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 9 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 68 63
Rank change year-on-year -19 -5 -
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 1 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.073% 0.24% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.099% 0.28% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £276 £375
Median % change year-on-year - -26.40% -
75th Percentile - - £388
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £515 £550 £565
% change year-on-year -6.36% -2.65% -5.83%

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 1,015 727 653
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 74.52% 86.75% 84.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 424 500 404
10th Percentile £230 £225 £264
25th Percentile £398 £350 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £415 £445
Median % change year-on-year +16.39% -6.74% -9.18%
75th Percentile £575 £520 £550
90th Percentile £668 £625 £613
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 195 68 29
10th Percentile £12.76 £16.17 £13.37
25th Percentile £13.50 £17.87 £15.10
Median hourly rate £17.87 £18.87 £21.59
Median % change year-on-year -5.30% -12.60% -5.10%
75th Percentile £25.75 £25.15 £50.00
90th Percentile £33.75 - £51.00
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +59.05% -40.82% -4.49%

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
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 9 October 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
Derbyshire - 1 - - 3
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) IaaS
1 1 (100.00%) PaaS
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (100.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
General
1 1 (100.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) ARM Templates
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Architecture Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) Log Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Mathematics
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Network Virtualisation
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks