Service Delivery Contracts in the North of England

Service Delivery
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 64 62 75
Rank change year-on-year -2 +13 -6
Contract jobs citing Service Delivery 137 179 214
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 2.83% 3.29% 3.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.38% 3.65% 3.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 93 113
10th Percentile £375 £365 £213
25th Percentile £493 £463 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £495
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% +8.79%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £575
90th Percentile £666 £760 £639
England median daily rate £490 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -6.67% - +11.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 22 14
10th Percentile £14.00 £25.75 £9.90
25th Percentile £14.29 £27.80 £10.20
Median hourly rate £15.61 £37.50 £11.77
Median % change year-on-year -58.38% +218.74% -34.64%
75th Percentile £18.49 £43.75 £14.25
90th Percentile £22.39 £49.27 £18.40
England median hourly rate £15.00 £18.50 £14.50
% change year-on-year -18.92% +27.59% -19.44%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,055 4,902 6,324
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 83.69% 90.08% 88.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,411 3,372 4,591
10th Percentile £300 £300 £241
25th Percentile £400 £413 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £575
90th Percentile £669 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 395 209 251
10th Percentile £11.09 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.55 £15.75 £13.57
Median hourly rate £21.00 £25.00 £19.09
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +30.96% +7.43%
75th Percentile £46.18 £43.39 £34.00
90th Percentile £63.75 £56.38 £63.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%

Service Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Service Delivery as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Service Delivery in the North of England

Service Delivery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Service Delivery in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Service Delivery in the North of England

Service Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Service Delivery in the North of England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Service Delivery in the North of England

Service Delivery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Service Delivery in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Service Delivery in the North of England

Service Delivery
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Service Delivery in the North of England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Service Delivery in the North of England

Service Delivery
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 12 June 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
Yorkshire +19 76 £525 -4.55% 61
North West -23 58 £575 +4.55% 90
North East +3 3 £590 +31.11% 19
Service Delivery
England

Service Delivery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 2 (1.46%) IBM Notes
Applications
1 7 (5.11%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.46%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.73%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 9 (6.57%) IaaS
1 9 (6.57%) PaaS
1 9 (6.57%) SaaS
2 5 (3.65%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (2.92%) Azure
4 3 (2.19%) AWS
4 3 (2.19%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (0.73%) OneDrive
5 1 (0.73%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 13 (9.49%) VLAN
2 10 (7.30%) Network Security
3 1 (0.73%) DHCP
3 1 (0.73%) DNS
3 1 (0.73%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.65%) Data Mining
2 1 (0.73%) BigQuery
2 1 (0.73%) Data Lake
2 1 (0.73%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (0.73%) Power BI
General
1 34 (24.82%) Social Skills
2 27 (19.71%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (17.52%) Finance
4 21 (15.33%) Public Sector
5 5 (3.65%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (1.46%) Banking
6 2 (1.46%) Law
6 2 (1.46%) Local Government
7 1 (0.73%) Billing
7 1 (0.73%) French Language
7 1 (0.73%) Legal
7 1 (0.73%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.73%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (0.73%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (11.68%) Service Desk Agent
1 16 (11.68%) Service Manager
2 15 (10.95%) Developer
2 15 (10.95%) ServiceNow Developer
3 13 (9.49%) Delivery Manager
4 12 (8.76%) Consultant
4 12 (8.76%) Storage Engineer
5 11 (8.03%) Senior
5 11 (8.03%) Service Delivery Manager
6 10 (7.30%) Architect
6 10 (7.30%) Lead
6 10 (7.30%) Security Architect
7 9 (6.57%) Analyst
8 8 (5.84%) ServiceNow Consultant
9 7 (5.11%) Data Engineer
9 7 (5.11%) Data Protection Engineer
10 5 (3.65%) Data Scientist
11 4 (2.92%) 1st Line Support
11 4 (2.92%) Project Manager
11 4 (2.92%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (16.79%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 17 (12.41%) Replication
2 3 (2.19%) EMC VNX
2 3 (2.19%) NHS
3 2 (1.46%) Management Information System
4 1 (0.73%) Data Centre
4 1 (0.73%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (0.73%) Solar Power
Operating Systems
1 28 (20.44%) Windows
2 15 (10.95%) Linux
3 3 (2.19%) AIX
3 3 (2.19%) Solaris
4 1 (0.73%) Android
4 1 (0.73%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (29.93%) ITIL
2 36 (26.28%) Service Management
3 31 (22.63%) Customer Service
3 31 (22.63%) Problem-Solving
4 26 (18.98%) Asset Management
4 26 (18.98%) ITSM
5 25 (18.25%) Operations Management
6 23 (16.79%) Change Management
6 23 (16.79%) IT Asset Management
7 20 (14.60%) Stakeholder Management
8 15 (10.95%) API Development
9 14 (10.22%) Data Protection
10 13 (9.49%) Information Security
11 12 (8.76%) Business Case
11 12 (8.76%) Project Delivery
11 12 (8.76%) Risk Management
12 11 (8.03%) Business Strategy
13 10 (7.30%) IT Strategy
13 10 (7.30%) People Management
13 10 (7.30%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 3 (2.19%) SQL
Qualifications
1 40 (29.20%) Security Cleared
2 39 (28.47%) SC Cleared
3 3 (2.19%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 2 (1.46%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.73%) Degree
5 1 (0.73%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (0.73%) MCP
5 1 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (14.60%) SLA
2 10 (7.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (7.30%) NIST
3 2 (1.46%) Accessibility
System Software
1 6 (4.38%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.19%) SRDF
2 3 (2.19%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 14 (10.22%) NetBackup
1 14 (10.22%) Puppet
2 13 (9.49%) Ansible
3 3 (2.19%) EMC TimeFinder
4 2 (1.46%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 28 (20.44%) ServiceNow
2 24 (17.52%) Microsoft
3 14 (10.22%) Veritas
4 5 (3.65%) VMware
5 3 (2.19%) Brocade
5 3 (2.19%) Cisco
5 3 (2.19%) Dell
5 3 (2.19%) Dell Compellent
5 3 (2.19%) EMC
5 3 (2.19%) EqualLogic
5 3 (2.19%) Google
5 3 (2.19%) Isilon
6 2 (1.46%) Lotus
6 2 (1.46%) NEC
6 2 (1.46%) Oracle
7 1 (0.73%) Brio
7 1 (0.73%) NetApp
7 1 (0.73%) Samsung
7 1 (0.73%) SAP
7 1 (0.73%) Symantec