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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 342 367 298
Rank change year-on-year +25 -69 -45
Contract jobs citing Software Delivery 132 176 411
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.55% 0.48% 0.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.60% 0.56% 0.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 119 282
10th Percentile £357 £449 £413
25th Percentile £464 £502 £476
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £638 £688 £721
90th Percentile £693 £825 £775
UK median daily rate £537 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.36% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 23
10th Percentile - £65.00 £55.72
25th Percentile - £69.50 £63.25
Median hourly rate £77.19 £80.00 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.51% +10.34% +48.41%
75th Percentile - £85.00 £75.43
90th Percentile - £86.00 £84.50
UK median hourly rate £77.19 £80.00 £73.71
% change year-on-year -3.51% +8.53% +50.89%

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 21,854 31,539 42,849
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.29% 85.92% 90.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,225 20,657 30,069
10th Percentile £305 £300 £325
25th Percentile £410 £413 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £767
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 952 2,292 1,514
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.84 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.87 £16.00 £15.75
Median hourly rate £28.00 £37.18 £37.32
Median % change year-on-year -24.69% -0.38% +49.28%
75th Percentile £60.00 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £36.50 £36.13
% change year-on-year -24.66% +1.04% +40.67%

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 29 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 29 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 +13 62 £581 -2.31% 142
Midlands +23 20 £625 -7.41% 38
West Midlands +29 18 £625 -7.41% 18
South West +38 15 £370 -29.52% 46
North of England -5 14 £493 -10.40% 60
South East +41 10 £550 +10.00% 73
Yorkshire +6 8 £490 -10.91% 17
North West -6 4 £539 +16.43% 38
East of England +33 3 £800 +33.33% 19
East Midlands +4 2 £435 -17.09% 20
North East 0 2 £456 -20.65% 5
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 (6.82%) Confluence
2 2 (1.52%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (0.76%) Appian
3 1 (0.76%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (3.03%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (2.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.76%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.76%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (2.27%) NetSuite
1 3 (2.27%) Shopify
2 2 (1.52%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (1.52%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 2 (1.52%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 2 (1.52%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.76%) Endur
3 1 (0.76%) FLEXCUBE
3 1 (0.76%) Infor CloudSuite
3 1 (0.76%) SAP CRM
3 1 (0.76%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 43 (32.58%) Azure
2 39 (29.55%) AWS
3 15 (11.36%) GCP
4 12 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (9.09%) GitHub
5 9 (6.82%) SaaS
6 6 (4.55%) AWS CloudFormation
6 6 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (3.79%) PaaS
8 4 (3.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (3.03%) CloudBees
8 4 (3.03%) Serverless
9 3 (2.27%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (2.27%) Amazon S3
9 3 (2.27%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (2.27%) BigCommerce
9 3 (2.27%) Boomi
9 3 (2.27%) Entra ID
9 3 (2.27%) IaaS
9 3 (2.27%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.52%) DMZ
1 2 (1.52%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.79%) MongoDB
1 5 (3.79%) NoSQL
2 3 (2.27%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (2.27%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (2.27%) Relational Database
3 2 (1.52%) Geospatial Data
3 2 (1.52%) Redis
3 2 (1.52%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (0.76%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (0.76%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.76%) BigQuery
4 1 (0.76%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.76%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.76%) Metadata
4 1 (0.76%) MySQL
4 1 (0.76%) Parquet
4 1 (0.76%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 19 (14.39%) JIRA
2 17 (12.88%) Jenkins
3 15 (11.36%) GitLab
4 13 (9.85%) Git
5 7 (5.30%) MSI
6 6 (4.55%) Cypress.io
7 5 (3.79%) JMeter
8 3 (2.27%) Cucumber
8 3 (2.27%) Maven
9 2 (1.52%) CircleCI
9 2 (1.52%) Gradle
9 2 (1.52%) JUnit
9 2 (1.52%) Selenium
9 2 (1.52%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.76%) GoCD
10 1 (0.76%) Postman
10 1 (0.76%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.76%) SpecFlow
General
1 56 (42.42%) Social Skills
2 40 (30.30%) Finance
3 26 (19.70%) Public Sector
4 22 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (9.85%) Banking
6 12 (9.09%) Telecoms
7 11 (8.33%) Electronics
7 11 (8.33%) Manufacturing
7 11 (8.33%) Marketing
8 8 (6.06%) Retail
9 5 (3.79%) Law
9 5 (3.79%) Military
10 4 (3.03%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (2.27%) Financial Institution
11 3 (2.27%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (1.52%) Advertising
12 2 (1.52%) Billing
12 2 (1.52%) Front Office
12 2 (1.52%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 29 (21.97%) Developer
2 23 (17.42%) DevOps Engineer
3 15 (11.36%) Senior
4 12 (9.09%) Analyst
5 9 (6.82%) Applications Developer
5 9 (6.82%) Azure Engineer
5 9 (6.82%) Lead
6 8 (6.06%) Applications Support
6 8 (6.06%) C# Developer
6 8 (6.06%) Project Manager
6 8 (6.06%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 7 (5.30%) Applications Engineer
7 7 (5.30%) Applications Support Engineer
7 7 (5.30%) Architect
7 7 (5.30%) Azure Developer
7 7 (5.30%) Business Analyst
7 7 (5.30%) Delivery Manager
7 7 (5.30%) Support Engineer
8 6 (4.55%) C# Application Developer
9 5 (3.79%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (10.61%) .NET
2 13 (9.85%) CSS
2 13 (9.85%) HTML
3 12 (9.09%) RESTful
4 6 (4.55%) Software Packaging
5 5 (3.79%) AngularJS
5 5 (3.79%) ARM Templates
6 4 (3.03%) Kafka
6 4 (3.03%) React
6 4 (3.03%) REST
7 3 (2.27%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (2.27%) Node.js
7 3 (2.27%) Spring Boot
7 3 (2.27%) VML
7 3 (2.27%) Web Services
8 2 (1.52%) Middleware
8 2 (1.52%) Oracle Fusion
8 2 (1.52%) Spring
8 2 (1.52%) XML
8 2 (1.52%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 10 (7.58%) Management Information System
2 9 (6.82%) Product Ownership
3 5 (3.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 5 (3.79%) PKI
4 4 (3.03%) Virtual Team
5 3 (2.27%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (2.27%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.27%) Reinsurance
5 3 (2.27%) SCADA
5 3 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.52%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.52%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.52%) PMI
7 1 (0.76%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.76%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.76%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.76%) IoT
7 1 (0.76%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.76%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 14 (10.61%) Linux
2 12 (9.09%) Windows
3 4 (3.03%) Unix
4 1 (0.76%) Windows 7
4 1 (0.76%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (50.76%) Agile
2 58 (43.94%) CI/CD
3 43 (32.58%) DevOps
4 38 (28.79%) Test Automation
5 30 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
6 27 (20.45%) Software Engineering
7 26 (19.70%) Continuous Integration
8 24 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
9 19 (14.39%) Continuous Improvement
10 18 (13.64%) Scrum
11 17 (12.88%) Containerisation
11 17 (12.88%) Infrastructure as Code
11 17 (12.88%) TDD
12 14 (10.61%) Continuous Delivery
12 14 (10.61%) Programme Management
12 14 (10.61%) Project Management
13 13 (9.85%) Microservices
13 13 (9.85%) SDLC
13 13 (9.85%) Waterfall
14 12 (9.09%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 33 (25.00%) Python
2 19 (14.39%) Java
2 19 (14.39%) JavaScript
3 18 (13.64%) C#
4 14 (10.61%) Bash
4 14 (10.61%) PowerShell
5 13 (9.85%) SQL
6 7 (5.30%) Kotlin
7 5 (3.79%) Shell Script
7 5 (3.79%) TypeScript
8 3 (2.27%) Go
9 2 (1.52%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.52%) R
10 1 (0.76%) ABAP
10 1 (0.76%) ActionScript
10 1 (0.76%) Bicep
10 1 (0.76%) C
10 1 (0.76%) DAML
10 1 (0.76%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 38 (28.79%) Security Cleared
2 33 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 16 (12.12%) Degree
4 10 (7.58%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (6.82%) Azure Certification
6 3 (2.27%) ITIL Certification
6 3 (2.27%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.52%) ISTQB
7 2 (1.52%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 2 (1.52%) PMP
7 2 (1.52%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.76%) CBAP
8 1 (0.76%) CLAS
8 1 (0.76%) CSPO
8 1 (0.76%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.76%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.76%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (12.88%) QA
2 4 (3.03%) PMO
3 3 (2.27%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.52%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.52%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (1.52%) GAAP
5 1 (0.76%) EMIR
5 1 (0.76%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.76%) MiFID
5 1 (0.76%) NCSC
5 1 (0.76%) Software Quality Assurance
5 1 (0.76%) WCAG
System Software
1 24 (18.18%) Docker
2 1 (0.76%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.76%) Microsoft App-V
2 1 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 24 (18.18%) Kubernetes
2 22 (16.67%) Terraform
3 21 (15.91%) Ansible
4 3 (2.27%) Grafana
4 3 (2.27%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.52%) Control-M
6 1 (0.76%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.76%) SCCM
6 1 (0.76%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 15 (11.36%) SAP
2 11 (8.33%) Microsoft
3 9 (6.82%) Google
4 6 (4.55%) ServiceNow
4 6 (4.55%) Tanium
5 5 (3.79%) Oracle
5 5 (3.79%) Salesforce
6 4 (3.03%) Blue Prism
6 4 (3.03%) UiPath
7 3 (2.27%) Adobe
7 3 (2.27%) Atlassian
7 3 (2.27%) Dynatrace
7 3 (2.27%) Informatica
7 3 (2.27%) Sitecore
8 2 (1.52%) IBM
8 2 (1.52%) Workday
9 1 (0.76%) Databricks
9 1 (0.76%) Foundry
9 1 (0.76%) OpenLink
9 1 (0.76%) Splunk