Software Delivery Contracts in London

Software Delivery
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 290 257 236
Rank change year-on-year -33 -21 -17
Contract jobs citing Software Delivery 92 177 429
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.59% 0.87% 1.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.66% 0.96% 1.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 127 309
10th Percentile £400 £381 £425
25th Percentile £455 £495 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £613
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -2.04% +2.08%
75th Percentile £600 £725 £750
90th Percentile £779 £768 £800
England median daily rate £550 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 3
10th Percentile - £57.81 £71.31
25th Percentile - £65.78 £73.28
Median hourly rate £35.00 £82.81 £78.13
Median % change year-on-year -57.73% +6.00% -
75th Percentile £50.00 £88.28 £79.69
90th Percentile £59.00 £89.31 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £75.43 £78.13
% change year-on-year -13.83% -3.45% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,962 18,344 33,959
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.17% 89.71% 91.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,995 13,225 24,324
10th Percentile £350 £363 £400
25th Percentile £450 £463 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £588
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -2.13% +6.82%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £798
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 168 234 277
10th Percentile £17.43 £18.21 £16.53
25th Percentile £25.17 £21.25 £23.25
Median hourly rate £38.75 £39.09 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.86% +4.23% +8.70%
75th Percentile £58.75 £63.25 £59.38
90th Percentile £80.23 £77.50 £75.39
England median hourly rate £39.50 £44.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -11.24% +27.14% +70.73%

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 October 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

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

Hourly rate histogram 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 October 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
Central London +1 7 £705 +38.82% 2
West London +10 2 - -
South London +11 1 £463 -15.91%
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 (8.70%) Confluence
2 3 (3.26%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (3.26%) SharePoint
2 3 (3.26%) Tomcat
3 2 (2.17%) Cloud Foundry
3 2 (2.17%) WebSphere
4 1 (1.09%) Anypoint
4 1 (1.09%) Apache Solr
4 1 (1.09%) CMS
4 1 (1.09%) Jupyter
4 1 (1.09%) nginx
4 1 (1.09%) Sitecore CMS
4 1 (1.09%) StreamWeaver
Applications
1 4 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (3.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.09%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 3 (3.26%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (3.26%) Endur
2 1 (1.09%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 26 (28.26%) Azure
2 23 (25.00%) AWS
3 10 (10.87%) GCP
4 6 (6.52%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (5.43%) Entra ID
6 4 (4.35%) GitHub
6 4 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (3.26%) Azure App Service
7 3 (3.26%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 3 (3.26%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (3.26%) Azure Key Vault
7 3 (3.26%) Azure Logic Apps
7 3 (3.26%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (3.26%) SaaS
8 2 (2.17%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (2.17%) OpenShift
8 2 (2.17%) Serverless
9 1 (1.09%) Power Platform
9 1 (1.09%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.43%) HTTP
2 3 (3.26%) Network Security
2 3 (3.26%) WAN
3 2 (2.17%) Broadband
4 1 (1.09%) DNS
4 1 (1.09%) HTTPS
4 1 (1.09%) Internet
4 1 (1.09%) IPsec
4 1 (1.09%) SMS
4 1 (1.09%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.26%) Azure SQL Database
1 3 (3.26%) NoSQL
1 3 (3.26%) Relational Database
2 2 (2.17%) Apache Cassandra
2 2 (2.17%) Big Data
2 2 (2.17%) KDB
3 1 (1.09%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.09%) BigQuery
3 1 (1.09%) Couchbase
3 1 (1.09%) DB2
3 1 (1.09%) Kdb+
3 1 (1.09%) MySQL
3 1 (1.09%) Power BI
3 1 (1.09%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (13.04%) JIRA
2 4 (4.35%) Git
3 2 (2.17%) Apache Continuum
3 2 (2.17%) Gatling
3 2 (2.17%) GitLab
3 2 (2.17%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.17%) LoadRunner
3 2 (2.17%) Locust
4 1 (1.09%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.09%) Gradle
4 1 (1.09%) JUnit
4 1 (1.09%) Maven
4 1 (1.09%) REST Assured
4 1 (1.09%) Selenium
4 1 (1.09%) TeamCity
4 1 (1.09%) TestNG
General
1 28 (30.43%) Social Skills
2 22 (23.91%) Finance
3 13 (14.13%) Public Sector
4 8 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (8.70%) Banking
5 4 (4.35%) Front Office
5 4 (4.35%) Investment Banking
6 3 (3.26%) Retail
7 2 (2.17%) Law
7 2 (2.17%) Legal
7 2 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.17%) Publishing
7 2 (2.17%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.09%) Automotive
8 1 (1.09%) Back Office
8 1 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.09%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.09%) Marketing
8 1 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (19.57%) Developer
2 15 (16.30%) Senior
3 13 (14.13%) DevOps Engineer
4 12 (13.04%) Project Manager
5 10 (10.87%) Business Analyst
6 9 (9.78%) Analyst
7 6 (6.52%) Delivery Manager
8 5 (5.43%) IT Manager
8 5 (5.43%) Lead
8 5 (5.43%) Platform Engineer
8 5 (5.43%) Test Engineer
9 4 (4.35%) Architect
9 4 (4.35%) IT Project Manager
9 4 (4.35%) Java Developer
9 4 (4.35%) Senior Developer
9 4 (4.35%) Senior DevOps
9 4 (4.35%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 4 (4.35%) Software Developer
9 4 (4.35%) Technical Analyst
10 3 (3.26%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (10.87%) RESTful
2 9 (9.78%) REST
3 8 (8.70%) SailPoint
4 6 (6.52%) HTML
5 5 (5.43%) Kafka
5 5 (5.43%) React
5 5 (5.43%) Spring
6 4 (4.35%) AngularJS
7 3 (3.26%) ARM Templates
7 3 (3.26%) CSS
7 3 (3.26%) Node.js
7 3 (3.26%) OAuth
8 2 (2.17%) Akka
8 2 (2.17%) JSON
8 2 (2.17%) OAuth2
8 2 (2.17%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (2.17%) SOAP
8 2 (2.17%) VML
8 2 (2.17%) Web Services
9 1 (1.09%) Apache Camel
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.70%) Cloud Native
2 4 (4.35%) Data Centre
2 4 (4.35%) Enterprise Cloud
2 4 (4.35%) Product Ownership
2 4 (4.35%) Virtual Team
3 3 (3.26%) NHS
3 3 (3.26%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 2 (2.17%) Algorithms
4 2 (2.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (2.17%) Mobile App
4 2 (2.17%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.09%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.09%) AS400
5 1 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.09%) Fixed Income
5 1 (1.09%) Media Streaming
5 1 (1.09%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.09%) Online Banking
5 1 (1.09%) PKI
5 1 (1.09%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 7 (7.61%) Linux
1 7 (7.61%) Windows
2 5 (5.43%) Unix
3 3 (3.26%) Windows 10
3 3 (3.26%) Windows Server
4 2 (2.17%) Android
4 2 (2.17%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.09%) Debian
5 1 (1.09%) Fedora
5 1 (1.09%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (58.70%) Agile
2 31 (33.70%) DevOps
3 28 (30.43%) CI/CD
4 24 (26.09%) Problem-Solving
5 19 (20.65%) Scrum
6 16 (17.39%) Project Management
7 15 (16.30%) TDD
8 13 (14.13%) Infrastructure as Code
8 13 (14.13%) Microservices
8 13 (14.13%) Stakeholder Management
8 13 (14.13%) Test Automation
9 11 (11.96%) Continuous Improvement
9 11 (11.96%) Project Delivery
10 9 (9.78%) Migration
11 8 (8.70%) Continuous Integration
12 7 (7.61%) Roadmaps
12 7 (7.61%) SDLC
13 6 (6.52%) Code Quality
13 6 (6.52%) Design Patterns
13 6 (6.52%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (16.30%) PowerShell
2 13 (14.13%) Java
3 10 (10.87%) SQL
4 9 (9.78%) BeanShell
4 9 (9.78%) JavaScript
5 7 (7.61%) Bash
6 5 (5.43%) Python
7 3 (3.26%) Bicep
7 3 (3.26%) Go
7 3 (3.26%) Ruby
8 2 (2.17%) Scala
8 2 (2.17%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.09%) C#
9 1 (1.09%) C++
9 1 (1.09%) Perl
9 1 (1.09%) PHP
9 1 (1.09%) VB
9 1 (1.09%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 23 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 22 (23.91%) SC Cleared
3 10 (10.87%) Degree
4 4 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.17%) A+ Certification
5 2 (2.17%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (2.17%) MCP
5 2 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.09%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.09%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (1.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.09%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.09%) CSPO
6 1 (1.09%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (9.78%) QA
2 1 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 8 (8.70%) Docker
2 4 (4.35%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (3.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (2.17%) VMware NSX
5 1 (1.09%) Active Directory
5 1 (1.09%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 10 (10.87%) Kubernetes
2 9 (9.78%) Terraform
3 4 (4.35%) Ansible
4 3 (3.26%) Grafana
4 3 (3.26%) Prometheus
5 2 (2.17%) Puppet
6 1 (1.09%) Fluentd
6 1 (1.09%) Nessus
6 1 (1.09%) Packer
6 1 (1.09%) Rancher
6 1 (1.09%) SCCM
6 1 (1.09%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (11.96%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.35%) Splunk
3 3 (3.26%) OpenLink
3 3 (3.26%) Oracle
3 3 (3.26%) VMware
4 2 (2.17%) Alteryx
4 2 (2.17%) AppDynamics
4 2 (2.17%) Cisco
4 2 (2.17%) Google
4 2 (2.17%) IBM
4 2 (2.17%) MuleSoft
4 2 (2.17%) Salesforce
4 2 (2.17%) SAP
4 2 (2.17%) Typelevel
5 1 (1.09%) Checkmarx
5 1 (1.09%) CyberArk
5 1 (1.09%) ForgeRock
5 1 (1.09%) Netsparker
5 1 (1.09%) Solace
5 1 (1.09%) WSO2