Software Delivery Contracts in the South West

Software Delivery
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 96 138 151
Rank change year-on-year +42 +13 +8
Contract jobs citing Software Delivery 15 19 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.89% 0.59% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.99% 0.72% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 8 12
10th Percentile - - £377
25th Percentile £355 £513 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £370 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -29.52% - -11.17%
75th Percentile £558 £561 £675
90th Percentile £620 £647 £754
England median daily rate £550 £595 £588
% change year-on-year -7.56% +1.28% -2.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 2
Median hourly rate - £80.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - +14.29% -
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 West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,516 2,656 3,250
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 90.35% 83.03% 89.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 965 1,696 2,395
10th Percentile £235 £220 £313
25th Percentile £400 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £549
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.37% +9.80%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £644
90th Percentile £688 £700 £719
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 145 336 335
10th Percentile £18.33 £13.86 £9.80
25th Percentile £20.48 £27.50 £17.00
Median hourly rate £63.00 £50.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.00% -18.70% +26.16%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.50 £83.36
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Delivery in the South West

Software Delivery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Software Delivery in the South West

Software Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for Software Delivery in the South West

Software Delivery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Delivery in the South West

Software Delivery
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South West 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
Bristol +18 13 £370 -29.52% 11
Somerset - 2 £625 - 2
Software Delivery
England

Software Delivery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (13.33%) Confluence
2 1 (6.67%) Appian
Cloud Services
1 10 (66.67%) AWS
1 10 (66.67%) Azure
2 8 (53.33%) GCP
3 1 (6.67%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) JIRA
General
1 13 (86.67%) Social Skills
2 12 (80.00%) Finance
2 12 (80.00%) Public Sector
3 11 (73.33%) Electronics
3 11 (73.33%) Manufacturing
3 11 (73.33%) Marketing
3 11 (73.33%) Telecoms
4 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (53.33%) Applications Support
1 8 (53.33%) Developer
2 7 (46.67%) Applications Developer
2 7 (46.67%) Applications Engineer
2 7 (46.67%) Applications Support Engineer
2 7 (46.67%) Support Engineer
3 6 (40.00%) Azure Developer
3 6 (40.00%) Azure Engineer
3 6 (40.00%) C# Application Developer
3 6 (40.00%) C# Developer
3 6 (40.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 4 (26.67%) Delivery Manager
5 2 (13.33%) Agile Delivery Manager
6 1 (6.67%) Appian Developer
6 1 (6.67%) Chief Technology Officer
6 1 (6.67%) IT Manager
6 1 (6.67%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (53.33%) .NET
1 8 (53.33%) CSS
1 8 (53.33%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (53.33%) Management Information System
2 3 (20.00%) Product Ownership
3 2 (13.33%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (73.33%) Business Intelligence
1 11 (73.33%) CI/CD
1 11 (73.33%) Continuous Integration
1 11 (73.33%) Digital Marketing
1 11 (73.33%) Programme Management
2 10 (66.67%) Service Management
2 10 (66.67%) Software Engineering
3 9 (60.00%) Continuous Delivery
3 9 (60.00%) Test Automation
4 8 (53.33%) Computer Science
4 8 (53.33%) Service Delivery
4 8 (53.33%) TDD
4 8 (53.33%) User Experience
4 8 (53.33%) Web Development
5 7 (46.67%) Agile
6 6 (40.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 5 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
8 3 (20.00%) Coaching
8 3 (20.00%) Product Backlog
8 3 (20.00%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (53.33%) C#
1 8 (53.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 8 (53.33%) Azure Certification
1 8 (53.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 8 (53.33%) Degree
2 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 11 (73.33%) SAP
2 8 (53.33%) Google