Service Delivery Contracts

Service Delivery
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Service Delivery skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Service Delivery over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 110 117
Rank change year-on-year -6 +7 +4
Contract jobs citing Service Delivery 695 888 1,309
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.38% 2.04% 2.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.62% 2.36% 2.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 421 550 859
10th Percentile £208 £200 £270
25th Percentile £355 £300 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% +2.94%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £613
90th Percentile £650 £676 £712
UK excluding London median daily rate £418 £475 £550
% change year-on-year -12.00% -13.64% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 83 96 93
10th Percentile £11.60 £13.29 £13.29
25th Percentile £14.84 £14.16 £13.41
Median hourly rate £16.23 £14.80 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.66% -40.80% +72.41%
75th Percentile £23.01 £16.85 £50.00
90th Percentile £29.07 £26.87 £65.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £15.44 £14.80 £24.81
% change year-on-year +4.32% -40.35% +83.78%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,551 37,621 53,662
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.82% 86.30% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,137 24,254 37,244
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.86% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £744 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.80% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,437 1,746
10th Percentile £14.70 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.31% -4.83% +49.20%
75th Percentile £62.00 £59.95 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.94 £36.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -23.45% +1.39% +80.00%

Service Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Service Delivery as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Service Delivery in the UK

Service Delivery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Service Delivery.

Daily rate trend for Service Delivery in the UK

Service Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Service Delivery over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Service Delivery in the UK

Service Delivery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Service Delivery.

Hourly rate trend for Service Delivery in the UK

Service Delivery
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Service Delivery over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Service Delivery in the UK

Service Delivery
Top 18 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England -3 595 £461 -7.75% 978
UK excluding London -3 413 £418 -12.00% 668
London +24 228 £525 +3.96% 380
Work from Home -6 155 £450 -13.25% 425
North of England -18 84 £410 -25.55% 158
South East -18 80 £449 +19.67% 185
East of England +20 76 £190 -49.33% 76
South West +38 57 £370 -24.10% 63
Midlands +13 55 £425 -14.79% 118
North West +5 55 £425 -26.09% 97
Scotland +8 52 £450 +7.85% 39
West Midlands +10 31 £450 -12.20% 75
Yorkshire -31 25 £400 -26.61% 45
East Midlands +9 23 £325 -31.51% 42
Wales +12 9 £448 +138.93% 33
North East +4 6 £800 +35.59% 17
Northern Ireland - 2 £148 - 13
Channel Islands - 2 £425 -

Service Delivery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 30 (4.32%) Microsoft Exchange
2 26 (3.74%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.01%) Confluence
4 3 (0.43%) Skype for Business
5 2 (0.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 2 (0.29%) CICS
5 2 (0.29%) CMS
6 1 (0.14%) IIS
6 1 (0.14%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.14%) WebLogic
Applications
1 67 (9.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 55 (7.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 47 (6.76%) Microsoft Office
4 9 (1.29%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.58%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.43%) AutoCAD
6 3 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.29%) Sketch
8 1 (0.14%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.14%) Camtasia
8 1 (0.14%) Final Cut Pro
8 1 (0.14%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (1.44%) NEC Housing
1 10 (1.44%) Remedy ITSM
2 9 (1.29%) iTrent
3 8 (1.15%) Kondor
4 4 (0.58%) SAP ERP
5 3 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.29%) Maximo
6 2 (0.29%) Oracle Applications
6 2 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.29%) SAP Retail
6 2 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.14%) Exchequer
7 1 (0.14%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.14%) SAP BPC
7 1 (0.14%) SAP HCM
7 1 (0.14%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 1 (0.14%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 84 (12.09%) Microsoft 365
2 71 (10.22%) Azure
3 51 (7.34%) AWS
4 32 (4.60%) Entra ID
5 24 (3.45%) GCP
6 22 (3.17%) Power Platform
7 20 (2.88%) OneDrive
7 20 (2.88%) SaaS
8 12 (1.73%) IaaS
8 12 (1.73%) Serverless
9 11 (1.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 10 (1.44%) AWS Lambda
11 9 (1.29%) Amazon S3
11 9 (1.29%) Power Automate
12 8 (1.15%) AWS CloudFormation
13 7 (1.01%) Amazon Glacier
13 7 (1.01%) Amazon Kinesis
14 6 (0.86%) Cloud Computing
14 6 (0.86%) SuccessFactors
15 4 (0.58%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 34 (4.89%) Firewall
1 34 (4.89%) Wi-Fi
2 31 (4.46%) VPN
3 27 (3.88%) DNS
4 19 (2.73%) Network Security
5 17 (2.45%) DHCP
6 14 (2.01%) TCP/IP
7 13 (1.87%) WAN
7 13 (1.87%) Wireless
8 10 (1.44%) BGP
9 9 (1.29%) Internet
9 9 (1.29%) Intranet
9 9 (1.29%) LAN
10 8 (1.15%) MPLS
10 8 (1.15%) OSPF
11 7 (1.01%) Cisco IOS
11 7 (1.01%) SD-WAN
12 6 (0.86%) IPv4
12 6 (0.86%) VoIP
13 5 (0.72%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (1.73%) SQL Server
2 11 (1.58%) Power BI
3 9 (1.29%) DynamoDB
4 7 (1.01%) Data Lake
4 7 (1.01%) MySQL
5 6 (0.86%) NoSQL
6 4 (0.58%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (0.58%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (0.43%) Data Mining
7 3 (0.43%) InfluxDB
7 3 (0.43%) MongoDB
7 3 (0.43%) Oracle Reports
7 3 (0.43%) Snowflake Schema
8 2 (0.29%) DTS
8 2 (0.29%) Easytrieve
8 2 (0.29%) MS Access
8 2 (0.29%) Power Query
8 2 (0.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.14%) Data Hub
9 1 (0.14%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 34 (4.89%) JIRA
2 16 (2.30%) Jenkins
3 6 (0.86%) GitLab
4 4 (0.58%) Maven
5 3 (0.43%) Git
6 2 (0.29%) Selenium
6 2 (0.29%) Subversion
7 1 (0.14%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.14%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.14%) Bugzilla
7 1 (0.14%) GCC
7 1 (0.14%) ScriptRunner
7 1 (0.14%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.14%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.14%) TeamCity
General
1 270 (38.85%) Social Skills
2 126 (18.13%) Finance
3 99 (14.24%) Public Sector
4 80 (11.51%) Analytical Skills
5 47 (6.76%) Telecoms
6 37 (5.32%) Local Government
7 33 (4.75%) Banking
8 30 (4.32%) Legal
9 19 (2.73%) Manufacturing
10 16 (2.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 15 (2.16%) Billing
11 15 (2.16%) Organisational Skills
12 14 (2.01%) Back Office
12 14 (2.01%) Influencing Skills
13 13 (1.87%) Electronics
14 12 (1.73%) Law
15 11 (1.58%) Marketing
15 11 (1.58%) Presentation Skills
16 10 (1.44%) German Language
17 9 (1.29%) Military
Job Titles
1 90 (12.95%) Service Manager
2 86 (12.37%) Analyst
3 72 (10.36%) Delivery Manager
4 59 (8.49%) Lead
5 57 (8.20%) Support Engineer
6 54 (7.77%) Service Delivery Manager
7 44 (6.33%) Architect
7 44 (6.33%) Service Analyst
8 38 (5.47%) Senior
9 36 (5.18%) Service Desk Analyst
10 30 (4.32%) Developer
11 29 (4.17%) IT Manager
12 27 (3.88%) Applications Support
12 27 (3.88%) Consultant
13 21 (3.02%) IT Services Manager
13 21 (3.02%) IT Support
13 21 (3.02%) Project Manager
14 19 (2.73%) Support Officer
15 18 (2.59%) Technical Analyst
15 18 (2.59%) Technical Services Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (3.31%) CSS
2 22 (3.17%) HTML
3 15 (2.16%) JSON
3 15 (2.16%) REST
4 12 (1.73%) Web Services
5 10 (1.44%) Kafka
6 9 (1.29%) .NET
6 9 (1.29%) XML
7 8 (1.15%) RESTful
8 7 (1.01%) ActiveMQ
9 5 (0.72%) Oracle Fusion
9 5 (0.72%) SOAP
10 4 (0.58%) Spring
11 3 (0.43%) AngularJS
11 3 (0.43%) Bootstrap
11 3 (0.43%) cloud-init
11 3 (0.43%) FIX Protocol
11 3 (0.43%) FpML
11 3 (0.43%) Node.js
11 3 (0.43%) React
Miscellaneous
1 46 (6.62%) Management Information System
2 18 (2.59%) CMDB
2 18 (2.59%) Product Ownership
3 17 (2.45%) Data Centre
3 17 (2.45%) Onboarding
4 12 (1.73%) EPoS
4 12 (1.73%) NHS
5 10 (1.44%) Cloud Native
5 10 (1.44%) Smartphone
6 9 (1.29%) Video Conferencing
6 9 (1.29%) Virtual Team
7 8 (1.15%) Public Cloud
7 8 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
7 8 (1.15%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 7 (1.01%) Driving Licence
8 7 (1.01%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (1.01%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (0.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 5 (0.72%) Analytical Mindset
10 5 (0.72%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 83 (11.94%) Windows
2 31 (4.46%) Windows 10
3 26 (3.74%) Linux
4 25 (3.60%) Windows Server
5 21 (3.02%) Unix
6 11 (1.58%) Mac OS
7 4 (0.58%) CentOS
7 4 (0.58%) Windows 7
7 4 (0.58%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (0.43%) Android
8 3 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.43%) VMS
8 3 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (0.43%) zOS
9 1 (0.14%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.14%) MVS
9 1 (0.14%) Solaris
9 1 (0.14%) SUSE
9 1 (0.14%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 232 (33.38%) ITIL
2 219 (31.51%) Problem-Solving
3 167 (24.03%) Customer Service
4 136 (19.57%) Agile
5 131 (18.85%) Service Management
6 112 (16.12%) Stakeholder Management
7 111 (15.97%) Incident Management
8 109 (15.68%) Continuous Improvement
9 99 (14.24%) ITSM
10 86 (12.37%) Project Management
11 72 (10.36%) Change Management
12 56 (8.06%) Decision-Making
13 54 (7.77%) Mathematics
14 52 (7.48%) Roadmaps
15 51 (7.34%) Risk Management
16 48 (6.91%) Problem Management
17 47 (6.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 39 (5.61%) Mentoring
19 36 (5.18%) CI/CD
19 36 (5.18%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 47 (6.76%) SQL
2 28 (4.03%) JavaScript
3 26 (3.74%) PowerShell
4 21 (3.02%) Python
5 14 (2.01%) Java
6 11 (1.58%) C#
7 7 (1.01%) Bash
8 3 (0.43%) Go
8 3 (0.43%) JCL
9 2 (0.29%) COBOL
9 2 (0.29%) PL/SQL
9 2 (0.29%) T-SQL
9 2 (0.29%) VBA
10 1 (0.14%) Assembly Language
10 1 (0.14%) Groovy
10 1 (0.14%) Perl
10 1 (0.14%) REXX
10 1 (0.14%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.14%) Smalltalk
10 1 (0.14%) VB
Qualifications
1 110 (15.83%) Security Cleared
2 92 (13.24%) SC Cleared
3 77 (11.08%) Degree
4 34 (4.89%) A+ Certification
5 30 (4.32%) Microsoft Certification
6 24 (3.45%) ITIL Certification
6 24 (3.45%) MCSA
7 19 (2.73%) DV Cleared
7 19 (2.73%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 15 (2.16%) Computer Science Degree
8 15 (2.16%) PMI Certification
9 14 (2.01%) PMP
10 12 (1.73%) Cisco Certification
11 11 (1.58%) Azure Certification
11 11 (1.58%) DBS Check
12 9 (1.29%) CCNP
13 8 (1.15%) Master's Degree
14 7 (1.01%) ACSP
15 5 (0.72%) ACTC
15 5 (0.72%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (7.34%) SLA
2 22 (3.17%) QA
3 19 (2.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 17 (2.45%) Accessibility
5 11 (1.58%) PMO
6 10 (1.44%) Data Quality
7 7 (1.01%) GRC
8 6 (0.86%) Disclosure Scotland
9 4 (0.58%) GDPR
9 4 (0.58%) NCSC
9 4 (0.58%) NIST
10 3 (0.43%) ISO 22301
11 2 (0.29%) Basel II
11 2 (0.29%) COBIT
11 2 (0.29%) ISO 31000
11 2 (0.29%) NIST 800
11 2 (0.29%) WCAG
12 1 (0.14%) HL7
12 1 (0.14%) ISO 14001
12 1 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 92 (13.24%) Active Directory
2 20 (2.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (2.59%) Docker
4 10 (1.44%) Virtual Servers
5 6 (0.86%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.58%) KVM
6 4 (0.58%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 2 (0.29%) Firmware
8 2 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.14%) ACF2
9 1 (0.14%) RACF
9 1 (0.14%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 28 (4.03%) Microsoft Intune
2 15 (2.16%) Terraform
3 12 (1.73%) SCCM
4 10 (1.44%) Jamf Pro
4 10 (1.44%) Kubernetes
5 5 (0.72%) Ansible
5 5 (0.72%) FortiGate
5 5 (0.72%) Rancher
6 3 (0.43%) Grafana
6 3 (0.43%) Packer
6 3 (0.43%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.43%) ZABBIX
7 2 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.29%) Cisco Prime
7 2 (0.29%) Consul
7 2 (0.29%) Istio
7 2 (0.29%) linkerd
7 2 (0.29%) NSN NetAct
7 2 (0.29%) Opsgenie
7 2 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 186 (26.76%) Microsoft
2 119 (17.12%) ServiceNow
3 48 (6.91%) Cisco
4 42 (6.04%) Citrix
5 36 (5.18%) SAP
6 24 (3.45%) Google
7 22 (3.17%) VMware
8 16 (2.30%) Oracle
9 15 (2.16%) Apple
10 12 (1.73%) Salesforce
11 11 (1.58%) NEC
11 11 (1.58%) Remedy
12 10 (1.44%) BMC
13 9 (1.29%) Bloomberg
14 8 (1.15%) Juniper
14 8 (1.15%) Refinitiv
14 8 (1.15%) Sybase
15 7 (1.01%) Palo Alto
15 7 (1.01%) SolarWinds
16 6 (0.86%) Dell