Software Delivery Contracts in the North West

Software Delivery
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for Software Delivery skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Software Delivery over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 113 137 161
Rank change year-on-year +24 +24 -35
Contract jobs citing Software Delivery 22 21 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.82% 0.67% 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.96% 0.74% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 16 14
10th Percentile £443 £400 -
25th Percentile £447 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £488 £470
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% +3.72% +4.44%
75th Percentile £711 £555 £540
90th Percentile £720 £625 £559
England median daily rate £600 £588 £600
% change year-on-year +2.13% -2.08% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £69.50 - £32.25
Median hourly rate £72.00 - £34.50
75th Percentile £74.50 - £36.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £80.00 £72.50 £77.00
% change year-on-year +10.34% -5.84% +31.16%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

Software Delivery is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,301 2,831 3,540
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 86.18% 90.71% 88.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,459 2,009 2,591
10th Percentile £306 £313 £250
25th Percentile £405 £413 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £593 £588 £575
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 248 137 159
10th Percentile £10.95 £16.85 £10.63
25th Percentile £13.45 £23.15 £14.13
Median hourly rate £23.48 £36.00 £20.13
Median % change year-on-year -34.79% +78.84% +9.28%
75th Percentile £45.88 £49.52 £43.13
90th Percentile £60.38 £66.00 £58.75
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.34 £24.30
% change year-on-year -2.25% +53.69% +3.38%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Delivery in the North West over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram 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 7 May 2024. 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 +27 16 £469 +10.29% 14
Lancashire +6 4 £720 +20.00%
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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (36.36%) AWS
2 4 (18.18%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (13.64%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (13.64%) Amazon EKS
3 3 (13.64%) Amazon S3
3 3 (13.64%) AWS CodePipeline
3 3 (13.64%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (13.64%) Serverless
4 2 (9.09%) Azure
4 2 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (4.55%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.64%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 4 (18.18%) GitLab
1 4 (18.18%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.55%) Travis CI
General
1 9 (40.91%) Public Sector
2 1 (4.55%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 9 (40.91%) Developer
1 9 (40.91%) DevOps Engineer
1 9 (40.91%) ServiceNow Developer
2 7 (31.82%) Senior
2 7 (31.82%) Senior Developer
2 7 (31.82%) Senior ServiceNow Developer
3 6 (27.27%) AWS DevOps
3 6 (27.27%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 6 (27.27%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Lead
5 1 (4.55%) Analyst
5 1 (4.55%) Business Analyst
5 1 (4.55%) Software Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.09%) ARM Templates
2 1 (4.55%) .NET
2 1 (4.55%) AWS CDK
2 1 (4.55%) Node.js
2 1 (4.55%) React
2 1 (4.55%) Spring
2 1 (4.55%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.55%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (45.45%) CI/CD
2 9 (40.91%) DevOps
2 9 (40.91%) ITIL
2 9 (40.91%) Line Management
2 9 (40.91%) Roadmaps
3 7 (31.82%) Containerisation
3 7 (31.82%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (18.18%) Agile
5 3 (13.64%) Configuration Management
5 3 (13.64%) High Availability
6 1 (4.55%) Collaborative Working
6 1 (4.55%) Kanban
6 1 (4.55%) Matrix Management
6 1 (4.55%) Pair Programming
6 1 (4.55%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (4.55%) Programme Delivery
6 1 (4.55%) Scrum
6 1 (4.55%) Software Engineering
6 1 (4.55%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (4.55%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 3 (13.64%) Python
1 3 (13.64%) Ruby
2 1 (4.55%) Java
2 1 (4.55%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (40.91%) ITIL Certification
2 3 (13.64%) AWS Certification
2 3 (13.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 3 (13.64%) SC Cleared
2 3 (13.64%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.55%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.55%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 7 (31.82%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (40.91%) Terraform
2 7 (31.82%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (40.91%) ServiceNow
2 2 (9.09%) Virgin Media
3 1 (4.55%) Microsoft