Software Deployment Job Trends in Dorset

Software Deployment
South West > Dorset

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Dorset requiring Software Deployment skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 51 -
Rank change year-on-year -3 - -
Permanent jobs citing Software Deployment 3 2 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Dorset 0.35% 0.50% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 0.60% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £43,000 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 - -
75th Percentile £49,000 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median annual salary £46,000 £32,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +43.75% -60.00% +128.57%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Dorset

Software Deployment falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Dorset.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 608 332 827
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Dorset 70.70% 83.63% 85.97%
Number of salaries quoted 380 189 358
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,250 £34,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £28,750 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £40,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -20.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £60,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £80,000 £67,875
South West median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -13.64% -

Software Deployment
Job Vacancy Trend in Dorset

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Software Deployment relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Dorset.

Software Deployment job vacancy trend in Dorset

Software Deployment
Salary Trend in Dorset

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Dorset citing Software Deployment.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Dorset citing Software Deployment

Software Deployment
Job Locations in Dorset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Deployment within the Dorset region over the 6 months to 25 September 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Dorchester - 3 £46,000 - 2
Software Deployment
South West

Software Deployment
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Dorset by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (66.67%) IIS
1 2 (66.67%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) IaaS
1 2 (66.67%) PaaS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) VPN
2 1 (33.33%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Support
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) 3rd Line Server Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) 3rd Line Server Support
2 1 (33.33%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) IT Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) IT Support
2 1 (33.33%) IT Support Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Infrastructure Support Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior IT Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior IT Support
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Server Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Server Support Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Server Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Server Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Cyberattack
1 2 (66.67%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Cloud Security
2 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (66.67%) Deployment Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Information Security
2 2 (66.67%) Innovative Thinking
2 2 (66.67%) ISMS
2 2 (66.67%) Key Management
2 2 (66.67%) Knowledge Transfer
2 2 (66.67%) Penetration Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Risk Register
3 1 (33.33%) E-Commerce
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) GDPR
1 2 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (66.67%) SOC 2
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (33.33%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) Citrix