Software Delivery Contracts in England

Software Delivery
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Software Delivery skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Software Delivery over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 357 306 259
Rank change year-on-year -51 -47 +27
Contract jobs citing Software Delivery 181 423 773
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.49% 0.84% 1.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.57% 0.93% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 296 546
10th Percentile £444 £425 £425
25th Percentile £506 £493 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £588 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.13% -2.08% +14.29%
75th Percentile £719 £725 £700
90th Percentile £825 £781 £788
UK median daily rate £575 £575 £583
% change year-on-year - -1.29% +12.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 23 8
10th Percentile £70.00 £59.27 £41.32
25th Percentile £75.00 £67.25 £49.74
Median hourly rate £80.00 £73.71 £77.25
Median % change year-on-year +8.53% -4.58% +54.50%
75th Percentile £85.00 £79.25 £79.63
90th Percentile £87.50 £87.00 £80.15
UK median hourly rate £80.00 £74.50 £77.25
% change year-on-year +7.38% -3.56% +71.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Software 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 advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,985 45,619 64,566
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.53% 90.25% 90.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,974 32,022 45,804
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £769 £749
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,225 1,607 1,769
10th Percentile £12.86 £10.94 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.31 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.15
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -

Software Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Software Delivery as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Software Delivery in England

Software Delivery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Software Delivery in England

Software Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Delivery in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Delivery in England

Software Delivery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Delivery in England

Software Delivery
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Software Delivery in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Software Delivery in England

Software Delivery
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Software Delivery within the England region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
London -37 102 £615 -1.60% 42
North of England +22 29 £575 +4.55% 22
North West +19 23 £600 +23.08% 16
South West +25 19 £525 - 14
South East +9 13 £500 -4.76% 13
Yorkshire +11 10 £710 +29.09% 4
Midlands -6 9 £675 +40.63% 18
East Midlands +18 6 £450 -5.26% 13
North East +17 4 £720 +37.14% 2
West Midlands +1 3 £675 +40.63% 5
East of England +6 1 £400 -21.95% 2
Software Delivery
UK

Software Delivery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 8 (4.42%) Confluence
2 7 (3.87%) Anypoint
2 7 (3.87%) nginx
3 5 (2.76%) Apache Spark
3 5 (2.76%) CMS
4 4 (2.21%) Apache Solr
4 4 (2.21%) Drupal
5 2 (1.10%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.55%) Apache
6 1 (0.55%) Appian
6 1 (0.55%) MTS
Applications
1 2 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.10%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.55%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 6 (3.31%) Shopify
2 2 (1.10%) Endur
3 1 (0.55%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 66 (36.46%) AWS
2 40 (22.10%) Azure
3 18 (9.94%) GCP
4 16 (8.84%) Azure DevOps
5 13 (7.18%) Serverless
6 12 (6.63%) AWS Lambda
7 9 (4.97%) GitHub
8 8 (4.42%) OpenShift
8 8 (4.42%) SaaS
9 7 (3.87%) AWS CloudFormation
10 6 (3.31%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (3.31%) BigCommerce
11 5 (2.76%) Amazon EKS
11 5 (2.76%) Amazon S3
11 5 (2.76%) Apigee
12 4 (2.21%) Miro
13 3 (1.66%) AWS CodePipeline
13 3 (1.66%) Route 53
14 2 (1.10%) PaaS
14 2 (1.10%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 11 (6.08%) DNS
2 8 (4.42%) HTTP
3 7 (3.87%) TCP/IP
4 5 (2.76%) Firewall
5 4 (2.21%) HTTPS
5 4 (2.21%) IPsec
5 4 (2.21%) SSL
5 4 (2.21%) VPN
6 3 (1.66%) DHCP
6 3 (1.66%) DMZ
7 2 (1.10%) Intranet
8 1 (0.55%) FTP
8 1 (0.55%) Internet
8 1 (0.55%) OpenLDAP
8 1 (0.55%) SNMP
8 1 (0.55%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (13.26%) NoSQL
2 9 (4.97%) Apache Cassandra
3 7 (3.87%) SQL Server
4 6 (3.31%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (3.31%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (2.76%) MySQL
6 4 (2.21%) Couchbase
6 4 (2.21%) Hadoop
6 4 (2.21%) Redis
7 3 (1.66%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (1.66%) Big Data
7 3 (1.66%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.10%) Oracle Database
8 2 (1.10%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.55%) Power BI
9 1 (0.55%) PowerCenter
9 1 (0.55%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 1 (0.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.55%) Star Schema
9 1 (0.55%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 27 (14.92%) Git
2 20 (11.05%) Jenkins
3 18 (9.94%) JIRA
4 15 (8.29%) TeamCity
5 10 (5.52%) Cucumber
5 10 (5.52%) Moq
5 10 (5.52%) NUnit
6 9 (4.97%) Artifactory
7 8 (4.42%) Selenium
8 7 (3.87%) GitLab
8 7 (3.87%) SonarQube
9 5 (2.76%) Gatling
10 4 (2.21%) Cypress.io
10 4 (2.21%) Mockito
10 4 (2.21%) ScalaTest
11 3 (1.66%) JMeter
11 3 (1.66%) Maven
11 3 (1.66%) Subversion
12 2 (1.10%) Rational DOORS
12 2 (1.10%) SoapUI
General
1 45 (24.86%) Social Skills
2 34 (18.78%) Finance
3 19 (10.50%) Public Sector
4 14 (7.73%) Front Office
5 11 (6.08%) Legal
6 9 (4.97%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (4.97%) Banking
6 9 (4.97%) Retail
6 9 (4.97%) Telecoms
7 8 (4.42%) Marketing
8 6 (3.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (2.76%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (2.76%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.66%) Electronics
11 2 (1.10%) Aviation
11 2 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.10%) Investment Banking
11 2 (1.10%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.10%) Military
12 1 (0.55%) Police
Job Titles
1 50 (27.62%) Developer
2 30 (16.57%) DevOps Engineer
3 29 (16.02%) Senior
4 22 (12.15%) Analyst
5 18 (9.94%) Business Analyst
5 18 (9.94%) Lead
6 14 (7.73%) Senior Developer
7 13 (7.18%) Delivery Manager
8 12 (6.63%) C# Developer
9 11 (6.08%) Scala Developer
9 11 (6.08%) ServiceNow Developer
10 10 (5.52%) Project Manager
11 9 (4.97%) AWS DevOps
11 9 (4.97%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 9 (4.97%) AWS Engineer
11 9 (4.97%) Senior ServiceNow Developer
11 9 (4.97%) Technical Analyst
12 8 (4.42%) Architect
12 8 (4.42%) Software Delivery Manager
12 8 (4.42%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (16.57%) RESTful
2 23 (12.71%) .NET
3 19 (10.50%) RabbitMQ
4 16 (8.84%) .NET Core
5 14 (7.73%) Kafka
5 14 (7.73%) Spring
6 11 (6.08%) ASP.NET
6 11 (6.08%) Elastic Stack
6 11 (6.08%) Middleware
7 10 (5.52%) Akka
7 10 (5.52%) ASP.NET Core
7 10 (5.52%) ASP.NET Web API
7 10 (5.52%) SignalR
7 10 (5.52%) YAML
8 9 (4.97%) XML
9 8 (4.42%) REST
9 8 (4.42%) Web Services
10 7 (3.87%) OpenAPI
10 7 (3.87%) Swagger
11 6 (3.31%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 15 (8.29%) Product Ownership
2 13 (7.18%) Cloud Native
2 13 (7.18%) Greenfield Project
3 10 (5.52%) Management Information System
4 8 (4.42%) Public Cloud
5 5 (2.76%) Verilog
5 5 (2.76%) VHDL
6 4 (2.21%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.66%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.66%) Private Cloud
8 2 (1.10%) Data Fabric
8 2 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.10%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (1.10%) IoT
8 2 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.55%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.55%) Distributed Applications
9 1 (0.55%) Fixed Income
9 1 (0.55%) PropTech
9 1 (0.55%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 21 (11.60%) Linux
2 7 (3.87%) Unix
3 6 (3.31%) Windows
4 4 (2.21%) CentOS
5 3 (1.66%) Android
5 3 (1.66%) Apple iOS
5 3 (1.66%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.55%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (61.88%) Agile
2 70 (38.67%) CI/CD
3 66 (36.46%) DevOps
4 44 (24.31%) Microservices
5 41 (22.65%) Continuous Integration
6 37 (20.44%) Scrum
7 26 (14.36%) Test Automation
8 25 (13.81%) Infrastructure as Code
8 25 (13.81%) Project Delivery
9 24 (13.26%) Containerisation
10 22 (12.15%) Roadmaps
11 21 (11.60%) Problem-Solving
11 21 (11.60%) SDLC
12 20 (11.05%) Configuration Management
12 20 (11.05%) High Availability
13 19 (10.50%) Kanban
13 19 (10.50%) Software Engineering
13 19 (10.50%) Stakeholder Management
13 19 (10.50%) TDD
14 18 (9.94%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 31 (17.13%) SQL
2 27 (14.92%) Java
3 24 (13.26%) Python
4 19 (10.50%) C#
5 17 (9.39%) Bash
6 13 (7.18%) JavaScript
7 12 (6.63%) PowerShell
8 11 (6.08%) Scala
9 8 (4.42%) C++
10 6 (3.31%) C
11 5 (2.76%) Ruby
12 4 (2.21%) PHP
13 3 (1.66%) Bicep
13 3 (1.66%) Perl
13 3 (1.66%) PL/SQL
13 3 (1.66%) VB.NET
14 2 (1.10%) Ada
14 2 (1.10%) Go
14 2 (1.10%) TypeScript
15 1 (0.55%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 36 (19.89%) Security Cleared
2 19 (10.50%) SC Cleared
3 13 (7.18%) Degree
3 13 (7.18%) ITIL Certification
4 11 (6.08%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.66%) AWS Certification
5 3 (1.66%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 3 (1.66%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.66%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.10%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.55%) CSPO
7 1 (0.55%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.55%) PgMP
7 1 (0.55%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (11.60%) QA
2 4 (2.21%) GDPR
2 4 (2.21%) HIPAA
2 4 (2.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (2.21%) NIST
3 3 (1.66%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.66%) ISO 9001
3 3 (1.66%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 3 (1.66%) SLA
4 2 (1.10%) Def Stans
4 2 (1.10%) DO-178B
4 2 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 12207
4 2 (1.10%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.55%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.55%) IEC 61508
5 1 (0.55%) PMO
System Software
1 56 (30.94%) Docker
2 6 (3.31%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (2.76%) Active Directory
4 4 (2.21%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (1.66%) Hyper-V
5 3 (1.66%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 41 (22.65%) Kubernetes
2 39 (21.55%) Terraform
3 26 (14.36%) Ansible
4 12 (6.63%) Prometheus
5 8 (4.42%) Grafana
6 5 (2.76%) Kibana
7 4 (2.21%) Puppet
8 3 (1.66%) Progress Chef
8 3 (1.66%) WSUS
9 2 (1.10%) logstash
9 2 (1.10%) Rancher
10 1 (0.55%) Nagios
10 1 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 24 (13.26%) Microsoft
2 20 (11.05%) ServiceNow
3 16 (8.84%) SAP
4 14 (7.73%) Salesforce
5 11 (6.08%) VMware
6 10 (5.52%) Oracle
6 10 (5.52%) TIBCO
7 9 (4.97%) Google
8 7 (3.87%) MuleSoft
9 6 (3.31%) Adobe
9 6 (3.31%) Sitecore
10 5 (2.76%) Typelevel
10 5 (2.76%) WSO2
11 4 (2.21%) Databricks
11 4 (2.21%) Teradata
12 3 (1.66%) Dell
12 3 (1.66%) Intel
12 3 (1.66%) Virgin Media
13 2 (1.10%) IBM
13 2 (1.10%) OpenLink