Service Delivery Contracts in the West Midlands

Service Delivery
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 13 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 79 51
Rank change year-on-year +9 -28 +11
Contract jobs citing Service Delivery 28 37 91
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.05% 1.93% 3.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.31% 2.31% 4.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 25 40
10th Percentile £175 £248 £261
25th Percentile £400 £350 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £510 £513
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% -0.49% -2.84%
75th Percentile £511 £575 £595
90th Percentile £583 £800 £604
England median daily rate £450 £489 £525
% change year-on-year -7.98% -6.86% +2.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 4
10th Percentile - £12.32 -
25th Percentile - £13.25 £12.50
Median hourly rate - £14.00 £13.75
Median % change year-on-year - +1.82% -19.12%
75th Percentile - £43.45 £15.56
90th Percentile - £72.90 £17.48
England median hourly rate £16.23 £14.84 £23.25
% change year-on-year +9.37% -36.17% +65.13%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,210 1,603 2,049
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.58% 83.80% 88.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 790 1,063 1,398
10th Percentile £195 £275 £263
25th Percentile £375 £371 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% +4.59%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £664 £750 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 115 47
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.09 £12.30
25th Percentile £12.91 £14.00 £13.31
Median hourly rate £17.62 £22.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.69% +18.42% +12.93%
75th Percentile £22.08 £40.25 £28.13
90th Percentile £38.67 £57.75 £50.00
England median hourly rate £29.00 £37.18 £37.32
% change year-on-year -22.00% -0.38% +49.28%

Service Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Service Delivery as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Service Delivery in the West Midlands

Service Delivery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Service Delivery in the West Midlands

Service Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Service Delivery in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 13 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Service Delivery in the West Midlands

Service Delivery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Service Delivery in the West Midlands

Service Delivery
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 13 May 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
Birmingham -1 12 £425 -16.67% 37
Shropshire - 6 £402 - 12
Coventry +6 2 - - 6
Solihull +11 1 - - 11
Service Delivery
England

Service Delivery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 1 (3.57%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (7.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (3.57%) SAP Oil and Gas
1 1 (3.57%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (10.71%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (7.14%) Amazon S3
2 2 (7.14%) AWS
2 2 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (7.14%) Power Platform
2 2 (7.14%) Serverless
3 1 (3.57%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (3.57%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.71%) Firewall
2 2 (7.14%) Cisco Firepower
3 1 (3.57%) BGP
3 1 (3.57%) EIGRP
3 1 (3.57%) IPv4
3 1 (3.57%) Modbus
3 1 (3.57%) MPLS
3 1 (3.57%) OSPF
3 1 (3.57%) SD-WAN
3 1 (3.57%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.14%) DynamoDB
1 2 (7.14%) NoSQL
1 2 (7.14%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (3.57%) GitLab
1 1 (3.57%) Jenkins
1 1 (3.57%) Maven
General
1 7 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (21.43%) Public Sector
3 4 (14.29%) Finance
4 2 (7.14%) Back Office
5 1 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.57%) Legal
5 1 (3.57%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (28.57%) Delivery Manager
2 5 (17.86%) Service Manager
3 4 (14.29%) Service Delivery Manager
4 3 (10.71%) Developer
4 3 (10.71%) Supplier Manager
4 3 (10.71%) Vendor Manager
5 2 (7.14%) 2nd Line Support
5 2 (7.14%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Analyst
5 2 (7.14%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 2 (7.14%) IT Support
5 2 (7.14%) IT Support Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Junior
5 2 (7.14%) Junior IT Support
5 2 (7.14%) Junior Support Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Procurement Manager
5 2 (7.14%) SAP Manager
5 2 (7.14%) Software Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Supply Chain Manager
5 2 (7.14%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.14%) CSS
1 2 (7.14%) HTML
1 2 (7.14%) Next.js
1 2 (7.14%) Node.js
1 2 (7.14%) React
2 1 (3.57%) Apache Camel
2 1 (3.57%) Quarkus
2 1 (3.57%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (3.57%) Spring
2 1 (3.57%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.14%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.57%) Onboarding
2 1 (3.57%) Operational Technology
2 1 (3.57%) Renewable Energy
2 1 (3.57%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (35.71%) Continuous Improvement
2 9 (32.14%) Agile
3 7 (25.00%) ITIL
3 7 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (17.86%) CI/CD
5 5 (17.86%) Cybersecurity
5 5 (17.86%) Service Delivery Management
6 4 (14.29%) Pair Programming
6 4 (14.29%) Risk Management
6 4 (14.29%) Software Engineering
6 4 (14.29%) TDD
7 3 (10.71%) BDD
7 3 (10.71%) Business Analysis
7 3 (10.71%) Change Management
7 3 (10.71%) Microservices
7 3 (10.71%) Problem Management
7 3 (10.71%) User Stories
8 2 (7.14%) Continuous Delivery
8 2 (7.14%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 3 (10.71%) Java
2 2 (7.14%) JavaScript
2 2 (7.14%) Python
2 2 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (10.71%) CISSP
2 2 (7.14%) CISA
2 2 (7.14%) CISM
2 2 (7.14%) DBS Check
2 2 (7.14%) GIAC
2 2 (7.14%) ISACA
2 2 (7.14%) SANS
2 2 (7.14%) SC Cleared
2 2 (7.14%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.57%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (3.57%) CCNP
3 1 (3.57%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.57%) Degree
3 1 (3.57%) MCP
3 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (3.57%) PMI Certification
3 1 (3.57%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (17.86%) SLA
2 2 (7.14%) QA
3 1 (3.57%) GDPR
3 1 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (14.29%) Active Directory
2 3 (10.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (10.71%) Kubernetes
2 2 (7.14%) FortiGate
2 2 (7.14%) Terraform
3 1 (3.57%) Rancher
Vendors
1 4 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.71%) Ariba
2 3 (10.71%) Cisco
2 3 (10.71%) SAP
3 2 (7.14%) Citrix
3 2 (7.14%) Tenable
4 1 (3.57%) BMC
4 1 (3.57%) Concur
4 1 (3.57%) Huawei
4 1 (3.57%) Remedy