Software Delivery Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Software Delivery
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Software Delivery skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 91 - 93
Rank change year-on-year - - +15
Contract jobs citing Software Delivery 28 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 1.18% - 0.065%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.51% - 0.079%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 0 1
10th Percentile £266 - -
25th Percentile £338 - £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 - £600
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.35%
75th Percentile £538 - £625
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £60.81 - -
25th Percentile £60.92 - -
Median hourly rate £63.75 - -
75th Percentile £65.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £75.00 £63.75 £76.00
% change year-on-year +17.65% -16.12% +2.90%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,857 1,166 1,259
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 78.32% 89.55% 81.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 835 502 460
10th Percentile £190 £200 £200
25th Percentile £368 £400 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £590 £588 £550
90th Percentile £675 £684 £638
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 474 314 382
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.38 £14.59
25th Percentile £17.00 £16.25 £15.62
Median hourly rate £48.84 £24.39 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +100.25% -39.03% +100.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £61.69 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £67.95
England median hourly rate £42.41 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.61% -41.51% -3.37%

Software Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Software Delivery job vacancy trend in the East of England

Software Delivery
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

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

Software Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Delivery in the East of England over the 6 months to 20 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Software Delivery in the East of England

Software Delivery
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Software Delivery.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Software Delivery

Software Delivery
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 20 September 2026. 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
Hertfordshire - 11 £275 - 8
Cambridgeshire - 10 £525 - 8
Suffolk - 7 £350 - 3
Software Delivery
England

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

Application Platforms
1 3 (10.71%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (17.86%) Azure
1 5 (17.86%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (10.71%) Miro
3 1 (3.57%) Anthropic Claude
3 1 (3.57%) AWS
3 1 (3.57%) GitHub
3 1 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (3.57%) GitHub Copilot
3 1 (3.57%) Google Gemini
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.57%) 4G
1 1 (3.57%) 5G
1 1 (3.57%) Broadband
1 1 (3.57%) IPv4
1 1 (3.57%) IPv6
1 1 (3.57%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (3.57%) Wireless
1 1 (3.57%) xDSL
Development Applications
1 12 (42.86%) JIRA
2 6 (21.43%) GitLab
3 1 (3.57%) Claude Code
3 1 (3.57%) Git
General
1 4 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 2 (7.14%) Law
3 1 (3.57%) Aerospace
3 1 (3.57%) Legal
3 1 (3.57%) Retail
3 1 (3.57%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (28.57%) DevOps Engineer
1 8 (28.57%) DevOps Platform Engineer
1 8 (28.57%) Security Engineer
2 6 (21.43%) Senior
3 5 (17.86%) Scrum Master
3 5 (17.86%) Software Testing Engineer
3 5 (17.86%) Testing Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Software Test Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Test Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Automation Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Developer
5 1 (3.57%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (3.57%) Junior
5 1 (3.57%) Junior Scrum Master
5 1 (3.57%) Principal Developer
5 1 (3.57%) Python Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) QA Automation Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) QA Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Senior Developer
5 1 (3.57%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.57%) Next.js
1 1 (3.57%) Node.js
1 1 (3.57%) React
1 1 (3.57%) REST
1 1 (3.57%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.86%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.57%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 6 (21.43%) Linux
2 1 (3.57%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (71.43%) CI/CD
2 15 (53.57%) Agile
3 14 (50.00%) DevOps
3 14 (50.00%) Scrum
4 10 (35.71%) Continuous Improvement
5 9 (32.14%) DevSecOps
5 9 (32.14%) Software Testing
6 8 (28.57%) Data Analysis
6 8 (28.57%) Platform Engineering
6 8 (28.57%) Test Assurance
7 7 (25.00%) SDLC
7 7 (25.00%) Test Automation
7 7 (25.00%) Validation
8 6 (21.43%) AI
8 6 (21.43%) End-to-End Testing
9 5 (17.86%) Application Security
9 5 (17.86%) Infrastructure as Code
9 5 (17.86%) Observability
9 5 (17.86%) PLM
9 5 (17.86%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (14.29%) Python
2 1 (3.57%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (14.29%) Degree
2 3 (10.71%) ISTQB
3 2 (7.14%) SC Cleared
3 2 (7.14%) Security Cleared
4 1 (3.57%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (3.57%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.71%) QA
System Software
1 2 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (10.71%) HP ALM
2 1 (3.57%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (28.57%) IBM
2 3 (10.71%) HP