Software Deployment Contracts in England

Software Deployment
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 441 513 633
Rank change year-on-year +72 +120 -27
Contract jobs citing Software Deployment 102 125 154
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.27% 0.27% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.30% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 90 106
10th Percentile £205 £188 £168
25th Percentile £250 £206 £341
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £350 £500
Median % change year-on-year +34.29% -30.00% +12.36%
75th Percentile £600 £500 £573
90th Percentile £675 £606 £688
UK median daily rate £475 £350 £493
% change year-on-year +35.71% -29.01% +10.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 5
10th Percentile £17.44 £17.90 -
25th Percentile £17.72 £18.13 £15.50
Median hourly rate £20.76 £19.00 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.26% +11.76% -58.94%
75th Percentile £23.80 £36.33 £20.00
90th Percentile £36.77 £46.42 £25.85
UK median hourly rate £20.76 £19.00 £17.00
% change year-on-year +9.26% +11.76% -61.36%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,789 42,321 64,118
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.46% 89.92% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,644 29,706 45,695
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £440 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £548
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +0.46% +9.50%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,352 1,534 1,708
10th Percentile £12.81 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.73 £15.30
Median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +41.18% +13.33%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.63 £49.77
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.35 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £35.80 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.96% +39.41% +11.65%

Software Deployment
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Software Deployment as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Software Deployment in England

Software Deployment
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Software Deployment in England.

Daily rate trend for Software Deployment in England

Software Deployment
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Deployment in England over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Deployment in England

Software Deployment
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Software Deployment in England.

Hourly rate trend for Software Deployment in England

Software Deployment
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Software Deployment in England over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Software Deployment in England

Software Deployment
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 9 June 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
London +66 38 £520 +9.47% 8
South East +21 28 £280 -27.74% 8
Midlands +34 13 £526 +40.13% 3
North of England +26 11 £450 +130.77% 5
North West +19 10 £300 +50.00% 3
West Midlands - 10 £530 - 2
East Midlands +14 3 £275 -26.67% 1
East of England -4 3 £225 -25.00% 2
South West -11 3 - - 2
North East - 1 £600 - 1
Software Deployment
UK

Software Deployment
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 10 (9.80%) IIS
2 4 (3.92%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (3.92%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.94%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 16 (15.69%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (6.86%) CANalyzer
3 2 (1.96%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.96%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (4.90%) Endur
2 2 (1.96%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.98%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 21 (20.59%) Azure
2 14 (13.73%) AWS
3 12 (11.76%) Entra ID
4 11 (10.78%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (7.84%) Amazon EC2
5 8 (7.84%) Serverless
6 7 (6.86%) Amazon S3
6 7 (6.86%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (6.86%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (6.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 3 (2.94%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 3 (2.94%) Mimecast
7 3 (2.94%) Nutanix
7 3 (2.94%) OneDrive
7 3 (2.94%) Rubrik
8 2 (1.96%) Oracle CX
8 2 (1.96%) Sentry
9 1 (0.98%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (0.98%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (0.98%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 15 (14.71%) LAN
2 13 (12.75%) Internet
3 10 (9.80%) DNS
4 7 (6.86%) Ethernet
4 7 (6.86%) FlexRay
5 6 (5.88%) DHCP
6 4 (3.92%) Firewall
6 4 (3.92%) VPN
7 3 (2.94%) DKIM
7 3 (2.94%) DMARC
7 3 (2.94%) Extranet
7 3 (2.94%) HTTP
7 3 (2.94%) NAS
7 3 (2.94%) SAN
7 3 (2.94%) TCP/IP
7 3 (2.94%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (2.94%) Wireless
8 1 (0.98%) SMTP
8 1 (0.98%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (11.76%) SQL Server
2 7 (6.86%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (0.98%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 20 (19.61%) Git
2 8 (7.84%) JIRA
3 7 (6.86%) CANoe
3 7 (6.86%) GitLab
4 5 (4.90%) Pylint
5 3 (2.94%) MSI
6 2 (1.96%) Appium
6 2 (1.96%) Charles Proxy
6 2 (1.96%) IntelliJ
6 2 (1.96%) Katalon Studio
6 2 (1.96%) Postman
7 1 (0.98%) Jenkins
General
1 33 (32.35%) Social Skills
2 12 (11.76%) Finance
2 12 (11.76%) Organisational Skills
3 11 (10.78%) Manufacturing
4 8 (7.84%) Electronics
5 7 (6.86%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (6.86%) Automotive
5 7 (6.86%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.94%) Aerospace
6 3 (2.94%) Front Office
6 3 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.96%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (1.96%) Retail
8 1 (0.98%) Banking
8 1 (0.98%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.98%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.98%) Marketing
8 1 (0.98%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (12.75%) Senior
2 12 (11.76%) Hardware Engineer
2 12 (11.76%) Software Engineer
3 8 (7.84%) IT Engineer
3 8 (7.84%) Support Engineer
4 7 (6.86%) Integration Manager
4 7 (6.86%) Software Manager
5 6 (5.88%) AWS DevOps
5 6 (5.88%) Developer
5 6 (5.88%) IT Support
6 5 (4.90%) Administrator
6 5 (4.90%) Break Fix Engineer
6 5 (4.90%) IT Administrator
6 5 (4.90%) IT Systems Administrator
7 4 (3.92%) Analyst
7 4 (3.92%) Desktop Engineer
7 4 (3.92%) Desktop Support
7 4 (3.92%) Desktop Support Engineer
7 4 (3.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (3.92%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (11.76%) .NET
2 9 (8.82%) Web Services
3 7 (6.86%) .NET Framework
3 7 (6.86%) ASP.NET
3 7 (6.86%) HTML
4 6 (5.88%) SailPoint
5 5 (4.90%) Kafka
5 5 (4.90%) pytest
5 5 (4.90%) React
5 5 (4.90%) WebSockets
6 3 (2.94%) Software Packaging
7 2 (1.96%) AngularJS
7 2 (1.96%) HTML5
8 1 (0.98%) ADO
8 1 (0.98%) Elastic Stack
8 1 (0.98%) LDAP
8 1 (0.98%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 12 (11.76%) Driving Licence
2 7 (6.86%) Data Centre
2 7 (6.86%) Enterprise Software
2 7 (6.86%) Infotainment
3 5 (4.90%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (4.90%) Linux Command Line
4 4 (3.92%) PKI
5 3 (2.94%) Fat Client
5 3 (2.94%) Mobile App
5 3 (2.94%) Thin Client
5 3 (2.94%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.96%) Hedge funds
6 2 (1.96%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (1.96%) Solar Panel
7 1 (0.98%) Clustering
7 1 (0.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.98%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.98%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.98%) Social Media
7 1 (0.98%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 56 (54.90%) Windows
2 20 (19.61%) Linux
2 20 (19.61%) Windows 10
3 13 (12.75%) Windows 7
4 9 (8.82%) Apple iOS
5 6 (5.88%) Unix
6 5 (4.90%) Windows Server
7 4 (3.92%) Android
7 4 (3.92%) Mac OS
8 3 (2.94%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.98%) VMS
9 1 (0.98%) Windows Server 2003
9 1 (0.98%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (25.49%) ITIL
2 23 (22.55%) Software Testing
3 22 (21.57%) Agile
4 20 (19.61%) DevOps
4 20 (19.61%) Problem-Solving
4 20 (19.61%) Software Engineering
5 17 (16.67%) Customer Service
6 16 (15.69%) SDLC
7 15 (14.71%) Service Delivery
8 13 (12.75%) CI/CD
8 13 (12.75%) Customer Requirements
9 12 (11.76%) Containerisation
10 10 (9.80%) Infrastructure Management
10 10 (9.80%) Patch Management
11 9 (8.82%) Application Packaging
11 9 (8.82%) Cybersecurity
12 8 (7.84%) Computer Science
12 8 (7.84%) Continuous Improvement
12 8 (7.84%) Customer Experience
13 7 (6.86%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 25 (24.51%) Python
2 15 (14.71%) PowerShell
3 10 (9.80%) Java
4 8 (7.84%) C#
5 7 (6.86%) Bash
5 7 (6.86%) JavaScript
5 7 (6.86%) VBA
6 6 (5.88%) SQL
7 3 (2.94%) C++
7 3 (2.94%) VB.NET
8 2 (1.96%) Kotlin
8 2 (1.96%) Swift
8 2 (1.96%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.96%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 36 (35.29%) Security Cleared
2 23 (22.55%) Degree
3 22 (21.57%) SC Cleared
4 17 (16.67%) DV Cleared
5 5 (4.90%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (3.92%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (2.94%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.96%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.98%) A+ Certification
9 1 (0.98%) Chartered Engineer
9 1 (0.98%) CTC Cleared
9 1 (0.98%) MCDST
9 1 (0.98%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (9.80%) SLA
2 3 (2.94%) ISO 9001
2 3 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 2 (1.96%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.96%) GDPR
3 2 (1.96%) QA
4 1 (0.98%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 29 (28.43%) Active Directory
2 12 (11.76%) Docker
2 12 (11.76%) Firmware
3 8 (7.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (6.86%) Hyper-V
5 5 (4.90%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (4.90%) vSphere
6 4 (3.92%) BitLocker
6 4 (3.92%) Microsoft App-V
7 3 (2.94%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (2.94%) XenApp
7 3 (2.94%) XenDesktop
8 1 (0.98%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 28 (27.45%) SCCM
2 13 (12.75%) Kubernetes
3 12 (11.76%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (7.84%) Ansible
4 8 (7.84%) Terraform
5 7 (6.86%) Functional Safety
6 4 (3.92%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 3 (2.94%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (2.94%) NetBackup
7 3 (2.94%) SCOM
7 3 (2.94%) SCVMM
7 3 (2.94%) VxRail
7 3 (2.94%) WSUS
8 1 (0.98%) AirWatch
8 1 (0.98%) Grafana
8 1 (0.98%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.98%) vMotion
Vendors
1 51 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 16 (15.69%) HP
3 11 (10.78%) VMware
4 9 (8.82%) Oracle
4 9 (8.82%) ServiceNow
5 5 (4.90%) Apple
5 5 (4.90%) CyberArk
6 4 (3.92%) Citrix
6 4 (3.92%) SAP
7 3 (2.94%) Avaya
7 3 (2.94%) Cisco
7 3 (2.94%) Commvault
7 3 (2.94%) Dell
7 3 (2.94%) EMC
7 3 (2.94%) F5
7 3 (2.94%) Juniper
7 3 (2.94%) Mitel
7 3 (2.94%) MobileIron
7 3 (2.94%) Proofpoint
7 3 (2.94%) SolarWinds