Service Delivery Contract Job Trends in Peterborough

Service Delivery
Cambridgeshire > Peterborough

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Peterborough requiring Service Delivery skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 6 8
Rank change year-on-year -9 +2 +4
Contract jobs citing Service Delivery 2 30 84
As % of all contract jobs in Peterborough 2.90% 32.26% 41.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.51% 37.97% 49.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £163 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £175 - £300
Median % change year-on-year - - -19.46%
75th Percentile £188 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £400 £318 £300
% change year-on-year +25.98% +5.83% -52.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 26 82
10th Percentile - - £14.16
25th Percentile - £14.84 £14.48
Median hourly rate - £15.14 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year - +0.93% +9.81%
75th Percentile - £16.46 £16.85
90th Percentile - £18.85 -
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £17.39 £15.14 £15.00
% change year-on-year +14.83% +0.93% +9.81%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Peterborough

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 Peterborough.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 57 79 170
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Peterborough 82.61% 84.95% 83.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 17 17
10th Percentile £163 £176 £175
25th Percentile £419 £195 £178
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £200 £220
Median % change year-on-year +181.25% -9.09% -47.46%
75th Percentile £594 £450 £419
90th Percentile £629 £465 £616
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £475 £475 £423
% change year-on-year - +12.43% -6.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 49 133
10th Percentile £13.33 £14.50 £14.16
25th Percentile £14.03 £14.84 £14.99
Median hourly rate £14.22 £16.23 £16.23
Median % change year-on-year -12.38% - +11.93%
75th Percentile - £18.85 £16.85
90th Percentile £15.85 £34.53 £21.46
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £14.22 £16.41 £16.23
% change year-on-year -13.35% +1.11% +11.93%

Service Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in Peterborough

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

Service Delivery job vacancy trend in Peterborough

Service Delivery
Daily Rate Trend in Peterborough

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

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

Service Delivery
Hourly Rate Trend in Peterborough

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

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

Service Delivery
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Peterborough 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 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (50.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (50.00%) OneDrive
1 1 (50.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) DHCP
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) Network Security
2 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) IT Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) IT Support
1 1 (50.00%) IT Support Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Operations Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Support Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Windows 10
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Change Management
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) Customer Service
1 1 (50.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (50.00%) Patch Management
1 1 (50.00%) Problem Management
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Runbook
1 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (50.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) VMware