Deployment Automation Contracts

Deployment Automation
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 322 325 354
Rank change year-on-year +3 +29 -51
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 297 467 673
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.69% 0.78% 0.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.79% 0.87% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 216 291 470
10th Percentile £413 £431 £425
25th Percentile £505 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +13.58%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £650
90th Percentile £748 £788 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £586 £540
% change year-on-year -1.88% +8.52% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 6
10th Percentile £22.72 £65.30 £48.00
25th Percentile - £65.75 £52.63
Median hourly rate £23.80 £68.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -65.26% -2.14% +57.30%
75th Percentile £67.02 £74.38 £85.00
90th Percentile £69.56 £79.55 £86.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.26 - £85.00
% change year-on-year - - +98.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,374 53,774 80,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.91% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,095 37,304 56,474
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,763 1,928
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +80.00% -8.17%

Deployment Automation
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Deployment Automation in the UK

Deployment Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Deployment Automation in the UK

Deployment Automation
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Deployment Automation over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Deployment Automation in the UK

Deployment Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Deployment Automation in the UK

Deployment Automation
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Deployment Automation over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Deployment Automation in the UK

Deployment Automation
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 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
England -1 242 £594 -4.96% 95
UK excluding London +26 131 £575 -1.88% 72
London +9 115 £675 +8.00% 36
Work from Home +39 90 £543 -9.50% 50
South East +22 52 £575 -6.50% 13
South West +16 31 £700 - 22
North of England +16 21 £510 -2.86% 19
Scotland +39 16 £450 -13.46% 8
North West +12 13 £510 +5.97% 12
Midlands +13 9 £359 -15.47% 5
East Midlands +14 5 £356 -16.24%
Yorkshire +4 5 £475 -13.64% 6
West Midlands +25 4 £675 +17.39% 5
North East - 3 £520 - 1
East of England +4 2 £550 -29.03%

Deployment Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 31 (10.44%) Confluence
2 10 (3.37%) SharePoint
3 9 (3.03%) Apache Spark
4 7 (2.36%) IBM HTTP Server
4 7 (2.36%) WebSphere
4 7 (2.36%) WebSphere Application Server
4 7 (2.36%) WebSphere Portal
5 6 (2.02%) Apache
6 5 (1.68%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (1.68%) JBoss
6 5 (1.68%) WordPress
7 4 (1.35%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (1.01%) CMS
8 3 (1.01%) Drupal
8 3 (1.01%) IIS
9 2 (0.67%) Alfresco
9 2 (0.67%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.34%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (1.68%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (1.68%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.35%) Dynamics AX
3 3 (1.01%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.34%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 109 (36.70%) Azure
2 99 (33.33%) AWS
3 49 (16.50%) Azure DevOps
4 46 (15.49%) GCP
5 38 (12.79%) Serverless
6 33 (11.11%) IaaS
6 33 (11.11%) PaaS
7 30 (10.10%) SaaS
8 27 (9.09%) GitHub
9 21 (7.07%) Power Platform
10 19 (6.40%) Power Automate
11 17 (5.72%) Azure Service Bus
11 17 (5.72%) OpenShift
12 15 (5.05%) Azure Functions
12 15 (5.05%) Azure Key Vault
13 14 (4.71%) AWS CloudFormation
13 14 (4.71%) PowerApps
14 13 (4.38%) Amazon EC2
14 13 (4.38%) Amazon S3
14 13 (4.38%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 22 (7.41%) Firewall
2 21 (7.07%) DNS
3 11 (3.70%) SAN
4 10 (3.37%) NAS
5 9 (3.03%) DHCP
6 8 (2.69%) Kerberos
6 8 (2.69%) TCP/IP
6 8 (2.69%) VLAN
7 7 (2.36%) HTTP
8 5 (1.68%) FTP
8 5 (1.68%) Wireless
9 4 (1.35%) VPN
10 3 (1.01%) Internet
10 3 (1.01%) Network Security
10 3 (1.01%) SSL
10 3 (1.01%) WAN
11 2 (0.67%) DKIM
11 2 (0.67%) Extranet
11 2 (0.67%) LAN
11 2 (0.67%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (6.73%) SQL Server
2 15 (5.05%) Big Data
3 12 (4.04%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (4.04%) NoSQL
3 12 (4.04%) Relational Database
4 11 (3.70%) Power BI
5 10 (3.37%) Azure SQL Database
6 7 (2.36%) Data Lake
6 7 (2.36%) Elasticsearch
6 7 (2.36%) OLTP
7 6 (2.02%) MongoDB
8 5 (1.68%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (1.68%) RDBMS
9 4 (1.35%) BigQuery
10 3 (1.01%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (1.01%) MySQL
10 3 (1.01%) Spark SQL
10 3 (1.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (0.67%) MariaDB
11 2 (0.67%) Microsoft Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 84 (28.28%) Jenkins
2 74 (24.92%) Git
3 46 (15.49%) JIRA
4 30 (10.10%) Bitbucket
5 28 (9.43%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 18 (6.06%) SonarQube
7 17 (5.72%) TeamCity
8 13 (4.38%) Visual Studio
9 7 (2.36%) GitLab
9 7 (2.36%) Maven
9 7 (2.36%) Sonatype Nexus
9 7 (2.36%) Visual Studio Team System
10 6 (2.02%) Gradle
10 6 (2.02%) Selenium
11 5 (1.68%) Artifactory
11 5 (1.68%) Bitbucket Server
11 5 (1.68%) CA Release Automation
11 5 (1.68%) IBM UrbanCode
12 4 (1.35%) Mocha
13 3 (1.01%) webpack
General
1 70 (23.57%) Social Skills
2 45 (15.15%) Finance
3 33 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (6.06%) Aerospace
4 18 (6.06%) Banking
5 16 (5.39%) Public Sector
6 11 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (2.36%) Manufacturing
8 5 (1.68%) Local Government
8 5 (1.68%) Pharmaceutical
8 5 (1.68%) Retail
9 2 (0.67%) Back Office
9 2 (0.67%) Electronics
9 2 (0.67%) Financial Institution
9 2 (0.67%) Marketing
9 2 (0.67%) Publishing
9 2 (0.67%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.34%) Front Office
10 1 (0.34%) German Language
10 1 (0.34%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 74 (24.92%) Developer
2 50 (16.84%) Architect
3 31 (10.44%) Senior
4 29 (9.76%) Solutions Architect
5 22 (7.41%) Cloud Engineer
6 21 (7.07%) Build Engineer
6 21 (7.07%) Windows Build Engineer
6 21 (7.07%) Windows Engineer
7 15 (5.05%) DevOps Engineer
8 14 (4.71%) Lead
8 14 (4.71%) Security Architect
9 12 (4.04%) Data Engineer
10 10 (3.37%) Cloud Architect
11 9 (3.03%) C# Developer
11 9 (3.03%) Cloud Security Architect
12 8 (2.69%) .NET Developer
12 8 (2.69%) Senior Developer
12 8 (2.69%) Senior Security Architect
12 8 (2.69%) Software Engineer
12 8 (2.69%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (22.22%) .NET
2 33 (11.11%) .NET Core
3 23 (7.74%) React
3 23 (7.74%) SailPoint
4 21 (7.07%) ARM Templates
5 15 (5.05%) ASP.NET
6 14 (4.71%) JSON
6 14 (4.71%) Web Services
6 14 (4.71%) XML
7 13 (4.38%) .NET Framework
7 13 (4.38%) CSS
8 10 (3.37%) Azure Blueprints
9 9 (3.03%) Elastic Stack
9 9 (3.03%) HTML
9 9 (3.03%) Kafka
10 8 (2.69%) J2EE
10 8 (2.69%) LDAP
10 8 (2.69%) Middleware
10 8 (2.69%) Node.js
10 8 (2.69%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 15 (5.05%) Cloud Native
1 15 (5.05%) Mobile App
1 15 (5.05%) Onboarding
2 12 (4.04%) IoT
3 11 (3.70%) Clustering
3 11 (3.70%) Management Information System
4 9 (3.03%) Replication
5 8 (2.69%) Data Centre
6 5 (1.68%) Distributed Architecture
7 4 (1.35%) PKI
7 4 (1.35%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.01%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.01%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.01%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.01%) N-Tier
8 3 (1.01%) Private Cloud
8 3 (1.01%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.01%) Virtual Team
9 2 (0.67%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 60 (20.20%) Linux
1 60 (20.20%) Windows
2 37 (12.46%) Windows Server
3 26 (8.75%) Windows 10
4 25 (8.42%) Windows Server 2012
4 25 (8.42%) Windows Server 2019
5 21 (7.07%) Windows NT
5 21 (7.07%) Windows Server 2016
6 18 (6.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 14 (4.71%) Unix
8 8 (2.69%) Oracle Linux
8 8 (2.69%) Solaris
9 2 (0.67%) Amazon Linux
9 2 (0.67%) CentOS
9 2 (0.67%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (43.10%) DevOps
2 124 (41.75%) CI/CD
3 80 (26.94%) Continuous Integration
4 73 (24.58%) Test Automation
5 60 (20.20%) Problem-Solving
6 53 (17.85%) Agile
6 53 (17.85%) Containerisation
7 43 (14.48%) Application Security
8 41 (13.80%) Migration
9 40 (13.47%) Infrastructure as Code
10 38 (12.79%) ITIL
11 37 (12.46%) Release Management
12 35 (11.78%) Cloud Security
12 35 (11.78%) Task Automation
13 34 (11.45%) High Availability
14 33 (11.11%) Software Engineering
15 32 (10.77%) Infrastructure Automation
15 32 (10.77%) OO
16 30 (10.10%) Configuration Management
16 30 (10.10%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 84 (28.28%) Python
2 79 (26.60%) PowerShell
3 54 (18.18%) C#
4 39 (13.13%) Java
5 35 (11.78%) SQL
6 26 (8.75%) Bash
7 23 (7.74%) JavaScript
8 13 (4.38%) TypeScript
9 10 (3.37%) Ruby
10 9 (3.03%) Shell Script
11 8 (2.69%) Groovy
12 7 (2.36%) Perl
13 5 (1.68%) C++
13 5 (1.68%) Go
14 2 (0.67%) Bicep
14 2 (0.67%) PHP
14 2 (0.67%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.34%) C
15 1 (0.34%) R
15 1 (0.34%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 102 (34.34%) Security Cleared
2 69 (23.23%) SC Cleared
3 28 (9.43%) DV Cleared
4 11 (3.70%) Degree
5 10 (3.37%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (2.69%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.68%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.35%) MCSE
8 4 (1.35%) MCTS
8 4 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (1.01%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (0.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.34%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.34%) CEH
11 1 (0.34%) Chartered Engineer
11 1 (0.34%) CISSP
11 1 (0.34%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.34%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (12.46%) QA
2 12 (4.04%) NIST
3 10 (3.37%) NCSC
4 8 (2.69%) GDPR
4 8 (2.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 7 (2.36%) Accessibility
6 6 (2.02%) SLA
7 1 (0.34%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.34%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.34%) WCAG
System Software
1 45 (15.15%) Active Directory
2 43 (14.48%) Docker
3 25 (8.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (7.07%) Firmware
5 5 (1.68%) Hyper-V
6 4 (1.35%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (1.35%) VMware NSX
7 3 (1.01%) BitLocker
7 3 (1.01%) Microsoft App-V
7 3 (1.01%) vSphere
8 2 (0.67%) vCloud
9 1 (0.34%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 1 (0.34%) HDFS
9 1 (0.34%) IAG
9 1 (0.34%) KVM
9 1 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 77 (25.93%) Ansible
2 75 (25.25%) Terraform
3 61 (20.54%) Kubernetes
4 29 (9.76%) SCCM
5 25 (8.42%) WSUS
6 24 (8.08%) PowerCLI
7 21 (7.07%) Sysprep
8 8 (2.69%) EMC NetWorker
8 8 (2.69%) Netcool
8 8 (2.69%) Tivoli
8 8 (2.69%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 7 (2.36%) Progress Chef
10 6 (2.02%) Grafana
10 6 (2.02%) Kibana
11 5 (1.68%) Microsoft Intune
11 5 (1.68%) Puppet
12 4 (1.35%) vCenter Server
12 4 (1.35%) vRealize
13 3 (1.01%) Prometheus
13 3 (1.01%) SCOM
Vendors
1 71 (23.91%) Microsoft
2 34 (11.45%) ServiceNow
3 33 (11.11%) Dell
3 33 (11.11%) HP
4 30 (10.10%) CyberArk
5 27 (9.09%) VMware
6 23 (7.74%) Atlassian
7 22 (7.41%) BeyondTrust
8 15 (5.05%) IBM
8 15 (5.05%) Splunk
9 13 (4.38%) Oracle
10 12 (4.04%) Cisco
11 11 (3.70%) EMC
12 9 (3.03%) Google
13 8 (2.69%) Isilon
13 8 (2.69%) Qualys
13 8 (2.69%) Salesforce
13 8 (2.69%) Serena
14 7 (2.36%) Databricks
15 6 (2.02%) SAP