Software Delivery Contracts in London

Software Delivery
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 292 255 215
Rank change year-on-year -37 -40 +29
Contract jobs citing Software Delivery 98 258 516
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.56% 1.00% 1.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.63% 1.10% 1.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 187 353
10th Percentile £475 £450 £456
25th Percentile £540 £500 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £775 £743 £743
90th Percentile £828 £807 £848
England median daily rate £595 £581 £600
% change year-on-year +2.37% -3.13% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 11 4
10th Percentile - £62.50 £57.93
25th Percentile - £67.25 £67.94
Median hourly rate £65.00 £74.00 £77.25
Median % change year-on-year -12.16% -4.21% -
75th Percentile - £75.50 £79.75
90th Percentile - £82.50 £80.20
England median hourly rate £80.00 £73.11 £64.75
% change year-on-year +9.43% +12.90% -3.95%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,475 23,527 35,605
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.65% 90.92% 92.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,094 16,975 26,024
10th Percentile £343 £375 £388
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £593 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.17% +3.04% +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 307 269 415
10th Percentile £15.77 £18.40 £17.55
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.49 £24.25
Median hourly rate £27.84 £37.34 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.44% -0.43% +14.77%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.25 £51.61
90th Percentile £66.85 £82.30 £68.75
England median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +7.71%

Software Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Delivery in London

Software Delivery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Software Delivery in London

Software Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Delivery in London over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Delivery in London

Software Delivery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Delivery in London

Software Delivery
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 16 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
West London +17 8 £330 -32.31%
Central London +7 6 £744 +29.35% 7
East London - 6 £540 - 4
Software Delivery
England

Software Delivery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 7 (7.14%) Anypoint
2 5 (5.10%) Apache Spark
3 4 (4.08%) Confluence
4 2 (2.04%) CMS
4 2 (2.04%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.02%) Apache
5 1 (1.02%) Appian
5 1 (1.02%) Drupal
5 1 (1.02%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (1.02%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 6 (6.12%) Shopify
2 2 (2.04%) Endur
3 1 (1.02%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 38 (38.78%) AWS
2 24 (24.49%) Azure
3 11 (11.22%) GCP
4 8 (8.16%) AWS Lambda
4 8 (8.16%) OpenShift
4 8 (8.16%) Serverless
5 6 (6.12%) BigCommerce
5 6 (6.12%) GitHub
5 6 (6.12%) SaaS
6 5 (5.10%) Apigee
7 4 (4.08%) Miro
8 3 (3.06%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (2.04%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (2.04%) Amazon Kinesis
9 2 (2.04%) Asana
9 2 (2.04%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (2.04%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (2.04%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
9 2 (2.04%) Smartsheet
9 2 (2.04%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 8 (8.16%) HTTP
2 2 (2.04%) Broadband
2 2 (2.04%) Intranet
3 1 (1.02%) DNS
3 1 (1.02%) Firewall
3 1 (1.02%) FTP
3 1 (1.02%) Internet
3 1 (1.02%) SSH
3 1 (1.02%) SSL
3 1 (1.02%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (18.37%) NoSQL
2 10 (10.20%) Apache Cassandra
3 6 (6.12%) Elasticsearch
3 6 (6.12%) SQL Server
4 4 (4.08%) Hadoop
4 4 (4.08%) Redis
5 3 (3.06%) Big Data
5 3 (3.06%) Data Lake
5 3 (3.06%) Relational Database
6 2 (2.04%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (2.04%) Oracle Database
6 2 (2.04%) Tableau
7 1 (1.02%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.02%) Delta Lake
7 1 (1.02%) MySQL
7 1 (1.02%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.02%) PowerCenter
7 1 (1.02%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (1.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (1.02%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 20 (20.41%) Git
2 13 (13.27%) TeamCity
3 12 (12.24%) Jenkins
4 11 (11.22%) JIRA
5 8 (8.16%) Cucumber
5 8 (8.16%) Moq
5 8 (8.16%) NUnit
6 5 (5.10%) Gatling
6 5 (5.10%) Selenium
7 4 (4.08%) Cypress.io
7 4 (4.08%) Mockito
7 4 (4.08%) ScalaTest
8 3 (3.06%) JMeter
8 3 (3.06%) Maven
9 2 (2.04%) NeoLoad
9 2 (2.04%) Postman
9 2 (2.04%) SoapUI
10 1 (1.02%) Jaeger
10 1 (1.02%) Karma Test Runner
10 1 (1.02%) Spinnaker
General
1 27 (27.55%) Social Skills
2 20 (20.41%) Finance
3 9 (9.18%) Front Office
3 9 (9.18%) Retail
4 8 (8.16%) Banking
5 5 (5.10%) Marketing
5 5 (5.10%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (4.08%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (4.08%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (3.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (3.06%) Telecoms
8 2 (2.04%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (2.04%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.02%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (1.02%) Law
9 1 (1.02%) Legal
9 1 (1.02%) Police
9 1 (1.02%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.02%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 35 (35.71%) Developer
2 13 (13.27%) Analyst
2 13 (13.27%) Business Analyst
2 13 (13.27%) Senior
3 10 (10.20%) Delivery Manager
3 10 (10.20%) Lead
3 10 (10.20%) Scala Developer
4 9 (9.18%) C# Developer
5 8 (8.16%) Software Delivery Manager
5 8 (8.16%) Software Manager
6 7 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
6 7 (7.14%) Project Manager
7 6 (6.12%) MuleSoft Developer
7 6 (6.12%) Technical Analyst
7 6 (6.12%) Technical Business Analyst
8 5 (5.10%) Senior Developer
8 5 (5.10%) Software Developer
9 4 (4.08%) Java Developer
9 4 (4.08%) Software Project Manager
10 3 (3.06%) Software Implementation Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (23.47%) RESTful
2 16 (16.33%) .NET
3 15 (15.31%) Spring
4 14 (14.29%) Kafka
5 13 (13.27%) .NET Core
5 13 (13.27%) RabbitMQ
6 10 (10.20%) Akka
7 9 (9.18%) ASP.NET
8 8 (8.16%) ASP.NET Core
8 8 (8.16%) ASP.NET Web API
8 8 (8.16%) Middleware
8 8 (8.16%) REST
8 8 (8.16%) SignalR
9 7 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
9 7 (7.14%) OpenAPI
9 7 (7.14%) Swagger
9 7 (7.14%) Web Services
10 6 (6.12%) ActiveMQ
10 6 (6.12%) VML
11 5 (5.10%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 11 (11.22%) Greenfield Project
2 8 (8.16%) Public Cloud
3 6 (6.12%) Cloud Native
3 6 (6.12%) Management Information System
4 4 (4.08%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.04%) Data Fabric
5 2 (2.04%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (2.04%) IoT
6 1 (1.02%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.02%) Blockchain
6 1 (1.02%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.02%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.02%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.02%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.02%) Fixed Income
6 1 (1.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.02%) Replication
6 1 (1.02%) Tandem
6 1 (1.02%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 11 (11.22%) Linux
2 4 (4.08%) Unix
3 3 (3.06%) Android
3 3 (3.06%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.02%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (76.53%) Agile
2 36 (36.73%) CI/CD
2 36 (36.73%) Microservices
3 30 (30.61%) Continuous Integration
4 29 (29.59%) DevOps
5 27 (27.55%) Scrum
6 22 (22.45%) Test Automation
7 18 (18.37%) TDD
8 16 (16.33%) BDD
9 14 (14.29%) Containerisation
9 14 (14.29%) High Availability
10 13 (13.27%) Kanban
10 13 (13.27%) Unit Testing
11 12 (12.24%) Problem-Solving
12 11 (11.22%) Infrastructure as Code
12 11 (11.22%) Pair Programming
12 11 (11.22%) Project Management
13 10 (10.20%) Configuration Management
13 10 (10.20%) Project Delivery
14 9 (9.18%) Acceptance Criteria
Programming Languages
1 27 (27.55%) SQL
2 25 (25.51%) Java
3 16 (16.33%) C#
4 13 (13.27%) JavaScript
5 12 (12.24%) Python
6 11 (11.22%) Scala
7 9 (9.18%) Bash
8 3 (3.06%) Perl
8 3 (3.06%) PL/SQL
9 2 (2.04%) Bicep
9 2 (2.04%) PowerShell
9 2 (2.04%) Ruby
9 2 (2.04%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (9.18%) Security Cleared
2 8 (8.16%) Degree
3 6 (6.12%) SC Cleared
4 4 (4.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.06%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.02%) CSPO
6 1 (1.02%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (1.02%) PgMP
6 1 (1.02%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.02%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (12.24%) QA
2 3 (3.06%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 12207
3 2 (2.04%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.02%) PMO
System Software
1 35 (35.71%) Docker
2 2 (2.04%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.02%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 25 (25.51%) Kubernetes
2 14 (14.29%) Terraform
3 10 (10.20%) Ansible
4 9 (9.18%) Prometheus
5 6 (6.12%) Grafana
6 3 (3.06%) Kibana
6 3 (3.06%) Progress Chef
6 3 (3.06%) Puppet
7 2 (2.04%) logstash
8 1 (1.02%) Nagios
Vendors
1 15 (15.31%) Microsoft
2 11 (11.22%) Salesforce
2 11 (11.22%) SAP
3 9 (9.18%) Oracle
4 8 (8.16%) TIBCO
5 7 (7.14%) MuleSoft
6 6 (6.12%) Adobe
6 6 (6.12%) Sitecore
6 6 (6.12%) Typelevel
7 5 (5.10%) Google
7 5 (5.10%) WSO2
8 4 (4.08%) Databricks
9 3 (3.06%) Dell
9 3 (3.06%) Intel
10 2 (2.04%) OpenLink
10 2 (2.04%) Planview
11 1 (1.02%) Avaloq
11 1 (1.02%) Cadence
11 1 (1.02%) Splunk
11 1 (1.02%) VMware