Deployment Automation Contract Job Trends in Northern Ireland

Deployment Automation
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northern Ireland requiring Deployment Automation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 33 -
Rank change year-on-year +1 - -
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 2 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Northern Ireland 0.91% 1.02% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.08% 1.12% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £200 -
Median % change year-on-year +87.50% - -
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £585
% change year-on-year -4.55% -5.90% -2.58%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 185 178 129
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 84.09% 90.36% 77.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 103 57
10th Percentile £231 £200 £162
25th Percentile £363 £325 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -12.20% +28.13%
75th Percentile £635 £575 £613
90th Percentile £694 £624 £675
UK median daily rate £515 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +1.98% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 24 29
10th Percentile - £14.78 -
25th Percentile £14.50 £15.32 £12.25
Median hourly rate £26.50 £20.15 £22.56
Median % change year-on-year +31.51% -10.68% +62.19%
75th Percentile £44.23 £25.15 £24.18
90th Percentile £53.75 - £40.25
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +4.17%

Deployment Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Deployment Automation job vacancy trend in Northern Ireland

Deployment Automation
Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Deployment Automation

Deployment Automation
Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 27 June 2026. 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
County Antrim +4 2 £375 +87.50% 3
Deployment Automation
UK

Deployment Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Financial Institution
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Python Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Python Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (50.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 2 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) SDLC
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Go
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Google