Software Deployment Contracts

Software Deployment
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Software Deployment skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Software Deployment over the 6 months leading up to 10 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 478 546 676
Rank change year-on-year +68 +130 -20
Contract jobs citing Software Deployment 113 140 172
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.26% 0.25% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.28% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 104 117
10th Percentile £205 £190 £168
25th Percentile £250 £219 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £350 £486
Median % change year-on-year +35.71% -27.98% +9.21%
75th Percentile £600 £526 £553
90th Percentile £675 £600 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £435 £300 £425
% change year-on-year +45.00% -29.41% +54.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 5
10th Percentile £17.44 £17.90 -
25th Percentile £17.72 £18.13 £15.50
Median hourly rate £20.76 £19.00 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.26% +11.76% -60.29%
75th Percentile £23.80 £36.33 £20.00
90th Percentile £36.77 £46.42 £25.85
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.72 £19.00 £17.00
% change year-on-year -6.74% +11.76% -43.62%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Software Deployment falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,177 49,806 79,051
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.20% 89.64% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,769 34,463 55,610
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,585 1,687 1,847
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.70 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.90
Median hourly rate £36.50 £35.80 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% +39.41% +11.65%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +66.67% +0.65%

Software Deployment
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Deployment in the UK

Software Deployment
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Software Deployment in the UK

Software Deployment
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Deployment over the 6 months to 10 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Deployment in the UK

Software Deployment
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Deployment in the UK

Software Deployment
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Software Deployment over the 6 months to 10 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Software Deployment in the UK

Software Deployment
Top 14 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 10 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
England +77 102 £470 +34.29% 27
UK excluding London +22 60 £435 +45.00% 19
London +69 38 £520 +9.47% 7
Work from Home +84 34 £500 +6.38% 7
South East +24 28 £280 -27.74% 7
Midlands +29 13 £526 +40.13% 3
North of England +30 11 £450 +130.77% 5
North West +19 10 £300 +50.00% 3
West Midlands - 10 £530 - 2
East Midlands +13 3 £275 -26.67% 1
East of England 0 3 £225 -25.00% 2
South West -20 3 - - 2
Scotland +36 2 £475 -9.52%
North East - 1 £600 - 1

Software Deployment
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (8.85%) IIS
2 4 (3.54%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (3.54%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.65%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 1 (0.88%) SAS
Applications
1 16 (14.16%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (6.19%) CANalyzer
3 2 (1.77%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.77%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (4.42%) Endur
2 2 (1.77%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.88%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 25 (22.12%) Azure
2 16 (14.16%) AWS
3 13 (11.50%) Entra ID
4 11 (9.73%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (7.08%) Amazon EC2
5 8 (7.08%) Serverless
6 7 (6.19%) Amazon S3
6 7 (6.19%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (6.19%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (6.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 3 (2.65%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 3 (2.65%) Mimecast
7 3 (2.65%) Nutanix
7 3 (2.65%) OneDrive
7 3 (2.65%) Rubrik
8 2 (1.77%) Oracle CX
8 2 (1.77%) Sentry
9 1 (0.88%) GCP
9 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (0.88%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 15 (13.27%) LAN
2 13 (11.50%) Internet
3 10 (8.85%) DNS
4 8 (7.08%) Firewall
5 7 (6.19%) Ethernet
5 7 (6.19%) FlexRay
6 6 (5.31%) DHCP
7 5 (4.42%) Wireless
8 4 (3.54%) VPN
9 3 (2.65%) DKIM
9 3 (2.65%) DMARC
9 3 (2.65%) Extranet
9 3 (2.65%) HTTP
9 3 (2.65%) NAS
9 3 (2.65%) SAN
9 3 (2.65%) TCP/IP
9 3 (2.65%) WAN
9 3 (2.65%) Wi-Fi
10 1 (0.88%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (10.62%) SQL Server
2 7 (6.19%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (0.88%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.88%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.88%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 21 (18.58%) Git
2 8 (7.08%) JIRA
3 7 (6.19%) CANoe
3 7 (6.19%) GitLab
4 5 (4.42%) Pylint
5 3 (2.65%) MSI
6 2 (1.77%) Appium
6 2 (1.77%) Charles Proxy
6 2 (1.77%) IntelliJ
6 2 (1.77%) Katalon Studio
6 2 (1.77%) Postman
7 1 (0.88%) Jenkins
General
1 38 (33.63%) Social Skills
2 18 (15.93%) Finance
3 15 (13.27%) Manufacturing
4 12 (10.62%) Electronics
4 12 (10.62%) Organisational Skills
5 11 (9.73%) Public Sector
6 7 (6.19%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (6.19%) Automotive
7 5 (4.42%) Marketing
7 5 (4.42%) Telecoms
8 3 (2.65%) Aerospace
8 3 (2.65%) Banking
8 3 (2.65%) Front Office
8 3 (2.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.65%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.77%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.77%) Retail
10 1 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.88%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 17 (15.04%) Senior
2 13 (11.50%) Software Engineer
3 12 (10.62%) Hardware Engineer
4 8 (7.08%) IT Engineer
4 8 (7.08%) Support Engineer
5 7 (6.19%) Integration Manager
5 7 (6.19%) Lead
5 7 (6.19%) Software Manager
6 6 (5.31%) AWS DevOps
6 6 (5.31%) Developer
6 6 (5.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 6 (5.31%) IT Support
7 5 (4.42%) Administrator
7 5 (4.42%) Break Fix Engineer
7 5 (4.42%) IT Administrator
7 5 (4.42%) IT Systems Administrator
8 4 (3.54%) Desktop Engineer
8 4 (3.54%) Desktop Support Engineer
8 4 (3.54%) Senior Developer
8 4 (3.54%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (10.62%) .NET
2 9 (7.96%) Web Services
3 7 (6.19%) .NET Framework
3 7 (6.19%) ASP.NET
3 7 (6.19%) HTML
3 7 (6.19%) SailPoint
4 5 (4.42%) Kafka
4 5 (4.42%) pytest
4 5 (4.42%) React
4 5 (4.42%) WebSockets
5 3 (2.65%) AngularJS
5 3 (2.65%) Software Packaging
6 2 (1.77%) HTML5
7 1 (0.88%) ADO
7 1 (0.88%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (0.88%) LDAP
7 1 (0.88%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 12 (10.62%) Driving Licence
2 9 (7.96%) Data Centre
3 7 (6.19%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (6.19%) Infotainment
4 5 (4.42%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (4.42%) Linux Command Line
5 4 (3.54%) PKI
6 3 (2.65%) Fat Client
6 3 (2.65%) Mobile App
6 3 (2.65%) Thin Client
6 3 (2.65%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.77%) Hedge funds
7 2 (1.77%) Renewable Energy
7 2 (1.77%) Solar Panel
8 1 (0.88%) Clustering
8 1 (0.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.88%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.88%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.88%) Social Media
8 1 (0.88%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 58 (51.33%) Windows
2 22 (19.47%) Linux
3 20 (17.70%) Windows 10
4 13 (11.50%) Windows 7
5 9 (7.96%) Apple iOS
6 6 (5.31%) Unix
7 5 (4.42%) Windows Server
8 4 (3.54%) Android
8 4 (3.54%) Mac OS
9 3 (2.65%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.88%) VMS
10 1 (0.88%) Windows Server 2003
10 1 (0.88%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (23.89%) Software Testing
2 26 (23.01%) ITIL
3 24 (21.24%) Agile
3 24 (21.24%) Problem-Solving
4 21 (18.58%) Software Engineering
5 20 (17.70%) DevOps
6 17 (15.04%) Customer Service
7 16 (14.16%) SDLC
8 15 (13.27%) Service Delivery
9 13 (11.50%) CI/CD
9 13 (11.50%) Customer Requirements
10 12 (10.62%) Containerisation
10 12 (10.62%) Continuous Improvement
11 11 (9.73%) Project Delivery
12 10 (8.85%) Computer Science
12 10 (8.85%) Identity Access Management
12 10 (8.85%) Infrastructure Management
12 10 (8.85%) Patch Management
13 9 (7.96%) Application Packaging
13 9 (7.96%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 27 (23.89%) Python
2 15 (13.27%) PowerShell
3 10 (8.85%) Java
4 8 (7.08%) C#
4 8 (7.08%) JavaScript
5 7 (6.19%) Bash
5 7 (6.19%) SQL
5 7 (6.19%) VBA
6 3 (2.65%) C++
6 3 (2.65%) TypeScript
6 3 (2.65%) VB.NET
7 2 (1.77%) Kotlin
7 2 (1.77%) Swift
7 2 (1.77%) VBScript
8 1 (0.88%) R
Qualifications
1 37 (32.74%) Security Cleared
2 25 (22.12%) Degree
3 23 (20.35%) SC Cleared
4 17 (15.04%) DV Cleared
5 5 (4.42%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (3.54%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (3.54%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (2.65%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (1.77%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.88%) A+ Certification
9 1 (0.88%) Chartered Engineer
9 1 (0.88%) CTC Cleared
9 1 (0.88%) MCDST
9 1 (0.88%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (8.85%) SLA
2 3 (2.65%) ISO 9001
2 3 (2.65%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 2 (1.77%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.77%) GDPR
3 2 (1.77%) QA
4 1 (0.88%) CDISC
4 1 (0.88%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.88%) GxP
System Software
1 30 (26.55%) Active Directory
2 12 (10.62%) Docker
2 12 (10.62%) Firmware
3 8 (7.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (6.19%) Hyper-V
5 5 (4.42%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (4.42%) vSphere
6 4 (3.54%) BitLocker
6 4 (3.54%) Microsoft App-V
7 3 (2.65%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (2.65%) XenApp
7 3 (2.65%) XenDesktop
8 1 (0.88%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 28 (24.78%) SCCM
2 13 (11.50%) Kubernetes
3 12 (10.62%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (7.08%) Ansible
4 8 (7.08%) Terraform
5 7 (6.19%) Functional Safety
6 4 (3.54%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 3 (2.65%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (2.65%) Grafana
7 3 (2.65%) NetBackup
7 3 (2.65%) SCOM
7 3 (2.65%) SCVMM
7 3 (2.65%) VxRail
7 3 (2.65%) WSUS
8 1 (0.88%) AirWatch
8 1 (0.88%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.88%) vMotion
Vendors
1 54 (47.79%) Microsoft
2 16 (14.16%) HP
3 11 (9.73%) VMware
4 10 (8.85%) ServiceNow
5 9 (7.96%) Oracle
6 8 (7.08%) SAP
7 6 (5.31%) CyberArk
8 5 (4.42%) Apple
9 4 (3.54%) Citrix
10 3 (2.65%) Avaya
10 3 (2.65%) Cisco
10 3 (2.65%) Commvault
10 3 (2.65%) Dell
10 3 (2.65%) EMC
10 3 (2.65%) F5
10 3 (2.65%) Forcepoint
10 3 (2.65%) Juniper
10 3 (2.65%) MobileIron
10 3 (2.65%) SolarWinds
10 3 (2.65%) Wyse