Software Deployment Contracts in the UK excluding London

Software Deployment
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 334 357 425
Rank change year-on-year +23 +68 -31
Contract jobs citing Software Deployment 62 90 87
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.30% 0.38% 0.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 0.43% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 73 52
10th Percentile £196 £195 £163
25th Percentile £205 £200 £207
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £238 £275 £425
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% -35.29% +30.77%
75th Percentile £525 £375 £454
90th Percentile £675 £529 £538
UK median daily rate £413 £350 £500
% change year-on-year +17.86% -30.00% +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 7
10th Percentile £16.69 £17.83 -
25th Percentile £17.26 £17.94 £15.50
Median hourly rate £17.72 £18.75 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.49% +10.29% -43.62%
75th Percentile £17.75 £19.44 £19.06
90th Percentile £37.47 £19.48 £19.43
UK median hourly rate £17.72 £18.75 £18.12
% change year-on-year -5.49% +3.51% -57.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,297 21,007 27,024
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.45% 89.55% 88.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,312 14,549 18,866
10th Percentile £250 £256 £235
25th Percentile £378 £400 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,055 1,290 1,325
10th Percentile £12.32 £11.00 £12.22
25th Percentile £15.17 £15.41 £14.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £46.17
90th Percentile £72.90 £73.75 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.18
% change year-on-year +1.39% +42.97% +2.78%

Software Deployment
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Software Deployment as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Software Deployment in the UK excluding London

Software Deployment
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Software Deployment in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Software Deployment in the UK excluding London

Software Deployment
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Deployment in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Deployment in the UK excluding London

Software Deployment
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Software Deployment in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Software Deployment in the UK excluding London

Software Deployment
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Software Deployment in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Software Deployment in the UK excluding London

Software Deployment
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 May 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 +32 30 £210 -40.00% 5
North of England +31 15 £211 +5.50% 6
North West +21 13 £122 -39.00% 4
Midlands +39 6 £350 -6.04% 7
Scotland +37 4 £475 -9.52% 1
East Midlands +26 3 £275 -26.67% 1
West Midlands +24 3 £638 +72.30% 6
East of England +2 3 £225 -25.00% 3
South West -16 3 - - 7
Wales +19 1 £166 -
Yorkshire +14 1 - - 1
North East - 1 £600 - 1
Software Deployment
UK

Software Deployment
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (4.84%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.61%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 26 (41.94%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (3.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (3.23%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 13 (20.97%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (9.68%) OneDrive
3 5 (8.06%) AWS
4 4 (6.45%) Amazon EC2
4 4 (6.45%) Amazon S3
4 4 (6.45%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (6.45%) Azure
4 4 (6.45%) Serverless
4 4 (6.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (1.61%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.61%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.61%) GCP
5 1 (1.61%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (25.81%) LAN
2 6 (9.68%) DHCP
2 6 (9.68%) DNS
3 3 (4.84%) Firewall
3 3 (4.84%) Internet
3 3 (4.84%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.61%) SMTP
4 1 (1.61%) VPN
4 1 (1.61%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.45%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (1.61%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.61%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (8.06%) GitLab
2 4 (6.45%) Git
3 1 (1.61%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.61%) MSI
3 1 (1.61%) Subversion
General
1 34 (54.84%) Social Skills
2 16 (25.81%) Organisational Skills
3 7 (11.29%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (6.45%) Finance
5 3 (4.84%) Front Office
5 3 (4.84%) Manufacturing
6 2 (3.23%) Banking
6 2 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (3.23%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (3.23%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.61%) Games
Job Titles
1 16 (25.81%) Hardware Engineer
2 11 (17.74%) Support Engineer
3 10 (16.13%) IT Engineer
4 9 (14.52%) Senior
5 6 (9.68%) Desktop Engineer
5 6 (9.68%) Desktop Support
5 6 (9.68%) Desktop Support Engineer
6 5 (8.06%) 2nd Line Engineer
6 5 (8.06%) 2nd Line Support
6 5 (8.06%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
6 5 (8.06%) Administrator
6 5 (8.06%) Break Fix Engineer
6 5 (8.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (8.06%) IT Administrator
6 5 (8.06%) IT Systems Administrator
7 4 (6.45%) 1st/2nd Line Support
7 4 (6.45%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
7 4 (6.45%) AWS DevOps
7 4 (6.45%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (4.84%) Deployment Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.84%) .NET
2 1 (1.61%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 16 (25.81%) Driving Licence
2 5 (8.06%) Data Centre
3 4 (6.45%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (3.23%) Clustering
4 2 (3.23%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.23%) PKI
5 1 (1.61%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.61%) Social Media
5 1 (1.61%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 51 (82.26%) Windows
2 30 (48.39%) Windows 10
3 17 (27.42%) Windows 7
4 14 (22.58%) Linux
5 8 (12.90%) Apple iOS
5 8 (12.90%) Mac OS
6 4 (6.45%) Unix
7 3 (4.84%) Ubuntu
7 3 (4.84%) Windows Server
8 2 (3.23%) Windows Server 2003
9 1 (1.61%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (40.32%) ITIL
2 24 (38.71%) Customer Service
3 22 (35.48%) Problem-Solving
3 22 (35.48%) Software Testing
4 20 (32.26%) Customer Requirements
5 19 (30.65%) Service Delivery
6 12 (19.35%) Customer Experience
7 9 (14.52%) Asset Management
8 7 (11.29%) Patch Management
8 7 (11.29%) Project Delivery
9 6 (9.68%) Agile
9 6 (9.68%) Computer Science
9 6 (9.68%) Continuous Improvement
9 6 (9.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 6 (9.68%) Inventory Management
9 6 (9.68%) Service Management
10 5 (8.06%) DevOps
10 5 (8.06%) Project Management
10 5 (8.06%) Scrum
10 5 (8.06%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (8.06%) PowerShell
2 4 (6.45%) Bash
2 4 (6.45%) Java
2 4 (6.45%) Python
3 3 (4.84%) VB.NET
4 2 (3.23%) C++
Qualifications
1 30 (48.39%) Security Cleared
2 23 (37.10%) Degree
3 20 (32.26%) DV Cleared
4 12 (19.35%) SC Cleared
5 5 (8.06%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (4.84%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (3.23%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.61%) A+ Certification
8 1 (1.61%) Chartered Engineer
8 1 (1.61%) MCDST
8 1 (1.61%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (14.52%) SLA
2 3 (4.84%) ISO 9001
2 3 (4.84%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 2 (3.23%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 24 (38.71%) Active Directory
2 16 (25.81%) Firmware
3 5 (8.06%) Hyper-V
4 4 (6.45%) Docker
4 4 (6.45%) vSphere
5 3 (4.84%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (4.84%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (3.23%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (1.61%) BitLocker
7 1 (1.61%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (1.61%) Terminal Services
7 1 (1.61%) XenApp
7 1 (1.61%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 29 (46.77%) SCCM
2 10 (16.13%) Microsoft Intune
3 8 (12.90%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 4 (6.45%) Ansible
4 4 (6.45%) Kubernetes
4 4 (6.45%) Terraform
5 3 (4.84%) WSUS
6 2 (3.23%) vCenter Server
7 1 (1.61%) AirWatch
7 1 (1.61%) McAfee ePO
7 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Clustering
7 1 (1.61%) vMotion
Vendors
1 49 (79.03%) Microsoft
2 18 (29.03%) HP
3 8 (12.90%) Apple
3 8 (12.90%) ServiceNow
4 7 (11.29%) VMware
5 3 (4.84%) Citrix
6 2 (3.23%) Symantec
7 1 (1.61%) FireEye
7 1 (1.61%) Google
7 1 (1.61%) Infoblox
7 1 (1.61%) Ivanti
7 1 (1.61%) McAfee
7 1 (1.61%) Oracle
7 1 (1.61%) Qualys
7 1 (1.61%) Sitecore
7 1 (1.61%) SOTI
7 1 (1.61%) Tanium
7 1 (1.61%) Veritas