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 22 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 94 86 108
Rank change year-on-year -8 +22 -2
Contract jobs citing Software Delivery 18 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.80% 0.19% 0.050%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.02% 0.21% 0.060%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 1
10th Percentile - £468 -
25th Percentile £263 £523 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £288 £619 £600
Median % change year-on-year -53.54% +3.13% +6.67%
75th Percentile £397 £711 £625
90th Percentile £571 £764 -
England median daily rate £565 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +2.73% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £62.38 - -
25th Percentile £64.06 - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 - -
75th Percentile £67.50 - -
90th Percentile £72.00 - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £77.19 £80.00
% change year-on-year -15.79% -3.51% +8.53%

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 1,762 940 1,663
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 78.73% 89.69% 83.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 898 472 666
10th Percentile £190 £214 £203
25th Percentile £385 £372 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £442
Median % change year-on-year - +13.12% -9.33%
75th Percentile £594 £580 £575
90th Percentile £688 £656 £664
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 402 193 625
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £16.78 £16.95 £15.62
Median hourly rate £31.18 £35.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.93% -12.50% +90.48%
75th Percentile £67.89 £72.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £83.70 £74.50
England median hourly rate £47.50 £27.06 £38.12
% change year-on-year +75.52% -29.01% +8.82%

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 22 June 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Software Delivery in the East of England over the 6 months to 22 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Software Delivery in the East of England

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 22 June 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 - 8 £288 - 4
Suffolk -3 5 - -
Cambridgeshire - 2 - -
Essex - 2 - - 2
Bedfordshire -9 1 - - 1
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 (16.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (38.89%) Azure
2 6 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (16.67%) Miro
4 1 (5.56%) AWS
4 1 (5.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) NoSQL
1 1 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (44.44%) JIRA
2 4 (22.22%) GitLab
3 1 (5.56%) JMeter
3 1 (5.56%) Rational DOORS
3 1 (5.56%) Snyk
3 1 (5.56%) Visual Studio
General
1 6 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.56%) Law
Job Titles
1 7 (38.89%) Senior
2 5 (27.78%) Scrum Master
3 2 (11.11%) Software Test Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Software Testing Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Test Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Tester
3 2 (11.11%) Testing Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) .NET Software Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) C# Software Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Java Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Junior
4 1 (5.56%) Junior Scrum Master
4 1 (5.56%) QA Tester
4 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Senior Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Senior Tester
4 1 (5.56%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) .NET
1 1 (5.56%) Spring
1 1 (5.56%) Spring Boot
1 1 (5.56%) WinForms
1 1 (5.56%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 5 (27.78%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.56%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (22.22%) Linux
2 1 (5.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (72.22%) Agile
1 13 (72.22%) CI/CD
2 11 (61.11%) Scrum
3 10 (55.56%) SDLC
4 6 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 6 (33.33%) DevOps
4 6 (33.33%) Test Automation
5 5 (27.78%) AI
5 5 (27.78%) Application Security
5 5 (27.78%) DevSecOps
5 5 (27.78%) Kanban
5 5 (27.78%) Security Testing
5 5 (27.78%) Sprint Planning
6 4 (22.22%) Data Analysis
6 4 (22.22%) End-to-End Testing
6 4 (22.22%) PLM
6 4 (22.22%) Software Testing
6 4 (22.22%) Test Assurance
7 3 (16.67%) Mentoring
7 3 (16.67%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.11%) SQL
2 1 (5.56%) C#
2 1 (5.56%) C++
2 1 (5.56%) Java
2 1 (5.56%) JavaScript
2 1 (5.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (16.67%) Degree
2 2 (11.11%) SC Cleared
2 2 (11.11%) Security Cleared
3 1 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (22.22%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) HP Quality Center
1 1 (5.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (22.22%) IBM
2 2 (11.11%) Ingenico
3 1 (5.56%) Fiserv
3 1 (5.56%) HP
3 1 (5.56%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.56%) New Relic
3 1 (5.56%) SAP
3 1 (5.56%) Splunk