Software Distribution Contract Job Trends in the South East

Software Distribution
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Software Distribution skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 207 150 188
Rank change year-on-year -57 +38 +25
Contract jobs citing Software Distribution 3 3 14
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.051% 0.10% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.063% 0.11% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 13
10th Percentile £423 - £280
25th Percentile £448 - £310
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.25% - +122.22%
75th Percentile £536 £515 £550
90th Percentile £559 £524 -
England median daily rate £419 £510 £310
% change year-on-year -17.89% +64.52% -20.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,761 2,716 4,625
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 80.85% 91.32% 84.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,093 1,732 2,697
10th Percentile £280 £250 £250
25th Percentile £409 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% - -1.96%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £625
90th Percentile £706 £665 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 432 171 434
10th Percentile £15.29 £13.50 £13.00
25th Percentile £25.15 £15.00 £18.20
Median hourly rate £55.00 £28.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +96.43% -41.05% -3.06%
75th Percentile £82.25 £62.37 £62.50
90th Percentile £88.00 £75.00 £76.86
England median hourly rate £47.00 £29.02 £36.50
% change year-on-year +61.96% -20.49% -2.25%

Software Distribution
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Software Distribution job vacancy trend in the South East

Software Distribution
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Software Distribution.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Software Distribution

Software Distribution
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Distribution in the South East over the 6 months to 14 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Software Distribution in the South East

Software Distribution
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Software Distribution.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Software Distribution

Software Distribution
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 Distribution within the South East region over the 6 months to 14 May 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
Hampshire -27 2 £575 +15.00% 2
Surrey - 1 £413 - 2
Software Distribution
England

Software Distribution
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
1 1 (33.33%) IaaS
1 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) DNS
2 1 (33.33%) DHCP
2 1 (33.33%) Firewall
2 1 (33.33%) VPN
2 1 (33.33%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) 3rd Line Support
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server
3 1 (33.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) ITSM
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (66.67%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Application Packaging
2 1 (33.33%) Application Security
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Change Management
2 1 (33.33%) Critical Thinking
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) Log Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Observability
2 1 (33.33%) Patch Management
2 1 (33.33%) Security Patching
2 1 (33.33%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) DV Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (66.67%) vCloud
2 2 (66.67%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (66.67%) VMware NSX
3 1 (33.33%) BitLocker
3 1 (33.33%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) SCOM
1 2 (66.67%) vCenter Server
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (33.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft