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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 69 -
Rank change year-on-year -3 - -
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 3 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.38% 0.13% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% 0.15% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £295 - -
25th Percentile £323 £363 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £376 £375 -
Median % change year-on-year +0.13% - -
75th Percentile £435 £388 -
90th Percentile £466 - -
England median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

All Process and 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 672 648 748
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 85.61% 82.65% 86.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 470 402 541
10th Percentile £223 £267 £213
25th Percentile £341 £360 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.89% -10.00% +7.53%
75th Percentile £500 £575 £600
90th Percentile £626 £625 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 34 48
10th Percentile £15.71 £12.75 £12.70
25th Percentile £17.87 £15.03 £16.56
Median hourly rate £18.87 £17.66 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.85% -35.78% +48.65%
75th Percentile £25.15 £41.61 £53.75
90th Percentile - £50.00 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.79
% change year-on-year -41.51% -1.81% +51.01%

Deployment Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing Deployment Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Deployment Automation 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 17 September 2025.

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 17 September 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
Northamptonshire - 2 £376 - 3
Leicestershire -1 1 - - 2
Deployment Automation
England

Deployment Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 1 (33.33%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Git
1 2 (66.67%) SonarQube
1 2 (66.67%) Sonatype Nexus
1 2 (66.67%) TeamCity
2 1 (33.33%) Bitbucket
2 1 (33.33%) Bitbucket Server
2 1 (33.33%) CA Release Automation
2 1 (33.33%) IntelliJ
2 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (33.33%) JIRA
2 1 (33.33%) Maven
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) DBA
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Java Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Java Developer
1 1 (33.33%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Spring Boot
2 1 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (33.33%) J2EE
2 1 (33.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Analytical Thinking
3 1 (33.33%) Build Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Coaching
3 1 (33.33%) Code Quality
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (33.33%) Design Patterns
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (33.33%) Microservices
3 1 (33.33%) Non-Functional Testing
3 1 (33.33%) OO
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (33.33%) Release Management
3 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 1 (33.33%) Perl
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) Shell Script
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
1 1 (33.33%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
2 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kibana
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) AppDynamics
1 1 (33.33%) Red Hat
1 1 (33.33%) Splunk