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Programme Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Project Manager
4 1 (6.67%) SAP Manager
4 1 (6.67%) SAP Programme Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Service Delivery Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Service Design Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Support Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) .NET
1 1 (6.67%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (6.67%) Management Information System
1 1 (6.67%) NHS
1 1 (6.67%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 2 (13.33%) Windows
2 1 (6.67%) Linux
2 1 (6.67%) Unix
2 1 (6.67%) Windows 10
2 1 (6.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) Service Management
2 8 (53.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 8 (53.33%) ITIL
2 8 (53.33%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (33.33%) Agile
4 4 (26.67%) Actionable Insight
4 4 (26.67%) DevOps
4 4 (26.67%) Service Design
5 3 (20.00%) Customer Service
5 3 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (20.00%) Incident Management
5 3 (20.00%) ITSM
5 3 (20.00%) Process Improvement
6 2 (13.33%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (13.33%) Coaching
6 2 (13.33%) Information Governance
6 2 (13.33%) Risk Management
6 2 (13.33%) Root Cause Analysis
6 2 (13.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 2 (13.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (13.33%) PowerShell
1 2 (13.33%) SQL
2 1 (6.67%) Bash
2 1 (6.67%) C#
2 1 (6.67%) Go
2 1 (6.67%) Java
2 1 (6.67%) Python
2 1 (6.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (53.33%) Security Cleared
2 5 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 2 (13.33%) Degree
4 1 (6.67%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (6.67%) DBS Check
4 1 (6.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (6.67%) PMI Certification
4 1 (6.67%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) SLA
2 2 (13.33%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (6.67%) Data Quality
3 1 (6.67%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Active Directory
1 1 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Ansible
1 1 (6.67%) Grafana
1 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (6.67%) SCCM
1 1 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) ServiceNow
2 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (13.33%) Splunk
3 1 (6.67%) Adobe
3 1 (6.67%) Google
3 1 (6.67%) Oracle
3 1 (6.67%) SAP