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

6 months to
30 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 360 378 402
Rank change year-on-year +18 +24 +115
Contract jobs citing Software Distribution 8 6 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.053% 0.032% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.059% 0.038% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 5 17
10th Percentile £372 £411 £308
25th Percentile £414 - £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +15.79% +5.56%
75th Percentile £556 - £500
90th Percentile £609 - -
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £475
% change year-on-year -4.55% +15.79% +26.67%

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 13,529 15,744 20,028
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 89.37% 82.98% 88.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,169 9,460 13,483
10th Percentile £235 £250 £263
25th Percentile £363 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £694
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £548
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.12% -0.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,286 1,685 1,237
10th Percentile £13.81 £13.25 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.95 £16.30 £17.72
Median hourly rate £23.00 £40.33 £40.33
Median % change year-on-year -42.96% - +85.15%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.16 £74.52 £76.40
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -37.13% -5.88% +60.38%

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 30 July 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 30 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
Scotland - 4 £550 -
North of England - 2 £369 - 2
South East +30 1 £500 -9.09% 1
West Midlands +6 1 £689 +104.15% 1
Midlands +4 1 £689 +104.15% 2
North West - 1 £388 -
Yorkshire - 1 £350 - 1
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 1 (12.50%) IIS
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (12.50%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) Azure
2 4 (50.00%) AWS
3 3 (37.50%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (37.50%) GitHub
4 2 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (12.50%) Entra ID
5 1 (12.50%) GCP
5 1 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) HTTP
1 1 (12.50%) HTTPS
1 1 (12.50%) SSL
1 1 (12.50%) VPN
1 1 (12.50%) WAAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Bitbucket
1 3 (37.50%) IntelliJ
1 3 (37.50%) PyCharm
1 3 (37.50%) Visual Studio
1 3 (37.50%) Visual Studio Code
2 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (25.00%) JIRA
3 1 (12.50%) Artifactory
3 1 (12.50%) MSI
General
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (12.50%) Legal
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Python Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Python Developer
2 1 (12.50%) SCCM Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Public Cloud
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (12.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (87.50%) Windows
2 5 (62.50%) Linux
3 2 (25.00%) Windows 10
3 2 (25.00%) Windows Server
4 1 (12.50%) Unix
4 1 (12.50%) Windows 7
4 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) DevOps
2 3 (37.50%) Agile
2 3 (37.50%) Build Automation
2 3 (37.50%) Issue Tracking
2 3 (37.50%) SDLC
3 2 (25.00%) Code Quality
3 2 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
3 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (25.00%) Test Automation
4 1 (12.50%) Asset Management
4 1 (12.50%) Change Control
4 1 (12.50%) Configuration Management
4 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (12.50%) Data Protection
4 1 (12.50%) ITIL
4 1 (12.50%) Mentoring
4 1 (12.50%) Software Deployment
4 1 (12.50%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) Python
2 4 (50.00%) PowerShell
3 3 (37.50%) C#
3 3 (37.50%) Java
3 3 (37.50%) TypeScript
4 1 (12.50%) Bash
4 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (25.00%) Degree
2 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Active Directory
2 1 (12.50%) Hyper-V
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Ansible
1 4 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (37.50%) SCCM
2 3 (37.50%) Terraform
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (12.50%) WSUS
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Tanium
2 1 (12.50%) Workday