Software Delivery Contract Job Trends in Newcastle upon Tyne

Software Delivery
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne requiring Software Delivery skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 31 19
Rank change year-on-year -14 -12 +34
Contract jobs citing Software Delivery 4 4 7
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 1.20% 2.03% 4.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.34% 2.19% 5.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 5
10th Percentile £485 £415 -
25th Percentile £500 £503 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £650 £720
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% -9.72% +20.00%
75th Percentile £550 - -
90th Percentile £565 - -
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £525 £650 £720
% change year-on-year -19.23% -9.72% +20.00%

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 298 183 134
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 89.49% 92.89% 84.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 210 91 94
10th Percentile £181 £300 £233
25th Percentile £365 £355 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £485
Median % change year-on-year - -7.22% -11.82%
75th Percentile £524 £588 £595
90th Percentile £576 £650 £720
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £450 £454 £475
% change year-on-year -0.88% -4.42% -13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 14 1
10th Percentile £13.98 £13.75 -
25th Percentile £17.88 £14.83 £15.50
Median hourly rate £42.00 £16.00 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year +162.50% - -28.89%
75th Percentile £53.75 £19.25 £16.50
90th Percentile £54.63 £19.93 -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £36.00 £16.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year +125.00% -8.57% -22.22%

Software Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

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

Software Delivery job vacancy trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Software Delivery
Daily Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Software Delivery.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Software Delivery

Software Delivery
Hourly Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Software Delivery.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Software Delivery

Software Delivery
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne 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 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (25.00%) CloudFront
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub
2 1 (25.00%) Pulumi
2 1 (25.00%) Route 53
2 1 (25.00%) Serverless
2 1 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (50.00%) GitLab
1 2 (50.00%) Postman
1 2 (50.00%) REST Assured
2 1 (25.00%) Git
2 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (25.00%) JIRA
2 1 (25.00%) Selenium
2 1 (25.00%) TestRail
General
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Test Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) QA Tester
2 1 (25.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) REST
1 2 (50.00%) Spring
2 1 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (25.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (25.00%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) API Testing
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (50.00%) DevOps
4 1 (25.00%) BDD
4 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
4 1 (25.00%) DevSecOps
4 1 (25.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (25.00%) OWASP
4 1 (25.00%) Performance Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (25.00%) Regression Testing
4 1 (25.00%) TDD
4 1 (25.00%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) Bash
2 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) QA
2 1 (25.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (25.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Grafana
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform