Service Delivery Contract Job Trends in Staffordshire

Service Delivery
West Midlands > Staffordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Staffordshire requiring Service Delivery skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 12 19
Rank change year-on-year -3 +7 +9
Contract jobs citing Service Delivery 1 7 8
As % of all contract jobs in Staffordshire 1.61% 5.88% 4.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.04% 8.05% 5.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 8
10th Percentile - £476 -
25th Percentile - £516 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £588 £375
Median % change year-on-year -40.43% +56.67% +82.93%
75th Percentile - £594 £391
90th Percentile - - £400
West Midlands median daily rate £400 £538 £400
% change year-on-year -25.58% +34.38% -23.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £33.93 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £13.69 £27.50 £18.00
% change year-on-year -50.22% +52.78% -38.98%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Staffordshire

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 Staffordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 49 87 144
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Staffordshire 79.03% 73.11% 86.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 42 103
10th Percentile £140 £129 £363
25th Percentile £163 £336 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £220 £413 £500
Median % change year-on-year -46.67% -17.50% +8.11%
75th Percentile £450 £497 £594
90th Percentile £488 £594 £745
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £519 £500
% change year-on-year -3.66% +3.80% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 5 11
10th Percentile - £25.72 -
25th Percentile £29.00 - £23.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £33.93 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.58% +35.72% -
75th Percentile £31.00 £35.00 £28.75
90th Percentile £35.90 £43.25 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £23.05 £28.06 £27.25
% change year-on-year -17.86% +2.98% +53.78%

Service Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in Staffordshire

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

Service Delivery job vacancy trend in Staffordshire

Service Delivery
Daily Rate Trend in Staffordshire

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

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

Service Delivery
Hourly Rate Trend in Staffordshire

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

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

Service Delivery
Contract Job Locations in Staffordshire

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 Staffordshire region over the 6 months to 8 November 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
Stoke-on-Trent +6 1 £350 - 2
Service Delivery
West Midlands

Service Delivery
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Staffordshire 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 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) VoIP
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Legal
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Operational Stability
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco