Software Deployment Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Software Deployment
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring Software Deployment skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 68 -
Rank change year-on-year -31 - -
Contract jobs citing Software Deployment 2 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 0.19% 0.18% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.19% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £208 - -
25th Percentile £240 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £600 -
Median % change year-on-year -50.00% - -
75th Percentile £355 - -
90th Percentile £384 - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £300 £600 -
% change year-on-year -50.00% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 879 535 363
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 84.85% 94.69% 88.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 575 357 196
10th Percentile £364 £294 £395
25th Percentile £431 £374 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £469 £520
Median % change year-on-year +7.57% -9.81% -13.33%
75th Percentile £586 £545 £588
90th Percentile £675 £625 £645
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £466 £515
% change year-on-year +7.30% -9.51% -14.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 6
10th Percentile - £15.00 £15.88
25th Percentile - £17.33 £20.13
Median hourly rate £13.69 £18.36 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.43% -12.58% +7.69%
75th Percentile - £18.87 £21.88
90th Percentile - - £22.00
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £20.60 £18.36 £12.83
% change year-on-year +12.22% +43.08% -35.85%

Software Deployment
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Software Deployment job vacancy trend in Sheffield

Software Deployment
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

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

Software Deployment
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Deployment in Sheffield over the 6 months to 18 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Software Deployment in Sheffield

Software Deployment
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (50.00%) OpenShift
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
1 1 (50.00%) Robot Framework
1 1 (50.00%) Selenium
1 1 (50.00%) Subversion
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) 2nd Line Service Desk Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Service Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) LDAP
1 1 (50.00%) pytest
1 1 (50.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (50.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Mac OS
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Thinking
1 1 (50.00%) API Integration
1 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (50.00%) Customer Service
1 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Process Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (50.00%) User Experience
1 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
1 1 (50.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat