Software Deployment Contract Job Trends in the North West

Software Deployment
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Software Deployment skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 173 132 122
Rank change year-on-year -41 -10 +25
Contract jobs citing Software Deployment 1 1 5
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.026% 0.045% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.032% 0.051% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - -
England median daily rate £366 £550 £423
% change year-on-year -33.45% +30.18% +32.03%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,166 1,956 2,027
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 82.71% 88.67% 84.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,849 1,264 1,215
10th Percentile £280 £282 £312
25th Percentile £400 £375 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £599 £575 £588
90th Percentile £677 £668 £678
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 333 127 172
10th Percentile £16.11 £13.50 £10.95
25th Percentile £24.72 £18.87 £16.06
Median hourly rate £45.00 £27.38 £34.61
Median % change year-on-year +64.38% -20.89% +12.91%
75th Percentile £71.91 £56.88 £51.91
90th Percentile £85.00 £74.25 £70.90
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £42.75
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.17% +3.59%

Software Deployment
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Software Deployment job vacancy trend in the North West

Software Deployment
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Software Deployment.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Software Deployment

Software Deployment
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Software Deployment.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Software Deployment

Software Deployment
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 16 August 2026. 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
Manchester -33 1 £400 - 4
Software Deployment
England

Software Deployment
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) OneDrive
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) MSI
General
1 1 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Legal
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Applications Packager
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Application Packaging
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Task Automation
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (100.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) BeyondTrust
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft