Deployment Automation Contract Job Trends in Reading

Deployment Automation
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring Deployment Automation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 92 70 79
Rank change year-on-year -22 +9 +4
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 2 1 11
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 0.18% 0.16% 0.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 0.18% 1.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 10
10th Percentile - - £575
25th Percentile - £413 £581
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £425 £613
Median % change year-on-year +23.53% -30.61% -
75th Percentile - £438 £619
90th Percentile - - £621
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £400 £613
% change year-on-year +25.00% -34.69% +36.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £66.50 - -
Median hourly rate £69.00 - -
75th Percentile £71.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £69.00 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 942 566 973
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 82.49% 92.33% 86.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 522 361 529
10th Percentile £359 £350 £338
25th Percentile £452 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £585
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -8.12% +6.36%
75th Percentile £644 £620 £650
90th Percentile £738 £700 £715
Berkshire median daily rate £525 £510 £550
% change year-on-year +2.94% -7.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 18 34
10th Percentile £57.50 - £14.50
25th Percentile £80.75 £14.75 £51.86
Median hourly rate £84.00 £20.38 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +312.27% -66.92% -6.67%
75th Percentile £88.00 £38.42 £75.83
90th Percentile £104.50 £59.13 £87.46
Berkshire median hourly rate £83.50 £32.05 £61.06
% change year-on-year +160.53% -47.51% +7.34%

Deployment Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Deployment Automation job vacancy trend in Reading

Deployment Automation
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Deployment Automation

Deployment Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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 1 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure API Management
1 1 (50.00%) Azure App Service
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (50.00%) Metadata
1 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) .NET Core
1 1 (50.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (50.00%) ARM Templates
1 1 (50.00%) Entity Framework
1 1 (50.00%) OAuth
1 1 (50.00%) OpenID
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) RESTful
1 1 (50.00%) SAML
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) B2C
2 1 (50.00%) Coaching
2 1 (50.00%) Code Coverage
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Data Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Data Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Information Security
2 1 (50.00%) Log Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) RBAC
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bicep
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft