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 5 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 375 289 265
Rank change year-on-year -86 -24 +23
Contract jobs citing Software Delivery 182 402 761
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.49% 0.86% 1.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.58% 0.95% 1.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 279 535
10th Percentile £445 £413 £425
25th Percentile £502 £480 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £588 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.13% -2.08% +14.29%
75th Percentile £688 £713 £700
90th Percentile £825 £775 £788
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +12.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 23 4
10th Percentile £65.00 £55.72 £36.14
25th Percentile £69.50 £63.25 £41.96
Median hourly rate £80.00 £72.50 £48.85
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% +48.41% -30.17%
75th Percentile £85.00 £75.43 £60.00
90th Percentile £86.00 £84.50 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £80.00 £73.71 £48.85
% change year-on-year +8.53% +50.89% -6.88%

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 31,636 42,259 64,137
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.61% 89.98% 90.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,577 29,660 45,742
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £444 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,328 1,505 1,722
10th Percentile £12.82 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.50 £15.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £36.54 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% +46.16% +11.11%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +10.64%

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 5 June 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 5 June 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 5 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
London -51 106 £595 -4.03% 42
North of England +8 27 £550 - 26
South West +15 22 £525 -12.50% 14
North West +13 14 £463 -2.63% 21
South East +4 14 £538 +2.38% 15
Yorkshire +10 12 £550 - 1
Midlands -3 10 £675 +40.63% 27
East Midlands +11 5 £525 +7.69% 10
West Midlands -8 5 £675 +40.63% 17
North East +7 1 £575 +28.49% 4
East of England -4 1 £600 +6.67% 7
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 9 (4.95%) Confluence
2 8 (4.40%) Anypoint
3 5 (2.75%) CMS
4 4 (2.20%) Apache Solr
4 4 (2.20%) nginx
5 3 (1.65%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.65%) Drupal
6 2 (1.10%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.55%) Appian
7 1 (0.55%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.55%) MTS
Applications
1 2 (1.10%) Trello
2 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.55%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 6 (3.30%) Shopify
2 2 (1.10%) Endur
3 1 (0.55%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 68 (37.36%) AWS
2 41 (22.53%) Azure
3 17 (9.34%) GCP
3 17 (9.34%) Serverless
4 16 (8.79%) AWS Lambda
5 15 (8.24%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (5.49%) SaaS
7 7 (3.85%) AWS CloudFormation
7 7 (3.85%) OpenShift
8 6 (3.30%) Amazon EC2
8 6 (3.30%) Amazon S3
8 6 (3.30%) Apigee
8 6 (3.30%) BigCommerce
9 5 (2.75%) GitHub
10 4 (2.20%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (2.20%) Miro
11 3 (1.65%) AWS CodePipeline
11 3 (1.65%) PaaS
12 2 (1.10%) Amazon Kinesis
12 2 (1.10%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 10 (5.49%) DNS
2 7 (3.85%) HTTP
2 7 (3.85%) TCP/IP
3 4 (2.20%) HTTPS
3 4 (2.20%) IPsec
4 3 (1.65%) DHCP
4 3 (1.65%) SSL
5 2 (1.10%) Broadband
5 2 (1.10%) Intranet
6 1 (0.55%) Firewall
6 1 (0.55%) FTP
6 1 (0.55%) Internet
6 1 (0.55%) Network Security
6 1 (0.55%) OpenLDAP
6 1 (0.55%) SNMP
6 1 (0.55%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (14.29%) NoSQL
2 10 (5.49%) Apache Cassandra
3 6 (3.30%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (3.30%) SQL Server
4 5 (2.75%) Relational Database
5 4 (2.20%) Couchbase
5 4 (2.20%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (2.20%) MySQL
5 4 (2.20%) Redis
6 3 (1.65%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (1.65%) Big Data
7 2 (1.10%) Hadoop
7 2 (1.10%) Oracle Database
7 2 (1.10%) Tableau
8 1 (0.55%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.55%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.55%) Delta Lake
8 1 (0.55%) Metadata
8 1 (0.55%) Power BI
8 1 (0.55%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 30 (16.48%) Git
2 19 (10.44%) Jenkins
3 18 (9.89%) JIRA
4 14 (7.69%) TeamCity
5 9 (4.95%) Artifactory
5 9 (4.95%) GitLab
6 8 (4.40%) Cucumber
6 8 (4.40%) JUnit
6 8 (4.40%) Moq
6 8 (4.40%) NUnit
6 8 (4.40%) Selenium
7 7 (3.85%) SonarQube
8 5 (2.75%) Gatling
9 4 (2.20%) Mockito
9 4 (2.20%) ScalaTest
10 3 (1.65%) JMeter
10 3 (1.65%) Maven
10 3 (1.65%) Subversion
11 2 (1.10%) Apache Continuum
11 2 (1.10%) Cypress.io
General
1 38 (20.88%) Finance
2 34 (18.68%) Social Skills
3 15 (8.24%) Public Sector
4 12 (6.59%) Front Office
5 11 (6.04%) Legal
5 11 (6.04%) Telecoms
6 9 (4.95%) Banking
6 9 (4.95%) Retail
7 7 (3.85%) Marketing
8 5 (2.75%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (2.75%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (2.20%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.65%) Electronics
10 3 (1.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.10%) Investment Banking
11 2 (1.10%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.55%) Aviation
12 1 (0.55%) Military
12 1 (0.55%) Police
Job Titles
1 43 (23.63%) Developer
2 35 (19.23%) DevOps Engineer
3 25 (13.74%) Senior
4 18 (9.89%) Analyst
5 16 (8.79%) Delivery Manager
6 15 (8.24%) Lead
7 14 (7.69%) Business Analyst
8 11 (6.04%) Scala Developer
9 10 (5.49%) Project Manager
10 9 (4.95%) Architect
10 9 (4.95%) AWS Engineer
10 9 (4.95%) C# Developer
10 9 (4.95%) Software Delivery Manager
10 9 (4.95%) Software Manager
10 9 (4.95%) Technical Analyst
11 8 (4.40%) AWS DevOps
11 8 (4.40%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 7 (3.85%) Consultant
12 7 (3.85%) MuleSoft Developer
12 7 (3.85%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (19.23%) RESTful
2 19 (10.44%) .NET
2 19 (10.44%) Spring
3 18 (9.89%) RabbitMQ
4 13 (7.14%) REST
5 11 (6.04%) .NET Core
5 11 (6.04%) Akka
5 11 (6.04%) Elastic Stack
5 11 (6.04%) Kafka
6 10 (5.49%) Node.js
6 10 (5.49%) YAML
7 9 (4.95%) ASP.NET
7 9 (4.95%) Middleware
7 9 (4.95%) XML
8 8 (4.40%) ASP.NET Core
8 8 (4.40%) Gherkin
8 8 (4.40%) OpenAPI
8 8 (4.40%) SailPoint
8 8 (4.40%) SignalR
8 8 (4.40%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 20 (10.99%) Product Ownership
2 12 (6.59%) Cloud Native
3 11 (6.04%) Greenfield Project
3 11 (6.04%) Management Information System
4 9 (4.95%) Public Cloud
5 5 (2.75%) Verilog
5 5 (2.75%) VHDL
6 4 (2.20%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.65%) Enterprise Cloud
7 3 (1.65%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.65%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.65%) Private Cloud
7 3 (1.65%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 2 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.55%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.55%) Blockchain
9 1 (0.55%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.55%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.55%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 19 (10.44%) Linux
2 7 (3.85%) Unix
3 4 (2.20%) CentOS
4 3 (1.65%) Android
4 3 (1.65%) Apple iOS
4 3 (1.65%) Ubuntu
4 3 (1.65%) Windows
5 1 (0.55%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (67.03%) Agile
2 71 (39.01%) CI/CD
3 69 (37.91%) DevOps
4 42 (23.08%) Continuous Integration
4 42 (23.08%) Microservices
5 41 (22.53%) Scrum
6 38 (20.88%) Test Automation
7 37 (20.33%) TDD
8 28 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
9 27 (14.84%) Kanban
10 24 (13.19%) Project Delivery
11 23 (12.64%) Problem-Solving
12 22 (12.09%) Software Engineering
12 22 (12.09%) Unit Testing
13 21 (11.54%) Configuration Management
13 21 (11.54%) Containerisation
14 20 (10.99%) Continuous Improvement
15 18 (9.89%) Project Management
15 18 (9.89%) Stakeholder Management
16 17 (9.34%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 34 (18.68%) Java
2 32 (17.58%) SQL
3 22 (12.09%) PowerShell
4 19 (10.44%) Python
5 17 (9.34%) JavaScript
6 16 (8.79%) Bash
7 15 (8.24%) C#
8 12 (6.59%) Scala
9 8 (4.40%) C++
10 6 (3.30%) BeanShell
10 6 (3.30%) C
11 5 (2.75%) Ruby
12 4 (2.20%) Bicep
12 4 (2.20%) Go
12 4 (2.20%) PHP
12 4 (2.20%) TypeScript
13 3 (1.65%) PL/SQL
13 3 (1.65%) VB.NET
14 1 (0.55%) Ada
14 1 (0.55%) Perl
Qualifications
1 47 (25.82%) Security Cleared
2 27 (14.84%) SC Cleared
3 13 (7.14%) Degree
4 9 (4.95%) DV Cleared
5 5 (2.75%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.20%) AWS Certification
6 4 (2.20%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (1.65%) ITIL Certification
7 3 (1.65%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.55%) CSPO
8 1 (0.55%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.55%) PgMP
8 1 (0.55%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.55%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (14.84%) QA
2 4 (2.20%) GDPR
2 4 (2.20%) HIPAA
2 4 (2.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (2.20%) NIST
3 3 (1.65%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.65%) ISO 9001
3 3 (1.65%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 3 (1.65%) SLA
4 2 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 12207
4 2 (1.10%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.55%) Def Stans
5 1 (0.55%) DO-178B
5 1 (0.55%) IEC 61508
5 1 (0.55%) PMO
System Software
1 54 (29.67%) Docker
2 7 (3.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (3.30%) Active Directory
4 4 (2.20%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (1.65%) Hyper-V
5 3 (1.65%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 43 (23.63%) Kubernetes
2 42 (23.08%) Terraform
3 27 (14.84%) Ansible
4 12 (6.59%) Prometheus
5 8 (4.40%) Grafana
6 4 (2.20%) Puppet
6 4 (2.20%) Rancher
7 3 (1.65%) Kibana
7 3 (1.65%) Progress Chef
7 3 (1.65%) WSUS
8 2 (1.10%) logstash
8 2 (1.10%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.55%) Nagios
Vendors
1 19 (10.44%) Microsoft
2 17 (9.34%) SAP
3 15 (8.24%) Salesforce
4 10 (5.49%) Google
4 10 (5.49%) Oracle
5 9 (4.95%) VMware
6 8 (4.40%) MuleSoft
6 8 (4.40%) TIBCO
7 7 (3.85%) ServiceNow
8 6 (3.30%) Adobe
8 6 (3.30%) Sitecore
8 6 (3.30%) Typelevel
8 6 (3.30%) WSO2
9 3 (1.65%) Dell
9 3 (1.65%) Intel
9 3 (1.65%) Virgin Media
10 2 (1.10%) Cadence
10 2 (1.10%) CyberArk
10 2 (1.10%) Databricks
10 2 (1.10%) OpenLink