Deployment Automation Contracts in the North of England

Deployment Automation
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 138 159 171
Rank change year-on-year +21 +12 +54
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 31 19 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.94% 0.41% 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.04% 0.48% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 11 27
10th Percentile £214 - £450
25th Percentile £354 £463 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £393 £510 £550
Median % change year-on-year -22.94% -7.27% -8.33%
75th Percentile £573 £515 £625
90th Percentile £606 £738 £663
England median daily rate £550 £594 £600
% change year-on-year -7.41% -1.00% +4.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,978 3,966 5,045
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 89.97% 84.67% 90.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,915 2,415 3,463
10th Percentile £268 £300 £300
25th Percentile £381 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £600
90th Percentile £648 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 151 377 204
10th Percentile £12.82 £11.07 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.99 £12.53 £15.74
Median hourly rate £25.15 £18.11 £27.84
Median % change year-on-year +38.87% -34.95% +46.53%
75th Percentile £51.00 £45.88 £43.94
90th Percentile £76.25 £62.50 £65.00
England median hourly rate £28.00 £37.18 £37.32
% change year-on-year -24.69% -0.38% +49.28%

Deployment Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Deployment Automation in the North of England

Deployment Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Deployment Automation in the North of England

Deployment Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Deployment Automation in the North of England over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Deployment Automation in the North of England

Deployment Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Deployment Automation in the North of England

Deployment Automation
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 29 May 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
Yorkshire +15 13 £490 +3.16% 11
North West +7 13 £391 -23.33% 26
North East - 5 £558 - 2
Deployment Automation
England

Deployment Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 6 (19.35%) JBoss
2 3 (9.68%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 11 (35.48%) AWS
2 6 (19.35%) GCP
2 6 (19.35%) OpenShift
3 5 (16.13%) Azure
4 4 (12.90%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (12.90%) GitHub
5 2 (6.45%) Serverless
6 1 (3.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (3.23%) Amazon Cognito
6 1 (3.23%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (3.23%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (3.23%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 1 (3.23%) Amazon Kinesis
6 1 (3.23%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (3.23%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (3.23%) Azure Functions
6 1 (3.23%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (3.23%) Azure Pipelines
6 1 (3.23%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (3.23%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 3 (9.68%) SAN
2 2 (6.45%) HTTP
2 2 (6.45%) Kerberos
3 1 (3.23%) DNS
3 1 (3.23%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (19.35%) Elasticsearch
1 6 (19.35%) RDBMS
1 6 (19.35%) Relational Database
2 3 (9.68%) BigQuery
2 3 (9.68%) MongoDB
2 3 (9.68%) NoSQL
3 2 (6.45%) Hazelcast
3 2 (6.45%) MySQL
3 2 (6.45%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 16 (51.61%) Jenkins
2 12 (38.71%) Git
3 10 (32.26%) JIRA
4 8 (25.81%) CA Release Automation
5 7 (22.58%) SonarQube
6 6 (19.35%) Bitbucket Server
6 6 (19.35%) Sonatype Nexus
6 6 (19.35%) TeamCity
7 5 (16.13%) Selenium
8 3 (9.68%) GitLab
8 3 (9.68%) Jaeger
9 2 (6.45%) Gradle
9 2 (6.45%) HP UFT
9 2 (6.45%) IntelliJ
9 2 (6.45%) JUnit
9 2 (6.45%) Maven
9 2 (6.45%) NetBeans
9 2 (6.45%) Subversion
9 2 (6.45%) TestNG
10 1 (3.23%) Bitbucket
General
1 8 (25.81%) Social Skills
2 7 (22.58%) Finance
3 4 (12.90%) Public Sector
4 3 (9.68%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (6.45%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (6.45%) Electronics
5 2 (6.45%) Legal
5 2 (6.45%) Manufacturing
5 2 (6.45%) Marketing
5 2 (6.45%) Telecoms
6 1 (3.23%) Banking
6 1 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 8 (25.81%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (16.13%) Developer
3 4 (12.90%) AWS DevOps
3 4 (12.90%) Lead
4 2 (6.45%) Automation Engineer
4 2 (6.45%) Deployment Engineer
4 2 (6.45%) Java Developer
4 2 (6.45%) LDAP Engineer
4 2 (6.45%) Lead Developer
4 2 (6.45%) Lead DevOps
4 2 (6.45%) Lead DevOps Engineer
5 1 (3.23%) Applications Packager
5 1 (3.23%) Applications Specialist
5 1 (3.23%) Applications Support
5 1 (3.23%) Build Engineer
5 1 (3.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (3.23%) Lead Java Developer
5 1 (3.23%) Lead Software Developer
5 1 (3.23%) Systems Engineer
5 1 (3.23%) Unix Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (25.81%) Spring Boot
2 6 (19.35%) Elastic Stack
3 4 (12.90%) Kafka
3 4 (12.90%) Node.js
3 4 (12.90%) REST
4 3 (9.68%) ARM Templates
4 3 (9.68%) pytest
5 2 (6.45%) AngularJS
5 2 (6.45%) CSS
5 2 (6.45%) gRPC
5 2 (6.45%) HTML
5 2 (6.45%) HTML5
5 2 (6.45%) J2EE
5 2 (6.45%) JWT
5 2 (6.45%) LDAP
5 2 (6.45%) RESTful
5 2 (6.45%) Spring
5 2 (6.45%) Spring Integration
5 2 (6.45%) Spring MVC
5 2 (6.45%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.68%) Cloud Native
1 3 (9.68%) EMC VMAX
2 2 (6.45%) Data Structures
2 2 (6.45%) Enterprise Storage
2 2 (6.45%) Replication
3 1 (3.23%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.23%) Mainframe
3 1 (3.23%) Private Cloud
3 1 (3.23%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.23%) VLE
Operating Systems
1 13 (41.94%) Linux
2 11 (35.48%) Windows
3 8 (25.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (22.58%) Unix
5 2 (6.45%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (70.97%) CI/CD
2 18 (58.06%) DevOps
3 13 (41.94%) Microservices
4 8 (25.81%) Code Quality
4 8 (25.81%) Continuous Integration
4 8 (25.81%) Migration
4 8 (25.81%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (22.58%) Agile
5 7 (22.58%) Infrastructure as Code
6 6 (19.35%) Build Automation
6 6 (19.35%) Containerisation
6 6 (19.35%) Stakeholder Management
7 5 (16.13%) Observability
7 5 (16.13%) Test Automation
8 4 (12.90%) Analytics
8 4 (12.90%) Change Management
8 4 (12.90%) Configuration Management
8 4 (12.90%) Runbook
8 4 (12.90%) Scrum
9 3 (9.68%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 13 (41.94%) Python
2 11 (35.48%) Java
3 9 (29.03%) Bash
4 6 (19.35%) Perl
5 5 (16.13%) PowerShell
6 3 (9.68%) Groovy
6 3 (9.68%) JavaScript
6 3 (9.68%) SQL
7 2 (6.45%) Bicep
8 1 (3.23%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (12.90%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (6.45%) Azure Certification
2 2 (6.45%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (6.45%) Degree
2 2 (6.45%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.23%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (3.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (3.23%) Master's Degree
3 1 (3.23%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 14 (45.16%) Docker
2 6 (19.35%) Active Directory
3 2 (6.45%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (3.23%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 1 (3.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 17 (54.84%) Kubernetes
2 10 (32.26%) Progress Chef
3 7 (22.58%) Ansible
3 7 (22.58%) Terraform
4 6 (19.35%) Kibana
5 5 (16.13%) Grafana
5 5 (16.13%) Puppet
6 3 (9.68%) Control-M
6 3 (9.68%) Istio
6 3 (9.68%) Kiali
7 2 (6.45%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (6.45%) Prometheus
7 2 (6.45%) SCCM
7 2 (6.45%) vRealize
8 1 (3.23%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 10 (32.26%) AppDynamics
1 10 (32.26%) Splunk
2 7 (22.58%) Microsoft
2 7 (22.58%) Red Hat
3 4 (12.90%) Cloudera
4 3 (9.68%) EMC
4 3 (9.68%) VMware
4 3 (9.68%) xMatters
5 2 (6.45%) 3PAR
5 2 (6.45%) Brocade
5 2 (6.45%) CA Agile Central
5 2 (6.45%) Cisco
5 2 (6.45%) ForgeRock
5 2 (6.45%) HP
5 2 (6.45%) Oracle
5 2 (6.45%) SAP
6 1 (3.23%) Databricks
6 1 (3.23%) Dynatrace
6 1 (3.23%) Google
6 1 (3.23%) ServiceNow