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 3 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 135 110 120
Rank change year-on-year -25 +10 +30
Contract jobs citing Software Delivery 8 7 23
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.33% 0.30% 0.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% 0.36% 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 15
10th Percentile £460 - £424
25th Percentile £488 £488 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £556 £675
Median % change year-on-year -2.92% -17.59% +17.39%
75th Percentile £593 £614 £720
90th Percentile £616 £628 -
England median daily rate £500 £550 £625
% change year-on-year -9.09% -12.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £69.50 £72.50
Median hourly rate - £72.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year - -4.00% -
75th Percentile - £74.50 £77.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £75.86
% change year-on-year - -14.32% -2.90%

All Process and 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 2,097 1,946 2,468
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 87.74% 83.48% 88.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,379 1,051 1,696
10th Percentile £215 £294 £270
25th Percentile £360 £391 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +1.01%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £593
90th Percentile £678 £656 £674
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 189 109 169
10th Percentile £15.18 £16.78 £15.75
25th Percentile £19.07 £24.19 £18.00
Median hourly rate £29.27 £40.33 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.41% +13.59% +46.15%
75th Percentile £47.12 £55.79 £46.18
90th Percentile £71.66 £70.90 £64.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.07 £44.50
% change year-on-year -33.94% -14.45% +27.14%

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 3 November 2025.

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 3 November 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
Cheshire - 5 £537 -
Manchester -10 3 £550 -9.28% 18
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 1 (12.50%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) AWS
2 3 (37.50%) Azure
3 2 (25.00%) GitHub
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon S3
4 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (12.50%) GCP
4 1 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (12.50%) iPaaS
4 1 (12.50%) OpenShift
4 1 (12.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) DB2
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Jenkins
2 1 (12.50%) Bitbucket
2 1 (12.50%) GitLab
2 1 (12.50%) JIRA
2 1 (12.50%) Snyk
2 1 (12.50%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (37.50%) Banking
1 3 (37.50%) Finance
2 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Architect
1 2 (25.00%) Enterprise Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Agile Scrum Master
2 1 (12.50%) Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Business Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Business Integration Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Developer
2 1 (12.50%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Integration Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Java Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Payments Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Scrum Master
2 1 (12.50%) Security Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Senior
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) RAML
1 1 (12.50%) REST
1 1 (12.50%) SOAP
1 1 (12.50%) Web Services
1 1 (12.50%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
1 1 (12.50%) Mac OS X
1 1 (12.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Agile
2 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
2 3 (37.50%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (37.50%) DevOps
2 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (25.00%) BDD
3 2 (25.00%) Biometrics
3 2 (25.00%) Business Strategy
3 2 (25.00%) Critical Thinking
3 2 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (25.00%) IT Strategy
3 2 (25.00%) Low Latency
3 2 (25.00%) Risk Assessment
3 2 (25.00%) Scrum
3 2 (25.00%) SDLC
3 2 (25.00%) Strategic Thinking
3 2 (25.00%) Technology Strategy
3 2 (25.00%) TOGAF
4 1 (12.50%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) Java
1 1 (12.50%) Korn
1 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) TOGAF Certification
2 1 (12.50%) AWS Certification
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Certification
2 1 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (12.50%) Degree
2 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (25.00%) Terraform
2 1 (12.50%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Checkmarx
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
1 1 (12.50%) MuleSoft
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle
1 1 (12.50%) Veracode