Software Deployment Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Software Deployment
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Software Deployment skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 132 113 116
Rank change year-on-year -19 +3 +40
Contract jobs citing Software Deployment 3 3 10
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.13% 0.18% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.19% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 2
10th Percentile - £241 £535
25th Percentile £215 £266 £536
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £220 £314 £553
Median % change year-on-year -29.82% -43.26% -1.34%
75th Percentile £225 £448 £581
90th Percentile - £524 £588
Central London median daily rate £220 £314 £540
% change year-on-year -29.82% -41.94% -2.70%

All Process & 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 1,983 1,566 1,961
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 85.03% 93.49% 90.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,357 987 1,374
10th Percentile £356 £355 £350
25th Percentile £450 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year - -2.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 15 12
10th Percentile £17.84 £18.70 £19.95
25th Percentile £18.75 £22.88 £20.22
Median hourly rate £27.50 £28.15 £25.63
Median % change year-on-year -2.31% +9.85% -26.79%
75th Percentile £52.49 £39.21 £40.00
90th Percentile £62.89 £57.75 £41.65
Central London median hourly rate £26.56 £28.15 £27.81
% change year-on-year -5.67% +1.22% -20.54%

Software Deployment
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Software Deployment job vacancy trend in the City of London

Software Deployment
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Software Deployment.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Software Deployment

Software Deployment
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Software Deployment.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Software Deployment

Software Deployment
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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 1 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Control Tower
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
1 1 (33.33%) Serverless
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon QuickSight
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Artifactory
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) GitLab
General
1 1 (33.33%) Law
1 1 (33.33%) Military
1 1 (33.33%) Police
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) 2nd Line Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) 2nd Line Support
1 2 (66.67%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Support Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Mac OS
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Identity Management
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Management
2 1 (33.33%) Open Source
2 1 (33.33%) Refactoring
2 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bash
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) CCNA
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Grafana
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Prometheus
1 1 (33.33%) Puppet
1 1 (33.33%) Salt
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Fortinet
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft