Software Deployment Contracts in the UK excluding London

Software Deployment
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 296 329 372
Rank change year-on-year +33 +43 +53
Contract jobs citing Software Deployment 40 70 91
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.31% 0.34% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% 0.40% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 50 74
10th Percentile £191 £166 -
25th Percentile £200 £205 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £218 £283
Median % change year-on-year +106.90% -23.01% -33.53%
75th Percentile £591 £525 £406
90th Percentile £685 £675 £529
UK median daily rate £525 £410 £350
% change year-on-year +28.05% +17.14% -30.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 2
10th Percentile - £16.69 £17.83
25th Percentile - £17.26 £17.94
Median hourly rate £28.00 £17.72 £18.75
Median % change year-on-year +58.01% -5.49% +6.79%
75th Percentile - £17.75 £19.44
90th Percentile - £37.47 £19.48
UK median hourly rate £31.00 £17.72 £18.75
% change year-on-year +74.94% -5.49% +3.51%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,543 17,602 21,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.42% 84.74% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,249 10,520 14,947
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 825 2,048 1,307
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.28 £16.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Software Deployment
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Software Deployment as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Software Deployment in the UK excluding London

Software Deployment
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Software Deployment in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Software Deployment in the UK excluding London

Software Deployment
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Deployment in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Software Deployment in the UK excluding London

Software Deployment
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Software Deployment in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Software Deployment in the UK excluding London

Software Deployment
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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
South East +28 14 £575 +173.81% 14
Midlands +25 9 £651 +86.07% 3
West Midlands +20 9 £651 +2.16%
South West +49 7 £256 +2.50% 13
North of England +5 6 £356 +87.01% 7
East of England +30 2 £180 -43.53% 16
Scotland +9 2 £193 -59.47% 2
Yorkshire +8 2 £469 - 1
North East 0 2 £288 -21.34% 1
North West +2 1 - - 5
Software Deployment
UK

Software Deployment
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 9 (22.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.50%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (5.00%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (2.50%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 9 (22.50%) AWS
1 9 (22.50%) GCP
2 8 (20.00%) IaaS
2 8 (20.00%) OpenShift
2 8 (20.00%) PaaS
3 5 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (5.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 11 (27.50%) DNS
2 10 (25.00%) DHCP
2 10 (25.00%) VPN
3 8 (20.00%) Firewall
3 8 (20.00%) SMTP
4 2 (5.00%) SSL
5 1 (2.50%) Internet
5 1 (2.50%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (2.50%) Softphone
5 1 (2.50%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (22.50%) Big Data
2 8 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (20.00%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 10 (25.00%) MSI
2 2 (5.00%) AdminStudio
3 1 (2.50%) Git
3 1 (2.50%) Jenkins
General
1 18 (45.00%) Social Skills
2 11 (27.50%) Public Sector
3 6 (15.00%) Legal
4 3 (7.50%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (5.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 12 (30.00%) Support Engineer
2 10 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 8 (20.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 8 (20.00%) 3rd Line Support
3 8 (20.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 7 (17.50%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 7 (17.50%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
4 7 (17.50%) Infrastructure Support
4 7 (17.50%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 5 (12.50%) Deployment Engineer
6 4 (10.00%) Analyst
6 4 (10.00%) Support Analyst
7 3 (7.50%) 2nd Line Support
7 3 (7.50%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
8 2 (5.00%) Administrator
8 2 (5.00%) Applications Engineer
8 2 (5.00%) Desktop Support
8 2 (5.00%) IT Engineer
8 2 (5.00%) IT Support
8 2 (5.00%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (15.00%) Software Packaging
2 1 (2.50%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (22.50%) Data Centre
2 8 (20.00%) Clustering
2 8 (20.00%) PKI
3 3 (7.50%) SCADA
3 3 (7.50%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (5.00%) Driving Licence
4 2 (5.00%) iPad
5 1 (2.50%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 32 (80.00%) Windows
2 17 (42.50%) Linux
3 11 (27.50%) Windows Server
4 7 (17.50%) Windows 10
5 3 (7.50%) Apple iOS
5 3 (7.50%) Windows Server 2003
6 2 (5.00%) Windows 7
6 2 (5.00%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (2.50%) AIX
7 1 (2.50%) Android
7 1 (2.50%) Mac OS
7 1 (2.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (2.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 10 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (22.50%) DevOps
3 8 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 8 (20.00%) Machine Learning
4 7 (17.50%) Collaborative Working
5 6 (15.00%) Software Delivery
5 6 (15.00%) Software Distribution
6 5 (12.50%) Application Packaging
6 5 (12.50%) Incident Management
6 5 (12.50%) ITIL
7 4 (10.00%) Deployment Automation
7 4 (10.00%) Patch Management
8 3 (7.50%) Infrastructure Management
8 3 (7.50%) ITSM
8 3 (7.50%) User Experience
9 2 (5.00%) Asset Management
9 2 (5.00%) Change Management
9 2 (5.00%) Service Delivery
9 2 (5.00%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 16 (40.00%) PowerShell
2 7 (17.50%) Python
3 6 (15.00%) Bash
4 1 (2.50%) Groovy
4 1 (2.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 21 (52.50%) Security Cleared
2 12 (30.00%) SC Cleared
3 9 (22.50%) Degree
4 8 (20.00%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.50%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.50%) QA
System Software
1 18 (45.00%) Active Directory
2 11 (27.50%) Microsoft App-V
3 10 (25.00%) Hyper-V
4 9 (22.50%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (20.00%) BitLocker
5 8 (20.00%) Docker
5 8 (20.00%) Terminal Services
5 8 (20.00%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (2.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 16 (40.00%) SCCM
2 15 (37.50%) Ansible
3 9 (22.50%) Kubernetes
4 8 (20.00%) Nagios
4 8 (20.00%) Puppet
4 8 (20.00%) vCenter Server
4 8 (20.00%) vMotion
5 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (5.00%) ThinApp
Vendors
1 18 (45.00%) Microsoft
2 11 (27.50%) VMware
3 10 (25.00%) HP
4 9 (22.50%) Google
4 9 (22.50%) Symantec
5 8 (20.00%) Citrix
6 6 (15.00%) Tanium
7 2 (5.00%) Ivanti
7 2 (5.00%) Remedy
8 1 (2.50%) Altiris
8 1 (2.50%) Apple
8 1 (2.50%) Broadcom
8 1 (2.50%) Cisco
8 1 (2.50%) Databricks
8 1 (2.50%) Foundry
8 1 (2.50%) IBM
8 1 (2.50%) Okta
8 1 (2.50%) Oracle
8 1 (2.50%) Red Hat
8 1 (2.50%) ServiceNow