Software Deployment Contracts in Reading

Software Deployment
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 28 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 87 82
Rank change year-on-year +24 -5 -
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Software Deployment 1 2 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 0.17% 0.18% 0.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% 0.21% 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 8
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £205 £205
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £210 £210
Median % change year-on-year +54.76% - -
75th Percentile - £215 £215
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median daily rate £400 £330 £210
% change year-on-year +21.21% +57.14% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 539 954 977
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 91.82% 85.95% 88.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 345 518 646
10th Percentile £355 £350 £319
25th Percentile £450 £467 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £584 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.82% +6.18% +10.00%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £638
90th Percentile £700 £715 £700
Berkshire median daily rate £516 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -6.18% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 32 21
10th Percentile - £14.50 £18.50
25th Percentile £14.75 £51.93 £53.50
Median hourly rate £20.38 £61.60 £65.13
Median % change year-on-year -66.92% -5.41% +150.48%
75th Percentile £38.42 £75.40 £74.00
90th Percentile £59.13 £87.46 £75.25
Berkshire median hourly rate £32.05 £61.60 £60.00
% change year-on-year -47.97% +2.67% +130.77%

Software Deployment
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings citing Software Deployment as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for Software Deployment in Reading

Software Deployment
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Software Deployment.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Software Deployment

Software Deployment
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Network Support
1 1 (100.00%) Network Support Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Security Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Security Support Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Clustering
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (100.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Thinking
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Ethical Hacking
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CCNA
1 1 (100.00%) CEH
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) CompTIA Security+
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) FireEye
1 1 (100.00%) SolarWinds
1 1 (100.00%) Tanium