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 5 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 89 84 60
Rank change year-on-year -5 -24 +19
Contract jobs citing Service Delivery 37 14 50
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 2.08% 1.01% 2.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.32% 1.20% 3.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 7 25
10th Percentile £187 £135 £185
25th Percentile £224 £321 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £525 £488
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £575
90th Percentile £580 £613 £725
England median daily rate £450 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -12.20% +2.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £17.79 - -
England median hourly rate £19.64 £16.23 £17.72
% change year-on-year +21.01% -8.42% +4.65%

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 1,593 1,170 1,644
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 89.60% 84.78% 88.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,051 668 1,064
10th Percentile £252 £262 £282
25th Percentile £375 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -2.91% +3.00%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £649 £650 £700
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 36 27
10th Percentile £15.25 - £16.28
25th Percentile £18.87 £12.55 £18.50
Median hourly rate £22.58 £18.07 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year +24.95% -15.22% +12.16%
75th Percentile £25.15 £28.75 £28.39
90th Percentile £65.50 £38.75 £44.20
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.04 £45.00
% change year-on-year -33.88% -15.48% +28.57%

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 5 November 2025.

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 5 November 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 -4 24 £525 +5.00% 18
South Yorkshire -25 10 £277 -48.13% 9
North Yorkshire - 1 - - 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 3 (8.11%) Confluence
1 3 (8.11%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (8.11%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (13.51%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (13.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (8.11%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (8.11%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.70%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 5 (13.51%) Entra ID
2 4 (10.81%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (8.11%) AWS
3 3 (8.11%) Azure
4 2 (5.41%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.11%) VPN
2 1 (2.70%) DHCP
2 1 (2.70%) DNS
2 1 (2.70%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.41%) MySQL
1 2 (5.41%) Oracle Database
1 2 (5.41%) Power BI
2 1 (2.70%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 3 (8.11%) JIRA
General
1 25 (67.57%) Social Skills
2 9 (24.32%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (21.62%) Finance
4 6 (16.22%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.70%) Electronics
5 1 (2.70%) Fire and Rescue
5 1 (2.70%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.70%) Marketing
5 1 (2.70%) Police
5 1 (2.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (16.22%) Analyst
1 6 (16.22%) Scrum Master
2 4 (10.81%) Business Analyst
2 4 (10.81%) Support Engineer
2 4 (10.81%) Support Manager
3 3 (8.11%) Delivery Director
3 3 (8.11%) IT Director
3 3 (8.11%) Service Delivery Director
3 3 (8.11%) Services Director
3 3 (8.11%) Technical Analyst
3 3 (8.11%) Technical Business Analyst
4 2 (5.41%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 2 (5.41%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 2 (5.41%) Delivery Manager
4 2 (5.41%) Desktop Engineer
4 2 (5.41%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 2 (5.41%) IT Engineer
4 2 (5.41%) Oracle DBA
4 2 (5.41%) Risk Manager
4 2 (5.41%) Supply Chain Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.70%) REST
1 1 (2.70%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (16.22%) Product Ownership
2 3 (8.11%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (8.11%) Management Information System
3 2 (5.41%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (2.70%) CMDB
4 1 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.70%) NHS
4 1 (2.70%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (2.70%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 5 (13.51%) Mac OS
2 2 (5.41%) Unix
2 2 (5.41%) Windows
2 2 (5.41%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.70%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (45.95%) Continuous Improvement
1 17 (45.95%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (40.54%) Agile
3 12 (32.43%) Customer Service
4 10 (27.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 10 (27.03%) Stakeholder Management
5 8 (21.62%) ITIL
5 8 (21.62%) ITSM
5 8 (21.62%) Project Management
6 7 (18.92%) Kanban
6 7 (18.92%) Scrum
6 7 (18.92%) SDLC
6 7 (18.92%) Sprint Planning
6 7 (18.92%) Test Automation
7 6 (16.22%) Backlog Refinement
7 6 (16.22%) Burndown Charts
7 6 (16.22%) CI/CD
7 6 (16.22%) Planning Poker
7 6 (16.22%) Project Delivery
7 6 (16.22%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 3 (8.11%) Python
2 2 (5.41%) Shell Script
3 1 (2.70%) PowerShell
3 1 (2.70%) R
Qualifications
1 5 (13.51%) ACSP
1 5 (13.51%) ACTC
2 3 (8.11%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 2 (5.41%) Degree
4 1 (2.70%) DBS Check
4 1 (2.70%) PMI Certification
4 1 (2.70%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 9 (24.32%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (13.51%) Jamf Pro
2 3 (8.11%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (5.41%) SCCM
Vendors
1 12 (32.43%) Microsoft
1 12 (32.43%) ServiceNow
2 6 (16.22%) Apple
3 2 (5.41%) Citrix
3 2 (5.41%) Oracle
4 1 (2.70%) Google
4 1 (2.70%) SAP