Software Distribution Contracts in the UK excluding London

Software Distribution
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Software Distribution skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Software Distribution over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 373 427 512
Rank change year-on-year +54 +85 -98
Contract jobs citing Software Distribution 18 30 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.088% 0.13% 0.042%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.10% 0.14% 0.047%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 22 10
10th Percentile £288 £213 £358
25th Percentile £310 £308 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £418 £463 £450
Median % change year-on-year -9.73% +2.78% +28.57%
75th Percentile £531 £488 £451
90th Percentile £550 £500 £471
UK median daily rate £338 £340 £450
% change year-on-year -0.74% -24.44% +32.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £12.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £12.00 - £72.50
% change year-on-year - - +12.40%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Software Distribution is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,415 21,396 27,488
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.71% 89.54% 88.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,404 14,848 19,199
10th Percentile £250 £256 £233
25th Percentile £375 £400 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £689 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,049 1,314 1,359
10th Percentile £12.30 £11.00 £12.17
25th Percentile £15.23 £15.63 £14.04
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £46.21
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.74 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.95 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.14% +44.00% +2.04%

Software Distribution
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Distribution in the UK excluding London

Software Distribution
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Software Distribution in the UK excluding London

Software Distribution
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Distribution in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Distribution in the UK excluding London

Software Distribution
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Distribution in the UK excluding London

Software Distribution
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 Distribution within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 4 May 2024. 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 +33 14 £500 +122.22% 1
Scotland - 2 £418 -
Midlands +25 1 £338 +7.14%
North of England +12 1 - -
North West +5 1 - -
West Midlands - 1 £338 -
Software Distribution
UK

Software Distribution
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:

Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.56%) Azure
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 8 (44.44%) DHCP
1 8 (44.44%) DNS
2 4 (22.22%) TCP/IP
3 1 (5.56%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Artifactory
2 1 (5.56%) Git
2 1 (5.56%) Subversion
General
1 5 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 3 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
2 3 (16.67%) Front Office
3 1 (5.56%) French Language
3 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) Senior
2 2 (11.11%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Support
3 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) IT Support
3 1 (5.56%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (16.67%) .NET
2 2 (11.11%) REST
3 1 (5.56%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 5 (27.78%) Device Driver
Operating Systems
1 16 (88.89%) Windows
2 8 (44.44%) Windows 10
3 5 (27.78%) Linux
4 3 (16.67%) Ubuntu
4 3 (16.67%) Unix
4 3 (16.67%) Windows 7
4 3 (16.67%) Windows Server
4 3 (16.67%) Windows Server 2012
4 3 (16.67%) Windows Server 2016
4 3 (16.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (33.33%) Configuration Management
3 5 (27.78%) SDLC
4 4 (22.22%) ITIL
4 4 (22.22%) Patch Management
5 3 (16.67%) Change Management
5 3 (16.67%) Computer Science
5 3 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (16.67%) Line Management
5 3 (16.67%) Release Management
5 3 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
5 3 (16.67%) Security Hardening
5 3 (16.67%) Security Patching
5 3 (16.67%) Server Building
5 3 (16.67%) Service Delivery
5 3 (16.67%) Service Delivery Management
5 3 (16.67%) Software Delivery
5 3 (16.67%) Software Deployment
5 3 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (16.67%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 5 (27.78%) VB
2 5 (27.78%) VBScript
3 3 (16.67%) VB.NET
4 2 (11.11%) C++
4 2 (11.11%) Python
4 2 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (16.67%) Degree
1 3 (16.67%) ITIL Certification
1 3 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (5.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (22.22%) SLA
2 3 (16.67%) ISO 9001
2 3 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 1 (5.56%) QA
System Software
1 10 (55.56%) Active Directory
2 6 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (33.33%) XenApp
2 6 (33.33%) XenDesktop
3 3 (16.67%) Hyper-V
3 3 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (16.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (38.89%) SCCM
2 3 (16.67%) WSUS
3 2 (11.11%) Grafana
3 2 (11.11%) Kubernetes
3 2 (11.11%) Prometheus
4 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 6 (33.33%) Citrix
1 6 (33.33%) VMware
2 5 (27.78%) Microsoft
3 3 (16.67%) FireEye
3 3 (16.67%) ServiceNow
3 3 (16.67%) Tanium
4 2 (11.11%) Splunk
5 1 (5.56%) Qualys
5 1 (5.56%) SAP