Software Deployment Contracts in the City of London

Software Deployment
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 118 162
Rank change year-on-year +2 +44 +21
Contract jobs citing Software Deployment 3 9 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.17% 0.41% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.45% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 11
10th Percentile £241 - £313
25th Percentile £266 £538 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £314 £565 £560
Median % change year-on-year -44.51% +0.89% -0.44%
75th Percentile £448 £593 -
90th Percentile £524 - £700
Central London median daily rate £314 £495 £560
% change year-on-year -36.67% -11.61% -0.44%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,636 1,988 3,346
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.17% 90.49% 91.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,032 1,406 2,259
10th Percentile £363 £363 £355
25th Percentile £463 £451 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £565 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -5.83% +4.35%
75th Percentile £680 £688 £730
90th Percentile £775 £806 £825
Central London median daily rate £565 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 24
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.92 £15.33
25th Percentile £24.00 £20.22 £18.03
Median hourly rate £29.58 £25.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.30% -28.57% -14.63%
75th Percentile £45.00 £40.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £62.25 £41.84 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%

Software Deployment
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Software Deployment as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Software Deployment in the City of London

Software Deployment
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Software Deployment in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Software Deployment in the City of London

Software Deployment
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Deployment in the City of London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Software Deployment in the City of London

Software Deployment
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Software Deployment in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Software Deployment in the City of London

Software Deployment
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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:

Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Service Bus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Cucumber
1 1 (33.33%) JBehave
1 1 (33.33%) JUnit
1 1 (33.33%) MSI
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) AngularJS
1 1 (33.33%) Kafka
1 1 (33.33%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Distributed Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) BDD
2 1 (33.33%) Change Management
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) ITSM
2 1 (33.33%) Microservices
2 1 (33.33%) Patch Management
2 1 (33.33%) Project Management
2 1 (33.33%) Service Management
2 1 (33.33%) Software Distribution
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Software Licensing
2 1 (33.33%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) IBM
1 1 (33.33%) Symantec