Software Deployment Contracts

Software Deployment
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 473 547 659
Rank change year-on-year +74 +112 -41
Contract jobs citing Software Deployment 114 159 173
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.27% 0.28% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.31% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 120 116
10th Percentile - £200 £180
25th Percentile £205 £219 £371
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £350 £500
Median % change year-on-year +21.43% -30.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £569 £505 £556
90th Percentile £675 £600 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £275 £283 £425
% change year-on-year -2.65% -33.53% +30.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 2 8
10th Percentile £16.74 £17.83 -
25th Percentile - £17.94 £15.50
Median hourly rate £17.72 £18.75 £18.12
Median % change year-on-year -5.49% +3.51% -57.69%
75th Percentile £23.80 £19.44 £22.44
90th Percentile £32.44 £19.48 £44.45
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.72 £18.75 £17.56
% change year-on-year -5.49% +6.79% -41.78%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,783 51,773 79,870
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.20% 89.81% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,675 35,887 56,073
10th Percentile £300 £325 £343
25th Percentile £413 £438 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
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% +8.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,434 1,710 1,920
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.99 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.22 £15.52
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.29% +41.73% +4.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.98%

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 14 May 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 14 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Software Deployment in the UK

Software Deployment
Top 16 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 14 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
England +80 101 £413 +17.86% 47
UK excluding London +45 65 £275 -2.65% 36
Work from Home +79 33 £506 +8.58% 10
London +60 33 £500 -9.09% 13
South East +28 30 £210 -40.00% 8
North of England +29 15 £211 +5.50% 5
North West +36 13 £122 -39.00% 3
Midlands +33 9 £526 +40.13% 9
West Midlands - 6 £530 - 7
Scotland +34 4 £475 -9.52% 1
East Midlands +20 3 £275 -26.67% 2
East of England +8 3 £225 -25.00% 5
South West -19 3 - - 6
Wales +20 1 £166 -
Yorkshire +16 1 - - 1
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 9 (7.89%) IIS
2 3 (2.63%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 3 (2.63%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.63%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.88%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (0.88%) SAS
Applications
1 26 (22.81%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.63%) CANalyzer
3 2 (1.75%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.75%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (4.39%) Endur
2 2 (1.75%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.88%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 27 (23.68%) Azure
2 19 (16.67%) AWS
3 16 (14.04%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (7.02%) Amazon EC2
4 8 (7.02%) Serverless
5 7 (6.14%) Amazon S3
5 7 (6.14%) AWS Lambda
5 7 (6.14%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (6.14%) OneDrive
5 7 (6.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 5 (4.39%) Entra ID
7 2 (1.75%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 2 (1.75%) Mimecast
7 2 (1.75%) Nutanix
7 2 (1.75%) Oracle CX
7 2 (1.75%) Rubrik
7 2 (1.75%) Sentry
8 1 (0.88%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (0.88%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 18 (15.79%) LAN
2 12 (10.53%) Internet
3 9 (7.89%) DNS
4 7 (6.14%) Firewall
5 6 (5.26%) DHCP
6 4 (3.51%) Wireless
7 3 (2.63%) Ethernet
7 3 (2.63%) FlexRay
7 3 (2.63%) HTTP
7 3 (2.63%) TCP/IP
7 3 (2.63%) VPN
7 3 (2.63%) WAN
8 2 (1.75%) DKIM
8 2 (1.75%) DMARC
8 2 (1.75%) Extranet
8 2 (1.75%) NAS
8 2 (1.75%) SAN
8 2 (1.75%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.88%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (11.40%) SQL Server
2 7 (6.14%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (0.88%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.88%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.88%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 21 (18.42%) Git
2 8 (7.02%) GitLab
2 8 (7.02%) JIRA
3 5 (4.39%) Pylint
4 3 (2.63%) CANoe
5 2 (1.75%) Appium
5 2 (1.75%) Charles Proxy
5 2 (1.75%) IntelliJ
5 2 (1.75%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.75%) Katalon Studio
5 2 (1.75%) Postman
6 1 (0.88%) MSI
6 1 (0.88%) Subversion
General
1 46 (40.35%) Social Skills
2 17 (14.91%) Finance
3 16 (14.04%) Organisational Skills
4 12 (10.53%) Public Sector
5 11 (9.65%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (9.65%) Manufacturing
6 8 (7.02%) Electronics
7 5 (4.39%) Marketing
7 5 (4.39%) Telecoms
8 4 (3.51%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (2.63%) Automotive
9 3 (2.63%) Banking
9 3 (2.63%) Front Office
9 3 (2.63%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.75%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.75%) Retail
11 1 (0.88%) Games
11 1 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.88%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 18 (15.79%) Senior
2 16 (14.04%) Hardware Engineer
3 14 (12.28%) Software Engineer
4 11 (9.65%) IT Engineer
4 11 (9.65%) Support Engineer
5 10 (8.77%) Lead
6 8 (7.02%) Developer
7 6 (5.26%) AWS DevOps
7 6 (5.26%) Desktop Engineer
7 6 (5.26%) Desktop Support
7 6 (5.26%) Desktop Support Engineer
7 6 (5.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (4.39%) 2nd Line Engineer
8 5 (4.39%) 2nd Line Support
8 5 (4.39%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
8 5 (4.39%) Break Fix Engineer
8 5 (4.39%) IT Administrator
8 5 (4.39%) IT Support
8 5 (4.39%) IT Systems Administrator
8 5 (4.39%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (10.53%) .NET
2 9 (7.89%) Web Services
3 7 (6.14%) .NET Framework
3 7 (6.14%) ASP.NET
3 7 (6.14%) HTML
4 5 (4.39%) Kafka
4 5 (4.39%) pytest
4 5 (4.39%) React
4 5 (4.39%) WebSockets
5 3 (2.63%) AngularJS
6 2 (1.75%) HTML5
6 2 (1.75%) Software Packaging
7 1 (0.88%) ADO
7 1 (0.88%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (0.88%) LDAP
7 1 (0.88%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 16 (14.04%) Driving Licence
2 9 (7.89%) Data Centre
3 7 (6.14%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (4.39%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (4.39%) Linux Command Line
5 4 (3.51%) PKI
6 3 (2.63%) Infotainment
6 3 (2.63%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.75%) Clustering
7 2 (1.75%) Fat Client
7 2 (1.75%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.75%) Renewable Energy
7 2 (1.75%) Solar Panel
7 2 (1.75%) Thin Client
7 2 (1.75%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.88%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.88%) Hedge funds
8 1 (0.88%) Social Media
8 1 (0.88%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 64 (56.14%) Windows
2 30 (26.32%) Windows 10
3 22 (19.30%) Linux
4 17 (14.91%) Windows 7
5 13 (11.40%) Apple iOS
6 8 (7.02%) Mac OS
7 6 (5.26%) Unix
8 5 (4.39%) Windows Server
9 4 (3.51%) Android
10 3 (2.63%) Ubuntu
11 2 (1.75%) Windows Server 2003
12 1 (0.88%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (28.95%) Software Testing
2 29 (25.44%) ITIL
3 28 (24.56%) Problem-Solving
4 26 (22.81%) Customer Service
5 24 (21.05%) Software Engineering
6 22 (19.30%) Agile
7 21 (18.42%) DevOps
8 20 (17.54%) Customer Requirements
9 19 (16.67%) Service Delivery
10 18 (15.79%) SDLC
11 15 (13.16%) Continuous Improvement
11 15 (13.16%) Project Delivery
12 13 (11.40%) CI/CD
13 12 (10.53%) Containerisation
13 12 (10.53%) Customer Experience
14 11 (9.65%) Computer Science
14 11 (9.65%) User Acceptance Testing
15 10 (8.77%) Capacity Management
15 10 (8.77%) Infrastructure as Code
16 9 (7.89%) Patch Management
Programming Languages
1 26 (22.81%) Python
2 13 (11.40%) PowerShell
3 11 (9.65%) Java
3 11 (9.65%) JavaScript
4 8 (7.02%) C#
5 7 (6.14%) Bash
5 7 (6.14%) SQL
6 3 (2.63%) C++
6 3 (2.63%) TypeScript
6 3 (2.63%) VB.NET
6 3 (2.63%) VBA
7 2 (1.75%) Kotlin
7 2 (1.75%) Swift
7 2 (1.75%) VBScript
8 1 (0.88%) R
Qualifications
1 33 (28.95%) Security Cleared
2 30 (26.32%) Degree
3 22 (19.30%) DV Cleared
4 15 (13.16%) SC Cleared
5 5 (4.39%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (4.39%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (3.51%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (2.63%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (1.75%) 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 13 (11.40%) SLA
2 3 (2.63%) ISO 9001
2 3 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 2 (1.75%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.75%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (1.75%) GDPR
3 2 (1.75%) QA
4 1 (0.88%) CDISC
4 1 (0.88%) GxP
System Software
1 28 (24.56%) Active Directory
2 16 (14.04%) Firmware
3 12 (10.53%) Docker
4 7 (6.14%) Hyper-V
5 5 (4.39%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (3.51%) vSphere
7 3 (2.63%) BitLocker
7 3 (2.63%) Microsoft App-V
7 3 (2.63%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (1.75%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.88%) Terminal Services
9 1 (0.88%) XenApp
9 1 (0.88%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 32 (28.07%) SCCM
2 14 (12.28%) Microsoft Intune
3 13 (11.40%) Kubernetes
4 8 (7.02%) Ansible
4 8 (7.02%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 8 (7.02%) Terraform
5 3 (2.63%) Functional Safety
5 3 (2.63%) Grafana
5 3 (2.63%) WSUS
6 2 (1.75%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (1.75%) NetBackup
6 2 (1.75%) SCOM
6 2 (1.75%) SCVMM
6 2 (1.75%) vCenter Server
6 2 (1.75%) VxRail
7 1 (0.88%) AirWatch
7 1 (0.88%) McAfee ePO
7 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Clustering
7 1 (0.88%) vMotion
Vendors
1 56 (49.12%) Microsoft
2 20 (17.54%) HP
3 10 (8.77%) Oracle
4 9 (7.89%) Apple
4 9 (7.89%) VMware
5 8 (7.02%) SAP
5 8 (7.02%) ServiceNow
6 3 (2.63%) Citrix
7 2 (1.75%) Avaya
7 2 (1.75%) Brocade
7 2 (1.75%) Cisco
7 2 (1.75%) Commvault
7 2 (1.75%) Dell
7 2 (1.75%) EMC
7 2 (1.75%) Forcepoint
7 2 (1.75%) Juniper
7 2 (1.75%) Mitel
7 2 (1.75%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.75%) Symantec
7 2 (1.75%) Wyse