Software Deployment Contracts in the North West

Software Deployment
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 18 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 121 149 176
Rank change year-on-year +28 +27 -46
Contract jobs citing Software Deployment 17 9 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.62% 0.28% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.71% 0.31% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 8 2
10th Percentile - - £201
25th Percentile £122 - £201
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £186 £200 £205
Median % change year-on-year -7.00% -2.44% -54.19%
75th Percentile £281 - £211
90th Percentile £293 £245 £214
England median daily rate £405 £350 £500
% change year-on-year +15.71% -30.00% +12.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 2
10th Percentile £16.67 - -
25th Percentile £17.02 - £17.17
Median hourly rate £17.72 - £18.12
75th Percentile - - £19.06
90th Percentile £17.75 - -
England median hourly rate £17.72 £18.75 £18.12
% change year-on-year -5.49% +3.51% -54.71%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 the North West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,380 2,948 3,516
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 86.58% 90.96% 87.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,537 2,106 2,601
10th Percentile £306 £313 £229
25th Percentile £406 £406 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £568
90th Percentile £689 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £532
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.38% +9.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 242 146 167
10th Percentile £10.95 £16.85 £10.65
25th Percentile £13.11 £20.48 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +66.67% +20.86%
75th Percentile £45.00 £49.24 £43.89
90th Percentile £52.78 £65.00 £60.00
England median hourly rate £35.00 £37.30 £23.96
% change year-on-year -6.17% +55.71% -0.19%

Software Deployment
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Software Deployment as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Software Deployment in the North West

Software Deployment
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Software Deployment in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Software Deployment in the North West

Software Deployment
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Deployment in the North West over the 6 months to 18 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Deployment in the North West

Software Deployment
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Software Deployment in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Software Deployment in the North West

Software Deployment
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West region over the 6 months to 18 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
Cheshire +2 10 £122 -39.00%
Manchester - 6 £300 - 1
Merseyside - 1 £250 -
Software Deployment
England

Software Deployment
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (5.88%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 8 (47.06%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 10 (58.82%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (41.18%) AWS
3 6 (35.29%) OneDrive
4 4 (23.53%) Amazon EC2
4 4 (23.53%) Amazon S3
4 4 (23.53%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (23.53%) Serverless
4 4 (23.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 3 (17.65%) Azure
5 3 (17.65%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 3 (17.65%) DMZ
1 3 (17.65%) Firewall
1 3 (17.65%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (23.53%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (5.88%) MySQL
2 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (23.53%) Git
1 4 (23.53%) GitLab
2 3 (17.65%) JIRA
General
1 9 (52.94%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (47.06%) Social Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Pharmaceutical
3 2 (11.76%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) Support Engineer
2 4 (23.53%) 1st/2nd Line Support
2 4 (23.53%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
2 4 (23.53%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 4 (23.53%) 2nd Line Support
2 4 (23.53%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
2 4 (23.53%) AWS DevOps
2 4 (23.53%) IT Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Desktop Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Desktop Support
3 3 (17.65%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Senior
4 2 (11.76%) 1st Line Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) 1st Line Support
4 2 (11.76%) 1st Line Support Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) 1st/2nd Line Desktop Support
4 2 (11.76%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
4 2 (11.76%) Senior IT Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Windows Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Windows Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (11.76%) Management Information System
3 1 (5.88%) Social Media
3 1 (5.88%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 13 (76.47%) Windows
2 9 (52.94%) Apple iOS
2 9 (52.94%) Mac OS
2 9 (52.94%) Windows 10
3 1 (5.88%) Android
3 1 (5.88%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (47.06%) Asset Management
2 7 (41.18%) CI/CD
2 7 (41.18%) Infrastructure Management
2 7 (41.18%) Service Management
3 6 (35.29%) Agile
3 6 (35.29%) Customer Experience
3 6 (35.29%) Customer Service
3 6 (35.29%) Inventory Management
3 6 (35.29%) Scrum
4 5 (29.41%) Information Security
5 4 (23.53%) Containerisation
5 4 (23.53%) Customer Requirements
5 4 (23.53%) DevOps
5 4 (23.53%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (23.53%) Kanban
5 4 (23.53%) Refactoring
5 4 (23.53%) Software Testing
6 3 (17.65%) Cloud Operations
6 3 (17.65%) Cyber Resilience
6 3 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 5 (29.41%) Bash
1 5 (29.41%) Python
2 1 (5.88%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (35.29%) SC Cleared
1 6 (35.29%) Security Cleared
2 2 (11.76%) Degree
2 2 (11.76%) MCSE
2 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.88%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (35.29%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (52.94%) Active Directory
2 4 (23.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (52.94%) SCCM
2 8 (47.06%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (47.06%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 4 (23.53%) Ansible
3 4 (23.53%) Kubernetes
3 4 (23.53%) Terraform
4 1 (5.88%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (5.88%) SCOM
Vendors
1 12 (70.59%) Microsoft
2 8 (47.06%) Apple
3 7 (41.18%) ServiceNow
4 1 (5.88%) Dell