Software Delivery Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Software Delivery
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring Software Delivery skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 41 37
Rank change year-on-year -26 -4 +17
Contract jobs citing Software Delivery 18 1 14
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 2.48% 0.34% 3.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.61% 0.37% 3.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 0 12
10th Percentile £298 - -
25th Percentile £305 - £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 - £635
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.83%
75th Percentile £513 - £720
90th Percentile £595 - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £444 - £635
% change year-on-year - - +5.83%

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 689 271 363
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 95.03% 92.81% 96.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 463 152 229
10th Percentile £320 £220 £387
25th Percentile £402 £419 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £518 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.73% -5.91% -
75th Percentile £538 £600 £650
90th Percentile £621 £692 £720
South Yorkshire median daily rate £480 £509 £525
% change year-on-year -5.60% -3.14% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 6
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.79 £19.25
25th Percentile £14.71 £14.35 £20.31
Median hourly rate £20.08 £18.10 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.94% -19.58% +18.42%
75th Percentile £25.15 £20.38 £23.75
90th Percentile - £21.05 £27.50
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £20.08 £18.10 £22.50
% change year-on-year +10.94% -19.58% +60.71%

Software Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Software Delivery job vacancy trend in Sheffield

Software Delivery
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

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

Software Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Delivery in Sheffield over the 6 months to 24 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Software Delivery in Sheffield

Software Delivery
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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 6 (33.33%) Confluence
2 1 (5.56%) CICS
2 1 (5.56%) CMS
Applications
1 4 (22.22%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (22.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (5.56%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 6 (33.33%) GitHub
2 4 (22.22%) GCP
3 3 (16.67%) AWS
3 3 (16.67%) Azure
4 2 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 3 (16.67%) Firewall
2 1 (5.56%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (5.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (44.44%) Jenkins
2 7 (38.89%) JIRA
3 5 (27.78%) Sonatype Nexus
4 4 (22.22%) Jaeger
5 1 (5.56%) ChangeMan
5 1 (5.56%) Git
General
1 10 (55.56%) Finance
1 10 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 8 (44.44%) Banking
3 5 (27.78%) Financial Institution
4 2 (11.11%) Police
5 1 (5.56%) Law
5 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (33.33%) Analyst
1 6 (33.33%) Business Analyst
1 6 (33.33%) Technical Analyst
1 6 (33.33%) Technical Business Analyst
2 5 (27.78%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Developer
3 2 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Senior
3 2 (11.11%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Consultant
4 1 (5.56%) Delivery Manager
4 1 (5.56%) DevSecOps Consultant
4 1 (5.56%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (22.22%) Kafka
1 4 (22.22%) Middleware
1 4 (22.22%) OpenTelemetry
1 4 (22.22%) Spring Boot
2 1 (5.56%) .NET
2 1 (5.56%) SLSA
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Distributed Systems
1 4 (22.22%) Management Information System
2 2 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (5.56%) AI Agents
3 1 (5.56%) Cyber Security Posture
3 1 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (5.56%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 3 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (72.22%) DevOps
2 12 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 8 (44.44%) Process Improvement
4 6 (33.33%) Migration
5 5 (27.78%) DevSecOps
5 5 (27.78%) Full-Stack Development
5 5 (27.78%) GAP Analysis
6 4 (22.22%) Business Strategy
6 4 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
6 4 (22.22%) Fintech
6 4 (22.22%) IT Strategy
6 4 (22.22%) JVM Tuning
6 4 (22.22%) Matrix Organization
6 4 (22.22%) Mentoring
6 4 (22.22%) Microservices
6 4 (22.22%) Observability
6 4 (22.22%) Performance Optimisation
6 4 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (22.22%) Technical Leadership
6 4 (22.22%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 7 (38.89%) Java
2 4 (22.22%) Rust
3 3 (16.67%) SQL
4 2 (11.11%) Python
5 1 (5.56%) Bash
5 1 (5.56%) COBOL
5 1 (5.56%) JCL
5 1 (5.56%) REXX
5 1 (5.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (22.22%) Degree
2 1 (5.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 1 (5.56%) CCSK
2 1 (5.56%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (5.56%) CISM
2 1 (5.56%) CISSP
System Software
1 5 (27.78%) Docker
2 1 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (5.56%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 7 (38.89%) Ansible
2 6 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 5 (27.78%) Grafana
3 5 (27.78%) Prometheus
4 4 (22.22%) Kiali
5 3 (16.67%) Terraform
6 1 (5.56%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 5 (27.78%) Sonatype
2 4 (22.22%) Splunk
3 2 (11.11%) Google
3 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
4 1 (5.56%) Cisco
4 1 (5.56%) IBM
4 1 (5.56%) VMware