Software Distribution Contracts

Software Distribution
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 575 680 828
Rank change year-on-year +105 +148 -184
Contract jobs citing Software Distribution 23 39 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.053% 0.065% 0.024%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.062% 0.073% 0.026%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 28 14
10th Percentile £198 £202 £318
25th Percentile £275 £213 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £338 £340 £450
Median % change year-on-year -0.74% -24.44% +32.35%
75th Percentile £525 £488 £464
90th Percentile £550 £500 £538
UK excluding London median daily rate £418 £463 £450
% change year-on-year -9.73% +2.78% +31.39%
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 excluding London median hourly rate £12.00 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,374 53,774 80,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.91% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,095 37,304 56,474
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,763 1,928
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +80.00% -8.17%

Software Distribution
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Distribution in the UK

Software Distribution
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Software Distribution in the UK

Software Distribution
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Distribution over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Distribution in the UK

Software Distribution
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Distribution in the UK

Software Distribution
Top 10 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 27 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
England +114 21 £310 -20.00% 9
UK excluding London +53 18 £418 -9.73% 5
South East +37 14 £500 +122.22% 1
Work from Home +140 10 £310 -38.00% 2
London +98 5 £205 +1.23% 4
Scotland - 2 £418 -
North of England +19 1 - - 1
Midlands +19 1 £338 +7.14% 1
North West +2 1 - -
West Midlands - 1 £338 - 1

Software Distribution
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 1 (4.35%) IIS
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (4.35%) Tomcat
1 1 (4.35%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (26.09%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (13.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (13.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (17.39%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (4.35%) AWS
2 1 (4.35%) Azure
2 1 (4.35%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (4.35%) GitHub
2 1 (4.35%) Google Sheets
2 1 (4.35%) IaaS
2 1 (4.35%) OCI
2 1 (4.35%) PaaS
2 1 (4.35%) SaaS
2 1 (4.35%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 8 (34.78%) DHCP
1 8 (34.78%) DNS
2 5 (21.74%) TCP/IP
3 3 (13.04%) FTP
3 3 (13.04%) Internet
4 1 (4.35%) IPsec
4 1 (4.35%) LAN
4 1 (4.35%) NAS
4 1 (4.35%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (4.35%) S/MIME
4 1 (4.35%) SAN
4 1 (4.35%) SSL
4 1 (4.35%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.70%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (4.35%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (8.70%) Artifactory
1 2 (8.70%) Git
2 1 (4.35%) Subversion
General
1 8 (34.78%) Social Skills
2 3 (13.04%) Documentation Skills
2 3 (13.04%) Front Office
2 3 (13.04%) Multimedia
3 2 (8.70%) Legal
4 1 (4.35%) French Language
4 1 (4.35%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (4.35%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (39.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (17.39%) Support Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) 1st/2nd Line Support
3 3 (13.04%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) 1st/2nd Line Technical Support
3 3 (13.04%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) 2nd Line Support
3 3 (13.04%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) 2nd Line Technical Support
3 3 (13.04%) 2nd Line Technical Support Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Desktop Support
3 3 (13.04%) Senior
3 3 (13.04%) Technical Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Technical Support
3 3 (13.04%) Technical Support Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Deskside Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Deskside Support
4 2 (8.70%) Deskside Support Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Senior Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.04%) .NET
2 2 (8.70%) REST
3 1 (4.35%) OAuth
3 1 (4.35%) OAuth2
3 1 (4.35%) OpenID
3 1 (4.35%) SAML
3 1 (4.35%) Software Packaging
3 1 (4.35%) Web Services
3 1 (4.35%) X-Windows
Miscellaneous
1 5 (21.74%) Device Driver
2 3 (13.04%) Smartphone
3 1 (4.35%) Clustering
3 1 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 21 (91.30%) Windows
2 12 (52.17%) Windows 10
3 6 (26.09%) Windows Server
4 5 (21.74%) Linux
5 4 (17.39%) Windows 7
6 3 (13.04%) Ubuntu
6 3 (13.04%) Unix
6 3 (13.04%) Windows Server 2012
6 3 (13.04%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (13.04%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (4.35%) Android
7 1 (4.35%) Apple iOS
7 1 (4.35%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (39.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 7 (30.43%) ITIL
3 6 (26.09%) Configuration Management
4 5 (21.74%) Customer Service
4 5 (21.74%) SDLC
5 4 (17.39%) Patch Management
6 3 (13.04%) Batch Scripting
6 3 (13.04%) Change Management
6 3 (13.04%) Customer Experience
6 3 (13.04%) Project Delivery
6 3 (13.04%) RBAC
6 3 (13.04%) Roadmaps
6 3 (13.04%) Security Hardening
6 3 (13.04%) Security Patching
6 3 (13.04%) Server Building
6 3 (13.04%) Service Delivery
6 3 (13.04%) Service Delivery Management
6 3 (13.04%) Software Delivery
6 3 (13.04%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (13.04%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 10 (43.48%) PowerShell
2 5 (21.74%) VB
2 5 (21.74%) VBScript
3 3 (13.04%) VB.NET
4 2 (8.70%) C++
4 2 (8.70%) Python
4 2 (8.70%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (34.78%) Degree
2 6 (26.09%) ITIL Certification
3 3 (13.04%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (4.35%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (4.35%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (17.39%) SLA
2 3 (13.04%) ISO 9001
2 3 (13.04%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 1 (4.35%) QA
System Software
1 15 (65.22%) Active Directory
2 7 (30.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (26.09%) XenApp
3 6 (26.09%) XenDesktop
4 3 (13.04%) Hyper-V
4 3 (13.04%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (13.04%) vSphere
5 1 (4.35%) Terminal Server
5 1 (4.35%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 10 (43.48%) SCCM
2 3 (13.04%) Kubernetes
2 3 (13.04%) WSUS
3 2 (8.70%) Grafana
3 2 (8.70%) Prometheus
4 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (4.35%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (39.13%) Microsoft
2 7 (30.43%) Citrix
2 7 (30.43%) VMware
3 3 (13.04%) FireEye
3 3 (13.04%) ServiceNow
3 3 (13.04%) Tanium
4 2 (8.70%) Splunk
5 1 (4.35%) Google
5 1 (4.35%) IBM
5 1 (4.35%) Oracle
5 1 (4.35%) Qualys
5 1 (4.35%) SAP