Software Delivery Contracts in the South West

Software Delivery
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for Software Delivery skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Software Delivery over the 6 months to 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 136 159 149
Rank change year-on-year +23 -10 -29
Contract jobs citing Software Delivery 18 16 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.56% 0.43% 0.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.68% 0.49% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 12 15
10th Percentile - £377 £472
25th Percentile £513 £454 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -11.02% +9.36%
75th Percentile £561 £675 £650
90th Percentile £647 £754 £675
England median daily rate £600 £575 £600
% change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £75.00 - -
Median hourly rate £80.00 £70.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% - -
75th Percentile £86.25 - -
90th Percentile £88.50 - -
England median hourly rate £80.00 £73.25 £77.25
% change year-on-year +9.22% -5.18% +54.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

Software Delivery is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,659 3,298 3,329
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 83.04% 89.50% 88.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,724 2,416 2,348
10th Percentile £225 £313 £301
25th Percentile £406 £425 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% +9.00% +6.95%
75th Percentile £625 £640 £588
90th Percentile £704 £719 £670
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 326 349 194
10th Percentile £13.86 £9.80 £15.90
25th Percentile £25.31 £17.75 £17.25
Median hourly rate £47.83 £61.50 £48.38
Median % change year-on-year -22.23% +27.13% +7.50%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £64.69
90th Percentile £77.50 £83.33 £69.95
England median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% +56.25% -

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 23 April 2024.

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 23 April 2024. 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 +21 13 £525 - 5
Dorset - 4 - - 2
Devon -1 1 - - 1
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 4 (22.22%) Apache Solr
1 4 (22.22%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 7 (38.89%) Azure
1 7 (38.89%) Azure DevOps
2 6 (33.33%) AWS
3 4 (22.22%) GCP
4 1 (5.56%) PaaS
4 1 (5.56%) SaaS
4 1 (5.56%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (22.22%) DNS
1 4 (22.22%) HTTPS
1 4 (22.22%) IPsec
1 4 (22.22%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (22.22%) Couchbase
1 4 (22.22%) MySQL
1 4 (22.22%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (33.33%) Artifactory
1 6 (33.33%) SonarQube
General
1 10 (55.56%) Legal
2 6 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 6 (33.33%) Telecoms
3 3 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 2 (11.11%) Electronics
4 2 (11.11%) Finance
4 2 (11.11%) Manufacturing
4 2 (11.11%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 10 (55.56%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (22.22%) Architect
2 4 (22.22%) Software Architect
3 3 (16.67%) Python Software Architect
3 3 (16.67%) Senior
4 2 (11.11%) Delivery Manager
4 2 (11.11%) Senior Delivery Manager
4 2 (11.11%) Senior Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Digital Delivery Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Lead
5 1 (5.56%) Lead Software Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Senior DevOps
5 1 (5.56%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (55.56%) YAML
2 5 (27.78%) RESTful
2 5 (27.78%) XML
3 4 (22.22%) JSON
3 4 (22.22%) LEMP Stack
3 4 (22.22%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (5.56%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 5 (27.78%) Product Ownership
2 4 (22.22%) Cloud Native
2 4 (22.22%) Management Information System
2 4 (22.22%) Verilog
2 4 (22.22%) VHDL
3 2 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 5 (27.78%) Linux
2 4 (22.22%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (88.89%) DevOps
2 12 (66.67%) Agile
3 11 (61.11%) CI/CD
4 8 (44.44%) Software Engineering
5 6 (33.33%) Data Protection
6 5 (27.78%) Configuration Management
6 5 (27.78%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (27.78%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (27.78%) Software Architecture
6 5 (27.78%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (22.22%) Cost Reduction
7 4 (22.22%) Information Security
7 4 (22.22%) Microservices
7 4 (22.22%) Migration
7 4 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (22.22%) Risk Assessment
7 4 (22.22%) SDLC
8 2 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
8 2 (11.11%) Digital Marketing
8 2 (11.11%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (38.89%) Bash
1 7 (38.89%) PowerShell
2 6 (33.33%) Python
3 5 (27.78%) C++
4 4 (22.22%) C
4 4 (22.22%) PHP
5 1 (5.56%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 12 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 5 (27.78%) DV Cleared
3 3 (16.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (22.22%) GDPR
1 4 (22.22%) HIPAA
1 4 (22.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (22.22%) NIST
1 4 (22.22%) QA
System Software
1 11 (61.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (61.11%) Ansible
1 11 (61.11%) Terraform
2 4 (22.22%) Kubernetes
3 1 (5.56%) Grafana
3 1 (5.56%) Prometheus
3 1 (5.56%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (22.22%) Google
2 2 (11.11%) SAP