Service Delivery Contracts

Service Delivery
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Service Delivery skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Service Delivery over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 106 116 122
Rank change year-on-year +10 +6 +44
Contract jobs citing Service Delivery 902 1,304 1,942
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.08% 2.20% 2.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.41% 2.45% 2.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 552 855 1,277
10th Percentile £200 £270 £257
25th Percentile £300 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £525 £510
Median % change year-on-year -7.86% +2.94% +13.33%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £606
90th Percentile £680 £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £550 £475
% change year-on-year -13.64% +15.79% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 88 118
10th Percentile £13.36 £13.29 £11.26
25th Percentile £14.16 £13.41 £13.25
Median hourly rate £14.80 £24.31 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year -39.12% +67.66% -22.20%
75th Percentile £16.85 £47.63 £24.50
90th Percentile £26.62 £65.23 £39.28
UK excluding London median hourly rate £14.80 £24.00 £13.66
% change year-on-year -38.33% +75.70% -25.15%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Service Delivery is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,452 53,231 80,444
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.33% 89.85% 90.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,130 36,930 56,488
10th Percentile £300 £325 £341
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,454 1,752 1,920
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.95 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.14% +44.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £64.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%

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 3 May 2024.

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 3 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Service Delivery in the UK

Service Delivery
Top 15 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 3 May 2024. 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 +14 794 £500 -4.76% 693
UK excluding London 0 577 £475 -13.64% 539
London +9 249 £500 - 210
Work from Home -9 228 £513 -2.38% 264
South East +28 166 £375 -25.00% 136
North of England -6 141 £550 - 104
East of England +7 86 £350 -28.21% 77
Yorkshire +20 78 £540 -1.82% 27
South West -16 68 £481 -19.79% 69
Midlands -18 65 £490 -9.68% 93
North West -30 61 £575 +4.55% 70
Scotland -1 52 £417 -23.09% 55
West Midlands -22 38 £511 +2.25% 48
East Midlands +1 24 £475 -15.64% 45
North East -1 2 £590 -1.67% 8

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 29 (3.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 21 (2.33%) SharePoint
3 8 (0.89%) Confluence
4 7 (0.78%) CMS
5 4 (0.44%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 4 (0.44%) Skype for Business
6 2 (0.22%) IBM Notes
6 2 (0.22%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.11%) Apache
7 1 (0.11%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
7 1 (0.11%) IBM HTTP Server
7 1 (0.11%) IIS
7 1 (0.11%) Mendix
7 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.11%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.11%) WebSphere Application Server
7 1 (0.11%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 79 (8.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 76 (8.43%) Microsoft Office
3 54 (5.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.44%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (1.33%) Remedy ITSM
2 11 (1.22%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.33%) Infor SunSystems
3 3 (0.33%) SAP ERP
3 3 (0.33%) Shopify
4 2 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.22%) SystmOne
5 1 (0.11%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.11%) OPENHousing
5 1 (0.11%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.11%) SAP MDM
5 1 (0.11%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.11%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.11%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.11%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 96 (10.64%) Microsoft 365
2 89 (9.87%) Azure
3 41 (4.55%) AWS
4 35 (3.88%) SaaS
5 24 (2.66%) Power Platform
6 16 (1.77%) SuccessFactors
7 15 (1.66%) IaaS
8 14 (1.55%) PaaS
9 12 (1.33%) Entra ID
9 12 (1.33%) OneDrive
10 11 (1.22%) Cloud Computing
10 11 (1.22%) Power Automate
11 7 (0.78%) Dynamics 365
11 7 (0.78%) PowerApps
12 5 (0.55%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 5 (0.55%) Azure DevOps
12 5 (0.55%) Azure Sentinel
12 5 (0.55%) Azure Storage
13 3 (0.33%) Azure Key Vault
13 3 (0.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 47 (5.21%) Firewall
2 26 (2.88%) LAN
2 26 (2.88%) VPN
3 19 (2.11%) Network Security
4 18 (2.00%) SD-WAN
5 17 (1.88%) DNS
6 15 (1.66%) WAN
6 15 (1.66%) Wi-Fi
7 14 (1.55%) DHCP
7 14 (1.55%) VLAN
8 11 (1.22%) Internet
9 8 (0.89%) Ethernet
9 8 (0.89%) MPLS
9 8 (0.89%) Unified Communications
10 7 (0.78%) WLAN
11 6 (0.67%) TCP/IP
12 5 (0.55%) Cisco Firepower
13 4 (0.44%) BGP
13 4 (0.44%) OSPF
13 4 (0.44%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (2.44%) Power BI
2 9 (1.00%) SQL Server
3 6 (0.67%) MySQL
3 6 (0.67%) Tableau
4 5 (0.55%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (0.55%) Data Mining
4 5 (0.55%) Oracle Database
5 4 (0.44%) Apache Cassandra
5 4 (0.44%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (0.44%) NoSQL
5 4 (0.44%) Redis
5 4 (0.44%) SAP HANA
6 3 (0.33%) GIS
6 3 (0.33%) Oracle Database 10g
6 3 (0.33%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.22%) BigQuery
7 2 (0.22%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (0.22%) Qlik Sense
7 2 (0.22%) RDBMS
7 2 (0.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 16 (1.77%) JIRA
2 5 (0.55%) Bitbucket
2 5 (0.55%) Git
3 4 (0.44%) Gatling
3 4 (0.44%) Maven
3 4 (0.44%) Mockito
3 4 (0.44%) ScalaTest
4 3 (0.33%) Oracle APEX
5 2 (0.22%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.22%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.11%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.11%) Gradle
6 1 (0.11%) Hudson
6 1 (0.11%) IBM UrbanCode
6 1 (0.11%) Yeoman
General
1 288 (31.93%) Social Skills
2 159 (17.63%) Finance
3 106 (11.75%) Public Sector
4 95 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
5 49 (5.43%) Telecoms
6 34 (3.77%) Local Government
7 31 (3.44%) Organisational Skills
8 26 (2.88%) Marketing
9 23 (2.55%) Presentation Skills
10 22 (2.44%) Legal
11 21 (2.33%) Banking
12 17 (1.88%) Influencing Skills
13 14 (1.55%) German Language
14 13 (1.44%) Retail
15 12 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 12 (1.33%) Manufacturing
16 11 (1.22%) French Language
17 9 (1.00%) Pharmaceutical
17 9 (1.00%) Police
18 6 (0.67%) Billing
Job Titles
1 141 (15.63%) Service Manager
2 129 (14.30%) Analyst
3 114 (12.64%) Delivery Manager
4 98 (10.86%) Service Delivery Manager
5 66 (7.32%) Service Analyst
6 62 (6.87%) Senior
7 56 (6.21%) Lead
8 46 (5.10%) Service Desk Analyst
9 44 (4.88%) Developer
10 40 (4.43%) Support Engineer
11 39 (4.32%) IT Manager
12 36 (3.99%) Consultant
13 35 (3.88%) Project Manager
14 34 (3.77%) Architect
15 32 (3.55%) Network Engineer
16 29 (3.22%) ServiceNow Developer
17 28 (3.10%) 1st Line Support
17 28 (3.10%) Customer Analyst
17 28 (3.10%) Customer Service Analyst
17 28 (3.10%) IT Services Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (3.55%) Web Services
2 18 (2.00%) CSS
3 16 (1.77%) HTML
4 10 (1.11%) AngularJS
4 10 (1.11%) RESTful
5 9 (1.00%) REST
6 8 (0.89%) Node.js
7 7 (0.78%) .NET
7 7 (0.78%) Spring
7 7 (0.78%) Spring MVC
8 4 (0.44%) Hibernate
8 4 (0.44%) J2EE
8 4 (0.44%) JPA
8 4 (0.44%) Middleware
8 4 (0.44%) OpenAPI
8 4 (0.44%) RAML
8 4 (0.44%) spray
8 4 (0.44%) Swagger
8 4 (0.44%) Visualforce
8 4 (0.44%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 51 (5.65%) Management Information System
2 26 (2.88%) Onboarding
3 23 (2.55%) Driving Licence
4 22 (2.44%) Product Ownership
5 17 (1.88%) Replication
6 16 (1.77%) CMDB
7 15 (1.66%) Self-Motivation
8 14 (1.55%) Data Centre
9 8 (0.89%) Virtual Team
10 7 (0.78%) Digital Signage
10 7 (0.78%) FMCG
10 7 (0.78%) Private Cloud
11 6 (0.67%) BYOD
11 6 (0.67%) Data Protection Act
11 6 (0.67%) Hybrid Cloud
11 6 (0.67%) Operational Technology
11 6 (0.67%) PKI
12 4 (0.44%) Greenfield Project
12 4 (0.44%) NHS
12 4 (0.44%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 144 (15.96%) Windows
2 48 (5.32%) Windows 10
3 43 (4.77%) Linux
4 34 (3.77%) Windows 7
5 19 (2.11%) Unix
6 16 (1.77%) Windows Server
7 11 (1.22%) Apple iOS
8 9 (1.00%) Android
8 9 (1.00%) Windows Server 2016
9 8 (0.89%) Windows Server 2019
10 7 (0.78%) Solaris
10 7 (0.78%) VMS
11 6 (0.67%) Mac OS
12 4 (0.44%) OpenVMS
13 3 (0.33%) AIX
13 3 (0.33%) Ubuntu
14 2 (0.22%) Windows XP
15 1 (0.11%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 276 (30.60%) ITIL
2 224 (24.83%) Problem-Solving
3 199 (22.06%) Customer Service
4 160 (17.74%) Service Management
5 107 (11.86%) ITSM
6 103 (11.42%) Agile
7 92 (10.20%) Continuous Improvement
8 91 (10.09%) Incident Management
9 84 (9.31%) Change Management
10 83 (9.20%) Project Delivery
11 76 (8.43%) Roadmaps
12 68 (7.54%) Project Management
13 59 (6.54%) Mathematics
14 56 (6.21%) Stakeholder Management
15 55 (6.10%) Decision-Making
16 48 (5.32%) Problem Management
17 44 (4.88%) Asset Management
18 43 (4.77%) Migration
19 42 (4.66%) Risk Management
20 40 (4.43%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 29 (3.22%) SQL
2 16 (1.77%) JavaScript
3 12 (1.33%) Java
4 10 (1.11%) PowerShell
5 8 (0.89%) Swift
6 7 (0.78%) Python
7 5 (0.55%) C#
8 4 (0.44%) Apex Code
8 4 (0.44%) COBOL
8 4 (0.44%) DCL
8 4 (0.44%) Scala
9 3 (0.33%) Bash
9 3 (0.33%) C++
9 3 (0.33%) VB.NET
10 2 (0.22%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.11%) Groovy
11 1 (0.11%) R
11 1 (0.11%) Ruby
11 1 (0.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 211 (23.39%) Security Cleared
2 128 (14.19%) SC Cleared
3 74 (8.20%) DV Cleared
4 71 (7.87%) Degree
5 29 (3.22%) Microsoft Certification
6 25 (2.77%) MCP
7 22 (2.44%) A+ Certification
8 17 (1.88%) MCSA
9 14 (1.55%) ITIL Certification
10 13 (1.44%) BPSS Clearance
11 10 (1.11%) Azure Certification
11 10 (1.11%) Cisco Certification
12 9 (1.00%) PMP
13 8 (0.89%) DBS Check
13 8 (0.89%) PMI Certification
14 7 (0.78%) BC Cleared
14 7 (0.78%) CCNA
14 7 (0.78%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 5 (0.55%) AWS Certification
15 5 (0.55%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 126 (13.97%) SLA
2 31 (3.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 28 (3.10%) QA
4 19 (2.11%) NIST
5 17 (1.88%) Data Quality
6 12 (1.33%) GDPR
7 8 (0.89%) Accessibility
7 8 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 5 (0.55%) Disclosure Scotland
8 5 (0.55%) ISO 9001
9 4 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (0.44%) PMO
10 3 (0.33%) GxP
11 2 (0.22%) WCAG
12 1 (0.11%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.11%) GRC
12 1 (0.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 90 (9.98%) Active Directory
2 17 (1.88%) Firmware
3 11 (1.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.78%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.55%) Docker
6 4 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.33%) SRDF
7 3 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.33%) vSphere
8 1 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.11%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 34 (3.77%) SCCM
2 24 (2.66%) Microsoft Intune
3 16 (1.77%) Ansible
4 15 (1.66%) NetBackup
5 14 (1.55%) Puppet
6 9 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (0.67%) Kubernetes
8 4 (0.44%) Endace
8 4 (0.44%) Grafana
8 4 (0.44%) Prometheus
9 3 (0.33%) EMC TimeFinder
9 3 (0.33%) FortiGate
9 3 (0.33%) Terraform
9 3 (0.33%) WSUS
10 2 (0.22%) IBM BigFix
10 2 (0.22%) Rundeck
10 2 (0.22%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 270 (29.93%) Microsoft
2 120 (13.30%) ServiceNow
3 35 (3.88%) Citrix
4 34 (3.77%) SAP
5 32 (3.55%) Oracle
6 31 (3.44%) Cisco
7 20 (2.22%) HP
8 15 (1.66%) Veritas
9 14 (1.55%) VMware
10 13 (1.44%) Google
10 13 (1.44%) Remedy
11 12 (1.33%) Dell
12 10 (1.11%) Juniper
12 10 (1.11%) Salesforce
13 9 (1.00%) Apple
14 8 (0.89%) BMC
14 8 (0.89%) F5
14 8 (0.89%) Okta
14 8 (0.89%) Workday
15 5 (0.55%) Atlassian