Software Deployment Contracts in the South East

Software Deployment
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 3 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 153 171 191
Rank change year-on-year +18 +20 +43
Contract jobs citing Software Deployment 11 17 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.31% 0.34% 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% 0.42% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 12 12
10th Percentile £400 - £195
25th Percentile £563 £205 £203
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £325 £210
Median % change year-on-year +76.92% +54.76% -50.59%
75th Percentile £588 £343 £372
90th Percentile £600 £398 £483
England median daily rate £550 £425 £320
% change year-on-year +29.41% +32.81% -36.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £17.90
25th Percentile - - £18.13
Median hourly rate £28.00 - £19.00
75th Percentile - - £36.33
90th Percentile - - £46.42
England median hourly rate £28.00 £23.80 £19.00
% change year-on-year +17.65% +25.26% +11.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,151 4,093 5,042
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 90.05% 82.84% 89.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,966 2,486 3,415
10th Percentile £250 £255 £263
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £518
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +0.31% +3.68%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £623
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 284 328 237
10th Percentile £13.50 £15.00 £15.40
25th Percentile £15.13 £26.02 £21.22
Median hourly rate £21.67 £57.35 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -62.22% +14.70% +105.25%
75th Percentile £50.25 £70.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £74.63 £76.90 £75.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -40.82% - +62.40%

Software Deployment
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Software Deployment as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Software Deployment in the South East

Software Deployment
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Software Deployment in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Software Deployment in the South East

Software Deployment
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Deployment in the South East over the 6 months to 3 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Software Deployment in the South East

Software Deployment
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Software Deployment in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Software Deployment in the South East

Software Deployment
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 3 August 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
Hampshire +33 8 £575 +22.34% 1
Thames Valley -1 2 £400 +23.08% 3
Berkshire -2 2 £400 +23.08% 2
Surrey - 1 - - 2
Software Deployment
England

Software Deployment
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 8 (72.73%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 8 (72.73%) AWS
1 8 (72.73%) GCP
1 8 (72.73%) IaaS
1 8 (72.73%) OpenShift
1 8 (72.73%) PaaS
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 9 (81.82%) DHCP
1 9 (81.82%) DNS
2 8 (72.73%) Firewall
2 8 (72.73%) SMTP
2 8 (72.73%) VPN
3 1 (9.09%) Softphone
3 1 (9.09%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (72.73%) Amazon RDS
1 8 (72.73%) Big Data
1 8 (72.73%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) AdminStudio
1 2 (18.18%) MSI
General
1 6 (54.55%) Public Sector
2 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 2 (18.18%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (72.73%) 3rd Line Engineer
1 8 (72.73%) 3rd Line Support
1 8 (72.73%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
1 8 (72.73%) Support Engineer
2 7 (63.64%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (63.64%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
2 7 (63.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (63.64%) Infrastructure Support
2 7 (63.64%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Applications Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) 2nd Line Support
4 1 (9.09%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) 2nd Line Technical Support
4 1 (9.09%) 2nd Line Technical Support Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Support Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Technical Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Technical Support
4 1 (9.09%) Technical Support Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Virtualisation Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (72.73%) Clustering
1 8 (72.73%) Data Centre
1 8 (72.73%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 9 (81.82%) Windows
2 8 (72.73%) Linux
2 8 (72.73%) Windows Server
3 3 (27.27%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (9.09%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) Artificial Intelligence
1 8 (72.73%) DevOps
1 8 (72.73%) Machine Learning
2 7 (63.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (18.18%) Application Packaging
3 2 (18.18%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (9.09%) ITIL
4 1 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 8 (72.73%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (72.73%) Degree
1 8 (72.73%) DV Cleared
1 8 (72.73%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) ITIL Certification
System Software
1 10 (90.91%) Microsoft App-V
2 9 (81.82%) Active Directory
3 8 (72.73%) BitLocker
3 8 (72.73%) Docker
3 8 (72.73%) Hyper-V
3 8 (72.73%) Terminal Services
3 8 (72.73%) VMware ESXi
3 8 (72.73%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (72.73%) Ansible
1 8 (72.73%) Kubernetes
1 8 (72.73%) Nagios
1 8 (72.73%) Puppet
1 8 (72.73%) vCenter Server
1 8 (72.73%) vMotion
2 3 (27.27%) SCCM
3 2 (18.18%) ThinApp
4 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 8 (72.73%) Citrix
1 8 (72.73%) Google
1 8 (72.73%) HP
1 8 (72.73%) Microsoft
1 8 (72.73%) Symantec
1 8 (72.73%) VMware
2 2 (18.18%) Ivanti