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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 341 369 439
Rank change year-on-year +28 +70 +83
Contract jobs citing Software Deployment 19 38 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.14% 0.22% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.24% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 17 30
10th Percentile £333 £403 £188
25th Percentile £500 £425 £286
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £425
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% +27.06% -19.05%
75th Percentile £663 £638 £588
90th Percentile £718 £803 £710
England median daily rate £550 £479 £338
% change year-on-year +14.88% +41.85% -32.50%
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 £20.76 £19.00
% change year-on-year +49.33% +9.26% +11.76%

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 12,082 15,598 22,961
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.19% 88.50% 90.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,067 11,123 16,628
10th Percentile £331 £341 £372
25th Percentile £425 £445 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £588
Median % change year-on-year - -6.38% +2.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £799 £800 £800
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 298 259
10th Percentile £16.50 £15.98 £18.50
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.02 £23.18
Median hourly rate £32.00 £30.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -25.93% +12.50%
75th Percentile £50.50 £48.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £63.60 £68.75 £82.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £37.50
% change year-on-year -34.02% +1.65% +44.23%

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 3 July 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 3 July 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 -1 3 £314 -41.94% 7
South London -2 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 (21.05%) CMS
2 2 (10.53%) Headless CMS
3 1 (5.26%) Apache
3 1 (5.26%) Confluence
3 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (5.26%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (15.79%) AWS
1 3 (15.79%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (10.53%) Azure
2 2 (10.53%) Contentful
2 2 (10.53%) Entra ID
2 2 (10.53%) GCP
3 1 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (5.26%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (5.26%) Cloud Functions
3 1 (5.26%) GitHub
3 1 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (5.26%) IaaS
3 1 (5.26%) OpenShift
3 1 (5.26%) PaaS
3 1 (5.26%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.79%) DNS
2 2 (10.53%) DHCP
2 2 (10.53%) VPN
3 1 (5.26%) Firewall
3 1 (5.26%) SMTP
3 1 (5.26%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (5.26%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (5.26%) Big Data
1 1 (5.26%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (5.26%) MariaDB
1 1 (5.26%) MySQL
1 1 (5.26%) NoSQL
1 1 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (5.26%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (26.32%) JIRA
2 2 (10.53%) Git
2 2 (10.53%) Jenkins
3 1 (5.26%) Bitbucket
3 1 (5.26%) Cucumber
3 1 (5.26%) JBehave
3 1 (5.26%) JUnit
3 1 (5.26%) MSI
3 1 (5.26%) Vagrant
General
1 7 (36.84%) Social Skills
2 4 (21.05%) Marketing
3 3 (15.79%) Finance
4 2 (10.53%) Banking
5 1 (5.26%) Investment Banking
5 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (21.05%) CMS Project Manager
1 4 (21.05%) Project Manager
2 3 (15.79%) Mac Engineer
2 3 (15.79%) Support Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) 3rd Line Support
3 2 (10.53%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Deployment Manager
3 2 (10.53%) Deployment Project Manager
3 2 (10.53%) Head of IT
3 2 (10.53%) Programme Manager
3 2 (10.53%) Rollout Manager
3 2 (10.53%) Rollout Project Manager
4 1 (5.26%) Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Desktop Support
4 1 (5.26%) Developer
4 1 (5.26%) IT Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Platform Integration Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) z/OS Systems Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.79%) Software Packaging
2 1 (5.26%) AngularJS
2 1 (5.26%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (5.26%) ISPF
2 1 (5.26%) Kafka
2 1 (5.26%) LAMP
2 1 (5.26%) Node.js
2 1 (5.26%) REST
2 1 (5.26%) Zend Framework
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) Marketing Technology
2 2 (10.53%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.26%) Clustering
3 1 (5.26%) Data Centre
3 1 (5.26%) Distributed Applications
3 1 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (5.26%) Mainframe
3 1 (5.26%) PKI
3 1 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (5.26%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 7 (36.84%) Windows
2 4 (21.05%) Linux
3 3 (15.79%) Mac OS
4 2 (10.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (5.26%) CentOS
5 1 (5.26%) Debian
5 1 (5.26%) Ubuntu
5 1 (5.26%) Windows 10
5 1 (5.26%) Windows Server
5 1 (5.26%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (5.26%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (42.11%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (36.84%) Agile
2 7 (36.84%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (26.32%) Cybersecurity
4 4 (21.05%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 3 (15.79%) Change Management
5 3 (15.79%) DevOps
5 3 (15.79%) Risk Management
6 2 (10.53%) Artificial Intelligence
6 2 (10.53%) Configuration Management
6 2 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (10.53%) Customer Service
6 2 (10.53%) High Availability
6 2 (10.53%) ITIL
6 2 (10.53%) Matrix Organization
6 2 (10.53%) Server Patching
6 2 (10.53%) User Experience
7 1 (5.26%) Containerisation
7 1 (5.26%) Event-Driven
7 1 (5.26%) Order Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (21.05%) Bash
2 2 (10.53%) Java
2 2 (10.53%) JavaScript
2 2 (10.53%) PowerShell
2 2 (10.53%) Python
2 2 (10.53%) SQL
3 1 (5.26%) Assembly Language
3 1 (5.26%) CLIST
3 1 (5.26%) Groovy
3 1 (5.26%) JCL
3 1 (5.26%) Perl
3 1 (5.26%) PHP
3 1 (5.26%) REXX
Qualifications
1 6 (31.58%) Security Cleared
2 5 (26.32%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.26%) AWS Certification
3 1 (5.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (5.26%) CEH
3 1 (5.26%) CISSP
3 1 (5.26%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) Data Quality
1 2 (10.53%) QA
2 1 (5.26%) GDPR
2 1 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 5 (26.32%) Active Directory
2 3 (15.79%) Docker
2 3 (15.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (5.26%) BitLocker
3 1 (5.26%) Hyper-V
3 1 (5.26%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (5.26%) Terminal Services
3 1 (5.26%) Time Sharing Option
3 1 (5.26%) VirtualBox
3 1 (5.26%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 3 (15.79%) AirWatch
1 3 (15.79%) Ansible
1 3 (15.79%) Jamf Pro
1 3 (15.79%) Kubernetes
2 2 (10.53%) Nagios
2 2 (10.53%) Puppet
2 2 (10.53%) SCCM
3 1 (5.26%) Grafana
3 1 (5.26%) Icinga
3 1 (5.26%) OMEGAMON
3 1 (5.26%) Progress Chef
3 1 (5.26%) Prometheus
3 1 (5.26%) Red Hat Satellite
3 1 (5.26%) Salt
3 1 (5.26%) Terraform
3 1 (5.26%) vCenter Server
3 1 (5.26%) vMotion
3 1 (5.26%) yum
Vendors
1 4 (21.05%) Microsoft
2 3 (15.79%) Apple
2 3 (15.79%) VMware
3 2 (10.53%) Citrix
3 2 (10.53%) Google
3 2 (10.53%) IBM
3 2 (10.53%) Symantec
4 1 (5.26%) Dynatrace
4 1 (5.26%) HP
4 1 (5.26%) New Relic
4 1 (5.26%) Rackspace
4 1 (5.26%) Red Hat
4 1 (5.26%) Zend