Deployment Automation Contracts in Berkshire

Deployment Automation
South East > Berkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for Deployment Automation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Deployment Automation over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 87 99 113
Rank change year-on-year +12 +14 -21
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 30 13 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 1.52% 0.72% 0.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.71% 0.79% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 9 20
10th Percentile - - £130
25th Percentile - £413 £140
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £463 £394
Median % change year-on-year +24.32% +17.46% -19.23%
75th Percentile - £575 £604
90th Percentile £619 £597 £630
South East median daily rate £575 £615 £550
% change year-on-year -6.50% +11.82% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £82.50
Median hourly rate - - £85.00
75th Percentile - - £87.50
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £67.02 - £85.00
% change year-on-year - - +91.42%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Deployment Automation 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 advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,756 1,652 2,175
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 88.91% 91.07% 90.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 910 1,062 1,384
10th Percentile £213 £350 £268
25th Percentile £375 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.05% +5.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £588
90th Percentile £676 £702 £650
South East median daily rate £501 £508 £500
% change year-on-year -1.38% +1.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 48 43
10th Percentile £20.17 £19.20 £13.00
25th Percentile £41.75 £25.72 £17.25
Median hourly rate £61.60 £57.82 £21.05
Median % change year-on-year +6.54% +174.67% -2.09%
75th Percentile £72.18 £73.69 £33.75
90th Percentile £87.41 £79.51 £68.10
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -5.00% +122.22% -13.46%

Deployment Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing Deployment Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Deployment Automation in Berkshire

Deployment Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Deployment Automation in Berkshire.

Daily rate trend for Deployment Automation in Berkshire

Deployment Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Deployment Automation in Berkshire.

Hourly rate trend for Deployment Automation in Berkshire

Deployment Automation
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Deployment Automation within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 27 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
Reading +16 30 £575 +4.55% 1
Deployment Automation
South East

Deployment Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 2 (6.67%) Azure
2 1 (3.33%) AWS
2 1 (3.33%) Azure API Management
2 1 (3.33%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (3.33%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (3.33%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (3.33%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (3.33%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (3.33%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (3.33%) Entra ID
2 1 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (3.33%) NuGet
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.33%) DNS
1 1 (3.33%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 8 (26.67%) Git
2 7 (23.33%) Jenkins
2 7 (23.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 21 (70.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (70.00%) Build Engineer
1 21 (70.00%) Windows Build Engineer
1 21 (70.00%) Windows Engineer
2 5 (16.67%) Developer
3 1 (3.33%) .NET Developer
3 1 (3.33%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (3.33%) Azure Platform Engineer
3 1 (3.33%) C# Software Engineer
3 1 (3.33%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 1 (3.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (3.33%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 1 (3.33%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (3.33%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
3 1 (3.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (23.33%) .NET
1 7 (23.33%) ASP.NET
2 2 (6.67%) YAML
3 1 (3.33%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.33%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 21 (70.00%) Windows
1 21 (70.00%) Windows 10
1 21 (70.00%) Windows NT
1 21 (70.00%) Windows Server
1 21 (70.00%) Windows Server 2012
1 21 (70.00%) Windows Server 2016
1 21 (70.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (73.33%) Release Management
1 22 (73.33%) Service Management
2 21 (70.00%) Customer Service
2 21 (70.00%) ITIL
2 21 (70.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 7 (23.33%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (6.67%) DevOps
4 2 (6.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (6.67%) Mentoring
4 2 (6.67%) Software Engineering
4 2 (6.67%) Test Automation
5 1 (3.33%) Analytics
5 1 (3.33%) B2C
5 1 (3.33%) Boundary Protection
5 1 (3.33%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (3.33%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (3.33%) High Availability
5 1 (3.33%) Identity Management
5 1 (3.33%) Network Virtualisation
5 1 (3.33%) Release Automation
Programming Languages
1 9 (30.00%) PowerShell
2 7 (23.33%) C#
3 1 (3.33%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 28 (93.33%) Security Cleared
2 21 (70.00%) DV Cleared
3 7 (23.33%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (70.00%) QA
System Software
1 22 (73.33%) Active Directory
2 21 (70.00%) Firmware
3 1 (3.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (70.00%) SCCM
1 21 (70.00%) Sysprep
1 21 (70.00%) WSUS
2 7 (23.33%) Ansible
3 2 (6.67%) Kubernetes
3 2 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 23 (76.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.33%) BMC
2 1 (3.33%) Databricks
2 1 (3.33%) Remedy
2 1 (3.33%) ServiceNow