Software Delivery Contract Job Trends in the North West

Software Delivery
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Software Delivery skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 155 119 126
Rank change year-on-year -36 +7 +6
Contract jobs citing Software Delivery 15 5 12
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.42% 0.25% 0.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.50% 0.28% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 3 9
10th Percentile £213 £527 £443
25th Percentile £352 £531 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £540 £463
Median % change year-on-year -18.98% +16.76% -2.63%
75th Percentile £533 £558 £600
90th Percentile £556 £568 £608
England median daily rate £563 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +2.27% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £69.50
Median hourly rate - - £72.00
75th Percentile - - £74.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £77.19 £80.00
% change year-on-year -15.79% -3.51% +8.53%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,971 1,809 2,331
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 83.64% 88.72% 84.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,738 1,201 1,423
10th Percentile £300 £300 £305
25th Percentile £400 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £455 £495
Median % change year-on-year +4.51% -8.18% -1.00%
75th Percentile £588 £565 £585
90th Percentile £675 £665 £675
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 275 111 265
10th Percentile £17.25 £12.82 £11.00
25th Percentile £25.38 £19.13 £14.22
Median hourly rate £50.00 £31.76 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +57.43% +5.87% -1.77%
75th Percentile £76.00 £61.50 £46.18
90th Percentile £85.00 £81.00 £66.61
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.23 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.32% -33.83% +1.65%

Software Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Software Delivery job vacancy trend in the North West

Software Delivery
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

Software Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Delivery in the North West over the 6 months to 30 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Software Delivery in the North West

Software Delivery
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

Software Delivery
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 30 June 2026. 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
Manchester -38 9 £438 -20.45% 15
Cheshire -3 2 £700 +29.99% 1
Lancashire - 1 - -
Merseyside - 1 £525 -
Software Delivery
England

Software Delivery
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (13.33%) SharePoint
2 1 (6.67%) Confluence
2 1 (6.67%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (6.67%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 6 (40.00%) AWS
2 4 (26.67%) Azure
3 2 (13.33%) GCP
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon EventBridge
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (6.67%) Datadog
4 1 (6.67%) Miro
4 1 (6.67%) SaaS
4 1 (6.67%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) DynamoDB
1 1 (6.67%) NoSQL
1 1 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) JIRA
2 1 (6.67%) Cypress.io
2 1 (6.67%) Git
2 1 (6.67%) Postman
2 1 (6.67%) Robot Framework
2 1 (6.67%) Selenium
General
1 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Organisational Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
2 2 (13.33%) Retail
3 1 (6.67%) Finance
3 1 (6.67%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 3 (20.00%) Delivery Manager
1 3 (20.00%) Software Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Analyst
2 2 (13.33%) Coordinator
2 2 (13.33%) Project Coordinator
2 2 (13.33%) Senior
2 2 (13.33%) Senior Software Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Software Delivery Manager
2 2 (13.33%) Software Manager
3 1 (6.67%) .NET Software Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Architect
3 1 (6.67%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) AWS Software Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Business Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
3 1 (6.67%) Java Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Lead
3 1 (6.67%) Project Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) .NET
1 1 (6.67%) .NET Core
1 1 (6.67%) .NET Framework
1 1 (6.67%) ADO
1 1 (6.67%) Gherkin
1 1 (6.67%) Kafka
1 1 (6.67%) REST
1 1 (6.67%) Spring
1 1 (6.67%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (13.33%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (6.67%) Data Centre
3 1 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (6.67%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (6.67%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (6.67%) Private Cloud
3 1 (6.67%) Product Ownership
3 1 (6.67%) Public Cloud
3 1 (6.67%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Linux
1 1 (6.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (33.33%) Agile
2 4 (26.67%) CI/CD
2 4 (26.67%) Roadmaps
3 3 (20.00%) Migration
3 3 (20.00%) Software Engineering
3 3 (20.00%) Test Automation
4 2 (13.33%) AI
4 2 (13.33%) BDD
4 2 (13.33%) CRM
4 2 (13.33%) DevOps
4 2 (13.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (13.33%) Logistics
4 2 (13.33%) Microservices
4 2 (13.33%) Observability
4 2 (13.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (13.33%) TDD
4 2 (13.33%) Vulnerability Management
4 2 (13.33%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 2 (13.33%) Java
2 1 (6.67%) Kotlin
2 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
2 1 (6.67%) Python
2 1 (6.67%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) QA
2 2 (13.33%) PMO
3 1 (6.67%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (20.00%) Terraform
2 2 (13.33%) Kubernetes
3 1 (6.67%) Grafana
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (6.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.67%) Google
2 1 (6.67%) Laserfiche
2 1 (6.67%) Salesforce
2 1 (6.67%) SAP
2 1 (6.67%) ServiceNow