Deployment Automation Contracts in Cheshire

Deployment Automation
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire requiring Deployment Automation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Deployment Automation over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 53 54
Rank change year-on-year +4 +1 -1
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 9 5 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 2.00% 0.99% 1.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.06% 1.18% 1.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 5 7
10th Percentile £315 - £441
25th Percentile £359 £505 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £392 £510 £463
Median % change year-on-year -23.14% +10.27% -
75th Percentile £393 £515 £586
90th Percentile £396 - £586
North West median daily rate £391 £510 £481
% change year-on-year -23.33% +5.97% +10.63%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 436 425 483
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 97.10% 84.33% 91.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 294 285 328
10th Percentile £317 £276 £275
25th Percentile £358 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.05% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £550 £580 £575
90th Percentile £638 £635 £660
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 30 23
10th Percentile £19.00 £13.70 £19.06
25th Percentile £25.94 £16.61 £23.15
Median hourly rate £35.20 £26.66 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year +32.03% -12.70% +29.96%
75th Percentile £85.44 £42.31 £35.00
90th Percentile £86.00 £44.13 £39.20
North West median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%

Deployment Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Deployment Automation in Cheshire

Deployment Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for Deployment Automation in Cheshire

Deployment Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Deployment Automation in Cheshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Deployment Automation in Cheshire

Deployment Automation
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Knutsford - 8 £392 -
Alderley Edge - 1 - -
Deployment Automation
North West

Deployment Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 5 (55.56%) JBoss
2 2 (22.22%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) AWS
1 5 (55.56%) OpenShift
2 1 (11.11%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Functions
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Pipelines
2 1 (11.11%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (55.56%) Elasticsearch
1 5 (55.56%) RDBMS
1 5 (55.56%) Relational Database
2 3 (33.33%) NoSQL
3 1 (11.11%) MongoDB
3 1 (11.11%) MySQL
3 1 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (88.89%) JIRA
2 7 (77.78%) CA Release Automation
2 7 (77.78%) Git
2 7 (77.78%) Jenkins
3 5 (55.56%) Bitbucket Server
3 5 (55.56%) SonarQube
3 5 (55.56%) Sonatype Nexus
3 5 (55.56%) TeamCity
4 2 (22.22%) Gradle
4 2 (22.22%) HP UFT
4 2 (22.22%) IntelliJ
4 2 (22.22%) JUnit
4 2 (22.22%) Maven
4 2 (22.22%) NetBeans
4 2 (22.22%) Selenium
4 2 (22.22%) Subversion
5 1 (11.11%) Bitbucket
General
1 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Banking
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) AWS DevOps
2 2 (22.22%) Developer
2 2 (22.22%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Applications Support
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Specialist
3 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (77.78%) Spring Boot
2 5 (55.56%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (22.22%) AngularJS
3 2 (22.22%) CSS
3 2 (22.22%) Hibernate
3 2 (22.22%) HTML
3 2 (22.22%) HTML5
3 2 (22.22%) J2EE
3 2 (22.22%) Kafka
3 2 (22.22%) Node.js
3 2 (22.22%) Spring
3 2 (22.22%) Spring Integration
3 2 (22.22%) Spring MVC
3 2 (22.22%) Web Services
4 1 (11.11%) ADO
4 1 (11.11%) Ajax
4 1 (11.11%) CSS3
4 1 (11.11%) jQuery
4 1 (11.11%) REST
4 1 (11.11%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Data Structures
2 1 (11.11%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 5 (55.56%) Linux
1 5 (55.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 5 (55.56%) Windows
2 1 (11.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) CI/CD
2 7 (77.78%) DevOps
2 7 (77.78%) Microservices
3 6 (66.67%) Code Quality
3 6 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
4 5 (55.56%) Build Automation
4 5 (55.56%) Migration
5 3 (33.33%) Agile
5 3 (33.33%) Analytics
5 3 (33.33%) API Development
5 3 (33.33%) Change Management
5 3 (33.33%) Observability
5 3 (33.33%) Runbook
5 3 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (22.22%) Computer Science
6 2 (22.22%) Containerisation
6 2 (22.22%) MVC
6 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (22.22%) Scrum
6 2 (22.22%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 7 (77.78%) Python
2 6 (66.67%) Java
3 5 (55.56%) Perl
4 2 (22.22%) JavaScript
5 1 (11.11%) Bash
5 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
5 1 (11.11%) SQL
5 1 (11.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (22.22%) Degree
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Certification
2 1 (11.11%) Master's Degree
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 7 (77.78%) Docker
2 5 (55.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (77.78%) Kubernetes
1 7 (77.78%) Progress Chef
2 5 (55.56%) Kibana
3 2 (22.22%) Puppet
4 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) AppDynamics
1 5 (55.56%) Red Hat
1 5 (55.56%) Splunk
2 3 (33.33%) Cloudera
3 2 (22.22%) CA Agile Central
4 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
4 1 (11.11%) Oracle