Software Delivery Contract Job Trends in the North East

Software Delivery
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North East 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 47 40 25
Rank change year-on-year -7 -15 +32
Contract jobs citing Software Delivery 4 4 7
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 1.00% 1.33% 2.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.14% 1.43% 3.37%
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 - -
England median daily rate £475 £575 £615
% change year-on-year -17.39% -6.50% +2.50%

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 350 279 208
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 87.72% 92.69% 85.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 238 133 144
10th Percentile £179 £306 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £488 £450
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -18.18%
75th Percentile £533 £590 £575
90th Percentile £589 £716 £714
England median daily rate £505 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -3.81% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 25 9
10th Percentile £14.20 £14.13 £15.46
25th Percentile £17.88 £15.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.00 £18.50 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +94.59% +5.71% -22.22%
75th Percentile £53.75 £46.18 £46.18
90th Percentile £55.00 - -
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% -22.22% +24.47%

Software Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Software Delivery job vacancy trend in the North East

Software Delivery
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

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

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

Software Delivery
Hourly Rate Trend in the North East

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

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

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 24 December 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 -13 4 £525 -19.23% 10
Software Delivery
England

Software Delivery
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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