Software Delivery Contracts in England

Software Delivery
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 366 292 261
Rank change year-on-year -74 -31 +13
Contract jobs citing Software Delivery 180 406 765
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.49% 0.86% 1.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.57% 0.95% 1.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 279 538
10th Percentile £450 £413 £425
25th Percentile £506 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -0.87% -4.17% +14.29%
75th Percentile £688 £717 £700
90th Percentile £825 £775 £791
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +11.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 23 4
10th Percentile £65.00 £55.72 £36.14
25th Percentile £69.50 £63.25 £41.96
Median hourly rate £80.00 £72.50 £48.85
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% +48.41% -27.54%
75th Percentile £85.00 £75.43 £60.00
90th Percentile £86.00 £84.50 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £80.00 £73.71 £48.85
% change year-on-year +8.53% +50.89% +8.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,587 42,714 64,087
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.77% 89.96% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,623 29,972 45,670
10th Percentile £300 £325 £335
25th Percentile £413 £445 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £543
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.38% +8.50%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £767 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,317 1,513 1,726
10th Percentile £12.85 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.50 £15.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £37.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year - +50.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.54 £25.68
% change year-on-year -0.11% +42.29% +9.46%

Software Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Delivery in England

Software Delivery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Software Delivery in England

Software Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Delivery in England over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Delivery in England

Software Delivery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Software Delivery in England.

Hourly rate trend for Software Delivery in England

Software Delivery
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Software Delivery in England over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Software Delivery in England

Software Delivery
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 31 May 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
London -36 106 £595 -4.03% 58
North of England +13 27 £550 - 35
South West +16 20 £525 - 14
North West +15 14 £463 +2.78% 26
South East -11 14 £538 +2.38% 20
Yorkshire +6 12 £550 - 6
Midlands -5 10 £675 +40.63% 27
East Midlands +12 5 £525 +10.53% 8
West Midlands -9 5 £675 +40.63% 19
North East +8 1 £575 +28.49% 3
East of England -3 1 £600 +6.67% 10
Software Delivery
UK

Software Delivery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 9 (5.00%) Confluence
2 8 (4.44%) Anypoint
3 5 (2.78%) CMS
4 4 (2.22%) Apache Solr
4 4 (2.22%) Apache Spark
4 4 (2.22%) nginx
5 3 (1.67%) Drupal
6 2 (1.11%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.56%) Appian
7 1 (0.56%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.56%) MTS
Applications
1 2 (1.11%) Trello
2 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.56%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 6 (3.33%) Shopify
2 2 (1.11%) Endur
3 1 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 69 (38.33%) AWS
2 41 (22.78%) Azure
3 17 (9.44%) GCP
3 17 (9.44%) Serverless
4 16 (8.89%) AWS Lambda
5 15 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (5.56%) SaaS
7 8 (4.44%) OpenShift
8 7 (3.89%) AWS CloudFormation
9 6 (3.33%) Amazon EC2
9 6 (3.33%) Amazon S3
9 6 (3.33%) Apigee
9 6 (3.33%) BigCommerce
10 5 (2.78%) GitHub
11 4 (2.22%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (2.22%) Miro
12 3 (1.67%) AWS CodePipeline
12 3 (1.67%) PaaS
13 2 (1.11%) Route 53
13 2 (1.11%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (5.56%) DNS
2 7 (3.89%) HTTP
2 7 (3.89%) TCP/IP
3 4 (2.22%) HTTPS
3 4 (2.22%) IPsec
4 3 (1.67%) DHCP
4 3 (1.67%) SSL
5 2 (1.11%) Broadband
5 2 (1.11%) Intranet
6 1 (0.56%) Firewall
6 1 (0.56%) FTP
6 1 (0.56%) Internet
6 1 (0.56%) Network Security
6 1 (0.56%) OpenLDAP
6 1 (0.56%) SNMP
6 1 (0.56%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (14.44%) NoSQL
2 10 (5.56%) Apache Cassandra
3 6 (3.33%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (3.33%) SQL Server
4 5 (2.78%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (2.78%) Relational Database
5 4 (2.22%) Big Data
5 4 (2.22%) Couchbase
5 4 (2.22%) MySQL
5 4 (2.22%) Redis
6 3 (1.67%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (1.67%) Hadoop
7 2 (1.11%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.11%) Oracle Database
7 2 (1.11%) Tableau
8 1 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.56%) Delta Lake
8 1 (0.56%) Metadata
8 1 (0.56%) Power BI
8 1 (0.56%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 30 (16.67%) Git
2 19 (10.56%) Jenkins
3 18 (10.00%) JIRA
4 14 (7.78%) TeamCity
5 9 (5.00%) Artifactory
5 9 (5.00%) GitLab
6 8 (4.44%) Cucumber
6 8 (4.44%) JUnit
6 8 (4.44%) Moq
6 8 (4.44%) NUnit
6 8 (4.44%) Selenium
7 7 (3.89%) SonarQube
8 5 (2.78%) Gatling
9 4 (2.22%) Mockito
9 4 (2.22%) ScalaTest
10 3 (1.67%) Cypress.io
10 3 (1.67%) JMeter
10 3 (1.67%) Maven
10 3 (1.67%) Subversion
11 2 (1.11%) Bitbucket
General
1 38 (21.11%) Finance
2 35 (19.44%) Social Skills
3 13 (7.22%) Public Sector
4 12 (6.67%) Front Office
5 11 (6.11%) Legal
5 11 (6.11%) Telecoms
6 9 (5.00%) Banking
6 9 (5.00%) Retail
7 7 (3.89%) Marketing
8 5 (2.78%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (2.22%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.67%) Electronics
10 3 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.11%) Investment Banking
11 2 (1.11%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.56%) Aviation
12 1 (0.56%) Police
12 1 (0.56%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 44 (24.44%) Developer
2 35 (19.44%) DevOps Engineer
3 24 (13.33%) Senior
4 18 (10.00%) Analyst
5 15 (8.33%) Lead
6 14 (7.78%) Business Analyst
7 13 (7.22%) Delivery Manager
8 11 (6.11%) Scala Developer
9 10 (5.56%) Project Manager
10 9 (5.00%) Architect
10 9 (5.00%) AWS Engineer
10 9 (5.00%) C# Developer
10 9 (5.00%) Software Delivery Manager
10 9 (5.00%) Software Manager
10 9 (5.00%) Technical Analyst
11 8 (4.44%) AWS DevOps
11 8 (4.44%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 7 (3.89%) MuleSoft Developer
12 7 (3.89%) Technical Business Analyst
12 7 (3.89%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (19.44%) RESTful
2 20 (11.11%) .NET
3 19 (10.56%) Spring
4 18 (10.00%) RabbitMQ
5 13 (7.22%) Kafka
5 13 (7.22%) REST
6 12 (6.67%) .NET Core
6 12 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
7 11 (6.11%) Akka
8 10 (5.56%) Node.js
8 10 (5.56%) YAML
9 9 (5.00%) ASP.NET
9 9 (5.00%) Middleware
9 9 (5.00%) OpenAPI
9 9 (5.00%) Swagger
9 9 (5.00%) XML
10 8 (4.44%) ASP.NET Core
10 8 (4.44%) ASP.NET Web API
10 8 (4.44%) SailPoint
10 8 (4.44%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 20 (11.11%) Product Ownership
2 12 (6.67%) Cloud Native
3 11 (6.11%) Greenfield Project
3 11 (6.11%) Management Information System
4 9 (5.00%) Public Cloud
5 5 (2.78%) Verilog
5 5 (2.78%) VHDL
6 4 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.67%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.67%) Private Cloud
7 3 (1.67%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 2 (1.11%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.11%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.56%) Fixed Income
9 1 (0.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (0.56%) Online Banking
9 1 (0.56%) PKI
9 1 (0.56%) Replication
9 1 (0.56%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 20 (11.11%) Linux
2 7 (3.89%) Unix
3 4 (2.22%) CentOS
4 3 (1.67%) Android
4 3 (1.67%) Apple iOS
4 3 (1.67%) Ubuntu
4 3 (1.67%) Windows
5 1 (0.56%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (67.22%) Agile
2 72 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 69 (38.33%) DevOps
4 43 (23.89%) Microservices
5 42 (23.33%) Continuous Integration
6 40 (22.22%) Scrum
7 38 (21.11%) Test Automation
8 36 (20.00%) TDD
9 28 (15.56%) Infrastructure as Code
10 27 (15.00%) Kanban
11 24 (13.33%) Project Delivery
12 23 (12.78%) Problem-Solving
13 22 (12.22%) Configuration Management
13 22 (12.22%) Containerisation
13 22 (12.22%) Software Engineering
13 22 (12.22%) Unit Testing
14 18 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
14 18 (10.00%) Project Management
15 17 (9.44%) BDD
15 17 (9.44%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 36 (20.00%) Java
2 32 (17.78%) SQL
3 21 (11.67%) PowerShell
3 21 (11.67%) Python
4 18 (10.00%) JavaScript
5 17 (9.44%) Bash
6 16 (8.89%) C#
7 12 (6.67%) Scala
8 8 (4.44%) C++
9 6 (3.33%) C
10 5 (2.78%) BeanShell
10 5 (2.78%) Ruby
11 4 (2.22%) Bicep
11 4 (2.22%) Go
11 4 (2.22%) PHP
11 4 (2.22%) TypeScript
12 3 (1.67%) PL/SQL
12 3 (1.67%) VB.NET
13 2 (1.11%) Perl
14 1 (0.56%) Ada
Qualifications
1 44 (24.44%) Security Cleared
2 25 (13.89%) SC Cleared
3 13 (7.22%) Degree
4 10 (5.56%) DV Cleared
5 5 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.22%) AWS Certification
6 4 (2.22%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (1.67%) ITIL Certification
7 3 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.56%) CSPO
8 1 (0.56%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.56%) PgMP
8 1 (0.56%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.56%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (15.00%) QA
2 4 (2.22%) GDPR
2 4 (2.22%) HIPAA
2 4 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (2.22%) NIST
3 3 (1.67%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.67%) ISO 9001
3 3 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 3 (1.67%) SLA
4 2 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 12207
4 2 (1.11%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.56%) Def Stans
5 1 (0.56%) DO-178B
5 1 (0.56%) IEC 61508
5 1 (0.56%) PMO
System Software
1 55 (30.56%) Docker
2 7 (3.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (3.33%) Active Directory
4 4 (2.22%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (1.67%) Hyper-V
5 3 (1.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 44 (24.44%) Kubernetes
2 42 (23.33%) Terraform
3 27 (15.00%) Ansible
4 12 (6.67%) Prometheus
5 8 (4.44%) Grafana
6 4 (2.22%) Puppet
6 4 (2.22%) Rancher
7 3 (1.67%) Kibana
7 3 (1.67%) Progress Chef
7 3 (1.67%) WSUS
8 2 (1.11%) logstash
8 2 (1.11%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.56%) Nagios
Vendors
1 19 (10.56%) Microsoft
2 17 (9.44%) SAP
3 15 (8.33%) Salesforce
4 10 (5.56%) Google
4 10 (5.56%) Oracle
5 9 (5.00%) VMware
6 8 (4.44%) MuleSoft
6 8 (4.44%) TIBCO
7 7 (3.89%) ServiceNow
8 6 (3.33%) Adobe
8 6 (3.33%) Sitecore
8 6 (3.33%) Typelevel
8 6 (3.33%) WSO2
9 3 (1.67%) Databricks
9 3 (1.67%) Dell
9 3 (1.67%) Intel
9 3 (1.67%) Virgin Media
10 2 (1.11%) CyberArk
10 2 (1.11%) OpenLink
10 2 (1.11%) Planview