Software Delivery Contracts in the Midlands

Software Delivery
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the 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 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 126 125 160
Rank change year-on-year -1 +35 -67
Contract jobs citing Software Delivery 10 33 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.35% 1.02% 0.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.43% 1.17% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 15 27
10th Percentile £518 £405 £409
25th Percentile £525 £469 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £480 £550
Median % change year-on-year +40.63% -12.73% +11.11%
75th Percentile £688 £531 £606
90th Percentile - £538 £676
England median daily rate £563 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -6.25% - +14.29%

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,343 2,821 4,427
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 81.04% 87.55% 87.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,568 1,980 3,250
10th Percentile £231 £258 £250
25th Percentile £358 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £700 £669
England median daily rate £525 £550 £548
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.46% +9.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 177 101 130
10th Percentile £11.10 £12.50 £10.68
25th Percentile £14.00 £15.00 £14.00
Median hourly rate £19.00 £24.00 £18.25
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +31.51% +21.67%
75th Percentile £35.00 £46.25 £24.50
90th Percentile £55.00 £65.00 £35.00
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 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 9 June 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 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
East Midlands +13 5 £525 +7.69% 10
West Midlands -11 5 £675 +40.63% 17
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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (30.00%) CMS
1 3 (30.00%) Drupal
Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) Azure
1 3 (30.00%) Azure DevOps
1 3 (30.00%) GCP
2 2 (20.00%) AWS
2 2 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (20.00%) AWS Step Functions
2 2 (20.00%) Serverless
3 1 (10.00%) PaaS
3 1 (10.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) DNS
1 3 (30.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (50.00%) Git
2 3 (30.00%) Artifactory
2 3 (30.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (30.00%) Selenium
2 3 (30.00%) Subversion
3 2 (20.00%) Bitbucket
3 2 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (40.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Analyst
1 4 (40.00%) Systems Analyst
2 3 (30.00%) Finance Systems Analyst
2 3 (30.00%) Financial Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) AWS Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Technical Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) ERP Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Full Stack Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Lead
4 1 (10.00%) Senior
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Systems Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Service Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Solutions Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Solutions Designer
4 1 (10.00%) Technical Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) Technical Leader
4 1 (10.00%) Transition Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) OpenAPI
1 2 (20.00%) REST
1 2 (20.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (30.00%) Mobile App
1 3 (30.00%) Private Cloud
2 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) Agile
2 5 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 5 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 5 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 5 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
3 4 (40.00%) CRM
3 4 (40.00%) Customer Service
3 4 (40.00%) ITIL
3 4 (40.00%) Project Delivery
3 4 (40.00%) Service Delivery
3 4 (40.00%) Systems Analysis
3 4 (40.00%) Technical Leadership
3 4 (40.00%) Waterfall
4 3 (30.00%) Capacity Planning
4 3 (30.00%) DevOps
4 3 (30.00%) Kanban
4 3 (30.00%) Project Management
4 3 (30.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 3 (30.00%) Scrum
4 3 (30.00%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (20.00%) Python
1 2 (20.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Salesforce
1 3 (30.00%) ServiceNow