Software Delivery Contracts in Sheffield

Software Delivery
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Sheffield 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 51 52
Rank change year-on-year +9 +1 -5
Contract jobs citing Software Delivery 8 4 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 2.51% 1.06% 0.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.62% 1.14% 0.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 3 1
10th Percentile £365 - -
25th Percentile £416 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £720 £600
Median % change year-on-year -31.94% +20.00% -4.00%
75th Percentile £521 - -
90th Percentile £550 - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £490 £720 £600
% change year-on-year -31.94% +20.00% -4.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 305 351 434
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 95.61% 92.61% 95.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 203 302
10th Percentile £232 £375 £364
25th Percentile £388 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £551
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -9.30% +10.25%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £675
90th Percentile £650 £650 £700
South Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £475 £550
% change year-on-year - -13.64% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 10 3
10th Percentile - £10.90 £11.05
25th Percentile £18.10 £11.33 £11.13
Median hourly rate £18.21 £22.00 £11.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.25% +91.30% -28.13%
75th Percentile £18.41 £23.75 £25.88
90th Percentile £18.47 - £34.35
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.21 £17.62 £10.63
% change year-on-year +3.35% +65.71% -36.54%

Software Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

Job postings citing Software Delivery as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Sheffield.

Job vacancy trend for Software Delivery in Sheffield

Software Delivery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Software Delivery in Sheffield.

Daily rate trend for Software Delivery in Sheffield

Software Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Delivery in Sheffield over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Software Delivery in Sheffield

Software Delivery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield 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 5 (62.50%) GitHub
2 4 (50.00%) CloudBees
3 2 (25.00%) GCP
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (12.50%) AWS
4 1 (12.50%) Azure
4 1 (12.50%) Azure AKS
4 1 (12.50%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (12.50%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (12.50%) BigQuery
1 1 (12.50%) MongoDB
1 1 (12.50%) MySQL
1 1 (12.50%) NoSQL
1 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (12.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (62.50%) Git
1 5 (62.50%) Jenkins
2 1 (12.50%) GitLab
General
1 2 (25.00%) Banking
1 2 (25.00%) Finance
1 2 (25.00%) Investment Banking
1 2 (25.00%) Retail
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Developer
2 2 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 2 (25.00%) IT Manager
2 2 (25.00%) IT Project Manager
2 2 (25.00%) Project Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Java Developer
3 1 (12.50%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (12.50%) AngularJS
2 1 (12.50%) CSS
2 1 (12.50%) CSS3
2 1 (12.50%) HTML
2 1 (12.50%) HTML5
2 1 (12.50%) Kafka
2 1 (12.50%) Node.js
2 1 (12.50%) React
2 1 (12.50%) RESTful
2 1 (12.50%) Spring
2 1 (12.50%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (25.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Agile
2 7 (87.50%) DevOps
3 5 (62.50%) Full-Stack Development
3 5 (62.50%) TDD
4 4 (50.00%) Architectural Design
4 4 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
4 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 4 (50.00%) Design Patterns
4 4 (50.00%) Scrum
4 4 (50.00%) Software Engineering
5 3 (37.50%) Code Quality
5 3 (37.50%) Kanban
5 3 (37.50%) SDLC
6 2 (25.00%) Backlog Management
6 2 (25.00%) Budget Management
6 2 (25.00%) Budgeting
6 2 (25.00%) Decision-Making
6 2 (25.00%) Microservices
6 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (25.00%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) Java
1 6 (75.00%) Python
2 5 (62.50%) JavaScript
2 5 (62.50%) Kotlin
3 4 (50.00%) Shell Script
4 1 (12.50%) Groovy
4 1 (12.50%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) PMO
1 2 (25.00%) QA
2 1 (12.50%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (12.50%) Grafana
2 1 (12.50%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Dynatrace
1 1 (12.50%) Google
1 1 (12.50%) Veeam