Software Deployment Contracts in the North of England

Software Deployment
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 157 181 198
Rank change year-on-year +24 +17 +33
Contract jobs citing Software Deployment 7 10 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.20% 0.21% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.25% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 8
10th Percentile £220 - £156
25th Percentile £250 - £170
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £338 £300 £195
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% +53.85% -48.00%
75th Percentile £388 - £304
90th Percentile £515 - £372
England median daily rate £550 £488 £325
% change year-on-year +12.82% +50.00% -35.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £17.72 -
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
North of 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,144 4,065 4,905
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 89.93% 83.61% 89.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,040 2,418 3,347
10th Percentile £275 £300 £300
25th Percentile £379 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.00% - +0.40%
75th Percentile £550 £585 £600
90th Percentile £646 £665 £688
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 168 392 209
10th Percentile £12.80 £11.08 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.44 £12.55 £15.75
Median hourly rate £25.15 £22.00 £22.53
Median % change year-on-year +14.32% -2.35% +17.54%
75th Percentile £52.13 £46.18 £43.25
90th Percentile £77.88 £63.75 £55.88
England median hourly rate £26.12 £38.00 £35.03
% change year-on-year -31.26% +8.48% +36.41%

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 June 2025.

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 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
North East - 4 £250 - 3
Yorkshire - 2 £469 - 14
North West -1 1 - - 11
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 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) GCP
1 1 (14.29%) Google Docs
1 1 (14.29%) Google Sheets
1 1 (14.29%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Git
1 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Legal
3 1 (14.29%) Military
3 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Deployment Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) 1st Line Service Desk Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) 1st Line Support
2 1 (14.29%) 1st Line Support Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) AIX Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) AIX Support
2 1 (14.29%) Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Delivery Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Desktop Support
2 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) IT Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Senior IT Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Service Desk Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Service Desk Support
2 1 (14.29%) Service Desk Support Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Support Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Unix Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Unix Support
2 1 (14.29%) Unix Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
1 1 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Windows
2 1 (14.29%) AIX
2 1 (14.29%) Linux
2 1 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (14.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (28.57%) Customer Service
2 2 (28.57%) Incident Management
2 2 (28.57%) Project Delivery
2 2 (28.57%) Service Management
3 1 (14.29%) Agile
3 1 (14.29%) Analytics
3 1 (14.29%) Asset Management
3 1 (14.29%) Big Data Analytics
3 1 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (14.29%) Data Analytics
3 1 (14.29%) ITIL
3 1 (14.29%) PRINCE2
3 1 (14.29%) Project Management
3 1 (14.29%) Resource Management
3 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (14.29%) Supplier Management
3 1 (14.29%) System Testing
3 1 (14.29%) Workflow
3 1 (14.29%) Workflow Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Groovy
1 1 (14.29%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
1 1 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) SCCM
2 1 (14.29%) Ansible
2 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Google
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Databricks
2 1 (14.29%) IBM
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle
2 1 (14.29%) Red Hat
2 1 (14.29%) VMware