Software Deployment Contracts in England

Software Deployment
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Software Deployment skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Software Deployment over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 450 509 622
Rank change year-on-year +59 +113 -40
Contract jobs citing Software Deployment 101 128 155
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.27% 0.27% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.30% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 93 106
10th Percentile £205 £189 £168
25th Percentile £225 £200 £336
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £350 £500
Median % change year-on-year +31.43% -30.00% +12.36%
75th Percentile £598 £500 £573
90th Percentile £675 £600 £688
UK median daily rate £475 £350 £493
% change year-on-year +35.71% -29.01% +10.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 6
10th Percentile £16.74 £17.90 -
25th Percentile - £18.13 £15.50
Median hourly rate £17.72 £19.00 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.74% +2.70% -55.32%
75th Percentile £23.80 £36.33 £27.31
90th Percentile £32.44 £46.42 £54.25
UK median hourly rate £17.72 £19.00 £18.50
% change year-on-year -6.74% +2.70% -58.43%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Software Deployment 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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,623 42,710 64,053
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.71% 89.97% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,632 29,989 45,672
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £445 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £768 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,323 1,520 1,714
10th Percentile £12.86 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.74 £15.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £37.32 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% +49.28% +11.11%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.48
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.05 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +9.74%

Software Deployment
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Software Deployment as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Software Deployment in England

Software Deployment
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Software Deployment in England

Software Deployment
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Deployment in England over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Deployment in England

Software Deployment
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Deployment in England

Software Deployment
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Software Deployment in England over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Software Deployment in England

Software Deployment
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Software Deployment within the England region over the 6 months to 1 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
London +76 38 £520 +9.47% 13
South East +15 27 £210 -40.00% 12
North of England +26 13 £300 +53.85% 5
Midlands +34 12 £526 +40.13% 3
North West +29 12 £211 +5.50% 3
West Midlands - 9 £530 - 2
East Midlands +14 3 £275 -26.67% 1
South West -18 3 - - 2
East of England -2 2 £225 -25.00% 2
North East - 1 £600 - 1
Software Deployment
UK

Software Deployment
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 10 (9.90%) IIS
2 4 (3.96%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (3.96%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.97%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 19 (18.81%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (5.94%) CANalyzer
3 2 (1.98%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.98%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (4.95%) Endur
2 2 (1.98%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.99%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 21 (20.79%) Azure
2 14 (13.86%) AWS
3 13 (12.87%) Microsoft 365
4 12 (11.88%) Entra ID
5 8 (7.92%) Amazon EC2
5 8 (7.92%) Serverless
6 7 (6.93%) Amazon S3
6 7 (6.93%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (6.93%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (6.93%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 5 (4.95%) OneDrive
8 3 (2.97%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 3 (2.97%) Mimecast
8 3 (2.97%) Nutanix
8 3 (2.97%) Rubrik
9 2 (1.98%) Oracle CX
9 2 (1.98%) Sentry
10 1 (0.99%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (0.99%) Microsoft Purview
10 1 (0.99%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 16 (15.84%) LAN
2 13 (12.87%) Internet
3 9 (8.91%) DNS
4 6 (5.94%) Ethernet
4 6 (5.94%) FlexRay
5 5 (4.95%) DHCP
6 4 (3.96%) Firewall
6 4 (3.96%) VPN
7 3 (2.97%) DKIM
7 3 (2.97%) DMARC
7 3 (2.97%) Extranet
7 3 (2.97%) HTTP
7 3 (2.97%) NAS
7 3 (2.97%) SAN
7 3 (2.97%) TCP/IP
7 3 (2.97%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (2.97%) Wireless
8 1 (0.99%) SMTP
8 1 (0.99%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (11.88%) SQL Server
2 7 (6.93%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (0.99%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 20 (19.80%) Git
2 8 (7.92%) JIRA
3 7 (6.93%) GitLab
4 6 (5.94%) CANoe
5 5 (4.95%) Pylint
6 2 (1.98%) Appium
6 2 (1.98%) Charles Proxy
6 2 (1.98%) IntelliJ
6 2 (1.98%) Katalon Studio
6 2 (1.98%) Postman
7 1 (0.99%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.99%) MSI
General
1 35 (34.65%) Social Skills
2 13 (12.87%) Organisational Skills
3 12 (11.88%) Finance
4 10 (9.90%) Manufacturing
5 9 (8.91%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (6.93%) Electronics
6 7 (6.93%) Public Sector
7 6 (5.94%) Automotive
8 3 (2.97%) Aerospace
8 3 (2.97%) Front Office
8 3 (2.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.97%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.98%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.98%) Retail
10 1 (0.99%) Banking
10 1 (0.99%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.99%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.99%) Marketing
10 1 (0.99%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (13.86%) Senior
2 13 (12.87%) Hardware Engineer
3 12 (11.88%) Software Engineer
4 9 (8.91%) IT Engineer
4 9 (8.91%) Support Engineer
5 6 (5.94%) AWS DevOps
5 6 (5.94%) Developer
5 6 (5.94%) Integration Manager
5 6 (5.94%) IT Support
5 6 (5.94%) Software Manager
6 5 (4.95%) Administrator
6 5 (4.95%) Break Fix Engineer
6 5 (4.95%) Desktop Engineer
6 5 (4.95%) Desktop Support
6 5 (4.95%) Desktop Support Engineer
6 5 (4.95%) IT Administrator
6 5 (4.95%) IT Systems Administrator
7 4 (3.96%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (3.96%) Senior Developer
8 3 (2.97%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (11.88%) .NET
2 9 (8.91%) Web Services
3 7 (6.93%) .NET Framework
3 7 (6.93%) ASP.NET
3 7 (6.93%) HTML
4 6 (5.94%) SailPoint
5 5 (4.95%) Kafka
5 5 (4.95%) pytest
5 5 (4.95%) React
5 5 (4.95%) WebSockets
6 3 (2.97%) Software Packaging
7 2 (1.98%) AngularJS
7 2 (1.98%) HTML5
8 1 (0.99%) ADO
8 1 (0.99%) Elastic Stack
8 1 (0.99%) LDAP
8 1 (0.99%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 13 (12.87%) Driving Licence
2 7 (6.93%) Data Centre
2 7 (6.93%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (5.94%) Infotainment
4 5 (4.95%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (4.95%) Linux Command Line
5 4 (3.96%) PKI
6 3 (2.97%) Fat Client
6 3 (2.97%) Mobile App
6 3 (2.97%) Thin Client
6 3 (2.97%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.98%) Hedge funds
7 2 (1.98%) Renewable Energy
7 2 (1.98%) Solar Panel
8 1 (0.99%) Clustering
8 1 (0.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.99%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.99%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.99%) Social Media
8 1 (0.99%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 56 (55.45%) Windows
2 23 (22.77%) Windows 10
3 20 (19.80%) Linux
4 14 (13.86%) Windows 7
5 11 (10.89%) Apple iOS
6 6 (5.94%) Mac OS
6 6 (5.94%) Unix
7 5 (4.95%) Windows Server
8 4 (3.96%) Android
9 3 (2.97%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.99%) Windows Server 2003
10 1 (0.99%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (26.73%) ITIL
2 24 (23.76%) Software Testing
3 22 (21.78%) Agile
4 21 (20.79%) Problem-Solving
5 20 (19.80%) Customer Service
5 20 (19.80%) DevOps
5 20 (19.80%) Software Engineering
6 16 (15.84%) SDLC
6 16 (15.84%) Service Delivery
7 15 (14.85%) Customer Requirements
8 13 (12.87%) CI/CD
9 12 (11.88%) Containerisation
10 10 (9.90%) Customer Experience
10 10 (9.90%) Infrastructure Management
10 10 (9.90%) Patch Management
11 8 (7.92%) Computer Science
11 8 (7.92%) Continuous Improvement
11 8 (7.92%) Cybersecurity
12 7 (6.93%) Application Packaging
12 7 (6.93%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 24 (23.76%) Python
2 14 (13.86%) PowerShell
3 10 (9.90%) Java
4 8 (7.92%) C#
5 7 (6.93%) Bash
5 7 (6.93%) JavaScript
6 6 (5.94%) SQL
6 6 (5.94%) VBA
7 3 (2.97%) C++
7 3 (2.97%) VB.NET
8 2 (1.98%) Kotlin
8 2 (1.98%) Swift
8 2 (1.98%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.98%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 35 (34.65%) Security Cleared
2 24 (23.76%) Degree
3 20 (19.80%) SC Cleared
4 18 (17.82%) DV Cleared
5 5 (4.95%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (3.96%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (2.97%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (1.98%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.98%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.99%) A+ Certification
9 1 (0.99%) Chartered Engineer
9 1 (0.99%) CTC Cleared
9 1 (0.99%) MCDST
9 1 (0.99%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (11.88%) SLA
2 3 (2.97%) ISO 9001
2 3 (2.97%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 2 (1.98%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.98%) GDPR
3 2 (1.98%) QA
4 1 (0.99%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 30 (29.70%) Active Directory
2 13 (12.87%) Firmware
3 12 (11.88%) Docker
4 7 (6.93%) Hyper-V
5 6 (5.94%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (3.96%) BitLocker
6 4 (3.96%) Microsoft App-V
7 3 (2.97%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (2.97%) vSphere
8 1 (0.99%) Terminal Services
8 1 (0.99%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.99%) XenApp
8 1 (0.99%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 28 (27.72%) SCCM
2 13 (12.87%) Kubernetes
2 13 (12.87%) Microsoft Intune
3 8 (7.92%) Ansible
3 8 (7.92%) Terraform
4 6 (5.94%) Functional Safety
4 6 (5.94%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 3 (2.97%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 3 (2.97%) NetBackup
5 3 (2.97%) SCOM
5 3 (2.97%) SCVMM
5 3 (2.97%) VxRail
5 3 (2.97%) WSUS
6 1 (0.99%) AirWatch
6 1 (0.99%) Grafana
6 1 (0.99%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.99%) vMotion
Vendors
1 53 (52.48%) Microsoft
2 17 (16.83%) HP
3 11 (10.89%) ServiceNow
4 9 (8.91%) Oracle
4 9 (8.91%) VMware
5 7 (6.93%) Apple
6 5 (4.95%) CyberArk
7 4 (3.96%) SAP
8 3 (2.97%) Avaya
8 3 (2.97%) Cisco
8 3 (2.97%) Commvault
8 3 (2.97%) Dell
8 3 (2.97%) EMC
8 3 (2.97%) F5
8 3 (2.97%) Forcepoint
8 3 (2.97%) Juniper
8 3 (2.97%) Mitel
8 3 (2.97%) MobileIron
8 3 (2.97%) Proofpoint
8 3 (2.97%) Wyse