Deployment Automation Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Deployment Automation
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Deployment Automation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 108 113 122
Rank change year-on-year +5 +9 +56
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 57 19 12
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 1.84% 0.76% 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.12% 0.89% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 18 6
10th Percentile £401 £441 £525
25th Percentile £452 £538 £559
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £612 £675
Median % change year-on-year -15.28% -9.33% +17.39%
75th Percentile £538 £685 £734
90th Percentile £580 £725 £750
England median daily rate £525 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% -6.12%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,688 2,125 2,274
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 86.96% 84.70% 84.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,695 1,322 1,557
10th Percentile £250 £250 £250
25th Percentile £373 £375 £376
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +2.56% -1.52%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £700 £689
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 206 80 104
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.70 £14.04
25th Percentile £16.35 £16.94 £17.41
Median hourly rate £18.87 £22.25 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year -15.19% -6.51% +41.41%
75th Percentile £25.15 £34.06 £51.50
90th Percentile £31.00 £52.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +18.67%

Deployment Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Deployment Automation job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Deployment Automation
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Deployment Automation

Deployment Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Deployment Automation in the Midlands over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Deployment Automation in the Midlands

Deployment Automation
Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Deployment Automation

Deployment Automation
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 13 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
West Midlands +7 52 £519 -15.28% 6
East Midlands -13 5 £402 +7.20%
Deployment Automation
England

Deployment Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 34 (59.65%) SAS
2 9 (15.79%) JBoss
3 8 (14.04%) Apache
3 8 (14.04%) WebLogic
4 4 (7.02%) Oracle Workflow
5 3 (5.26%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (3.51%) Apache Spark
6 2 (3.51%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 20 (35.09%) AWS
2 9 (15.79%) Azure
2 9 (15.79%) GitHub
3 8 (14.04%) Cloud Computing
4 4 (7.02%) GitHub Actions
4 4 (7.02%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (3.51%) Amazon EventBridge
6 2 (3.51%) Amazon S3
6 2 (3.51%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (3.51%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (3.51%) SaaS
6 2 (3.51%) Serverless
7 1 (1.75%) Amazon Cognito
7 1 (1.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (1.75%) IaaS
7 1 (1.75%) OpenShift
7 1 (1.75%) PaaS
7 1 (1.75%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (50.88%) Pentaho
2 11 (19.30%) SAS Enterprise Guide
3 8 (14.04%) MongoDB
4 7 (12.28%) Oracle Database
5 5 (8.77%) SAS Visual Analytics
6 4 (7.02%) SAS Data Integration Studio
7 3 (5.26%) Aerospike
7 3 (5.26%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.75%) DynamoDB
8 1 (1.75%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (1.75%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (1.75%) Power BI
8 1 (1.75%) RDBMS
8 1 (1.75%) Redis
8 1 (1.75%) SQL Server
8 1 (1.75%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 43 (75.44%) Git
2 34 (59.65%) Jenkins
3 30 (52.63%) JIRA
4 9 (15.79%) IntelliJ
4 9 (15.79%) JUnit
5 8 (14.04%) Eclipse
5 8 (14.04%) Selenium
6 7 (12.28%) GitLab
7 3 (5.26%) SonarQube
8 2 (3.51%) Bitbucket
8 2 (3.51%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (3.51%) TeamCity
9 1 (1.75%) Bitbucket Server
9 1 (1.75%) CA Release Automation
9 1 (1.75%) Maven
General
1 20 (35.09%) Social Skills
2 10 (17.54%) Public Sector
3 8 (14.04%) Influencing Skills
4 4 (7.02%) Finance
5 3 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.75%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.75%) Digital Healthcare
6 1 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 13 (22.81%) Data Engineer
2 6 (10.53%) SAS Engineer
3 5 (8.77%) Developer
4 4 (7.02%) DevOps Engineer
4 4 (7.02%) Java Engineer
5 3 (5.26%) Java Developer
6 2 (3.51%) AWS Data Engineer
6 2 (3.51%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (3.51%) Configuration Engineer
6 2 (3.51%) Denodo Engineer
6 2 (3.51%) Integration Engineer
6 2 (3.51%) Software Engineer
7 1 (1.75%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.75%) Azure Engineer
7 1 (1.75%) Data Analytics Engineer
7 1 (1.75%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 1 (1.75%) ForgeRock Engineer
7 1 (1.75%) Full-Stack Developer
7 1 (1.75%) Open Source Developer
7 1 (1.75%) Open Source Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (21.05%) REST
2 10 (17.54%) HTML
2 10 (17.54%) JSON
2 10 (17.54%) SOAP
2 10 (17.54%) XML
3 9 (15.79%) J2EE
4 8 (14.04%) EJB
4 8 (14.04%) Hibernate
4 8 (14.04%) HTML5
4 8 (14.04%) J2SE
4 8 (14.04%) Play Framework
4 8 (14.04%) Spring
5 3 (5.26%) Kafka
5 3 (5.26%) Node.js
5 3 (5.26%) OAuth
5 3 (5.26%) OAuth2
5 3 (5.26%) PySpark
5 3 (5.26%) pytest
5 3 (5.26%) RESTful
5 3 (5.26%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (17.54%) Cloud Native
2 3 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (1.75%) IoT
3 1 (1.75%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.75%) Mobile App
3 1 (1.75%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 9 (15.79%) Unix
2 1 (1.75%) Linux
2 1 (1.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.75%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (94.74%) CI/CD
2 49 (85.96%) DevOps
3 48 (84.21%) Agile
4 40 (70.18%) Problem-Solving
5 37 (64.91%) Analytics
6 36 (63.16%) Scrum
6 36 (63.16%) Test Automation
7 34 (59.65%) Data Integration
8 33 (57.89%) Continuous Improvement
8 33 (57.89%) Data Pipeline
9 32 (56.14%) ETL
10 31 (54.39%) Data Modelling
11 29 (50.88%) Business Intelligence
11 29 (50.88%) Data Virtualisation
12 25 (43.86%) Business Analytics
12 25 (43.86%) Data Analytics
13 15 (26.32%) Infrastructure as Code
14 14 (24.56%) Risk Assessment
15 12 (21.05%) Microservices
16 10 (17.54%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 39 (68.42%) SQL
2 14 (24.56%) Java
3 8 (14.04%) Scala
4 6 (10.53%) Python
5 2 (3.51%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.75%) Groovy
6 1 (1.75%) Perl
6 1 (1.75%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.75%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 36 (63.16%) Security Cleared
2 30 (52.63%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.75%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (47.37%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.51%) QA
3 1 (1.75%) NCSC
System Software
1 46 (80.70%) Docker
2 3 (5.26%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 35 (61.40%) Kubernetes
2 8 (14.04%) Puppet
3 6 (10.53%) Terraform
4 3 (5.26%) Ansible
5 2 (3.51%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.75%) Kibana
6 1 (1.75%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 32 (56.14%) Oracle
2 29 (50.88%) Denodo
2 29 (50.88%) Talend
3 8 (14.04%) webMethods
4 7 (12.28%) Microsoft
5 4 (7.02%) Databricks
6 2 (3.51%) ForgeRock
6 2 (3.51%) Pega
7 1 (1.75%) AppDynamics
7 1 (1.75%) Ping Identity
7 1 (1.75%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.75%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.75%) Splunk