Software Delivery Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Software Delivery
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Software Delivery skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 132 125 130
Rank change year-on-year -7 +5 +29
Contract jobs citing Software Delivery 14 7 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.53% 0.26% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.60% 0.31% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 5 3
10th Percentile £430 £338 £460
25th Percentile £526 £375 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% - -7.41%
75th Percentile £589 £538 £547
90th Percentile £813 £560 £575
England median daily rate £550 £550 £625
% change year-on-year - -12.00% +4.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,331 2,255 2,509
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 87.80% 82.30% 85.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,512 1,440 1,715
10th Percentile £235 £255 £250
25th Percentile £360 £377 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% - +1.01%
75th Percentile £575 £612 £600
90th Percentile £650 £700 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 178 73 96
10th Percentile £13.56 £12.90 £13.08
25th Percentile £17.87 £15.13 £17.72
Median hourly rate £21.39 £21.59 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.93% -21.49% +52.78%
75th Percentile £26.51 £42.25 £51.50
90th Percentile £45.80 £55.00 £68.13
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +53.66%

Software Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Delivery in the Midlands

Software Delivery
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Software Delivery

Software Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Delivery in the Midlands over the 6 months to 19 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Software Delivery in the Midlands

Software Delivery
Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Software Delivery

Software Delivery
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 19 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 Midlands +2 12 £575 +21.05% 13
East Midlands -7 2 £435 -12.94% 5
Software Delivery
England

Software Delivery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (28.57%) OpenStack
2 1 (7.14%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (7.14%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 9 (64.29%) AWS
2 8 (57.14%) Azure
3 6 (42.86%) AWS CloudFormation
4 5 (35.71%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (35.71%) GitHub
4 5 (35.71%) GitHub Actions
4 5 (35.71%) OpenShift
5 4 (28.57%) Azure AKS
5 4 (28.57%) GCP
6 3 (21.43%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (21.43%) Datadog
6 3 (21.43%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 3 (21.43%) npm
6 3 (21.43%) Pulumi
7 2 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (14.29%) IBM Cloud
8 1 (7.14%) AWS CodeCommit
8 1 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (7.14%) Boomi
8 1 (7.14%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) DMZ
1 2 (14.29%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) MongoDB
2 1 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (7.14%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (50.00%) GitLab
1 7 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 6 (42.86%) Git
3 5 (35.71%) Gradle
3 5 (35.71%) Maven
4 3 (21.43%) Artifactory
4 3 (21.43%) Bitbucket
4 3 (21.43%) CircleCI
4 3 (21.43%) Cypress.io
4 3 (21.43%) JUnit
4 3 (21.43%) Postman
4 3 (21.43%) Selenium
4 3 (21.43%) Snyk
4 3 (21.43%) SonarQube
4 3 (21.43%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (21.43%) webpack
5 2 (14.29%) JIRA
6 1 (7.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 6 (42.86%) Finance
2 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Banking
3 1 (7.14%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Lead
3 2 (14.29%) Architect
3 2 (14.29%) Lead DevOps
3 2 (14.29%) Lead DevOps Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Senior
3 2 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) Delivery Project Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Developer
4 1 (7.14%) IT Director
4 1 (7.14%) IT Manager
4 1 (7.14%) IT Project Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Programme Director
4 1 (7.14%) Project Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Python Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Python Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Software Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (35.71%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (21.43%) JSON
2 3 (21.43%) REST
2 3 (21.43%) YAML
3 2 (14.29%) RESTful
3 2 (14.29%) Web Services
4 1 (7.14%) ARM Templates
4 1 (7.14%) Django
4 1 (7.14%) MACH
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Private Cloud
2 1 (7.14%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (7.14%) Onboarding
2 1 (7.14%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (28.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (78.57%) CI/CD
2 8 (57.14%) DevOps
3 7 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (42.86%) Containerisation
4 6 (42.86%) SDLC
5 5 (35.71%) Configuration Management
5 5 (35.71%) Continuous Delivery
5 5 (35.71%) Test Automation
6 4 (28.57%) Agile
6 4 (28.57%) Microservices
6 4 (28.57%) Platform Engineering
6 4 (28.57%) Software Engineering
6 4 (28.57%) Task Automation
7 3 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (21.43%) Continuous Integration
7 3 (21.43%) DevSecOps
7 3 (21.43%) ETL
7 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure Automation
7 3 (21.43%) Project Delivery
8 2 (14.29%) Architectural Design
Programming Languages
1 4 (28.57%) Python
2 3 (21.43%) Bash
2 3 (21.43%) Java
3 2 (14.29%) PowerShell
4 1 (7.14%) Go
4 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
4 1 (7.14%) R
4 1 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) DV Cleared
1 4 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 2 (14.29%) Degree
3 1 (7.14%) PMI Certification
3 1 (7.14%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (7.14%) NCSC
1 1 (7.14%) QA
System Software
1 11 (78.57%) Docker
2 1 (7.14%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 9 (64.29%) Kubernetes
2 8 (57.14%) Terraform
3 6 (42.86%) Ansible
4 5 (35.71%) Grafana
4 5 (35.71%) Prometheus
5 3 (21.43%) Podman
5 3 (21.43%) Progress Chef
5 3 (21.43%) Puppet
6 2 (14.29%) Argo
7 1 (7.14%) Consul
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) Splunk
2 2 (14.29%) IBM
2 2 (14.29%) Red Hat
3 1 (7.14%) OpenAI
3 1 (7.14%) Oracle
3 1 (7.14%) VMware