Service Delivery Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Service Delivery
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Service Delivery skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 36 51
Rank change year-on-year -47 +15 -4
Contract jobs citing Service Delivery 12 3 6
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 1.51% 1.02% 1.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.59% 1.10% 1.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 2 5
10th Percentile £193 £425 £575
25th Percentile £277 £443 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £480 £650
Median % change year-on-year -27.01% -26.23% +13.04%
75th Percentile £471 £510 £888
90th Percentile £500 £524 -
Yorkshire median daily rate £450 £480 £465
% change year-on-year -6.15% +3.12% -7.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 754 273 424
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 94.84% 92.86% 95.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 504 162 256
10th Percentile £321 £210 £375
25th Percentile £403 £400 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £509 £531
Median % change year-on-year -5.36% -4.28% +1.19%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £626
90th Percentile £631 £675 £720
Yorkshire median daily rate £480 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +1.05% -5.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 11
10th Percentile £16.11 £12.44 £12.63
25th Percentile £19.50 £13.49 £15.87
Median hourly rate £25.15 £16.19 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +55.34% -28.04% +129.59%
75th Percentile - £18.58 £27.50
90th Percentile - £19.43 £50.00
Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.15 £22.50 £21.10
% change year-on-year +11.78% +6.62% +12.55%

Service Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Service Delivery job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Service Delivery
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Service Delivery

Service Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Service Delivery in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 3 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Service Delivery in South Yorkshire

Service Delivery
Hourly Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Service Delivery

Service Delivery
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 3 January 2026. 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
Sheffield -42 9 £350 -27.01% 4
Doncaster - 1 £115 - 3
Service Delivery
Yorkshire

Service Delivery
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 2 (16.67%) Confluence
1 2 (16.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (16.67%) AWS
1 2 (16.67%) Azure
1 2 (16.67%) GCP
1 2 (16.67%) GitHub
2 1 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (8.33%) AWS KMS
2 1 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (8.33%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) DNS
1 2 (16.67%) Firewall
1 2 (16.67%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) MongoDB
1 2 (16.67%) MySQL
1 2 (16.67%) Oracle Database
1 2 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (8.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) JIRA
2 2 (16.67%) Git
2 2 (16.67%) GitLab
2 2 (16.67%) Jenkins
3 1 (8.33%) CircleCI
General
1 7 (58.33%) Social Skills
2 5 (41.67%) Finance
3 3 (25.00%) Public Sector
4 2 (16.67%) Banking
5 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (8.33%) Electronics
5 1 (8.33%) Law
5 1 (8.33%) Manufacturing
5 1 (8.33%) Marketing
5 1 (8.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (16.67%) Analyst
1 2 (16.67%) Business Analyst
1 2 (16.67%) DBA
1 2 (16.67%) Delivery Manager
1 2 (16.67%) Oracle DBA
1 2 (16.67%) Service Delivery Manager
1 2 (16.67%) Service Manager
1 2 (16.67%) Technical Analyst
1 2 (16.67%) Technical Business Analyst
2 1 (8.33%) Head of IT
2 1 (8.33%) Installation Technician
2 1 (8.33%) IT Security Officer
2 1 (8.33%) IT Technician
2 1 (8.33%) Lead
2 1 (8.33%) Product Owner
2 1 (8.33%) Security Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Enterprise Cloud
1 2 (16.67%) Onboarding
2 1 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (8.33%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (33.33%) Unix
2 2 (16.67%) Linux
2 2 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 5 (41.67%) Agile
2 5 (41.67%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (41.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (33.33%) DevOps
3 4 (33.33%) Project Management
3 4 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 3 (25.00%) Incident Management
4 3 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
5 2 (16.67%) Change Management
5 2 (16.67%) Data Management
5 2 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (16.67%) Problem Management
5 2 (16.67%) Resource Management
5 2 (16.67%) Scrum
5 2 (16.67%) SDLC
5 2 (16.67%) Service Management
5 2 (16.67%) Use Case
5 2 (16.67%) Waterfall
5 2 (16.67%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) Python
1 3 (25.00%) Shell Script
2 2 (16.67%) Java
2 2 (16.67%) SQL
3 1 (8.33%) Bash
3 1 (8.33%) Go
3 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) CISM
2 1 (8.33%) CISSP
2 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (8.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) SLA
2 1 (8.33%) Data Quality
2 1 (8.33%) GDPR
2 1 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (8.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (16.67%) Ansible
2 2 (16.67%) Grafana
3 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Oracle
2 2 (16.67%) Splunk
3 1 (8.33%) AppDynamics
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (8.33%) SAP
3 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow