Software Distribution Contracts in the UK excluding London

Software Distribution
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Software Distribution skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Software Distribution 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 319 381 432
Rank change year-on-year +62 +51 +67
Contract jobs citing Software Distribution 17 18 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.13% 0.087% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.10% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 16 22
10th Percentile £425 £288 £213
25th Percentile £469 £310 £308
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £418 £463
Median % change year-on-year +22.16% -9.73% +2.78%
75th Percentile £679 £531 £488
90th Percentile £692 £550 £500
UK median daily rate £500 £338 £340
% change year-on-year +48.15% -0.74% -24.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £12.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £12.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 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 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 1 May 2025.

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 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
Scotland +18 7 £468 +11.98%
Midlands +27 6 £689 +104.15%
West Midlands +19 6 £689 +104.15%
South East +35 3 £500 -
North of England +19 1 £388 - 2
North West +17 1 £388 - 2
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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (29.41%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 5 (29.41%) AWS
1 5 (29.41%) Azure
1 5 (29.41%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (23.53%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (23.53%) GitHub
3 3 (17.65%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (5.88%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (29.41%) HTTP
1 5 (29.41%) HTTPS
1 5 (29.41%) SSL
2 1 (5.88%) WAAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 6 (35.29%) MSI
2 4 (23.53%) Bitbucket
2 4 (23.53%) Jenkins
3 3 (17.65%) JIRA
4 1 (5.88%) Artifactory
4 1 (5.88%) IntelliJ
4 1 (5.88%) PyCharm
4 1 (5.88%) Visual Studio
4 1 (5.88%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 11 (64.71%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Banking
2 2 (11.76%) Investment Banking
3 1 (5.88%) Finance
3 1 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (23.53%) Developer
1 4 (23.53%) Python Developer
2 3 (17.65%) SCCM Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Automation Developer
4 1 (5.88%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (41.18%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) SCADA
2 1 (5.88%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (5.88%) Public Cloud
2 1 (5.88%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 15 (88.24%) Windows
2 11 (64.71%) Linux
3 5 (29.41%) Windows 10
4 4 (23.53%) Windows 7
4 4 (23.53%) Windows Server
4 4 (23.53%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (5.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (35.29%) Software Delivery
1 6 (35.29%) Software Deployment
2 5 (29.41%) Configuration Management
2 5 (29.41%) DevOps
2 5 (29.41%) Prototyping
2 5 (29.41%) Service Design
2 5 (29.41%) Virtual Environments
2 5 (29.41%) Virtual Infrastructure
3 4 (23.53%) Build Automation
3 4 (23.53%) Issue Tracking
3 4 (23.53%) ITIL
4 3 (17.65%) Agile
4 3 (17.65%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (17.65%) Deployment Automation
4 3 (17.65%) SDLC
4 3 (17.65%) Test Automation
5 2 (11.76%) Code Quality
5 2 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (5.88%) Containerisation
6 1 (5.88%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 11 (64.71%) PowerShell
1 11 (64.71%) Python
2 6 (35.29%) Bash
3 4 (23.53%) C#
3 4 (23.53%) Java
3 4 (23.53%) SQL
3 4 (23.53%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (70.59%) Security Cleared
2 6 (35.29%) SC Cleared
3 5 (29.41%) DV Cleared
4 1 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (5.88%) Degree
4 1 (5.88%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 5 (29.41%) Active Directory
1 5 (29.41%) Microsoft App-V
2 1 (5.88%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 10 (58.82%) Ansible
2 6 (35.29%) SCCM
3 5 (29.41%) Kubernetes
3 5 (29.41%) WSUS
4 4 (23.53%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (35.29%) Tanium
2 1 (5.88%) Foundry
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.88%) Workday