Service Delivery Contract Job Trends in Somerset

Service Delivery
South West > Somerset

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Somerset requiring Service Delivery skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 25 31
Rank change year-on-year +6 +6 -2
Contract jobs citing Service Delivery 12 8 2
As % of all contract jobs in Somerset 6.52% 4.10% 1.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.36% 5.52% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 7 2
10th Percentile - £176 £524
25th Percentile £263 £247 £541
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 £288 £588
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -51.06% +298.31%
75th Percentile £447 £559 £641
90th Percentile £596 £890 £661
South West median daily rate £371 £470 £525
% change year-on-year -21.06% -10.48% -8.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Somerset

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 Somerset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 163 145 166
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset 88.59% 74.36% 86.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 85 112
10th Percentile £160 £200 £203
25th Percentile £248 £369 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -7.06% +7.60%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £650
90th Percentile £715 £695 £725
South West median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 7 28
10th Percentile - £12.50 £35.00
25th Percentile £18.51 £14.00 £47.36
Median hourly rate £25.15 £25.00 £51.89
Median % change year-on-year +0.60% -51.82% +3.78%
75th Percentile £63.75 £54.38 £63.44
90th Percentile - £63.75 £65.00
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £67.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -62.74% +12.50% -

Service Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

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

Service Delivery job vacancy trend in Somerset

Service Delivery
Daily Rate Trend in Somerset

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

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

Service Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram in Somerset

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Service Delivery in Somerset over the 6 months to 3 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Service Delivery in Somerset

Service Delivery
Hourly Rate Trend in Somerset

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

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

Service Delivery
Contract Job Locations in Somerset

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 Somerset region over the 6 months to 3 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
Yeovil - 6 £275 - 2
Bath 0 2 £650 +126.09% 4
Taunton - 1 £500 -
Portishead - 1 - -
Service Delivery
South West

Service Delivery
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Somerset 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 3 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 4 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (16.67%) Azure
3 1 (8.33%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 6 (50.00%) PABX
General
1 7 (58.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Police
3 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) 2nd Line Support
1 3 (25.00%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
1 3 (25.00%) Analyst
1 3 (25.00%) Desktop Engineer
1 3 (25.00%) Desktop Support
1 3 (25.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
1 3 (25.00%) Support Analyst
1 3 (25.00%) Support Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Delivery Manager
2 2 (16.67%) Service Delivery Manager
2 2 (16.67%) Service Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) IT Support
3 1 (8.33%) Lead
3 1 (8.33%) Research Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Support Officer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (50.00%) Smartphone
2 3 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (8.33%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 7 (58.33%) Windows
2 1 (8.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) Customer Service
2 3 (25.00%) ITIL
3 2 (16.67%) Change Management
3 2 (16.67%) Configuration Management
3 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (16.67%) Service Management
4 1 (8.33%) Asset Management
4 1 (8.33%) Continuous Delivery
4 1 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (8.33%) Customer Requirements
4 1 (8.33%) Customer-Centricity
4 1 (8.33%) Data Protection
4 1 (8.33%) Decision-Making
4 1 (8.33%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (8.33%) Line Management
4 1 (8.33%) Parallel Programming
4 1 (8.33%) Regulatory Compliance
4 1 (8.33%) Software Deployment
4 1 (8.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.33%) Bash
1 1 (8.33%) Python
1 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 9 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (66.67%) SLA
2 4 (33.33%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (8.33%) Slurm Workload Manager
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow