Software Delivery Contracts in the UK excluding London

Software Delivery
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 242 295 296
Rank change year-on-year +53 +1 -27
Contract jobs citing Software Delivery 94 105 168
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.74% 0.51% 0.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.81% 0.60% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 62 110
10th Percentile £356 £415 £375
25th Percentile £414 £445 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £506
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +3.70% -2.08%
75th Percentile £626 £613 £562
90th Percentile £694 £717 £650
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -1.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 8
10th Percentile - £70.00 £57.51
25th Percentile - £75.00 £61.15
Median hourly rate £77.19 £80.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.51% +14.29% +75.66%
75th Percentile - £85.00 £74.03
90th Percentile - £87.50 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £77.19 £80.00 £74.50
% change year-on-year -3.51% +7.38% -3.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,543 17,602 21,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.42% 84.74% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,249 10,520 14,947
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 825 2,048 1,307
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.28 £16.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Software Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Software Delivery as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Software Delivery in the UK excluding London

Software Delivery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Software Delivery in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Software Delivery in the UK excluding London

Software Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Delivery in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Software Delivery in the UK excluding London

Software Delivery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Software Delivery in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Software Delivery in the UK excluding London

Software Delivery
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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
Scotland +7 24 £488 -2.50% 21
Midlands +35 22 £626 -7.33% 53
West Midlands +31 20 £625 -7.41% 31
South West +42 15 £370 -29.52% 38
North of England +3 15 £493 -10.40% 60
South East +45 14 £550 +10.00% 59
Yorkshire +4 8 £490 -21.60% 29
North East +1 5 £600 -16.67% 5
East of England +32 3 £800 +100.00% 42
East Midlands +6 2 £700 +55.56% 20
North West -4 2 - - 28
Wales - 1 £530 - 11
Software Delivery
UK

Software Delivery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 9 (9.57%) Confluence
2 3 (3.19%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.06%) Appian
3 1 (1.06%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (3.19%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (2.13%) NetSuite
1 2 (2.13%) Payment Gateway
1 2 (2.13%) Workday HCM
2 1 (1.06%) Infor CloudSuite
Cloud Services
1 39 (41.49%) Azure
2 28 (29.79%) AWS
3 18 (19.15%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (14.89%) GCP
5 12 (12.77%) SaaS
6 11 (11.70%) PaaS
7 9 (9.57%) Amazon S3
7 9 (9.57%) Serverless
8 8 (8.51%) Amazon EC2
8 8 (8.51%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (7.45%) AWS CloudFormation
9 7 (7.45%) GitHub
10 6 (6.38%) Power Platform
11 5 (5.32%) AWS CodeDeploy
12 4 (4.26%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 4 (4.26%) CloudBees
12 4 (4.26%) IaaS
12 4 (4.26%) OpenShift
13 3 (3.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 3 (3.19%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.13%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.32%) Relational Database
2 4 (4.26%) NoSQL
2 4 (4.26%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (3.19%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (3.19%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (3.19%) Power BI
3 3 (3.19%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.13%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.06%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (1.06%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.06%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.06%) InfluxDB
5 1 (1.06%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.06%) MySQL
5 1 (1.06%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 17 (18.09%) Git
1 17 (18.09%) Jenkins
2 14 (14.89%) JIRA
3 13 (13.83%) GitLab
4 6 (6.38%) MSI
5 4 (4.26%) Cucumber
5 4 (4.26%) Selenium
6 3 (3.19%) Cypress.io
6 3 (3.19%) Postman
6 3 (3.19%) Subversion
6 3 (3.19%) TeamCity
6 3 (3.19%) WebDriver
7 1 (1.06%) Artifactory
7 1 (1.06%) GoCD
7 1 (1.06%) JUnit
7 1 (1.06%) Maven
7 1 (1.06%) REST Assured
7 1 (1.06%) SonarQube
General
1 50 (53.19%) Social Skills
2 30 (31.91%) Finance
3 26 (27.66%) Public Sector
4 13 (13.83%) Telecoms
5 11 (11.70%) Electronics
5 11 (11.70%) Manufacturing
5 11 (11.70%) Marketing
6 9 (9.57%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (7.45%) Banking
8 6 (6.38%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (2.13%) Games
9 2 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (2.13%) Investment Banking
9 2 (2.13%) Retail
10 1 (1.06%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 24 (25.53%) Developer
2 12 (12.77%) DevOps Engineer
2 12 (12.77%) Senior
3 11 (11.70%) Lead
4 9 (9.57%) Applications Developer
5 8 (8.51%) Applications Support
6 7 (7.45%) Applications Engineer
6 7 (7.45%) Applications Support Engineer
6 7 (7.45%) Azure Developer
6 7 (7.45%) Senior Developer
6 7 (7.45%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 7 (7.45%) Support Engineer
7 6 (6.38%) Azure Engineer
7 6 (6.38%) C# Application Developer
7 6 (6.38%) C# Developer
7 6 (6.38%) Delivery Manager
8 4 (4.26%) Analyst
8 4 (4.26%) Architect
8 4 (4.26%) Java Developer
8 4 (4.26%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (19.15%) .NET
2 9 (9.57%) CSS
2 9 (9.57%) HTML
3 8 (8.51%) RESTful
4 6 (6.38%) Software Packaging
5 5 (5.32%) React
6 4 (4.26%) AWS CDK
6 4 (4.26%) Node.js
7 3 (3.19%) ARM Templates
7 3 (3.19%) Django
8 2 (2.13%) .NET Framework
8 2 (2.13%) AngularJS
8 2 (2.13%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (2.13%) Entity Framework
8 2 (2.13%) MACH
8 2 (2.13%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (2.13%) Spring Boot
9 1 (1.06%) Apache Camel
9 1 (1.06%) Kafka
9 1 (1.06%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 11 (11.70%) Management Information System
2 9 (9.57%) Product Ownership
3 5 (5.32%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (5.32%) PKI
4 3 (3.19%) Client/Server
4 3 (3.19%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (3.19%) Mobile App
4 3 (3.19%) Onboarding
4 3 (3.19%) SCADA
4 3 (3.19%) Virtual Team
5 2 (2.13%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.06%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.06%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.06%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.06%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.06%) FMCG
6 1 (1.06%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.06%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 9 (9.57%) Linux
2 8 (8.51%) Windows
3 1 (1.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.06%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (53.19%) Agile
2 49 (52.13%) CI/CD
3 43 (45.74%) DevOps
4 31 (32.98%) Test Automation
5 22 (23.40%) Software Engineering
6 21 (22.34%) Continuous Integration
6 21 (22.34%) Stakeholder Management
7 20 (21.28%) Scrum
8 18 (19.15%) TDD
9 15 (15.96%) SDLC
9 15 (15.96%) Service Management
10 14 (14.89%) Business Intelligence
10 14 (14.89%) Continuous Improvement
10 14 (14.89%) Programme Management
11 13 (13.83%) Computer Science
11 13 (13.83%) Kanban
11 13 (13.83%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 12 (12.77%) Containerisation
12 12 (12.77%) Project Management
13 11 (11.70%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 31 (32.98%) Python
2 24 (25.53%) JavaScript
3 20 (21.28%) Java
4 15 (15.96%) Bash
5 14 (14.89%) C#
6 12 (12.77%) SQL
7 9 (9.57%) PowerShell
8 7 (7.45%) Shell Script
9 5 (5.32%) Kotlin
9 5 (5.32%) TypeScript
10 3 (3.19%) C++
10 3 (3.19%) Go
10 3 (3.19%) Groovy
10 3 (3.19%) VBA
10 3 (3.19%) VBScript
11 2 (2.13%) R
12 1 (1.06%) ActionScript
12 1 (1.06%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 22 (23.40%) Security Cleared
2 20 (21.28%) SC Cleared
3 14 (14.89%) Degree
4 11 (11.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (9.57%) Azure Certification
6 4 (4.26%) ISTQB
6 4 (4.26%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 3 (3.19%) ISEB
8 2 (2.13%) AWS Certification
8 2 (2.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (1.06%) CEH
9 1 (1.06%) CISM
9 1 (1.06%) CISSP
9 1 (1.06%) DV Cleared
9 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (19.15%) QA
2 3 (3.19%) PMO
3 2 (2.13%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (2.13%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.06%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.06%) NCSC
4 1 (1.06%) NIST
4 1 (1.06%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 14 (14.89%) Docker
2 1 (1.06%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.06%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 19 (20.21%) Ansible
2 18 (19.15%) Kubernetes
3 14 (14.89%) Terraform
4 4 (4.26%) Grafana
5 3 (3.19%) Packer
5 3 (3.19%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.06%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (1.06%) Kibana
Vendors
1 11 (11.70%) SAP
2 10 (10.64%) Microsoft
3 9 (9.57%) Google
4 6 (6.38%) Tanium
5 2 (2.13%) Atlassian
5 2 (2.13%) Dynatrace
5 2 (2.13%) Imperva
5 2 (2.13%) Oracle
5 2 (2.13%) Workday
6 1 (1.06%) Blue Prism
6 1 (1.06%) Fiserv
6 1 (1.06%) Foundry
6 1 (1.06%) Infor
6 1 (1.06%) Pega
6 1 (1.06%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.06%) Siemens
6 1 (1.06%) UiPath
6 1 (1.06%) Veeam
6 1 (1.06%) VMware