Software Delivery Jobs in the North West

Software Delivery
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring Software Delivery skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Software Delivery over the 6 months leading up to 21 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 228 185 213
Rank change year-on-year -43 +28 -22
Permanent jobs citing Software Delivery 65 109 77
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.82% 1.09% 1.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.85% 1.33% 1.04%
Number of salaries quoted 55 61 59
10th Percentile - £31,210 £46,250
25th Percentile £47,683 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,793 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.68% +9.09% -
75th Percentile - £73,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £85,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £58,350 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.11% -10.23% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

Software Delivery falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the North West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 7,621 8,207 7,390
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 95.95% 82.31% 95.54%
Number of salaries quoted 3,953 6,214 3,885
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £61,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £81,400
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Software Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Delivery in the North West

Software Delivery
Salary Trend in the North West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Delivery in the North West.

Salary trend for Software Delivery in the North West

Software Delivery
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Delivery in the North West over the 6 months to 21 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Software Delivery in the North West

Software Delivery
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Delivery within the North West region over the 6 months to 21 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Lancashire -39 40 £51,238 -14.60% 9
Manchester +33 15 £70,000 - 34
Cheshire -8 6 £67,500 +28.57% 6
Cumbria -78 4 £55,000 -8.33%
Software Delivery
England

Software Delivery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 1 (1.54%) Apache Solr
1 1 (1.54%) Confluence
1 1 (1.54%) nginx
1 1 (1.54%) OpenStack
Applications
1 41 (63.08%) Microsoft Office
2 40 (61.54%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (1.54%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 6 (9.23%) Azure
2 5 (7.69%) AWS
3 4 (6.15%) SaaS
4 3 (4.62%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.54%) GCP
5 1 (1.54%) GitHub
5 1 (1.54%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.54%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.15%) Broadband
2 1 (1.54%) DNS
2 1 (1.54%) HTTPS
2 1 (1.54%) IPsec
2 1 (1.54%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.08%) Big Data
1 2 (3.08%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.54%) Couchbase
2 1 (1.54%) MySQL
2 1 (1.54%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (9.23%) JIRA
General
1 45 (69.23%) Social Skills
2 40 (61.54%) Aerospace
3 2 (3.08%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (3.08%) Banking
3 2 (3.08%) Finance
3 2 (3.08%) Legal
4 1 (1.54%) Games
4 1 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 45 (69.23%) Lead
2 43 (66.15%) Senior
3 40 (61.54%) Lead Systems Engineer
3 40 (61.54%) Senior Systems Engineer
3 40 (61.54%) Systems Engineer
3 40 (61.54%) Team Leader
4 3 (4.62%) Embedded Engineer
4 3 (4.62%) Release Engineer
4 3 (4.62%) Software Engineer
5 2 (3.08%) Analyst
5 2 (3.08%) Architect
5 2 (3.08%) Business Analyst
5 2 (3.08%) Coordinator
5 2 (3.08%) Developer
5 2 (3.08%) Engineering Manager
5 2 (3.08%) Enterprise Architect
5 2 (3.08%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
5 2 (3.08%) Lead Developer
5 2 (3.08%) Senior Manager
5 2 (3.08%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.62%) .NET
1 3 (4.62%) Middleware
2 2 (3.08%) gRPC
2 2 (3.08%) Kafka
2 2 (3.08%) React
3 1 (1.54%) .NET Core
3 1 (1.54%) AngularJS
3 1 (1.54%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.15%) Product Ownership
2 3 (4.62%) Embedded Systems
2 3 (4.62%) Public Cloud
3 2 (3.08%) Data Structures
3 2 (3.08%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (3.08%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (3.08%) Private Cloud
3 2 (3.08%) Reference Data
3 2 (3.08%) Replication
3 2 (3.08%) Video\Live Streaming
4 1 (1.54%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.54%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.54%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.54%) Operational Technology
4 1 (1.54%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (86.15%) Agile
2 42 (64.62%) Coaching
3 40 (61.54%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
3 40 (61.54%) Project Management
3 40 (61.54%) Safety Engineering
3 40 (61.54%) SysML
3 40 (61.54%) System Testing
3 40 (61.54%) Systems Engineering
3 40 (61.54%) Technical Leadership
4 26 (40.00%) Line Management
5 25 (38.46%) Business Continuity
6 20 (30.77%) Situational Awareness
7 10 (15.38%) DevOps
7 10 (15.38%) Software Engineering
8 7 (10.77%) Roadmaps
9 6 (9.23%) CI/CD
10 5 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
10 5 (7.69%) Microservices
11 4 (6.15%) Scrum
11 4 (6.15%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 4 (6.15%) C#
2 3 (4.62%) Java
2 3 (4.62%) Python
3 2 (3.08%) JavaScript
3 2 (3.08%) SQL
3 2 (3.08%) TypeScript
4 1 (1.54%) Go
4 1 (1.54%) PHP
Qualifications
1 40 (61.54%) BPSS Clearance
2 3 (4.62%) Degree
3 1 (1.54%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.54%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.08%) QA
System Software
1 2 (3.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (7.69%) Kubernetes
1 5 (7.69%) Terraform
2 1 (1.54%) Ansible
2 1 (1.54%) Grafana
Vendors
1 42 (64.62%) Microsoft
2 40 (61.54%) MathWorks
3 2 (3.08%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.54%) Google
4 1 (1.54%) New Relic
4 1 (1.54%) SAP
4 1 (1.54%) Sparx
4 1 (1.54%) Splunk