Software Delivery Contracts in the UK excluding London

Software Delivery
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 280 272 254
Rank change year-on-year -8 -18 -23
Contract jobs citing Software Delivery 98 164 280
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.48% 0.72% 0.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.57% 0.80% 1.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 100 202
10th Percentile £415 £375 £405
25th Percentile £458 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £521
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.03% +9.68%
75th Percentile £606 £571 £615
90th Percentile £688 £650 £688
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 11 2
10th Percentile £67.70 £55.00 £33.55
25th Percentile £72.25 £58.59 £35.49
Median hourly rate £80.00 £70.00 £39.85
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +75.66% -11.44%
75th Percentile £85.00 £74.36 £43.09
90th Percentile £87.00 £75.86 £44.36
UK median hourly rate £80.00 £73.71 £64.75
% change year-on-year +8.53% +13.84% +43.89%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,095 20,476 27,091
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.93% 89.37% 89.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,219 14,070 18,908
10th Percentile £250 £260 £235
25th Percentile £377 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £483
Median % change year-on-year - +3.63% +9.66%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £656
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +8.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,090 1,248 1,358
10th Percentile £12.37 £10.63 £12.29
25th Percentile £15.31 £15.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £37.75 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.86% +75.00% -4.99%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £47.40
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.63 £62.18
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year - +40.19% +7.00%

Software Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Delivery in the UK excluding London

Software Delivery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Software Delivery in the UK excluding London

Software Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Delivery in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Delivery in the UK excluding London

Software Delivery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Delivery in the UK excluding London

Software Delivery
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Software Delivery in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Software Delivery in the UK excluding London

Software Delivery
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 23 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
Scotland +44 29 £490 +10.42% 15
North of England +14 28 £550 - 38
South West +20 20 £525 - 17
North West +20 17 £475 -5.00% 24
Yorkshire +9 12 £550 - 9
South East -4 12 £500 - 18
Midlands +5 8 £675 +40.63% 32
East Midlands +13 4 - - 12
West Midlands -9 4 £675 +40.63% 20
North East +6 1 £720 +37.14% 5
East of England +2 1 £600 +14.29% 7
Software Delivery
UK

Software Delivery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 15 (15.31%) Confluence
2 4 (4.08%) Apache Solr
2 4 (4.08%) nginx
3 3 (3.06%) CMS
3 3 (3.06%) Drupal
4 1 (1.02%) MTS
Applications
1 1 (1.02%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 30 (30.61%) AWS
2 23 (23.47%) Azure
2 23 (23.47%) Azure DevOps
3 14 (14.29%) Serverless
4 13 (13.27%) AWS Lambda
5 12 (12.24%) Amazon S3
6 11 (11.22%) AWS CloudFormation
7 10 (10.20%) Amazon EC2
8 7 (7.14%) GCP
9 4 (4.08%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 4 (4.08%) OpenShift
9 4 (4.08%) SaaS
10 3 (3.06%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (3.06%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (3.06%) AWS CodePipeline
10 3 (3.06%) AWS Fargate
10 3 (3.06%) PaaS
11 2 (2.04%) IaaS
11 2 (2.04%) Route 53
12 1 (1.02%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 10 (10.20%) DNS
2 7 (7.14%) TCP/IP
3 4 (4.08%) HTTPS
3 4 (4.08%) IPsec
4 3 (3.06%) DHCP
4 3 (3.06%) SSL
5 2 (2.04%) Network Security
6 1 (1.02%) Firewall
6 1 (1.02%) HTTP
6 1 (1.02%) OpenLDAP
6 1 (1.02%) SNMP
6 1 (1.02%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.10%) Amazon RDS
1 5 (5.10%) NoSQL
1 5 (5.10%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (4.08%) Couchbase
2 4 (4.08%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (4.08%) MySQL
3 3 (3.06%) InfluxDB
4 2 (2.04%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (1.02%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.02%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 18 (18.37%) JIRA
2 13 (13.27%) Artifactory
2 13 (13.27%) Jenkins
3 12 (12.24%) GitLab
4 8 (8.16%) JUnit
5 7 (7.14%) Git
6 6 (6.12%) SonarQube
7 5 (5.10%) Selenium
7 5 (5.10%) Subversion
8 2 (2.04%) Cucumber
8 2 (2.04%) Cypress.io
8 2 (2.04%) REST Assured
8 2 (2.04%) TeamCity
8 2 (2.04%) WebDriver
9 1 (1.02%) Bitbucket
9 1 (1.02%) LabVIEW
9 1 (1.02%) Rational DOORS
9 1 (1.02%) Travis CI
General
1 31 (31.63%) Public Sector
2 19 (19.39%) Social Skills
3 17 (17.35%) Finance
4 10 (10.20%) Legal
5 8 (8.16%) Influencing Skills
5 8 (8.16%) Telecoms
6 3 (3.06%) Electronics
6 3 (3.06%) Front Office
6 3 (3.06%) Marketing
7 2 (2.04%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.02%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (1.02%) Aviation
8 1 (1.02%) Military
Job Titles
1 25 (25.51%) DevOps Engineer
2 22 (22.45%) Senior
3 13 (13.27%) Senior Manager
4 12 (12.24%) Delivery Manager
4 12 (12.24%) Senior Delivery Manager
5 11 (11.22%) AWS Engineer
6 9 (9.18%) AWS DevOps
6 9 (9.18%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 8 (8.16%) Analyst
7 8 (8.16%) Architect
7 8 (8.16%) Developer
7 8 (8.16%) Lead
8 7 (7.14%) Project Manager
8 7 (7.14%) Test Engineer
9 5 (5.10%) Consultant
9 5 (5.10%) Platform Engineer
9 5 (5.10%) Software Architect
10 4 (4.08%) Agile Project Manager
10 4 (4.08%) Azure Engineer
10 4 (4.08%) Python Software Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (10.20%) YAML
2 8 (8.16%) AWS CDK
2 8 (8.16%) Gherkin
3 7 (7.14%) .NET
3 7 (7.14%) RabbitMQ
3 7 (7.14%) RESTful
4 6 (6.12%) Node.js
4 6 (6.12%) XML
5 4 (4.08%) Elastic Stack
5 4 (4.08%) JSON
5 4 (4.08%) LEMP Stack
5 4 (4.08%) React
6 3 (3.06%) ARM Templates
7 2 (2.04%) CSS
7 2 (2.04%) HTML
8 1 (1.02%) Java EE
8 1 (1.02%) LDAP
8 1 (1.02%) OAuth
8 1 (1.02%) Spring
8 1 (1.02%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 15 (15.31%) Product Ownership
2 7 (7.14%) Cloud Native
3 5 (5.10%) Mobile App
3 5 (5.10%) Verilog
3 5 (5.10%) VHDL
4 4 (4.08%) Management Information System
5 3 (3.06%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (3.06%) Private Cloud
5 3 (3.06%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.04%) Client/Server
7 1 (1.02%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 16 (16.33%) Linux
2 8 (8.16%) Ubuntu
3 5 (5.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (4.08%) CentOS
5 3 (3.06%) Unix
5 3 (3.06%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (67.35%) Agile
2 48 (48.98%) DevOps
3 37 (37.76%) CI/CD
4 29 (29.59%) Scrum
5 20 (20.41%) Infrastructure as Code
5 20 (20.41%) Project Management
6 19 (19.39%) Kanban
7 18 (18.37%) Project Delivery
8 17 (17.35%) Test Automation
9 15 (15.31%) TDD
10 13 (13.27%) Stakeholder Management
11 12 (12.24%) Containerisation
11 12 (12.24%) ITIL
11 12 (12.24%) Software Engineering
12 11 (11.22%) Configuration Management
12 11 (11.22%) Continuous Improvement
12 11 (11.22%) Roadmaps
12 11 (11.22%) Software Testing
13 10 (10.20%) PRINCE2
14 9 (9.18%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 17 (17.35%) Python
2 14 (14.29%) Java
3 12 (12.24%) Bash
4 10 (10.20%) C++
4 10 (10.20%) PowerShell
5 6 (6.12%) C
5 6 (6.12%) JavaScript
6 5 (5.10%) TypeScript
7 4 (4.08%) PHP
7 4 (4.08%) SQL
8 3 (3.06%) C#
8 3 (3.06%) Go
8 3 (3.06%) Groovy
8 3 (3.06%) Ruby
8 3 (3.06%) VB.NET
9 2 (2.04%) Bicep
9 2 (2.04%) Shell Script
9 2 (2.04%) VBA
9 2 (2.04%) VBScript
10 1 (1.02%) Ada
Qualifications
1 33 (33.67%) Security Cleared
2 19 (19.39%) SC Cleared
3 8 (8.16%) DV Cleared
4 6 (6.12%) ITIL Certification
5 4 (4.08%) AWS Certification
5 4 (4.08%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 4 (4.08%) Degree
6 3 (3.06%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (2.04%) ISEB
7 2 (2.04%) ISTQB
7 2 (2.04%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (1.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (15.31%) QA
2 4 (4.08%) GDPR
2 4 (4.08%) HIPAA
2 4 (4.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (4.08%) NIST
3 3 (3.06%) Accessibility
3 3 (3.06%) ISO 9001
3 3 (3.06%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 3 (3.06%) SLA
4 2 (2.04%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (1.02%) Def Stans
5 1 (1.02%) DO-178B
5 1 (1.02%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 21 (21.43%) Docker
2 5 (5.10%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (4.08%) Active Directory
3 4 (4.08%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (3.06%) Hyper-V
4 3 (3.06%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 29 (29.59%) Terraform
2 21 (21.43%) Ansible
2 21 (21.43%) Kubernetes
3 6 (6.12%) Grafana
4 4 (4.08%) Kibana
5 3 (3.06%) Rancher
5 3 (3.06%) WSUS
6 2 (2.04%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.02%) Puppet
Vendors
1 9 (9.18%) ServiceNow
2 7 (7.14%) VMware
3 5 (5.10%) SAP
4 4 (4.08%) Google
4 4 (4.08%) Microsoft
5 3 (3.06%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.04%) Virgin Media
7 1 (1.02%) IBM
7 1 (1.02%) Palo Alto
7 1 (1.02%) QinetiQ
7 1 (1.02%) Qualys