Deployment Automation Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

Deployment Automation
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hampshire requiring Deployment Automation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 80 91
Rank change year-on-year +15 +11 +14
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 15 8 4
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 1.47% 0.67% 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.70% 0.84% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 0 1
10th Percentile £435 - -
25th Percentile £561 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £750
Median % change year-on-year - - +41.18%
75th Percentile £619 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £595 £476 £575
% change year-on-year +24.93% -17.17% +4.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 881 949 1,182
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 86.46% 79.81% 87.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 583 620 664
10th Percentile £315 £360 £300
25th Percentile £450 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £570 £530
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% +7.55% +0.95%
75th Percentile £600 £646 £636
90th Percentile £650 £713 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 65 102
10th Percentile £16.17 £23.85 £15.50
25th Percentile £18.87 £31.25 £21.01
Median hourly rate £20.71 £70.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -70.41% +33.33% +16.67%
75th Percentile £27.50 £75.00 £61.88
90th Percentile £53.00 £78.75 £73.75
South East median hourly rate £20.71 £58.30 £52.50
% change year-on-year -64.48% +11.05% +48.05%

Deployment Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Deployment Automation job vacancy trend in Hampshire

Deployment Automation
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Deployment Automation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Deployment Automation

Deployment Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Deployment Automation in Hampshire over the 6 months to 20 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Deployment Automation in Hampshire

Deployment Automation
Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Deployment Automation.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Deployment Automation

Deployment Automation
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

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 Hampshire region over the 6 months to 20 October 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
Farnborough - 6 £613 - 2
Basingstoke +6 5 £600 - 1
Deployment Automation
South East

Deployment Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire 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 4 (26.67%) Apache
2 1 (6.67%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (6.67%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 8 (53.33%) Azure
2 7 (46.67%) OpenShift
3 6 (40.00%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (13.33%) AWS
4 2 (13.33%) GCP
5 1 (6.67%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (6.67%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (6.67%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (6.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (6.67%) Dagster
5 1 (6.67%) Entra ID
5 1 (6.67%) GitHub
5 1 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (6.67%) Data Lake
1 1 (6.67%) Metadata
1 1 (6.67%) MongoDB
1 1 (6.67%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 7 (46.67%) Jenkins
2 4 (26.67%) MSI
2 4 (26.67%) Robot Framework
2 4 (26.67%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (13.33%) Git
3 2 (13.33%) SonarQube
4 1 (6.67%) GitLab
4 1 (6.67%) JIRA
4 1 (6.67%) Poetry
4 1 (6.67%) Pylint
General
1 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (6.67%) Finance
2 1 (6.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (46.67%) Platform Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Integration Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Architect
4 1 (6.67%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Environment And Release Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Environment Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Lead
4 1 (6.67%) Machine Learning Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Release Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Senior
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Platform Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (40.00%) React
2 5 (33.33%) Middleware
3 1 (6.67%) AngularJS
3 1 (6.67%) Kafka
3 1 (6.67%) Node.js
3 1 (6.67%) ONNX
3 1 (6.67%) PySpark
3 1 (6.67%) pytest
3 1 (6.67%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (40.00%) Private Cloud
2 5 (33.33%) PKI
3 1 (6.67%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (26.67%) CentOS
1 4 (26.67%) Linux
1 4 (26.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 4 (26.67%) Windows
1 4 (26.67%) Windows Server
1 4 (26.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 8 (53.33%) Containerisation
2 8 (53.33%) DevOps
3 7 (46.67%) Migration
3 7 (46.67%) Platform Engineering
4 6 (40.00%) High Availability
4 6 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (33.33%) Agile
5 5 (33.33%) Configuration Management
5 5 (33.33%) Open Source
5 5 (33.33%) Workflow
6 4 (26.67%) Batch Scripting
6 4 (26.67%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (26.67%) Prototyping
6 4 (26.67%) Test Automation
6 4 (26.67%) Web Development
7 1 (6.67%) Change Data Capture
7 1 (6.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 1 (6.67%) Machine Learning
7 1 (6.67%) Metadata Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (73.33%) Python
2 10 (66.67%) PowerShell
3 7 (46.67%) SQL
4 6 (40.00%) JavaScript
5 5 (33.33%) C#
5 5 (33.33%) Java
6 4 (26.67%) PHP
7 1 (6.67%) Bicep
7 1 (6.67%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (86.67%) Security Cleared
2 7 (46.67%) SC Cleared
3 5 (33.33%) DV Cleared
4 1 (6.67%) Azure Certification
4 1 (6.67%) OCP
4 1 (6.67%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) QA
2 1 (6.67%) NCSC
System Software
1 4 (26.67%) Active Directory
1 4 (26.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (73.33%) Ansible
2 9 (60.00%) Kubernetes
3 5 (33.33%) Terraform
4 4 (26.67%) WMI
5 1 (6.67%) Cilium
5 1 (6.67%) Grafana
5 1 (6.67%) Prometheus
5 1 (6.67%) Rsyslog
5 1 (6.67%) SCOM
Vendors
1 10 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 6 (40.00%) Red Hat
3 5 (33.33%) VMware
4 1 (6.67%) Databricks
4 1 (6.67%) Google
4 1 (6.67%) NVIDIA
4 1 (6.67%) Oracle