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 7 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 77 56
Rank change year-on-year -21 -21 +14
Contract jobs citing Service Delivery 38 10 49
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 2.01% 0.95% 2.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.26% 1.10% 3.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 6 24
10th Percentile £205 £221 £155
25th Percentile £302 £328 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £480 £465
Median % change year-on-year -6.15% +3.12% -7.00%
75th Percentile £538 £677 £550
90th Percentile £575 £731 £650
England median daily rate £450 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -10.00% - -

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 1,681 913 1,563
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 88.85% 86.46% 88.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,130 547 992
10th Percentile £275 £234 £285
25th Percentile £385 £367 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.05% -5.00% -2.44%
75th Percentile £550 £574 £600
90th Percentile £638 £677 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 25 32
10th Percentile £14.25 £13.18 £12.68
25th Percentile £17.48 £15.75 £16.02
Median hourly rate £25.15 £20.00 £21.75
Median % change year-on-year +25.75% -8.05% +15.23%
75th Percentile £49.19 £38.75 £27.60
90th Percentile £57.33 £74.59 £53.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +27.14%

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 7 January 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 7 January 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 +1 21 £525 -25.00% 16
South Yorkshire -46 11 £387 -19.32% 6
North Yorkshire +8 5 £450 +50.00% 5
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 3 (7.89%) Confluence
1 3 (7.89%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (13.16%) Acrobat
2 3 (7.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (7.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (10.53%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.63%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.63%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 13 (34.21%) Azure
2 7 (18.42%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (15.79%) AWS
3 6 (15.79%) SaaS
4 4 (10.53%) GCP
5 3 (7.89%) GitHub
6 2 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (5.26%) AWS KMS
6 2 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (2.63%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (2.63%) OpenShift
7 1 (2.63%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (23.68%) TCP/IP
2 5 (13.16%) LAN
2 5 (13.16%) WAN
2 5 (13.16%) Wi-Fi
3 4 (10.53%) DNS
4 3 (7.89%) Firewall
5 1 (2.63%) DHCP
5 1 (2.63%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.89%) MongoDB
1 3 (7.89%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (5.26%) MySQL
2 2 (5.26%) Oracle Database
3 1 (2.63%) Electronic Patient Records
3 1 (2.63%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (13.16%) JIRA
2 3 (7.89%) Git
2 3 (7.89%) GitLab
2 3 (7.89%) Jenkins
3 2 (5.26%) CircleCI
General
1 27 (71.05%) Social Skills
2 11 (28.95%) Finance
3 9 (23.68%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (15.79%) Public Sector
5 3 (7.89%) Banking
6 2 (5.26%) Law
7 1 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.63%) Electronics
7 1 (2.63%) Legal
7 1 (2.63%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.63%) Marketing
7 1 (2.63%) Retail
7 1 (2.63%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (15.79%) Scrum Master
2 5 (13.16%) Coordinator
3 4 (10.53%) Analyst
3 4 (10.53%) Service Manager
4 3 (7.89%) Business Analyst
4 3 (7.89%) Delivery Director
4 3 (7.89%) Delivery Manager
4 3 (7.89%) IT Director
4 3 (7.89%) Lead
4 3 (7.89%) Service Delivery Director
4 3 (7.89%) Service Delivery Manager
4 3 (7.89%) Services Director
4 3 (7.89%) Technical Analyst
4 3 (7.89%) Technical Business Analyst
5 2 (5.26%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 2 (5.26%) 2nd Line Support
5 2 (5.26%) DBA
5 2 (5.26%) Project Manager
5 2 (5.26%) Support Engineer
5 2 (5.26%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.26%) Kafka
2 1 (2.63%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 8 (21.05%) Enterprise Software
2 7 (18.42%) Onboarding
2 7 (18.42%) Product Ownership
3 5 (13.16%) CMDB
4 2 (5.26%) Enterprise Cloud
4 2 (5.26%) NHS
5 1 (2.63%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.63%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.63%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (2.63%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 10 (26.32%) Windows
2 5 (13.16%) Unix
3 3 (7.89%) Linux
4 2 (5.26%) Windows Server
5 1 (2.63%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (65.79%) Continuous Improvement
2 21 (55.26%) Problem-Solving
3 18 (47.37%) Agile
4 12 (31.58%) ITIL
4 12 (31.58%) ITSM
4 12 (31.58%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 11 (28.95%) Project Management
5 11 (28.95%) Stakeholder Management
6 10 (26.32%) CI/CD
6 10 (26.32%) Customer Service
6 10 (26.32%) Cybersecurity
7 9 (23.68%) DevOps
7 9 (23.68%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 9 (23.68%) Scrum
8 8 (21.05%) Change Management
8 8 (21.05%) Service Management
9 7 (18.42%) Kanban
9 7 (18.42%) Migration
9 7 (18.42%) Sprint Planning
9 7 (18.42%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (10.53%) Python
1 4 (10.53%) Shell Script
2 3 (7.89%) Java
2 3 (7.89%) PowerShell
2 3 (7.89%) SQL
3 2 (5.26%) Bash
3 2 (5.26%) Go
4 1 (2.63%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (5.26%) Degree
1 2 (5.26%) PMI Certification
1 2 (5.26%) PMP
1 2 (5.26%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.63%) CISM
2 1 (2.63%) CISSP
2 1 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (2.63%) DBS Check
2 1 (2.63%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.89%) SLA
2 1 (2.63%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.63%) GDPR
2 1 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.63%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (7.89%) Docker
2 2 (5.26%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (15.79%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (10.53%) Kubernetes
3 3 (7.89%) Ansible
3 3 (7.89%) Grafana
4 2 (5.26%) SCCM
4 2 (5.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (31.58%) Microsoft
2 6 (15.79%) ServiceNow
3 5 (13.16%) Adobe
3 5 (13.16%) Cisco
3 5 (13.16%) Meraki
3 5 (13.16%) Oracle
3 5 (13.16%) Veeam
4 3 (7.89%) Splunk
5 2 (5.26%) Google
5 2 (5.26%) SAP
6 1 (2.63%) AppDynamics
6 1 (2.63%) Apple