Software Delivery Contracts in the North of England

Software Delivery
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 152 175 175
Rank change year-on-year +23 0 -25
Contract jobs citing Software Delivery 33 43 67
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.71% 0.77% 0.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.83% 0.85% 1.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 32 44
10th Percentile £444 £413 £413
25th Percentile £450 £449 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £703 £600 £588
90th Percentile £720 £648 £668
England median daily rate £595 £581 £600
% change year-on-year +2.37% -3.13% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £69.50 - £32.25
Median hourly rate £72.00 - £34.50
75th Percentile £74.50 - £36.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £80.00 £72.50 £64.75
% change year-on-year +10.34% +11.97% -3.95%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of 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 the North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,960 5,069 6,351
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 85.44% 90.47% 88.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,421 3,492 4,629
10th Percentile £300 £300 £241
25th Percentile £401 £413 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £570
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 365 204 265
10th Percentile £11.07 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.50 £15.54 £13.38
Median hourly rate £17.72 £27.84 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.35% +46.53% +5.56%
75th Percentile £45.00 £43.94 £35.00
90th Percentile £59.00 £65.00 £62.89
England median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.29% +45.58% +8.70%

Software Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Delivery in the North of England

Software Delivery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Software Delivery in the North of England

Software Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Delivery in the North of England over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Delivery in the North of England

Software Delivery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Delivery in the North of England

Software Delivery
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 18 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
North West +23 23 £600 +23.08% 24
Yorkshire +8 14 £575 +4.55% 8
North East +10 4 £720 +37.14% 2
Software Delivery
England

Software Delivery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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:

Cloud Services
1 11 (33.33%) AWS
2 4 (12.12%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
3 3 (9.09%) Amazon S3
3 3 (9.09%) AWS CodePipeline
3 3 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (9.09%) Azure
3 3 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (9.09%) Serverless
4 1 (3.03%) Azure App Service
4 1 (3.03%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (3.03%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (3.03%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (3.03%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (3.03%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (3.03%) Entra ID
4 1 (3.03%) GitHub
4 1 (3.03%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (3.03%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.03%) HTTP
1 1 (3.03%) Network Security
1 1 (3.03%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (3.03%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 6 (18.18%) JUnit
2 4 (12.12%) GitLab
2 4 (12.12%) Jenkins
3 2 (6.06%) REST Assured
4 1 (3.03%) Travis CI
General
1 10 (30.30%) Public Sector
2 6 (18.18%) Finance
3 1 (3.03%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 11 (33.33%) Developer
2 10 (30.30%) ServiceNow Developer
3 9 (27.27%) DevOps Engineer
4 8 (24.24%) Senior
4 8 (24.24%) Senior Developer
4 8 (24.24%) Senior ServiceNow Developer
5 6 (18.18%) AWS DevOps
5 6 (18.18%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 6 (18.18%) AWS Engineer
6 5 (15.15%) Test Engineer
7 3 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
7 3 (9.09%) Lead
8 2 (6.06%) Analyst
8 2 (6.06%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 2 (6.06%) Business Analyst
9 1 (3.03%) Architect
9 1 (3.03%) Azure Architect
9 1 (3.03%) Product Business Analyst
9 1 (3.03%) Software Engineer
9 1 (3.03%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (18.18%) Gherkin
2 3 (9.09%) ARM Templates
3 1 (3.03%) .NET
3 1 (3.03%) Akka
3 1 (3.03%) AWS CDK
3 1 (3.03%) Kafka
3 1 (3.03%) Node.js
3 1 (3.03%) OAuth
3 1 (3.03%) OpenID
3 1 (3.03%) React
3 1 (3.03%) RESTful
3 1 (3.03%) Spring
3 1 (3.03%) Spring Boot
3 1 (3.03%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (21.21%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (36.36%) Agile
2 11 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 10 (30.30%) DevOps
3 10 (30.30%) ITIL
3 10 (30.30%) Line Management
3 10 (30.30%) Roadmaps
4 8 (24.24%) Infrastructure as Code
4 8 (24.24%) Kanban
4 8 (24.24%) Scrum
4 8 (24.24%) TDD
5 7 (21.21%) Acceptance Criteria
5 7 (21.21%) Containerisation
5 7 (21.21%) Test Automation
5 7 (21.21%) Unit Testing
6 6 (18.18%) Analytics
6 6 (18.18%) Software Testing
6 6 (18.18%) System Testing
6 6 (18.18%) Test Scripting
6 6 (18.18%) Test Strategy
6 6 (18.18%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 9 (27.27%) Java
2 3 (9.09%) Python
2 3 (9.09%) Ruby
3 1 (3.03%) Bicep
3 1 (3.03%) JavaScript
3 1 (3.03%) Scala
3 1 (3.03%) SQL
3 1 (3.03%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (30.30%) ITIL Certification
2 4 (12.12%) Security Cleared
3 3 (9.09%) AWS Certification
3 3 (9.09%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 3 (9.09%) SC Cleared
4 2 (6.06%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (3.03%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (21.21%) QA
2 1 (3.03%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 8 (24.24%) Docker
2 1 (3.03%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (30.30%) Terraform
2 8 (24.24%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.03%) Grafana
3 1 (3.03%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (30.30%) ServiceNow
2 2 (6.06%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.06%) Virgin Media