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 14 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 47 41
Rank change year-on-year -22 -6 +21
Contract jobs citing Service Delivery 14 8 30
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 1.77% 1.85% 3.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.01% 2.01% 4.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 4 26
10th Percentile £329 £293 £481
25th Percentile £449 £402 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £588 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.79% +6.82% -
75th Percentile £577 £728 £578
90th Percentile £641 £734 £625
West Yorkshire median daily rate £525 £588 £538
% change year-on-year -10.64% +9.30% -2.27%

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 697 399 742
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 88.01% 92.36% 87.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 454 257 455
10th Percentile £313 £263 £281
25th Percentile £413 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £555 £550 £588
90th Percentile £638 £650 £675
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £461 £490
% change year-on-year +8.40% -5.87% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 11 18
10th Percentile - £17.08 £11.56
25th Percentile £14.25 £28.86 £12.15
Median hourly rate £14.50 £41.00 £12.30
Median % change year-on-year -64.63% +233.33% -80.32%
75th Percentile £28.75 £97.60 £14.56
90th Percentile £74.00 £102.00 £17.27
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £16.25 £27.50 £13.50
% change year-on-year -40.91% +103.70% -61.49%

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 14 March 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 (7.14%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (14.29%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (7.14%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (7.14%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 6 (42.86%) Azure
2 4 (28.57%) AWS
3 2 (14.29%) GCP
4 1 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (7.14%) AWS KMS
4 1 (7.14%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (7.14%) GitHub
4 1 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (7.14%) PaaS
4 1 (7.14%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) DNS
1 2 (14.29%) TCP/IP
2 1 (7.14%) DHCP
2 1 (7.14%) Firewall
2 1 (7.14%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) Electronic Patient Records
1 1 (7.14%) MongoDB
1 1 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) JIRA
2 1 (7.14%) CircleCI
2 1 (7.14%) Git
2 1 (7.14%) GitLab
2 1 (7.14%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (35.71%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (21.43%) Finance
4 2 (14.29%) Banking
5 1 (7.14%) Law
5 1 (7.14%) Legal
5 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
5 1 (7.14%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Analyst
1 4 (28.57%) Service Analyst
2 3 (21.43%) Delivery Director
2 3 (21.43%) IT Director
2 3 (21.43%) Service Delivery Director
2 3 (21.43%) Services Director
3 2 (14.29%) Project Manager
4 1 (7.14%) 2nd Line Support
4 1 (7.14%) Applications Development Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Applications Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Applications Project Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Coordinator
4 1 (7.14%) Development Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Development Project Manager
4 1 (7.14%) IT Support Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Migration Project Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Programme Manager
4 1 (7.14%) SAP Manager
4 1 (7.14%) SAP Programme Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) .NET
1 1 (7.14%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (7.14%) Management Information System
1 1 (7.14%) NHS
1 1 (7.14%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) Windows
2 1 (7.14%) Linux
2 1 (7.14%) Unix
2 1 (7.14%) Windows 10
2 1 (7.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (64.29%) ITIL
2 8 (57.14%) Service Management
3 7 (50.00%) Agile
3 7 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 6 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (35.71%) Project Management
6 4 (28.57%) DevOps
6 4 (28.57%) ITSM
6 4 (28.57%) Service Design
6 4 (28.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 3 (21.43%) Cybersecurity
7 3 (21.43%) Escalation Management
7 3 (21.43%) Project Delivery
7 3 (21.43%) Risk Management
7 3 (21.43%) Roadmaps
7 3 (21.43%) Service Delivery Management
7 3 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (21.43%) Strategic Roadmap
7 3 (21.43%) Tech Ops
7 3 (21.43%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 2 (14.29%) PowerShell
2 1 (7.14%) Bash
2 1 (7.14%) C#
2 1 (7.14%) Go
2 1 (7.14%) Java
2 1 (7.14%) Python
2 1 (7.14%) Shell Script
2 1 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 2 (14.29%) PMI Certification
2 2 (14.29%) PMP
2 2 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 1 (7.14%) Degree
3 1 (7.14%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (7.14%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Active Directory
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%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (7.14%) SCCM
1 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) ServiceNow
2 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.14%) Google
3 1 (7.14%) Oracle
3 1 (7.14%) SAP
3 1 (7.14%) Splunk