Software Delivery Contracts in the North West

Software Delivery
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 18 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 114 137 159
Rank change year-on-year +23 +22 -40
Contract jobs citing Software Delivery 24 21 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.87% 0.65% 0.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.01% 0.71% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 17 17
10th Percentile £443 £400 -
25th Percentile £447 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% - +17.65%
75th Percentile £711 £570 £538
90th Percentile £720 £615 £553
England median daily rate £595 £582 £600
% change year-on-year +2.17% -2.94% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £32.25
Median hourly rate - - £34.50
75th Percentile - - £36.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £80.00 £73.25 £77.25
% change year-on-year +9.22% -5.18% +54.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 the North West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,380 2,948 3,516
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 86.58% 90.96% 87.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,537 2,106 2,601
10th Percentile £306 £313 £229
25th Percentile £406 £406 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £568
90th Percentile £689 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £532
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.38% +9.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 242 146 167
10th Percentile £10.95 £16.85 £10.65
25th Percentile £13.11 £20.48 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +66.67% +20.86%
75th Percentile £45.00 £49.24 £43.89
90th Percentile £52.78 £65.00 £60.00
England median hourly rate £35.00 £37.30 £23.96
% change year-on-year -6.17% +55.71% -0.19%

Software Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Delivery in the North West

Software Delivery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Software Delivery in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Software Delivery in the North West

Software Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Delivery in the North West over the 6 months to 18 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Delivery in the North West

Software Delivery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Software Delivery in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Software Delivery in the North West

Software Delivery
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West region over the 6 months to 18 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
Manchester +26 16 £469 +7.14% 13
Lancashire +9 4 £720 +20.00%
Cheshire 0 2 - - 6
Software Delivery
England

Software Delivery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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:

Cloud Services
1 10 (41.67%) AWS
2 5 (20.83%) Azure
3 4 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
4 3 (12.50%) Amazon S3
4 3 (12.50%) AWS CodePipeline
4 3 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (12.50%) GitHub
4 3 (12.50%) Serverless
5 2 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (4.17%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.50%) DMZ
1 3 (12.50%) Firewall
1 3 (12.50%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (4.17%) MySQL
2 1 (4.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (16.67%) GitLab
1 4 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 3 (12.50%) JIRA
3 1 (4.17%) Travis CI
General
1 11 (45.83%) Public Sector
2 3 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 2 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 9 (37.50%) Developer
1 9 (37.50%) DevOps Engineer
1 9 (37.50%) ServiceNow Developer
2 7 (29.17%) Senior
2 7 (29.17%) Senior Developer
2 7 (29.17%) Senior ServiceNow Developer
3 6 (25.00%) AWS DevOps
3 6 (25.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 6 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) Lead
5 2 (8.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Analyst
6 1 (4.17%) Business Analyst
6 1 (4.17%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) CloudOps Manager
6 1 (4.17%) Lead Cloud Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Operations Manager
6 1 (4.17%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.33%) ARM Templates
2 1 (4.17%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 3 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 9 (37.50%) DevOps
2 9 (37.50%) ITIL
2 9 (37.50%) Line Management
2 9 (37.50%) Roadmaps
3 7 (29.17%) Containerisation
4 6 (25.00%) High Availability
4 6 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (20.83%) Agile
6 4 (16.67%) Configuration Management
7 3 (12.50%) Cloud Operations
7 3 (12.50%) Continuous Deployment
7 3 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
7 3 (12.50%) Cyber Resilience
7 3 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
7 3 (12.50%) Information Governance
7 3 (12.50%) Mentoring
7 3 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (12.50%) Risk Management
7 3 (12.50%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 4 (16.67%) Python
2 3 (12.50%) Ruby
3 1 (4.17%) Bash
3 1 (4.17%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 9 (37.50%) ITIL Certification
2 5 (20.83%) SC Cleared
2 5 (20.83%) Security Cleared
3 3 (12.50%) AWS Certification
3 3 (12.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (4.17%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.17%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 7 (29.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (37.50%) Terraform
2 7 (29.17%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (37.50%) ServiceNow
2 4 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 2 (8.33%) Virgin Media