Software Delivery Contracts in the UK excluding London

Software Delivery
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 285 287 256
Rank change year-on-year +2 -31 -32
Contract jobs citing Software Delivery 100 171 281
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.49% 0.73% 0.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.58% 0.81% 1.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 110 204
10th Percentile £415 £375 £407
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £625 £559 £618
90th Percentile £719 £650 £688
UK median daily rate £575 £573 £580
% change year-on-year +0.44% -1.29% +11.97%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 10 2
10th Percentile £67.70 £54.75 £33.55
25th Percentile £72.25 £58.59 £35.49
Median hourly rate £80.00 £67.00 £39.85
Median % change year-on-year +19.40% +68.13% -16.11%
75th Percentile £85.00 £72.78 £43.09
90th Percentile £87.00 £76.00 £44.36
UK median hourly rate £80.00 £73.86 £77.00
% change year-on-year +8.32% -4.08% +62.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,341 21,054 27,253
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.49% 89.57% 88.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,323 14,598 19,040
10th Percentile £250 £256 £232
25th Percentile £375 £400 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,053 1,291 1,337
10th Percentile £12.31 £11.00 £12.23
25th Percentile £15.17 £15.50 £14.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £46.12
90th Percentile £72.82 £73.75 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +2.04%

Software Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Delivery in the UK excluding London

Software Delivery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Software Delivery in the UK excluding London

Software Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Delivery in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Delivery in the UK excluding London

Software Delivery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Delivery in the UK excluding London

Software Delivery
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Software Delivery in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Software Delivery in the UK excluding London

Software Delivery
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 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
North of England +17 30 £550 - 33
Scotland +37 28 £500 +6.89% 10
North West +25 22 £600 +23.08% 21
South West +24 19 £525 - 19
South East -11 14 £500 - 16
Yorkshire +19 12 £625 +13.64% 10
Midlands +4 8 £675 +40.63% 21
East Midlands +18 5 £450 -5.26% 11
North East +13 4 £720 +37.14% 2
West Midlands 0 3 £675 +40.63% 10
East of England -6 1 £600 +17.07% 9
Software Delivery
UK

Software Delivery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 16 (16.00%) Confluence
2 4 (4.00%) Apache Solr
2 4 (4.00%) nginx
3 3 (3.00%) CMS
3 3 (3.00%) Drupal
4 1 (1.00%) MTS
Cloud Services
1 30 (30.00%) AWS
2 20 (20.00%) Azure
2 20 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
3 13 (13.00%) Serverless
4 12 (12.00%) Amazon S3
4 12 (12.00%) AWS Lambda
5 11 (11.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 10 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
7 7 (7.00%) GCP
8 4 (4.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 4 (4.00%) OpenShift
8 4 (4.00%) SaaS
9 3 (3.00%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (3.00%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (3.00%) AWS CodePipeline
9 3 (3.00%) AWS Fargate
9 3 (3.00%) PaaS
10 2 (2.00%) IaaS
10 2 (2.00%) Route 53
11 1 (1.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (10.00%) DNS
2 7 (7.00%) TCP/IP
3 4 (4.00%) HTTPS
3 4 (4.00%) IPsec
4 3 (3.00%) DHCP
4 3 (3.00%) SSL
5 1 (1.00%) Firewall
5 1 (1.00%) HTTP
5 1 (1.00%) Network Security
5 1 (1.00%) OpenLDAP
5 1 (1.00%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
1 5 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (4.00%) Couchbase
2 4 (4.00%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (4.00%) MySQL
2 4 (4.00%) NoSQL
3 3 (3.00%) InfluxDB
4 2 (2.00%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (1.00%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 19 (19.00%) JIRA
2 13 (13.00%) Artifactory
2 13 (13.00%) Jenkins
3 12 (12.00%) GitLab
4 7 (7.00%) Git
5 6 (6.00%) SonarQube
6 5 (5.00%) Selenium
6 5 (5.00%) Subversion
7 4 (4.00%) JUnit
8 2 (2.00%) Cucumber
8 2 (2.00%) Cypress.io
8 2 (2.00%) Rational DOORS
8 2 (2.00%) REST Assured
8 2 (2.00%) TeamCity
8 2 (2.00%) WebDriver
9 1 (1.00%) LabVIEW
9 1 (1.00%) Travis CI
9 1 (1.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 37 (37.00%) Public Sector
2 18 (18.00%) Social Skills
3 13 (13.00%) Finance
4 10 (10.00%) Legal
5 8 (8.00%) Telecoms
6 6 (6.00%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (3.00%) Electronics
7 3 (3.00%) Front Office
7 3 (3.00%) Marketing
8 2 (2.00%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (2.00%) Aviation
8 2 (2.00%) Manufacturing
8 2 (2.00%) Military
Job Titles
1 28 (28.00%) Senior
2 25 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 16 (16.00%) Developer
4 13 (13.00%) Delivery Manager
4 13 (13.00%) Senior Delivery Manager
4 13 (13.00%) Senior Manager
5 11 (11.00%) AWS Engineer
6 10 (10.00%) ServiceNow Developer
7 9 (9.00%) AWS DevOps
7 9 (9.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 8 (8.00%) Analyst
8 8 (8.00%) Lead
8 8 (8.00%) Senior Developer
8 8 (8.00%) Senior ServiceNow Developer
9 7 (7.00%) Architect
10 5 (5.00%) Consultant
10 5 (5.00%) Platform Engineer
10 5 (5.00%) Project Manager
10 5 (5.00%) Software Architect
11 4 (4.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (10.00%) YAML
2 8 (8.00%) .NET
2 8 (8.00%) AWS CDK
3 7 (7.00%) RabbitMQ
3 7 (7.00%) RESTful
4 6 (6.00%) Node.js
4 6 (6.00%) XML
5 5 (5.00%) React
6 4 (4.00%) Elastic Stack
6 4 (4.00%) Gherkin
6 4 (4.00%) JSON
6 4 (4.00%) LEMP Stack
7 2 (2.00%) ARM Templates
7 2 (2.00%) CSS
7 2 (2.00%) HTML
8 1 (1.00%) Akka
8 1 (1.00%) AngularJS
8 1 (1.00%) Entity Framework
8 1 (1.00%) Kafka
8 1 (1.00%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 11 (11.00%) Product Ownership
2 7 (7.00%) Cloud Native
3 5 (5.00%) Mobile App
3 5 (5.00%) Verilog
3 5 (5.00%) VHDL
4 4 (4.00%) Management Information System
5 3 (3.00%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (3.00%) Private Cloud
5 3 (3.00%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.00%) Client/Server
7 1 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 16 (16.00%) Linux
2 8 (8.00%) Ubuntu
3 5 (5.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (4.00%) CentOS
5 3 (3.00%) Unix
5 3 (3.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (60.00%) Agile
2 45 (45.00%) DevOps
3 35 (35.00%) CI/CD
4 25 (25.00%) Scrum
5 19 (19.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 19 (19.00%) ITIL
6 18 (18.00%) Roadmaps
7 17 (17.00%) Project Delivery
7 17 (17.00%) Project Management
8 15 (15.00%) Kanban
9 13 (13.00%) Line Management
9 13 (13.00%) Software Engineering
9 13 (13.00%) Stakeholder Management
9 13 (13.00%) Test Automation
10 12 (12.00%) Containerisation
10 12 (12.00%) TDD
11 11 (11.00%) Configuration Management
11 11 (11.00%) Continuous Improvement
11 11 (11.00%) PRINCE2
12 8 (8.00%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 16 (16.00%) Python
2 12 (12.00%) Bash
3 10 (10.00%) C++
3 10 (10.00%) Java
3 10 (10.00%) PowerShell
4 6 (6.00%) C
5 5 (5.00%) JavaScript
5 5 (5.00%) TypeScript
6 4 (4.00%) C#
6 4 (4.00%) PHP
7 3 (3.00%) Go
7 3 (3.00%) Groovy
7 3 (3.00%) Ruby
7 3 (3.00%) VB.NET
8 2 (2.00%) Ada
8 2 (2.00%) Shell Script
8 2 (2.00%) SQL
8 2 (2.00%) VBA
8 2 (2.00%) VBScript
9 1 (1.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 36 (36.00%) Security Cleared
2 21 (21.00%) SC Cleared
3 13 (13.00%) ITIL Certification
4 8 (8.00%) DV Cleared
5 5 (5.00%) Degree
6 4 (4.00%) AWS Certification
6 4 (4.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (3.00%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (3.00%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (2.00%) ISEB
8 2 (2.00%) ISTQB
8 2 (2.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (1.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (12.00%) QA
2 4 (4.00%) GDPR
2 4 (4.00%) HIPAA
2 4 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (4.00%) NIST
3 3 (3.00%) Accessibility
3 3 (3.00%) Disclosure Scotland
3 3 (3.00%) ISO 9001
3 3 (3.00%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 3 (3.00%) SLA
4 2 (2.00%) Def Stans
4 2 (2.00%) DO-178B
5 1 (1.00%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 21 (21.00%) Docker
2 5 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (4.00%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (3.00%) Active Directory
4 3 (3.00%) Hyper-V
4 3 (3.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 28 (28.00%) Terraform
2 21 (21.00%) Ansible
2 21 (21.00%) Kubernetes
3 6 (6.00%) Grafana
4 4 (4.00%) Kibana
5 3 (3.00%) Rancher
5 3 (3.00%) WSUS
6 2 (2.00%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 16 (16.00%) ServiceNow
2 7 (7.00%) VMware
3 5 (5.00%) SAP
4 4 (4.00%) Google
4 4 (4.00%) Microsoft
5 3 (3.00%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.00%) IBM
6 2 (2.00%) QinetiQ
6 2 (2.00%) Virgin Media
7 1 (1.00%) Oracle
7 1 (1.00%) Palo Alto
7 1 (1.00%) Qualys