Service Delivery Contracts

Service Delivery
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 113 127 123
Rank change year-on-year +14 -4 +51
Contract jobs citing Service Delivery 848 1,157 1,902
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.94% 2.08% 2.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.28% 2.32% 2.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 507 759 1,236
10th Percentile £200 £250 £262
25th Percentile £300 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -11.43% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £601
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £535 £500
% change year-on-year -11.21% +7.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 117 77 106
10th Percentile £14.00 £13.29 £12.63
25th Percentile £14.16 £13.41 £13.25
Median hourly rate £15.00 £18.50 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.92% +27.59% -22.77%
75th Percentile £16.85 £38.75 £26.26
90th Percentile £24.64 £49.71 £47.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £15.00 £16.17 £13.66
% change year-on-year -7.21% +18.34% -26.71%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,178 49,770 79,013
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.13% 89.61% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,737 34,458 55,587
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,579 1,678 1,852
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.96 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%
75th Percentile £61.28 £65.00 £50.15
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
% change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -

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 June 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 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Service Delivery in the UK

Service Delivery
Top 17 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 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
England +12 737 £490 -6.67% 801
UK excluding London +3 568 £475 -11.21% 640
Work from Home -13 212 £500 -5.21% 323
London -1 211 £500 - 227
South East 0 140 £400 -20.00% 140
North of England -2 137 £550 - 167
East of England +16 94 £350 -12.50% 75
Yorkshire +19 76 £525 -4.55% 61
Midlands -17 71 £460 -15.98% 117
South West -30 65 £469 -18.48% 79
Scotland +31 58 £400 -17.95% 59
North West -23 58 £575 +4.55% 90
West Midlands -20 41 £450 -14.29% 71
East Midlands -4 27 £460 -19.40% 45
North East +3 3 £590 +31.11% 19
Northern Ireland - 3 - - 8
Wales +19 2 £136 -66.97% 22

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 25 (2.95%) Microsoft Exchange
2 20 (2.36%) SharePoint
3 5 (0.59%) CMS
4 4 (0.47%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (0.35%) Confluence
6 2 (0.24%) IBM Notes
6 2 (0.24%) Oracle Workflow
6 2 (0.24%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.12%) Apache
7 1 (0.12%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
7 1 (0.12%) IBM HTTP Server
7 1 (0.12%) IIS
7 1 (0.12%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.12%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.12%) WebSphere Application Server
7 1 (0.12%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 99 (11.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 77 (9.08%) Microsoft Office
3 73 (8.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.47%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (1.18%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.35%) Infor SunSystems
3 3 (0.35%) SAP ERP
3 3 (0.35%) Shopify
4 2 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.24%) SystmOne
5 1 (0.12%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.12%) OPENHousing
5 1 (0.12%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.12%) SAP MDM
5 1 (0.12%) SAP SM
Cloud Services
1 92 (10.85%) Microsoft 365
2 75 (8.84%) Azure
3 42 (4.95%) AWS
4 34 (4.01%) SaaS
5 32 (3.77%) Power Platform
6 16 (1.89%) SuccessFactors
7 13 (1.53%) Entra ID
7 13 (1.53%) IaaS
8 12 (1.42%) OneDrive
8 12 (1.42%) PaaS
9 11 (1.30%) Power Automate
10 10 (1.18%) Cloud Computing
10 10 (1.18%) Dynamics 365
11 7 (0.83%) PowerApps
12 5 (0.59%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 5 (0.59%) Azure Sentinel
12 5 (0.59%) Azure Storage
13 4 (0.47%) GCP
14 3 (0.35%) Azure DevOps
14 3 (0.35%) BigCommerce
Communications & Networking
1 40 (4.72%) Firewall
2 32 (3.77%) VPN
3 26 (3.07%) DNS
4 24 (2.83%) DHCP
5 20 (2.36%) LAN
6 19 (2.24%) Network Security
7 17 (2.00%) SD-WAN
8 14 (1.65%) Wi-Fi
9 13 (1.53%) VLAN
10 11 (1.30%) Internet
10 11 (1.30%) WAN
11 7 (0.83%) Unified Communications
11 7 (0.83%) WLAN
12 6 (0.71%) Ethernet
12 6 (0.71%) MPLS
13 5 (0.59%) Cisco Firepower
13 5 (0.59%) TCP/IP
14 4 (0.47%) PSTN
15 3 (0.35%) SDH
15 3 (0.35%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (3.54%) Power BI
2 9 (1.06%) SQL Server
3 7 (0.83%) Tableau
4 6 (0.71%) MySQL
5 5 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (0.59%) Data Mining
6 4 (0.47%) Apache Cassandra
6 4 (0.47%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (0.47%) GIS
6 4 (0.47%) NoSQL
6 4 (0.47%) Redis
7 3 (0.35%) Oracle Reports
7 3 (0.35%) Relational Database
7 3 (0.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (0.24%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.24%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.24%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.24%) Qlik Sense
8 2 (0.24%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.12%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (1.18%) JIRA
2 5 (0.59%) Git
3 4 (0.47%) Gatling
3 4 (0.47%) Maven
3 4 (0.47%) Mockito
3 4 (0.47%) ScalaTest
4 2 (0.24%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.12%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.12%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.12%) Gradle
5 1 (0.12%) IBM UrbanCode
5 1 (0.12%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (0.12%) Yeoman
General
1 286 (33.73%) Social Skills
2 158 (18.63%) Finance
3 101 (11.91%) Public Sector
4 96 (11.32%) Analytical Skills
5 47 (5.54%) Telecoms
6 36 (4.25%) Local Government
7 26 (3.07%) Organisational Skills
8 24 (2.83%) Marketing
9 23 (2.71%) Legal
10 22 (2.59%) Presentation Skills
11 21 (2.48%) Banking
12 20 (2.36%) German Language
13 17 (2.00%) Influencing Skills
14 13 (1.53%) Manufacturing
15 12 (1.42%) French Language
16 11 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 11 (1.30%) Retail
17 9 (1.06%) Law
17 9 (1.06%) Pharmaceutical
18 8 (0.94%) Billing
Job Titles
1 153 (18.04%) Service Manager
2 115 (13.56%) Delivery Manager
3 112 (13.21%) Analyst
4 100 (11.79%) Service Delivery Manager
5 67 (7.90%) Senior
6 58 (6.84%) Service Analyst
7 52 (6.13%) Lead
8 46 (5.42%) IT Manager
9 37 (4.36%) Service Desk Analyst
10 35 (4.13%) Developer
10 35 (4.13%) IT Services Manager
10 35 (4.13%) Network Engineer
10 35 (4.13%) Support Engineer
11 34 (4.01%) Project Manager
12 33 (3.89%) Architect
13 29 (3.42%) Consultant
14 25 (2.95%) 1st Line Support
15 23 (2.71%) ServiceNow Developer
16 22 (2.59%) Customer Analyst
16 22 (2.59%) Customer Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (3.77%) Web Services
2 18 (2.12%) CSS
3 16 (1.89%) HTML
4 10 (1.18%) AngularJS
4 10 (1.18%) RESTful
5 9 (1.06%) REST
6 8 (0.94%) Node.js
7 7 (0.83%) .NET
7 7 (0.83%) Spring
7 7 (0.83%) Spring MVC
8 4 (0.47%) Akka
8 4 (0.47%) Hibernate
8 4 (0.47%) J2EE
8 4 (0.47%) JPA
8 4 (0.47%) Middleware
8 4 (0.47%) Play Framework
8 4 (0.47%) RAML
8 4 (0.47%) spray
8 4 (0.47%) Visualforce
8 4 (0.47%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 45 (5.31%) Management Information System
2 22 (2.59%) Product Ownership
3 18 (2.12%) Driving Licence
4 17 (2.00%) Replication
5 16 (1.89%) Onboarding
6 11 (1.30%) CMDB
7 9 (1.06%) Data Protection Act
7 9 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
8 8 (0.94%) NHS
9 7 (0.83%) Digital Signage
10 6 (0.71%) BYOD
10 6 (0.71%) FMCG
10 6 (0.71%) PKI
10 6 (0.71%) Private Cloud
10 6 (0.71%) Virtual Team
11 5 (0.59%) Analytical Mindset
11 5 (0.59%) IoT
11 5 (0.59%) Operational Technology
12 4 (0.47%) Data Centre
13 3 (0.35%) EMC VNX
Operating Systems
1 134 (15.80%) Windows
2 44 (5.19%) Windows 10
3 38 (4.48%) Windows 7
4 33 (3.89%) Linux
5 14 (1.65%) Unix
6 12 (1.42%) Windows Server
7 11 (1.30%) Apple iOS
8 9 (1.06%) Android
9 8 (0.94%) Windows Server 2016
10 6 (0.71%) Mac OS
10 6 (0.71%) Windows Server 2019
11 5 (0.59%) Solaris
12 3 (0.35%) AIX
12 3 (0.35%) Ubuntu
13 2 (0.24%) Windows XP
14 1 (0.12%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 246 (29.01%) ITIL
2 223 (26.30%) Problem-Solving
3 206 (24.29%) Customer Service
4 153 (18.04%) Service Management
5 103 (12.15%) Incident Management
6 100 (11.79%) ITSM
7 97 (11.44%) Agile
8 90 (10.61%) Continuous Improvement
9 85 (10.02%) Project Delivery
10 78 (9.20%) Change Management
11 72 (8.49%) Project Management
12 70 (8.25%) Mathematics
13 63 (7.43%) Stakeholder Management
14 59 (6.96%) Roadmaps
15 55 (6.49%) Decision-Making
16 45 (5.31%) Risk Management
17 44 (5.19%) Asset Management
18 43 (5.07%) Information Security
19 39 (4.60%) Business Case
20 38 (4.48%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 27 (3.18%) SQL
2 16 (1.89%) JavaScript
3 12 (1.42%) Java
4 10 (1.18%) PowerShell
5 8 (0.94%) Swift
6 7 (0.83%) Python
7 5 (0.59%) C#
8 4 (0.47%) Apex Code
8 4 (0.47%) Scala
9 3 (0.35%) Bash
9 3 (0.35%) C++
9 3 (0.35%) VB.NET
10 2 (0.24%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.12%) C
11 1 (0.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.12%) Groovy
11 1 (0.12%) R
11 1 (0.12%) Ruby
11 1 (0.12%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.12%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 202 (23.82%) Security Cleared
2 129 (15.21%) SC Cleared
3 61 (7.19%) Degree
4 59 (6.96%) DV Cleared
5 30 (3.54%) A+ Certification
6 28 (3.30%) Microsoft Certification
7 17 (2.00%) MCP
7 17 (2.00%) MCSA
8 15 (1.77%) ITIL Certification
9 12 (1.42%) Azure Certification
9 12 (1.42%) BPSS Clearance
10 10 (1.18%) Cisco Certification
11 8 (0.94%) PMP
12 7 (0.83%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 6 (0.71%) CCNA
14 5 (0.59%) AWS Certification
14 5 (0.59%) BC Cleared
14 5 (0.59%) CCNP
14 5 (0.59%) DBS Check
14 5 (0.59%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 112 (13.21%) SLA
2 24 (2.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 19 (2.24%) NIST
4 16 (1.89%) QA
5 13 (1.53%) GDPR
6 12 (1.42%) Data Quality
7 6 (0.71%) Accessibility
8 5 (0.59%) PMO
9 4 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 3 (0.35%) Disclosure Scotland
10 3 (0.35%) ISO 9001
11 2 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.24%) WCAG
12 1 (0.12%) COBIT
12 1 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.12%) GRC
12 1 (0.12%) GxP
System Software
1 88 (10.38%) Active Directory
2 13 (1.53%) Firmware
3 10 (1.18%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.83%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.71%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (0.59%) Docker
7 3 (0.35%) SRDF
7 3 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.35%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 35 (4.13%) SCCM
2 23 (2.71%) Microsoft Intune
3 16 (1.89%) Ansible
4 15 (1.77%) NetBackup
5 14 (1.65%) Puppet
6 11 (1.30%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (0.71%) Kubernetes
8 5 (0.59%) Endace
9 4 (0.47%) Grafana
9 4 (0.47%) Prometheus
10 3 (0.35%) EMC TimeFinder
10 3 (0.35%) FortiGate
10 3 (0.35%) Terraform
10 3 (0.35%) WSUS
11 2 (0.24%) Rundeck
12 1 (0.12%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 259 (30.54%) Microsoft
2 104 (12.26%) ServiceNow
3 39 (4.60%) Cisco
4 29 (3.42%) Citrix
5 25 (2.95%) Oracle
5 25 (2.95%) SAP
6 15 (1.77%) HP
6 15 (1.77%) Veritas
7 14 (1.65%) VMware
8 13 (1.53%) Dell
9 11 (1.30%) Google
9 11 (1.30%) Remedy
10 10 (1.18%) Juniper
10 10 (1.18%) Salesforce
11 9 (1.06%) F5
12 8 (0.94%) BMC
12 8 (0.94%) Okta
13 7 (0.83%) Apple
14 5 (0.59%) Avaya
14 5 (0.59%) BT