Service Delivery Contracts

Service Delivery
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Service Delivery skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Service Delivery over the 6 months to 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 105 120 125
Rank change year-on-year +15 +5 +45
Contract jobs citing Service Delivery 895 1,276 1,915
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.08% 2.19% 2.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.41% 2.44% 2.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 545 832 1,245
10th Percentile £200 £263 £254
25th Percentile £300 £413 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +2.44% +13.89%
75th Percentile £582 £613 £605
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £550 £475
% change year-on-year -13.64% +15.79% +8.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 86 115
10th Percentile £13.36 £13.29 £11.22
25th Percentile £14.16 £13.41 £13.25
Median hourly rate £14.82 £23.25 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year -36.26% +60.34% -22.77%
75th Percentile £16.85 £43.75 £26.34
90th Percentile £26.62 £65.00 £42.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £14.80 £22.50 £13.66
% change year-on-year -34.22% +64.71% -26.71%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Service Delivery is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,097 52,247 79,383
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.26% 89.81% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,888 36,212 55,718
10th Percentile £300 £325 £343
25th Percentile £413 £438 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.48%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,438 1,719 1,895
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.23 £15.58
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +4.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.06 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.74% +75.00% -6.98%

Service Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Service Delivery in the UK

Service Delivery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Service Delivery in the UK

Service Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Service Delivery over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Service Delivery in the UK

Service Delivery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Service Delivery in the UK

Service Delivery
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Service Delivery over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Service Delivery in the UK

Service Delivery
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 12 May 2024. 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
England +14 786 £489 -6.86% 832
UK excluding London +7 580 £475 -13.64% 642
London +8 237 £500 - 245
Work from Home -6 230 £505 -3.81% 352
South East +26 159 £375 -21.05% 141
North of England -6 142 £550 - 147
East of England +6 86 £350 -24.32% 99
Yorkshire +23 78 £525 -4.55% 53
South West -9 76 £490 -18.33% 91
Midlands -24 65 £490 -10.59% 109
North West -29 62 £575 +4.55% 79
Scotland +6 53 £329 -39.45% 50
West Midlands -28 37 £510 -0.49% 59
East Midlands +4 25 £475 -15.64% 50
North East 0 2 £590 +4.89% 17

Service Delivery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 27 (3.02%) Microsoft Exchange
2 20 (2.23%) SharePoint
3 7 (0.78%) CMS
3 7 (0.78%) Confluence
4 4 (0.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 4 (0.45%) Skype for Business
5 2 (0.22%) IBM Notes
5 2 (0.22%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.11%) Apache
6 1 (0.11%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 1 (0.11%) IBM HTTP Server
6 1 (0.11%) IIS
6 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.11%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.11%) WebSphere Application Server
6 1 (0.11%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 82 (9.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 78 (8.72%) Microsoft Office
3 58 (6.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.45%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 13 (1.45%) Remedy ITSM
2 12 (1.34%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.34%) Infor SunSystems
3 3 (0.34%) SAP ERP
3 3 (0.34%) Shopify
4 2 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.22%) SystmOne
5 1 (0.11%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.11%) OPENHousing
5 1 (0.11%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.11%) SAP MDM
5 1 (0.11%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.11%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.11%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.11%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 92 (10.28%) Microsoft 365
2 85 (9.50%) Azure
3 41 (4.58%) AWS
4 34 (3.80%) SaaS
5 25 (2.79%) Power Platform
6 16 (1.79%) SuccessFactors
7 14 (1.56%) IaaS
8 13 (1.45%) PaaS
9 12 (1.34%) Entra ID
9 12 (1.34%) OneDrive
10 11 (1.23%) Cloud Computing
10 11 (1.23%) Power Automate
11 9 (1.01%) Dynamics 365
12 7 (0.78%) PowerApps
13 5 (0.56%) Amazon GuardDuty
13 5 (0.56%) Azure Sentinel
13 5 (0.56%) Azure Storage
14 4 (0.45%) Azure DevOps
15 3 (0.34%) BigCommerce
15 3 (0.34%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 45 (5.03%) Firewall
2 29 (3.24%) VPN
3 24 (2.68%) LAN
4 20 (2.23%) DNS
5 18 (2.01%) DHCP
5 18 (2.01%) Network Security
6 16 (1.79%) SD-WAN
7 15 (1.68%) Wi-Fi
8 14 (1.56%) VLAN
9 13 (1.45%) WAN
10 9 (1.01%) Internet
11 7 (0.78%) Ethernet
11 7 (0.78%) MPLS
11 7 (0.78%) Unified Communications
12 6 (0.67%) WLAN
13 5 (0.56%) Cisco Firepower
13 5 (0.56%) PSTN
13 5 (0.56%) TCP/IP
14 4 (0.45%) ADSL
14 4 (0.45%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (2.57%) Power BI
2 9 (1.01%) SQL Server
3 6 (0.67%) MySQL
3 6 (0.67%) Tableau
4 5 (0.56%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (0.56%) Data Mining
4 5 (0.56%) Oracle Database
4 5 (0.56%) SAP HANA
5 4 (0.45%) Apache Cassandra
5 4 (0.45%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (0.45%) NoSQL
5 4 (0.45%) Redis
6 3 (0.34%) GIS
6 3 (0.34%) Oracle Database 10g
6 3 (0.34%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.22%) BigQuery
7 2 (0.22%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (0.22%) Qlik Sense
7 2 (0.22%) RDBMS
7 2 (0.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 16 (1.79%) JIRA
2 5 (0.56%) Git
3 4 (0.45%) Bitbucket
3 4 (0.45%) Gatling
3 4 (0.45%) Maven
3 4 (0.45%) Mockito
3 4 (0.45%) ScalaTest
4 2 (0.22%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.22%) Oracle APEX
4 2 (0.22%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.11%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.11%) Gradle
5 1 (0.11%) IBM UrbanCode
5 1 (0.11%) Yeoman
General
1 286 (31.96%) Social Skills
2 161 (17.99%) Finance
3 106 (11.84%) Public Sector
4 97 (10.84%) Analytical Skills
5 49 (5.47%) Telecoms
6 36 (4.02%) Local Government
7 30 (3.35%) Organisational Skills
8 26 (2.91%) Marketing
9 24 (2.68%) Presentation Skills
10 22 (2.46%) Legal
11 20 (2.23%) Banking
12 17 (1.90%) Influencing Skills
13 14 (1.56%) German Language
14 13 (1.45%) Retail
15 12 (1.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 11 (1.23%) Manufacturing
17 10 (1.12%) French Language
17 10 (1.12%) Police
18 9 (1.01%) Pharmaceutical
19 6 (0.67%) Law
Job Titles
1 149 (16.65%) Service Manager
2 128 (14.30%) Analyst
3 114 (12.74%) Delivery Manager
4 99 (11.06%) Service Delivery Manager
5 63 (7.04%) Service Analyst
6 60 (6.70%) Senior
7 54 (6.03%) Lead
8 44 (4.92%) IT Manager
9 43 (4.80%) Service Desk Analyst
10 39 (4.36%) Developer
11 37 (4.13%) Project Manager
12 36 (4.02%) Consultant
12 36 (4.02%) Support Engineer
13 34 (3.80%) Architect
14 32 (3.58%) IT Services Manager
14 32 (3.58%) Network Engineer
15 27 (3.02%) 1st Line Support
16 26 (2.91%) Customer Analyst
16 26 (2.91%) Customer Service Analyst
17 24 (2.68%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (3.58%) Web Services
2 18 (2.01%) CSS
3 16 (1.79%) HTML
4 10 (1.12%) AngularJS
4 10 (1.12%) RESTful
5 9 (1.01%) REST
6 8 (0.89%) Node.js
7 7 (0.78%) .NET
7 7 (0.78%) Spring
7 7 (0.78%) Spring MVC
8 4 (0.45%) Akka
8 4 (0.45%) Hibernate
8 4 (0.45%) J2EE
8 4 (0.45%) JPA
8 4 (0.45%) Middleware
8 4 (0.45%) Play Framework
8 4 (0.45%) RAML
8 4 (0.45%) Swagger
8 4 (0.45%) Visualforce
8 4 (0.45%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 50 (5.59%) Management Information System
2 24 (2.68%) Product Ownership
3 22 (2.46%) Driving Licence
4 21 (2.35%) Onboarding
5 17 (1.90%) Replication
6 16 (1.79%) CMDB
7 14 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
8 9 (1.01%) FMCG
9 8 (0.89%) Data Centre
9 8 (0.89%) Virtual Team
10 7 (0.78%) Digital Signage
10 7 (0.78%) Private Cloud
11 6 (0.67%) BYOD
11 6 (0.67%) PKI
12 5 (0.56%) Data Protection Act
12 5 (0.56%) Operational Technology
13 4 (0.45%) Blackberry
13 4 (0.45%) NHS
13 4 (0.45%) Security Operations Centre
13 4 (0.45%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 139 (15.53%) Windows
2 46 (5.14%) Windows 10
3 42 (4.69%) Linux
4 36 (4.02%) Windows 7
5 18 (2.01%) Unix
6 15 (1.68%) Windows Server
7 10 (1.12%) Apple iOS
8 8 (0.89%) Android
8 8 (0.89%) Windows Server 2016
9 7 (0.78%) Windows Server 2019
10 6 (0.67%) Mac OS
10 6 (0.67%) Solaris
10 6 (0.67%) VMS
11 4 (0.45%) OpenVMS
12 3 (0.34%) AIX
12 3 (0.34%) Ubuntu
13 2 (0.22%) Windows XP
14 1 (0.11%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 280 (31.28%) ITIL
2 221 (24.69%) Problem-Solving
3 199 (22.23%) Customer Service
4 165 (18.44%) Service Management
5 111 (12.40%) ITSM
6 102 (11.40%) Agile
7 96 (10.73%) Continuous Improvement
8 94 (10.50%) Incident Management
9 85 (9.50%) Change Management
9 85 (9.50%) Project Delivery
10 72 (8.04%) Roadmaps
11 67 (7.49%) Project Management
12 60 (6.70%) Mathematics
13 56 (6.26%) Stakeholder Management
14 55 (6.15%) Decision-Making
15 46 (5.14%) Asset Management
15 46 (5.14%) Problem Management
16 42 (4.69%) Risk Management
17 41 (4.58%) Migration
18 40 (4.47%) Business Case
Programming Languages
1 29 (3.24%) SQL
2 16 (1.79%) JavaScript
3 12 (1.34%) Java
4 10 (1.12%) PowerShell
5 8 (0.89%) Swift
6 7 (0.78%) Python
7 5 (0.56%) C#
8 4 (0.45%) Apex Code
8 4 (0.45%) COBOL
8 4 (0.45%) DCL
8 4 (0.45%) Scala
9 3 (0.34%) Bash
9 3 (0.34%) C++
9 3 (0.34%) VB.NET
10 2 (0.22%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.11%) C
11 1 (0.11%) Groovy
11 1 (0.11%) R
11 1 (0.11%) Ruby
11 1 (0.11%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 218 (24.36%) Security Cleared
2 135 (15.08%) SC Cleared
3 74 (8.27%) DV Cleared
4 69 (7.71%) Degree
5 29 (3.24%) Microsoft Certification
6 25 (2.79%) A+ Certification
7 23 (2.57%) MCP
8 17 (1.90%) MCSA
9 15 (1.68%) ITIL Certification
10 12 (1.34%) BPSS Clearance
11 10 (1.12%) Azure Certification
12 9 (1.01%) Cisco Certification
12 9 (1.01%) PMP
13 8 (0.89%) PMI Certification
14 7 (0.78%) DBS Check
15 6 (0.67%) BC Cleared
15 6 (0.67%) CCNA
15 6 (0.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 5 (0.56%) AWS Certification
16 5 (0.56%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 124 (13.85%) SLA
2 31 (3.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 26 (2.91%) QA
4 19 (2.12%) NIST
5 17 (1.90%) Data Quality
6 12 (1.34%) GDPR
7 8 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 6 (0.67%) Accessibility
9 5 (0.56%) ISO 9001
10 4 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (0.45%) Disclosure Scotland
10 4 (0.45%) PMO
11 2 (0.22%) GxP
11 2 (0.22%) WCAG
12 1 (0.11%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.11%) GRC
System Software
1 86 (9.61%) Active Directory
2 16 (1.79%) Firmware
3 11 (1.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.78%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.56%) Docker
5 5 (0.56%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.34%) SRDF
6 3 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.34%) vSphere
7 1 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.11%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 35 (3.91%) SCCM
2 22 (2.46%) Microsoft Intune
3 16 (1.79%) Ansible
4 15 (1.68%) NetBackup
5 14 (1.56%) Puppet
6 11 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (0.67%) Kubernetes
8 4 (0.45%) Endace
8 4 (0.45%) Grafana
8 4 (0.45%) Prometheus
9 3 (0.34%) EMC TimeFinder
9 3 (0.34%) FortiGate
9 3 (0.34%) Terraform
9 3 (0.34%) WSUS
10 2 (0.22%) IBM BigFix
10 2 (0.22%) Rundeck
10 2 (0.22%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 267 (29.83%) Microsoft
2 117 (13.07%) ServiceNow
3 35 (3.91%) SAP
4 34 (3.80%) Cisco
5 32 (3.58%) Citrix
6 31 (3.46%) Oracle
7 19 (2.12%) HP
8 15 (1.68%) Veritas
9 14 (1.56%) Remedy
9 14 (1.56%) VMware
10 12 (1.34%) Google
11 11 (1.23%) Dell
12 10 (1.12%) Salesforce
13 9 (1.01%) Juniper
14 8 (0.89%) Apple
14 8 (0.89%) BMC
14 8 (0.89%) F5
14 8 (0.89%) Okta
15 5 (0.56%) NetApp
15 5 (0.56%) Openreach