The first table below looks at the demand for Software Deployment skills in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Software Deployment over the 3 months to 20 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Processes & Methodologies category for the City of London region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software Deployment
Rank 190 207 231
Rank change year-on-year
+17 +24
Contract jobs citing Software Deployment 11 13 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.174% 0.166% 0.052%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.237% 0.233% 0.072%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 1 2
Average daily rate £415 £280 £285
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+48.21% -1.75%
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £290 £400
% change year-on-year
+8.62% -27.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £25.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £17.50 £14.50
% change year-on-year
+28.57% +20.68%
All Processes & Methodologies
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
4636 5591 6959
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 73.37% 71.60% 71.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 3487 4029 5165
Average daily rate £450 £463 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.70% -7.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £313 £300 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £625 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £363 £375
% change year-on-year
- -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 97 95
Average hourly rate £41.50 £25.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+66.00% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.40 £15.00 £14.63
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £47.50 £50.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.00 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+28.00% -16.66%
Software Deployment
London

Software Deployment
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Software Deployment across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

City of London Software Deployment Jobs Demand Trend

Software Deployment
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Software Deployment across the City of London region.

City of London Software Deployment Daily Rate Trend

Software Deployment
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Software Deployment across the City of London region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

City of London Software Deployment Daily Rate Histogram

Software Deployment
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Software Deployment across the City of London region.

City of London Software Deployment Hourly Rate Trend

Software Deployment
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Software Deployment also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Software Deployment.

1 24 (72.73%) Banking
2 22 (66.67%) Finance
3 20 (60.61%) UNIX
4 19 (57.58%) Linux
5 18 (54.55%) Solaris
5 18 (54.55%) Oracle
5 18 (54.55%) Investment Banking
6 14 (42.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 14 (42.42%) Sun
6 14 (42.42%) Red Hat
7 13 (39.39%) Sun Certification
7 13 (39.39%) SCSA
8 11 (33.33%) Microsoft
8 11 (33.33%) Windows
9 9 (27.27%) .NET
9 9 (27.27%) Migration
10 8 (24.24%) Release Management
11 7 (21.21%) Financial Institution
12 5 (15.15%) Change Management
12 5 (15.15%) Windows Server 2003
12 5 (15.15%) C#
12 5 (15.15%) Windows Server 2008
12 5 (15.15%) Continuous Integration
13 4 (12.12%) Validation
13 4 (12.12%) CruiseControl
13 4 (12.12%) Subversion
13 4 (12.12%) SQL Server 2005
13 4 (12.12%) Degree
13 4 (12.12%) NUnit
13 4 (12.12%) QA

Software Deployment
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Software Deployment also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Software Deployment. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 9 (27.27%) .NET
2 4 (12.12%) Software Packaging
3 3 (9.091%) Application Packaging
4 1 (3.030%) COM
Application Platforms
1 4 (12.12%) MQSeries
2 1 (3.030%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (6.061%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (3.030%) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking
1 3 (9.091%) DNS
1 3 (9.091%) SAN
2 1 (3.030%) SSH
2 1 (3.030%) NAS
2 1 (3.030%) DHCP
2 1 (3.030%) FTP
2 1 (3.030%) HTTP
2 1 (3.030%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.12%) SQL Server
1 4 (12.12%) SQL Server 2005
1 4 (12.12%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (3.030%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 4 (12.12%) NUnit
1 4 (12.12%) CruiseControl
1 4 (12.12%) Subversion
1 4 (12.12%) VSS/SourceSafe
2 3 (9.091%) MSI
2 3 (9.091%) AdminStudio
3 1 (3.030%) InstallShield
3 1 (3.030%) Maven
3 1 (3.030%) Hudson
3 1 (3.030%) Jenkins
General
1 24 (72.73%) Banking
2 22 (66.67%) Finance
3 18 (54.55%) Investment Banking
4 7 (21.21%) Financial Institution
5 3 (9.091%) Publishing
6 1 (3.030%) Law
6 1 (3.030%) Legal
Job Titles
1 13 (39.39%) UNIX Systems Administrator
2 5 (15.15%) Build Engineer
2 5 (15.15%) Release Manager
3 4 (12.12%) Integration Engineer
3 4 (12.12%) Senior Manager
4 3 (9.091%) Applications Specialist
4 3 (9.091%) Storage Systems Administrator
5 2 (6.061%) Administrator
5 2 (6.061%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 2 (6.061%) Systems Engineer
6 1 (3.030%) Systems Administrator
6 1 (3.030%) Configuration Manager
6 1 (3.030%) UNIX Administrator
6 1 (3.030%) Environment Manager
6 1 (3.030%) Windows Administrator
6 1 (3.030%) Windows Systems Administrator
6 1 (3.030%) Desktop Manager
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.12%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (6.061%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.030%) CLARiiON
3 1 (3.030%) Fixed Income
3 1 (3.030%) Derivative
3 1 (3.030%) Celerra
3 1 (3.030%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 20 (60.61%) UNIX
2 19 (57.58%) Linux
3 18 (54.55%) Solaris
4 14 (42.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (33.33%) Windows
6 5 (15.15%) Windows Server 2003
6 5 (15.15%) Windows Server 2008
7 3 (9.091%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (27.27%) Migration
2 8 (24.24%) Release Management
3 5 (15.15%) Continuous Integration
3 5 (15.15%) Change Management
4 4 (12.12%) Validation
4 4 (12.12%) ITIL
5 2 (6.061%) Programme Management
6 1 (3.030%) Agile Software Development
6 1 (3.030%) Strategic Management
6 1 (3.030%) Software Testing
6 1 (3.030%) Matrix Management
6 1 (3.030%) CRM
6 1 (3.030%) Project Management
6 1 (3.030%) Service Management
6 1 (3.030%) ITSM
6 1 (3.030%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 1 (3.030%) Performance Improvement
6 1 (3.030%) Mobile Device Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (15.15%) C#
2 2 (6.061%) C
3 1 (3.030%) Java
3 1 (3.030%) Perl
3 1 (3.030%) VBScript
3 1 (3.030%) VB
3 1 (3.030%) Shell Script
3 1 (3.030%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 13 (39.39%) Sun Certification
1 13 (39.39%) SCSA
2 4 (12.12%) Degree
3 3 (9.091%) SC Cleared
3 3 (9.091%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.12%) ISO 9001
1 4 (12.12%) QA
1 4 (12.12%) Basel III
System Software
1 3 (9.091%) Active Directory
1 3 (9.091%) Microsoft App-V
1 3 (9.091%) XenApp
1 3 (9.091%) vSphere
2 2 (6.061%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 1 (3.030%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.030%) NFS
Systems Management
1 4 (12.12%) SCCM
2 2 (6.061%) SCOM
2 2 (6.061%) Tivoli Endpoint Manager
2 2 (6.061%) Tivoli
2 2 (6.061%) Backup Exec
3 1 (3.030%) Veritas Storage Foundation
3 1 (3.030%) EMC NetWorker
3 1 (3.030%) BMC PATROL
3 1 (3.030%) Control-M
Vendors
1 18 (54.55%) Oracle
2 14 (42.42%) Sun
2 14 (42.42%) Red Hat
3 11 (33.33%) Microsoft
4 4 (12.12%) Business Objects
4 4 (12.12%) Citrix
5 3 (9.091%) HP
5 3 (9.091%) EMC
6 2 (6.061%) IBM
6 2 (6.061%) Symantec
7 1 (3.030%) Remedy
7 1 (3.030%) VMware
7 1 (3.030%) Teradata
7 1 (3.030%) Apple
7 1 (3.030%) Cisco
7 1 (3.030%) BMC
7 1 (3.030%) Veritas
City of London
Carrying out fault diagnosis relating to moderately complex problems, reporting the results.Key skills:Experience in a similar Systems Integration Analyst type role (Integration Engineer, Software Build Engineer,...
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Rate: £400 - £430 per day
Posted: 26 April 2013