Software Deployment Contracts

Software Deployment
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Software Deployment skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Software Deployment over the 6 months to 18 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 458 535 691
Rank change year-on-year +77 +156 -86
Contract jobs citing Software Deployment 129 180 169
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.30% 0.30% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 0.33% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 135 113
10th Percentile £189 - £191
25th Percentile £205 £200 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £350 £500
Median % change year-on-year +17.14% -30.00% +15.61%
75th Percentile £525 £494 £553
90th Percentile £675 £600 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £210 £275 £425
% change year-on-year -23.64% -35.29% +30.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 10
10th Percentile £16.72 £16.15 £15.50
25th Percentile £17.49 £16.75 £15.63
Median hourly rate £17.72 £18.50 £18.12
Median % change year-on-year -4.22% +2.13% -57.69%
75th Percentile £18.83 £19.38 £27.31
90th Percentile £35.51 £19.45 £70.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.72 £18.50 £17.56
% change year-on-year -4.22% +5.37% -41.78%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Software Deployment 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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,760 54,632 81,458
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.38% 89.84% 90.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,440 37,790 57,209
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +10.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,414 1,780 1,950
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.90 £16.34 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +44.00% -
75th Percentile £58.69 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £71.83 £75.00 £63.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £19.96
% change year-on-year - +75.39% -8.21%

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 18 April 2024.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Software Deployment over the 6 months to 18 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Software Deployment in the UK

Software Deployment
Top 16 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 18 April 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
England +86 113 £405 +15.71% 28
UK excluding London +27 75 £210 -23.64% 21
Work from Home +100 35 £506 +7.71% 11
London +78 34 £411 -11.08% 8
South East +34 33 £210 -42.07% 2
North of England +47 23 £131 -34.50% 4
North West +28 17 £186 -7.00% 3
Scotland +35 7 £475 -9.52%
Midlands +40 5 £450 +20.81% 5
South West -19 4 £250 +25.00% 4
North East - 4 £131 -
West Midlands +36 3 £638 +72.30% 1
East of England +8 3 £400 +33.33% 3
Yorkshire +17 2 - - 1
East Midlands +15 2 £263 -30.00% 4
Wales +16 1 £166 -

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 8 (6.20%) IIS
2 3 (2.33%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 3 (2.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.55%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.78%) Apache
4 1 (0.78%) SAS
4 1 (0.78%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.78%) Tomcat
Applications
1 30 (23.26%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.55%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (3.88%) Endur
2 1 (0.78%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 33 (25.58%) Azure
2 24 (18.60%) AWS
3 19 (14.73%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (6.20%) Amazon EC2
4 8 (6.20%) Serverless
5 7 (5.43%) Amazon S3
5 7 (5.43%) AWS Lambda
5 7 (5.43%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (5.43%) OneDrive
5 7 (5.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 5 (3.88%) GitHub
7 3 (2.33%) Entra ID
8 2 (1.55%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (1.55%) Sentry
9 1 (0.78%) GCP
9 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (0.78%) OpenShift
9 1 (0.78%) PaaS
9 1 (0.78%) SaaS
9 1 (0.78%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 19 (14.73%) LAN
2 10 (7.75%) Firewall
2 10 (7.75%) Internet
3 8 (6.20%) DNS
4 7 (5.43%) DHCP
5 5 (3.88%) VPN
6 4 (3.10%) DMZ
7 3 (2.33%) HTTP
7 3 (2.33%) Remote Desktop
7 3 (2.33%) TCP/IP
7 3 (2.33%) WAN
8 2 (1.55%) Wireless
9 1 (0.78%) SAN
9 1 (0.78%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (11.63%) SQL Server
2 7 (5.43%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (0.78%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.78%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.78%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.78%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 21 (16.28%) Git
2 11 (8.53%) JIRA
3 9 (6.98%) GitLab
4 5 (3.88%) Pylint
5 3 (2.33%) Jenkins
6 2 (1.55%) Appium
6 2 (1.55%) Charles Proxy
6 2 (1.55%) IntelliJ
6 2 (1.55%) Katalon Studio
6 2 (1.55%) Postman
6 2 (1.55%) Subversion
7 1 (0.78%) MSI
General
1 61 (47.29%) Social Skills
2 21 (16.28%) Finance
3 19 (14.73%) Organisational Skills
3 19 (14.73%) Public Sector
4 17 (13.18%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (6.20%) Manufacturing
6 6 (4.65%) Electronics
6 6 (4.65%) Marketing
6 6 (4.65%) Telecoms
7 4 (3.10%) Banking
7 4 (3.10%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (2.33%) Front Office
8 3 (2.33%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.55%) Games
9 2 (1.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.78%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.78%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 22 (17.05%) Senior
2 19 (14.73%) Hardware Engineer
3 13 (10.08%) Software Engineer
4 12 (9.30%) Lead
5 10 (7.75%) Desktop Engineer
5 10 (7.75%) Desktop Support
5 10 (7.75%) IT Engineer
5 10 (7.75%) Support Engineer
6 9 (6.98%) Developer
7 8 (6.20%) Environment Manager
8 7 (5.43%) 2nd Line Support
8 7 (5.43%) Desktop Support Engineer
8 7 (5.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 6 (4.65%) AWS DevOps
9 6 (4.65%) Senior Developer
10 5 (3.88%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
10 5 (3.88%) Administrator
10 5 (3.88%) IT Administrator
10 5 (3.88%) Python Engineer
10 5 (3.88%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (7.75%) .NET
2 9 (6.98%) Web Services
3 7 (5.43%) .NET Framework
3 7 (5.43%) ASP.NET
4 5 (3.88%) HTML
4 5 (3.88%) Kafka
4 5 (3.88%) pytest
4 5 (3.88%) React
4 5 (3.88%) WebSockets
5 3 (2.33%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.78%) ADO
6 1 (0.78%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.78%) LDAP
6 1 (0.78%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 19 (14.73%) Driving Licence
2 9 (6.98%) Data Centre
3 7 (5.43%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (3.88%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (3.88%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (2.33%) Clustering
5 3 (2.33%) Mobile App
5 3 (2.33%) NHS
5 3 (2.33%) PKI
6 2 (1.55%) Client/Server
6 2 (1.55%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.55%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (1.55%) Solar Panel
7 1 (0.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.78%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.78%) Hedge funds
7 1 (0.78%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.78%) Social Media
7 1 (0.78%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 76 (58.91%) Windows
2 36 (27.91%) Windows 10
3 20 (15.50%) Linux
3 20 (15.50%) Windows 7
4 15 (11.63%) Apple iOS
5 12 (9.30%) Mac OS
6 6 (4.65%) Android
6 6 (4.65%) Unix
6 6 (4.65%) Windows Server
7 3 (2.33%) Ubuntu
7 3 (2.33%) Windows Server 2003
8 1 (0.78%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (31.78%) Software Testing
2 38 (29.46%) Problem-Solving
3 33 (25.58%) Customer Service
4 29 (22.48%) ITIL
5 28 (21.71%) Agile
6 24 (18.60%) Software Engineering
7 23 (17.83%) Customer Requirements
8 22 (17.05%) DevOps
8 22 (17.05%) Project Delivery
8 22 (17.05%) Service Delivery
9 21 (16.28%) Continuous Improvement
10 18 (13.95%) SDLC
11 17 (13.18%) CI/CD
12 16 (12.40%) User Acceptance Testing
13 12 (9.30%) Asset Management
13 12 (9.30%) Capacity Management
13 12 (9.30%) Computer Science
13 12 (9.30%) Containerisation
13 12 (9.30%) Customer Experience
13 12 (9.30%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 25 (19.38%) Python
2 14 (10.85%) PowerShell
3 13 (10.08%) JavaScript
4 10 (7.75%) Java
5 8 (6.20%) Bash
5 8 (6.20%) C#
6 7 (5.43%) SQL
7 3 (2.33%) C++
7 3 (2.33%) TypeScript
7 3 (2.33%) VB.NET
7 3 (2.33%) VBScript
8 2 (1.55%) Kotlin
8 2 (1.55%) Swift
9 1 (0.78%) R
Qualifications
1 40 (31.01%) Security Cleared
2 33 (25.58%) Degree
3 26 (20.16%) DV Cleared
4 18 (13.95%) SC Cleared
5 7 (5.43%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (3.10%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (2.33%) ITIL Certification
8 3 (2.33%) MCSE
9 2 (1.55%) Master's Degree
9 2 (1.55%) MCSA
10 1 (0.78%) A+ Certification
10 1 (0.78%) Chartered Engineer
10 1 (0.78%) CTC Cleared
10 1 (0.78%) MCDST
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.53%) SLA
2 3 (2.33%) ISO 9001
2 3 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 2 (1.55%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.55%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (1.55%) QA
4 1 (0.78%) CDISC
4 1 (0.78%) GxP
System Software
1 34 (26.36%) Active Directory
2 19 (14.73%) Firmware
3 12 (9.30%) Docker
4 7 (5.43%) Hyper-V
5 5 (3.88%) vSphere
6 4 (3.10%) VMware Infrastructure
7 3 (2.33%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (2.33%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.78%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.78%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.78%) Terminal Services
8 1 (0.78%) XenApp
8 1 (0.78%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 40 (31.01%) SCCM
2 13 (10.08%) Kubernetes
2 13 (10.08%) Microsoft Intune
3 8 (6.20%) Ansible
3 8 (6.20%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 8 (6.20%) Terraform
4 4 (3.10%) Jamf Pro
5 3 (2.33%) Grafana
5 3 (2.33%) vCenter Server
5 3 (2.33%) WSUS
6 2 (1.55%) McAfee ePO
6 2 (1.55%) Microsoft Clustering
6 2 (1.55%) SCOM
7 1 (0.78%) AirWatch
7 1 (0.78%) NetBackup
7 1 (0.78%) SCOrch
7 1 (0.78%) SCVMM
7 1 (0.78%) Simpana
7 1 (0.78%) vMotion
Vendors
1 64 (49.61%) Microsoft
2 22 (17.05%) HP
3 10 (7.75%) ServiceNow
4 9 (6.98%) Apple
4 9 (6.98%) Oracle
5 8 (6.20%) VMware
6 7 (5.43%) Citrix
6 7 (5.43%) SAP
7 4 (3.10%) Dell
8 3 (2.33%) Symantec
9 2 (1.55%) McAfee
9 2 (1.55%) Okta
9 2 (1.55%) Splunk
9 2 (1.55%) Veritas
10 1 (0.78%) Commvault
10 1 (0.78%) Google
10 1 (0.78%) Infoblox
10 1 (0.78%) Ivanti
10 1 (0.78%) Qualys
10 1 (0.78%) Sitecore