Software Delivery Contracts

Software Delivery
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 377 309 262
Rank change year-on-year -68 -47 +23
Contract jobs citing Software Delivery 228 506 965
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.53% 0.85% 1.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.61% 0.94% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 147 345 669
10th Percentile £425 £413 £413
25th Percentile £498 £480 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £583
Median % change year-on-year - -1.29% +12.89%
75th Percentile £719 £688 £688
90th Percentile £810 £775 £764
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 26 8
10th Percentile £70.00 £60.30 £41.32
25th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £49.74
Median hourly rate £80.00 £74.50 £77.25
Median % change year-on-year +7.38% -3.56% +71.67%
75th Percentile £85.00 £84.38 £79.63
90th Percentile £87.50 £86.25 £80.15
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.00 £70.00 £39.85
% change year-on-year +14.29% +75.66% -11.44%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,374 53,774 80,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.91% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,095 37,304 56,474
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,763 1,928
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +80.00% -8.17%

Software Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Delivery in the UK

Software Delivery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Software Delivery in the UK

Software Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Delivery over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Delivery in the UK

Software Delivery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Delivery in the UK

Software Delivery
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Software Delivery over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Software Delivery in the UK

Software Delivery
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 27 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
England -51 181 £600 +2.13% 115
London -37 102 £615 -1.60% 43
UK excluding London +1 101 £525 +2.44% 81
Work from Home +18 70 £550 +6.59% 61
Scotland +30 30 £500 +6.89% 6
North of England +22 29 £575 +4.55% 23
North West +19 23 £600 +23.08% 16
South West +25 19 £525 - 14
South East +9 13 £500 -4.76% 14
Yorkshire +11 10 £710 +29.09% 5
Midlands -6 9 £675 +40.63% 18
East Midlands +18 6 £450 -5.26% 13
North East +17 4 £720 +37.14% 2
West Midlands +1 3 £675 +40.63% 5
East of England +6 1 £400 -21.95% 3

Software Delivery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 23 (10.09%) Confluence
2 8 (3.51%) Anypoint
3 7 (3.07%) nginx
4 5 (2.19%) Apache Spark
4 5 (2.19%) CMS
5 4 (1.75%) Apache Solr
5 4 (1.75%) Drupal
6 2 (0.88%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.44%) Apache
7 1 (0.44%) Appian
7 1 (0.44%) MTS
Applications
1 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.44%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 6 (2.63%) Shopify
2 3 (1.32%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.88%) Endur
3 2 (0.88%) JDE OneWorld
3 2 (0.88%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 77 (33.77%) AWS
2 51 (22.37%) Azure
3 24 (10.53%) Azure DevOps
4 21 (9.21%) Serverless
5 20 (8.77%) AWS Lambda
5 20 (8.77%) GCP
6 14 (6.14%) AWS CloudFormation
7 13 (5.70%) OpenShift
8 12 (5.26%) Amazon S3
9 11 (4.82%) Amazon EC2
9 11 (4.82%) SaaS
10 10 (4.39%) GitHub
11 6 (2.63%) Apigee
11 6 (2.63%) BigCommerce
11 6 (2.63%) OCI
12 5 (2.19%) Amazon EKS
13 4 (1.75%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 4 (1.75%) Miro
13 4 (1.75%) PaaS
13 4 (1.75%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.26%) DNS
2 9 (3.95%) HTTP
3 7 (3.07%) TCP/IP
4 6 (2.63%) Firewall
5 5 (2.19%) SSL
5 5 (2.19%) VPN
6 4 (1.75%) HTTPS
6 4 (1.75%) IPsec
7 3 (1.32%) DHCP
7 3 (1.32%) DMZ
8 2 (0.88%) Internet
8 2 (0.88%) Intranet
9 1 (0.44%) FTP
9 1 (0.44%) Network Security
9 1 (0.44%) OpenLDAP
9 1 (0.44%) SNMP
9 1 (0.44%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (10.96%) NoSQL
2 10 (4.39%) Elasticsearch
3 9 (3.95%) Apache Cassandra
4 8 (3.51%) SQL Server
5 7 (3.07%) Oracle Database
6 6 (2.63%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (2.63%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (2.19%) MySQL
8 4 (1.75%) Couchbase
8 4 (1.75%) Hadoop
8 4 (1.75%) Redis
9 3 (1.32%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (1.32%) Big Data
9 3 (1.32%) Data Lake
9 3 (1.32%) InfluxDB
10 2 (0.88%) Amazon Aurora
10 2 (0.88%) Relational Database
11 1 (0.44%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 1 (0.44%) Star Schema
11 1 (0.44%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 39 (17.11%) JIRA
2 33 (14.47%) Git
3 30 (13.16%) Jenkins
4 18 (7.89%) TeamCity
5 14 (6.14%) GitLab
6 13 (5.70%) Artifactory
7 12 (5.26%) Cucumber
8 10 (4.39%) Moq
8 10 (4.39%) NUnit
8 10 (4.39%) Selenium
9 7 (3.07%) SonarQube
10 6 (2.63%) Cypress.io
11 5 (2.19%) Gatling
11 5 (2.19%) Subversion
12 4 (1.75%) Mockito
12 4 (1.75%) ScalaTest
13 3 (1.32%) JMeter
13 3 (1.32%) Maven
13 3 (1.32%) Postman
14 2 (0.88%) WebDriver
General
1 61 (26.75%) Social Skills
2 45 (19.74%) Public Sector
3 39 (17.11%) Finance
4 14 (6.14%) Front Office
5 11 (4.82%) Legal
6 10 (4.39%) Telecoms
7 9 (3.95%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (3.95%) Banking
7 9 (3.95%) Retail
8 8 (3.51%) Influencing Skills
8 8 (3.51%) Marketing
9 6 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (2.19%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (2.19%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.32%) Electronics
12 2 (0.88%) Aviation
12 2 (0.88%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.88%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.88%) Military
13 1 (0.44%) Police
Job Titles
1 58 (25.44%) Developer
2 47 (20.61%) Senior
3 39 (17.11%) DevOps Engineer
4 26 (11.40%) Analyst
4 26 (11.40%) Delivery Manager
5 21 (9.21%) Lead
6 20 (8.77%) Business Analyst
7 17 (7.46%) Senior Manager
8 16 (7.02%) Senior Developer
9 15 (6.58%) Project Manager
9 15 (6.58%) Senior Delivery Manager
10 13 (5.70%) AWS Engineer
11 12 (5.26%) AWS DevOps
11 12 (5.26%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 12 (5.26%) C# Developer
11 12 (5.26%) ServiceNow Developer
12 11 (4.82%) Architect
12 11 (4.82%) Scala Developer
13 10 (4.39%) Senior ServiceNow Developer
13 10 (4.39%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (14.47%) RESTful
2 26 (11.40%) .NET
3 23 (10.09%) RabbitMQ
4 16 (7.02%) .NET Core
5 15 (6.58%) Spring
6 14 (6.14%) Kafka
7 13 (5.70%) Node.js
7 13 (5.70%) XML
7 13 (5.70%) YAML
8 12 (5.26%) REST
9 11 (4.82%) ASP.NET
9 11 (4.82%) Elastic Stack
9 11 (4.82%) Middleware
10 10 (4.39%) Akka
10 10 (4.39%) ASP.NET Core
10 10 (4.39%) ASP.NET Web API
10 10 (4.39%) SignalR
11 9 (3.95%) JSON
11 9 (3.95%) SOAP
12 8 (3.51%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 16 (7.02%) Product Ownership
2 13 (5.70%) Cloud Native
2 13 (5.70%) Greenfield Project
3 10 (4.39%) Management Information System
4 9 (3.95%) Public Cloud
5 6 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (2.19%) Mobile App
6 5 (2.19%) Verilog
6 5 (2.19%) VHDL
7 4 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.32%) Private Cloud
9 2 (0.88%) Client/Server
9 2 (0.88%) Data Fabric
9 2 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.88%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (0.88%) IoT
9 2 (0.88%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.44%) Blockchain
10 1 (0.44%) Distributed Applications
10 1 (0.44%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 27 (11.84%) Linux
2 8 (3.51%) Ubuntu
3 7 (3.07%) Unix
4 6 (2.63%) Windows
5 5 (2.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (1.75%) CentOS
7 3 (1.32%) Android
7 3 (1.32%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.44%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 146 (64.04%) Agile
2 88 (38.60%) CI/CD
2 88 (38.60%) DevOps
3 57 (25.00%) Scrum
4 48 (21.05%) Microservices
5 45 (19.74%) Continuous Integration
6 39 (17.11%) Infrastructure as Code
7 33 (14.47%) Test Automation
8 31 (13.60%) Project Management
9 30 (13.16%) Project Delivery
10 29 (12.72%) Containerisation
11 26 (11.40%) Kanban
11 26 (11.40%) SDLC
12 25 (10.96%) High Availability
12 25 (10.96%) Roadmaps
13 24 (10.53%) Configuration Management
13 24 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
13 24 (10.53%) Stakeholder Management
13 24 (10.53%) TDD
14 20 (8.77%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 39 (17.11%) SQL
2 33 (14.47%) Python
3 31 (13.60%) Java
4 23 (10.09%) Bash
5 22 (9.65%) C#
6 18 (7.89%) JavaScript
7 13 (5.70%) PowerShell
8 11 (4.82%) Scala
9 10 (4.39%) C++
10 8 (3.51%) Ruby
11 6 (2.63%) C
12 5 (2.19%) Go
12 5 (2.19%) TypeScript
13 4 (1.75%) Groovy
13 4 (1.75%) PHP
14 3 (1.32%) Bicep
14 3 (1.32%) Perl
14 3 (1.32%) PL/SQL
14 3 (1.32%) VB.NET
15 2 (0.88%) VBA
Qualifications
1 51 (22.37%) Security Cleared
2 32 (14.04%) SC Cleared
3 15 (6.58%) Degree
4 14 (6.14%) ITIL Certification
5 11 (4.82%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.32%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.32%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.88%) ISEB
8 2 (0.88%) ISTQB
8 2 (0.88%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 2 (0.88%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.44%) CSPO
9 1 (0.44%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.44%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (0.44%) PgMP
9 1 (0.44%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (9.65%) QA
2 6 (2.63%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.75%) GDPR
3 4 (1.75%) HIPAA
3 4 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.75%) NIST
4 3 (1.32%) Disclosure Scotland
4 3 (1.32%) ISO 9001
4 3 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 3 (1.32%) SLA
5 2 (0.88%) Def Stans
5 2 (0.88%) DO-178B
5 2 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 12207
5 2 (0.88%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.44%) IEC 61508
6 1 (0.44%) PMO
System Software
1 58 (25.44%) Docker
2 6 (2.63%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (2.63%) vSphere
3 5 (2.19%) Active Directory
4 4 (1.75%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (1.32%) Hyper-V
5 3 (1.32%) vCloud
5 3 (1.32%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 51 (22.37%) Terraform
2 47 (20.61%) Kubernetes
3 35 (15.35%) Ansible
4 12 (5.26%) Grafana
4 12 (5.26%) Prometheus
5 9 (3.95%) Kibana
6 7 (3.07%) Puppet
7 6 (2.63%) Progress Chef
8 3 (1.32%) Autotask
8 3 (1.32%) WSUS
9 2 (0.88%) logstash
9 2 (0.88%) Rancher
10 1 (0.44%) Nagios
10 1 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 26 (11.40%) Microsoft
2 21 (9.21%) ServiceNow
3 17 (7.46%) SAP
4 16 (7.02%) Oracle
5 15 (6.58%) Salesforce
6 14 (6.14%) VMware
7 10 (4.39%) Google
7 10 (4.39%) TIBCO
8 8 (3.51%) MuleSoft
9 6 (2.63%) Adobe
9 6 (2.63%) Sitecore
9 6 (2.63%) WSO2
10 5 (2.19%) Typelevel
11 4 (1.75%) Databricks
11 4 (1.75%) Teradata
12 3 (1.32%) BMC
12 3 (1.32%) Dell
12 3 (1.32%) Intel
12 3 (1.32%) Remedy
12 3 (1.32%) TOWER Software