Software Deployment Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Software Deployment
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 283 312 407
Rank change year-on-year +29 +95 +163
Contract jobs citing Software Deployment 21 33 70
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.21% 0.22% 0.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.24% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 22 52
10th Percentile £336 £408 £275
25th Percentile £391 £463 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £608 £513 £460
Median % change year-on-year +18.54% +11.41% -0.54%
75th Percentile £700 £607 £560
90th Percentile £723 £677 £600
UK median daily rate £525 £410 £350
% change year-on-year +28.05% +17.14% -30.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Software Deployment
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Software Deployment as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Software Deployment trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Software Deployment
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Software Deployment.

Software Deployment daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Software Deployment
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Software Deployment daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Software Deployment
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Software Deployment.

Software Deployment hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Software Deployment
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 4 (19.05%) CMS
2 2 (9.52%) Headless CMS
3 1 (4.76%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 5 (23.81%) Azure
2 2 (9.52%) Azure AI
2 2 (9.52%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (9.52%) Contentful
3 1 (4.76%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (4.76%) Amazon S3
3 1 (4.76%) AWS
3 1 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (4.76%) Serverless
3 1 (4.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.76%) DHCP
1 1 (4.76%) DNS
1 1 (4.76%) SSL
1 1 (4.76%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.76%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 7 (33.33%) MSI
2 4 (19.05%) JIRA
3 2 (9.52%) AdminStudio
4 1 (4.76%) Git
4 1 (4.76%) GitLab
4 1 (4.76%) Jenkins
General
1 9 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 5 (23.81%) Marketing
3 3 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 2 (9.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (4.76%) Electronics
5 1 (4.76%) Finance
5 1 (4.76%) Manufacturing
5 1 (4.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (23.81%) Project Manager
2 4 (19.05%) CMS Project Manager
3 3 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Applications Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Deployment Manager
4 2 (9.52%) Deployment Project Manager
4 2 (9.52%) Lead
4 2 (9.52%) Lead DevOps
4 2 (9.52%) Lead DevOps Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Programme Manager
4 2 (9.52%) Rollout Manager
4 2 (9.52%) Rollout Project Manager
4 2 (9.52%) Senior
4 2 (9.52%) Senior DevOps
4 2 (9.52%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) SCCM Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Storage Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Unix Support
5 1 (4.76%) Windows Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (23.81%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 4 (19.05%) Marketing Technology
2 3 (14.29%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.76%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (4.76%) SCADA
3 1 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (4.76%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (33.33%) Windows
2 4 (19.05%) Linux
3 2 (9.52%) Windows 10
4 1 (4.76%) AIX
4 1 (4.76%) Unix
4 1 (4.76%) Windows 7
4 1 (4.76%) Windows Server
4 1 (4.76%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (38.10%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (23.81%) Change Management
3 4 (19.05%) Agile
3 4 (19.05%) DevOps
3 4 (19.05%) ITIL
3 4 (19.05%) Matrix Organization
3 4 (19.05%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 4 (19.05%) Software Delivery
3 4 (19.05%) Software Distribution
3 4 (19.05%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (14.29%) Software Testing
4 3 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
5 2 (9.52%) Application Packaging
5 2 (9.52%) Artificial Intelligence
5 2 (9.52%) Data Engineering
5 2 (9.52%) Identity Management
5 2 (9.52%) ITSM
5 2 (9.52%) Patch Management
5 2 (9.52%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 6 (28.57%) PowerShell
2 5 (23.81%) Bash
2 5 (23.81%) Python
Qualifications
1 10 (47.62%) SC Cleared
1 10 (47.62%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) QA
System Software
1 3 (14.29%) Docker
1 3 (14.29%) Microsoft App-V
2 1 (4.76%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.76%) Hyper-V
2 1 (4.76%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (23.81%) Ansible
1 5 (23.81%) SCCM
2 3 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 3 (14.29%) Terraform
3 2 (9.52%) ThinApp
4 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 4 (19.05%) Tanium
2 3 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 2 (9.52%) Databricks
3 2 (9.52%) Ivanti
4 1 (4.76%) Foundry
4 1 (4.76%) HP
4 1 (4.76%) IBM
4 1 (4.76%) Remedy
4 1 (4.76%) SAP
4 1 (4.76%) VMware