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 29 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 53 -
Rank change year-on-year -17 - -
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 5 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.57% 0.17% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.67% 0.20% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile £384 - -
25th Percentile £390 £363 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £398 £375 -
Median % change year-on-year +6.00% - -
75th Percentile £402 £388 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £523 £612 £575
% change year-on-year -14.62% +6.43% -8.00%

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 746 509 602
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 84.39% 86.86% 83.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 460 314 427
10th Percentile £188 £250 £213
25th Percentile £352 £340 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £422 £425 £453
Median % change year-on-year -0.76% -6.18% -4.63%
75th Percentile £525 £545 £575
90th Percentile £625 £625 £686
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 87 23 45
10th Percentile £15.90 £15.48 £12.80
25th Percentile £16.35 £17.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £18.87 £22.50 £22.28
Median % change year-on-year -16.13% +1.01% +32.35%
75th Percentile £25.00 £27.65 £51.50
90th Percentile £25.15 £38.49 £62.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +25.35%

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 29 December 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 - 5 £398 - 7
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 2 (40.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) AWS
1 4 (80.00%) GitHub
1 4 (80.00%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) Aerospike
2 2 (40.00%) DynamoDB
2 2 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (40.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) GitLab
1 4 (80.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (40.00%) JUnit
General
1 4 (80.00%) Finance
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) AWS Data Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) AWS Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Architect
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Migration Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) Kafka
1 4 (80.00%) Node.js
1 4 (80.00%) pytest
2 2 (40.00%) Jest
2 2 (40.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Cloud Native
1 4 (80.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Agile
1 4 (80.00%) Backtesting
1 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (80.00%) Clean Code
1 4 (80.00%) Code Quality
1 4 (80.00%) Data Protection
1 4 (80.00%) Fraud Detection
1 4 (80.00%) Integration Testing
1 4 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (80.00%) Secure Coding
1 4 (80.00%) Test Automation
1 4 (80.00%) Unit Testing
2 3 (60.00%) Migration
3 2 (40.00%) Analytics
3 2 (40.00%) Data Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) Data Modelling
3 2 (40.00%) ETL
3 2 (40.00%) Microservices
4 1 (20.00%) Configuration Management
4 1 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Java
1 2 (40.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (20.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Databricks
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Sophos