Software Deployment Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Software Deployment
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire requiring Software Deployment skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 - 43
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Software Deployment 3 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 0.80% - 0.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.95% - 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £199 - -
25th Percentile £220 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £258 - £225
75th Percentile £293 - -
90th Percentile £312 - -
East of England median daily rate £325 £500 £225
% change year-on-year -35.00% +122.22% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cambridgeshire

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 in Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 315 329 348
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 84.45% 89.65% 82.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 118 119
10th Percentile £183 £258 £225
25th Percentile £400 £400 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +16.67% -5.26%
75th Percentile £584 £625 £553
90th Percentile £638 £700 £638
East of England median daily rate £500 £514 £450
% change year-on-year -2.63% +14.11% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 69 98 124
10th Percentile £13.45 £13.80 £14.84
25th Percentile - £14.84 £15.46
Median hourly rate £14.22 £16.00 £16.23
Median % change year-on-year -11.13% -1.42% +11.93%
75th Percentile £29.86 £21.13 £17.13
90th Percentile £47.60 £43.75 £48.75
East of England median hourly rate £47.50 £22.57 £40.00
% change year-on-year +110.48% -43.58% +101.92%

Software Deployment
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Software Deployment relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire.

Software Deployment job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

Software Deployment
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Software Deployment.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Software Deployment

Software Deployment
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Deployment in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 3 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Software Deployment in Cambridgeshire

Software Deployment
Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Software Deployment.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Software Deployment

Software Deployment
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 3 October 2026. 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
Cambridge - 3 £258 - 4
Software Deployment
East of England

Software Deployment
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
2 1 (33.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DHCP
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
1 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
1 1 (33.33%) VPN
1 1 (33.33%) Wi-Fi
General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Support Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Desktop Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) IT Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) IT Support
2 1 (33.33%) IT Support Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Mac Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Onboarding
2 1 (33.33%) CMDB
2 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (33.33%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Mac OS
2 1 (33.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Customer Service
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Asset Management
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) ITSM
2 1 (33.33%) Time Management
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Jamf Pro
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (33.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Apple