Software Delivery Contracts in the West Midlands

Software Delivery
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 102 100 145
Rank change year-on-year -2 +45 -45
Contract jobs citing Software Delivery 4 29 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.21% 1.28% 0.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% 1.46% 0.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 14 16
10th Percentile - £379 £411
25th Percentile £663 £453 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year +40.63% -4.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £688 £528 £568
90th Percentile - £538 £596
England median daily rate £595 £581 £600
% change year-on-year +2.37% -3.13% +14.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,582 1,992 3,203
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 83.70% 88.26% 90.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,054 1,359 2,336
10th Percentile £272 £263 £273
25th Percentile £363 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £493
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +4.52% +15.94%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £576
90th Percentile £750 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 51 65
10th Percentile £11.08 £12.50 £12.00
25th Percentile £14.03 £13.51 £13.87
Median hourly rate £22.50 £20.97 £16.83
Median % change year-on-year +7.30% +24.64% +0.03%
75th Percentile £40.38 £28.75 £19.86
90th Percentile £58.00 £47.50 £22.15
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 West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Delivery in the West Midlands

Software Delivery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Software Delivery in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Software Delivery in the West Midlands

Software Delivery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Software Delivery in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Software Delivery in the West Midlands

Software Delivery
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands 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
Warwickshire +7 3 £675 -15.63% 4
Staffordshire +5 1 - - 1
Software Delivery
England

Software Delivery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 3 (75.00%) CMS
1 3 (75.00%) Drupal
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
1 3 (75.00%) Azure DevOps
1 3 (75.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Step Functions
2 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) DNS
1 3 (75.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Git
2 3 (75.00%) Artifactory
2 3 (75.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (75.00%) Selenium
2 3 (75.00%) Subversion
3 1 (25.00%) Bitbucket
3 1 (25.00%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Full Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) OpenAPI
1 1 (25.00%) REST
1 1 (25.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (75.00%) Mobile App
1 3 (75.00%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 4 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
2 3 (75.00%) Capacity Planning
2 3 (75.00%) Deployment Automation
2 3 (75.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Epics
2 3 (75.00%) ITIL
2 3 (75.00%) Kanban
2 3 (75.00%) Platform Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Roadmaps
2 3 (75.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 3 (75.00%) Scrum
2 3 (75.00%) SDLC
2 3 (75.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Software Assurance
3 1 (25.00%) OO
3 1 (25.00%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (25.00%) Python
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Salesforce
1 3 (75.00%) ServiceNow