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 19 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 369 291 266
Rank change year-on-year -78 -25 +18
Contract jobs citing Software Delivery 182 411 752
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.49% 0.87% 1.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.57% 0.97% 1.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 284 525
10th Percentile £444 £413 £425
25th Percentile £503 £480 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £688 £721 £700
90th Percentile £825 £775 £788
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +11.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 24 4
10th Percentile £65.00 £56.08 £36.14
25th Percentile £69.50 £63.88 £41.96
Median hourly rate £80.00 £73.11 £48.85
Median % change year-on-year +9.43% +49.65% -30.17%
75th Percentile £85.00 £75.90 £60.23
90th Percentile £86.00 £85.00 £71.91
UK median hourly rate £80.00 £73.86 £48.85
% change year-on-year +8.32% +51.19% -6.88%

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 32,030 42,283 63,775
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.40% 89.90% 90.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,779 29,697 45,496
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £440 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,363 1,526 1,693
10th Percentile £12.79 £10.69 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.01 £15.75 £15.63
Median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.59 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.71 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

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 19 June 2024.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Software Delivery in England over the 6 months to 19 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram 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 19 June 2024. 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 -41 107 £594 -4.19% 84
North of England +5 26 £550 - 37
South West +9 22 £525 -12.50% 16
South East -15 14 £538 -2.27% 17
North West +10 13 £463 -7.50% 30
Yorkshire +6 12 £550 - 4
Midlands -7 10 £675 +40.63% 27
East Midlands +8 5 £525 +7.69% 9
West Midlands -7 5 £675 +40.63% 18
North East +6 1 £575 +28.49% 3
East of England -6 1 £600 +6.67% 10
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 10 (5.49%) Confluence
2 8 (4.40%) Anypoint
3 5 (2.75%) CMS
4 4 (2.20%) Apache Solr
4 4 (2.20%) nginx
5 3 (1.65%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.65%) Drupal
6 1 (0.55%) Appian
6 1 (0.55%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.55%) MTS
Applications
1 2 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.10%) Trello
2 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.55%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 6 (3.30%) Shopify
2 2 (1.10%) Endur
3 1 (0.55%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 69 (37.91%) AWS
2 45 (24.73%) Azure
3 19 (10.44%) GCP
4 17 (9.34%) Serverless
5 16 (8.79%) AWS Lambda
6 15 (8.24%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (4.95%) SaaS
8 7 (3.85%) OpenShift
9 6 (3.30%) Amazon EC2
9 6 (3.30%) Amazon S3
9 6 (3.30%) Apigee
9 6 (3.30%) AWS CloudFormation
9 6 (3.30%) BigCommerce
10 5 (2.75%) GitHub
11 4 (2.20%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (2.20%) Miro
12 3 (1.65%) AWS CodePipeline
12 3 (1.65%) PaaS
13 2 (1.10%) Route 53
13 2 (1.10%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (5.49%) DNS
2 7 (3.85%) HTTP
2 7 (3.85%) TCP/IP
3 4 (2.20%) HTTPS
3 4 (2.20%) IPsec
4 3 (1.65%) DHCP
4 3 (1.65%) SSL
5 2 (1.10%) Broadband
6 1 (0.55%) Firewall
6 1 (0.55%) FTP
6 1 (0.55%) Internet
6 1 (0.55%) Network Security
6 1 (0.55%) OpenLDAP
6 1 (0.55%) SNMP
6 1 (0.55%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (14.29%) NoSQL
2 10 (5.49%) Apache Cassandra
3 6 (3.30%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (2.75%) Relational Database
4 5 (2.75%) SQL Server
5 4 (2.20%) Couchbase
5 4 (2.20%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (2.20%) MySQL
5 4 (2.20%) Redis
6 3 (1.65%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (1.65%) Big Data
7 2 (1.10%) Hadoop
7 2 (1.10%) Tableau
8 1 (0.55%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.55%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.55%) Delta Lake
8 1 (0.55%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.55%) Power BI
8 1 (0.55%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 1 (0.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 30 (16.48%) Git
2 19 (10.44%) JIRA
3 18 (9.89%) Jenkins
4 14 (7.69%) TeamCity
5 9 (4.95%) Artifactory
6 8 (4.40%) Cucumber
6 8 (4.40%) GitLab
6 8 (4.40%) JUnit
6 8 (4.40%) Moq
6 8 (4.40%) NUnit
6 8 (4.40%) Selenium
7 7 (3.85%) SonarQube
8 5 (2.75%) Gatling
9 4 (2.20%) Mockito
9 4 (2.20%) ScalaTest
10 3 (1.65%) JMeter
10 3 (1.65%) Maven
10 3 (1.65%) Subversion
11 2 (1.10%) Apache Continuum
11 2 (1.10%) Cypress.io
General
1 41 (22.53%) Finance
2 34 (18.68%) Social Skills
3 16 (8.79%) Public Sector
4 12 (6.59%) Front Office
5 11 (6.04%) Legal
5 11 (6.04%) Telecoms
6 10 (5.49%) Banking
7 9 (4.95%) Retail
8 7 (3.85%) Marketing
9 5 (2.75%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (2.20%) Analytical Skills
10 4 (2.20%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.65%) Electronics
11 3 (1.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (1.10%) Investment Banking
12 2 (1.10%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.55%) Aviation
13 1 (0.55%) Military
13 1 (0.55%) Police
Job Titles
1 44 (24.18%) Developer
2 36 (19.78%) DevOps Engineer
3 27 (14.84%) Senior
4 16 (8.79%) Analyst
4 16 (8.79%) Delivery Manager
4 16 (8.79%) Lead
5 12 (6.59%) Business Analyst
6 11 (6.04%) Scala Developer
7 10 (5.49%) Project Manager
8 9 (4.95%) Architect
8 9 (4.95%) AWS Engineer
8 9 (4.95%) C# Developer
8 9 (4.95%) Software Delivery Manager
8 9 (4.95%) Software Manager
8 9 (4.95%) Technical Analyst
9 8 (4.40%) AWS DevOps
9 8 (4.40%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 7 (3.85%) MuleSoft Developer
10 7 (3.85%) Technical Business Analyst
10 7 (3.85%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (19.23%) RESTful
2 19 (10.44%) .NET
2 19 (10.44%) Spring
3 18 (9.89%) RabbitMQ
4 13 (7.14%) REST
5 11 (6.04%) .NET Core
5 11 (6.04%) Akka
5 11 (6.04%) Elastic Stack
5 11 (6.04%) Kafka
6 10 (5.49%) Node.js
6 10 (5.49%) YAML
7 9 (4.95%) ASP.NET
7 9 (4.95%) Middleware
7 9 (4.95%) XML
8 8 (4.40%) ASP.NET Core
8 8 (4.40%) ASP.NET Web API
8 8 (4.40%) Gherkin
8 8 (4.40%) SailPoint
8 8 (4.40%) SignalR
8 8 (4.40%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 20 (10.99%) Product Ownership
2 12 (6.59%) Cloud Native
3 11 (6.04%) Greenfield Project
3 11 (6.04%) Management Information System
4 10 (5.49%) Public Cloud
5 5 (2.75%) Verilog
5 5 (2.75%) VHDL
6 4 (2.20%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.65%) Enterprise Cloud
7 3 (1.65%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.65%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.65%) Private Cloud
7 3 (1.65%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 2 (1.10%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.55%) Blockchain
9 1 (0.55%) Distributed Applications
9 1 (0.55%) Solar Power
9 1 (0.55%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 19 (10.44%) Linux
2 7 (3.85%) Unix
3 4 (2.20%) CentOS
3 4 (2.20%) Windows
4 3 (1.65%) Android
4 3 (1.65%) Apple iOS
4 3 (1.65%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.55%) VMS
5 1 (0.55%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (68.13%) Agile
2 71 (39.01%) CI/CD
2 71 (39.01%) DevOps
3 43 (23.63%) Microservices
4 42 (23.08%) Continuous Integration
5 41 (22.53%) Scrum
6 38 (20.88%) TDD
6 38 (20.88%) Test Automation
7 28 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
8 27 (14.84%) Kanban
9 24 (13.19%) Project Delivery
10 22 (12.09%) Configuration Management
10 22 (12.09%) Problem-Solving
10 22 (12.09%) Software Engineering
10 22 (12.09%) Unit Testing
11 21 (11.54%) Continuous Improvement
12 20 (10.99%) Containerisation
13 18 (9.89%) Project Management
13 18 (9.89%) Stakeholder Management
14 17 (9.34%) Continuous Delivery
Programming Languages
1 35 (19.23%) Java
2 32 (17.58%) SQL
3 23 (12.64%) PowerShell
4 20 (10.99%) Python
5 17 (9.34%) Bash
5 17 (9.34%) JavaScript
6 15 (8.24%) C#
7 12 (6.59%) Scala
8 8 (4.40%) C++
9 7 (3.85%) BeanShell
10 6 (3.30%) C
10 6 (3.30%) Ruby
11 4 (2.20%) Bicep
11 4 (2.20%) Go
11 4 (2.20%) PHP
11 4 (2.20%) TypeScript
12 3 (1.65%) PL/SQL
12 3 (1.65%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.55%) Ada
13 1 (0.55%) Perl
Qualifications
1 48 (26.37%) Security Cleared
2 28 (15.38%) SC Cleared
3 12 (6.59%) Degree
4 9 (4.95%) DV Cleared
5 5 (2.75%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.20%) AWS Certification
6 4 (2.20%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 4 (2.20%) ITIL Certification
7 3 (1.65%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.55%) CSPO
8 1 (0.55%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.55%) PgMP
8 1 (0.55%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.55%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (15.38%) QA
2 4 (2.20%) GDPR
2 4 (2.20%) HIPAA
2 4 (2.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (2.20%) NIST
3 3 (1.65%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.65%) ISO 9001
3 3 (1.65%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 3 (1.65%) SLA
4 2 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 12207
4 2 (1.10%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.55%) Def Stans
5 1 (0.55%) DO-178B
5 1 (0.55%) IEC 61508
5 1 (0.55%) PMO
System Software
1 53 (29.12%) Docker
2 8 (4.40%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (3.30%) Active Directory
4 4 (2.20%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (1.65%) Hyper-V
5 3 (1.65%) vSphere
6 1 (0.55%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.55%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 42 (23.08%) Kubernetes
2 41 (22.53%) Terraform
3 27 (14.84%) Ansible
4 12 (6.59%) Prometheus
5 8 (4.40%) Grafana
6 5 (2.75%) Puppet
7 4 (2.20%) Rancher
8 3 (1.65%) Kibana
8 3 (1.65%) Progress Chef
8 3 (1.65%) WSUS
9 2 (1.10%) logstash
9 2 (1.10%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.55%) Nagios
Vendors
1 20 (10.99%) Microsoft
2 17 (9.34%) SAP
3 15 (8.24%) Salesforce
4 10 (5.49%) Google
4 10 (5.49%) VMware
5 9 (4.95%) Oracle
6 8 (4.40%) MuleSoft
6 8 (4.40%) TIBCO
7 7 (3.85%) ServiceNow
8 6 (3.30%) Adobe
8 6 (3.30%) Sitecore
8 6 (3.30%) Typelevel
8 6 (3.30%) WSO2
9 3 (1.65%) Dell
9 3 (1.65%) Intel
9 3 (1.65%) Virgin Media
10 2 (1.10%) Cadence
10 2 (1.10%) CyberArk
10 2 (1.10%) Databricks
10 2 (1.10%) OpenLink