Software Delivery Contracts in the South East

Software Delivery
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 188 191 191
Rank change year-on-year +3 0 -17
Contract jobs citing Software Delivery 13 30 68
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.24% 0.52% 0.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.58% 0.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 18 59
10th Percentile £433 £313 £465
25th Percentile £475 £338 £517
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -12.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile £609 £628 £681
90th Percentile £613 £656 £738
England median daily rate £600 £588 £600
% change year-on-year +2.13% -2.08% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 0
Median hourly rate £65.00 £68.86 -
Median % change year-on-year -5.60% - -
England median hourly rate £80.00 £73.71 £77.25
% change year-on-year +8.53% -4.58% +31.58%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,683 5,187 6,936
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 84.85% 89.29% 89.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,728 3,599 4,696
10th Percentile £243 £250 £225
25th Percentile £400 £404 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £505 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.89% +1.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £623 £619 £588
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 431 219 286
10th Percentile £13.00 £18.25 £12.23
25th Percentile £18.20 £23.83 £15.72
Median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +122.22% -15.89%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £48.71
90th Percentile £76.86 £74.83 £62.70
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

Software Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Delivery in the South East

Software Delivery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Software Delivery in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Software Delivery in the South East

Software Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Delivery in the South East over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Delivery in the South East

Software Delivery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Software Delivery in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Software Delivery in the South East

Software Delivery
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 28 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
Thames Valley -2 6 £388 -13.89% 8
Berkshire -9 5 - - 3
Hampshire -5 4 £575 +4.55% 4
Surrey - 2 £500 - 1
West Sussex - 1 £500 -
Buckinghamshire - 1 £388 - 3
Software Delivery
England

Software Delivery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 3 (23.08%) Confluence
2 2 (15.38%) nginx
3 1 (7.69%) MTS
Cloud Services
1 4 (30.77%) AWS
2 1 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (7.69%) Amazon ECR
2 1 (7.69%) Amazon S3
2 1 (7.69%) Amazon SQS
2 1 (7.69%) AWS CloudTrail
2 1 (7.69%) AWS Direct Connect
2 1 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (7.69%) Azure
2 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (7.69%) Route 53
2 1 (7.69%) Serverless
2 1 (7.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (23.08%) DHCP
1 3 (23.08%) DNS
1 3 (23.08%) TCP/IP
2 1 (7.69%) Firewall
2 1 (7.69%) OpenLDAP
2 1 (7.69%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (7.69%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (30.77%) JIRA
2 3 (23.08%) GitLab
3 2 (15.38%) Git
3 2 (15.38%) Rational DOORS
4 1 (7.69%) LabVIEW
4 1 (7.69%) Visual Studio
General
1 3 (23.08%) Front Office
2 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Aviation
2 2 (15.38%) Military
2 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Electronics
3 1 (7.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Consultant
2 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) SAP Consultant
2 3 (23.08%) Senior
3 2 (15.38%) Developer
3 2 (15.38%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) .NET Developer
4 1 (7.69%) C# .NET Developer
4 1 (7.69%) C# Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Software Test Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Systems Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Test Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Software Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) Software Test Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Systems Test Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (30.77%) .NET
2 2 (15.38%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (7.69%) .NET Core
3 1 (7.69%) .NET Framework
3 1 (7.69%) AngularJS
3 1 (7.69%) Entity Framework
3 1 (7.69%) LDAP
3 1 (7.69%) NHibernate
3 1 (7.69%) Node.js
3 1 (7.69%) React
3 1 (7.69%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (38.46%) Linux
2 3 (23.08%) Ubuntu
2 3 (23.08%) Unix
2 3 (23.08%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) ITIL
1 5 (38.46%) Project Delivery
1 5 (38.46%) Release Management
2 4 (30.77%) Agile
2 4 (30.77%) Computer Science
3 3 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (23.08%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (23.08%) DevOps
3 3 (23.08%) Line Management
3 3 (23.08%) Patch Management
3 3 (23.08%) PLM
3 3 (23.08%) Root Cause Analysis
3 3 (23.08%) Security Hardening
3 3 (23.08%) Security Patching
3 3 (23.08%) Service Delivery
3 3 (23.08%) Service Delivery Management
3 3 (23.08%) Software Deployment
3 3 (23.08%) Software Distribution
3 3 (23.08%) Software Engineering
3 3 (23.08%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (23.08%) PowerShell
1 3 (23.08%) VB.NET
2 2 (15.38%) Ada
2 2 (15.38%) C++
2 2 (15.38%) Go
3 1 (7.69%) C
3 1 (7.69%) C#
3 1 (7.69%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (46.15%) Security Cleared
2 4 (30.77%) Degree
3 3 (23.08%) DV Cleared
3 3 (23.08%) ITIL Certification
3 3 (23.08%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (15.38%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) ISO 9001
1 3 (23.08%) ISO/IEC 20000
1 3 (23.08%) SLA
2 2 (15.38%) Def Stans
2 2 (15.38%) DO-178B
3 1 (7.69%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 4 (30.77%) Virtual Machines
1 4 (30.77%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (23.08%) Active Directory
2 3 (23.08%) Hyper-V
2 3 (23.08%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) Kubernetes
1 3 (23.08%) Terraform
1 3 (23.08%) WSUS
2 2 (15.38%) Ansible
2 2 (15.38%) Kibana
2 2 (15.38%) Rancher
Vendors
1 6 (46.15%) VMware
2 3 (23.08%) Microsoft
2 3 (23.08%) SAP
3 2 (15.38%) IBM
3 2 (15.38%) QinetiQ
3 2 (15.38%) ServiceNow
4 1 (7.69%) Oracle
4 1 (7.69%) Palo Alto
4 1 (7.69%) Qualys