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 6 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 139 126 115
Rank change year-on-year -13 -11 +8
Contract jobs citing Software Delivery 41 7 7
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 1.03% 0.32% 0.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.25% 0.36% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 6 4
10th Percentile £389 £456 -
25th Percentile £418 £481 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £539 £556
Median % change year-on-year -2.51% -3.19% -17.59%
75th Percentile £575 £566 £614
90th Percentile £680 £600 £628
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -12.70%
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 £75.00 £63.75 £76.00
% change year-on-year +17.65% -16.12% +2.01%

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 3,285 1,932 2,008
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 82.62% 88.54% 83.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,858 1,282 1,093
10th Percentile £300 £268 £295
25th Percentile £403 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £480
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -6.25% -4.00%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £575
90th Percentile £675 £680 £663
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 357 139 111
10th Percentile £14.55 £13.78 £16.50
25th Percentile £21.14 £17.30 £29.00
Median hourly rate £47.12 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +87.39% -40.84% +28.79%
75th Percentile £71.91 £47.12 £62.50
90th Percentile £83.75 £67.25 £73.56
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% -3.37%

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 6 October 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 6 October 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 -15 26 £513 -6.82% 77
Cheshire +6 8 £525 +1.25% 11
Lancashire - 2 - - 15
Merseyside - 2 £450 - 5
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (2.44%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (2.44%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 17 (41.46%) AWS
2 11 (26.83%) GitHub
3 7 (17.07%) Azure
3 7 (17.07%) GitHub Actions
4 5 (12.20%) Anthropic Claude
4 5 (12.20%) GitHub Copilot
5 4 (9.76%) GCP
6 3 (7.32%) Google Gemini
7 2 (4.88%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (4.88%) SaaS
8 1 (2.44%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (2.44%) Amazon EventBridge
8 1 (2.44%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (2.44%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (2.44%) ChatGPT
8 1 (2.44%) Datadog
8 1 (2.44%) Google Play
8 1 (2.44%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.88%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.32%) NoSQL
1 3 (7.32%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.88%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.44%) DynamoDB
3 1 (2.44%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (12.20%) Git
2 4 (9.76%) Claude Code
3 2 (4.88%) Charles Proxy
3 2 (4.88%) GitLab
3 2 (4.88%) Jenkins
3 2 (4.88%) Postman
3 2 (4.88%) Selenium
4 1 (2.44%) Burp Suite
4 1 (2.44%) Cucumber
4 1 (2.44%) Cypress.io
4 1 (2.44%) JIRA
4 1 (2.44%) JMeter
4 1 (2.44%) JUnit
4 1 (2.44%) Maven
4 1 (2.44%) REST Assured
4 1 (2.44%) Robot Framework
4 1 (2.44%) SonarQube
4 1 (2.44%) TestNG
4 1 (2.44%) WebDriver
General
1 21 (51.22%) Social Skills
2 7 (17.07%) Retail
3 5 (12.20%) Automotive
3 5 (12.20%) Manufacturing
4 3 (7.32%) Finance
5 1 (2.44%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.44%) iGaming
5 1 (2.44%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.44%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (29.27%) Senior
2 8 (19.51%) Developer
3 6 (14.63%) Software Engineer
4 5 (12.20%) Project Manager
5 4 (9.76%) Analyst
5 4 (9.76%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (9.76%) Java Engineer
5 4 (9.76%) Senior DevOps
5 4 (9.76%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 3 (7.32%) AWS Engineer
6 3 (7.32%) Full-Stack Developer
6 3 (7.32%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 3 (7.32%) Principal Developer
6 3 (7.32%) Principal DevOps Engineer
6 3 (7.32%) Principal Engineer
6 3 (7.32%) Senior Developer
6 3 (7.32%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
6 3 (7.32%) Senior Software Engineer
7 2 (4.88%) Release Analyst
7 2 (4.88%) Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (24.39%) REST
2 9 (21.95%) Terraform
3 7 (17.07%) React
4 5 (12.20%) .NET
5 4 (9.76%) HTML
6 3 (7.32%) Next.js
6 3 (7.32%) Node.js
6 3 (7.32%) Spring
6 3 (7.32%) Spring Boot
6 3 (7.32%) Vue
7 2 (4.88%) CSS
7 2 (4.88%) Gherkin
7 2 (4.88%) GraphQL
7 2 (4.88%) HTML5
7 2 (4.88%) JSON
7 2 (4.88%) Kafka
7 2 (4.88%) Playwright
7 2 (4.88%) RESTful
7 2 (4.88%) Web Services
7 2 (4.88%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (24.39%) Cloud Native
2 6 (14.63%) Product Ownership
3 4 (9.76%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (7.32%) AI Agents
5 2 (4.88%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (4.88%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (4.88%) Mobile App
6 1 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (2.44%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (2.44%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.88%) Android
1 2 (4.88%) Windows
2 1 (2.44%) Apple iOS
2 1 (2.44%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (63.41%) CI/CD
2 17 (41.46%) Agile
3 16 (39.02%) Software Engineering
4 15 (36.59%) Test Automation
5 14 (34.15%) Continuous Improvement
6 13 (31.71%) DevOps
7 12 (29.27%) AI
8 11 (26.83%) Stakeholder Management
9 10 (24.39%) Observability
10 9 (21.95%) Infrastructure as Code
11 8 (19.51%) Migration
12 7 (17.07%) Scrum
13 6 (14.63%) E-Commerce
13 6 (14.63%) Event-Driven
13 6 (14.63%) Full-Stack Development
13 6 (14.63%) Mentoring
13 6 (14.63%) Microservices
13 6 (14.63%) Monorepo
13 6 (14.63%) Roadmaps
14 5 (12.20%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 10 (24.39%) Java
1 10 (24.39%) TypeScript
2 6 (14.63%) JavaScript
3 5 (12.20%) Python
4 4 (9.76%) SQL
5 3 (7.32%) Bash
5 3 (7.32%) C#
5 3 (7.32%) Go
6 2 (4.88%) C
6 2 (4.88%) C++
6 2 (4.88%) Kotlin
7 1 (2.44%) Korn
7 1 (2.44%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.44%) Swift
7 1 (2.44%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 2 (4.88%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (4.88%) SC Cleared
1 2 (4.88%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.44%) Degree
2 1 (2.44%) Master's Degree
2 1 (2.44%) PRINCE2 Certification
2 1 (2.44%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (21.95%) QA
2 4 (9.76%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.44%) SLA
3 1 (2.44%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (17.07%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (21.95%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.44%) Grafana
2 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (2.44%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (4.88%) Microsoft
1 2 (4.88%) Salesforce
1 2 (4.88%) SAP
2 1 (2.44%) Google
2 1 (2.44%) Laserfiche
2 1 (2.44%) Oracle
2 1 (2.44%) ServiceNow