Software Delivery Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Software Delivery
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Software Delivery skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Software Delivery 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.29% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £513 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - -
75th Percentile £538 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £575 £525 £588
% change year-on-year +9.52% -10.64% +8.80%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

Software Delivery falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 628 599 664
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 90.75% 84.84% 83.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 407 387 446
10th Percentile £241 £198 £270
25th Percentile £373 £375 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £575 £638 £600
90th Percentile £643 £750 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 14 20
10th Percentile £12.62 £16.44 £13.97
25th Percentile £13.25 £22.89 £15.50
Median hourly rate £18.87 £30.23 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.57% -39.55% +170.27%
75th Percentile £23.58 £51.88 £67.50
90th Percentile £30.00 £56.65 £67.63
West Midlands median hourly rate £23.00 £29.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -20.69% +16.00% +41.08%

Software Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Software Delivery relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Software Delivery job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Software Delivery
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Software Delivery.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Software Delivery

Software Delivery
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
2 1 (50.00%) CircleCI
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Engineering Specialist
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (100.00%) Kafka
1 2 (100.00%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) SIEM
1 2 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Backlog Management
2 1 (50.00%) Coaching
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Product Backlog
2 1 (50.00%) Security Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Go
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Argo
1 2 (100.00%) Grafana
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform