Software Delivery Contracts in the North West

Software Delivery
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring Software Delivery skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Software Delivery over the 6 months leading up to 25 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 122 117 135
Rank change year-on-year -5 +18 +29
Contract jobs citing Software Delivery 5 13 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.25% 0.46% 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.55% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 10 14
10th Percentile £527 £443 £400
25th Percentile £531 £444 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £463 £475
Median % change year-on-year +16.76% -2.63% -5.00%
75th Percentile £558 £578 £550
90th Percentile £568 £604 £652
England median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £72.00 -
England median hourly rate £77.19 £80.00 £73.71
% change year-on-year -3.51% +8.53% +12.86%

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 1,791 2,352 2,701
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 89.46% 83.82% 89.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,197 1,435 1,884
10th Percentile £303 £306 £313
25th Percentile £384 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.07% -1.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £563 £585 £588
90th Percentile £664 £675 £675
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 264 140
10th Percentile £12.82 £11.00 £15.98
25th Percentile £19.06 £14.13 £20.00
Median hourly rate £32.00 £27.75 £30.27
Median % change year-on-year +15.32% -8.33% +28.56%
75th Percentile £63.40 £46.18 £43.75
90th Percentile £83.17 £66.61 £57.68
England median hourly rate £25.50 £37.50 £35.03
% change year-on-year -32.00% +7.05% +36.41%

Software Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Software Delivery as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Software Delivery in the North West

Software Delivery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Software Delivery in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Software Delivery in the North West

Software Delivery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Software Delivery in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Software Delivery in the North West

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 June 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 £539 - 2
Manchester +5 2 £550 +18.92% 25
Software Delivery
England

Software Delivery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) AWS
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Functions
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Pipelines
3 1 (20.00%) iPaaS
3 1 (20.00%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Banking
3 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Enterprise Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Business Integration Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Integration Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Payments Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) ADO
1 1 (20.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) Biometrics
2 2 (40.00%) Business Strategy
2 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (40.00%) Critical Thinking
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 2 (40.00%) IT Strategy
2 2 (40.00%) Low Latency
2 2 (40.00%) Risk Assessment
2 2 (40.00%) Strategic Thinking
2 2 (40.00%) Technology Strategy
2 2 (40.00%) TOGAF
3 1 (20.00%) BDD
3 1 (20.00%) Business Process Mapping
3 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (20.00%) Portfolio Management
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (20.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Bash
1 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) TOGAF Certification
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (20.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (20.00%) MuleSoft