Software Delivery Contract Job Trends in Bristol

Software Delivery
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bristol requiring Software Delivery skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 65 71
Rank change year-on-year +10 +6 +31
Contract jobs citing Software Delivery 15 4 5
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 1.83% 0.57% 0.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.12% 0.64% 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 5
10th Percentile £400 £548 £633
25th Percentile £409 £575 £644
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £611 £708
Median % change year-on-year -26.38% -13.60% +34.76%
75th Percentile £588 £632 £720
90th Percentile £600 £635 -
South West median daily rate £475 £600 £720
% change year-on-year -20.83% -16.67% +44.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61.25 - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median hourly rate £65.00 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bristol

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 Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 706 622 880
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 86.31% 87.98% 86.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 360 344 546
10th Percentile £263 £222 £300
25th Percentile £400 £400 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £484 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.17% -12.05% +10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £610 £650
90th Percentile £725 £742 £703
South West median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 88 117
10th Percentile £15.00 £44.05 £34.20
25th Percentile £18.87 £60.75 £56.25
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.25 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.21% +0.38% -
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.25 £76.25
90th Percentile £68.00 £75.00 £83.40
South West median hourly rate £29.40 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -54.78% +8.33% -7.69%

Software Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Software Delivery job vacancy trend in Bristol

Software Delivery
Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

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

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

Software Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Delivery in Bristol over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Software Delivery in Bristol

Software Delivery
Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Software Delivery.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Software Delivery

Software Delivery
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (20.00%) AWS
2 2 (13.33%) OpenShift
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) GitLab
1 2 (13.33%) Jenkins
1 2 (13.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (6.67%) Aerospace
1 1 (6.67%) Automotive
1 1 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (6.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (46.67%) Documentation Officer
2 2 (13.33%) Administrator
2 2 (13.33%) Architect
2 2 (13.33%) Author
2 2 (13.33%) AWS Architect
2 2 (13.33%) Enterprise Architect
2 2 (13.33%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
2 2 (13.33%) Solutions Architect
2 2 (13.33%) Technical Author
3 1 (6.67%) Contracts Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Engineering Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Head of Engineering
3 1 (6.67%) Head of Software Engineering
3 1 (6.67%) Project Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Senior Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Software Engineering Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Software Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Test Leader
3 1 (6.67%) UAT Lead
3 1 (6.67%) UAT Test Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (20.00%) React
2 2 (13.33%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (13.33%) Node.js
3 1 (6.67%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Onboarding
2 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 9 (60.00%) Configuration Management
3 8 (53.33%) Project Delivery
3 8 (53.33%) Project Management
4 5 (33.33%) Agile
4 5 (33.33%) CI/CD
5 3 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 3 (20.00%) TDD
6 2 (13.33%) Containerisation
6 2 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (13.33%) Continuous Integration
6 2 (13.33%) Cybersecurity
6 2 (13.33%) Data Management
6 2 (13.33%) Domain-Driven Design
6 2 (13.33%) Integration Testing
6 2 (13.33%) Microservices
6 2 (13.33%) Roadmaps
6 2 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (13.33%) Task Automation
6 2 (13.33%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 3 (20.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (6.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 7 (46.67%) Security Cleared
2 6 (40.00%) SC Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) Grafana
1 2 (13.33%) Kubernetes
1 2 (13.33%) Prometheus
1 2 (13.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) Red Hat