Software Delivery Contracts in London

Software Delivery
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 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 293 250 220
Rank change year-on-year -43 -30 +19
Contract jobs citing Software Delivery 107 246 498
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.61% 0.98% 1.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.69% 1.08% 1.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 182 341
10th Percentile £426 £450 £450
25th Percentile £501 £500 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £595 £620 £625
Median % change year-on-year -4.11% -0.80% +8.70%
75th Percentile £742 £743 £743
90th Percentile £825 £775 £838
England median daily rate £563 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -6.25% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 10 2
10th Percentile - £62.68 £53.78
25th Percentile - £70.31 £57.58
Median hourly rate £65.00 £74.50 £65.31
Median % change year-on-year -12.75% +14.07% -
75th Percentile - £75.75 £73.20
90th Percentile - £83.25 £77.09
England median hourly rate £80.00 £72.50 £48.85
% change year-on-year +10.34% +48.41% -30.17%

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,493 22,867 35,682
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.25% 90.91% 92.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,090 16,561 26,167
10th Percentile £340 £375 £393
25th Percentile £445 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £778
England median daily rate £525 £550 £548
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.46% +9.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 317 265 394
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.50 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.50 £39.00 £35.75
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +9.09% +8.83%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.00 £51.26
90th Percentile £68.30 £82.40 £67.50
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year +4.17% +41.18% +13.33%

Software Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Delivery in London

Software Delivery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Software Delivery in London

Software Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Software Delivery in London

Software Delivery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Delivery in London

Software Delivery
Contract Job Locations in 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 London region 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
West London +20 8 £330 -34.00% 2
Central London +10 6 £744 +50.25% 7
East London - 6 £540 - 1
South London +4 1 £463 -15.91%
Software Delivery
England

Software Delivery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 8 (7.48%) Anypoint
2 4 (3.74%) Confluence
3 3 (2.80%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.87%) CMS
4 2 (1.87%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.93%) Appian
5 1 (0.93%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 2 (1.87%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.93%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 6 (5.61%) Shopify
2 2 (1.87%) Endur
3 1 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 42 (39.25%) AWS
2 28 (26.17%) Azure
3 11 (10.28%) GCP
4 9 (8.41%) AWS Lambda
4 9 (8.41%) Serverless
5 7 (6.54%) OpenShift
5 7 (6.54%) SaaS
6 6 (5.61%) Apigee
6 6 (5.61%) BigCommerce
7 4 (3.74%) GitHub
7 4 (3.74%) Miro
8 3 (2.80%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (1.87%) Amazon Kinesis
9 2 (1.87%) Asana
9 2 (1.87%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (1.87%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
9 2 (1.87%) Smartsheet
10 1 (0.93%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 1 (0.93%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (0.93%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.61%) HTTP
2 2 (1.87%) Broadband
2 2 (1.87%) Intranet
3 1 (0.93%) FTP
3 1 (0.93%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (18.69%) NoSQL
2 10 (9.35%) Apache Cassandra
3 6 (5.61%) SQL Server
4 5 (4.67%) Relational Database
5 4 (3.74%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (3.74%) Redis
6 3 (2.80%) Big Data
7 2 (1.87%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (1.87%) Hadoop
7 2 (1.87%) Oracle Database
7 2 (1.87%) Tableau
8 1 (0.93%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.93%) Delta Lake
8 1 (0.93%) Metadata
8 1 (0.93%) Power BI
8 1 (0.93%) PowerCenter
8 1 (0.93%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 1 (0.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.93%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 23 (21.50%) Git
2 14 (13.08%) TeamCity
3 12 (11.21%) Jenkins
4 11 (10.28%) JIRA
5 8 (7.48%) Cucumber
5 8 (7.48%) Moq
5 8 (7.48%) NUnit
6 5 (4.67%) Gatling
6 5 (4.67%) Selenium
7 4 (3.74%) Mockito
7 4 (3.74%) ScalaTest
8 3 (2.80%) JMeter
8 3 (2.80%) Maven
9 2 (1.87%) Apache Continuum
9 2 (1.87%) Cypress.io
9 2 (1.87%) NeoLoad
9 2 (1.87%) SoapUI
10 1 (0.93%) Jaeger
10 1 (0.93%) Postman
10 1 (0.93%) Spinnaker
General
1 24 (22.43%) Social Skills
2 23 (21.50%) Finance
3 9 (8.41%) Banking
3 9 (8.41%) Front Office
3 9 (8.41%) Retail
4 7 (6.54%) Public Sector
5 5 (4.67%) Marketing
5 5 (4.67%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (3.74%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (3.74%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (2.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.87%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.87%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.87%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.93%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (0.93%) Law
9 1 (0.93%) Legal
9 1 (0.93%) Police
9 1 (0.93%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 40 (37.38%) Developer
2 15 (14.02%) Senior
3 13 (12.15%) Analyst
3 13 (12.15%) Business Analyst
4 11 (10.28%) Delivery Manager
4 11 (10.28%) DevOps Engineer
5 10 (9.35%) Lead
5 10 (9.35%) Scala Developer
6 9 (8.41%) C# Developer
7 8 (7.48%) Software Delivery Manager
7 8 (7.48%) Software Manager
8 7 (6.54%) MuleSoft Developer
8 7 (6.54%) Project Manager
9 6 (5.61%) Java Developer
9 6 (5.61%) Senior Developer
9 6 (5.61%) Technical Analyst
9 6 (5.61%) Technical Business Analyst
10 4 (3.74%) Software Developer
11 3 (2.80%) Software Project Manager
11 3 (2.80%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (26.17%) RESTful
2 18 (16.82%) Spring
3 14 (13.08%) .NET
3 14 (13.08%) RabbitMQ
4 11 (10.28%) .NET Core
4 11 (10.28%) REST
5 10 (9.35%) Akka
5 10 (9.35%) Kafka
6 9 (8.41%) ASP.NET
7 8 (7.48%) ASP.NET Core
7 8 (7.48%) ASP.NET Web API
7 8 (7.48%) Middleware
7 8 (7.48%) SignalR
8 7 (6.54%) ActiveMQ
8 7 (6.54%) CSS
8 7 (6.54%) HTML
8 7 (6.54%) Node.js
8 7 (6.54%) SailPoint
8 7 (6.54%) Web Services
9 6 (5.61%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 11 (10.28%) Greenfield Project
2 9 (8.41%) Public Cloud
3 6 (5.61%) Management Information System
4 5 (4.67%) Cloud Native
4 5 (4.67%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.80%) Enterprise Cloud
5 3 (2.80%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 2 (1.87%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.93%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.93%) Blockchain
7 1 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.93%) Distributed Applications
7 1 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.93%) Fixed Income
7 1 (0.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.93%) Online Banking
7 1 (0.93%) PKI
7 1 (0.93%) Replication
7 1 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.93%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 7 (6.54%) Linux
2 4 (3.74%) Unix
3 3 (2.80%) Android
3 3 (2.80%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.93%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (73.83%) Agile
2 37 (34.58%) CI/CD
3 36 (33.64%) Microservices
4 32 (29.91%) DevOps
5 31 (28.97%) Continuous Integration
6 26 (24.30%) Scrum
6 26 (24.30%) TDD
7 25 (23.36%) Test Automation
8 16 (14.95%) BDD
9 15 (14.02%) Problem-Solving
10 13 (12.15%) Unit Testing
11 12 (11.21%) Containerisation
11 12 (11.21%) High Availability
11 12 (11.21%) Infrastructure as Code
11 12 (11.21%) Kanban
12 11 (10.28%) Pair Programming
12 11 (10.28%) Project Delivery
12 11 (10.28%) Project Management
13 10 (9.35%) Continuous Deployment
13 10 (9.35%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 29 (27.10%) SQL
2 23 (21.50%) Java
3 14 (13.08%) C#
4 13 (12.15%) JavaScript
5 11 (10.28%) PowerShell
5 11 (10.28%) Scala
6 8 (7.48%) Bash
7 6 (5.61%) BeanShell
7 6 (5.61%) Python
8 3 (2.80%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.87%) Bicep
9 2 (1.87%) Ruby
9 2 (1.87%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.93%) Perl
Qualifications
1 18 (16.82%) Security Cleared
2 16 (14.95%) SC Cleared
3 9 (8.41%) Degree
4 5 (4.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.93%) CSPO
5 1 (0.93%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.93%) Numerate Degree
5 1 (0.93%) PgMP
5 1 (0.93%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.93%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (11.21%) QA
2 3 (2.80%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.87%) ISO/IEC 12207
3 2 (1.87%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.93%) PMO
System Software
1 33 (30.84%) Docker
2 2 (1.87%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.87%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.93%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 24 (22.43%) Kubernetes
2 14 (13.08%) Terraform
3 9 (8.41%) Ansible
3 9 (8.41%) Prometheus
4 6 (5.61%) Grafana
5 3 (2.80%) Kibana
5 3 (2.80%) Progress Chef
5 3 (2.80%) Puppet
6 2 (1.87%) logstash
7 1 (0.93%) Nagios
7 1 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (14.95%) Microsoft
2 12 (11.21%) Salesforce
2 12 (11.21%) SAP
3 10 (9.35%) Oracle
4 8 (7.48%) MuleSoft
4 8 (7.48%) TIBCO
5 6 (5.61%) Adobe
5 6 (5.61%) Google
5 6 (5.61%) Sitecore
5 6 (5.61%) Typelevel
5 6 (5.61%) WSO2
6 3 (2.80%) Dell
6 3 (2.80%) Intel
7 2 (1.87%) CyberArk
7 2 (1.87%) Databricks
7 2 (1.87%) OpenLink
7 2 (1.87%) Planview
7 2 (1.87%) VMware
8 1 (0.93%) ForgeRock
8 1 (0.93%) Virgin Media