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 30 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 68 36
Rank change year-on-year -38 -32 +17
Contract jobs citing Service Delivery 37 13 74
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 1.63% 1.38% 4.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.84% 1.50% 5.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 7 46
10th Percentile £306 £177 £289
25th Percentile £418 £260 £507
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -19.05% -4.55%
75th Percentile £538 £606 £550
90th Percentile £568 £730 £600
England median daily rate £500 £483 £500
% change year-on-year +3.63% -3.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 0
10th Percentile £15.94 - -
25th Percentile £16.96 £11.60 -
Median hourly rate £19.30 £11.64 -
Median % change year-on-year +65.81% - -
75th Percentile £21.01 £11.68 -
90th Percentile £21.67 - -
England median hourly rate £17.69 £19.50 £14.32
% change year-on-year -9.28% +36.17% -44.19%

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 2,011 867 1,476
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 88.71% 92.23% 86.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,330 542 881
10th Percentile £313 £256 £258
25th Percentile £405 £363 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% - -9.52%
75th Percentile £550 £552 £575
90th Percentile £644 £638 £669
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 36 58
10th Percentile £14.25 £11.95 £11.24
25th Percentile £15.25 £16.93 £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 £28.75 £21.99
90th Percentile £68.75 £69.07 £53.75
England median hourly rate £36.71 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +12.95% - -13.33%

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 30 March 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 30 March 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 -16 17 £525 -10.64% 25
South Yorkshire -38 13 £443 +4.12% 10
North Yorkshire -4 7 £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 (5.41%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.70%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (13.51%) Acrobat
2 2 (5.41%) MS Visio
3 1 (2.70%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (5.41%) SystmOne
2 1 (2.70%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.70%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 10 (27.03%) Azure
2 7 (18.92%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (16.22%) SaaS
4 4 (10.81%) GCP
5 3 (8.11%) AWS
5 3 (8.11%) GitHub
6 2 (5.41%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (5.41%) AWS KMS
6 2 (5.41%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (5.41%) OpenShift
6 2 (5.41%) Power Platform
7 1 (2.70%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (2.70%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (24.32%) TCP/IP
2 5 (13.51%) LAN
2 5 (13.51%) WAN
2 5 (13.51%) Wi-Fi
3 4 (10.81%) DNS
4 3 (8.11%) Firewall
5 1 (2.70%) DHCP
5 1 (2.70%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.11%) MongoDB
1 3 (8.11%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (5.41%) MySQL
2 2 (5.41%) Oracle Database
2 2 (5.41%) Power BI
3 1 (2.70%) Electronic Patient Records
3 1 (2.70%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.70%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (8.11%) Git
1 3 (8.11%) GitLab
1 3 (8.11%) Jenkins
1 3 (8.11%) JIRA
2 2 (5.41%) CircleCI
General
1 22 (59.46%) Social Skills
2 11 (29.73%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (18.92%) Finance
3 7 (18.92%) Public Sector
4 4 (10.81%) Banking
5 2 (5.41%) Law
6 1 (2.70%) Legal
6 1 (2.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (16.22%) Analyst
1 6 (16.22%) Coordinator
1 6 (16.22%) Delivery Manager
1 6 (16.22%) Service Delivery Manager
1 6 (16.22%) Service Manager
2 4 (10.81%) Service Analyst
3 2 (5.41%) DBA
3 2 (5.41%) IT Security Officer
3 2 (5.41%) Lead
3 2 (5.41%) Oracle DBA
3 2 (5.41%) Project Manager
3 2 (5.41%) Security Officer
4 1 (2.70%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 1 (2.70%) Product Owner
4 1 (2.70%) Service Design Analyst
4 1 (2.70%) Service Management Manager
4 1 (2.70%) Service Owner
4 1 (2.70%) SystmOne Analyst
4 1 (2.70%) Transformation Manager
4 1 (2.70%) Transformation Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.41%) Kafka
2 1 (2.70%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 7 (18.92%) Onboarding
2 6 (16.22%) CMDB
3 5 (13.51%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (8.11%) NHS
5 2 (5.41%) Distributed Computing
5 2 (5.41%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (5.41%) Product Ownership
5 2 (5.41%) Virtual Team
6 1 (2.70%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (2.70%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (2.70%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (2.70%) Management Information System
6 1 (2.70%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 9 (24.32%) Windows
2 5 (13.51%) Unix
3 3 (8.11%) Linux
4 1 (2.70%) Windows 10
4 1 (2.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (56.76%) Continuous Improvement
2 19 (51.35%) Problem-Solving
3 18 (48.65%) ITIL
4 16 (43.24%) Service Management
5 15 (40.54%) ITSM
6 11 (29.73%) Change Management
7 10 (27.03%) Cybersecurity
8 9 (24.32%) Customer Service
9 8 (21.62%) Agile
9 8 (21.62%) Stakeholder Management
10 7 (18.92%) Digital Transformation Programme
11 6 (16.22%) DevOps
11 6 (16.22%) Incident Management
11 6 (16.22%) Risk Management
12 5 (13.51%) CI/CD
12 5 (13.51%) Problem Management
12 5 (13.51%) Process Improvement
12 5 (13.51%) Root Cause Analysis
12 5 (13.51%) Service Design
12 5 (13.51%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (13.51%) Python
2 4 (10.81%) Shell Script
2 4 (10.81%) SQL
3 3 (8.11%) Java
3 3 (8.11%) PowerShell
4 2 (5.41%) Bash
4 2 (5.41%) Go
5 1 (2.70%) C#
Qualifications
1 9 (24.32%) Security Cleared
2 6 (16.22%) Degree
3 4 (10.81%) PMI Certification
3 4 (10.81%) PMP
3 4 (10.81%) SC Cleared
4 2 (5.41%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (5.41%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.70%) CISM
5 1 (2.70%) CISSP
5 1 (2.70%) DBS Check
5 1 (2.70%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (16.22%) SLA
2 3 (8.11%) Data Quality
3 2 (5.41%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (5.41%) GDPR
4 1 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (2.70%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (8.11%) Docker
2 1 (2.70%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (16.22%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (10.81%) Kubernetes
3 3 (8.11%) Ansible
3 3 (8.11%) Grafana
4 2 (5.41%) Terraform
5 1 (2.70%) SCCM
Vendors
1 10 (27.03%) Microsoft
2 5 (13.51%) Adobe
2 5 (13.51%) Cisco
2 5 (13.51%) Meraki
2 5 (13.51%) Oracle
2 5 (13.51%) ServiceNow
2 5 (13.51%) Veeam
3 4 (10.81%) Splunk
4 1 (2.70%) AppDynamics
4 1 (2.70%) Google
4 1 (2.70%) SAP