Service Delivery Contracts in Yorkshire

Service Delivery
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 31 54
Rank change year-on-year -37 +23 +5
Contract jobs citing Service Delivery 24 79 75
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 2.36% 4.68% 3.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.55% 5.41% 3.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 47 43
10th Percentile £231 £423 £410
25th Percentile £235 £507 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -25.93% -1.82% +22.22%
75th Percentile £434 £557 £688
90th Percentile £620 £600 £775
England median daily rate £450 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% +4.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £11.60 - -
Median hourly rate £11.64 £15.17 -
Median % change year-on-year -23.27% - -
75th Percentile £11.68 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £16.23 £14.80 £24.81
% change year-on-year +9.66% -40.35% +76.21%

All Process and 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 940 1,459 2,094
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 92.43% 86.38% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 586 875 1,388
10th Percentile £246 £265 £296
25th Percentile £363 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -9.52% +9.38%
75th Percentile £550 £577 £600
90th Percentile £638 £650 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 64 61
10th Percentile £13.00 £11.30 -
25th Percentile £17.12 £12.15 £9.80
Median hourly rate £21.24 £13.50 £10.63
Median % change year-on-year +57.33% +27.00% -39.74%
75th Percentile £27.10 £22.00 £20.19
90th Percentile £80.10 £53.75 £56.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Service Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Job postings citing Service Delivery as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Service Delivery in Yorkshire

Service Delivery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Service Delivery in Yorkshire.

Daily rate trend for Service Delivery in Yorkshire

Service Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Service Delivery in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Service Delivery in Yorkshire

Service Delivery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Service Delivery in Yorkshire.

Hourly rate trend for Service Delivery in Yorkshire

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 1 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
West Yorkshire -15 17 £400 -27.27% 24
North Yorkshire +10 1 £300 +130.77% 13
South Yorkshire -20 1 £425 -19.05% 15
Service Delivery
England

Service Delivery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 4 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (20.83%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (25.00%) Entra ID
2 5 (20.83%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (8.33%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (8.33%) AWS
3 2 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (8.33%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (4.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (4.17%) Azure
4 1 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (4.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (16.67%) VPN
2 1 (4.17%) DNS
2 1 (4.17%) Internet
2 1 (4.17%) TCP/IP
2 1 (4.17%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.33%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 2 (8.33%) GitLab
3 1 (4.17%) Bugzilla
3 1 (4.17%) Git
3 1 (4.17%) JIRA
3 1 (4.17%) Selenium
3 1 (4.17%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 17 (70.83%) Social Skills
2 6 (25.00%) Legal
3 3 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (12.50%) Public Sector
4 2 (8.33%) Finance
5 1 (4.17%) Banking
5 1 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (20.83%) Support Engineer
1 5 (20.83%) Support Manager
2 4 (16.67%) Desktop Engineer
2 4 (16.67%) Desktop Support
2 4 (16.67%) Desktop Support Engineer
2 4 (16.67%) Support Officer
3 2 (8.33%) Analyst
3 2 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) 2nd Line Support
4 1 (4.17%) Administrator
4 1 (4.17%) Coordinator
4 1 (4.17%) Developer
4 1 (4.17%) IT Manager
4 1 (4.17%) Operations Manager
4 1 (4.17%) Project Coordinator
4 1 (4.17%) Service Analyst
4 1 (4.17%) Service Delivery Manager
4 1 (4.17%) Service Desk Analyst
4 1 (4.17%) Service Manager
4 1 (4.17%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.33%) cloud-init
1 2 (8.33%) Kafka
2 1 (4.17%) Keycloak
2 1 (4.17%) REST
2 1 (4.17%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.17%) CMDB
1 1 (4.17%) Fat Client
1 1 (4.17%) PKI
1 1 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
1 1 (4.17%) Smartphone
1 1 (4.17%) Thin Client
1 1 (4.17%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 5 (20.83%) Mac OS
2 2 (8.33%) CentOS
2 2 (8.33%) Linux
2 2 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (8.33%) Unix
3 1 (4.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (62.50%) Customer Service
2 8 (33.33%) ITSM
3 7 (29.17%) ITIL
4 5 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (20.83%) Security Patching
4 5 (20.83%) Service Desk Management
4 5 (20.83%) Service Management
5 4 (16.67%) Case Management
5 4 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
5 4 (16.67%) DevOps
6 3 (12.50%) Project Management
6 3 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (8.33%) Agile
7 2 (8.33%) Change Management
7 2 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (8.33%) Continuous Integration
7 2 (8.33%) Incident Management
7 2 (8.33%) Mentoring
7 2 (8.33%) SDLC
7 2 (8.33%) Service Catalogue
Programming Languages
1 2 (8.33%) Bash
1 2 (8.33%) Go
1 2 (8.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (20.83%) ACSP
1 5 (20.83%) ACTC
2 4 (16.67%) Degree
2 4 (16.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 4 (16.67%) SC Cleared
2 4 (16.67%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.17%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.17%) NCSC
2 1 (4.17%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (41.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.17%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 6 (25.00%) Jamf Pro
2 5 (20.83%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (8.33%) Grafana
3 2 (8.33%) Kubernetes
3 2 (8.33%) Packer
3 2 (8.33%) Prometheus
3 2 (8.33%) Terraform
4 1 (4.17%) Consul
4 1 (4.17%) Istio
4 1 (4.17%) linkerd
4 1 (4.17%) Rancher
4 1 (4.17%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 12 (50.00%) ServiceNow
2 10 (41.67%) Microsoft
3 5 (20.83%) Apple
3 5 (20.83%) Citrix
4 1 (4.17%) Okta
4 1 (4.17%) Splunk