Service Delivery Contract Job Trends in Merseyside

Service Delivery
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Merseyside 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 26 17 -
Rank change year-on-year -9 - -
Contract jobs citing Service Delivery 3 12 0
As % of all contract jobs in Merseyside 1.53% 5.08% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.78% 7.23% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £268 £153 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £285 £225 -
Median % change year-on-year +26.67% - -
75th Percentile £303 £269 -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £450 £288 £535
% change year-on-year +56.52% -46.26% +12.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £17.30 £20.19 -
Median % change year-on-year -14.31% - -
North West median hourly rate £21.10 £19.69 £18.79
% change year-on-year +7.19% +4.79% +37.82%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 169 166 193
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 86.22% 70.34% 85.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 75 121
10th Percentile £129 £154 £225
25th Percentile £163 £209 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £413 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% -13.16% +2.15%
75th Percentile £510 £506 £563
90th Percentile £680 £600 £600
North West median daily rate £450 £480 £500
% change year-on-year -6.25% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 9 12
10th Percentile - £16.24 £15.35
25th Percentile - £20.19 £16.25
Median hourly rate £12.21 £22.88 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -46.62% +14.38% +14.09%
75th Percentile £17.30 £40.00 £34.25
90th Percentile £17.44 £54.00 £50.00
North West median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £33.00
% change year-on-year -40.84% +28.79% +41.63%

Service Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Service Delivery job vacancy trend in Merseyside

Service Delivery
Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

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

Service Delivery
Hourly Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

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

Service Delivery
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

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 Merseyside 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
Liverpool -6 2 £285 +36.53% 6
Service Delivery
North West

Service Delivery
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Merseyside 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 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
General
1 1 (33.33%) Legal
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Installations Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Lead
1 1 (33.33%) Service Desk Team Leader
1 1 (33.33%) Support Technician
1 1 (33.33%) Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Apple iOS
2 1 (33.33%) Windows 10
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft