Software Delivery Contracts in the South East

Software Delivery
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 145 190 192
Rank change year-on-year +45 +2 +1
Contract jobs citing Software Delivery 14 15 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.47% 0.27% 0.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.51% 0.32% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 7 18
10th Percentile £411 £433 £313
25th Percentile £517 £475 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £600 £609 £628
90th Percentile £645 £613 £656
England median daily rate £550 £595 £588
% change year-on-year -7.56% +1.28% -2.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 6
10th Percentile - - £56.80
25th Percentile - - £59.44
Median hourly rate £77.19 £65.00 £68.86
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% -5.60% -
75th Percentile - - £74.68
90th Percentile - - £80.00
England median hourly rate £77.19 £80.00 £73.71
% change year-on-year -3.51% +8.53% -4.58%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,757 4,716 5,181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.59% 84.85% 89.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,756 2,743 3,594
10th Percentile £256 £243 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £508
Median % change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
75th Percentile £600 £621 £619
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 434 219
10th Percentile £13.85 £13.00 £18.25
25th Percentile £15.79 £18.23 £23.83
Median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%
75th Percentile £62.50 £62.49 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £74.83
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Software Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Delivery in the South East

Software Delivery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Software Delivery in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Software Delivery in the South East

Software Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for Software Delivery in the South East

Software Delivery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Software Delivery in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Software Delivery in the South East

Software Delivery
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Thames Valley +43 6 £550 +41.94% 57
Berkshire +32 6 £550 - 25
Hampshire +25 5 £545 -5.22% 32
West Sussex +13 2 £550 +10.00% 11
Software Delivery
England

Software Delivery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (7.14%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Infor CloudSuite
Cloud Services
1 6 (42.86%) Azure
2 4 (28.57%) AWS
3 3 (21.43%) PaaS
3 3 (21.43%) SaaS
3 3 (21.43%) Tricentis Tosca
4 2 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (14.29%) Amazon S3
4 2 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (14.29%) Serverless
5 1 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (7.14%) Azure AKS
5 1 (7.14%) Azure API Management
5 1 (7.14%) Azure App Service
5 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (7.14%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (7.14%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (7.14%) Azure Storage
5 1 (7.14%) Entra ID
5 1 (7.14%) GCP
5 1 (7.14%) IaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (21.43%) NoSQL
2 1 (7.14%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (7.14%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) GitLab
1 3 (21.43%) JIRA
2 2 (14.29%) Git
3 1 (7.14%) Jenkins
3 1 (7.14%) SonarQube
General
1 5 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Finance
3 2 (14.29%) Telecoms
4 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Developer
1 5 (35.71%) Senior
2 3 (21.43%) Senior Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Agile Product Owner
3 2 (14.29%) Applications Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Automation Developer
3 2 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Product Owner
3 2 (14.29%) Senior Applications Developer
4 1 (7.14%) .NET Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Digital Developer
4 1 (7.14%) React Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior DevOps
4 1 (7.14%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Service Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (28.57%) .NET
2 3 (21.43%) RESTful
3 2 (14.29%) React
4 1 (7.14%) .NET Core
4 1 (7.14%) .NET Framework
4 1 (7.14%) ARM Templates
4 1 (7.14%) Entity Framework
4 1 (7.14%) JSON
4 1 (7.14%) OAuth
4 1 (7.14%) OpenID
4 1 (7.14%) REST
4 1 (7.14%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Product Ownership
2 1 (7.14%) Algorithms
2 1 (7.14%) Data Structures
2 1 (7.14%) Wiki
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) Agile
1 7 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 7 (50.00%) DevOps
2 5 (35.71%) Test Automation
3 4 (28.57%) Scrum
3 4 (28.57%) SDLC
4 3 (21.43%) Containerisation
4 3 (21.43%) Software Engineering
5 2 (14.29%) Acceptance Criteria
5 2 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
5 2 (14.29%) Backlog Prioritisation
5 2 (14.29%) BDD
5 2 (14.29%) IT Governance
5 2 (14.29%) Kanban
5 2 (14.29%) Microservices
5 2 (14.29%) Risk Management
5 2 (14.29%) Roadmaps
5 2 (14.29%) Scenario Testing
5 2 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (14.29%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 6 (42.86%) SQL
2 5 (35.71%) Python
3 3 (21.43%) Go
4 1 (7.14%) ActionScript
4 1 (7.14%) Bash
4 1 (7.14%) Bicep
4 1 (7.14%) C#
4 1 (7.14%) Java
4 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
4 1 (7.14%) PowerShell
4 1 (7.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 5 (35.71%) SC Cleared
3 1 (7.14%) CEH
3 1 (7.14%) CISM
3 1 (7.14%) CISSP
3 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (7.14%) Degree
3 1 (7.14%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (7.14%) NIST
2 1 (7.14%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (21.43%) Docker
2 1 (7.14%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 2 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.14%) Blue Prism
2 1 (7.14%) Infor
2 1 (7.14%) UiPath