Software Delivery Contracts in London

Software Delivery
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 292 290 256
Rank change year-on-year -2 -34 -39
Contract jobs citing Software Delivery 61 101 263
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.49% 0.57% 0.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% 0.64% 1.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 73 194
10th Percentile £432 £479 £454
25th Percentile £501 £540 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £615 £625
Median % change year-on-year -6.50% -1.60% -
75th Percentile £669 £775 £743
90th Percentile £768 £825 £825
England median daily rate £550 £595 £588
% change year-on-year -7.56% +1.28% -2.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 11
10th Percentile - - £62.50
25th Percentile - - £67.25
Median hourly rate - - £74.00
75th Percentile - - £75.50
90th Percentile - - £82.50
England median hourly rate £77.19 £80.00 £73.71
% change year-on-year -3.51% +8.53% -4.58%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,564 15,790 24,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.55% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,847 11,316 17,711
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 324 278
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £47.56 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.93 £76.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Software Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Delivery in London

Software Delivery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Software Delivery in London

Software Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Software Delivery in London

Software Delivery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Delivery in London

Software Delivery
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London 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
Central London +11 14 £650 -1.89% 3
South London - 2 £663 - 1
West London +7 1 - - 5
Software Delivery
England

Software Delivery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 4 (6.56%) Confluence
2 1 (1.64%) CICS
Applications
1 2 (3.28%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (3.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (3.28%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.64%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (4.92%) Shopify
2 1 (1.64%) Endur
2 1 (1.64%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (1.64%) NetSuite
2 1 (1.64%) SAP CRM
2 1 (1.64%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 18 (29.51%) AWS
2 14 (22.95%) Azure
3 4 (6.56%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (6.56%) GCP
3 4 (6.56%) GitHub
3 4 (6.56%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (4.92%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (4.92%) BigCommerce
5 2 (3.28%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (3.28%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (1.64%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (1.64%) Amazon MSK
6 1 (1.64%) AWS CodePipeline
6 1 (1.64%) Boomi
6 1 (1.64%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.64%) Miro
6 1 (1.64%) OpenShift
6 1 (1.64%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.64%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.64%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.92%) MongoDB
2 2 (3.28%) Geospatial Data
2 2 (3.28%) NoSQL
2 2 (3.28%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (3.28%) Redis
2 2 (3.28%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.64%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.64%) DB2
3 1 (1.64%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (1.64%) Metadata
3 1 (1.64%) Power BI
3 1 (1.64%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (16.39%) JIRA
2 6 (9.84%) Cypress.io
3 5 (8.20%) GitLab
3 5 (8.20%) JMeter
4 4 (6.56%) Jenkins
5 2 (3.28%) CircleCI
5 2 (3.28%) Cucumber
5 2 (3.28%) Git
5 2 (3.28%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.64%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.64%) JUnit
6 1 (1.64%) MSI
6 1 (1.64%) Postman
6 1 (1.64%) Selenium
6 1 (1.64%) SpecFlow
General
1 18 (29.51%) Social Skills
2 17 (27.87%) Finance
3 9 (14.75%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (13.11%) Banking
5 6 (9.84%) Retail
6 5 (8.20%) Front Office
6 5 (8.20%) Law
6 5 (8.20%) Public Sector
7 4 (6.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (4.92%) Financial Institution
8 3 (4.92%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (4.92%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (3.28%) Advertising
9 2 (3.28%) Billing
9 2 (3.28%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (3.28%) Publishing
10 1 (1.64%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 13 (21.31%) DevOps Engineer
2 10 (16.39%) Analyst
3 7 (11.48%) Developer
3 7 (11.48%) Lead
3 7 (11.48%) Senior
4 6 (9.84%) Business Analyst
5 4 (6.56%) Architect
5 4 (6.56%) Platform Engineer
5 4 (6.56%) Principal Engineer
5 4 (6.56%) Project Manager
5 4 (6.56%) Test Automation Engineer
5 4 (6.56%) Test Engineer
6 3 (4.92%) AWS DevOps
6 3 (4.92%) AWS Engineer
6 3 (4.92%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 3 (4.92%) Lead Test Engineer
6 3 (4.92%) Principal DevOps Engineer
6 3 (4.92%) Senior Analyst
6 3 (4.92%) Senior Business Analyst
6 3 (4.92%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.20%) RESTful
2 3 (4.92%) Kafka
2 3 (4.92%) REST
2 3 (4.92%) VML
3 2 (3.28%) .NET
3 2 (3.28%) ARM Templates
3 2 (3.28%) Node.js
3 2 (3.28%) WPF
4 1 (1.64%) AngularJS
4 1 (1.64%) CSS
4 1 (1.64%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.64%) FIX Protocol
4 1 (1.64%) GraphQL
4 1 (1.64%) HTML
4 1 (1.64%) pytest
4 1 (1.64%) React
4 1 (1.64%) Smart Contracts
4 1 (1.64%) Spring
4 1 (1.64%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.64%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 3 (4.92%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (3.28%) Mainframe
3 2 (3.28%) PMI
3 2 (3.28%) Product Ownership
3 2 (3.28%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.64%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.64%) Blockchain
4 1 (1.64%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.64%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (1.64%) Equities
4 1 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.64%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.64%) NHS
4 1 (1.64%) Private Cloud
4 1 (1.64%) Replication
4 1 (1.64%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.64%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 7 (11.48%) Linux
2 5 (8.20%) Unix
3 4 (6.56%) Windows
4 1 (1.64%) Windows 7
4 1 (1.64%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.64%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (44.26%) Agile
2 24 (39.34%) CI/CD
3 21 (34.43%) DevOps
4 19 (31.15%) Test Automation
5 16 (26.23%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (18.03%) Containerisation
7 10 (16.39%) Stakeholder Management
8 9 (14.75%) Continuous Integration
8 9 (14.75%) Infrastructure as Code
8 9 (14.75%) Software Engineering
9 8 (13.11%) Scrum
10 7 (11.48%) Artificial Intelligence
10 7 (11.48%) Sprint Planning
10 7 (11.48%) Technical Leadership
10 7 (11.48%) Test Strategy
11 6 (9.84%) Component Testing
11 6 (9.84%) Continuous Improvement
11 6 (9.84%) Infrastructure Automation
11 6 (9.84%) Project Delivery
11 6 (9.84%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (21.31%) Python
2 10 (16.39%) C#
3 8 (13.11%) Java
4 6 (9.84%) SQL
5 5 (8.20%) PowerShell
6 4 (6.56%) Bash
7 3 (4.92%) JavaScript
8 2 (3.28%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.64%) ABAP
9 1 (1.64%) C
9 1 (1.64%) COBOL
9 1 (1.64%) DAML
9 1 (1.64%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (19.67%) SC Cleared
1 12 (19.67%) Security Cleared
2 5 (8.20%) Degree
3 2 (3.28%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.64%) CBAP
4 1 (1.64%) CLAS
4 1 (1.64%) CSPO
4 1 (1.64%) ISTQB
4 1 (1.64%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (1.64%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.64%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (16.39%) QA
2 2 (3.28%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.64%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.64%) EMIR
3 1 (1.64%) ISO 20022
3 1 (1.64%) MiFID
3 1 (1.64%) PMO
3 1 (1.64%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (19.67%) Docker
2 1 (1.64%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 12 (19.67%) Kubernetes
2 10 (16.39%) Terraform
3 8 (13.11%) Ansible
4 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (1.64%) SCCM
4 1 (1.64%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 5 (8.20%) Salesforce
2 4 (6.56%) SAP
3 3 (4.92%) Adobe
3 3 (4.92%) Microsoft
3 3 (4.92%) Oracle
3 3 (4.92%) Sitecore
4 2 (3.28%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.64%) Blue Prism
5 1 (1.64%) Confluent
5 1 (1.64%) Databricks
5 1 (1.64%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.64%) Informatica
5 1 (1.64%) OpenLink
5 1 (1.64%) SolarWinds
5 1 (1.64%) Splunk
5 1 (1.64%) UiPath