Software Deployment Contracts

Software Deployment
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 453 458 547
Rank change year-on-year +5 +89 +139
Contract jobs citing Software Deployment 67 124 171
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.23% 0.28% 0.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% 0.33% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 76 130
10th Percentile £199 - £200
25th Percentile £245 £205 £203
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £410 £350
Median % change year-on-year +28.05% +17.14% -30.00%
75th Percentile £636 £528 £497
90th Percentile £694 £675 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £218 £283
% change year-on-year +106.90% -23.01% -33.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 10 2
10th Percentile £28.60 £16.77 £17.83
25th Percentile £29.50 - £17.94
Median hourly rate £31.00 £17.72 £18.75
Median % change year-on-year +74.94% -5.49% +3.51%
75th Percentile £32.50 £23.35 £19.44
90th Percentile £33.40 £28.12 £19.48
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £17.72 £18.75
% change year-on-year +58.01% -5.49% +6.79%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

Software Deployment
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Software Deployment as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Software Deployment in the UK

Software Deployment
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Software Deployment.

Daily rate trend for Software Deployment in the UK

Software Deployment
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Software Deployment in the UK

Software Deployment
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Software Deployment.

Hourly rate trend for Software Deployment in the UK

Software Deployment
Top 14 Contract Locations

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 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
England +7 59 £563 +37.20% 75
UK excluding London +33 40 £450 +106.90% 54
Work from Home +29 21 £608 +18.54% 41
London +20 17 £575 +39.39% 27
South East +28 14 £575 +173.81% 15
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% 17
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
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 10 (14.93%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (5.97%) CMS
3 2 (2.99%) Headless CMS
4 1 (1.49%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 1 (1.49%) SAS
4 1 (1.49%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (4.48%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (2.99%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (1.49%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 12 (17.91%) AWS
2 11 (16.42%) GCP
3 9 (13.43%) IaaS
3 9 (13.43%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (13.43%) OpenShift
3 9 (13.43%) PaaS
4 7 (10.45%) Azure
5 3 (4.48%) Entra ID
6 2 (2.99%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (2.99%) Azure AI
6 2 (2.99%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (2.99%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (2.99%) Contentful
6 2 (2.99%) Serverless
7 1 (1.49%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.49%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (1.49%) Cloud Functions
7 1 (1.49%) GitHub
7 1 (1.49%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 14 (20.90%) DNS
2 12 (17.91%) DHCP
2 12 (17.91%) Firewall
2 12 (17.91%) VPN
3 9 (13.43%) SMTP
4 2 (2.99%) SSL
4 2 (2.99%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.49%) Internet
5 1 (1.49%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (1.49%) Softphone
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (14.93%) Big Data
2 9 (13.43%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (13.43%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (1.49%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (1.49%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.49%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.49%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.49%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (16.42%) MSI
2 4 (5.97%) JIRA
3 3 (4.48%) Git
3 3 (4.48%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.99%) AdminStudio
5 1 (1.49%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.49%) GitLab
5 1 (1.49%) JBehave
5 1 (1.49%) JUnit
General
1 31 (46.27%) Social Skills
2 14 (20.90%) Public Sector
3 10 (14.93%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (11.94%) Legal
5 6 (8.96%) Finance
6 5 (7.46%) Marketing
7 3 (4.48%) Banking
7 3 (4.48%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.49%) Electronics
9 1 (1.49%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.49%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.49%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (19.40%) Support Engineer
2 11 (16.42%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 8 (11.94%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 8 (11.94%) 3rd Line Support
3 8 (11.94%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 7 (10.45%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 7 (10.45%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
4 7 (10.45%) Deployment Engineer
4 7 (10.45%) Infrastructure Support
4 7 (10.45%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 6 (8.96%) Analyst
6 5 (7.46%) Project Manager
7 4 (5.97%) CMS Project Manager
7 4 (5.97%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (5.97%) Support Analyst
8 3 (4.48%) 2nd Line Support
8 3 (4.48%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
8 3 (4.48%) Desktop Support
9 2 (2.99%) Administrator
9 2 (2.99%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (14.93%) Software Packaging
2 1 (1.49%) AngularJS
2 1 (1.49%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (1.49%) ISPF
2 1 (1.49%) Kafka
2 1 (1.49%) Node.js
2 1 (1.49%) REST
2 1 (1.49%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (14.93%) Data Centre
2 9 (13.43%) Clustering
2 9 (13.43%) PKI
3 4 (5.97%) Marketing Technology
3 4 (5.97%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (4.48%) Product Ownership
4 3 (4.48%) SCADA
5 2 (2.99%) Driving Licence
5 2 (2.99%) iPad
6 1 (1.49%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.49%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.49%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.49%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.49%) Video\Live Streaming
6 1 (1.49%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 44 (65.67%) Windows
2 22 (32.84%) Linux
3 12 (17.91%) Windows Server
4 8 (11.94%) Windows 10
5 6 (8.96%) Apple iOS
6 4 (5.97%) Mac OS
6 4 (5.97%) Windows Server 2003
7 3 (4.48%) Mac OS X
8 2 (2.99%) Windows 7
8 2 (2.99%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (1.49%) AIX
9 1 (1.49%) Android
9 1 (1.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (1.49%) Unix
9 1 (1.49%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (40.30%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (22.39%) DevOps
3 13 (19.40%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 12 (17.91%) Artificial Intelligence
5 11 (16.42%) Machine Learning
6 9 (13.43%) Collaborative Working
6 9 (13.43%) ITIL
7 8 (11.94%) Stakeholder Management
8 7 (10.45%) Change Management
8 7 (10.45%) Software Distribution
8 7 (10.45%) User Experience
9 6 (8.96%) Agile
9 6 (8.96%) Asset Management
9 6 (8.96%) Software Delivery
10 5 (7.46%) Application Packaging
10 5 (7.46%) Incident Management
10 5 (7.46%) Patch Management
10 5 (7.46%) Risk Management
11 4 (5.97%) Infrastructure Management
11 4 (5.97%) Software Licensing
Programming Languages
1 18 (26.87%) PowerShell
2 9 (13.43%) Python
3 7 (10.45%) Bash
4 2 (2.99%) Groovy
4 2 (2.99%) Java
4 2 (2.99%) SQL
5 1 (1.49%) Assembly Language
5 1 (1.49%) CLIST
5 1 (1.49%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.49%) JCL
5 1 (1.49%) REXX
5 1 (1.49%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 25 (37.31%) Security Cleared
2 15 (22.39%) SC Cleared
3 10 (14.93%) Degree
4 8 (11.94%) DV Cleared
5 3 (4.48%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.49%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.49%) CEH
6 1 (1.49%) CISSP
6 1 (1.49%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.48%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.99%) QA
3 1 (1.49%) GDPR
3 1 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 24 (35.82%) Active Directory
2 13 (19.40%) Docker
3 12 (17.91%) Microsoft App-V
4 11 (16.42%) Hyper-V
4 11 (16.42%) VMware Infrastructure
5 9 (13.43%) BitLocker
5 9 (13.43%) Terminal Services
5 9 (13.43%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (1.49%) Time Sharing Option
6 1 (1.49%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 20 (29.85%) SCCM
2 18 (26.87%) Ansible
3 15 (22.39%) Kubernetes
4 9 (13.43%) Nagios
4 9 (13.43%) Puppet
4 9 (13.43%) vCenter Server
4 9 (13.43%) vMotion
5 4 (5.97%) Terraform
6 3 (4.48%) Jamf Pro
7 2 (2.99%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (2.99%) ThinApp
8 1 (1.49%) Grafana
8 1 (1.49%) OMEGAMON
8 1 (1.49%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 24 (35.82%) Microsoft
2 13 (19.40%) VMware
3 11 (16.42%) Google
3 11 (16.42%) HP
3 11 (16.42%) Symantec
4 10 (14.93%) Citrix
5 6 (8.96%) Tanium
6 3 (4.48%) Apple
6 3 (4.48%) Databricks
6 3 (4.48%) IBM
7 2 (2.99%) Ivanti
7 2 (2.99%) Remedy
8 1 (1.49%) Broadcom
8 1 (1.49%) Cisco
8 1 (1.49%) Dynatrace
8 1 (1.49%) Foundry
8 1 (1.49%) Oracle
8 1 (1.49%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.49%) SAP
8 1 (1.49%) ServiceNow