Software Delivery Contracts in England

Software Delivery
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 344 360 298
Rank change year-on-year +16 -62 -37
Contract jobs citing Software Delivery 141 184 421
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.58% 0.49% 0.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.64% 0.57% 0.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 122 294
10th Percentile £355 £444 £425
25th Percentile £475 £508 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £595 £588
Median % change year-on-year -7.56% +1.28% -2.08%
75th Percentile £650 £719 £725
90th Percentile £725 £825 £784
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -1.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 23
10th Percentile - £70.00 £59.27
25th Percentile - £75.00 £67.25
Median hourly rate £77.19 £80.00 £73.71
Median % change year-on-year -3.51% +8.53% -4.58%
75th Percentile - £85.00 £79.25
90th Percentile - £87.50 £87.00
UK median hourly rate £77.19 £80.00 £74.50
% change year-on-year -3.51% +7.38% -3.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Software Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Delivery in England

Software Delivery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Software Delivery in England

Software Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Delivery in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Software Delivery in England

Software Delivery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Delivery in England

Software Delivery
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 1 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
London -2 61 £575 -6.50% 131
Midlands +35 22 £626 -7.33% 174
West Midlands +31 20 £625 -7.41% 96
South West +42 15 £370 -29.52% 110
North of England +3 15 £493 -10.40% 188
South East +45 14 £550 +10.00% 195
Yorkshire +4 8 £490 -21.60% 85
North East +1 5 £600 -16.67% 21
East of England +32 3 £800 +100.00% 138
East Midlands +6 2 £700 +55.56% 68
North West -4 2 - - 84
Software Delivery
UK

Software Delivery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 9 (6.38%) Confluence
2 1 (0.71%) Appian
2 1 (0.71%) CICS
2 1 (0.71%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (2.13%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (2.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (2.13%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.71%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (2.13%) NetSuite
1 3 (2.13%) Shopify
2 2 (1.42%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.71%) Endur
3 1 (0.71%) FLEXCUBE
3 1 (0.71%) Infor CloudSuite
3 1 (0.71%) SAP CRM
3 1 (0.71%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 47 (33.33%) Azure
2 42 (29.79%) AWS
3 18 (12.77%) GCP
4 16 (11.35%) Azure DevOps
5 13 (9.22%) GitHub
6 7 (4.96%) AWS CloudFormation
6 7 (4.96%) GitHub Actions
6 7 (4.96%) SaaS
7 5 (3.55%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (3.55%) Amazon S3
7 5 (3.55%) PaaS
7 5 (3.55%) Serverless
8 4 (2.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (2.84%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (2.84%) CloudBees
9 3 (2.13%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (2.13%) Boomi
9 3 (2.13%) Entra ID
9 3 (2.13%) Snowflake
9 3 (2.13%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.71%) Multicast
1 1 (0.71%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.96%) Relational Database
2 6 (4.26%) NoSQL
3 5 (3.55%) SQL Server
4 4 (2.84%) MongoDB
4 4 (2.84%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (2.13%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.42%) Geospatial Data
6 2 (1.42%) Redis
7 1 (0.71%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.71%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.71%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.71%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.71%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.71%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.71%) DB2
7 1 (0.71%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.71%) MySQL
7 1 (0.71%) Parquet
7 1 (0.71%) Power BI
7 1 (0.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 18 (12.77%) GitLab
2 17 (12.06%) Jenkins
2 17 (12.06%) JIRA
3 14 (9.93%) Git
4 7 (4.96%) MSI
5 6 (4.26%) Cypress.io
6 5 (3.55%) JMeter
7 3 (2.13%) Cucumber
7 3 (2.13%) SonarQube
8 2 (1.42%) CircleCI
8 2 (1.42%) JUnit
8 2 (1.42%) Selenium
9 1 (0.71%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.71%) GoCD
9 1 (0.71%) Maven
9 1 (0.71%) Postman
9 1 (0.71%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.71%) SpecFlow
General
1 58 (41.13%) Social Skills
2 40 (28.37%) Finance
3 28 (19.86%) Public Sector
4 19 (13.48%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (9.22%) Telecoms
6 11 (7.80%) Electronics
6 11 (7.80%) Manufacturing
6 11 (7.80%) Marketing
7 10 (7.09%) Banking
8 8 (5.67%) Retail
9 6 (4.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (3.55%) Front Office
10 5 (3.55%) Law
10 5 (3.55%) Military
11 4 (2.84%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (2.13%) Financial Institution
12 3 (2.13%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (1.42%) Advertising
13 2 (1.42%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 30 (21.28%) Developer
2 25 (17.73%) DevOps Engineer
3 17 (12.06%) Lead
4 16 (11.35%) Senior
5 12 (8.51%) Analyst
6 10 (7.09%) Azure Engineer
7 9 (6.38%) Applications Developer
8 8 (5.67%) Applications Support
8 8 (5.67%) Architect
8 8 (5.67%) C# Developer
8 8 (5.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 7 (4.96%) Applications Engineer
9 7 (4.96%) Applications Support Engineer
9 7 (4.96%) Azure Developer
9 7 (4.96%) Business Analyst
9 7 (4.96%) Platform Engineer
9 7 (4.96%) Project Manager
9 7 (4.96%) Support Engineer
10 6 (4.26%) C# Application Developer
10 6 (4.26%) Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (12.77%) .NET
2 13 (9.22%) CSS
2 13 (9.22%) HTML
3 11 (7.80%) RESTful
4 6 (4.26%) AngularJS
4 6 (4.26%) Node.js
4 6 (4.26%) Software Packaging
5 5 (3.55%) ARM Templates
6 4 (2.84%) Kafka
6 4 (2.84%) React
6 4 (2.84%) REST
7 3 (2.13%) Django
7 3 (2.13%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (2.13%) Spring Boot
7 3 (2.13%) VML
8 2 (1.42%) .NET Framework
8 2 (1.42%) Entity Framework
8 2 (1.42%) MACH
8 2 (1.42%) Spring
8 2 (1.42%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 13 (9.22%) Management Information System
2 11 (7.80%) Product Ownership
3 5 (3.55%) PKI
4 4 (2.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 4 (2.84%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (2.13%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (2.13%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.13%) SCADA
5 3 (2.13%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.42%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.42%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.42%) Mainframe
6 2 (1.42%) PMI
7 1 (0.71%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.71%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (0.71%) IoT
7 1 (0.71%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.71%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.71%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 15 (10.64%) Linux
2 12 (8.51%) Windows
3 6 (4.26%) Unix
4 1 (0.71%) Windows 7
4 1 (0.71%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.71%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (47.52%) CI/CD
2 66 (46.81%) Agile
3 53 (37.59%) DevOps
4 43 (30.50%) Test Automation
5 31 (21.99%) Software Engineering
6 30 (21.28%) Continuous Integration
7 25 (17.73%) Problem-Solving
8 23 (16.31%) Stakeholder Management
9 21 (14.89%) Scrum
10 20 (14.18%) Containerisation
11 19 (13.48%) Continuous Improvement
12 18 (12.77%) Infrastructure as Code
13 17 (12.06%) TDD
14 15 (10.64%) Computer Science
14 15 (10.64%) SDLC
14 15 (10.64%) Service Management
15 14 (9.93%) Programme Management
16 13 (9.22%) Artificial Intelligence
16 13 (9.22%) Microservices
16 13 (9.22%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 40 (28.37%) Python
2 22 (15.60%) Java
2 22 (15.60%) JavaScript
3 21 (14.89%) C#
4 15 (10.64%) Bash
4 15 (10.64%) SQL
5 14 (9.93%) PowerShell
6 8 (5.67%) TypeScript
7 7 (4.96%) Kotlin
8 5 (3.55%) Shell Script
9 3 (2.13%) Go
10 2 (1.42%) R
11 1 (0.71%) ABAP
11 1 (0.71%) ActionScript
11 1 (0.71%) Bicep
11 1 (0.71%) C
11 1 (0.71%) COBOL
11 1 (0.71%) DAML
11 1 (0.71%) Groovy
11 1 (0.71%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 39 (27.66%) Security Cleared
2 34 (24.11%) SC Cleared
3 18 (12.77%) Degree
4 11 (7.80%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (6.38%) Azure Certification
6 3 (2.13%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (1.42%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (1.42%) ISTQB
7 2 (1.42%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 2 (1.42%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.71%) CBAP
8 1 (0.71%) CEH
8 1 (0.71%) CISSP
8 1 (0.71%) CLAS
8 1 (0.71%) CSPO
8 1 (0.71%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.71%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.71%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (16.31%) QA
2 4 (2.84%) PMO
3 3 (2.13%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.42%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.42%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.71%) EMIR
5 1 (0.71%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.71%) MiFID
5 1 (0.71%) NCSC
5 1 (0.71%) NIST
5 1 (0.71%) Software Quality Assurance
5 1 (0.71%) WCAG
System Software
1 28 (19.86%) Docker
2 1 (0.71%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.71%) Microsoft App-V
2 1 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 29 (20.57%) Kubernetes
2 26 (18.44%) Terraform
3 25 (17.73%) Ansible
4 3 (2.13%) Grafana
4 3 (2.13%) Packer
4 3 (2.13%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.71%) Docker Swarm
5 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.71%) SCCM
5 1 (0.71%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 15 (10.64%) SAP
2 10 (7.09%) Microsoft
3 9 (6.38%) Google
4 6 (4.26%) Tanium
5 5 (3.55%) Oracle
5 5 (3.55%) Salesforce
6 4 (2.84%) ServiceNow
7 3 (2.13%) Adobe
7 3 (2.13%) Atlassian
7 3 (2.13%) Dynatrace
7 3 (2.13%) Sitecore
8 2 (1.42%) Blue Prism
8 2 (1.42%) UiPath
8 2 (1.42%) Workday
9 1 (0.71%) Databricks
9 1 (0.71%) Foundry
9 1 (0.71%) Pega
9 1 (0.71%) SolarWinds
9 1 (0.71%) Splunk
9 1 (0.71%) Veeam