Software Delivery Contracts in Manchester

Software Delivery
North West > Manchester

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 83 105 126
Rank change year-on-year +22 +21 -42
Contract jobs citing Software Delivery 14 7 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.97% 0.39% 0.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.12% 0.43% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 5 11
10th Percentile - £378 -
25th Percentile £444 - £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year +15.63% -20.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £438 £533
90th Percentile - £445 £545
North West median daily rate £463 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -2.63% -5.00% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £69.50 - -
Median hourly rate £72.00 - -
75th Percentile £74.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £72.00 - £34.50

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,247 1,618 2,349
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 86.36% 90.49% 88.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 845 1,188 1,827
10th Percentile £325 £318 £264
25th Percentile £413 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £590 £588
90th Percentile £694 £675 £663
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 55 52
10th Percentile £12.46 £15.73 £11.40
25th Percentile £13.50 £17.28 £14.25
Median hourly rate £26.00 £25.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +31.58% +17.43%
75th Percentile £61.25 £39.80 £56.25
90th Percentile £73.30 £70.00 £75.00
North West median hourly rate £26.66 £35.00 £23.22
% change year-on-year -23.83% +50.72% +29.34%

Software Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Delivery in Manchester

Software Delivery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Software Delivery in Manchester

Software Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Delivery in Manchester over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Delivery in Manchester

Software Delivery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Delivery in Manchester

Software Delivery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Cloud Services
1 9 (64.29%) AWS
2 4 (28.57%) AWS CloudFormation
2 4 (28.57%) Azure
3 3 (21.43%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (21.43%) Amazon EKS
3 3 (21.43%) Amazon S3
3 3 (21.43%) AWS CodePipeline
3 3 (21.43%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (21.43%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (21.43%) Serverless
4 1 (7.14%) Azure App Service
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (7.14%) Entra ID
4 1 (7.14%) GitHub
4 1 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (7.14%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) Network Security
1 1 (7.14%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (21.43%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (7.14%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 4 (28.57%) GitLab
1 4 (28.57%) Jenkins
2 1 (7.14%) Travis CI
General
1 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (71.43%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (42.86%) AWS DevOps
2 6 (42.86%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 6 (42.86%) AWS Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Lead
5 1 (7.14%) Architect
5 1 (7.14%) Azure Architect
5 1 (7.14%) Principal Architect
5 1 (7.14%) Principal Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Software Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (21.43%) ARM Templates
2 1 (7.14%) .NET
2 1 (7.14%) AWS CDK
2 1 (7.14%) Node.js
2 1 (7.14%) React
2 1 (7.14%) SailPoint
2 1 (7.14%) Spring
2 1 (7.14%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (85.71%) CI/CD
2 11 (78.57%) DevOps
3 8 (57.14%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (50.00%) Containerisation
5 3 (21.43%) Agile
5 3 (21.43%) Configuration Management
5 3 (21.43%) High Availability
6 1 (7.14%) Business Continuity
6 1 (7.14%) Continuous Integration
6 1 (7.14%) Data Protection
6 1 (7.14%) Disaster Recovery
6 1 (7.14%) Identity Management
6 1 (7.14%) Integration Testing
6 1 (7.14%) Kanban
6 1 (7.14%) Matrix Management
6 1 (7.14%) Pair Programming
6 1 (7.14%) Scrum
6 1 (7.14%) Software Engineering
6 1 (7.14%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (7.14%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (21.43%) Python
1 3 (21.43%) Ruby
2 1 (7.14%) Bash
2 1 (7.14%) Bicep
2 1 (7.14%) Java
2 1 (7.14%) PowerShell
2 1 (7.14%) SQL
2 1 (7.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 4 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 3 (21.43%) AWS Certification
2 3 (21.43%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
System Software
1 7 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (7.14%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (71.43%) Terraform
2 7 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Virgin Media
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft