Software Delivery Contracts

Software Delivery
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 378 305 263
Rank change year-on-year -73 -42 +21
Contract jobs citing Software Delivery 229 482 949
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.53% 0.87% 1.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.62% 0.97% 1.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 325 653
10th Percentile £417 £413 £413
25th Percentile £500 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +11.65%
75th Percentile £638 £708 £688
90th Percentile £788 £770 £772
UK excluding London median daily rate £538 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +2.38% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 25 4
10th Percentile £65.00 £56.44 £36.14
25th Percentile £69.50 £64.50 £41.96
Median hourly rate £80.00 £73.71 £48.85
Median % change year-on-year +8.53% +50.89% -6.88%
75th Percentile £85.00 £75.86 £60.23
90th Percentile £86.00 £85.00 £71.91
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.00 £70.00 £39.85
% change year-on-year +14.29% +75.66% -24.03%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,914 49,809 79,437
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.21% 89.64% 90.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,592 34,469 55,846
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £649
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,564 1,687 1,868
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.70 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.75
Median hourly rate £36.50 £35.80 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% +39.41% +11.65%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.51
% change year-on-year +8.91% +70.69% -2.36%

Software Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Delivery in the UK

Software Delivery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Software Delivery in the UK

Software Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Delivery over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Delivery in the UK

Software Delivery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Delivery in the UK

Software Delivery
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Software Delivery over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Software Delivery in the UK

Software Delivery
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 9 June 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
England -66 183 £563 -6.25% 139
London -43 107 £595 -4.11% 44
UK excluding London -21 103 £538 +2.38% 108
Work from Home +19 73 £550 +10.00% 99
Scotland +39 29 £490 +15.29% 14
North of England +15 27 £550 - 27
South West +19 22 £525 -12.50% 14
North West +10 14 £463 -7.50% 22
South East -15 14 £538 -2.27% 13
Yorkshire +4 12 £550 - 1
Midlands -1 10 £675 +40.63% 27
East Midlands +13 5 £525 +7.69% 10
West Midlands -11 5 £675 +40.63% 17
North East +10 1 £575 +28.49% 4
East of England -9 1 £600 +6.67% 6

Software Delivery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 20 (8.73%) Confluence
2 9 (3.93%) Anypoint
3 5 (2.18%) CMS
4 4 (1.75%) Apache Solr
4 4 (1.75%) nginx
5 3 (1.31%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.31%) Drupal
6 2 (0.87%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.44%) Appian
7 1 (0.44%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.44%) MTS
7 1 (0.44%) StreamWeaver
Applications
1 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.87%) Trello
2 1 (0.44%) EngageOne
2 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.44%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 6 (2.62%) Shopify
2 3 (1.31%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.87%) Endur
3 2 (0.87%) JDE OneWorld
3 2 (0.87%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 79 (34.50%) AWS
2 55 (24.02%) Azure
3 25 (10.92%) Azure DevOps
3 25 (10.92%) Serverless
4 24 (10.48%) AWS Lambda
5 19 (8.30%) GCP
6 14 (6.11%) AWS CloudFormation
7 13 (5.68%) Amazon S3
7 13 (5.68%) SaaS
8 12 (5.24%) OpenShift
9 11 (4.80%) Amazon EC2
10 7 (3.06%) Apigee
11 6 (2.62%) BigCommerce
11 6 (2.62%) OCI
12 5 (2.18%) GitHub
12 5 (2.18%) PaaS
13 4 (1.75%) Amazon EKS
13 4 (1.75%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 4 (1.75%) Miro
14 3 (1.31%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.37%) DNS
2 7 (3.06%) HTTP
2 7 (3.06%) TCP/IP
3 4 (1.75%) HTTPS
3 4 (1.75%) IPsec
4 3 (1.31%) DHCP
4 3 (1.31%) SSL
5 2 (0.87%) Broadband
5 2 (0.87%) Intranet
5 2 (0.87%) Network Security
6 1 (0.44%) Firewall
6 1 (0.44%) FTP
6 1 (0.44%) Internet
6 1 (0.44%) OpenLDAP
6 1 (0.44%) SMS
6 1 (0.44%) SNMP
6 1 (0.44%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (11.79%) NoSQL
2 10 (4.37%) Apache Cassandra
3 8 (3.49%) Elasticsearch
4 7 (3.06%) Oracle Database
4 7 (3.06%) SQL Server
5 6 (2.62%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (2.18%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (2.18%) Relational Database
7 4 (1.75%) Couchbase
7 4 (1.75%) MySQL
7 4 (1.75%) Redis
8 3 (1.31%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (1.31%) Big Data
8 3 (1.31%) InfluxDB
9 2 (0.87%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (0.87%) Hadoop
9 2 (0.87%) Tableau
10 1 (0.44%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.44%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 1 (0.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 36 (15.72%) Git
2 35 (15.28%) JIRA
3 29 (12.66%) Jenkins
4 17 (7.42%) TeamCity
5 16 (6.99%) GitLab
6 13 (5.68%) Artifactory
7 10 (4.37%) Cucumber
7 10 (4.37%) Selenium
8 8 (3.49%) JUnit
8 8 (3.49%) Moq
8 8 (3.49%) NUnit
9 7 (3.06%) SonarQube
10 5 (2.18%) Gatling
10 5 (2.18%) Subversion
11 4 (1.75%) Cypress.io
11 4 (1.75%) Mockito
11 4 (1.75%) ScalaTest
12 3 (1.31%) JMeter
12 3 (1.31%) Maven
13 2 (0.87%) WebDriver
General
1 55 (24.02%) Social Skills
2 47 (20.52%) Finance
3 37 (16.16%) Public Sector
4 13 (5.68%) Legal
5 12 (5.24%) Front Office
6 11 (4.80%) Telecoms
7 10 (4.37%) Influencing Skills
8 9 (3.93%) Banking
8 9 (3.93%) Retail
9 7 (3.06%) Marketing
10 5 (2.18%) Analytical Skills
10 5 (2.18%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.75%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (1.31%) Electronics
13 2 (0.87%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.87%) Manufacturing
14 1 (0.44%) Law
14 1 (0.44%) Military
14 1 (0.44%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 52 (22.71%) Developer
2 44 (19.21%) DevOps Engineer
3 39 (17.03%) Senior
4 24 (10.48%) Delivery Manager
5 22 (9.61%) Analyst
6 18 (7.86%) Lead
7 17 (7.42%) Project Manager
8 16 (6.99%) Business Analyst
8 16 (6.99%) Senior Manager
9 13 (5.68%) AWS Engineer
10 12 (5.24%) Senior Delivery Manager
11 11 (4.80%) Architect
11 11 (4.80%) AWS DevOps
11 11 (4.80%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 11 (4.80%) Scala Developer
12 10 (4.37%) Technical Analyst
13 9 (3.93%) C# Developer
13 9 (3.93%) Senior Developer
13 9 (3.93%) Software Delivery Manager
13 9 (3.93%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (16.59%) RESTful
2 22 (9.61%) .NET
2 22 (9.61%) RabbitMQ
3 20 (8.73%) Spring
4 18 (7.86%) REST
5 17 (7.42%) Node.js
6 14 (6.11%) XML
7 13 (5.68%) YAML
8 11 (4.80%) .NET Core
8 11 (4.80%) Akka
8 11 (4.80%) Elastic Stack
8 11 (4.80%) Kafka
9 10 (4.37%) HTML
9 10 (4.37%) React
9 10 (4.37%) SOAP
10 9 (3.93%) ASP.NET
10 9 (3.93%) CSS
10 9 (3.93%) JSON
10 9 (3.93%) Middleware
10 9 (3.93%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 21 (9.17%) Product Ownership
2 12 (5.24%) Cloud Native
3 11 (4.80%) Greenfield Project
3 11 (4.80%) Management Information System
4 10 (4.37%) Public Cloud
5 7 (3.06%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (2.18%) Mobile App
6 5 (2.18%) Verilog
6 5 (2.18%) VHDL
7 4 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.31%) Enterprise Cloud
8 3 (1.31%) Private Cloud
8 3 (1.31%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 2 (0.87%) Client/Server
9 2 (0.87%) Data Centre
9 2 (0.87%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.87%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.87%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 1 (0.44%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 24 (10.48%) Linux
2 8 (3.49%) Ubuntu
2 8 (3.49%) Unix
3 5 (2.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (1.75%) CentOS
5 3 (1.31%) Android
5 3 (1.31%) Apple iOS
5 3 (1.31%) Windows
6 1 (0.44%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (68.12%) Agile
2 92 (40.17%) DevOps
3 88 (38.43%) CI/CD
4 57 (24.89%) Scrum
5 46 (20.09%) Continuous Integration
5 46 (20.09%) Microservices
6 45 (19.65%) Test Automation
7 43 (18.78%) TDD
8 42 (18.34%) Infrastructure as Code
9 35 (15.28%) Project Delivery
10 33 (14.41%) Project Management
11 32 (13.97%) Kanban
12 27 (11.79%) Problem-Solving
13 26 (11.35%) Containerisation
14 25 (10.92%) Configuration Management
15 23 (10.04%) Continuous Improvement
15 23 (10.04%) Software Engineering
15 23 (10.04%) Stakeholder Management
16 22 (9.61%) Unit Testing
17 21 (9.17%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 41 (17.90%) SQL
2 38 (16.59%) Java
3 27 (11.79%) Python
4 24 (10.48%) PowerShell
5 21 (9.17%) Bash
5 21 (9.17%) JavaScript
6 18 (7.86%) C#
7 12 (5.24%) Scala
8 10 (4.37%) C++
9 8 (3.49%) Ruby
10 7 (3.06%) BeanShell
10 7 (3.06%) Go
10 7 (3.06%) TypeScript
11 6 (2.62%) C
12 4 (1.75%) Bicep
12 4 (1.75%) PHP
13 3 (1.31%) Groovy
13 3 (1.31%) PL/SQL
13 3 (1.31%) VB.NET
14 2 (0.87%) VBA
Qualifications
1 58 (25.33%) Security Cleared
2 37 (16.16%) SC Cleared
3 14 (6.11%) Degree
4 9 (3.93%) DV Cleared
5 6 (2.62%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.75%) AWS Certification
6 4 (1.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (1.31%) ITIL Certification
7 3 (1.31%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.87%) ISEB
8 2 (0.87%) ISTQB
8 2 (0.87%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.44%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.44%) CSPO
9 1 (0.44%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.44%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (0.44%) PgMP
9 1 (0.44%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.44%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (12.66%) QA
2 6 (2.62%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.75%) GDPR
3 4 (1.75%) HIPAA
3 4 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.75%) NIST
4 3 (1.31%) ISO 9001
4 3 (1.31%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 3 (1.31%) SLA
5 2 (0.87%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 12207
5 2 (0.87%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.87%) PMO
6 1 (0.44%) Def Stans
6 1 (0.44%) DO-178B
6 1 (0.44%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 56 (24.45%) Docker
2 8 (3.49%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (2.62%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.62%) vSphere
4 4 (1.75%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (1.75%) VMware NSX
5 3 (1.31%) Hyper-V
5 3 (1.31%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 54 (23.58%) Terraform
2 49 (21.40%) Kubernetes
3 35 (15.28%) Ansible
4 12 (5.24%) Grafana
4 12 (5.24%) Prometheus
5 7 (3.06%) Kibana
5 7 (3.06%) Puppet
6 6 (2.62%) Progress Chef
7 4 (1.75%) Rancher
8 3 (1.31%) Autotask
8 3 (1.31%) WSUS
9 2 (0.87%) logstash
9 2 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.44%) Nagios
Vendors
1 22 (9.61%) Microsoft
2 18 (7.86%) SAP
3 16 (6.99%) Oracle
3 16 (6.99%) Salesforce
4 13 (5.68%) VMware
5 11 (4.80%) Google
6 10 (4.37%) MuleSoft
7 8 (3.49%) TIBCO
8 7 (3.06%) ServiceNow
8 7 (3.06%) WSO2
9 6 (2.62%) Adobe
9 6 (2.62%) Sitecore
9 6 (2.62%) Typelevel
10 3 (1.31%) Arista
10 3 (1.31%) BMC
10 3 (1.31%) Dell
10 3 (1.31%) Intel
10 3 (1.31%) Remedy
10 3 (1.31%) TOWER Software
10 3 (1.31%) Virgin Media