Software Delivery Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Software Delivery
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 230 279 290
Rank change year-on-year +49 +11 -34
Contract jobs citing Software Delivery 72 70 188
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.73% 0.46% 0.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.80% 0.52% 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 50 129
10th Percentile £445 £412 £423
25th Percentile £481 £447 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year - +7.32% -10.87%
75th Percentile £638 £689 £650
90th Percentile £710 £776 £758
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -1.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 20
10th Percentile - - £54.75
25th Percentile - £75.00 £62.38
Median hourly rate - £80.00 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year - +10.34% -
75th Percentile - £87.50 £83.13
90th Percentile - £89.00 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £77.19 £80.00 £74.00
% change year-on-year -3.51% +8.11% -4.21%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,017 13,465 23,106
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.06% 87.90% 89.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,189 8,984 16,334
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 221 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.75 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.00 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.30% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.50 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £36.42
% change year-on-year -18.31% -2.53% +45.69%

Software Delivery
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Software Delivery as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Software Delivery trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Software Delivery
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Software Delivery.

Software Delivery daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Software Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Software Delivery over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Software Delivery daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Software Delivery
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Software Delivery.

Software Delivery hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Software Delivery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 5 (6.94%) Confluence
2 3 (4.17%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.39%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (4.17%) MS Visio
2 2 (2.78%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.39%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 30 (41.67%) Azure
2 20 (27.78%) AWS
3 19 (26.39%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
4 8 (11.11%) GCP
5 7 (9.72%) GitHub
6 5 (6.94%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (6.94%) Power Platform
6 5 (6.94%) Serverless
7 4 (5.56%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (5.56%) Amazon S3
7 4 (5.56%) SaaS
8 3 (4.17%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (4.17%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 3 (4.17%) AWS CodeDeploy
8 3 (4.17%) AWS Fargate
8 3 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (4.17%) OpenShift
8 3 (4.17%) PaaS
8 3 (4.17%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.56%) Firewall
2 2 (2.78%) Network Security
3 1 (1.39%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (5.56%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (4.17%) Power BI
3 2 (2.78%) InfluxDB
4 1 (1.39%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.39%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.39%) BigQuery
4 1 (1.39%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.39%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.39%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (1.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 16 (22.22%) Jenkins
2 14 (19.44%) Git
3 12 (16.67%) JIRA
4 11 (15.28%) GitLab
5 6 (8.33%) Cypress.io
6 5 (6.94%) MSI
7 4 (5.56%) JMeter
8 3 (4.17%) Octopus Deploy
8 3 (4.17%) SonarQube
8 3 (4.17%) Spinnaker
8 3 (4.17%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (2.78%) Artifactory
9 2 (2.78%) CircleCI
9 2 (2.78%) Cucumber
9 2 (2.78%) Postman
9 2 (2.78%) Selenium
9 2 (2.78%) Subversion
9 2 (2.78%) TeamCity
9 2 (2.78%) WebDriver
10 1 (1.39%) Maven
General
1 27 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 16 (22.22%) Public Sector
3 15 (20.83%) Finance
4 6 (8.33%) Banking
4 6 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (5.56%) Influencing Skills
5 4 (5.56%) Law
6 2 (2.78%) Electronics
6 2 (2.78%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.78%) Marketing
6 2 (2.78%) Military
6 2 (2.78%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.39%) Aviation
7 1 (1.39%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.39%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (18.06%) DevOps Engineer
2 12 (16.67%) Lead
3 8 (11.11%) Architect
4 7 (9.72%) Platform Engineer
5 6 (8.33%) Analyst
5 6 (8.33%) Developer
6 5 (6.94%) AWS Engineer
6 5 (6.94%) Azure Architect
6 5 (6.94%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 4 (5.56%) AWS Platform Engineer
7 4 (5.56%) Azure Engineer
7 4 (5.56%) Delivery Manager
7 4 (5.56%) DevOps Architect
7 4 (5.56%) Senior
7 4 (5.56%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (4.17%) Business Analyst
8 3 (4.17%) Business Data Analyst
8 3 (4.17%) Data Analyst
8 3 (4.17%) Technical Analyst
8 3 (4.17%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.56%) ARM Templates
1 4 (5.56%) Node.js
1 4 (5.56%) Software Packaging
2 3 (4.17%) .NET
2 3 (4.17%) AWS CDK
2 3 (4.17%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (4.17%) RabbitMQ
2 3 (4.17%) RESTful
3 2 (2.78%) React
4 1 (1.39%) ADO
4 1 (1.39%) AngularJS
4 1 (1.39%) Apache Camel
4 1 (1.39%) CSS
4 1 (1.39%) EDI
4 1 (1.39%) GraphQL
4 1 (1.39%) Kafka
4 1 (1.39%) Playwright
4 1 (1.39%) REST
4 1 (1.39%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.39%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.56%) Product Ownership
2 3 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (2.78%) Client/Server
3 2 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (2.78%) Mobile App
3 2 (2.78%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.39%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.39%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.39%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (1.39%) FMCG
4 1 (1.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (1.39%) IoT
4 1 (1.39%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.39%) PMI
4 1 (1.39%) Private Cloud
4 1 (1.39%) Replication
4 1 (1.39%) SCADA
4 1 (1.39%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (8.33%) Linux
2 5 (6.94%) Windows
3 2 (2.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (2.78%) Ubuntu
4 1 (1.39%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (55.56%) DevOps
2 38 (52.78%) CI/CD
3 31 (43.06%) Agile
4 21 (29.17%) Stakeholder Management
5 17 (23.61%) Containerisation
6 16 (22.22%) Continuous Integration
6 16 (22.22%) Test Automation
7 12 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
8 10 (13.89%) Platform Engineering
8 10 (13.89%) Problem-Solving
9 9 (12.50%) Project Management
10 8 (11.11%) Continuous Deployment
10 8 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
10 8 (11.11%) Mentoring
10 8 (11.11%) Scrum
11 7 (9.72%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 6 (8.33%) Coaching
12 6 (8.33%) SDLC
12 6 (8.33%) Technical Leadership
12 6 (8.33%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 23 (31.94%) Python
2 20 (27.78%) Bash
3 16 (22.22%) PowerShell
4 9 (12.50%) JavaScript
5 8 (11.11%) Java
6 6 (8.33%) TypeScript
7 5 (6.94%) C#
8 4 (5.56%) Kotlin
8 4 (5.56%) Shell Script
9 3 (4.17%) SQL
10 2 (2.78%) C++
10 2 (2.78%) Groovy
10 2 (2.78%) VBA
10 2 (2.78%) VBScript
11 1 (1.39%) Bicep
11 1 (1.39%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (30.56%) Security Cleared
2 21 (29.17%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.78%) Degree
3 2 (2.78%) ISEB
3 2 (2.78%) ISTQB
3 2 (2.78%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (1.39%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.39%) CEH
4 1 (1.39%) CISM
4 1 (1.39%) CISSP
4 1 (1.39%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.39%) Numerate Degree
4 1 (1.39%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (18.06%) QA
2 1 (1.39%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (1.39%) EMIR
2 1 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.39%) MiFID
2 1 (1.39%) NCSC
2 1 (1.39%) NIST
2 1 (1.39%) PMO
2 1 (1.39%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 18 (25.00%) Docker
2 1 (1.39%) Microsoft App-V
2 1 (1.39%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.39%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 21 (29.17%) Kubernetes
2 14 (19.44%) Ansible
2 14 (19.44%) Terraform
3 5 (6.94%) Grafana
4 3 (4.17%) Prometheus
5 2 (2.78%) Kibana
5 2 (2.78%) Packer
6 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (1.39%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.39%) Puppet
6 1 (1.39%) SCCM
Vendors
1 10 (13.89%) Microsoft
2 4 (5.56%) Tanium
3 3 (4.17%) Atlassian
3 3 (4.17%) Imperva
4 2 (2.78%) SAP
5 1 (1.39%) Blue Prism
5 1 (1.39%) Confluent
5 1 (1.39%) Databricks
5 1 (1.39%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.39%) Fiserv
5 1 (1.39%) Foundry
5 1 (1.39%) Google
5 1 (1.39%) OpenLink
5 1 (1.39%) Pega
5 1 (1.39%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.39%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.39%) UiPath
5 1 (1.39%) VMware