Software Delivery Contract Job Trends in Portsmouth

Software Delivery
Hampshire > Portsmouth

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Portsmouth requiring Software Delivery skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 - 45
Rank change year-on-year - - -3
Contract jobs citing Software Delivery 3 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Portsmouth 1.11% - 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.60% - 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £430 - -
25th Percentile £456 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
75th Percentile £532 - -
90th Percentile £551 - -
Hampshire median daily rate £559 £440 £593
% change year-on-year +26.99% -25.74% +0.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £65.00
Hampshire median hourly rate - - £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +1.56%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Portsmouth

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 Portsmouth.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 187 116 241
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Portsmouth 69.26% 74.36% 90.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 60 95
10th Percentile £320 £379 £378
25th Percentile £450 £418 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £533 £575
Median % change year-on-year +0.85% -7.39% +15.00%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £658
90th Percentile £715 £675 £790
Hampshire median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.70% +12.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 26 102
10th Percentile £13.48 £32.10 £51.06
25th Percentile £46.25 £41.00 £53.40
Median hourly rate £52.43 £50.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.85% -16.67% +4.35%
75th Percentile £60.90 £58.75 £70.32
90th Percentile £68.55 £63.13 £76.86
Hampshire median hourly rate £37.63 £50.00 £57.35
% change year-on-year -24.75% -12.82% +4.27%

Software Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in Portsmouth

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Software Delivery relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Portsmouth.

Software Delivery job vacancy trend in Portsmouth

Software Delivery
Daily Rate Trend in Portsmouth

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Portsmouth citing Software Delivery.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Portsmouth citing Software Delivery

Software Delivery
Hourly Rate Trend in Portsmouth

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Portsmouth citing Software Delivery.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Portsmouth citing Software Delivery

Software Delivery
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Portsmouth 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 1 (33.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
2 1 (33.33%) Git
2 1 (33.33%) GitLab
General
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Business Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Service Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) ModSecurity
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Agile Project Management
2 1 (33.33%) Business Case
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Portfolio Management
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Project Management
2 1 (33.33%) SDLC
2 1 (33.33%) Service Catalogue
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Map
2 1 (33.33%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Argo
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) VMware