Software Delivery Contracts in London

Software Delivery
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 284 248 225
Rank change year-on-year -36 -23 +20
Contract jobs citing Software Delivery 106 250 504
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.61% 0.98% 1.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.69% 1.08% 1.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 184 348
10th Percentile £443 £450 £448
25th Percentile £504 £500 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £595 £620 £625
Median % change year-on-year -4.03% -0.80% +9.89%
75th Percentile £750 £743 £743
90th Percentile £825 £775 £844
England median daily rate £570 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -0.87% -4.17% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 10 2
10th Percentile - £62.68 £53.75
25th Percentile - £70.31 £57.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £74.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.75% +14.62% -
75th Percentile - £75.75 £72.50
90th Percentile - £83.25 £76.25
England median hourly rate £80.00 £72.50 £48.85
% change year-on-year +10.34% +48.41% -27.54%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,450 23,106 35,695
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.36% 90.87% 92.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,083 16,714 26,163
10th Percentile £340 £375 £390
25th Percentile £449 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £543
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.38% +8.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 320 262 405
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.00 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.50 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.21 £35.08
Median % change year-on-year -28.59% +11.79% +7.35%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.50 £50.00
90th Percentile £68.08 £82.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £37.50 £37.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year - +50.00% +11.11%

Software Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Delivery in London

Software Delivery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Software Delivery in London

Software Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Software Delivery in London

Software Delivery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Delivery in London

Software Delivery
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London 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
West London +23 8 £330 -34.00% 3
Central London +10 6 £744 +50.25% 7
East London - 6 £540 - 3
South London +8 1 £463 -14.94% 1
Software Delivery
England

Software Delivery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 8 (7.55%) Anypoint
2 4 (3.77%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.83%) Confluence
4 2 (1.89%) CMS
4 2 (1.89%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.94%) Appian
5 1 (0.94%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 1 (0.94%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.94%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.94%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 6 (5.66%) Shopify
2 2 (1.89%) Endur
3 1 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 42 (39.62%) AWS
2 26 (24.53%) Azure
3 10 (9.43%) GCP
4 9 (8.49%) AWS Lambda
4 9 (8.49%) Serverless
5 8 (7.55%) OpenShift
6 7 (6.60%) SaaS
7 6 (5.66%) Apigee
7 6 (5.66%) BigCommerce
8 4 (3.77%) GitHub
8 4 (3.77%) Miro
9 3 (2.83%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (1.89%) Amazon Kinesis
10 2 (1.89%) Asana
10 2 (1.89%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (1.89%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
10 2 (1.89%) Smartsheet
11 1 (0.94%) Amazon EC2
11 1 (0.94%) Microsoft 365
11 1 (0.94%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.66%) HTTP
2 2 (1.89%) Broadband
2 2 (1.89%) Intranet
3 1 (0.94%) FTP
3 1 (0.94%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (18.87%) NoSQL
2 10 (9.43%) Apache Cassandra
3 6 (5.66%) SQL Server
4 5 (4.72%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (4.72%) Relational Database
5 4 (3.77%) Big Data
5 4 (3.77%) Redis
6 3 (2.83%) Hadoop
7 2 (1.89%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (1.89%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.89%) Oracle Database
7 2 (1.89%) Tableau
8 1 (0.94%) Delta Lake
8 1 (0.94%) Metadata
8 1 (0.94%) Power BI
8 1 (0.94%) PowerCenter
8 1 (0.94%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 1 (0.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.94%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 23 (21.70%) Git
2 14 (13.21%) TeamCity
3 12 (11.32%) Jenkins
4 10 (9.43%) JIRA
5 8 (7.55%) Cucumber
5 8 (7.55%) Moq
5 8 (7.55%) NUnit
6 5 (4.72%) Gatling
6 5 (4.72%) Selenium
7 4 (3.77%) Mockito
7 4 (3.77%) ScalaTest
8 3 (2.83%) Cypress.io
8 3 (2.83%) JMeter
8 3 (2.83%) Maven
9 2 (1.89%) Apache Continuum
9 2 (1.89%) NeoLoad
9 2 (1.89%) SoapUI
10 1 (0.94%) Gradle
10 1 (0.94%) Jasmine
10 1 (0.94%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 25 (23.58%) Social Skills
2 22 (20.75%) Finance
3 9 (8.49%) Banking
3 9 (8.49%) Front Office
3 9 (8.49%) Retail
4 7 (6.60%) Public Sector
5 5 (4.72%) Marketing
5 5 (4.72%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (3.77%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (3.77%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (2.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.89%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.89%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.94%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (0.94%) Law
9 1 (0.94%) Legal
9 1 (0.94%) Police
9 1 (0.94%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 41 (38.68%) Developer
2 16 (15.09%) Senior
3 13 (12.26%) Analyst
3 13 (12.26%) Business Analyst
4 10 (9.43%) Delivery Manager
4 10 (9.43%) DevOps Engineer
4 10 (9.43%) Lead
4 10 (9.43%) Scala Developer
5 9 (8.49%) C# Developer
6 8 (7.55%) Software Delivery Manager
6 8 (7.55%) Software Manager
7 7 (6.60%) MuleSoft Developer
7 7 (6.60%) Project Manager
7 7 (6.60%) Senior Developer
8 6 (5.66%) Java Developer
8 6 (5.66%) Software Developer
8 6 (5.66%) Technical Analyst
8 6 (5.66%) Technical Business Analyst
9 4 (3.77%) Software Project Manager
10 3 (2.83%) Implementation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (26.42%) RESTful
2 18 (16.98%) Spring
3 15 (14.15%) .NET
4 14 (13.21%) RabbitMQ
5 12 (11.32%) .NET Core
5 12 (11.32%) Kafka
6 11 (10.38%) REST
7 10 (9.43%) Akka
8 9 (8.49%) ASP.NET
9 8 (7.55%) ASP.NET Core
9 8 (7.55%) ASP.NET Web API
9 8 (7.55%) Middleware
9 8 (7.55%) SignalR
10 7 (6.60%) ActiveMQ
10 7 (6.60%) CSS
10 7 (6.60%) HTML
10 7 (6.60%) OpenAPI
10 7 (6.60%) SailPoint
10 7 (6.60%) Swagger
10 7 (6.60%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 11 (10.38%) Greenfield Project
2 9 (8.49%) Public Cloud
3 6 (5.66%) Management Information System
4 5 (4.72%) Cloud Native
4 5 (4.72%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.83%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 2 (1.89%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (0.94%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.94%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.94%) Blockchain
7 1 (0.94%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.94%) Data Fabric
7 1 (0.94%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.94%) Distributed Applications
7 1 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.94%) Fixed Income
7 1 (0.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.94%) IoT
7 1 (0.94%) Replication
7 1 (0.94%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (7.55%) Linux
2 4 (3.77%) Unix
3 3 (2.83%) Android
3 3 (2.83%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.94%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (74.53%) Agile
2 38 (35.85%) CI/CD
3 37 (34.91%) Microservices
4 31 (29.25%) Continuous Integration
4 31 (29.25%) DevOps
5 26 (24.53%) Scrum
6 25 (23.58%) TDD
6 25 (23.58%) Test Automation
7 16 (15.09%) BDD
8 15 (14.15%) Problem-Solving
9 13 (12.26%) Containerisation
9 13 (12.26%) High Availability
9 13 (12.26%) Unit Testing
10 12 (11.32%) Infrastructure as Code
10 12 (11.32%) Kanban
11 11 (10.38%) Pair Programming
11 11 (10.38%) Project Management
12 10 (9.43%) Configuration Management
12 10 (9.43%) Continuous Deployment
12 10 (9.43%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 29 (27.36%) SQL
2 25 (23.58%) Java
3 15 (14.15%) C#
4 14 (13.21%) JavaScript
5 11 (10.38%) Scala
6 10 (9.43%) PowerShell
7 9 (8.49%) Bash
8 8 (7.55%) Python
9 5 (4.72%) BeanShell
10 3 (2.83%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.89%) Bicep
11 2 (1.89%) Perl
11 2 (1.89%) Ruby
11 2 (1.89%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 17 (16.04%) Security Cleared
2 14 (13.21%) SC Cleared
3 9 (8.49%) Degree
4 5 (4.72%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.89%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.94%) CSPO
6 1 (0.94%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (0.94%) PgMP
6 1 (0.94%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.94%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (11.32%) QA
2 3 (2.83%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 12207
3 2 (1.89%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.94%) PMO
System Software
1 34 (32.08%) Docker
2 2 (1.89%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.94%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 25 (23.58%) Kubernetes
2 14 (13.21%) Terraform
3 9 (8.49%) Ansible
3 9 (8.49%) Prometheus
4 6 (5.66%) Grafana
5 3 (2.83%) Kibana
5 3 (2.83%) Progress Chef
5 3 (2.83%) Puppet
6 2 (1.89%) logstash
7 1 (0.94%) Nagios
7 1 (0.94%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 15 (14.15%) Microsoft
2 12 (11.32%) Salesforce
2 12 (11.32%) SAP
3 10 (9.43%) Oracle
4 8 (7.55%) MuleSoft
4 8 (7.55%) TIBCO
5 6 (5.66%) Adobe
5 6 (5.66%) Google
5 6 (5.66%) Sitecore
5 6 (5.66%) Typelevel
5 6 (5.66%) WSO2
6 3 (2.83%) Databricks
6 3 (2.83%) Dell
6 3 (2.83%) Intel
7 2 (1.89%) CyberArk
7 2 (1.89%) OpenLink
7 2 (1.89%) Planview
8 1 (0.94%) Avaloq
8 1 (0.94%) Informatica
8 1 (0.94%) Splunk