Software Delivery Contracts in the West Midlands

Software Delivery
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 77 108 108
Rank change year-on-year +31 0 +33
Contract jobs citing Software Delivery 20 3 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.49% 0.15% 1.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.68% 0.18% 1.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 3 16
10th Percentile £486 - £382
25th Percentile £525 £663 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £675 £480
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +40.63% -4.00%
75th Percentile £689 £688 £538
90th Percentile £698 - £550
England median daily rate £550 £595 £588
% change year-on-year -7.56% +1.28% -2.08%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,188 1,636 2,114
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.33% 84.03% 88.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 786 1,083 1,452
10th Percentile £195 £275 £263
25th Percentile £381 £375 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £512
Median % change year-on-year - -2.34% +5.03%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £750 £694
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 115 45
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.09 £12.20
25th Percentile £14.14 £14.00 £13.31
Median hourly rate £18.00 £22.50 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +26.98% +4.24%
75th Percentile £23.99 £41.13 £23.75
90th Percentile £38.19 £57.75 £51.25
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 West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Delivery in the West Midlands

Software Delivery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Software Delivery in the West Midlands

Software Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Software Delivery in the West Midlands

Software Delivery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Delivery in the West Midlands

Software Delivery
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands 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
Shropshire - 6 £625 - 6
Birmingham - 5 £689 - 6
Warwickshire +3 3 £500 -25.93% 4
Staffordshire - 2 £550 - 10
Worcestershire - 1 £825 - 1
Software Delivery
England

Software Delivery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 (10.00%) Confluence
2 1 (5.00%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 2 (10.00%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 8 (40.00%) Azure
2 6 (30.00%) AWS
2 6 (30.00%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (15.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 3 (15.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (15.00%) GCP
4 2 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (10.00%) Amazon S3
4 2 (10.00%) Amazon SQS
4 2 (10.00%) AWS CodeCommit
4 2 (10.00%) AWS CodeDeploy
4 2 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (10.00%) Boomi
4 2 (10.00%) OCI
4 2 (10.00%) PaaS
4 2 (10.00%) SaaS
4 2 (10.00%) Serverless
5 1 (5.00%) GitHub
5 1 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (5.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (20.00%) Relational Database
2 3 (15.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (35.00%) GitLab
2 6 (30.00%) MSI
3 2 (10.00%) Git
3 2 (10.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (10.00%) JIRA
4 1 (5.00%) Maven
General
1 13 (65.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (10.00%) Finance
4 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (20.00%) Lead
3 3 (15.00%) Developer
4 2 (10.00%) AWS Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Python Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Senior
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Python Developer
5 1 (5.00%) IT Director
5 1 (5.00%) Java Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Java Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Operations Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Programme Director
5 1 (5.00%) Project Leader
5 1 (5.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (30.00%) Software Packaging
2 3 (15.00%) .NET
2 3 (15.00%) Django
3 2 (10.00%) MACH
4 1 (5.00%) .NET Framework
4 1 (5.00%) AngularJS
4 1 (5.00%) Apache Camel
4 1 (5.00%) ASP.NET
4 1 (5.00%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (5.00%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (5.00%) Entity Framework
4 1 (5.00%) Flask
4 1 (5.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 5 (25.00%) PKI
2 3 (15.00%) Management Information System
2 3 (15.00%) SCADA
3 1 (5.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.00%) Public Cloud
3 1 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (5.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (40.00%) Linux
1 8 (40.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 8 (40.00%) DevOps
3 7 (35.00%) Agile
4 6 (30.00%) Software Deployment
4 6 (30.00%) Software Distribution
4 6 (30.00%) Test Automation
5 5 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
5 5 (25.00%) Microservices
5 5 (25.00%) Software Engineering
6 4 (20.00%) Containerisation
6 4 (20.00%) Task Automation
7 3 (15.00%) Computer Science
7 3 (15.00%) Continuous Deployment
7 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (15.00%) Release Management
7 3 (15.00%) Scrum
7 3 (15.00%) Technical Leadership
8 2 (10.00%) Change Management
8 2 (10.00%) Load Testing
8 2 (10.00%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (60.00%) Python
2 7 (35.00%) Bash
2 7 (35.00%) PowerShell
3 3 (15.00%) Java
4 2 (10.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (10.00%) R
4 2 (10.00%) SQL
5 1 (5.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 11 (55.00%) Security Cleared
2 10 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (15.00%) Degree
4 2 (10.00%) AWS Certification
4 2 (10.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (20.00%) QA
2 1 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (5.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 7 (35.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (60.00%) Ansible
2 6 (30.00%) Kubernetes
2 6 (30.00%) Terraform
3 1 (5.00%) Grafana
3 1 (5.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (30.00%) Tanium
2 2 (10.00%) Oracle
3 1 (5.00%) Foundry
3 1 (5.00%) Siemens