Software Delivery Contract Job Trends in Kent

Software Delivery
South East > Kent

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Kent requiring Software Delivery skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 - 25
Rank change year-on-year - - +10
Contract jobs citing Software Delivery 5 0 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Kent 3.85% - 1.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.67% - 2.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 4
10th Percentile £416 - £486
25th Percentile £450 - £521
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - £553
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.50%
75th Percentile £638 - £565
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £528 £596 £725
% change year-on-year -11.53% -17.76% +20.83%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Kent

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 Kent.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 107 139 164
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Kent 82.31% 71.28% 75.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 65 129
10th Percentile £182 £154 £205
25th Percentile £256 £205 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £465 £500
Median % change year-on-year -19.35% -7.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £513 £585 £550
90th Percentile £624 £633 £632
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £518
% change year-on-year -2.44% -1.14% +1.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 12 8
10th Percentile £17.98 - £52.28
25th Percentile - £15.00 £53.44
Median hourly rate £20.40 £19.50 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year +4.62% -65.33% +51.49%
75th Percentile - £53.25 £79.05
90th Percentile - £54.32 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £21.00 £57.35 £52.50
% change year-on-year -63.38% +9.24% +64.53%

Software Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Delivery in Kent

Software Delivery
Daily Rate Trend in Kent

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Kent citing Software Delivery.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Kent citing Software Delivery

Software Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram in Kent

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Delivery in Kent over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Software Delivery in Kent

Software Delivery
Contract Job Locations in Kent

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 Kent region over the 6 months to 18 September 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
West Malling - 3 £625 -
Maidstone - 1 £413 - 1
Software Delivery
South East

Software Delivery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Kent 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) Broadband
General
1 3 (60.00%) Retail
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
1 3 (60.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Change and Release Manager
1 3 (60.00%) Change Manager
1 3 (60.00%) Release Manager
2 2 (40.00%) Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) Business Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Dynamics 365 Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Dynamics 365 Business Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Business Analyst
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Agile
1 3 (60.00%) Change Management
1 3 (60.00%) CRM
1 3 (60.00%) Defect Management
1 3 (60.00%) ITIL
1 3 (60.00%) Process Improvement
1 3 (60.00%) Release Management
1 3 (60.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 3 (60.00%) Test Automation
1 3 (60.00%) Test Management
1 3 (60.00%) Test Planning
1 3 (60.00%) Waterfall
2 2 (40.00%) Technical Architecture
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft