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 2 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 57 70
Rank change year-on-year -13 +13 +22
Contract jobs citing Software Delivery 3 5 1
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.35% 0.69% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.41% 0.82% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 0
10th Percentile £432 £361 -
25th Percentile £435 £434 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £442 £513 -
Median % change year-on-year -13.83% - -
75th Percentile £471 £538 -
90th Percentile £488 - -
England median daily rate £520 £550 £625
% change year-on-year -5.45% -12.00% +4.17%

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 736 613 694
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 86.38% 84.20% 84.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 511 374 507
10th Percentile £210 £266 £213
25th Percentile £350 £356 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £445 £481
Median % change year-on-year -6.74% -7.48% +1.26%
75th Percentile £524 £547 £591
90th Percentile £638 £619 £700
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 28 53
10th Percentile £16.17 £14.90 £13.00
25th Percentile £17.87 £17.00 £16.66
Median hourly rate £18.87 £23.25 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.84% +3.33% +32.61%
75th Percentile £25.15 £50.00 £51.50
90th Percentile - £51.50 £69.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £39.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -35.51% -12.36% +27.14%

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 2 November 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
Northamptonshire -11 2 £435 -17.09%
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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) AWS
3 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) DMZ
1 2 (66.67%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Git
1 2 (66.67%) Gradle
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
1 2 (66.67%) Maven
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle APEX
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) RESTful
1 2 (66.67%) Web Services
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Adaptive Web Design
1 2 (66.67%) Architectural Design
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) Continuous Delivery
1 2 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (66.67%) Data Architecture
1 2 (66.67%) ETL
1 2 (66.67%) Microservices
1 2 (66.67%) Project Delivery
1 2 (66.67%) Service Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (33.33%) Design Patterns
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Requirements Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
2 1 (33.33%) Validation
2 1 (33.33%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) PL/SQL
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle