Software Delivery Contract Job Trends in Chester

Software Delivery
Cheshire > Chester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Chester requiring Software Delivery skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Software Delivery 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Chester 0.53% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.67% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £410 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 - -
75th Percentile £430 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Cheshire median daily rate £525 £519 -
% change year-on-year +1.25% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Chester

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 Chester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 149 84 66
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Chester 78.42% 79.25% 88.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 40 25
10th Percentile £286 £190 £435
25th Percentile £464 £453 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £575
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -6.52% +4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £685
90th Percentile £699 £751 £738
Cheshire median daily rate £475 £445 £475
% change year-on-year +6.74% -6.32% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 5 10
10th Percentile - £12.61 £15.53
25th Percentile £16.01 £12.75 £18.00
Median hourly rate £31.90 £19.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +67.89% -45.71% +14.60%
75th Percentile £37.57 £25.15 -
90th Percentile £83.25 £61.66 £36.25
Cheshire median hourly rate £35.11 £18.87 £35.00
% change year-on-year +86.04% -46.09% +34.62%

Software Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in Chester

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

Software Delivery job vacancy trend in Chester

Software Delivery
Daily Rate Trend in Chester

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

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

Software Delivery
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Chester 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:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Burp Suite
1 1 (100.00%) JMeter
1 1 (100.00%) Postman
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Automation Tester
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Automation Tester
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Tester
1 1 (100.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
1 1 (100.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) API Testing
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Coaching
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Compatibility Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Data Validation
1 1 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) OWASP
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (100.00%) QA