Software Deployment Contracts in the North of England

Software Deployment
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 156 207 232
Rank change year-on-year +51 +25 -52
Contract jobs citing Software Deployment 22 11 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.46% 0.19% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.54% 0.21% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 9 4
10th Percentile £122 £191 £202
25th Percentile £127 - £204
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £131 £200 £349
Median % change year-on-year -34.50% -42.65% -22.50%
75th Percentile £288 - £495
90th Percentile £440 £230 £498
England median daily rate £405 £350 £500
% change year-on-year +15.71% -30.00% +12.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 2
10th Percentile £16.67 - -
25th Percentile £17.02 - £17.17
Median hourly rate £17.72 - £18.12
75th Percentile - - £19.06
90th Percentile £17.75 - -
England median hourly rate £17.72 £18.75 £18.12
% change year-on-year -5.49% +3.51% -54.71%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of 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 the North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,106 5,321 6,366
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 85.76% 90.96% 88.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,532 3,702 4,670
10th Percentile £294 £300 £236
25th Percentile £400 £413 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +10.79%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £560
90th Percentile £675 £688 £645
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 358 218 264
10th Percentile £11.00 £10.63 £10.64
25th Percentile £12.43 £15.86 £12.97
Median hourly rate £17.61 £27.60 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -36.20% +49.19% -1.04%
75th Percentile £44.57 £45.05 £32.97
90th Percentile £53.75 £65.00 £51.66
England median hourly rate £35.00 £38.35 £24.00
% change year-on-year -8.74% +59.79% -

Software Deployment
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Deployment in the North of England

Software Deployment
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Software Deployment in the North of England

Software Deployment
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Deployment in the North of England over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Deployment in the North of England

Software Deployment
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Deployment in the North of England

Software Deployment
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 24 April 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
North West +27 17 £186 -7.00% 5
North East - 3 £131 -
Yorkshire +26 2 - - 2
Software Deployment
England

Software Deployment
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 (9.09%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (9.09%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 8 (36.36%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 10 (45.45%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (31.82%) AWS
3 6 (27.27%) OneDrive
4 5 (22.73%) Azure
5 4 (18.18%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (18.18%) Amazon S3
5 4 (18.18%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (18.18%) Serverless
5 4 (18.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 3 (13.64%) GitHub
7 1 (4.55%) Entra ID
7 1 (4.55%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (18.18%) Firewall
1 4 (18.18%) VPN
2 3 (13.64%) DMZ
3 2 (9.09%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (4.55%) DHCP
4 1 (4.55%) DNS
4 1 (4.55%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (18.18%) Amazon Redshift
2 3 (13.64%) SQL Server
3 1 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (4.55%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 6 (27.27%) GitLab
2 4 (18.18%) Git
3 3 (13.64%) JIRA
4 2 (9.09%) Subversion
General
1 11 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 11 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (9.09%) Pharmaceutical
2 2 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
2 2 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (22.73%) Desktop Engineer
1 5 (22.73%) Support Engineer
2 4 (18.18%) 1st/2nd Line Support
2 4 (18.18%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
2 4 (18.18%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 4 (18.18%) 2nd Line Support
2 4 (18.18%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
2 4 (18.18%) AWS DevOps
2 4 (18.18%) IT Engineer
2 4 (18.18%) Senior
3 3 (13.64%) Desktop Support
3 3 (13.64%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) 1st Line Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) 1st Line Support
4 2 (9.09%) 1st Line Support Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) 1st/2nd Line Desktop Support
4 2 (9.09%) 2nd Line Desktop Support Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Lead
4 2 (9.09%) Windows Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Windows Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.55%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (18.18%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (9.09%) Client/Server
2 2 (9.09%) Management Information System
2 2 (9.09%) NHS
3 1 (4.55%) Clustering
3 1 (4.55%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.55%) PKI
3 1 (4.55%) Social Media
3 1 (4.55%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 16 (72.73%) Windows
2 11 (50.00%) Windows 10
3 9 (40.91%) Apple iOS
3 9 (40.91%) Mac OS
4 2 (9.09%) Unix
4 2 (9.09%) Windows Server
5 1 (4.55%) Android
5 1 (4.55%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (4.55%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (36.36%) Agile
1 8 (36.36%) Asset Management
2 7 (31.82%) CI/CD
2 7 (31.82%) Customer Service
2 7 (31.82%) Infrastructure Management
2 7 (31.82%) Service Management
3 6 (27.27%) Customer Experience
3 6 (27.27%) DevOps
3 6 (27.27%) Inventory Management
3 6 (27.27%) Scrum
4 5 (22.73%) Information Security
4 5 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (18.18%) Containerisation
5 4 (18.18%) Customer Requirements
5 4 (18.18%) High Availability
5 4 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (18.18%) Kanban
5 4 (18.18%) Refactoring
5 4 (18.18%) Software Testing
6 3 (13.64%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 5 (22.73%) Bash
1 5 (22.73%) Python
2 2 (9.09%) Java
2 2 (9.09%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (31.82%) Security Cleared
2 6 (27.27%) SC Cleared
3 3 (13.64%) Degree
4 2 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (9.09%) MCSE
4 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (4.55%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (4.55%) DV Cleared
5 1 (4.55%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (27.27%) SLA
2 1 (4.55%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 12 (54.55%) Active Directory
2 4 (18.18%) Docker
3 1 (4.55%) BitLocker
3 1 (4.55%) Hyper-V
3 1 (4.55%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (4.55%) Terminal Services
3 1 (4.55%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 11 (50.00%) SCCM
2 8 (36.36%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (36.36%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 4 (18.18%) Ansible
3 4 (18.18%) Kubernetes
3 4 (18.18%) Terraform
4 1 (4.55%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (4.55%) SCOM
4 1 (4.55%) vCenter Server
4 1 (4.55%) vMotion
Vendors
1 15 (68.18%) Microsoft
2 8 (36.36%) Apple
3 7 (31.82%) ServiceNow
4 3 (13.64%) Citrix
5 2 (9.09%) Oracle
6 1 (4.55%) Dell
6 1 (4.55%) Google
6 1 (4.55%) HP
6 1 (4.55%) Infoblox
6 1 (4.55%) Symantec
6 1 (4.55%) VMware