Software Distribution Contracts in England

Software Distribution
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Software Distribution skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Software Distribution over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 517 620 763
Rank change year-on-year +103 +143 -161
Contract jobs citing Software Distribution 21 35 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.057% 0.069% 0.030%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.066% 0.077% 0.033%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 26 14
10th Percentile £198 £201 £336
25th Percentile £275 £213 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £310 £388 £450
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -13.89% +32.35%
75th Percentile £525 £488 £483
90th Percentile £550 £500 £538
UK median daily rate £338 £340 £450
% change year-on-year -0.74% -24.44% +32.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £66.25
Median hourly rate £12.00 - £72.50
75th Percentile - - £78.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £12.00 - £72.50
% change year-on-year - - +12.40%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Software Distribution 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 31,992 45,544 64,506
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.53% 90.24% 90.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,975 31,977 45,770
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £749
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,229 1,592 1,769
10th Percentile £12.86 £10.87 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.60
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.17% +49.20% -

Software Distribution
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Distribution in England

Software Distribution
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Software Distribution in England

Software Distribution
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Distribution in England over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Distribution in England

Software Distribution
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Distribution in England

Software Distribution
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 Distribution within the England region over the 6 months to 28 April 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
South East +31 14 £500 +122.22% 1
London +104 5 £205 +1.23% 3
Midlands +23 1 £338 +7.14%
North of England +18 1 - - 1
North West +9 1 - -
West Midlands - 1 £338 -
Software Distribution
UK

Software Distribution
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 1 (4.76%) IIS
1 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (4.76%) Tomcat
1 1 (4.76%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (28.57%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (14.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (19.05%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (4.76%) AWS
2 1 (4.76%) Azure
2 1 (4.76%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (4.76%) GitHub
2 1 (4.76%) Google Sheets
2 1 (4.76%) IaaS
2 1 (4.76%) OCI
2 1 (4.76%) PaaS
2 1 (4.76%) SaaS
2 1 (4.76%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 8 (38.10%) DHCP
1 8 (38.10%) DNS
2 5 (23.81%) TCP/IP
3 3 (14.29%) FTP
3 3 (14.29%) Internet
4 1 (4.76%) IPsec
4 1 (4.76%) LAN
4 1 (4.76%) NAS
4 1 (4.76%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (4.76%) S/MIME
4 1 (4.76%) SAN
4 1 (4.76%) SSL
4 1 (4.76%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.76%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Git
2 1 (4.76%) Subversion
General
1 6 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 3 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
2 3 (14.29%) Front Office
2 3 (14.29%) Multimedia
3 2 (9.52%) Legal
4 1 (4.76%) French Language
4 1 (4.76%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 9 (42.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (19.05%) Support Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) 1st/2nd Line Support
3 3 (14.29%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) 1st/2nd Line Technical Support
3 3 (14.29%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) 2nd Line Support
3 3 (14.29%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) 2nd Line Technical Support
3 3 (14.29%) 2nd Line Technical Support Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Desktop Support
3 3 (14.29%) Senior
3 3 (14.29%) Technical Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Technical Support
3 3 (14.29%) Technical Support Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Deskside Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Deskside Support
4 2 (9.52%) Deskside Support Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Senior Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (14.29%) .NET
2 1 (4.76%) OAuth
2 1 (4.76%) OAuth2
2 1 (4.76%) OpenID
2 1 (4.76%) SAML
2 1 (4.76%) Software Packaging
2 1 (4.76%) Web Services
2 1 (4.76%) X-Windows
Miscellaneous
1 5 (23.81%) Device Driver
2 3 (14.29%) Smartphone
3 1 (4.76%) Clustering
3 1 (4.76%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 21 (100.00%) Windows
2 12 (57.14%) Windows 10
3 6 (28.57%) Windows Server
4 4 (19.05%) Windows 7
5 3 (14.29%) Linux
5 3 (14.29%) Ubuntu
5 3 (14.29%) Unix
5 3 (14.29%) Windows Server 2012
5 3 (14.29%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (14.29%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (4.76%) Android
6 1 (4.76%) Apple iOS
6 1 (4.76%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (42.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 7 (33.33%) ITIL
3 6 (28.57%) Configuration Management
4 5 (23.81%) Customer Service
4 5 (23.81%) SDLC
5 4 (19.05%) Patch Management
6 3 (14.29%) Change Management
6 3 (14.29%) Computer Science
6 3 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (14.29%) Line Management
6 3 (14.29%) Release Management
6 3 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
6 3 (14.29%) Security Hardening
6 3 (14.29%) Security Patching
6 3 (14.29%) Server Building
6 3 (14.29%) Service Delivery
6 3 (14.29%) Software Delivery
6 3 (14.29%) Software Deployment
6 3 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (14.29%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (47.62%) PowerShell
2 5 (23.81%) VB
2 5 (23.81%) VBScript
3 3 (14.29%) VB.NET
4 2 (9.52%) C++
Qualifications
1 8 (38.10%) Degree
2 6 (28.57%) ITIL Certification
3 3 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (4.76%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (19.05%) SLA
2 3 (14.29%) ISO 9001
2 3 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 1 (4.76%) QA
System Software
1 15 (71.43%) Active Directory
2 7 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (28.57%) XenApp
3 6 (28.57%) XenDesktop
4 3 (14.29%) Hyper-V
4 3 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (14.29%) vSphere
5 1 (4.76%) Terminal Server
5 1 (4.76%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 10 (47.62%) SCCM
2 3 (14.29%) WSUS
3 1 (4.76%) Kubernetes
3 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (4.76%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 7 (33.33%) Citrix
2 7 (33.33%) VMware
3 3 (14.29%) FireEye
3 3 (14.29%) ServiceNow
3 3 (14.29%) Tanium
4 1 (4.76%) Google
4 1 (4.76%) IBM
4 1 (4.76%) Oracle
4 1 (4.76%) Qualys
4 1 (4.76%) SAP