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

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 143 126 119
Rank change year-on-year -17 -7 +7
Contract jobs citing Software Delivery 28 7 7
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.72% 0.32% 0.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.87% 0.36% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 5 4
10th Percentile £409 £462 -
25th Percentile £494 £500 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £537 £556
Median % change year-on-year -2.23% -3.46% -12.40%
75th Percentile £575 £540 £614
90th Percentile £763 £561 £628
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -12.00%
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 £67.70 £63.75 £80.00
% change year-on-year +6.20% -20.31% +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 3,236 1,966 2,055
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 82.66% 88.60% 83.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,896 1,272 1,231
10th Percentile £292 £295 £311
25th Percentile £400 £375 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £453 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.31% -9.35% -
75th Percentile £594 £575 £588
90th Percentile £680 £671 £675
England median daily rate £525 £511 £525
% change year-on-year +2.74% -2.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 333 131 153
10th Percentile £16.50 £13.50 £10.95
25th Percentile £25.38 £18.16 £16.06
Median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £35.36
Median % change year-on-year +78.93% -28.87% +1.03%
75th Percentile £73.00 £53.75 £54.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £72.50 £70.90
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +1.18%

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 25 August 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 25 August 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 -19 17 £525 -4.55% 41
Cheshire +6 7 £525 +1.25% 6
Lancashire - 2 - - 4
Merseyside - 1 £525 - 2
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:

Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (3.57%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 13 (46.43%) AWS
2 8 (28.57%) GitHub
3 6 (21.43%) GitHub Actions
4 5 (17.86%) Azure
5 4 (14.29%) Anthropic Claude
5 4 (14.29%) GCP
6 3 (10.71%) GitHub Copilot
6 3 (10.71%) Google Gemini
7 1 (3.57%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (3.57%) Amazon EventBridge
7 1 (3.57%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (3.57%) Datadog
7 1 (3.57%) Google Play
7 1 (3.57%) SaaS
7 1 (3.57%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (7.14%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.57%) DynamoDB
2 1 (3.57%) NoSQL
2 1 (3.57%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (14.29%) Claude Code
2 2 (7.14%) Charles Proxy
2 2 (7.14%) Git
2 2 (7.14%) Postman
3 1 (3.57%) Burp Suite
3 1 (3.57%) Cypress.io
3 1 (3.57%) GitLab
3 1 (3.57%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.57%) JIRA
3 1 (3.57%) JMeter
3 1 (3.57%) Maven
3 1 (3.57%) Robot Framework
3 1 (3.57%) Selenium
3 1 (3.57%) SonarQube
General
1 12 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 8 (28.57%) Retail
3 5 (17.86%) Manufacturing
4 4 (14.29%) Automotive
5 2 (7.14%) Finance
6 1 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (3.57%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (3.57%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (35.71%) Senior
2 5 (17.86%) Project Manager
3 4 (14.29%) Developer
3 4 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (14.29%) Senior DevOps
3 4 (14.29%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 4 (14.29%) Software Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Full-Stack Developer
4 3 (10.71%) Principal Developer
4 3 (10.71%) Principal DevOps Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Principal Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Senior Developer
4 3 (10.71%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
4 3 (10.71%) Senior Software Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Analyst
5 2 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) IT Manager
5 2 (7.14%) Mobile Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Systems Analyst
5 2 (7.14%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (32.14%) Terraform
2 6 (21.43%) REST
3 3 (10.71%) Next.js
3 3 (10.71%) Node.js
3 3 (10.71%) React
4 2 (7.14%) Spring
4 2 (7.14%) Spring Boot
5 1 (3.57%) .NET
5 1 (3.57%) .NET Core
5 1 (3.57%) .NET Framework
5 1 (3.57%) Android Jetpack
5 1 (3.57%) Gherkin
5 1 (3.57%) JPA
5 1 (3.57%) JSON
5 1 (3.57%) Kafka
5 1 (3.57%) Playwright
5 1 (3.57%) RESTful
5 1 (3.57%) Spring MVC
5 1 (3.57%) Spring Security
5 1 (3.57%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 8 (28.57%) Cloud Native
2 4 (14.29%) Product Ownership
3 2 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (7.14%) Mobile App
4 1 (3.57%) AI Agents
4 1 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.57%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (3.57%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.14%) Windows
2 1 (3.57%) Android
2 1 (3.57%) Apple iOS
2 1 (3.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (53.57%) CI/CD
2 12 (42.86%) Continuous Improvement
3 11 (39.29%) Agile
3 11 (39.29%) Test Automation
4 10 (35.71%) Software Engineering
5 9 (32.14%) DevOps
6 8 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
6 8 (28.57%) Observability
7 7 (25.00%) AI
7 7 (25.00%) Migration
7 7 (25.00%) Roadmaps
7 7 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
8 6 (21.43%) Mentoring
8 6 (21.43%) Microservices
8 6 (21.43%) Monorepo
9 5 (17.86%) E-Commerce
9 5 (17.86%) Event-Driven
9 5 (17.86%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 5 (17.86%) SDLC
10 4 (14.29%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 5 (17.86%) Python
1 5 (17.86%) TypeScript
2 3 (10.71%) Bash
2 3 (10.71%) Java
3 2 (7.14%) Kotlin
3 2 (7.14%) SQL
4 1 (3.57%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.57%) PowerShell
4 1 (3.57%) Swift
4 1 (3.57%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 2 (7.14%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (3.57%) Degree
2 1 (3.57%) Master's Degree
2 1 (3.57%) PRINCE2 Certification
2 1 (3.57%) SAFe Agilist
2 1 (3.57%) SC Cleared
2 1 (3.57%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (28.57%) QA
2 3 (10.71%) Accessibility
3 1 (3.57%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (17.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (21.43%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.57%) Grafana
2 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (3.57%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (7.14%) Microsoft
1 2 (7.14%) Salesforce
1 2 (7.14%) SAP
2 1 (3.57%) Google
2 1 (3.57%) Laserfiche
2 1 (3.57%) Oracle
2 1 (3.57%) ServiceNow