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

6 months to
15 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 145 120 112
Rank change year-on-year -25 -8 +29
Contract jobs citing Software Delivery 10 4 29
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.37% 0.19% 1.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.42% 0.22% 1.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 23
10th Percentile £213 £496 £439
25th Percentile £269 £508 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 £556 £550
Median % change year-on-year -34.83% +1.14% -4.72%
75th Percentile £618 £595 £711
90th Percentile £665 £602 £720
England median daily rate £475 £575 £588
% change year-on-year -17.39% -2.13% -2.08%

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 2,373 1,856 2,457
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 86.67% 88.76% 86.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,537 1,113 1,630
10th Percentile £213 £266 £307
25th Percentile £358 £380 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £550 £571 £588
90th Percentile £650 £656 £675
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 203 98 217
10th Percentile £16.08 £17.48 £12.50
25th Percentile £22.85 £22.78 £15.50
Median hourly rate £42.69 £31.51 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +35.46% +5.03% -20.00%
75th Percentile £61.25 £55.76 £46.18
90th Percentile £75.48 £75.58 £53.75
England median hourly rate £25.89 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -26.04% - -

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 15 February 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 15 February 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 -20 5 £456 -22.34% 7
Cheshire -23 2 £650 -
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 (20.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (10.00%) Confluence
2 1 (10.00%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) AWS
1 2 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (10.00%) GitHub
2 1 (10.00%) Miro
2 1 (10.00%) OpenShift
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (10.00%) JIRA
1 1 (10.00%) Snyk
1 1 (10.00%) SonarQube
General
1 2 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
1 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Financial Institution
2 1 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Delivery Manager
1 3 (30.00%) Software Delivery Manager
1 3 (30.00%) Software Manager
2 2 (20.00%) Coordinator
2 2 (20.00%) Project Coordinator
3 1 (10.00%) Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Business Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Change Manager
3 1 (10.00%) CRM Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Developer
3 1 (10.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Security Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Java Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (10.00%) Private Cloud
1 1 (10.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
1 1 (10.00%) Mac OS X
1 1 (10.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (20.00%) Agile
1 2 (20.00%) DevOps
1 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (10.00%) BDD
2 1 (10.00%) Change Management
2 1 (10.00%) Continuous Deployment
2 1 (10.00%) CRM
2 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (10.00%) Kanban
2 1 (10.00%) Microservices
2 1 (10.00%) Pair Programming
2 1 (10.00%) Project Management
2 1 (10.00%) Release Management
2 1 (10.00%) Responsive Web Design
2 1 (10.00%) Scrum
2 1 (10.00%) TDD
2 1 (10.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (10.00%) TOGAF
2 1 (10.00%) Waterfall
2 1 (10.00%) Web Design
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) PMO
2 1 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Checkmarx
1 1 (10.00%) Google
1 1 (10.00%) SAP
1 1 (10.00%) Veracode