Software Delivery Contracts in the City of London

Software Delivery
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Software Delivery skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Software Delivery over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 105 119 145
Rank change year-on-year +14 +26 +9
Contract jobs citing Software Delivery 14 7 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.80% 0.32% 0.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.86% 0.35% 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 7 20
10th Percentile £526 £455 £369
25th Percentile £581 £550 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £663 £608
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% +9.05% +10.45%
75th Percentile £743 £856 £758
90th Percentile £823 £875 £831
Central London median daily rate £650 £663 £583
% change year-on-year -1.89% +13.73% +10.95%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,637 1,989 3,335
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.17% 90.53% 91.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,034 1,408 2,250
10th Percentile £363 £363 £356
25th Percentile £463 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £565 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -5.83% +4.35%
75th Percentile £684 £688 £730
90th Percentile £775 £813 £825
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 24
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.92 £15.33
25th Percentile £24.00 £20.22 £18.03
Median hourly rate £29.58 £25.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.30% -28.57% -14.63%
75th Percentile £45.00 £40.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £62.25 £41.84 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%

Software Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Software Delivery as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Software Delivery in the City of London

Software Delivery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Software Delivery in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Software Delivery in the City of London

Software Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Delivery in the City of London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Software Delivery in the City of London

Software Delivery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Software Delivery in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Software Delivery in the City of London

Software Delivery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 2 (14.29%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (7.14%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) NetSuite
1 1 (7.14%) SAP CRM
1 1 (7.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (21.43%) AWS
2 1 (7.14%) Azure
2 1 (7.14%) Boomi
2 1 (7.14%) Miro
2 1 (7.14%) SaaS
2 1 (7.14%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) Data Lake
1 1 (7.14%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 8 (57.14%) Finance
2 5 (35.71%) Social Skills
3 3 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (21.43%) Financial Institution
3 3 (21.43%) Front Office
4 2 (14.29%) Banking
4 2 (14.29%) Billing
5 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
5 1 (7.14%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Developer
3 2 (14.29%) C# Developer
3 2 (14.29%) C# GUI Developer
3 2 (14.29%) C# WPF Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Consultant
3 2 (14.29%) GUI Developer
3 2 (14.29%) WPF Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Agile Delivery Manager
4 1 (7.14%) CRM Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) Delivery Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Lead
4 1 (7.14%) NetSuite Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) Python Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) SAP Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) SAP CRM Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) SAP Tester
4 1 (7.14%) Senior
4 1 (7.14%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) WPF
2 1 (7.14%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (7.14%) REST
2 1 (7.14%) RESTful
2 1 (7.14%) Smart Contracts
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (14.29%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (14.29%) PMI
3 1 (7.14%) Algorithms
3 1 (7.14%) Blockchain
3 1 (7.14%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (7.14%) Equities
3 1 (7.14%) Product Ownership
3 1 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (35.71%) Linux
2 3 (21.43%) Unix
3 2 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) Agile
2 5 (35.71%) Sprint Planning
3 4 (28.57%) DevOps
3 4 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (28.57%) Scrum
3 4 (28.57%) Test Automation
4 3 (21.43%) CI/CD
4 3 (21.43%) Containerisation
4 3 (21.43%) Low Latency
4 3 (21.43%) Test Strategy
5 2 (14.29%) Computer Science
5 2 (14.29%) Continuous Delivery
5 2 (14.29%) Deployment Automation
5 2 (14.29%) Kanban
5 2 (14.29%) Mathematics
5 2 (14.29%) Physics
5 2 (14.29%) SDLC
5 2 (14.29%) Software Engineering
5 2 (14.29%) Unit Testing
5 2 (14.29%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 6 (42.86%) C#
2 4 (28.57%) Java
3 2 (14.29%) Python
4 1 (7.14%) ABAP
4 1 (7.14%) DAML
4 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) Degree
2 2 (14.29%) PMI Certification
3 1 (7.14%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (7.14%) CBAP
3 1 (7.14%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (35.71%) QA
2 1 (7.14%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (21.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (21.43%) Kubernetes
2 2 (14.29%) Ansible
2 2 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Salesforce
2 1 (7.14%) Databricks
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.14%) SAP