Deployment Automation Contracts in the East of England

Deployment Automation
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 73 110 110
Rank change year-on-year +37 0 +27
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 9 2 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.96% 0.10% 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.08% 0.12% 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 1 12
10th Percentile £180 - £656
25th Percentile £195 £538 £713
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £550 £775
Median % change year-on-year -36.36% -29.03% +59.79%
75th Percentile £594 £563 £838
90th Percentile £650 - -
England median daily rate £550 £575 £625
% change year-on-year -4.35% -8.00% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £67.50 -
England median hourly rate - £23.80 £71.00
% change year-on-year - -66.48% -11.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 837 1,644 1,800
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 89.23% 86.12% 87.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 432 703 1,064
10th Percentile £225 £207 £200
25th Percentile £400 £339 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -
75th Percentile £600 £575 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 177 607 340
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.39 £14.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 £40.00 £24.62
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +62.47% +58.84%
75th Percentile £70.00 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £75.25 £70.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Deployment Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Deployment Automation in the East of England

Deployment Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Deployment Automation in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for Deployment Automation in the East of England

Deployment Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Deployment Automation in the East of England

Deployment Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Deployment Automation in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for Deployment Automation in the East of England

Deployment Automation
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England 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
Bedfordshire - 3 £650 - 6
Essex - 2 £180 - 13
Hertfordshire - 2 £550 - 9
Cambridgeshire +9 1 £200 -63.64% 10
Norfolk - 1 £200 - 3
Deployment Automation
England

Deployment Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) AWS
1 2 (22.22%) Azure
1 2 (22.22%) Dynamics 365
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (22.22%) Power Automate
1 2 (22.22%) Power Platform
1 2 (22.22%) PowerApps
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon S3
2 1 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (11.11%) AWS CodeBuild
2 1 (11.11%) AWS CodePipeline
2 1 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (11.11%) Cohesity
2 1 (11.11%) Serverless
2 1 (11.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) DNS
1 1 (11.11%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) Power BI
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Bitbucket
1 2 (22.22%) Jenkins
2 1 (11.11%) JMeter
2 1 (11.11%) TestDirector
General
1 4 (44.44%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Finance
2 2 (22.22%) Legal
Job Titles
1 2 (22.22%) Architect
1 2 (22.22%) Deployment Engineer
1 2 (22.22%) Dynamics 365 Architect
1 2 (22.22%) IT Engineer
1 2 (22.22%) IT Support
1 2 (22.22%) IT Support Engineer
1 2 (22.22%) Supply Chain Architect
1 2 (22.22%) Support Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) AWS Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Senior
2 1 (11.11%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Culture of Ownership
1 1 (11.11%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) Windows
2 1 (11.11%) Windows Server
2 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (33.33%) DevOps
2 3 (33.33%) Migration
2 3 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 2 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (22.22%) Cost Reduction
3 2 (22.22%) Data Migration
3 2 (22.22%) Performance Analysis
3 2 (22.22%) Software Deployment
3 2 (22.22%) Supply Chain Management
3 2 (22.22%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (22.22%) Translating Business Requirements
4 1 (11.11%) CI/CD
4 1 (11.11%) Cost Management
4 1 (11.11%) Cost Optimisation
4 1 (11.11%) Decision-Making
4 1 (11.11%) End-to-End Testing
4 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (11.11%) Knowledge Transfer
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (11.11%) DV Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
1 1 (11.11%) Virtual Servers
1 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) SCCM
2 2 (22.22%) Terraform
3 1 (11.11%) Ansible
3 1 (11.11%) WSUS
Vendors
1 7 (77.78%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) NetApp
2 1 (11.11%) Splunk
2 1 (11.11%) VMware