Software Deployment Contracts with Work from Home Options

Software Deployment
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 313 396 556
Rank change year-on-year +83 +160 -102
Contract jobs citing Software Deployment 34 71 63
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.23% 0.28% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% 0.31% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 53 40
10th Percentile £410 £275 £207
25th Percentile £463 £300 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £463 £487
Median % change year-on-year +10.81% -4.98% +8.17%
75th Percentile £603 £560 £556
90th Percentile £674 £600 £639
UK median daily rate £413 £350 £500
% change year-on-year +17.86% -30.00% +13.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,282 22,550 40,272
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.98% 89.75% 91.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,890 15,929 29,247
10th Percentile £325 £363 £362
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £630
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 574 522 532
10th Percentile £15.05 £18.63 £13.75
25th Percentile £25.50 £30.00 £20.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +41.16%
75th Percentile £60.00 £69.31 £55.38
90th Percentile £75.18 £80.25 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +2.04%

Software Deployment
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Software Deployment as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Software Deployment trend for jobs with a WFH option

Software Deployment
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Software Deployment.

Software Deployment daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Software Deployment
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Software Deployment over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Software Deployment daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Software Deployment
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Software Deployment.

Software Deployment hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Software Deployment
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (2.94%) IIS
1 1 (2.94%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (5.88%) Endur
1 2 (5.88%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (2.94%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 14 (41.18%) Azure
2 7 (20.59%) AWS
3 2 (5.88%) Oracle CX
4 1 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.94%) Entra ID
4 1 (2.94%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (11.76%) Firewall
2 2 (5.88%) DHCP
2 2 (5.88%) DNS
2 2 (5.88%) TCP/IP
2 2 (5.88%) WAN
2 2 (5.88%) Wireless
3 1 (2.94%) HTTP
3 1 (2.94%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.82%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.94%) Data Lake
2 1 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 4 (11.76%) Git
2 3 (8.82%) JIRA
3 2 (5.88%) Pylint
General
1 14 (41.18%) Finance
2 11 (32.35%) Social Skills
3 9 (26.47%) Public Sector
4 5 (14.71%) Electronics
4 5 (14.71%) Manufacturing
4 5 (14.71%) Marketing
4 5 (14.71%) Telecoms
5 2 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (5.88%) Banking
5 2 (5.88%) Front Office
5 2 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (5.88%) Retail
6 1 (2.94%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.94%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 9 (26.47%) Senior
2 8 (23.53%) Lead
3 6 (17.65%) Developer
3 6 (17.65%) Software Engineer
4 4 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (11.76%) Python Engineer
4 4 (11.76%) Python Software Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) Full Stack Developer
5 3 (8.82%) Senior Developer
5 3 (8.82%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) Test Manager
6 2 (5.88%) Administrator
6 2 (5.88%) CRM Manager
6 2 (5.88%) IT Administrator
6 2 (5.88%) IT Systems Administrator
6 2 (5.88%) Lead Developer
6 2 (5.88%) Lead Full Stack Developer
6 2 (5.88%) Security Manager
6 2 (5.88%) Security Project Manager
6 2 (5.88%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.82%) .NET
1 3 (8.82%) AngularJS
2 2 (5.88%) HTML
2 2 (5.88%) Kafka
2 2 (5.88%) pytest
2 2 (5.88%) React
2 2 (5.88%) WebSockets
3 1 (2.94%) .NET Framework
3 1 (2.94%) ADO
3 1 (2.94%) ASP.NET
3 1 (2.94%) RESTful
3 1 (2.94%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.88%) Data Centre
1 2 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (5.88%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (2.94%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (2.94%) Hedge funds
2 1 (2.94%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 8 (23.53%) Linux
1 8 (23.53%) Windows
2 2 (5.88%) Ubuntu
2 2 (5.88%) Unix
3 1 (2.94%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (38.24%) Software Engineering
2 9 (26.47%) Continuous Improvement
3 8 (23.53%) Agile
3 8 (23.53%) Project Delivery
4 7 (20.59%) User Acceptance Testing
5 6 (17.65%) Capacity Management
5 6 (17.65%) Full Stack Development
5 6 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (17.65%) Software Testing
6 5 (14.71%) Business Intelligence
6 5 (14.71%) Digital Marketing
6 5 (14.71%) Mentoring
6 5 (14.71%) Programme Management
7 4 (11.76%) Computer Science
7 4 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 4 (11.76%) ITIL
7 4 (11.76%) Patch Management
7 4 (11.76%) RBAC
7 4 (11.76%) SDLC
7 4 (11.76%) Security Patching
Programming Languages
1 11 (32.35%) Python
2 9 (26.47%) JavaScript
3 6 (17.65%) PowerShell
4 4 (11.76%) Java
4 4 (11.76%) SQL
5 3 (8.82%) C++
5 3 (8.82%) TypeScript
6 2 (5.88%) C#
6 2 (5.88%) VB.NET
6 2 (5.88%) VBScript
7 1 (2.94%) R
Qualifications
1 5 (14.71%) Degree
2 2 (5.88%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (5.88%) ITIL Certification
2 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (5.88%) SC Cleared
2 2 (5.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.76%) SLA
2 2 (5.88%) GDPR
2 2 (5.88%) ISO 9001
2 2 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 1 (2.94%) CDISC
3 1 (2.94%) GxP
3 1 (2.94%) QA
System Software
1 3 (8.82%) Active Directory
2 2 (5.88%) Docker
2 2 (5.88%) Hyper-V
2 2 (5.88%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (5.88%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (5.88%) Grafana
1 2 (5.88%) Kubernetes
1 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (5.88%) WSUS
Vendors
1 11 (32.35%) Microsoft
2 6 (17.65%) SAP
3 3 (8.82%) Oracle
4 2 (5.88%) Okta
4 2 (5.88%) Salesforce
4 2 (5.88%) VMware
5 1 (2.94%) Databricks
5 1 (2.94%) Qualys