Service Delivery Contract Job Trends in Watford

Service Delivery
Hertfordshire > Watford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Watford requiring Service Delivery skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 - 18
Rank change year-on-year - - -2
Contract jobs citing Service Delivery 2 0 7
As % of all contract jobs in Watford 3.23% - 5.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.39% - 5.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 6
10th Percentile - - £170
25th Percentile - - £243
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - £488
Median % change year-on-year - - -36.69%
75th Percentile - - £528
90th Percentile - - £606
Hertfordshire median daily rate £427 £438 £575
% change year-on-year -2.40% -23.91% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Watford

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 Watford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 59 64 127
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Watford 95.16% 88.89% 91.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 49 92
10th Percentile £192 £264 £170
25th Percentile £353 £306 £296
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £350 £463
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% -24.32% -15.91%
75th Percentile £575 £488 £641
90th Percentile £614 £578 £700
Hertfordshire median daily rate £528 £425 £538
% change year-on-year +24.24% -20.93% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 2
10th Percentile £17.53 £13.20 £17.10
25th Percentile £23.96 £13.69 £18.37
Median hourly rate £29.51 £14.13 £21.48
Median % change year-on-year +108.92% -34.23% -38.64%
75th Percentile £33.82 £14.75 £24.32
90th Percentile £34.44 £17.15 £25.43
Hertfordshire median hourly rate £43.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year -31.20% -3.85% +8.33%

Service Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in Watford

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

Service Delivery job vacancy trend in Watford

Service Delivery
Daily Rate Trend in Watford

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

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

Service Delivery
Hourly Rate Trend in Watford

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

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

Service Delivery
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Watford 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Delivery Manager
2 1 (50.00%) Programme Delivery Manager
2 1 (50.00%) Programme Manager
2 1 (50.00%) Programme Test Manager
2 1 (50.00%) QA Manager
2 1 (50.00%) QA Test Manager
2 1 (50.00%) Service Delivery Manager
2 1 (50.00%) Service Manager
2 1 (50.00%) Test Manager
2 1 (50.00%) Test Programme Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) Line Management
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Problem Management
2 1 (50.00%) Process Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Programme Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Project Management
2 1 (50.00%) Resource Allocation
2 1 (50.00%) Resource Management
2 1 (50.00%) Service Management
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
1 1 (50.00%) SLA