Software Delivery Contracts in the North East

Software Delivery
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North East 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 33 34 52
Rank change year-on-year +1 +18 -5
Contract jobs citing Software Delivery 5 4 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 1.56% 1.18% 1.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.92% 1.48% 1.81%
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
England median daily rate £550 £595 £588
% change year-on-year -7.56% +1.28% -2.08%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North East

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 North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 261 270 387
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 81.56% 79.88% 91.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 127 300
10th Percentile £225 £242 £254
25th Percentile £358 £363 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% -9.09% +12.82%
75th Percentile £575 £589 £625
90th Percentile £650 £660 £720
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 47 2
10th Percentile - £11.44 £32.98
25th Percentile £11.60 £11.81 £35.56
Median hourly rate £14.07 £15.46 £40.75
Median % change year-on-year -8.99% -62.06% +146.97%
75th Percentile £46.82 £47.47 £45.56
90th Percentile £51.68 £50.00 £47.93
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Software Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Delivery in the North East

Software Delivery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Software Delivery in the North East.

Daily rate trend for Software Delivery in the North East

Software Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Delivery in the North East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Software Delivery in the North East

Software Delivery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Software Delivery in the North East.

Hourly rate trend for Software Delivery in the North East

Software Delivery
Contract Job Locations in the North East

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 North East region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Tyne and Wear -4 5 £600 -16.67% 2
Software Delivery
England

Software Delivery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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