Software Delivery Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Software Delivery
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Software Delivery skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 92 79 83
Rank change year-on-year -13 +4 +39
Contract jobs citing Software Delivery 2 2 18
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.17% 0.19% 1.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.21% 1.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 13
10th Percentile - - £371
25th Percentile £475 £569 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £660
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% -10.98% +10.00%
75th Percentile £625 £606 £703
90th Percentile - - £717
North West median daily rate £500 £525 £685
% change year-on-year -4.76% -23.36% +18.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £72.50
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
75th Percentile - - £77.50
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate - - £75.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,083 950 1,369
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 89.73% 89.45% 88.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 727 566 985
10th Percentile £309 £294 £300
25th Percentile £380 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% -7.50% -
75th Percentile £580 £575 £595
90th Percentile £650 £681 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 80 36 49
10th Percentile £17.30 £15.95 £15.75
25th Percentile £19.42 £21.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.82 £32.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -29.80% +8.33% -21.36%
75th Percentile £55.00 £34.56 £61.25
90th Percentile £63.88 £65.00 £75.90
North West median hourly rate £32.00 £30.95 £35.73
% change year-on-year +3.39% -13.37% +34.66%

Software Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Software Delivery relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Software Delivery job vacancy trend in Manchester

Software Delivery
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

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

Software Delivery
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Software Delivery.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Software Delivery

Software Delivery
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Java Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Java Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Mac OS X
1 1 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) BDD
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Deployment
2 1 (50.00%) Data Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Pair Programming
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Process Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Release Management
2 1 (50.00%) Responsive Web Design
2 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Web Design
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (50.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform