Software Deployment Contracts in the South West

Software Deployment
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 104 153 129
Rank change year-on-year +49 -24 +36
Contract jobs citing Software Deployment 7 4 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.42% 0.13% 1.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 0.15% 1.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 32
10th Percentile £194 - -
25th Percentile £198 £225 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £256 £250 £200
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% +25.00% -52.66%
75th Percentile £324 £275 £300
90th Percentile £334 - £449
England median daily rate £563 £410 £350
% change year-on-year +37.20% +17.14% -30.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South 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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,516 2,656 3,250
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 90.35% 83.03% 89.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 965 1,696 2,395
10th Percentile £235 £220 £313
25th Percentile £400 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £549
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.37% +9.80%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £644
90th Percentile £688 £700 £719
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 145 336 335
10th Percentile £18.33 £13.86 £9.80
25th Percentile £20.48 £27.50 £17.00
Median hourly rate £63.00 £50.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.00% -18.70% +26.16%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.50 £83.36
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Software Deployment
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Deployment in the South West

Software Deployment
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Software Deployment in the South West

Software Deployment
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Deployment in the South West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Software Deployment in the South West

Software Deployment
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Deployment in the South West

Software Deployment
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Wiltshire - 4 £326 - 3
Somerset 0 1 - - 3
Dorset - 1 £200 - 2
Gloucestershire - 1 £193 - 4
Software Deployment
England

Software Deployment
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 1 (14.29%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Business Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) DNS
1 2 (28.57%) SSL
1 2 (28.57%) VPN
2 1 (14.29%) Internet
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) MSI
General
1 2 (28.57%) Legal
1 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Active Directory Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Administrator
2 1 (14.29%) Applications Packager
2 1 (14.29%) Deployment Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Desktop Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Desktop Support
2 1 (14.29%) Desktop Support Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Hardware Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) HP Storage Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
2 1 (14.29%) SCCM Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) SCCM Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Server Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Storage Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Support Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Systems Administrator
2 1 (14.29%) Windows Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Windows Server Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (14.29%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 6 (85.71%) Windows
2 3 (42.86%) Windows 10
3 2 (28.57%) Windows Server
3 2 (28.57%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (14.29%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Collaborative Working
2 2 (28.57%) Change Management
2 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Management
2 2 (28.57%) ITIL
2 2 (28.57%) ITSM
2 2 (28.57%) Patch Management
2 2 (28.57%) Performance Monitoring
2 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (28.57%) Security Monitoring
2 2 (28.57%) Server Building
2 2 (28.57%) Server Virtualisation
2 2 (28.57%) Service Delivery
2 2 (28.57%) Software Testing
3 1 (14.29%) Application Packaging
3 1 (14.29%) Budget Management
3 1 (14.29%) Business Case
3 1 (14.29%) Cost Optimisation
3 1 (14.29%) Customer Experience
3 1 (14.29%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) SC Cleared
1 5 (71.43%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Active Directory
2 2 (28.57%) Hyper-V
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) SCCM
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) HP
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
1 2 (28.57%) Remedy
2 1 (14.29%) Broadcom
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco
2 1 (14.29%) VMware