Service Delivery Contracts in Northamptonshire

Service Delivery
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northamptonshire 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 23 29
Rank change year-on-year +3 +6 -6
Contract jobs citing Service Delivery 8 7 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 5.41% 3.47% 2.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.88% 3.87% 3.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 2
10th Percentile - £469 -
25th Percentile £185 £482 £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £273 £490 £563
Median % change year-on-year -44.23% -12.98% +4.65%
75th Percentile £492 £495 £569
90th Percentile £537 £505 -
East Midlands median daily rate £325 £475 £563
% change year-on-year -31.51% -15.64% +20.97%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £24.88
Median hourly rate - - £25.66
75th Percentile - - £26.44
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median hourly rate £23.00 - £25.66
% change year-on-year - - +38.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 136 181 216
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 91.89% 89.60% 89.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 133 165
10th Percentile £269 £306 £195
25th Percentile £356 £356 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £443 £375
Median % change year-on-year -9.26% +18.13% -17.58%
75th Percentile £475 £538 £500
90th Percentile £537 £620 £571
East Midlands median daily rate £447 £417 £450
% change year-on-year +7.32% -7.44% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 17 16
10th Percentile £16.88 £10.90 £16.12
25th Percentile £21.56 - £18.13
Median hourly rate £32.25 £14.00 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year +130.36% -66.27% +50.91%
75th Percentile £45.06 £50.71 £51.50
90th Percentile £51.03 £53.90 -
East Midlands median hourly rate £18.36 £17.00 £18.37
% change year-on-year +7.97% -7.43% +2.03%

Service Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Service Delivery in Northamptonshire

Service Delivery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Service Delivery in Northamptonshire.

Daily rate trend for Service Delivery in Northamptonshire

Service Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram in Northamptonshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Service Delivery in Northamptonshire over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Service Delivery in Northamptonshire

Service Delivery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Service Delivery in Northamptonshire.

Hourly rate trend for Service Delivery in Northamptonshire

Service Delivery
Contract Job Locations in Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire region over the 6 months to 2 May 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
Northampton +1 7 £273 -44.23% 7
Service Delivery
East Midlands

Service Delivery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northamptonshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 3 (37.50%) Amazon Glacier
1 3 (37.50%) Amazon Kinesis
1 3 (37.50%) Amazon S3
1 3 (37.50%) AWS
1 3 (37.50%) AWS Lambda
1 3 (37.50%) Serverless
2 1 (12.50%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) DHCP
1 1 (12.50%) DNS
1 1 (12.50%) Firewall
1 1 (12.50%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Architect
1 3 (37.50%) Lead
1 3 (37.50%) Solutions Architect
2 2 (25.00%) AWS Architect
2 2 (25.00%) AWS Solution Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Java Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Java Solutions Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Team Leader
3 1 (12.50%) Cutover Manager
3 1 (12.50%) ERP Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Network Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Server Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Leader
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) ActiveMQ
1 3 (37.50%) Kafka
1 3 (37.50%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) EPoS
1 3 (37.50%) Public Cloud
2 1 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) CentOS
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
1 1 (12.50%) Rocky
1 1 (12.50%) Ubuntu
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
1 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (37.50%) Agile
2 3 (37.50%) Budget Control
2 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
2 3 (37.50%) Containerisation
2 3 (37.50%) Contingency Planning
2 3 (37.50%) Creative Problem-Solving
2 3 (37.50%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (37.50%) Event-Driven
2 3 (37.50%) Inventory Management
2 3 (37.50%) Mentoring
2 3 (37.50%) Microservices
2 3 (37.50%) Project Planning
2 3 (37.50%) SDLC
2 3 (37.50%) Technical Leadership
2 3 (37.50%) Workflow
3 1 (12.50%) Business Transformation
3 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (12.50%) Process Improvement
3 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Docker
2 1 (12.50%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Ansible
1 1 (12.50%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Cisco
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft