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 30 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 462 544 666
Rank change year-on-year +82 +122 -36
Contract jobs citing Software Deployment 110 145 175
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.26% 0.26% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.29% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 108 119
10th Percentile £205 £195 £169
25th Percentile £231 £236 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £350 £500
Median % change year-on-year +35.71% -30.00% +12.99%
75th Percentile £598 £521 £559
90th Percentile £675 £600 £680
UK excluding London median daily rate £350 £300 £425
% change year-on-year +16.67% -29.41% +41.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 7
10th Percentile £16.72 £17.90 -
25th Percentile £17.49 £18.13 £15.50
Median hourly rate £17.72 £19.00 £18.12
Median % change year-on-year -6.74% +4.89% -59.29%
75th Percentile £23.80 £36.33 £24.88
90th Percentile £36.77 £46.42 £49.35
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.72 £19.00 £17.00
% change year-on-year -6.74% +11.76% -60.29%

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 36,713 50,320 79,377
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.58% 89.67% 90.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,592 34,845 55,748
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £640
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +9.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,515 1,670 1,881
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.77 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year -0.73% +43.19% +9.28%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.99%

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 30 May 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 30 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram 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 30 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
England +73 99 £460 +31.43% 41
UK excluding London +17 58 £350 +16.67% 27
London +69 37 £520 +9.47% 15
Work from Home +89 34 £500 +9.59% 12
South East +19 27 £210 -40.00% 11
North of England +28 13 £300 +50.00% 4
North West +29 12 £211 -36.30% 3
Midlands +24 11 £526 +40.13% 3
West Midlands - 8 £530 - 2
East Midlands +16 3 £275 -26.67% 1
South West -24 3 - - 5
Scotland +28 2 £475 -9.52% 1
East of England +7 2 £225 -25.00% 3
North East - 1 £600 - 1

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 9 (8.18%) IIS
2 3 (2.73%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 3 (2.73%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.73%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.91%) SAS
Applications
1 19 (17.27%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (4.55%) CANalyzer
3 2 (1.82%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.82%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (4.55%) Endur
2 2 (1.82%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.91%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 24 (21.82%) Azure
2 15 (13.64%) AWS
3 12 (10.91%) Entra ID
3 12 (10.91%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (7.27%) Amazon EC2
4 8 (7.27%) Serverless
5 7 (6.36%) Amazon S3
5 7 (6.36%) AWS Lambda
5 7 (6.36%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (6.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 5 (4.55%) OneDrive
7 2 (1.82%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 2 (1.82%) Mimecast
7 2 (1.82%) Nutanix
7 2 (1.82%) Oracle CX
7 2 (1.82%) Rubrik
7 2 (1.82%) Sentry
8 1 (0.91%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (0.91%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 15 (13.64%) LAN
2 12 (10.91%) Internet
3 8 (7.27%) DNS
4 7 (6.36%) Firewall
5 5 (4.55%) DHCP
5 5 (4.55%) Ethernet
5 5 (4.55%) FlexRay
6 4 (3.64%) Wireless
7 3 (2.73%) HTTP
7 3 (2.73%) TCP/IP
7 3 (2.73%) VPN
7 3 (2.73%) WAN
8 2 (1.82%) DKIM
8 2 (1.82%) DMARC
8 2 (1.82%) Extranet
8 2 (1.82%) NAS
8 2 (1.82%) SAN
8 2 (1.82%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.91%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (10.91%) SQL Server
2 7 (6.36%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (0.91%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.91%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.91%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 21 (19.09%) Git
2 8 (7.27%) JIRA
3 7 (6.36%) GitLab
4 5 (4.55%) CANoe
4 5 (4.55%) Pylint
5 2 (1.82%) Appium
5 2 (1.82%) Charles Proxy
5 2 (1.82%) IntelliJ
5 2 (1.82%) Katalon Studio
5 2 (1.82%) Postman
6 1 (0.91%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.91%) MSI
General
1 40 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 18 (16.36%) Finance
3 13 (11.82%) Manufacturing
3 13 (11.82%) Organisational Skills
4 11 (10.00%) Public Sector
5 10 (9.09%) Electronics
6 9 (8.18%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (4.55%) Automotive
7 5 (4.55%) Marketing
7 5 (4.55%) Telecoms
8 3 (2.73%) Aerospace
8 3 (2.73%) Banking
8 3 (2.73%) Front Office
8 3 (2.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.73%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (2.73%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.82%) Retail
10 1 (0.91%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.91%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 18 (16.36%) Senior
2 13 (11.82%) Hardware Engineer
2 13 (11.82%) Software Engineer
3 9 (8.18%) IT Engineer
3 9 (8.18%) Support Engineer
4 7 (6.36%) Lead
5 6 (5.45%) AWS DevOps
5 6 (5.45%) Developer
5 6 (5.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (4.55%) Administrator
6 5 (4.55%) Break Fix Engineer
6 5 (4.55%) Desktop Engineer
6 5 (4.55%) Desktop Support
6 5 (4.55%) Desktop Support Engineer
6 5 (4.55%) Integration Manager
6 5 (4.55%) IT Administrator
6 5 (4.55%) IT Support
6 5 (4.55%) IT Systems Administrator
6 5 (4.55%) Software Manager
7 4 (3.64%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (10.91%) .NET
2 9 (8.18%) Web Services
3 7 (6.36%) .NET Framework
3 7 (6.36%) ASP.NET
3 7 (6.36%) HTML
3 7 (6.36%) SailPoint
4 5 (4.55%) Kafka
4 5 (4.55%) pytest
4 5 (4.55%) React
4 5 (4.55%) WebSockets
5 3 (2.73%) AngularJS
6 2 (1.82%) HTML5
6 2 (1.82%) Software Packaging
7 1 (0.91%) ADO
7 1 (0.91%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (0.91%) LDAP
7 1 (0.91%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 13 (11.82%) Driving Licence
2 8 (7.27%) Data Centre
3 7 (6.36%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (4.55%) Infotainment
4 5 (4.55%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (2.73%) Mobile App
5 3 (2.73%) PKI
6 2 (1.82%) Fat Client
6 2 (1.82%) Hedge funds
6 2 (1.82%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (1.82%) Solar Panel
6 2 (1.82%) Thin Client
6 2 (1.82%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.91%) Clustering
7 1 (0.91%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.91%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.91%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.91%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.91%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 57 (51.82%) Windows
2 23 (20.91%) Windows 10
3 22 (20.00%) Linux
4 14 (12.73%) Windows 7
5 11 (10.00%) Apple iOS
6 6 (5.45%) Mac OS
7 5 (4.55%) Unix
7 5 (4.55%) Windows Server
8 4 (3.64%) Android
9 3 (2.73%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.91%) Windows Server 2003
10 1 (0.91%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (25.45%) Software Testing
2 26 (23.64%) ITIL
3 25 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
4 24 (21.82%) Agile
5 21 (19.09%) Software Engineering
6 20 (18.18%) Customer Service
6 20 (18.18%) DevOps
7 16 (14.55%) SDLC
7 16 (14.55%) Service Delivery
8 15 (13.64%) Customer Requirements
9 13 (11.82%) CI/CD
10 12 (10.91%) Containerisation
10 12 (10.91%) Continuous Improvement
11 11 (10.00%) Project Delivery
12 10 (9.09%) Computer Science
12 10 (9.09%) Customer Experience
13 9 (8.18%) Identity Access Management
13 9 (8.18%) Infrastructure Management
13 9 (8.18%) Patch Management
14 8 (7.27%) Capacity Management
Programming Languages
1 25 (22.73%) Python
2 13 (11.82%) PowerShell
3 10 (9.09%) Java
4 8 (7.27%) C#
4 8 (7.27%) JavaScript
5 7 (6.36%) Bash
5 7 (6.36%) SQL
6 5 (4.55%) VBA
7 3 (2.73%) C++
7 3 (2.73%) TypeScript
7 3 (2.73%) VB.NET
8 2 (1.82%) Kotlin
8 2 (1.82%) Swift
8 2 (1.82%) VBScript
9 1 (0.91%) R
Qualifications
1 36 (32.73%) Security Cleared
2 26 (23.64%) Degree
3 21 (19.09%) SC Cleared
4 18 (16.36%) DV Cleared
5 5 (4.55%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (3.64%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (3.64%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (2.73%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (1.82%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.91%) A+ Certification
9 1 (0.91%) Chartered Engineer
9 1 (0.91%) CTC Cleared
9 1 (0.91%) MCDST
9 1 (0.91%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (10.00%) SLA
2 3 (2.73%) ISO 9001
2 3 (2.73%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 2 (1.82%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.82%) GDPR
3 2 (1.82%) QA
4 1 (0.91%) CDISC
4 1 (0.91%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.91%) GxP
System Software
1 30 (27.27%) Active Directory
2 13 (11.82%) Firmware
3 12 (10.91%) Docker
4 6 (5.45%) Hyper-V
5 5 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (2.73%) BitLocker
6 3 (2.73%) Microsoft App-V
6 3 (2.73%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (2.73%) vSphere
7 1 (0.91%) Terminal Services
7 1 (0.91%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.91%) XenApp
7 1 (0.91%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 27 (24.55%) SCCM
2 13 (11.82%) Kubernetes
3 12 (10.91%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (7.27%) Ansible
4 8 (7.27%) Terraform
5 6 (5.45%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 5 (4.55%) Functional Safety
7 3 (2.73%) Grafana
7 3 (2.73%) WSUS
8 2 (1.82%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (1.82%) NetBackup
8 2 (1.82%) SCOM
8 2 (1.82%) SCVMM
8 2 (1.82%) VxRail
9 1 (0.91%) AirWatch
9 1 (0.91%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.91%) vMotion
Vendors
1 55 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 16 (14.55%) HP
3 12 (10.91%) ServiceNow
4 9 (8.18%) Oracle
5 8 (7.27%) SAP
5 8 (7.27%) VMware
6 7 (6.36%) Apple
7 6 (5.45%) CyberArk
8 2 (1.82%) Avaya
8 2 (1.82%) Cisco
8 2 (1.82%) Citrix
8 2 (1.82%) Commvault
8 2 (1.82%) Dell
8 2 (1.82%) Dell Compellent
8 2 (1.82%) EMC
8 2 (1.82%) Equitrac
8 2 (1.82%) Juniper
8 2 (1.82%) Mitel
8 2 (1.82%) Okta
8 2 (1.82%) Salesforce