Deployment Automation Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Deployment Automation
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Deployment Automation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 94 75 102
Rank change year-on-year -19 +27 +20
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 5 11 4
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.31% 0.96% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.37% 1.15% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 2
10th Percentile £431 - £570
25th Percentile £467 £180 £581
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £278 £625
Median % change year-on-year +91.44% -55.60% -12.28%
75th Percentile £592 £388 £681
90th Percentile £627 £394 £700
England median daily rate £525 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% -6.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £21.29 - £15.50
Median hourly rate £22.58 - £16.00
75th Percentile £23.86 - £16.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £22.58 £85.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -73.44% +286.36% -

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 1,350 958 1,498
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 84.38% 83.74% 88.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 564 408 788
10th Percentile £187 £237 £243
25th Percentile £361 £338 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.89% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £580 £577 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 432 188 355
10th Percentile £14.11 - £14.16
25th Percentile £16.40 £15.62 £15.00
Median hourly rate £20.88 £28.34 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.33% +28.80% -2.22%
75th Percentile £61.18 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £78.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.30%

Deployment Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Deployment Automation job vacancy trend in the East of England

Deployment Automation
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

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

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 17 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Deployment Automation in the East of England

Deployment Automation
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

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

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 17 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
Suffolk -1 2 - -
Hertfordshire -21 2 £531 - 3
Norfolk - 1 - - 2
Deployment Automation
England

Deployment Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (20.00%) GitHub
1 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (20.00%) MySQL
2 1 (20.00%) Power BI
2 1 (20.00%) RDBMS
2 1 (20.00%) Redis
2 1 (20.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Git
2 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Deployment Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Python Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Portal Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Python Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Deployment Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) RESTful
2 2 (40.00%) React
3 1 (20.00%) FastAPI
3 1 (20.00%) Jest
3 1 (20.00%) Next.js
3 1 (20.00%) Node.js
3 1 (20.00%) pytest
3 1 (20.00%) REST
3 1 (20.00%) Spring
3 1 (20.00%) Spring Boot
3 1 (20.00%) Spring WebFlux
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security Posture
1 1 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (20.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (60.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (60.00%) DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) API Development
3 2 (40.00%) Data Management
3 2 (40.00%) Data Modelling
3 2 (40.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 2 (40.00%) Microservices
3 2 (40.00%) Web Development
4 1 (20.00%) Agile
4 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security
4 1 (20.00%) Code Quality
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (20.00%) DevSecOps
4 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (20.00%) Log Analytics
4 1 (20.00%) SOAR
4 1 (20.00%) TDD
4 1 (20.00%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Python
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) Bash
2 1 (20.00%) Bicep
2 1 (20.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) QA
2 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (20.00%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Consul
2 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (20.00%) SCCM
2 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Cribl.io
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft