Deployment Automation Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Deployment Automation
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring Deployment Automation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 97 - 104
Rank change year-on-year - - +17
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 3 0 11
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.24% - 0.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% - 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 9
10th Percentile £401 - -
25th Percentile £403 - £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 - £575
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.17%
75th Percentile £428 - -
90th Percentile £434 - -
South East median daily rate £595 £476 £575
% change year-on-year +24.93% -17.17% +4.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Deployment Automation falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,122 1,429 1,577
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 90.34% 88.37% 89.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 715 759 984
10th Percentile £321 £329 £248
25th Percentile £413 £429 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +2.86% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £636
90th Percentile £650 £688 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 57 69
10th Percentile £14.75 £19.08 £20.59
25th Percentile £17.30 £41.25 £48.40
Median hourly rate £32.31 £58.49 £61.79
Median % change year-on-year -44.76% -5.34% +22.36%
75th Percentile £63.75 £63.41 £72.33
90th Percentile £79.00 £75.08 £76.28
South East median hourly rate £20.71 £58.30 £52.50
% change year-on-year -64.48% +11.05% +48.05%

Deployment Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Deployment Automation relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Deployment Automation job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Deployment Automation
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Deployment Automation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Deployment Automation

Deployment Automation
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Deployment Automation.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Deployment Automation

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 20 October 2025. 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
Wokingham - 2 £400 -
Reading - 1 £425 - 2
Deployment Automation
South East

Deployment Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) GitHub
2 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon EventBridge
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (33.33%) AWS
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Git
2 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 1 (33.33%) Digital Healthcare
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) ADO
1 2 (66.67%) YAML
2 1 (33.33%) HTML
2 1 (33.33%) JSON
2 1 (33.33%) OAuth
2 1 (33.33%) OAuth2
2 1 (33.33%) REST
2 1 (33.33%) RESTful
2 1 (33.33%) SOAP
2 1 (33.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) RBAC
3 1 (33.33%) API Development
3 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Data Mapping
3 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
3 1 (33.33%) High Availability
3 1 (33.33%) Microservices
3 1 (33.33%) Network Load Balancing
3 1 (33.33%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Pega