Deployment Automation Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Deployment Automation
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Deployment Automation skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 71 101
Rank change year-on-year -6 +30 +35
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 5 15 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.50% 1.26% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.56% 1.45% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 8 2
10th Percentile £380 - £534
25th Percentile £413 - £547
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £400 £588
Median % change year-on-year +17.75% -31.91% +4.58%
75th Percentile £600 - £622
90th Percentile £615 - £631
North West median daily rate £436 £400 £585
% change year-on-year +8.88% -31.62% +4.14%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 900 1,038 1,506
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 89.55% 87.45% 88.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 581 639 1,082
10th Percentile £311 £325 £277
25th Percentile £400 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £673 £723 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £498 £500
% change year-on-year -9.55% -0.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 34 58
10th Percentile £14.85 £16.26 £15.72
25th Percentile £19.02 £22.38 £16.68
Median hourly rate £22.63 £38.75 £19.75
Median % change year-on-year -41.60% +96.20% +1.28%
75th Percentile £39.31 £62.50 £43.75
90th Percentile £74.63 £87.45 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -40.84% +21.43% +59.09%

Deployment Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Deployment Automation in Manchester

Deployment Automation
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

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

Deployment Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Deployment Automation in Manchester over the 6 months to 15 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Deployment Automation in Manchester

Deployment Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 1 (20.00%) Apache
1 1 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (20.00%) IIS
1 1 (20.00%) iPlanet
1 1 (20.00%) JBoss
1 1 (20.00%) nginx
1 1 (20.00%) WebSphere
1 1 (20.00%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon SQS
2 2 (40.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (40.00%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (40.00%) GitHub
2 2 (40.00%) Serverless
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon EventBridge
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Step Functions
3 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (20.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Database
1 1 (20.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Git
2 2 (40.00%) GitLab
2 2 (40.00%) JIRA
3 1 (20.00%) Bitbucket Server
3 1 (20.00%) CA Release Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (20.00%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (20.00%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 3 (60.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Digital Healthcare
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Data Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) AWS CDK
1 2 (40.00%) Node.js
1 2 (40.00%) OAuth
2 1 (20.00%) HTML
2 1 (20.00%) JSON
2 1 (20.00%) LDAP
2 1 (20.00%) OAuth2
2 1 (20.00%) OpenID
2 1 (20.00%) PySpark
2 1 (20.00%) pytest
2 1 (20.00%) REST
2 1 (20.00%) RESTful
2 1 (20.00%) SAML
2 1 (20.00%) SOAP
2 1 (20.00%) XML
2 1 (20.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Unix
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (80.00%) DevOps
3 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (40.00%) Agile
4 2 (40.00%) Computer Science
4 2 (40.00%) DevSecOps
4 2 (40.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
4 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 2 (40.00%) SDLC
4 2 (40.00%) Static Application Security Testing
4 2 (40.00%) Threat Modelling
5 1 (20.00%) Data Mapping
5 1 (20.00%) Data Modelling
5 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
5 1 (20.00%) ETL
5 1 (20.00%) Network Load Balancing
5 1 (20.00%) Pair Programming
5 1 (20.00%) Release Management
5 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (20.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Python
2 3 (60.00%) Shell Script
3 2 (40.00%) Go
3 2 (40.00%) Perl
3 2 (40.00%) TypeScript
4 1 (20.00%) Groovy
4 1 (20.00%) Java
4 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (40.00%) Degree
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (20.00%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Docker
2 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (20.00%) Tivoli Directory Server
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Terraform
2 2 (40.00%) Ansible
2 2 (40.00%) Packer
3 1 (20.00%) CA Single Sign-On
3 1 (20.00%) CA Wily
3 1 (20.00%) Control-M
3 1 (20.00%) Progress Chef
3 1 (20.00%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (20.00%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) AppDynamics
2 1 (20.00%) Broadcom
2 1 (20.00%) IBM
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Pega
2 1 (20.00%) Splunk