Software Delivery Contracts in the Thames Valley

Software Delivery
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 137 135 138
Rank change year-on-year -2 +3 -12
Contract jobs citing Software Delivery 6 13 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.22% 0.44% 0.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% 0.48% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 10 24
10th Percentile - £313 £519
25th Percentile £369 £325 £534
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £450 £600
Median % change year-on-year -13.89% -25.00% +11.63%
75th Percentile £406 £547 £666
90th Percentile - £607 £731
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £600
% change year-on-year -4.76% -12.50% +14.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,329 2,690 3,103
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 87.16% 91.56% 89.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,298 1,868 2,093
10th Percentile £213 £321 £225
25th Percentile £369 £413 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £501 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -0.89% +1.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 62 85
10th Percentile £15.48 £18.60 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.71 £24.86 £12.05
Median hourly rate £45.00 £51.25 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% +192.86% -16.86%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.21 £25.00
90th Percentile £85.65 £79.19 £67.00
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -5.00% +122.22% -15.89%

Software Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Delivery in the Thames Valley

Software Delivery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Software Delivery in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Software Delivery in the Thames Valley

Software Delivery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Software Delivery in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Software Delivery in the Thames Valley

Software Delivery
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 28 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
Berkshire -9 5 - - 3
Buckinghamshire - 1 £388 - 3
Software Delivery
South East

Software Delivery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (33.33%) Confluence
1 2 (33.33%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) JIRA
2 2 (33.33%) GitLab
3 1 (16.67%) Git
3 1 (16.67%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Consultant
1 3 (50.00%) SAP Consultant
2 2 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) .NET Developer
3 1 (16.67%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (16.67%) C# Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (16.67%) .NET
2 1 (16.67%) .NET Core
2 1 (16.67%) .NET Framework
2 1 (16.67%) AngularJS
2 1 (16.67%) Entity Framework
2 1 (16.67%) NHibernate
2 1 (16.67%) React
2 1 (16.67%) Twitter Bootstrap
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Agile
1 3 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
1 3 (50.00%) PLM
2 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 2 (33.33%) Configuration Management
2 2 (33.33%) Continuous Delivery
2 2 (33.33%) DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (33.33%) ITIL
2 2 (33.33%) Project Delivery
2 2 (33.33%) Release Management
2 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 1 (16.67%) Design Patterns
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (16.67%) Microservices
3 1 (16.67%) SDLC
3 1 (16.67%) SOLID
3 1 (16.67%) TDD
3 1 (16.67%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Go
2 1 (16.67%) C#
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 3 (50.00%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Ansible
1 2 (33.33%) Kibana
1 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 2 (33.33%) Rancher
1 2 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) SAP
2 2 (33.33%) ServiceNow
2 2 (33.33%) VMware
3 1 (16.67%) Oracle