Software Delivery Contracts in the East of England

Software Delivery
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 82 110 114
Rank change year-on-year +28 +4 +12
Contract jobs citing Software Delivery 3 1 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.31% 0.053% 0.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 0.062% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 5
10th Percentile £505 - £460
25th Percentile £616 £575 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% +14.29% +10.53%
75th Percentile - £625 £625
90th Percentile - - £663
England median daily rate £550 £595 £590
% change year-on-year -7.56% +0.85% -1.67%

All Process and 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 870 1,607 1,733
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 90.53% 84.98% 88.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 463 672 1,005
10th Percentile £226 £205 £205
25th Percentile £400 £325 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £465 £475
Median % change year-on-year +7.53% -2.11% -
75th Percentile £600 £575 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 174 607 331
10th Percentile £14.89 £14.16 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.30 £15.39 £14.25
Median hourly rate £39.66 £40.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.85% +81.82% +41.94%
75th Percentile £73.44 £62.50 £64.13
90th Percentile £85.00 £75.10 £70.00
England median hourly rate £28.75 £36.50 £36.77
% change year-on-year -21.23% -0.73% +47.08%

Software Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Delivery in the East of England

Software Delivery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Daily rate trend for Software Delivery in the East of England

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 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Software Delivery in the East of England

Software Delivery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Hourly rate trend 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 May 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
Bedfordshire - 2 £800 - 14
Suffolk - 1 £438 - 6
Software Delivery
England

Software Delivery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon ELB
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) GitLab
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Workday Manager
2 1 (33.33%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Project Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Technology Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Workday Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) FMCG
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Thinking
1 2 (66.67%) Artificial Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Change Management
1 2 (66.67%) Compliance Management
1 2 (66.67%) Contract Management
1 2 (66.67%) Data Analysis
1 2 (66.67%) Data Management
1 2 (66.67%) Data Stewardship
1 2 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (66.67%) Innovation Management
1 2 (66.67%) Knowledge Management
1 2 (66.67%) Performance Measurement
1 2 (66.67%) Resource Allocation
1 2 (66.67%) Risk Management
1 2 (66.67%) Service Design
1 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (66.67%) Strategic Planning
1 2 (66.67%) Strategic Thinking
1 2 (66.67%) Task Automation
1 2 (66.67%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bash
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) Data Quality
1 2 (66.67%) QA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Workday
2 1 (33.33%) VMware