Software Deployment Contracts in London

Software Deployment
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 336 356 430
Rank change year-on-year +20 +74 +99
Contract jobs citing Software Deployment 17 35 63
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.14% 0.20% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.22% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 15 39
10th Percentile £315 £372 £223
25th Percentile £405 £405 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £413 £475
Median % change year-on-year +39.39% -13.16% -9.52%
75th Percentile £700 £684 £625
90th Percentile £736 £810 £825
England median daily rate £563 £410 £350
% change year-on-year +37.20% +17.14% -30.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
Median hourly rate £34.00 £23.80 -
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% - -
England median hourly rate £31.00 £17.72 £18.75
% change year-on-year +74.94% -5.49% +3.51%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,564 15,790 24,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.55% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,847 11,316 17,711
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 324 278
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £47.56 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.93 £76.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Software Deployment
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Deployment in London

Software Deployment
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Software Deployment in London

Software Deployment
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Software Deployment in London

Software Deployment
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Deployment in London

Software Deployment
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Central London -3 3 £314 -36.67% 2
South London +6 1 - -
Software Deployment
England

Software Deployment
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (23.53%) CMS
2 2 (11.76%) Headless CMS
3 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (5.88%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (17.65%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (11.76%) AWS
2 2 (11.76%) Azure
2 2 (11.76%) Contentful
2 2 (11.76%) Entra ID
2 2 (11.76%) GCP
3 1 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (5.88%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (5.88%) Cloud Functions
3 1 (5.88%) GitHub
3 1 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (5.88%) IaaS
3 1 (5.88%) OpenShift
3 1 (5.88%) PaaS
3 1 (5.88%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (23.53%) Firewall
2 3 (17.65%) DNS
3 2 (11.76%) DHCP
3 2 (11.76%) VPN
4 1 (5.88%) SMTP
4 1 (5.88%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (5.88%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (5.88%) Big Data
1 1 (5.88%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (5.88%) NoSQL
1 1 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (5.88%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (23.53%) JIRA
2 1 (5.88%) Cucumber
2 1 (5.88%) Git
2 1 (5.88%) JBehave
2 1 (5.88%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.88%) JUnit
2 1 (5.88%) MSI
General
1 8 (47.06%) Social Skills
2 4 (23.53%) Marketing
3 3 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (17.65%) Finance
4 2 (11.76%) Banking
5 1 (5.88%) Investment Banking
5 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (23.53%) CMS Project Manager
1 4 (23.53%) Project Manager
2 2 (11.76%) Deployment Manager
2 2 (11.76%) Deployment Project Manager
2 2 (11.76%) Head of IT
2 2 (11.76%) Programme Manager
2 2 (11.76%) Rollout Manager
2 2 (11.76%) Rollout Project Manager
3 1 (5.88%) Desktop Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Desktop Support
3 1 (5.88%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Integration Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) IT Analyst
3 1 (5.88%) Java Developer
3 1 (5.88%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Platform Integration Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Service Desk Analyst
3 1 (5.88%) Systems Programmer
3 1 (5.88%) z/OS Systems Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (17.65%) Software Packaging
2 1 (5.88%) AngularJS
2 1 (5.88%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (5.88%) ISPF
2 1 (5.88%) Kafka
2 1 (5.88%) Node.js
2 1 (5.88%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Marketing Technology
2 2 (11.76%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.88%) Clustering
3 1 (5.88%) Data Centre
3 1 (5.88%) Distributed Applications
3 1 (5.88%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (5.88%) Mainframe
3 1 (5.88%) PKI
3 1 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (5.88%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 9 (52.94%) Windows
2 5 (29.41%) Linux
3 3 (17.65%) Apple iOS
3 3 (17.65%) Mac OS
3 3 (17.65%) Mac OS X
4 1 (5.88%) Windows 10
4 1 (5.88%) Windows Server
4 1 (5.88%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (5.88%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (64.71%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (41.18%) Stakeholder Management
3 6 (35.29%) Agile
4 4 (23.53%) Asset Management
4 4 (23.53%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 4 (23.53%) Software Licensing
5 3 (17.65%) Change Management
5 3 (17.65%) Inventory Management
5 3 (17.65%) Risk Management
5 3 (17.65%) Time Management
6 2 (11.76%) Artificial Intelligence
6 2 (11.76%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (11.76%) Customer Service
6 2 (11.76%) Cybersecurity
6 2 (11.76%) DevOps
6 2 (11.76%) ITIL
6 2 (11.76%) Matrix Organization
6 2 (11.76%) User Experience
7 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 1 (5.88%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.76%) Java
1 2 (11.76%) PowerShell
1 2 (11.76%) SQL
2 1 (5.88%) Assembly Language
2 1 (5.88%) CLIST
2 1 (5.88%) Groovy
2 1 (5.88%) JavaScript
2 1 (5.88%) JCL
2 1 (5.88%) Python
2 1 (5.88%) REXX
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.88%) AWS Certification
2 1 (5.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (5.88%) CEH
2 1 (5.88%) CISSP
2 1 (5.88%) Degree
2 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.88%) GDPR
2 1 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (5.88%) QA
System Software
1 5 (29.41%) Active Directory
2 2 (11.76%) Docker
2 2 (11.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (5.88%) BitLocker
3 1 (5.88%) Hyper-V
3 1 (5.88%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (5.88%) Terminal Services
3 1 (5.88%) Time Sharing Option
3 1 (5.88%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 3 (17.65%) Jamf Pro
1 3 (17.65%) Kubernetes
2 2 (11.76%) Ansible
2 2 (11.76%) SCCM
3 1 (5.88%) Grafana
3 1 (5.88%) Nagios
3 1 (5.88%) OMEGAMON
3 1 (5.88%) Prometheus
3 1 (5.88%) Puppet
3 1 (5.88%) Terraform
3 1 (5.88%) vCenter Server
3 1 (5.88%) vMotion
Vendors
1 4 (23.53%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.76%) Apple
2 2 (11.76%) Citrix
2 2 (11.76%) Google
2 2 (11.76%) IBM
2 2 (11.76%) Symantec
2 2 (11.76%) VMware
3 1 (5.88%) Dynatrace
3 1 (5.88%) HP