Software Distribution Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Software Distribution
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Software Distribution skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 200 - 186
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Software Distribution 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.022% - 0.021%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.024% - 0.024%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 - £500
75th Percentile - - £550
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £550 £500 £208
% change year-on-year +10.00% +140.96% -7.78%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,118 3,133 4,166
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 88.90% 86.57% 88.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,734 1,786 2,758
10th Percentile £215 £263 £288
25th Percentile £363 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £467 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.74% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £669 £675
England median daily rate £506 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.62% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 261 160 186
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.20 £15.75
25th Percentile £19.29 £17.25 £17.75
Median hourly rate £29.60 £29.00 £28.37
Median % change year-on-year +2.07% +2.22% +28.95%
75th Percentile £52.50 £46.18 £46.18
90th Percentile £69.45 £67.57 £62.88
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.25
% change year-on-year -28.14% -20.90% +18.63%

Software Distribution
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Software Distribution relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Software Distribution job vacancy trend in the North of England

Software Distribution
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

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

Software Distribution
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

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

Software Distribution
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 Distribution within the North of England region over the 6 months to 14 December 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
Yorkshire - 1 £350 -
Software Distribution
England

Software Distribution
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
General
1 1 (100.00%) Legal
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (100.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft