Software Delivery Contract Job Trends in Cheltenham

Software Delivery
Gloucestershire > Cheltenham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheltenham requiring Software Delivery skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Software Delivery 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cheltenham 3.66% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.72% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
Gloucestershire median daily rate £550 £345 -
% change year-on-year +59.42% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cheltenham

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 Cheltenham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 127 59 210
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheltenham 77.44% 76.62% 82.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 33 95
10th Percentile £382 £410 £389
25th Percentile £508 £545 £522
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £625 £738 £673
90th Percentile £700 £765 £723
Gloucestershire median daily rate £550 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 12
10th Percentile - - £42.38
25th Percentile £72.25 - £68.81
Median hourly rate £74.50 £36.00 £71.00
Median % change year-on-year +106.94% -49.30% +47.92%
75th Percentile £76.75 - £73.75
90th Percentile - - -
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £37.52
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.04% -49.98%

Software Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheltenham

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

Software Delivery job vacancy trend in Cheltenham

Software Delivery
Daily Rate Trend in Cheltenham

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

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

Software Delivery
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheltenham 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 6 (100.00%) AWS
1 6 (100.00%) Azure
1 6 (100.00%) GCP
Development Applications
1 6 (100.00%) GitLab
1 6 (100.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Developer
1 6 (100.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (100.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 6 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
1 6 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 6 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 6 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 6 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 6 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) C#
1 6 (100.00%) Java
1 6 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 6 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 6 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (100.00%) Ansible
1 6 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Google