Deployment Automation Contracts in the UK excluding London

Deployment Automation
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 266 291 332
Rank change year-on-year +25 +41 -58
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 130 160 189
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.63% 0.68% 0.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.75% 0.76% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 109 133
10th Percentile £400 £413 £381
25th Percentile £505 £475 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £586 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.88% +8.52% +19.01%
75th Percentile £634 £700 £625
90th Percentile £700 £743 £698
UK median daily rate £575 £608 £575
% change year-on-year -5.35% +5.65% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £64.08 - -
25th Percentile £64.57 - -
Median hourly rate £67.26 - -
75th Percentile £70.19 - -
90th Percentile £70.83 - -
UK median hourly rate £23.80 £68.50 £80.00
% change year-on-year -65.26% -14.38% +76.80%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,297 21,007 27,024
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.45% 89.55% 88.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,312 14,549 18,866
10th Percentile £250 £256 £235
25th Percentile £378 £400 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,055 1,290 1,325
10th Percentile £12.32 £11.00 £12.22
25th Percentile £15.17 £15.41 £14.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £46.17
90th Percentile £72.90 £73.75 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.18
% change year-on-year +1.39% +42.97% +2.78%

Deployment Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Deployment Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Deployment Automation in the UK excluding London

Deployment Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Deployment Automation in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Deployment Automation in the UK excluding London

Deployment Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Deployment Automation in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Deployment Automation in the UK excluding London

Deployment Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Deployment Automation in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Deployment Automation in the UK excluding London

Deployment Automation
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 May 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
South East +21 51 £575 -8.44% 12
South West +17 30 £700 - 19
North of England +12 21 £510 -7.27% 20
Scotland +49 17 £450 -13.46% 5
North West +13 13 £510 +2.00% 15
Midlands +25 9 £359 -15.47% 11
Yorkshire +2 6 £475 -15.56% 5
East Midlands +20 5 £356 -16.24% 1
West Midlands +17 4 £675 +17.39% 10
East of England 0 2 £550 -29.03% 2
North East - 2 - -
Deployment Automation
UK

Deployment Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 24 (18.46%) Confluence
2 5 (3.85%) Apache
2 5 (3.85%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (3.85%) Apache Spark
2 5 (3.85%) JBoss
3 4 (3.08%) IBM HTTP Server
3 4 (3.08%) WebSphere
3 4 (3.08%) WebSphere Application Server
3 4 (3.08%) WebSphere Portal
4 3 (2.31%) Cloud Foundry
4 3 (2.31%) CMS
4 3 (2.31%) Drupal
5 2 (1.54%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.77%) Alfresco
6 1 (0.77%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (3.08%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.77%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 29 (22.31%) AWS
2 21 (16.15%) Azure
3 14 (10.77%) OpenShift
4 13 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (6.15%) Amazon EKS
6 5 (3.85%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (3.85%) Amazon EMR
6 5 (3.85%) Amazon S3
6 5 (3.85%) Amazon SQS
6 5 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (3.85%) Serverless
6 5 (3.85%) Snowflake
7 3 (2.31%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (2.31%) GCP
7 3 (2.31%) Power Platform
8 2 (1.54%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (1.54%) IaaS
8 2 (1.54%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (0.77%) GitHub
9 1 (0.77%) NuGet
Communications & Networking
1 8 (6.15%) DNS
2 7 (5.38%) Firewall
3 5 (3.85%) FTP
4 4 (3.08%) HTTP
5 3 (2.31%) SSL
6 1 (0.77%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (0.77%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (6.92%) Relational Database
2 7 (5.38%) Big Data
2 7 (5.38%) SQL Server
3 6 (4.62%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (3.85%) RDBMS
5 3 (2.31%) NoSQL
5 3 (2.31%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (2.31%) Power BI
5 3 (2.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (1.54%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 2 (1.54%) MySQL
6 2 (1.54%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 2 (1.54%) Tableau
7 1 (0.77%) Apache Hive
7 1 (0.77%) DB2
7 1 (0.77%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.77%) HBase
7 1 (0.77%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 57 (43.85%) Jenkins
2 38 (29.23%) Git
3 36 (27.69%) JIRA
4 24 (18.46%) Bitbucket
5 23 (17.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 13 (10.00%) Visual Studio
7 7 (5.38%) Maven
8 6 (4.62%) Gradle
8 6 (4.62%) Sonatype Nexus
9 5 (3.85%) Bitbucket Server
9 5 (3.85%) CA Release Automation
9 5 (3.85%) Selenium
9 5 (3.85%) SonarQube
9 5 (3.85%) TeamCity
10 4 (3.08%) Artifactory
10 4 (3.08%) IBM UrbanCode
11 3 (2.31%) Mocha
11 3 (2.31%) Subversion
12 2 (1.54%) GitLab
13 1 (0.77%) webpack
General
1 53 (40.77%) Social Skills
2 28 (21.54%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (13.85%) Aerospace
4 7 (5.38%) Banking
4 7 (5.38%) Finance
5 6 (4.62%) Manufacturing
6 5 (3.85%) Pharmaceutical
6 5 (3.85%) Public Sector
7 1 (0.77%) Electronics
7 1 (0.77%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.77%) Marketing
7 1 (0.77%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 37 (28.46%) Developer
2 20 (15.38%) Build Engineer
2 20 (15.38%) Windows Build Engineer
2 20 (15.38%) Windows Engineer
3 14 (10.77%) Cloud Engineer
4 8 (6.15%) Data Engineer
5 7 (5.38%) Support Engineer
6 6 (4.62%) DevOps Engineer
6 6 (4.62%) Senior
7 5 (3.85%) Azure Engineer
7 5 (3.85%) Site Manager
7 5 (3.85%) Site Reliability Manager
7 5 (3.85%) Snowflake Data Engineer
8 4 (3.08%) .NET Developer
8 4 (3.08%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 4 (3.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (3.08%) Integration Engineer
8 4 (3.08%) Middleware Engineer
8 4 (3.08%) Senior Middleware Engineer
9 2 (1.54%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (29.23%) .NET
2 24 (18.46%) .NET Core
3 13 (10.00%) ASP.NET
4 8 (6.15%) React
5 6 (4.62%) Elastic Stack
5 6 (4.62%) Spring Boot
6 5 (3.85%) JSON
6 5 (3.85%) XML
7 4 (3.08%) J2EE
7 4 (3.08%) Jest
7 4 (3.08%) Middleware
8 3 (2.31%) Kafka
8 3 (2.31%) Redux
8 3 (2.31%) Vue
9 2 (1.54%) CSS
9 2 (1.54%) CSS3
9 2 (1.54%) YAML
10 1 (0.77%) .NET Framework
10 1 (0.77%) HTML
10 1 (0.77%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.92%) Cloud Native
2 3 (2.31%) Clustering
2 3 (2.31%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (2.31%) Data Structures
2 3 (2.31%) Mobile App
2 3 (2.31%) Private Cloud
2 3 (2.31%) Public Cloud
3 2 (1.54%) Onboarding
3 2 (1.54%) PKI
4 1 (0.77%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (0.77%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (0.77%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (0.77%) Management Information System
4 1 (0.77%) Mashup
4 1 (0.77%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 44 (33.85%) Windows
2 42 (32.31%) Linux
3 28 (21.54%) Windows Server
4 24 (18.46%) Windows 10
4 24 (18.46%) Windows Server 2012
4 24 (18.46%) Windows Server 2019
5 20 (15.38%) Windows NT
5 20 (15.38%) Windows Server 2016
6 10 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (5.38%) Unix
8 1 (0.77%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (45.38%) CI/CD
2 47 (36.15%) Continuous Integration
3 45 (34.62%) Problem-Solving
4 29 (22.31%) DevOps
4 29 (22.31%) OO
5 28 (21.54%) ITIL
5 28 (21.54%) OOP
6 25 (19.23%) Release Management
6 25 (19.23%) Task Automation
7 24 (18.46%) Configuration Management
7 24 (18.46%) Service Management
8 23 (17.69%) Customer Service
8 23 (17.69%) Infrastructure Automation
9 22 (16.92%) Test Automation
10 21 (16.15%) User Acceptance Testing
11 17 (13.08%) Agile
12 12 (9.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 12 (9.23%) Software Engineering
13 11 (8.46%) Containerisation
13 11 (8.46%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 49 (37.69%) PowerShell
2 46 (35.38%) Python
3 23 (17.69%) C#
4 14 (10.77%) Java
5 13 (10.00%) Bash
6 9 (6.92%) SQL
7 8 (6.15%) Groovy
7 8 (6.15%) Ruby
7 8 (6.15%) Shell Script
8 6 (4.62%) Perl
9 4 (3.08%) JavaScript
10 3 (2.31%) TypeScript
11 2 (1.54%) C++
11 2 (1.54%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.77%) Bicep
12 1 (0.77%) C
Qualifications
1 78 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 47 (36.15%) SC Cleared
3 26 (20.00%) DV Cleared
4 5 (3.85%) Degree
5 4 (3.08%) MCSE
5 4 (3.08%) MCTS
5 4 (3.08%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (2.31%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.77%) Chartered Engineer
7 1 (0.77%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.77%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (22.31%) QA
2 3 (2.31%) SLA
3 2 (1.54%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.77%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.77%) WCAG
System Software
1 31 (23.85%) Active Directory
2 20 (15.38%) Firmware
3 17 (13.08%) Docker
4 14 (10.77%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (2.31%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (1.54%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.77%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 1 (0.77%) HDFS
7 1 (0.77%) KVM
7 1 (0.77%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.77%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 48 (36.92%) Ansible
2 27 (20.77%) Kubernetes
3 24 (18.46%) SCCM
3 24 (18.46%) WSUS
4 23 (17.69%) PowerCLI
5 20 (15.38%) Sysprep
6 15 (11.54%) Terraform
7 5 (3.85%) Kibana
7 5 (3.85%) Progress Chef
8 3 (2.31%) vCenter Server
8 3 (2.31%) vRealize
9 2 (1.54%) Puppet
10 1 (0.77%) Dell DRAC
10 1 (0.77%) Hadoop YARN
10 1 (0.77%) ITRS Geneos
10 1 (0.77%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.77%) Nagios
10 1 (0.77%) Packer
Vendors
1 31 (23.85%) Microsoft
2 23 (17.69%) Atlassian
2 23 (17.69%) HP
3 22 (16.92%) Dell
4 14 (10.77%) VMware
5 6 (4.62%) Splunk
6 5 (3.85%) AppDynamics
6 5 (3.85%) Informatica
6 5 (3.85%) Red Hat
6 5 (3.85%) Talend
7 4 (3.08%) IBM
7 4 (3.08%) ServiceNow
8 3 (2.31%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.54%) CA
10 1 (0.77%) BMC
10 1 (0.77%) Foundry
10 1 (0.77%) Oracle
10 1 (0.77%) Remedy
10 1 (0.77%) SAP
10 1 (0.77%) Sitecore