Deployment Automation Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Deployment Automation
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Deployment Automation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 50 57
Rank change year-on-year -23 +7 +19
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 11 4 5
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 1.08% 0.70% 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.29% 0.80% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 3 4
10th Percentile £389 £333 -
25th Percentile £393 £344 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £398 £375 £356
Median % change year-on-year +6.00% +5.34% -16.24%
75th Percentile £420 £462 £359
90th Percentile £498 £507 £365
England median daily rate £515 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -10.43% - -9.80%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 856 500 642
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 83.76% 87.11% 80.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 470 312 442
10th Percentile £198 £200 £189
25th Percentile £360 £319 £288
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year +5.18% - -5.56%
75th Percentile £549 £523 £538
90th Percentile £625 £588 £638
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 22 65
10th Percentile £14.96 £13.89 £11.85
25th Percentile £16.35 £16.33 £14.00
Median hourly rate £18.87 £22.05 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.40% +25.97% +3.98%
75th Percentile £24.86 £24.54 £26.50
90th Percentile £25.77 £33.55 £51.50
England median hourly rate £29.61 £35.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year -15.40% +6.06% -6.46%

Deployment Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Deployment Automation job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Deployment Automation
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Deployment Automation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Deployment Automation

Deployment Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Deployment Automation in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 7 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Deployment Automation in the East Midlands

Deployment Automation
Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Deployment Automation.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Deployment Automation

Deployment Automation
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 7 March 2026. 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
Northamptonshire -18 8 £393 -8.92% 1
Derbyshire - 2 - - 1
Leicestershire -6 1 £550 +46.67% 1
Deployment Automation
England

Deployment Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 3 (27.27%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 7 (63.64%) AWS
1 7 (63.64%) GitHub
1 7 (63.64%) GitHub Actions
2 3 (27.27%) Amazon S3
2 3 (27.27%) Azure
3 2 (18.18%) Azure Batch
3 2 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (18.18%) IaaS
3 2 (18.18%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (63.64%) Aerospike
2 5 (45.45%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (36.36%) DynamoDB
3 4 (36.36%) Redis
Development Applications
1 7 (63.64%) GitLab
1 7 (63.64%) Jenkins
2 4 (36.36%) JUnit
General
1 7 (63.64%) Finance
1 7 (63.64%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
2 1 (9.09%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) AWS Data Engineer
1 3 (27.27%) AWS Engineer
1 3 (27.27%) Data Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Architect
2 2 (18.18%) AWS Architect
2 2 (18.18%) AWS Developer
2 2 (18.18%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Developer
2 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) AWS Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) Cloud Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) Database Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) Migration Specialist
3 1 (9.09%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (63.64%) Kafka
1 7 (63.64%) Node.js
1 7 (63.64%) pytest
2 4 (36.36%) Jest
3 3 (27.27%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 7 (63.64%) Cloud Native
1 7 (63.64%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (18.18%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Windows
2 1 (9.09%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) CI/CD
2 7 (63.64%) Agile
2 7 (63.64%) Backtesting
2 7 (63.64%) Clean Code
2 7 (63.64%) Code Quality
2 7 (63.64%) Data Protection
2 7 (63.64%) Fraud Detection
2 7 (63.64%) Integration Testing
2 7 (63.64%) Migration
2 7 (63.64%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (63.64%) Secure Coding
2 7 (63.64%) Test Automation
2 7 (63.64%) Unit Testing
3 4 (36.36%) Data Modelling
3 4 (36.36%) Microservices
4 3 (27.27%) Analytics
4 3 (27.27%) Data Engineering
4 3 (27.27%) ETL
5 2 (18.18%) DevOps
5 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) Java
2 3 (27.27%) PowerShell
2 3 (27.27%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) BPSS Clearance
1 3 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Certification
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Active Directory
2 1 (9.09%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Terraform
2 1 (9.09%) Ansible
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (9.09%) SCCM
Vendors
1 7 (63.64%) Databricks
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
3 1 (9.09%) Intel
3 1 (9.09%) Sophos