Service Delivery Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Service Delivery
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 156 143 135
Rank change year-on-year -13 -8 +19
Contract jobs citing Service Delivery 156 228 463
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.58% 1.49% 1.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.73% 1.70% 2.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 159 359
10th Percentile £272 £288 £320
25th Percentile £371 £394 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £513 £538
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% -4.65% +2.38%
75th Percentile £578 £586 £600
90th Percentile £675 £638 £688
UK median daily rate £450 £490 £525
% change year-on-year -8.16% -6.67% +2.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 13 11
10th Percentile £17.20 £13.40 £12.50
25th Percentile £19.75 £14.00 £19.00
Median hourly rate £25.00 £15.85 £33.50
Median % change year-on-year +57.73% -52.69% +28.85%
75th Percentile £33.13 £24.75 £67.50
90th Percentile £48.25 £63.72 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £15.50 £14.80 £24.62
% change year-on-year +4.73% -39.89% +69.79%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,020 13,413 23,039
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.13% 87.92% 89.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,197 8,959 16,290
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 221 580 529
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.75 £25.38 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.00 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.30% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.50 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.58 £36.00
% change year-on-year -18.48% -1.18% +44.00%

Service Delivery
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Service Delivery as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Service Delivery trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Service Delivery
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options 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 remote working options citing Service Delivery over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

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 remote working options 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 remote working options citing Service Delivery over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

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 5 (3.21%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (2.56%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.28%) Confluence
4 1 (0.64%) CICS
4 1 (0.64%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.56%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.64%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.64%) Sketch
3 1 (0.64%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.64%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (3.85%) iTrent
2 3 (1.92%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (1.92%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.64%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.64%) Kondor
3 1 (0.64%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 15 (9.62%) Azure
2 14 (8.97%) AWS
3 11 (7.05%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (6.41%) SaaS
5 8 (5.13%) Entra ID
6 7 (4.49%) Power Platform
7 6 (3.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (2.56%) Amazon Glacier
8 4 (2.56%) Amazon Kinesis
8 4 (2.56%) Amazon S3
8 4 (2.56%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (2.56%) Serverless
9 3 (1.92%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (1.28%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (1.28%) AWS Fargate
10 2 (1.28%) GCP
10 2 (1.28%) IaaS
10 2 (1.28%) OneDrive
10 2 (1.28%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (1.28%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.49%) Firewall
1 7 (4.49%) WAN
2 6 (3.85%) DNS
2 6 (3.85%) Internet
3 4 (2.56%) BGP
3 4 (2.56%) LAN
3 4 (2.56%) MPLS
3 4 (2.56%) OSPF
4 3 (1.92%) EIGRP
4 3 (1.92%) iSCSI
4 3 (1.92%) Network Security
4 3 (1.92%) Remote Desktop
4 3 (1.92%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.92%) VPN
4 3 (1.92%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (1.92%) Wireless
5 2 (1.28%) Cisco IOS
5 2 (1.28%) SD-WAN
5 2 (1.28%) SNMP
5 2 (1.28%) TACACS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.21%) Power BI
1 5 (3.21%) SQL Server
2 4 (2.56%) Data Mining
2 4 (2.56%) DynamoDB
3 2 (1.28%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.64%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.64%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.64%) Easytrieve
4 1 (0.64%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 8 (5.13%) Jenkins
1 8 (5.13%) JIRA
2 3 (1.92%) GitLab
3 1 (0.64%) GCC
3 1 (0.64%) Git
3 1 (0.64%) Maven
3 1 (0.64%) Selenium
3 1 (0.64%) SpecFlow
3 1 (0.64%) Subversion
General
1 50 (32.05%) Social Skills
2 32 (20.51%) Finance
3 30 (19.23%) Public Sector
4 19 (12.18%) Telecoms
5 13 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (7.69%) Banking
7 6 (3.85%) Billing
7 6 (3.85%) Local Government
8 5 (3.21%) Investment Banking
8 5 (3.21%) Legal
8 5 (3.21%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.92%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.92%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.92%) Retail
10 2 (1.28%) Back Office
10 2 (1.28%) Welsh Language
11 1 (0.64%) Electronics
11 1 (0.64%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.64%) Police
Job Titles
1 25 (16.03%) Service Manager
2 21 (13.46%) Delivery Manager
3 20 (12.82%) Lead
4 19 (12.18%) Service Delivery Manager
5 15 (9.62%) Architect
6 12 (7.69%) Analyst
7 11 (7.05%) IT Manager
7 11 (7.05%) Senior
8 9 (5.77%) IT Services Manager
9 8 (5.13%) Consultant
10 7 (4.49%) Designer
10 7 (4.49%) IT Services Delivery Manager
10 7 (4.49%) Support Engineer
11 6 (3.85%) Project Manager
11 6 (3.85%) Solutions Architect
12 5 (3.21%) Developer
12 5 (3.21%) IT Support
12 5 (3.21%) Service Analyst
12 5 (3.21%) Support Analyst
13 4 (2.56%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.13%) JSON
2 6 (3.85%) Kafka
3 5 (3.21%) CSS
3 5 (3.21%) HTML
3 5 (3.21%) REST
3 5 (3.21%) Web Services
4 4 (2.56%) ActiveMQ
4 4 (2.56%) RESTful
4 4 (2.56%) XML
5 2 (1.28%) cloud-init
5 2 (1.28%) Keycloak
5 2 (1.28%) SAP Basis
6 1 (0.64%) Apache Camel
6 1 (0.64%) FHIR
6 1 (0.64%) Quarkus
6 1 (0.64%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (0.64%) Spring
6 1 (0.64%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 8 (5.13%) Management Information System
2 6 (3.85%) Onboarding
3 5 (3.21%) Product Ownership
4 4 (2.56%) Frameworx
4 4 (2.56%) Market Risk
4 4 (2.56%) Public Cloud
4 4 (2.56%) TM Forum
5 3 (1.92%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (1.92%) IVR
5 3 (1.92%) Mainframe
5 3 (1.92%) NHS
6 2 (1.28%) CMDB
6 2 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.28%) PACS
6 2 (1.28%) PKI
6 2 (1.28%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.64%) SCADA
7 1 (0.64%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (0.64%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 18 (11.54%) Windows
2 6 (3.85%) Linux
2 6 (3.85%) Windows 10
2 6 (3.85%) Windows Server
3 4 (2.56%) Unix
4 3 (1.92%) Android
4 3 (1.92%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (1.28%) CentOS
5 2 (1.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.28%) zOS
6 1 (0.64%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.64%) MVS
6 1 (0.64%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (30.77%) ITIL
2 39 (25.00%) Agile
3 34 (21.79%) Problem-Solving
4 29 (18.59%) Customer Service
5 28 (17.95%) Continuous Improvement
5 28 (17.95%) Service Management
6 18 (11.54%) ITSM
6 18 (11.54%) Stakeholder Management
7 14 (8.97%) Change Management
7 14 (8.97%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 12 (7.69%) Decision-Making
9 11 (7.05%) Analytics
9 11 (7.05%) Project Management
9 11 (7.05%) Roadmaps
10 10 (6.41%) DevOps
10 10 (6.41%) Risk Management
10 10 (6.41%) SDLC
10 10 (6.41%) Service Design
11 9 (5.77%) Contract Management
11 9 (5.77%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 11 (7.05%) SQL
2 8 (5.13%) Python
3 5 (3.21%) Java
3 5 (3.21%) JavaScript
3 5 (3.21%) PowerShell
4 4 (2.56%) Bash
5 2 (1.28%) C#
5 2 (1.28%) Go
5 2 (1.28%) JCL
5 2 (1.28%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.64%) Assembly Language
6 1 (0.64%) COBOL
6 1 (0.64%) Perl
6 1 (0.64%) REXX
6 1 (0.64%) Smalltalk
6 1 (0.64%) VB
Qualifications
1 16 (10.26%) Security Cleared
2 15 (9.62%) SC Cleared
3 9 (5.77%) ITIL Certification
4 5 (3.21%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (2.56%) CCNP
6 3 (1.92%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.92%) CCNA
6 3 (1.92%) Degree
6 3 (1.92%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.92%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.28%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.28%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.64%) ACSP
8 1 (0.64%) APMP
8 1 (0.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.64%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.64%) BC Cleared
8 1 (0.64%) CCDP
8 1 (0.64%) CITP
8 1 (0.64%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (10.90%) SLA
2 7 (4.49%) QA
3 4 (2.56%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.92%) Basel II
4 3 (1.92%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (1.28%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.28%) NCSC
6 1 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.64%) GDPR
6 1 (0.64%) GRC
6 1 (0.64%) HL7
6 1 (0.64%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.64%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.64%) ISO 31000
6 1 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.64%) PMO
6 1 (0.64%) WCAG
System Software
1 11 (7.05%) Active Directory
2 7 (4.49%) Docker
3 3 (1.92%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 3 (1.92%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.64%) ACF2
4 1 (0.64%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.64%) RACF
4 1 (0.64%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (1.92%) Jamf Pro
1 3 (1.92%) Kubernetes
1 3 (1.92%) Rancher
1 3 (1.92%) ZABBIX
2 2 (1.28%) Consul
2 2 (1.28%) Grafana
2 2 (1.28%) Istio
2 2 (1.28%) linkerd
2 2 (1.28%) Opsgenie
2 2 (1.28%) Packer
2 2 (1.28%) Prometheus
2 2 (1.28%) Terraform
3 1 (0.64%) Ansible
3 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.64%) PaperCut
3 1 (0.64%) SCCM
Vendors
1 22 (14.10%) Microsoft
2 16 (10.26%) ServiceNow
3 9 (5.77%) Cisco
4 7 (4.49%) SAP
5 5 (3.21%) Salesforce
6 4 (2.56%) Apple
6 4 (2.56%) BMC
6 4 (2.56%) Oracle
7 3 (1.92%) Remedy
8 2 (1.28%) Atlassian
8 2 (1.28%) Google
8 2 (1.28%) Huawei
8 2 (1.28%) Okta
8 2 (1.28%) SolarWinds
8 2 (1.28%) Splunk
8 2 (1.28%) VMware
9 1 (0.64%) Concur
9 1 (0.64%) Databricks
9 1 (0.64%) Nokia
9 1 (0.64%) Workday