Software Delivery Contracts in Worcestershire

Software Delivery
West Midlands > Worcestershire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Worcestershire 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 15 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 - 18
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Software Delivery 3 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Worcestershire 4.48% - 1.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.84% - 1.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £566 - -
25th Percentile £572 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 - -
75th Percentile £716 - -
90th Percentile £789 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £606 £675 £500
% change year-on-year -10.19% +35.00% -7.41%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Worcestershire

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 Worcestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 62 74 72
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Worcestershire 92.54% 83.15% 91.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 62 53
10th Percentile £168 £276 £215
25th Percentile £525 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% +16.67% -
75th Percentile £700 £588 £600
90th Percentile £888 £613 £605
West Midlands median daily rate £485 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £10.50 £17.75
Median hourly rate £82.00 £14.74 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +456.50% -20.35% +32.14%
75th Percentile - £30.99 £19.25
90th Percentile - £55.00 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £24.34 £24.31 £27.00
% change year-on-year +0.11% -9.95% +54.29%

Software Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in Worcestershire

Job postings citing Software Delivery as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Worcestershire.

Job vacancy trend for Software Delivery in Worcestershire

Software Delivery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Worcestershire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Software Delivery in Worcestershire.

Daily rate trend for Software Delivery in Worcestershire

Software Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram in Worcestershire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Delivery in Worcestershire over the 6 months to 15 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Software Delivery in Worcestershire

Software Delivery
Contract Job Locations in Worcestershire

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 Worcestershire region over the 6 months to 15 August 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
Worcester - 1 £588 -
Software Delivery
West Midlands

Software Delivery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Worcestershire 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 (66.67%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) GitHub
1 2 (66.67%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure AKS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Datadog
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 1 (33.33%) npm
2 1 (33.33%) OpenShift
2 1 (33.33%) Pulumi
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Git
1 2 (66.67%) GitLab
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (33.33%) Artifactory
2 1 (33.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (33.33%) Bitbucket
2 1 (33.33%) CircleCI
2 1 (33.33%) Cypress.io
2 1 (33.33%) Gradle
2 1 (33.33%) JUnit
2 1 (33.33%) Maven
2 1 (33.33%) Postman
2 1 (33.33%) Selenium
2 1 (33.33%) Snyk
2 1 (33.33%) SonarQube
2 1 (33.33%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (33.33%) webpack
General
1 1 (33.33%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) IT Director
1 1 (33.33%) Programme Director
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (33.33%) JSON
1 1 (33.33%) REST
1 1 (33.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Private Cloud
1 1 (33.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) Configuration Management
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (66.67%) SDLC
1 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) DevSecOps
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Programme Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Programme Management
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (33.33%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Bash
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Go
2 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) DV Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Ansible
1 2 (66.67%) Grafana
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
1 2 (66.67%) Prometheus
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
2 1 (33.33%) Podman
2 1 (33.33%) Progress Chef
2 1 (33.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Splunk
2 1 (33.33%) VMware