Software Distribution Contracts in the West Midlands

Software Distribution
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 91 110 -
Rank change year-on-year +19 - -
Contract jobs citing Software Distribution 6 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.45% 0.051% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.51% 0.061% -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 0
10th Percentile £622 - -
25th Percentile £681 £319 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £689 £338 -
Median % change year-on-year +104.15% - -
75th Percentile £694 £356 -
90th Percentile £698 - -
England median daily rate £510 £310 £388
% change year-on-year +64.52% -20.00% -13.89%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,188 1,636 2,114
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.33% 84.03% 88.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 786 1,083 1,452
10th Percentile £195 £275 £263
25th Percentile £381 £375 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £512
Median % change year-on-year - -2.34% +5.03%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £750 £694
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 115 45
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.09 £12.20
25th Percentile £14.14 £14.00 £13.31
Median hourly rate £18.00 £22.50 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +26.98% +4.24%
75th Percentile £23.99 £41.13 £23.75
90th Percentile £38.19 £57.75 £51.25
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Software Distribution
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Software Distribution as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Software Distribution in the West Midlands

Software Distribution
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Software Distribution in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Software Distribution in the West Midlands

Software Distribution
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Software Distribution in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Software Distribution in the West Midlands

Software Distribution
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands 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
Birmingham - 5 £689 -
Software Distribution
England

Software Distribution
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Development Applications
1 6 (100.00%) MSI
General
1 6 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (100.00%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Linux
1 6 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Software Delivery
1 6 (100.00%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Bash
1 6 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 6 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (83.33%) SC Cleared
Systems Management
1 6 (100.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Tanium
2 1 (16.67%) Foundry