Service Delivery Contract Job Trends in Preston

Service Delivery
Lancashire > Preston

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Preston requiring Service Delivery skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 16 18
Rank change year-on-year 0 +2 -11
Contract jobs citing Service Delivery 3 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in Preston 3.85% 1.59% 3.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.69% 1.72% 3.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £200
Median % change year-on-year - - -76.47%
Lancashire median daily rate £525 £300 £425
% change year-on-year +75.00% -29.41% -43.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £24.76 -
Lancashire median hourly rate £45.46 £22.13 £25.60
% change year-on-year +105.42% -13.55% -31.73%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Preston

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 Preston.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 64 58 62
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Preston 82.05% 92.06% 95.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 35 17
10th Percentile £165 £253 £350
25th Percentile £500 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.23% +13.26% +18.01%
75th Percentile £680 £573 £593
90th Percentile £797 £649 £728
Lancashire median daily rate £525 £533 £539
% change year-on-year -1.41% -1.16% +1.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 9 42
10th Percentile £39.53 £22.79 £13.96
25th Percentile £40.74 £26.88 -
Median hourly rate £41.94 £28.75 £16.06
Median % change year-on-year +45.88% +79.02% -62.21%
75th Percentile £56.96 £31.52 £46.18
90th Percentile £74.26 £48.34 £50.00
Lancashire median hourly rate £45.46 £30.40 £45.00
% change year-on-year +49.54% -32.44% +5.88%

Service Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in Preston

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

Service Delivery job vacancy trend in Preston

Service Delivery
Daily Rate Trend in Preston

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

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

Service Delivery
Hourly Rate Trend in Preston

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

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

Service Delivery
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Preston 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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) BGP
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
1 2 (66.67%) Software-Defined Networking
1 2 (66.67%) VLAN
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Service Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Data Centre
1 2 (66.67%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
1 2 (66.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (100.00%) ITSM
2 2 (66.67%) Change Control
2 2 (66.67%) Computer Science
2 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (66.67%) Digital Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) High Availability
2 2 (66.67%) Knowledge Management
2 2 (66.67%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Virtual Infrastructure
3 1 (33.33%) Change Management
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) ITIL
3 1 (33.33%) Problem Management
3 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Runbook
3 1 (33.33%) Service Management
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Bash
1 2 (66.67%) Perl
1 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
1 2 (66.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) CCDP
2 2 (66.67%) CCNA
2 2 (66.67%) CCNP
2 2 (66.67%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (66.67%) Degree
2 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) GRC
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
1 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Citrix
1 2 (66.67%) Red Hat
1 2 (66.67%) VMware