Software Delivery Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Software Delivery
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Software Delivery skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 51 64
Rank change year-on-year -19 +13 +19
Contract jobs citing Software Delivery 5 6 2
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.57% 1.01% 0.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.68% 1.16% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 2
10th Percentile - £378 -
25th Percentile £450 £475 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +16.67% -29.96%
75th Percentile £500 £725 £475
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £475 £568 £615
% change year-on-year -16.30% -7.72% +2.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 740 519 611
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 84.09% 87.08% 83.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 461 319 431
10th Percentile £189 £250 £213
25th Percentile £358 £340 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £436 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.56% -8.32% +2.15%
75th Percentile £525 £550 £575
90th Percentile £625 £640 £700
England median daily rate £505 £525 £544
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.49% -1.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 22 47
10th Percentile £16.13 £15.29 £12.60
25th Percentile £16.35 £17.00 £16.46
Median hourly rate £20.00 £22.05 £21.52
Median % change year-on-year -9.28% +2.46% +27.84%
75th Percentile £25.14 £25.02 £51.50
90th Percentile £25.15 £39.09 £59.60
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.70%

Software Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Software Delivery job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Software Delivery
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Software Delivery.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Software Delivery

Software Delivery
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Software Delivery within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 19 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Nottinghamshire -6 1 - - 3
Leicestershire - 1 £475 - 2
Software Delivery
England

Software Delivery
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
1 4 (80.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle APEX
General
1 5 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (80.00%) Influencing Skills
2 4 (80.00%) Marketing
2 4 (80.00%) Presentation Skills
2 4 (80.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Analyst
1 4 (80.00%) Business Analyst
1 4 (80.00%) Salesforce Analyst
1 4 (80.00%) Salesforce Business Analyst
1 4 (80.00%) Salesforce Trainer
1 4 (80.00%) Trainer
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) e-Learning
1 4 (80.00%) Learning Management System
1 4 (80.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
1 5 (100.00%) Requirements Analysis
1 5 (100.00%) Scrum
2 4 (80.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 4 (80.00%) Business Analysis
2 4 (80.00%) Business Process Mapping
2 4 (80.00%) Coaching
2 4 (80.00%) Commercial Awareness
2 4 (80.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (80.00%) E-Commerce
2 4 (80.00%) Mentoring
2 4 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (80.00%) Requirements Workshops
2 4 (80.00%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
2 4 (80.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 4 (80.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 4 (80.00%) Time Management
2 4 (80.00%) User Stories
3 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (20.00%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (20.00%) PL/SQL
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) CSPO
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Google
1 4 (80.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle