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

6 months to
17 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 150 121 118
Rank change year-on-year -29 -3 +21
Contract jobs citing Software Delivery 11 3 23
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.34% 0.15% 0.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 0.17% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 20
10th Percentile £213 - £443
25th Percentile £269 - £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 £537 £600
Median % change year-on-year -32.50% -10.50% +23.08%
75th Percentile £444 - £707
90th Percentile £583 - £720
England median daily rate £550 £550 £595
% change year-on-year - -7.56% +2.37%
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% +9.43%

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 2,740 1,770 2,298
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 83.54% 90.03% 86.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,678 1,154 1,459
10th Percentile £297 £300 £310
25th Percentile £381 £388 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £467 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.68% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £581 £575 £593
90th Percentile £653 £663 £689
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 230 104 255
10th Percentile £17.13 £15.23 £10.97
25th Percentile £25.38 £22.74 £13.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £31.88 £25.60
Median % change year-on-year +72.52% +24.53% -27.92%
75th Percentile £74.26 £63.10 £46.03
90th Percentile £85.00 £85.03 £62.50
England median hourly rate £47.00 £29.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year +62.07% -20.55% +1.39%

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 May 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 17 May 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 -32 6 £400 - 20
Cheshire -13 1 £700 +30.35% 3
Lancashire - 1 - - 3
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 (18.18%) SharePoint
2 1 (9.09%) Confluence
2 1 (9.09%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (9.09%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) AWS
1 3 (27.27%) Azure
2 1 (9.09%) Datadog
2 1 (9.09%) GCP
2 1 (9.09%) Miro
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) JIRA
2 1 (9.09%) Cypress.io
2 1 (9.09%) Git
2 1 (9.09%) Postman
2 1 (9.09%) Robot Framework
2 1 (9.09%) Selenium
General
1 2 (18.18%) Organisational Skills
1 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
1 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Manufacturing
2 1 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Delivery Manager
2 3 (27.27%) Software Delivery Manager
2 3 (27.27%) Software Manager
3 2 (18.18%) Coordinator
3 2 (18.18%) Project Coordinator
4 1 (9.09%) Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Business Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Change Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Contracts Manager
4 1 (9.09%) CRM Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
4 1 (9.09%) IT Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Project Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Senior
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Software Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) ADO
1 1 (9.09%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
1 1 (9.09%) Data Centre
1 1 (9.09%) Distributed Architecture
1 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (9.09%) Private Cloud
1 1 (9.09%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) Agile
2 3 (27.27%) Roadmaps
3 2 (18.18%) DevOps
3 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (18.18%) Waterfall
4 1 (9.09%) BDD
4 1 (9.09%) Coaching
4 1 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Architecture
4 1 (9.09%) Kanban
4 1 (9.09%) Mentoring
4 1 (9.09%) Microservices
4 1 (9.09%) Release Management
4 1 (9.09%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (9.09%) Scrum
4 1 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (9.09%) Test Automation
4 1 (9.09%) Test Strategy
4 1 (9.09%) TOGAF
4 1 (9.09%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.09%) Java
1 1 (9.09%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) PMO
1 2 (18.18%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Grafana
1 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
1 1 (9.09%) Prometheus
1 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Google
1 1 (9.09%) SAP
1 1 (9.09%) ServiceNow