Service Delivery Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Service Delivery
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring Service Delivery skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 65 33
Rank change year-on-year -36 -32 +13
Contract jobs citing Service Delivery 41 18 75
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 1.76% 1.87% 4.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.00% 2.02% 5.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 11 45
10th Percentile £309 £220 £396
25th Percentile £425 £270 £507
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £400 £525
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -23.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £538 £531 £550
90th Percentile £565 £725 £600
England median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 1
10th Percentile £15.94 - -
25th Percentile £16.96 £11.60 -
Median hourly rate £19.30 £11.64 £15.17
Median % change year-on-year +65.81% -23.27% -
75th Percentile £21.01 £11.68 -
90th Percentile £21.67 - -
England median hourly rate £17.69 £16.23 £14.80
% change year-on-year +9.00% +9.66% -42.16%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,046 891 1,430
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 87.96% 92.52% 86.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,338 558 853
10th Percentile £313 £263 £252
25th Percentile £405 £365 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.53% - -9.52%
75th Percentile £558 £550 £575
90th Percentile £650 £638 £650
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 34 62
10th Percentile £14.25 £11.60 £11.30
25th Percentile £15.25 £17.08 £12.15
Median hourly rate £22.81 £21.24 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.39% +57.33% +27.00%
75th Percentile £57.25 £27.10 £21.66
90th Percentile £68.75 £80.10 £51.08
England median hourly rate £40.54 £32.00 £34.21
% change year-on-year +26.69% -6.46% -8.77%

Service Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Service Delivery job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Service Delivery
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

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

Service Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Service Delivery in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 13 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Service Delivery in Yorkshire

Service Delivery
Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

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

Service Delivery
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 13 April 2026. 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
West Yorkshire -17 20 £500 +14.29% 21
South Yorkshire -37 11 £475 +11.76% 12
North Yorkshire +1 9 £450 +50.00% 4
Service Delivery
England

Service Delivery
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (4.88%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.44%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (12.20%) Acrobat
2 2 (4.88%) MS Visio
3 1 (2.44%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (4.88%) SystmOne
2 1 (2.44%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.44%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 12 (29.27%) Azure
2 8 (19.51%) SaaS
3 7 (17.07%) AWS
3 7 (17.07%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (14.63%) GCP
5 4 (9.76%) Power Platform
6 3 (7.32%) GitHub
6 3 (7.32%) PaaS
7 2 (4.88%) Adobe Analytics
7 2 (4.88%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (4.88%) AWS KMS
7 2 (4.88%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (4.88%) IaaS
7 2 (4.88%) OpenShift
8 1 (2.44%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 9 (21.95%) TCP/IP
2 5 (12.20%) LAN
2 5 (12.20%) WAN
2 5 (12.20%) Wi-Fi
3 4 (9.76%) DNS
4 3 (7.32%) Firewall
5 2 (4.88%) Internet
6 1 (2.44%) DHCP
6 1 (2.44%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.76%) Power BI
2 3 (7.32%) MongoDB
2 3 (7.32%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (4.88%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (2.44%) Electronic Patient Records
4 1 (2.44%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.44%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (7.32%) Git
1 3 (7.32%) GitLab
1 3 (7.32%) Jenkins
1 3 (7.32%) JIRA
2 2 (4.88%) CircleCI
General
1 22 (53.66%) Social Skills
2 9 (21.95%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (19.51%) Public Sector
4 7 (17.07%) Finance
5 4 (9.76%) Banking
6 2 (4.88%) Law
7 1 (2.44%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.44%) Legal
7 1 (2.44%) Local Government
7 1 (2.44%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (19.51%) Analyst
2 7 (17.07%) Service Manager
3 6 (14.63%) Coordinator
3 6 (14.63%) Delivery Manager
3 6 (14.63%) Service Delivery Manager
4 4 (9.76%) Service Analyst
5 2 (4.88%) Architect
5 2 (4.88%) IT Security Officer
5 2 (4.88%) Lead
5 2 (4.88%) Performance Analyst
5 2 (4.88%) SAP Manager
5 2 (4.88%) Security Officer
5 2 (4.88%) Transformation Manager
6 1 (2.44%) 2nd Line Engineer
6 1 (2.44%) IT Engineer
6 1 (2.44%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
6 1 (2.44%) Senior
6 1 (2.44%) Service Management Manager
6 1 (2.44%) Service Management Project Manager
6 1 (2.44%) SystmOne Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.88%) Kafka
2 1 (2.44%) .NET
2 1 (2.44%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 7 (17.07%) Enterprise Software
1 7 (17.07%) Onboarding
2 6 (14.63%) CMDB
3 4 (9.76%) NHS
4 2 (4.88%) Distributed Computing
4 2 (4.88%) Product Ownership
4 2 (4.88%) Virtual Team
4 2 (4.88%) Web Conferencing
5 1 (2.44%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (2.44%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.44%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.44%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.44%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.44%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 12 (29.27%) Windows
2 3 (7.32%) Linux
2 3 (7.32%) Unix
3 2 (4.88%) Android
3 2 (4.88%) Apple iOS
3 2 (4.88%) Mac OS
3 2 (4.88%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.44%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (53.66%) Continuous Improvement
2 20 (48.78%) Problem-Solving
3 18 (43.90%) ITIL
4 15 (36.59%) ITSM
4 15 (36.59%) Service Management
5 10 (24.39%) Change Management
5 10 (24.39%) Customer Service
5 10 (24.39%) Cybersecurity
6 9 (21.95%) Agile
7 7 (17.07%) DevOps
7 7 (17.07%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 7 (17.07%) Root Cause Analysis
8 6 (14.63%) Incident Management
8 6 (14.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 6 (14.63%) Stakeholder Management
9 5 (12.20%) CI/CD
9 5 (12.20%) Problem Management
9 5 (12.20%) Process Improvement
9 5 (12.20%) Risk Management
9 5 (12.20%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (14.63%) SQL
2 3 (7.32%) Java
2 3 (7.32%) PowerShell
2 3 (7.32%) Python
3 2 (4.88%) Bash
3 2 (4.88%) Go
3 2 (4.88%) Shell Script
4 1 (2.44%) ABAP
4 1 (2.44%) C#
Qualifications
1 14 (34.15%) Security Cleared
2 6 (14.63%) Degree
2 6 (14.63%) SC Cleared
3 3 (7.32%) PMI Certification
3 3 (7.32%) PMP
4 2 (4.88%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (4.88%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.44%) CISM
5 1 (2.44%) CISSP
5 1 (2.44%) DBS Check
5 1 (2.44%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.44%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (14.63%) SLA
2 3 (7.32%) Data Quality
3 2 (4.88%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (4.88%) GDPR
4 1 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (2.44%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (7.32%) Docker
2 1 (2.44%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (14.63%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (9.76%) Kubernetes
3 3 (7.32%) Ansible
3 3 (7.32%) Grafana
4 2 (4.88%) Terraform
5 1 (2.44%) SCCM
Vendors
1 10 (24.39%) Microsoft
2 7 (17.07%) Adobe
3 6 (14.63%) Splunk
4 5 (12.20%) Cisco
4 5 (12.20%) Meraki
4 5 (12.20%) ServiceNow
4 5 (12.20%) Veeam
5 3 (7.32%) Oracle
6 2 (4.88%) SAP
7 1 (2.44%) AppDynamics
7 1 (2.44%) Google