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 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 140 113 108
Rank change year-on-year -27 -5 +29
Contract jobs citing Software Delivery 5 4 31
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.20% 0.19% 1.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.21% 1.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 22
10th Percentile £448 - £438
25th Percentile £466 £488 £533
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £685
Median % change year-on-year - -23.36% +18.67%
75th Percentile £614 £584 £720
90th Percentile £621 £598 -
England median daily rate £475 £550 £615
% change year-on-year -13.64% -10.57% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £72.50
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
75th Percentile - - £77.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £35.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year +85.71% -53.33% +7.14%

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 2,203 1,863 2,328
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 88.44% 86.37% 89.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,438 1,054 1,583
10th Percentile £213 £266 £290
25th Percentile £358 £390 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £574 £575 £600
90th Percentile £652 £651 £687
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 195 108 154
10th Percentile £16.73 £16.00 £15.75
25th Percentile £20.91 £21.20 £17.81
Median hourly rate £32.00 £32.01 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.03% -9.83% +37.54%
75th Percentile £51.76 £51.91 £46.18
90th Percentile £69.78 £68.65 £65.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.30%

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 17 December 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 17 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
Cheshire - 3 £500 - 5
Manchester -10 2 £550 -6.38% 4
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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) GitHub
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (20.00%) GCP
3 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (20.00%) OpenShift
3 1 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) DB2
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (20.00%) Bitbucket
2 1 (20.00%) GitLab
2 1 (20.00%) Snyk
2 1 (20.00%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Financial Institution
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) Agile Scrum Master
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Developer
1 1 (20.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Java Developer
1 1 (20.00%) Scrum Master
1 1 (20.00%) Security Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Senior
1 1 (20.00%) Senior Developer
1 1 (20.00%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) RAML
1 1 (20.00%) REST
1 1 (20.00%) SOAP
1 1 (20.00%) Web Services
1 1 (20.00%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (20.00%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Mac OS X
1 1 (20.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Agile
1 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (40.00%) SDLC
3 1 (20.00%) Agile Coaching
3 1 (20.00%) BDD
3 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (20.00%) DevSecOps
3 1 (20.00%) Microservices
3 1 (20.00%) Pair Programming
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Process Improvement
3 1 (20.00%) Responsive Web Design
3 1 (20.00%) Secure Coding
3 1 (20.00%) Software Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Sprint Planning
3 1 (20.00%) Sprint Retrospective
3 1 (20.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Java
1 1 (20.00%) Korn
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (40.00%) Terraform
2 1 (20.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Checkmarx
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle
1 1 (20.00%) Veracode