Software Delivery Contracts in Newcastle upon Tyne

Software Delivery
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 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 31 23 46
Rank change year-on-year -8 +23 -4
Contract jobs citing Software Delivery 5 4 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 2.24% 1.90% 1.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.65% 2.26% 1.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 4
10th Percentile £407 - £427
25th Percentile £483 - £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £720 £525
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +37.14% -8.70%
75th Percentile £650 - £613
90th Percentile - - £635
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £600 £720 £525
% change year-on-year -16.67% +37.14% -8.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Newcastle upon Tyne

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 Newcastle upon Tyne.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 189 177 308
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 84.75% 84.29% 94.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 89 243
10th Percentile £225 £335 £352
25th Percentile £358 £400 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £500 £565
Median % change year-on-year -7.25% -11.50% +13.00%
75th Percentile £573 £600 £650
90th Percentile £629 £650 £740
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £460 £500 £565
% change year-on-year -8.00% -11.50% +13.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 18 0
10th Percentile £21.05 £18.25 -
25th Percentile £30.50 £20.75 -
Median hourly rate £47.50 £47.50 -
75th Percentile £50.38 £50.00 -
90th Percentile £51.35 £68.75 -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £16.50 £17.50 -
% change year-on-year -5.71% - -

Software Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Job postings citing Software Delivery as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Job vacancy trend for Software Delivery in Newcastle upon Tyne

Software Delivery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Software Delivery in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Daily rate trend for Software Delivery in Newcastle upon Tyne

Software Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram in Newcastle upon Tyne

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

Daily rate histogram for Software Delivery in Newcastle upon Tyne

Software Delivery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Software Delivery in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Hourly rate trend for Software Delivery in Newcastle upon Tyne

Software Delivery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne 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 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Git
1 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (20.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (20.00%) JUnit
2 1 (20.00%) REST Assured
2 1 (20.00%) Selenium
General
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Lead
1 3 (60.00%) Test Leader
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps Platform Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) Node.js
2 1 (20.00%) ARM Templates
2 1 (20.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Test Strategy
2 3 (60.00%) Continuous Integration
2 3 (60.00%) Roadmaps
2 3 (60.00%) Service Management
3 2 (40.00%) Agile
3 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (20.00%) API Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (20.00%) DevOps
4 1 (20.00%) DevSecOps
4 1 (20.00%) Dynamic Code Analysis
4 1 (20.00%) High Availability
4 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (20.00%) SDLC
4 1 (20.00%) Static Code Analysis
4 1 (20.00%) Task Automation
4 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Java
2 3 (60.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (60.00%) TypeScript
3 1 (20.00%) Bash
3 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) ISTQB
2 1 (20.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (80.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Ansible
1 4 (80.00%) Terraform
2 3 (60.00%) Packer
3 1 (20.00%) Docker Swarm
3 1 (20.00%) Grafana
3 1 (20.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Dynatrace
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft