Deployment Automation Contracts with Work from Home Options

Deployment Automation
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 256 300 346
Rank change year-on-year +44 +46 -56
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 85 171 293
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.56% 0.68% 0.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.64% 0.76% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 107 225
10th Percentile £356 £458 £430
25th Percentile £443 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £625 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.12% +13.64% +4.76%
75th Percentile £650 £709 £633
90th Percentile - £750 £803
UK median daily rate £575 £608 £575
% change year-on-year -5.35% +5.65% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £68.50 -
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
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,268 22,513 39,948
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 88.01% 89.73% 91.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,896 15,904 28,997
10th Percentile £325 £363 £362
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £630
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 573 519 530
10th Percentile £15.03 £18.63 £13.73
25th Percentile £25.50 £30.00 £20.06
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +41.16%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £55.63
90th Percentile £75.20 £80.25 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.18
% change year-on-year +1.39% +42.97% +2.78%

Deployment Automation
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Deployment Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Deployment Automation trend for jobs with a WFH option

Deployment Automation
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Deployment Automation.

Deployment Automation daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Deployment Automation
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Deployment Automation over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Deployment Automation daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Deployment Automation
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Deployment Automation.

Deployment Automation hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Deployment Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 10 (11.76%) Confluence
2 6 (7.06%) IBM HTTP Server
2 6 (7.06%) WebSphere
2 6 (7.06%) WebSphere Application Server
2 6 (7.06%) WebSphere Portal
3 3 (3.53%) JBoss
4 1 (1.18%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.18%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (3.53%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (1.18%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.18%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 51 (60.00%) Azure
2 46 (54.12%) AWS
3 24 (28.24%) Azure DevOps
4 20 (23.53%) GCP
5 17 (20.00%) IaaS
5 17 (20.00%) PaaS
5 17 (20.00%) SaaS
6 12 (14.12%) GitHub
7 11 (12.94%) GitHub Actions
8 8 (9.41%) Azure Key Vault
8 8 (9.41%) Azure Service Bus
8 8 (9.41%) Serverless
9 7 (8.24%) Cloud Computing
9 7 (8.24%) Nutanix
9 7 (8.24%) Rubrik
10 6 (7.06%) Azure API Management
10 6 (7.06%) Azure Logic Apps
11 5 (5.88%) Power Automate
11 5 (5.88%) Power Platform
11 5 (5.88%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 11 (12.94%) Firewall
2 9 (10.59%) DNS
3 7 (8.24%) DHCP
3 7 (8.24%) Kerberos
3 7 (8.24%) NAS
3 7 (8.24%) SAN
3 7 (8.24%) TCP/IP
3 7 (8.24%) VLAN
4 6 (7.06%) HTTP
5 2 (2.35%) WAN
5 2 (2.35%) Wireless
6 1 (1.18%) BGP
6 1 (1.18%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (1.18%) EIGRP
6 1 (1.18%) IPsec
6 1 (1.18%) Network Security
6 1 (1.18%) OSPF
6 1 (1.18%) SD-WAN
6 1 (1.18%) VoIP
6 1 (1.18%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.06%) Azure SQL Database
1 6 (7.06%) SQL Server
2 5 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (4.71%) Big Data
3 4 (4.71%) Data Lake
3 4 (4.71%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (4.71%) OLTP
3 4 (4.71%) Relational Database
4 3 (3.53%) RDBMS
5 2 (2.35%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (2.35%) MariaDB
5 2 (2.35%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.18%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.18%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.18%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.18%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.18%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 20 (23.53%) Git
2 18 (21.18%) Jenkins
3 15 (17.65%) JIRA
4 13 (15.29%) SonarQube
5 11 (12.94%) TeamCity
6 5 (5.88%) Bitbucket
7 4 (4.71%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 4 (4.71%) GitLab
7 4 (4.71%) IBM UrbanCode
7 4 (4.71%) Visual Studio Team System
8 3 (3.53%) Bitbucket Server
8 3 (3.53%) CA Release Automation
8 3 (3.53%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (2.35%) Mocha
9 2 (2.35%) Visual Studio Code
10 1 (1.18%) Ant
10 1 (1.18%) Moq
10 1 (1.18%) NeoLoad
10 1 (1.18%) Selenium
10 1 (1.18%) SoapUI
General
1 21 (24.71%) Finance
2 16 (18.82%) Social Skills
3 11 (12.94%) Banking
4 9 (10.59%) Public Sector
5 5 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (3.53%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (2.35%) Electronics
7 2 (2.35%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.35%) Marketing
7 2 (2.35%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (18.82%) Architect
1 16 (18.82%) Developer
2 13 (15.29%) Solutions Architect
3 8 (9.41%) Lead
3 8 (9.41%) Senior
4 7 (8.24%) Cloud Engineer
4 7 (8.24%) DevOps Engineer
5 6 (7.06%) Middleware Engineer
6 5 (5.88%) Azure Developer
7 4 (4.71%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 4 (4.71%) Lead Developer
7 4 (4.71%) Platform Engineer
7 4 (4.71%) Senior Middleware Engineer
8 3 (3.53%) .NET Developer
8 3 (3.53%) AWS DevOps
8 3 (3.53%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 3 (3.53%) DevOps Architect
8 3 (3.53%) Principal Developer
8 3 (3.53%) SailPoint Architect
8 3 (3.53%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (20.00%) ARM Templates
2 13 (15.29%) .NET
3 12 (14.12%) SailPoint
4 10 (11.76%) Azure Blueprints
5 7 (8.24%) LDAP
6 6 (7.06%) Elastic Stack
6 6 (7.06%) J2EE
6 6 (7.06%) JSON
6 6 (7.06%) Middleware
6 6 (7.06%) XML
7 5 (5.88%) .NET Core
7 5 (5.88%) .NET Framework
7 5 (5.88%) React
7 5 (5.88%) Web Services
8 4 (4.71%) CSS
8 4 (4.71%) RESTful
8 4 (4.71%) YAML
9 3 (3.53%) Entity Framework
9 3 (3.53%) Redux
9 3 (3.53%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 12 (14.12%) Onboarding
2 11 (12.94%) Management Information System
3 7 (8.24%) Clustering
3 7 (8.24%) Replication
4 4 (4.71%) Data Centre
4 4 (4.71%) Public Cloud
5 3 (3.53%) Cloud Native
6 2 (2.35%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (2.35%) N-Tier
7 1 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.18%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 15 (17.65%) Linux
2 11 (12.94%) Windows
3 10 (11.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (8.24%) Oracle Linux
4 7 (8.24%) Solaris
4 7 (8.24%) Windows Server
5 2 (2.35%) Amazon Linux
5 2 (2.35%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (72.94%) DevOps
2 36 (42.35%) CI/CD
3 28 (32.94%) Containerisation
3 28 (32.94%) Test Automation
4 22 (25.88%) Continuous Integration
5 20 (23.53%) High Availability
5 20 (23.53%) Migration
6 17 (20.00%) Agile
6 17 (20.00%) Continuous Delivery
7 15 (17.65%) Infrastructure as Code
8 14 (16.47%) Cybersecurity
8 14 (16.47%) Release Management
9 12 (14.12%) Application Security
9 12 (14.12%) Cloud Security
9 12 (14.12%) Microservices
9 12 (14.12%) Secrets Management
9 12 (14.12%) Software Engineering
10 11 (12.94%) Architectural Design
11 10 (11.76%) DevSecOps
11 10 (11.76%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 23 (27.06%) Python
2 22 (25.88%) PowerShell
3 12 (14.12%) C#
4 11 (12.94%) Bash
5 10 (11.76%) Java
6 8 (9.41%) SQL
7 4 (4.71%) JavaScript
8 3 (3.53%) Perl
9 2 (2.35%) Bicep
9 2 (2.35%) Go
9 2 (2.35%) PHP
9 2 (2.35%) Ruby
9 2 (2.35%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 20 (23.53%) SC Cleared
1 20 (23.53%) Security Cleared
2 10 (11.76%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (4.71%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (4.71%) Degree
4 2 (2.35%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (2.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.18%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (1.18%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (11.76%) NCSC
2 7 (8.24%) GDPR
2 7 (8.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 4 (4.71%) QA
4 2 (2.35%) SLA
5 1 (1.18%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 24 (28.24%) Docker
2 12 (14.12%) Active Directory
3 7 (8.24%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (2.35%) vCloud
4 2 (2.35%) VMware NSX
4 2 (2.35%) vSphere
5 1 (1.18%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 33 (38.82%) Terraform
2 27 (31.76%) Kubernetes
3 23 (27.06%) Ansible
4 7 (8.24%) EMC NetWorker
4 7 (8.24%) Netcool
4 7 (8.24%) Tivoli
4 7 (8.24%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 5 (5.88%) Progress Chef
6 4 (4.71%) Grafana
6 4 (4.71%) Kibana
7 3 (3.53%) PowerCLI
8 2 (2.35%) Autotask
8 2 (2.35%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (2.35%) Prometheus
8 2 (2.35%) Puppet
9 1 (1.18%) logstash
9 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 20 (23.53%) ServiceNow
2 19 (22.35%) CyberArk
2 19 (22.35%) Microsoft
3 13 (15.29%) IBM
4 12 (14.12%) BeyondTrust
5 10 (11.76%) Dell
5 10 (11.76%) HP
5 10 (11.76%) Splunk
6 9 (10.59%) Oracle
6 9 (10.59%) VMware
7 8 (9.41%) Cisco
8 7 (8.24%) EMC
8 7 (8.24%) Isilon
8 7 (8.24%) Qualys
8 7 (8.24%) Serena
9 5 (5.88%) SAP
10 3 (3.53%) Atlassian
10 3 (3.53%) BMC
10 3 (3.53%) Red Hat
10 3 (3.53%) Remedy