Deployment Automation Contracts in Reading

Deployment Automation
Berkshire > Reading

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 2 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 65 77 90
Rank change year-on-year +12 +13 -32
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 30 8 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 2.51% 0.78% 0.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.80% 0.87% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 5 6
10th Percentile - £484 £507
25th Percentile - £525 £592
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £614
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -10.39% +18.31%
75th Percentile - £590 £629
90th Percentile £619 £613 £659
Berkshire median daily rate £575 £463 £394
% change year-on-year +24.32% +17.46% -19.23%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,073 917 1,239
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 89.94% 89.46% 90.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 581 616 834
10th Percentile £213 £363 £252
25th Percentile £413 £459 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £619 £670 £600
90th Percentile £688 £721 £656
Berkshire median daily rate £509 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -3.05% +5.00% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 23 8
10th Percentile £20.17 £45.50 £12.73
25th Percentile £52.90 £53.00 £19.44
Median hourly rate £61.65 £65.00 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.16% +132.14% -32.93%
75th Percentile £80.69 £74.40 £33.13
90th Percentile £87.49 £79.19 £40.25
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.00 £57.82 £21.05
% change year-on-year +5.50% +174.67% -1.06%

Deployment Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Deployment Automation in Reading

Deployment Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Deployment Automation in Reading

Deployment Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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