Deployment Automation Contracts in England

Deployment Automation
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Deployment Automation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Deployment Automation over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 318 307 341
Rank change year-on-year -11 +34 -43
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 241 424 563
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.65% 0.84% 0.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.75% 0.93% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 175 277 393
10th Percentile £413 £423 £425
25th Percentile £513 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £594 £625 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.96% +8.70% +15.00%
75th Percentile £700 £700 £650
90th Percentile £775 £793 £773
UK median daily rate £575 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 5
10th Percentile £22.72 £66.10 £50.00
25th Percentile - £67.75 £57.50
Median hourly rate £23.80 £71.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -66.48% -11.25% +80.16%
75th Percentile £67.02 £77.25 £85.00
90th Percentile £69.56 £80.70 £86.50
UK median hourly rate £23.80 £68.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year -65.26% -2.14% +57.30%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Deployment Automation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,205 45,779 64,338
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.51% 90.27% 90.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,157 32,091 45,636
10th Percentile £300 £325 £330
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.41%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £769 £744
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,232 1,623 1,778
10th Percentile £12.87 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.62 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.25 £37.50 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% +56.25% -
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.16
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% +50.00% -

Deployment Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Deployment Automation in England

Deployment Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Deployment Automation in England

Deployment Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Deployment Automation in England over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Deployment Automation in England

Deployment Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Deployment Automation in England

Deployment Automation
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Deployment Automation in England over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Deployment Automation in England

Deployment Automation
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 25 April 2024. 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
London +18 116 £663 +6.00% 34
South East +7 52 £575 -5.35% 10
South West +16 31 £700 - 19
North of England +18 20 £510 +2.00% 19
North West +11 12 £510 +5.97% 14
Midlands +16 9 £359 -15.47% 7
East Midlands +14 5 £356 -16.24%
Yorkshire +14 5 £475 -5.00% 4
West Midlands +23 4 £675 +17.39% 7
North East - 3 £520 - 1
East of England -2 2 £550 -29.03%
Deployment Automation
UK

Deployment Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 31 (12.86%) Confluence
2 10 (4.15%) SharePoint
3 9 (3.73%) Apache Spark
4 6 (2.49%) Apache
5 5 (2.07%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (2.07%) JBoss
5 5 (2.07%) WordPress
6 4 (1.66%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (1.24%) CMS
7 3 (1.24%) Drupal
7 3 (1.24%) IIS
8 1 (0.41%) IBM HTTP Server
8 1 (0.41%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.41%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.41%) WebSphere Application Server
8 1 (0.41%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 5 (2.07%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (1.66%) Dynamics AX
1 4 (1.66%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.41%) Endur
2 1 (0.41%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 82 (34.02%) Azure
2 64 (26.56%) AWS
3 37 (15.35%) Serverless
4 35 (14.52%) Azure DevOps
4 35 (14.52%) GCP
5 21 (8.71%) IaaS
5 21 (8.71%) PaaS
6 20 (8.30%) Power Platform
6 20 (8.30%) SaaS
7 18 (7.47%) Power Automate
8 15 (6.22%) GitHub
9 14 (5.81%) AWS CloudFormation
9 14 (5.81%) Azure Functions
9 14 (5.81%) Azure Service Bus
10 13 (5.39%) Amazon S3
10 13 (5.39%) PowerApps
11 12 (4.98%) Azure Key Vault
12 11 (4.56%) Amazon EC2
13 10 (4.15%) Microsoft 365
13 10 (4.15%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 21 (8.71%) DNS
2 14 (5.81%) Firewall
3 11 (4.56%) SAN
4 10 (4.15%) NAS
5 9 (3.73%) DHCP
6 8 (3.32%) Kerberos
6 8 (3.32%) TCP/IP
6 8 (3.32%) VLAN
7 5 (2.07%) FTP
8 4 (1.66%) VPN
9 3 (1.24%) Internet
9 3 (1.24%) SSL
9 3 (1.24%) Wireless
10 2 (0.83%) DKIM
10 2 (0.83%) DMARC
10 2 (0.83%) Extranet
10 2 (0.83%) LAN
10 2 (0.83%) Network Security
10 2 (0.83%) Wi-Fi
11 1 (0.41%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (7.88%) SQL Server
2 13 (5.39%) Big Data
3 12 (4.98%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (4.98%) NoSQL
4 11 (4.56%) Relational Database
5 10 (4.15%) Power BI
6 8 (3.32%) Azure SQL Database
7 7 (2.90%) Data Lake
7 7 (2.90%) OLTP
8 6 (2.49%) Elasticsearch
8 6 (2.49%) MongoDB
9 5 (2.07%) RDBMS
10 4 (1.66%) BigQuery
11 3 (1.24%) MySQL
11 3 (1.24%) PostgreSQL
11 3 (1.24%) Spark SQL
11 3 (1.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Analysis Services
12 2 (0.83%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 2 (0.83%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 73 (30.29%) Jenkins
2 62 (25.73%) Git
3 44 (18.26%) JIRA
4 28 (11.62%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 28 (11.62%) Bitbucket
5 17 (7.05%) TeamCity
6 13 (5.39%) Visual Studio
7 8 (3.32%) SonarQube
8 7 (2.90%) Sonatype Nexus
8 7 (2.90%) Visual Studio Team System
9 6 (2.49%) Selenium
10 5 (2.07%) Artifactory
10 5 (2.07%) Bitbucket Server
10 5 (2.07%) CA Release Automation
10 5 (2.07%) GitLab
11 3 (1.24%) Babel
11 3 (1.24%) Subversion
11 3 (1.24%) webpack
12 2 (0.83%) Ant
12 2 (0.83%) Mocha
General
1 62 (25.73%) Social Skills
2 36 (14.94%) Finance
3 29 (12.03%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (7.47%) Aerospace
5 9 (3.73%) Banking
6 7 (2.90%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (2.90%) Manufacturing
6 7 (2.90%) Public Sector
7 5 (2.07%) Local Government
7 5 (2.07%) Pharmaceutical
7 5 (2.07%) Retail
8 2 (0.83%) Back Office
8 2 (0.83%) Electronics
8 2 (0.83%) Marketing
8 2 (0.83%) Publishing
8 2 (0.83%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.41%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.41%) Front Office
9 1 (0.41%) German Language
9 1 (0.41%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 70 (29.05%) Developer
2 35 (14.52%) Architect
3 24 (9.96%) Senior
4 21 (8.71%) Build Engineer
4 21 (8.71%) Windows Build Engineer
4 21 (8.71%) Windows Engineer
5 17 (7.05%) Cloud Engineer
6 16 (6.64%) Solutions Architect
7 13 (5.39%) Lead
7 13 (5.39%) Security Architect
8 12 (4.98%) DevOps Engineer
9 11 (4.56%) Data Engineer
10 10 (4.15%) Cloud Architect
11 9 (3.73%) C# Developer
11 9 (3.73%) Cloud Security Architect
12 8 (3.32%) .NET Developer
12 8 (3.32%) Senior Developer
12 8 (3.32%) Senior Security Architect
12 8 (3.32%) Software Engineer
12 8 (3.32%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (26.14%) .NET
2 31 (12.86%) .NET Core
3 19 (7.88%) React
4 15 (6.22%) ASP.NET
5 13 (5.39%) Web Services
6 12 (4.98%) JSON
6 12 (4.98%) SailPoint
6 12 (4.98%) XML
7 10 (4.15%) .NET Framework
7 10 (4.15%) CSS
8 9 (3.73%) ARM Templates
9 8 (3.32%) HTML
9 8 (3.32%) Kafka
9 8 (3.32%) LDAP
10 7 (2.90%) Elastic Stack
11 6 (2.49%) Spring Boot
12 4 (1.66%) CSS3
12 4 (1.66%) Node.js
12 4 (1.66%) RESTful
12 4 (1.66%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 15 (6.22%) Mobile App
2 12 (4.98%) IoT
3 10 (4.15%) Cloud Native
3 10 (4.15%) Clustering
4 9 (3.73%) Replication
5 5 (2.07%) Data Centre
5 5 (2.07%) Distributed Architecture
5 5 (2.07%) Onboarding
6 4 (1.66%) PKI
7 3 (1.24%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.24%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.24%) Private Cloud
7 3 (1.24%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.24%) Virtual Team
8 2 (0.83%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (0.83%) Fat Client
8 2 (0.83%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.83%) Product Ownership
8 2 (0.83%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 54 (22.41%) Windows
2 49 (20.33%) Linux
3 37 (15.35%) Windows Server
4 26 (10.79%) Windows 10
5 25 (10.37%) Windows Server 2012
5 25 (10.37%) Windows Server 2019
6 21 (8.71%) Windows NT
6 21 (8.71%) Windows Server 2016
7 18 (7.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 8 (3.32%) Oracle Linux
8 8 (3.32%) Solaris
9 7 (2.90%) Unix
10 1 (0.41%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (41.08%) CI/CD
2 91 (37.76%) DevOps
3 69 (28.63%) Continuous Integration
4 55 (22.82%) Test Automation
5 48 (19.92%) Agile
6 47 (19.50%) Problem-Solving
7 36 (14.94%) Infrastructure as Code
7 36 (14.94%) Task Automation
8 32 (13.28%) ITIL
8 32 (13.28%) OO
9 30 (12.45%) Infrastructure Automation
10 29 (12.03%) Containerisation
11 28 (11.62%) Migration
11 28 (11.62%) OOP
12 27 (11.20%) Microservices
13 26 (10.79%) Configuration Management
13 26 (10.79%) Release Management
14 25 (10.37%) Application Security
14 25 (10.37%) User Acceptance Testing
15 24 (9.96%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 77 (31.95%) PowerShell
2 68 (28.22%) Python
3 50 (20.75%) C#
4 33 (13.69%) Java
5 32 (13.28%) SQL
6 18 (7.47%) JavaScript
7 16 (6.64%) Bash
8 12 (4.98%) TypeScript
9 6 (2.49%) Perl
10 4 (1.66%) C++
11 3 (1.24%) Go
12 2 (0.83%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.41%) Bicep
13 1 (0.41%) R
13 1 (0.41%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.41%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 89 (36.93%) Security Cleared
2 55 (22.82%) SC Cleared
3 29 (12.03%) DV Cleared
4 10 (4.15%) Degree
5 7 (2.90%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (2.07%) Master's Degree
7 4 (1.66%) MCSE
7 4 (1.66%) MCTS
7 4 (1.66%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.24%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.41%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.41%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.41%) CEH
9 1 (0.41%) Chartered Engineer
9 1 (0.41%) CISSP
9 1 (0.41%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.41%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (14.52%) QA
2 12 (4.98%) NIST
3 8 (3.32%) GDPR
3 8 (3.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 7 (2.90%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.66%) SLA
6 1 (0.41%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.41%) WCAG
System Software
1 46 (19.09%) Active Directory
2 26 (10.79%) Docker
3 24 (9.96%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (8.71%) Firmware
5 5 (2.07%) Hyper-V
6 3 (1.24%) BitLocker
6 3 (1.24%) Microsoft App-V
6 3 (1.24%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.83%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.41%) IAG
8 1 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.41%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 57 (23.65%) Ansible
2 53 (21.99%) Terraform
3 38 (15.77%) Kubernetes
4 29 (12.03%) SCCM
5 25 (10.37%) WSUS
6 24 (9.96%) PowerCLI
7 21 (8.71%) Sysprep
8 8 (3.32%) EMC NetWorker
8 8 (3.32%) Netcool
8 8 (3.32%) Tivoli
8 8 (3.32%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 6 (2.49%) Kibana
10 5 (2.07%) Microsoft Intune
10 5 (2.07%) Progress Chef
11 3 (1.24%) Grafana
11 3 (1.24%) NetBackup
11 3 (1.24%) SCOM
11 3 (1.24%) SCVMM
11 3 (1.24%) vCenter Server
11 3 (1.24%) vRealize
Vendors
1 69 (28.63%) Microsoft
2 33 (13.69%) Dell
3 32 (13.28%) HP
4 24 (9.96%) VMware
5 23 (9.54%) Atlassian
5 23 (9.54%) ServiceNow
6 19 (7.88%) CyberArk
7 14 (5.81%) Splunk
8 12 (4.98%) Cisco
9 11 (4.56%) BeyondTrust
9 11 (4.56%) EMC
10 10 (4.15%) Oracle
11 9 (3.73%) Google
11 9 (3.73%) IBM
12 8 (3.32%) Isilon
12 8 (3.32%) Qualys
12 8 (3.32%) Salesforce
12 8 (3.32%) Serena
13 7 (2.90%) Databricks
14 5 (2.07%) Talend