Software Distribution Contract Job Trends in England

Software Distribution
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Software Distribution skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 494 517 606
Rank change year-on-year +23 +89 +166
Contract jobs citing Software Distribution 9 6 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.033% 0.018% 0.014%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.036% 0.022% 0.016%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 4 4
10th Percentile £295 £234 -
25th Percentile £350 £288 £198
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £419 £205
Median % change year-on-year +19.40% +104.27% -48.75%
75th Percentile £888 £531 £284
90th Percentile £895 £543 £414
UK median daily rate £550 £419 £205
% change year-on-year +31.34% +104.27% -41.43%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Software Distribution 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 24,861 27,863 38,160
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.75% 85.84% 89.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,798 17,724 26,555
10th Percentile £300 £313 £320
25th Percentile £404 £425 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.96% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £626 £650 £660
90th Percentile £738 £751 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,459 1,377 1,377
10th Percentile £14.24 £14.43 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.79 £20.00 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +46.55%
75th Percentile £50.00 £66.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £42.88 £41.50
% change year-on-year -41.35% +3.33% +43.50%

Software Distribution
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Distribution in England

Software Distribution
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Software Distribution.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Software Distribution

Software Distribution
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Distribution in England over the 6 months to 5 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Software Distribution in England

Software Distribution
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Software Distribution.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Software Distribution

Software Distribution
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 Distribution within the England region over the 6 months to 5 September 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 +25 6 £713 +247.56%
North of England - 2 £369 -
South East +21 1 £500 -4.76%
Yorkshire - 1 £350 -
North West - 1 £388 -
Software Distribution
UK

Software Distribution
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 2 (22.22%) SharePoint
2 1 (11.11%) IIS
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (22.22%) Azure
2 2 (22.22%) Entra ID
3 1 (11.11%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) VPN
2 1 (11.11%) HTTP
2 1 (11.11%) HTTPS
2 1 (11.11%) SSL
2 1 (11.11%) WAAS
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) MSI
General
1 7 (77.78%) Social Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Public Sector
3 2 (22.22%) Finance
4 1 (11.11%) Banking
4 1 (11.11%) Legal
4 1 (11.11%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Principal Technologist
1 3 (33.33%) Technologist
2 1 (11.11%) Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Build Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) E-Commerce Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Salesforce Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) SCCM Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Strategy Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Windows Build Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (88.89%) Windows
2 3 (33.33%) Windows 10
3 2 (22.22%) Windows Server
4 1 (11.11%) Windows 7
4 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
2 2 (22.22%) Change Management
2 2 (22.22%) Patch Management
2 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (22.22%) User Experience
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Security
3 1 (11.11%) Compliance Audit
3 1 (11.11%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (11.11%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (11.11%) Migration
3 1 (11.11%) Prototyping
3 1 (11.11%) Requirements Analysis
3 1 (11.11%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (11.11%) Service Design
3 1 (11.11%) Software Licensing
3 1 (11.11%) Target Operating Model
3 1 (11.11%) Virtual Environments
3 1 (11.11%) Virtual Infrastructure
3 1 (11.11%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) PowerShell
2 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (55.56%) Security Cleared
2 4 (44.44%) SC Cleared
3 3 (33.33%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 4 (44.44%) Active Directory
2 2 (22.22%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (11.11%) BitLocker
3 1 (11.11%) Hyper-V
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 7 (77.78%) SCCM
2 5 (55.56%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (11.11%) WSUS
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Citrix
2 1 (11.11%) Salesforce
2 1 (11.11%) Symantec
2 1 (11.11%) VMware