Software Deployment Contracts in England

Software Deployment
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 24 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 431 452 521
Rank change year-on-year +21 +69 +104
Contract jobs citing Software Deployment 61 99 110
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.24% 0.27% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.31% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 59 81
10th Percentile £200 £205 £188
25th Percentile £359 £256 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £488 £325
Median % change year-on-year +12.82% +50.00% -35.00%
75th Percentile £612 £609 £488
90th Percentile £696 £676 £600
UK median daily rate £550 £488 £350
% change year-on-year +12.82% +39.29% -30.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 8 3
10th Percentile £28.60 £17.44 £17.90
25th Percentile £29.50 £17.72 £18.13
Median hourly rate £31.00 £20.76 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +49.33% +9.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £32.50 £23.80 £36.33
90th Percentile £33.40 £36.77 £46.42
UK median hourly rate £31.00 £20.76 £19.00
% change year-on-year +49.33% +9.26% +11.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,892 31,876 42,326
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.36% 85.33% 89.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,789 20,642 29,656
10th Percentile £300 £304 £325
25th Percentile £406 £413 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £502 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.33% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,111 2,365 1,544
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.77 £11.25
25th Percentile £17.87 £16.06 £15.75
Median hourly rate £26.12 £38.00 £35.03
Median % change year-on-year -31.26% +8.48% +36.41%
75th Percentile £55.00 £61.30 £64.50
90th Percentile £73.75 £72.50 £75.67
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -32.93% +7.14% +34.62%

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 24 June 2025.

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
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 24 June 2025. 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 +35 19 £550 +1.85% 90
South East +32 11 £575 +53.33% 48
Midlands +7 11 £583 +10.85% 46
West Midlands +4 9 £651 +22.88% 21
South West +42 7 £196 - 29
North of England +24 7 £338 +12.50% 66
North East - 4 £250 - 8
East of England +22 2 £450 +100.00% 47
East Midlands +4 2 £500 +81.82% 25
Yorkshire - 2 £469 - 30
North West -1 1 - - 28
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 (16.39%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (8.20%) CMS
3 2 (3.28%) Apache
3 2 (3.28%) Confluence
3 2 (3.28%) Headless CMS
4 1 (1.64%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 1 (1.64%) SAS
4 1 (1.64%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.64%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (1.64%) InDesign
1 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.64%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (3.28%) Sprinklr
2 1 (1.64%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 12 (19.67%) AWS
2 11 (18.03%) GCP
3 9 (14.75%) IaaS
3 9 (14.75%) OpenShift
3 9 (14.75%) PaaS
4 5 (8.20%) Azure
4 5 (8.20%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (4.92%) Entra ID
6 2 (3.28%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (3.28%) Contentful
7 1 (1.64%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.64%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (1.64%) Cloud Functions
7 1 (1.64%) GitHub
7 1 (1.64%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.64%) Google Docs
7 1 (1.64%) Google Sheets
7 1 (1.64%) Google Workspace
7 1 (1.64%) SaaS
7 1 (1.64%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 12 (19.67%) DHCP
1 12 (19.67%) DNS
2 10 (16.39%) VPN
3 9 (14.75%) Firewall
3 9 (14.75%) SMTP
4 2 (3.28%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.64%) Internet
5 1 (1.64%) Softphone
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (16.39%) Big Data
2 9 (14.75%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (14.75%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (3.28%) MariaDB
3 2 (3.28%) MySQL
4 1 (1.64%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.64%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.64%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.64%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (16.39%) MSI
2 6 (9.84%) JIRA
3 4 (6.56%) AdminStudio
3 4 (6.56%) Git
3 4 (6.56%) Jenkins
4 2 (3.28%) Bitbucket
4 2 (3.28%) Vagrant
5 1 (1.64%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.64%) Dreamweaver
5 1 (1.64%) JBehave
5 1 (1.64%) JUnit
General
1 29 (47.54%) Social Skills
2 12 (19.67%) Public Sector
3 7 (11.48%) Legal
3 7 (11.48%) Marketing
4 6 (9.84%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (8.20%) Finance
6 4 (6.56%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (4.92%) Banking
8 1 (1.64%) Electronics
8 1 (1.64%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.64%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.64%) Military
8 1 (1.64%) Publishing
8 1 (1.64%) Retail
8 1 (1.64%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (21.31%) Support Engineer
2 10 (16.39%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 10 (16.39%) 3rd Line Support
2 10 (16.39%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 8 (13.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 7 (11.48%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 7 (11.48%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
4 7 (11.48%) Infrastructure Support
4 7 (11.48%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 6 (9.84%) Deployment Engineer
6 5 (8.20%) Analyst
7 4 (6.56%) Administrator
7 4 (6.56%) CMS Project Manager
7 4 (6.56%) Project Manager
7 4 (6.56%) Systems Administrator
8 3 (4.92%) Consultant
8 3 (4.92%) Desktop Support
8 3 (4.92%) Mac Engineer
9 2 (3.28%) Applications Engineer
9 2 (3.28%) Rollout Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (19.67%) Software Packaging
2 2 (3.28%) CSS
2 2 (3.28%) HTML
2 2 (3.28%) LAMP
2 2 (3.28%) Zend Framework
3 1 (1.64%) AngularJS
3 1 (1.64%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.64%) Flash
3 1 (1.64%) ISPF
3 1 (1.64%) Kafka
3 1 (1.64%) Node.js
3 1 (1.64%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 10 (16.39%) Data Centre
2 9 (14.75%) Clustering
2 9 (14.75%) PKI
3 4 (6.56%) Marketing Technology
4 3 (4.92%) Product Ownership
4 3 (4.92%) SCADA
5 2 (3.28%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (3.28%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (3.28%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (3.28%) Social Media
6 1 (1.64%) Blog
6 1 (1.64%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (1.64%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.64%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.64%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.64%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.64%) Video\Live Streaming
6 1 (1.64%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 37 (60.66%) Windows
2 21 (34.43%) Linux
3 9 (14.75%) Windows Server
4 5 (8.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (6.56%) Windows 10
5 4 (6.56%) Windows Server 2003
6 3 (4.92%) Mac OS
7 2 (3.28%) CentOS
7 2 (3.28%) Debian
7 2 (3.28%) Ubuntu
8 1 (1.64%) AIX
8 1 (1.64%) Unix
8 1 (1.64%) Windows 7
8 1 (1.64%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (31.15%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (22.95%) DevOps
3 12 (19.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 10 (16.39%) Agile
4 10 (16.39%) Artificial Intelligence
5 9 (14.75%) Machine Learning
6 8 (13.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 7 (11.48%) Collaborative Working
7 7 (11.48%) ITIL
7 7 (11.48%) Software Distribution
8 6 (9.84%) Software Delivery
8 6 (9.84%) User Experience
9 5 (8.20%) Application Packaging
9 5 (8.20%) Asset Management
9 5 (8.20%) Customer Service
9 5 (8.20%) Cybersecurity
10 4 (6.56%) Configuration Management
10 4 (6.56%) High Availability
10 4 (6.56%) Risk Management
10 4 (6.56%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 18 (29.51%) PowerShell
2 11 (18.03%) Bash
3 10 (16.39%) Python
4 5 (8.20%) JavaScript
5 4 (6.56%) SQL
6 2 (3.28%) Groovy
6 2 (3.28%) Java
6 2 (3.28%) Perl
6 2 (3.28%) PHP
7 1 (1.64%) Assembly Language
7 1 (1.64%) CLIST
7 1 (1.64%) JCL
7 1 (1.64%) REXX
7 1 (1.64%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 27 (44.26%) Security Cleared
2 16 (26.23%) SC Cleared
3 10 (16.39%) Degree
4 8 (13.11%) DV Cleared
5 2 (3.28%) CBAP
5 2 (3.28%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.64%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.64%) CEH
6 1 (1.64%) CISSP
6 1 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.56%) QA
2 3 (4.92%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.64%) GDPR
3 1 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 17 (27.87%) Active Directory
2 13 (21.31%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (19.67%) Docker
3 12 (19.67%) Microsoft App-V
4 9 (14.75%) BitLocker
4 9 (14.75%) Hyper-V
4 9 (14.75%) Terminal Services
4 9 (14.75%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (3.28%) VirtualBox
6 1 (1.64%) Time Sharing Option
6 1 (1.64%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 19 (31.15%) Ansible
2 14 (22.95%) SCCM
3 12 (19.67%) Kubernetes
4 11 (18.03%) Nagios
4 11 (18.03%) Puppet
5 9 (14.75%) vCenter Server
5 9 (14.75%) vMotion
6 3 (4.92%) AirWatch
6 3 (4.92%) Jamf Pro
7 2 (3.28%) Icinga
7 2 (3.28%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (3.28%) Progress Chef
7 2 (3.28%) Red Hat Satellite
7 2 (3.28%) Salt
7 2 (3.28%) ThinApp
7 2 (3.28%) yum
8 1 (1.64%) Grafana
8 1 (1.64%) OMEGAMON
8 1 (1.64%) Prometheus
8 1 (1.64%) Terraform
Vendors
1 18 (29.51%) Microsoft
2 14 (22.95%) VMware
3 12 (19.67%) Google
4 10 (16.39%) Citrix
4 10 (16.39%) Symantec
5 9 (14.75%) HP
6 6 (9.84%) Tanium
7 3 (4.92%) Apple
7 3 (4.92%) IBM
7 3 (4.92%) Red Hat
8 2 (3.28%) Facebook
8 2 (3.28%) Instagram
8 2 (3.28%) Ivanti
8 2 (3.28%) New Relic
8 2 (3.28%) Rackspace
8 2 (3.28%) ServiceNow
8 2 (3.28%) Twitter
8 2 (3.28%) YouTube
8 2 (3.28%) Zend
9 1 (1.64%) Dynatrace