Service Delivery Contract Job Trends in Tyne and Wear

Service Delivery
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear requiring Service Delivery skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 30 27
Rank change year-on-year -1 -3 +14
Contract jobs citing Service Delivery 8 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in Tyne and Wear 3.04% 0.98% 0.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.40% 1.07% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 1
10th Percentile £373 - -
25th Percentile £455 £713 £185
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £725 £190
Median % change year-on-year -31.03% +281.58% -68.98%
75th Percentile - £738 £195
90th Percentile - - -
North East median daily rate £500 £725 £190
% change year-on-year -31.03% +281.58% -68.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £17.30 - -
North East median hourly rate £17.30 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 235 187 143
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 89.35% 91.67% 85.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 146 78 106
10th Percentile £181 £325 £309
25th Percentile £376 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £474 £450 £485
Median % change year-on-year +5.28% -7.22% -10.19%
75th Percentile £575 £585 £600
90th Percentile £631 £671 £720
North East median daily rate £460 £452 £450
% change year-on-year +1.77% +0.44% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 20 7
10th Percentile £13.83 £13.75 £16.40
25th Percentile £16.38 £15.44 £17.50
Median hourly rate £19.25 £17.50 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -10.26% +39.29%
75th Percentile £20.63 £50.00 £26.13
90th Percentile £34.46 £70.00 £32.70
North East median hourly rate £19.25 £29.77 £20.00
% change year-on-year -35.34% +48.85% +14.29%

Service Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

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

Service Delivery job vacancy trend in Tyne and Wear

Service Delivery
Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Service Delivery.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Service Delivery

Service Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Service Delivery in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 22 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Service Delivery in Tyne and Wear

Service Delivery
Hourly Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Service Delivery.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Service Delivery

Service Delivery
Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 22 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
Newcastle upon Tyne -4 8 £500 - 12
Service Delivery
North East

Service Delivery
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 (12.50%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (12.50%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Cucumber
1 1 (12.50%) Git
1 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
1 1 (12.50%) Postman
1 1 (12.50%) REST Assured
1 1 (12.50%) SoapUI
General
1 7 (87.50%) Public Sector
2 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Product Manager
2 2 (25.00%) Delivery Manager
2 2 (25.00%) Risk Manager
2 2 (25.00%) Supply Chain Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Business Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Strategic Thinking
2 3 (37.50%) Performance Management
2 3 (37.50%) Product Management
2 3 (37.50%) Product Strategy
2 3 (37.50%) Quality Management
2 3 (37.50%) Service Design
2 3 (37.50%) Workshop Facilitation
3 2 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (25.00%) CAFM
3 2 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (25.00%) Facilities Management
3 2 (25.00%) Risk Management
3 2 (25.00%) Service Delivery Management
3 2 (25.00%) Supply Chain Management
4 1 (12.50%) Agile
4 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
4 1 (12.50%) Fraud Detection
4 1 (12.50%) Knowledge Transfer
4 1 (12.50%) Microservices
4 1 (12.50%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) Java
1 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) QA