Software Delivery Contracts in the UK excluding London

Software Delivery
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 6 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 287 270 253
Rank change year-on-year -17 -17 -8
Contract jobs citing Software Delivery 103 165 297
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.49% 0.72% 0.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.59% 0.81% 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 105 220
10th Percentile £424 £375 £410
25th Percentile £473 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £600 £619 £614
90th Percentile £642 £703 £688
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +12.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 11 2
10th Percentile £68.15 £55.00 £33.55
25th Percentile £69.88 £58.59 £35.49
Median hourly rate £80.00 £70.00 £39.85
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +75.66% -24.03%
75th Percentile £85.00 £74.36 £43.09
90th Percentile £86.50 £75.86 £44.36
UK median hourly rate £80.00 £73.71 £48.85
% change year-on-year +8.53% +50.89% -6.88%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,503 20,300 27,475
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.16% 89.14% 89.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,332 13,919 19,210
10th Percentile £250 £260 £241
25th Percentile £375 £400 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £581
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,157 1,243 1,356
10th Percentile £12.50 £10.63 £12.43
25th Percentile £15.40 £15.11 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.50 £47.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £74.73 £62.38
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £35.90 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.67% +39.80% +10.64%

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 6 June 2024.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Software Delivery in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 6 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram 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 6 June 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
Scotland +41 29 £490 +15.29% 14
North of England +11 27 £550 - 29
South West +15 22 £525 -12.50% 13
North West +10 14 £463 -2.63% 24
South East -8 14 £538 -2.27% 14
Yorkshire +4 12 £550 - 1
Midlands -8 10 £675 +40.63% 26
East Midlands +12 5 £525 +7.69% 9
West Midlands -16 5 £675 +40.63% 17
North East +8 1 £575 +28.49% 4
East of England -5 1 £600 +6.67% 6
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 16 (15.53%) Confluence
2 4 (3.88%) Apache Solr
2 4 (3.88%) nginx
3 3 (2.91%) CMS
3 3 (2.91%) Drupal
4 1 (0.97%) MTS
4 1 (0.97%) StreamWeaver
Applications
1 2 (1.94%) Trello
2 1 (0.97%) EngageOne
Cloud Services
1 33 (32.04%) AWS
2 24 (23.30%) Azure
3 23 (22.33%) Azure DevOps
4 15 (14.56%) Serverless
5 14 (13.59%) AWS Lambda
6 12 (11.65%) Amazon S3
7 11 (10.68%) AWS CloudFormation
8 10 (9.71%) Amazon EC2
9 7 (6.80%) GCP
10 5 (4.85%) SaaS
11 4 (3.88%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 4 (3.88%) OpenShift
11 4 (3.88%) PaaS
12 3 (2.91%) Amazon ECS
12 3 (2.91%) Amazon EKS
12 3 (2.91%) AWS CodePipeline
12 3 (2.91%) AWS Fargate
13 2 (1.94%) AWS Step Functions
13 2 (1.94%) IaaS
13 2 (1.94%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 10 (9.71%) DNS
2 7 (6.80%) TCP/IP
3 4 (3.88%) HTTPS
3 4 (3.88%) IPsec
4 3 (2.91%) DHCP
4 3 (2.91%) SSL
5 2 (1.94%) Network Security
6 1 (0.97%) Firewall
6 1 (0.97%) HTTP
6 1 (0.97%) OpenLDAP
6 1 (0.97%) SMS
6 1 (0.97%) SNMP
6 1 (0.97%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.83%) NoSQL
2 5 (4.85%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (4.85%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (3.88%) Couchbase
3 4 (3.88%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (3.88%) MySQL
4 3 (2.91%) InfluxDB
5 2 (1.94%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.97%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.97%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 20 (19.42%) JIRA
2 13 (12.62%) Artifactory
2 13 (12.62%) GitLab
2 13 (12.62%) Jenkins
3 8 (7.77%) Git
3 8 (7.77%) JUnit
4 6 (5.83%) SonarQube
5 5 (4.85%) Selenium
5 5 (4.85%) Subversion
6 2 (1.94%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.94%) Cucumber
6 2 (1.94%) Cypress.io
6 2 (1.94%) REST Assured
6 2 (1.94%) TeamCity
6 2 (1.94%) WebDriver
7 1 (0.97%) LabVIEW
7 1 (0.97%) Rational DOORS
7 1 (0.97%) Travis CI
General
1 30 (29.13%) Public Sector
2 21 (20.39%) Social Skills
3 19 (18.45%) Finance
4 10 (9.71%) Legal
5 9 (8.74%) Telecoms
6 8 (7.77%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (2.91%) Electronics
7 3 (2.91%) Front Office
8 2 (1.94%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.94%) Marketing
9 1 (0.97%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (0.97%) Aviation
9 1 (0.97%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.97%) Military
Job Titles
1 27 (26.21%) DevOps Engineer
2 21 (20.39%) Senior
3 13 (12.62%) Delivery Manager
3 13 (12.62%) Senior Manager
4 12 (11.65%) Senior Delivery Manager
5 11 (10.68%) AWS Engineer
6 9 (8.74%) AWS DevOps
6 9 (8.74%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 9 (8.74%) Project Manager
7 8 (7.77%) Architect
7 8 (7.77%) Lead
8 7 (6.80%) Analyst
8 7 (6.80%) Developer
8 7 (6.80%) Test Engineer
9 5 (4.85%) Consultant
9 5 (4.85%) Platform Engineer
9 5 (4.85%) Software Architect
10 4 (3.88%) Agile Project Manager
10 4 (3.88%) Azure Engineer
10 4 (3.88%) Python Software Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (9.71%) YAML
2 8 (7.77%) AWS CDK
2 8 (7.77%) Gherkin
3 7 (6.80%) .NET
3 7 (6.80%) RabbitMQ
3 7 (6.80%) RESTful
3 7 (6.80%) XML
4 6 (5.83%) Node.js
5 5 (4.85%) Elastic Stack
6 4 (3.88%) JSON
6 4 (3.88%) LEMP Stack
6 4 (3.88%) React
7 3 (2.91%) ARM Templates
7 3 (2.91%) HTML
8 2 (1.94%) CSS
8 2 (1.94%) OpenAPI
8 2 (1.94%) REST
8 2 (1.94%) Swagger
9 1 (0.97%) OAuth
9 1 (0.97%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 15 (14.56%) Product Ownership
2 7 (6.80%) Cloud Native
3 5 (4.85%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (4.85%) Management Information System
3 5 (4.85%) Mobile App
3 5 (4.85%) Verilog
3 5 (4.85%) VHDL
4 3 (2.91%) Private Cloud
4 3 (2.91%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.94%) Client/Server
6 1 (0.97%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.97%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.97%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (0.97%) Solar Power
Operating Systems
1 17 (16.50%) Linux
2 8 (7.77%) Ubuntu
3 5 (4.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (3.88%) CentOS
4 4 (3.88%) Unix
5 3 (2.91%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (66.99%) Agile
2 50 (48.54%) DevOps
3 40 (38.83%) CI/CD
4 29 (28.16%) Scrum
5 22 (21.36%) Project Delivery
5 22 (21.36%) Project Management
6 20 (19.42%) Infrastructure as Code
7 19 (18.45%) Kanban
8 18 (17.48%) Test Automation
9 16 (15.53%) TDD
10 14 (13.59%) Stakeholder Management
11 13 (12.62%) Continuous Improvement
11 13 (12.62%) Software Engineering
12 12 (11.65%) Configuration Management
12 12 (11.65%) Containerisation
13 11 (10.68%) Continuous Integration
13 11 (10.68%) ITIL
13 11 (10.68%) Software Testing
14 10 (9.71%) Continuous Delivery
15 9 (8.74%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 18 (17.48%) Python
2 14 (13.59%) Java
3 13 (12.62%) Bash
4 11 (10.68%) PowerShell
5 10 (9.71%) C++
6 7 (6.80%) JavaScript
7 6 (5.83%) C
7 6 (5.83%) SQL
8 5 (4.85%) TypeScript
9 4 (3.88%) Go
9 4 (3.88%) PHP
10 3 (2.91%) C#
10 3 (2.91%) Groovy
10 3 (2.91%) Ruby
10 3 (2.91%) VB.NET
11 2 (1.94%) Bicep
11 2 (1.94%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.94%) VBA
11 2 (1.94%) VBScript
12 1 (0.97%) Ada
Qualifications
1 36 (34.95%) Security Cleared
2 18 (17.48%) SC Cleared
3 8 (7.77%) DV Cleared
4 4 (3.88%) AWS Certification
4 4 (3.88%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 4 (3.88%) Degree
5 3 (2.91%) ITIL Certification
5 3 (2.91%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.94%) ISEB
6 2 (1.94%) ISTQB
6 2 (1.94%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.97%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (15.53%) QA
2 4 (3.88%) GDPR
2 4 (3.88%) HIPAA
2 4 (3.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (3.88%) NIST
3 3 (2.91%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.91%) ISO 9001
3 3 (2.91%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 3 (2.91%) SLA
4 2 (1.94%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.97%) Def Stans
5 1 (0.97%) DO-178B
5 1 (0.97%) IEC 61508
5 1 (0.97%) PMO
System Software
1 21 (20.39%) Docker
2 6 (5.83%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (3.88%) Active Directory
3 4 (3.88%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (2.91%) Hyper-V
4 3 (2.91%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 30 (29.13%) Terraform
2 22 (21.36%) Ansible
2 22 (21.36%) Kubernetes
3 6 (5.83%) Grafana
4 4 (3.88%) Kibana
4 4 (3.88%) Rancher
5 3 (2.91%) WSUS
6 2 (1.94%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.97%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (7.77%) VMware
2 7 (6.80%) ServiceNow
3 5 (4.85%) SAP
4 4 (3.88%) Google
4 4 (3.88%) Microsoft
5 3 (2.91%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.94%) Cadence
6 2 (1.94%) Virgin Media
7 1 (0.97%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.97%) IBM
7 1 (0.97%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.97%) Palo Alto
7 1 (0.97%) QinetiQ
7 1 (0.97%) Qualys