Software Delivery Contracts in the Midlands

Software Delivery
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring Software Delivery skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Software Delivery over the 6 months leading up to 21 December 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 116 130 167
Rank change year-on-year +14 +37 -4
Contract jobs citing Software Delivery 14 3 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.60% 0.12% 0.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.70% 0.14% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 3 30
10th Percentile £369 - £405
25th Percentile £475 £425 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £450 £540
Median % change year-on-year +13.89% -16.67% +8.00%
75th Percentile £575 £534 -
90th Percentile £725 £570 £625
England median daily rate £575 £615 £600
% change year-on-year -6.50% +2.50% +4.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

Software Delivery falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,998 2,199 3,931
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 86.31% 84.74% 87.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,254 1,508 2,746
10th Percentile £250 £253 £250
25th Percentile £375 £375 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -4.04% +10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £589 £575
90th Percentile £700 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £542 £550
% change year-on-year -3.05% -1.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 94 123
10th Percentile £14.70 £13.08 £11.76
25th Percentile £17.00 £16.77 £14.36
Median hourly rate £22.00 £23.00 £16.83
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +36.66% +7.47%
75th Percentile £32.91 £51.50 £19.40
90th Percentile £52.50 £67.50 £32.45
England median hourly rate £35.00 £44.50 £37.13
% change year-on-year -21.35% +19.85% +76.81%

Software Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Delivery in the Midlands

Software Delivery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Software Delivery in the Midlands

Software Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Delivery in the Midlands over the 6 months to 21 December 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Delivery in the Midlands

Software Delivery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Delivery in the Midlands

Software Delivery
Contract Job Locations in the 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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 21 December 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
West Midlands +10 8 £500 -14.89% 7
East Midlands +10 6 £525 +16.67% 9
Software Delivery
England

Software Delivery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the 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:

Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 7 (50.00%) AWS
2 6 (42.86%) Azure
3 3 (21.43%) GCP
3 3 (21.43%) Serverless
4 2 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (14.29%) AWS Step Functions
4 2 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (7.14%) Azure Pipelines
5 1 (7.14%) GitHub
5 1 (7.14%) SaaS
5 1 (7.14%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (21.43%) SQL Server
2 2 (14.29%) NoSQL
2 2 (14.29%) Relational Database
3 1 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (28.57%) Git
2 3 (21.43%) JIRA
3 2 (14.29%) Bitbucket
General
1 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (7.14%) Finance
2 1 (7.14%) Financial Institution
2 1 (7.14%) Manufacturing
2 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Lead
2 3 (21.43%) Architect
3 2 (14.29%) AWS Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Azure Architect
3 2 (14.29%) Azure Consultant
3 2 (14.29%) Consultant
3 2 (14.29%) Developer
3 2 (14.29%) DevOps Architect
3 2 (14.29%) DevOps Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) JIRA Expert
4 1 (7.14%) Project Leader
4 1 (7.14%) Project Manager
4 1 (7.14%) SaaS Project Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Software Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Software Project Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Technical Leader
4 1 (7.14%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (21.43%) .NET
2 2 (14.29%) OpenAPI
2 2 (14.29%) REST
2 2 (14.29%) Swagger
3 1 (7.14%) .NET Framework
3 1 (7.14%) AngularJS
3 1 (7.14%) ASP.NET
3 1 (7.14%) ASP.NET Web API
3 1 (7.14%) Django
3 1 (7.14%) Entity Framework
3 1 (7.14%) Flask
3 1 (7.14%) Node.js
3 1 (7.14%) React
3 1 (7.14%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Management Information System
2 2 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (7.14%) IVR
3 1 (7.14%) Product Ownership
3 1 (7.14%) Public Cloud
3 1 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (7.14%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) Linux
1 2 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (64.29%) Agile
1 9 (64.29%) CI/CD
2 5 (35.71%) Continuous Integration
3 4 (28.57%) DevOps
3 4 (28.57%) Release Management
3 4 (28.57%) Scrum
4 3 (21.43%) Artificial Intelligence
4 3 (21.43%) Computer Science
4 3 (21.43%) Continuous Deployment
4 3 (21.43%) ITIL
4 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (21.43%) Project Management
4 3 (21.43%) Roadmaps
4 3 (21.43%) Service Management
4 3 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (21.43%) Technical Leadership
4 3 (21.43%) Test Automation
4 3 (21.43%) Workflow
5 2 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (14.29%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (35.71%) Python
2 2 (14.29%) JavaScript
2 2 (14.29%) SQL
3 1 (7.14%) C#
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) Degree
2 2 (14.29%) AWS Certification
2 2 (14.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (7.14%) PMI Certification
3 1 (7.14%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (28.57%) QA
System Software
1 4 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (21.43%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (7.14%) Atlassian
1 1 (7.14%) SAP
1 1 (7.14%) Siemens
1 1 (7.14%) UiPath