Software Delivery Contracts in Manchester

Software Delivery
North West > Manchester

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester with a requirement for Software Delivery skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Software Delivery over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 83 109 135
Rank change year-on-year +26 +26 -52
Contract jobs citing Software Delivery 15 9 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 1.01% 0.48% 0.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.16% 0.52% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 7 8
10th Percentile £439 £385 -
25th Percentile £444 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £425 £463
Median % change year-on-year +10.29% -8.11% +2.78%
75th Percentile £600 £469 £511
90th Percentile £703 £521 £545
North West median daily rate £600 £488 £470
% change year-on-year +23.08% +3.72% +4.44%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

Software Delivery is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,294 1,718 2,313
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 87.26% 91.77% 88.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 883 1,262 1,819
10th Percentile £325 £315 £263
25th Percentile £413 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £596 £600 £586
90th Percentile £694 £675 £663
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 57 50
10th Percentile £12.42 £16.85 £11.33
25th Percentile £13.50 £20.00 £11.75
Median hourly rate £26.00 £37.30 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year -30.29% +140.65% -3.13%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £24.69
90th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £33.88
North West median hourly rate £22.11 £36.65 £20.07
% change year-on-year -39.67% +82.66% +10.08%

Software Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Delivery in Manchester

Software Delivery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Software Delivery in Manchester

Software Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Delivery in Manchester over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Delivery in Manchester

Software Delivery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Delivery in Manchester

Software Delivery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 7 (46.67%) AWS
2 4 (26.67%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
3 3 (20.00%) Amazon S3
3 3 (20.00%) AWS CodePipeline
3 3 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (20.00%) Serverless
4 2 (13.33%) Azure
4 2 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (6.67%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 4 (26.67%) GitLab
1 4 (26.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (6.67%) Travis CI
General
1 3 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (6.67%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 9 (60.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (40.00%) AWS DevOps
2 6 (40.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 6 (40.00%) AWS Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Developer
3 3 (20.00%) ServiceNow Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Lead
5 1 (6.67%) Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Business Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Senior
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Senior ServiceNow Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) ARM Templates
2 1 (6.67%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) CI/CD
1 9 (60.00%) DevOps
2 7 (46.67%) Containerisation
3 6 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (20.00%) Agile
4 3 (20.00%) Configuration Management
4 3 (20.00%) High Availability
4 3 (20.00%) ITIL
4 3 (20.00%) Line Management
4 3 (20.00%) Roadmaps
5 1 (6.67%) Backlog Prioritisation
5 1 (6.67%) Business Strategy
5 1 (6.67%) Collaborative Working
5 1 (6.67%) Data Protection
5 1 (6.67%) Matrix Management
5 1 (6.67%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (6.67%) Programme Delivery
5 1 (6.67%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (6.67%) Test Strategy
5 1 (6.67%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 3 (20.00%) Python
1 3 (20.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) AWS Certification
1 3 (20.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 3 (20.00%) ITIL Certification
1 3 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (20.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 7 (46.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (60.00%) Terraform
2 7 (46.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) ServiceNow
2 2 (13.33%) Virgin Media
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft