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 21 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 105 151 144
Rank change year-on-year +46 -7 +10
Contract jobs citing Software Deployment 6 3 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.32% 0.098% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 0.12% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 8
10th Percentile - - £172
25th Percentile £191 - £195
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £196 - £238
Median % change year-on-year - - -26.92%
75th Percentile £294 - £331
90th Percentile £463 - £500
England median daily rate £550 £500 £300
% change year-on-year +10.00% +66.67% -40.00%

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 1,689 2,544 3,050
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 89.60% 83.30% 88.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 999 1,616 2,171
10th Percentile £220 £263 £313
25th Percentile £367 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +6.80%
75th Percentile £613 £627 £650
90th Percentile £688 £700 £725
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 200 342 257
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.04 £23.43
25th Percentile £18.51 £35.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -61.31% - +30.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £71.50 £77.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £84.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -37.13% -5.88% +63.46%

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 21 July 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 21 July 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
Gloucestershire - 2 £193 - 3
Wiltshire - 2 - - 2
Bristol - 1 £550 - 2
Dorset - 1 £200 - 1
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) MSI
General
1 2 (33.33%) Legal
1 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Administrator
1 2 (33.33%) Systems Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) Applications Packager
2 1 (16.67%) Deployment Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Linux Engineer
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Windows
2 1 (16.67%) Linux
2 1 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (16.67%) Windows 10
2 1 (16.67%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
1 2 (33.33%) Records Management
2 1 (16.67%) Asset Management
2 1 (16.67%) Budget Management
2 1 (16.67%) Budgeting and Forecasting
2 1 (16.67%) Business Case
2 1 (16.67%) Configuration Management
2 1 (16.67%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (16.67%) Decision-Making
2 1 (16.67%) High Availability
2 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (16.67%) Server Patching
2 1 (16.67%) Software Asset Management
2 1 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (16.67%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) SCCM
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (16.67%) Red Hat Satellite
2 1 (16.67%) yum
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Broadcom
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco
2 1 (16.67%) Red Hat
2 1 (16.67%) VMware