Deployment Automation Contracts in the North West

Deployment Automation
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 112 125 149
Rank change year-on-year +13 +24 +22
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 12 11 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.62% 0.42% 0.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.69% 0.49% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 5 7
10th Percentile £197 - £454
25th Percentile £285 £505 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £379 £510 £550
Median % change year-on-year -25.69% -7.27% +17.02%
75th Percentile £393 £515 £586
90th Percentile £394 - £586
England median daily rate £550 £575 £625
% change year-on-year -4.35% -8.00% +8.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,749 2,266 2,764
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 90.15% 85.64% 90.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,136 1,444 1,937
10th Percentile £300 £308 £313
25th Percentile £388 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £561 £588 £588
90th Percentile £661 £689 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 101 252 138
10th Percentile £17.44 £10.96 £16.25
25th Percentile £24.25 £13.50 £22.44
Median hourly rate £32.50 £24.90 £35.02
Median % change year-on-year +30.55% -28.90% +51.88%
75th Percentile £63.40 £46.18 £48.56
90th Percentile £84.50 £62.50 £66.00
England median hourly rate £28.75 £36.50 £36.77
% change year-on-year -21.23% -0.73% +47.08%

Deployment Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Deployment Automation in the North West

Deployment Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Deployment Automation in the North West

Deployment Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Deployment Automation in the North West over the 6 months to 22 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Deployment Automation in the North West

Deployment Automation
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 22 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
Cheshire +4 9 £392 -23.14% 8
Manchester +11 2 £175 - 27
Cumbria - 1 £200 -
Deployment Automation
England

Deployment Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 5 (41.67%) JBoss
2 2 (16.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (50.00%) AWS
2 5 (41.67%) OpenShift
3 2 (16.67%) Serverless
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon Cognito
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon Kinesis
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon S3
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (8.33%) AWS CloudTrail
4 1 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Functions
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Pipelines
4 1 (8.33%) GitHub
4 1 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (41.67%) Elasticsearch
1 5 (41.67%) RDBMS
1 5 (41.67%) Relational Database
2 3 (25.00%) NoSQL
3 2 (16.67%) MongoDB
4 1 (8.33%) MySQL
4 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (66.67%) Jenkins
1 8 (66.67%) JIRA
2 7 (58.33%) CA Release Automation
2 7 (58.33%) Git
3 5 (41.67%) Bitbucket Server
3 5 (41.67%) SonarQube
3 5 (41.67%) Sonatype Nexus
3 5 (41.67%) TeamCity
4 2 (16.67%) Gradle
4 2 (16.67%) HP UFT
4 2 (16.67%) IntelliJ
4 2 (16.67%) JUnit
4 2 (16.67%) Maven
4 2 (16.67%) NetBeans
4 2 (16.67%) Selenium
4 2 (16.67%) Subversion
5 1 (8.33%) Bitbucket
General
1 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Banking
3 1 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Finance
3 1 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (8.33%) Legal
3 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) AWS DevOps
2 2 (16.67%) Developer
2 2 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Applications Support
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Specialist
3 1 (8.33%) Build Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Deployment Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Java Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (58.33%) Spring Boot
2 5 (41.67%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (25.00%) Node.js
4 2 (16.67%) AngularJS
4 2 (16.67%) CSS
4 2 (16.67%) Hibernate
4 2 (16.67%) HTML
4 2 (16.67%) HTML5
4 2 (16.67%) J2EE
4 2 (16.67%) Kafka
4 2 (16.67%) Spring
4 2 (16.67%) Spring Integration
4 2 (16.67%) Spring MVC
4 2 (16.67%) Web Services
5 1 (8.33%) ADO
5 1 (8.33%) Ajax
5 1 (8.33%) Bootstrap
5 1 (8.33%) jQuery
5 1 (8.33%) React
5 1 (8.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Data Structures
2 1 (8.33%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 6 (50.00%) Windows
2 5 (41.67%) Linux
2 5 (41.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (8.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 8 (66.67%) DevOps
2 8 (66.67%) Microservices
3 6 (50.00%) Code Quality
3 6 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
4 5 (41.67%) Build Automation
4 5 (41.67%) Migration
5 4 (33.33%) Agile
5 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (25.00%) Analytics
6 3 (25.00%) API Development
6 3 (25.00%) Change Management
6 3 (25.00%) Observability
6 3 (25.00%) Runbook
6 3 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (16.67%) Computer Science
7 2 (16.67%) Data Transformation
7 2 (16.67%) MVC
7 2 (16.67%) Scrum
7 2 (16.67%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 8 (66.67%) Python
2 6 (50.00%) Java
3 5 (41.67%) Perl
4 2 (16.67%) Bash
4 2 (16.67%) JavaScript
5 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
5 1 (8.33%) SQL
5 1 (8.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (16.67%) Degree
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (8.33%) AWS Certification
2 1 (8.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (8.33%) Azure Certification
2 1 (8.33%) Master's Degree
2 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 7 (58.33%) Docker
2 5 (41.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (58.33%) Kubernetes
1 7 (58.33%) Progress Chef
2 5 (41.67%) Kibana
3 2 (16.67%) Puppet
4 1 (8.33%) SCCM
4 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) AppDynamics
1 5 (41.67%) Red Hat
1 5 (41.67%) Splunk
2 3 (25.00%) Cloudera
3 2 (16.67%) CA Agile Central
3 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
4 1 (8.33%) Oracle