Service Delivery Contracts with Work from Home Options

Service Delivery
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 143 141 153
Rank change year-on-year -2 +12 +23
Contract jobs citing Service Delivery 227 455 790
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.50% 1.78% 1.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.70% 1.98% 1.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 354 588
10th Percentile £288 £319 £363
25th Percentile £394 £416 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - +14.44%
75th Percentile £583 £600 £623
90th Percentile £638 £680 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £525 £510
% change year-on-year -9.52% +2.94% +13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 9 24
10th Percentile £13.40 £12.50 £15.54
25th Percentile £14.00 £18.50 £18.00
Median hourly rate £15.85 £24.62 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.62% -1.52% +31.58%
75th Percentile £24.75 £67.50 £30.81
90th Percentile £63.72 £69.00 £37.35
UK median hourly rate £14.80 £24.62 £14.50
% change year-on-year -39.89% +69.79% -22.77%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,319 22,924 40,623
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.90% 89.76% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,917 16,193 29,494
10th Percentile £325 £363 £362
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £630
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 575 527 541
10th Percentile £15.17 £18.67 £13.75
25th Percentile £24.63 £30.00 £20.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +57.14% +40.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £55.25
90th Percentile £75.15 £80.25 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £35.95 £35.80 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.42% +43.20% +2.04%

Service Delivery
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Service Delivery as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Service Delivery trend for jobs with a WFH option

Service Delivery
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Service Delivery.

Service Delivery daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Service Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Service Delivery over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Service Delivery daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Service Delivery
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Service Delivery.

Service Delivery hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Service Delivery
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Service Delivery over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Service Delivery hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Service Delivery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 3 (1.32%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 3 (1.32%) Confluence
2 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (0.88%) Oracle Workflow
2 2 (0.88%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.44%) CMS
3 1 (0.44%) IBM HTTP Server
3 1 (0.44%) WebSphere
3 1 (0.44%) WebSphere Application Server
3 1 (0.44%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 14 (6.17%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (5.73%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (2.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.32%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (3.52%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.88%) Shopify
2 2 (0.88%) SystmOne
3 1 (0.44%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.44%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.44%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.44%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 1 (0.44%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 25 (11.01%) Azure
2 13 (5.73%) AWS
3 10 (4.41%) Microsoft 365
3 10 (4.41%) SuccessFactors
4 9 (3.96%) SaaS
5 6 (2.64%) Dynamics 365
5 6 (2.64%) Entra ID
5 6 (2.64%) IaaS
5 6 (2.64%) PaaS
5 6 (2.64%) Power Platform
6 5 (2.20%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 5 (2.20%) Azure Sentinel
7 4 (1.76%) Power Automate
8 3 (1.32%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (0.88%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (0.88%) Azure Key Vault
9 2 (0.88%) Azure Storage
9 2 (0.88%) BigCommerce
9 2 (0.88%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (0.88%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.96%) Firewall
1 9 (3.96%) Network Security
2 8 (3.52%) Ethernet
2 8 (3.52%) Internet
2 8 (3.52%) MPLS
2 8 (3.52%) VPN
2 8 (3.52%) WAN
3 6 (2.64%) DNS
4 5 (2.20%) TCP/IP
4 5 (2.20%) VLAN
5 4 (1.76%) ADSL
5 4 (1.76%) SD-WAN
6 3 (1.32%) Broadband
6 3 (1.32%) DHCP
6 3 (1.32%) LAN
6 3 (1.32%) PPP
6 3 (1.32%) PSTN
6 3 (1.32%) SDH
6 3 (1.32%) SNMP
6 3 (1.32%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.64%) Power BI
2 5 (2.20%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (2.20%) Oracle Database
3 4 (1.76%) MySQL
3 4 (1.76%) SQL Server
4 3 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (1.32%) GIS
4 3 (1.32%) Oracle Database 10g
5 2 (0.88%) BigQuery
5 2 (0.88%) Data Lake
5 2 (0.88%) Data Mining
5 2 (0.88%) SAP HANA
5 2 (0.88%) Tableau
6 1 (0.44%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.44%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.44%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.44%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.44%) Qlik Sense
6 1 (0.44%) Redis
Development Applications
1 9 (3.96%) JIRA
2 2 (0.88%) Maven
2 2 (0.88%) Oracle APEX
2 2 (0.88%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (0.44%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.44%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.44%) Gatling
3 1 (0.44%) Git
3 1 (0.44%) IBM UrbanCode
3 1 (0.44%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.44%) Mockito
3 1 (0.44%) ScalaTest
General
1 66 (29.07%) Social Skills
2 46 (20.26%) Finance
3 39 (17.18%) Public Sector
4 26 (11.45%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (5.73%) Presentation Skills
6 11 (4.85%) Local Government
7 9 (3.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (3.96%) Telecoms
8 6 (2.64%) Banking
8 6 (2.64%) Marketing
8 6 (2.64%) Police
8 6 (2.64%) Retail
9 5 (2.20%) French Language
10 4 (1.76%) German Language
11 3 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.32%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.88%) Front Office
12 2 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.88%) Law
12 2 (0.88%) Legal
Job Titles
1 36 (15.86%) Service Manager
2 25 (11.01%) Consultant
3 22 (9.69%) Analyst
3 22 (9.69%) Delivery Manager
4 21 (9.25%) Service Delivery Manager
5 19 (8.37%) Developer
5 19 (8.37%) Senior
6 17 (7.49%) Architect
7 13 (5.73%) Lead
7 13 (5.73%) ServiceNow Developer
8 11 (4.85%) Project Manager
9 9 (3.96%) Data Engineer
9 9 (3.96%) ServiceNow Consultant
10 7 (3.08%) Coordinator
10 7 (3.08%) Designer
10 7 (3.08%) Management Consultant
10 7 (3.08%) Security Architect
10 7 (3.08%) Service Designer
10 7 (3.08%) Service Transition Manager
10 7 (3.08%) Transition Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (11.45%) Web Services
2 6 (2.64%) .NET
3 5 (2.20%) CSS
4 4 (1.76%) REST
4 4 (1.76%) RESTful
5 3 (1.32%) J2EE
5 3 (1.32%) Middleware
5 3 (1.32%) Spring
5 3 (1.32%) Spring MVC
6 2 (0.88%) AngularJS
6 2 (0.88%) HTML
6 2 (0.88%) jQuery
6 2 (0.88%) Kafka
6 2 (0.88%) OpenAPI
6 2 (0.88%) RAML
6 2 (0.88%) React
6 2 (0.88%) Sass
6 2 (0.88%) Swagger
6 2 (0.88%) Twitter Bootstrap
6 2 (0.88%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (7.05%) Management Information System
2 5 (2.20%) Replication
3 4 (1.76%) FMCG
3 4 (1.76%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (1.76%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (1.76%) Virtual Team
4 3 (1.32%) Legacy Applications
4 3 (1.32%) Onboarding
5 2 (0.88%) Driving Licence
5 2 (0.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (0.88%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (0.88%) iPad
5 2 (0.88%) Life Science
5 2 (0.88%) NHS
5 2 (0.88%) Product Ownership
5 2 (0.88%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 2 (0.88%) VAX
6 1 (0.44%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.44%) Freedom of Information
6 1 (0.44%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 23 (10.13%) Windows
2 17 (7.49%) Linux
3 8 (3.52%) Unix
4 6 (2.64%) VMS
5 5 (2.20%) Windows 10
6 4 (1.76%) OpenVMS
7 3 (1.32%) Solaris
8 2 (0.88%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.88%) Windows 7
8 2 (0.88%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.88%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.88%) Windows XP
9 1 (0.44%) Android
9 1 (0.44%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (34.36%) ITIL
2 67 (29.52%) Service Management
3 41 (18.06%) ITSM
4 38 (16.74%) Customer Service
5 30 (13.22%) Agile
5 30 (13.22%) Continuous Improvement
5 30 (13.22%) Problem-Solving
6 26 (11.45%) Change Management
7 23 (10.13%) Asset Management
7 23 (10.13%) Stakeholder Management
8 22 (9.69%) Project Delivery
8 22 (9.69%) Service Design
9 21 (9.25%) IT Asset Management
9 21 (9.25%) Operations Management
9 21 (9.25%) Roadmaps
10 19 (8.37%) Project Management
11 18 (7.93%) Risk Management
12 15 (6.61%) API Development
12 15 (6.61%) Decision-Making
13 14 (6.17%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 12 (5.29%) SQL
2 5 (2.20%) Java
3 4 (1.76%) COBOL
3 4 (1.76%) DCL
4 3 (1.32%) C#
4 3 (1.32%) JavaScript
5 2 (0.88%) Bash
5 2 (0.88%) C++
5 2 (0.88%) PowerShell
5 2 (0.88%) Python
5 2 (0.88%) VB.NET
6 1 (0.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.44%) Scala
6 1 (0.44%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 57 (25.11%) Security Cleared
2 51 (22.47%) SC Cleared
3 13 (5.73%) Degree
4 10 (4.41%) DV Cleared
5 9 (3.96%) BPSS Clearance
6 7 (3.08%) BC Cleared
7 5 (2.20%) AWS Certification
7 5 (2.20%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 5 (2.20%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.76%) ITIL Certification
9 3 (1.32%) CCDP
9 3 (1.32%) CCIP
9 3 (1.32%) CCNA
9 3 (1.32%) CCNP
9 3 (1.32%) CGEIT
9 3 (1.32%) CISA
9 3 (1.32%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (1.32%) CISM
9 3 (1.32%) CISSP
9 3 (1.32%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (14.98%) SLA
2 18 (7.93%) QA
3 11 (4.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (4.41%) NIST
5 5 (2.20%) GDPR
6 4 (1.76%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 3 (1.32%) Accessibility
7 3 (1.32%) Disclosure Scotland
8 2 (0.88%) GxP
8 2 (0.88%) ISO 9001
8 2 (0.88%) WCAG
9 1 (0.44%) GRC
System Software
1 16 (7.05%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.32%) Hyper-V
2 3 (1.32%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.88%) Docker
3 2 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.88%) vSphere
4 1 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 5 (2.20%) Ansible
1 5 (2.20%) NetBackup
1 5 (2.20%) Puppet
2 3 (1.32%) SCCM
3 2 (0.88%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (0.88%) WSUS
4 1 (0.44%) Grafana
4 1 (0.44%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 43 (18.94%) ServiceNow
2 38 (16.74%) Microsoft
3 18 (7.93%) SAP
4 14 (6.17%) Oracle
5 6 (2.64%) Cisco
6 5 (2.20%) Veritas
7 4 (1.76%) Dell
7 4 (1.76%) Google
7 4 (1.76%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.32%) Adobe
8 3 (1.32%) Alcatel-Lucent
8 3 (1.32%) BT
8 3 (1.32%) Citrix
8 3 (1.32%) Juniper
8 3 (1.32%) Openreach
8 3 (1.32%) OpenText
8 3 (1.32%) Reuters
8 3 (1.32%) VMware
9 2 (0.88%) Darktrace
9 2 (0.88%) Databricks