Deployment Automation Contracts in the Midlands

Deployment Automation
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring Deployment Automation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Deployment Automation over the 6 months leading up to 26 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 110 135
Rank change year-on-year -4 +25 +52
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Deployment Automation 28 21 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.11% 0.78% 0.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.27% 0.96% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 19 9
10th Percentile £403 £356 £385
25th Percentile £494 £441 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £612 £750
Median % change year-on-year -15.28% -18.40% +50.00%
75th Percentile £540 £685 -
90th Percentile £670 £688 £760
England median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +1.01%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,206 2,183 2,572
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 87.54% 81.21% 85.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,425 1,465 1,777
10th Percentile £235 £263 £250
25th Percentile £358 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.00% - +1.01%
75th Percentile £563 £612 £600
90th Percentile £647 £700 £706
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 182 91 89
10th Percentile £12.62 £12.75 £13.13
25th Percentile £16.17 £14.85 £20.00
Median hourly rate £21.35 £20.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.73% -27.27% +52.78%
75th Percentile £26.51 £37.50 £53.75
90th Percentile £49.40 £52.50 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +53.90%

Deployment Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Deployment Automation 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 26 August 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
DemandTrendContract 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 26 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Midlands +9 25 £525 -17.32% 14
East Midlands -10 3 £376 +5.48% 3
Deployment Automation
England

Deployment Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 15 (53.57%) SAS
2 4 (14.29%) Oracle Workflow
3 3 (10.71%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (7.14%) JBoss
4 2 (7.14%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 10 (35.71%) AWS
2 7 (25.00%) Azure
3 4 (14.29%) GitHub
3 4 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (10.71%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (10.71%) Serverless
5 2 (7.14%) Amazon EventBridge
5 2 (7.14%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (7.14%) OpenShift
6 1 (3.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (3.57%) Amazon Cognito
6 1 (3.57%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (3.57%) Amazon S3
6 1 (3.57%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (3.57%) AWS CodeBuild
6 1 (3.57%) IaaS
6 1 (3.57%) PaaS
6 1 (3.57%) SaaS
6 1 (3.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (39.29%) Pentaho
2 4 (14.29%) SAS Data Integration Studio
2 4 (14.29%) SAS Enterprise Guide
2 4 (14.29%) SAS Visual Analytics
3 3 (10.71%) Relational Database
4 2 (7.14%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (3.57%) RDBMS
5 1 (3.57%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 16 (57.14%) Git
2 15 (53.57%) JIRA
3 14 (50.00%) Jenkins
4 4 (14.29%) GitLab
4 4 (14.29%) SonarQube
5 3 (10.71%) Bitbucket
5 3 (10.71%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (10.71%) TeamCity
6 2 (7.14%) Bitbucket Server
6 2 (7.14%) CA Release Automation
7 1 (3.57%) IntelliJ
7 1 (3.57%) Maven
General
1 5 (17.86%) Public Sector
2 4 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 3 (10.71%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Digital Healthcare
4 1 (3.57%) Finance
4 1 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 3 (10.71%) Data Engineer
1 3 (10.71%) Developer
1 3 (10.71%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (7.14%) Configuration Engineer
3 1 (3.57%) Administrator
3 1 (3.57%) AWS Developer
3 1 (3.57%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 1 (3.57%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (3.57%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (3.57%) Configuration Manager
3 1 (3.57%) DBA
3 1 (3.57%) DevOps Administrator
3 1 (3.57%) Environment Manager
3 1 (3.57%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (3.57%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 1 (3.57%) Integration Engineer
3 1 (3.57%) Java Developer
3 1 (3.57%) SAS Engineer
3 1 (3.57%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.71%) LDAP
1 3 (10.71%) Spring Boot
1 3 (10.71%) YAML
2 2 (7.14%) ADO
2 2 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (7.14%) HTML
2 2 (7.14%) JSON
2 2 (7.14%) OAuth
2 2 (7.14%) OAuth2
2 2 (7.14%) REST
2 2 (7.14%) RESTful
2 2 (7.14%) SOAP
2 2 (7.14%) XML
3 1 (3.57%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 6 (21.43%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (3.57%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.57%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.14%) Linux
1 2 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (3.57%) Unix
2 1 (3.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (85.71%) CI/CD
2 23 (82.14%) DevOps
3 18 (64.29%) Agile
4 16 (57.14%) Test Automation
5 15 (53.57%) Analytics
5 15 (53.57%) Data Integration
5 15 (53.57%) Data Pipeline
6 12 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
7 11 (39.29%) Business Intelligence
7 11 (39.29%) Data Analytics
7 11 (39.29%) Data Modelling
7 11 (39.29%) Data Virtualisation
7 11 (39.29%) ETL
7 11 (39.29%) Scrum
8 10 (35.71%) Business Analytics
8 10 (35.71%) Continuous Improvement
9 8 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
10 7 (25.00%) Containerisation
10 7 (25.00%) Migration
11 6 (21.43%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 12 (42.86%) SQL
2 6 (21.43%) Java
3 4 (14.29%) Python
4 2 (7.14%) Perl
5 1 (3.57%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.57%) Shell Script
5 1 (3.57%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 14 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.57%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (39.29%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.57%) NCSC
2 1 (3.57%) QA
System Software
1 21 (75.00%) Docker
2 5 (17.86%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 18 (64.29%) Kubernetes
2 6 (21.43%) Terraform
3 4 (14.29%) Ansible
4 3 (10.71%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (7.14%) Kibana
5 2 (7.14%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 15 (53.57%) Oracle
2 11 (39.29%) Denodo
2 11 (39.29%) Talend
3 7 (25.00%) Microsoft
4 3 (10.71%) ForgeRock
5 2 (7.14%) AppDynamics
5 2 (7.14%) Pega
5 2 (7.14%) Red Hat
5 2 (7.14%) Splunk