Deployment Automation Contracts in Sheffield

Deployment Automation
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Sheffield 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 - 40
Rank change year-on-year - - +6
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 7 0 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 2.19% - 3.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.30% - 3.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 14
10th Percentile £369 - £450
25th Percentile £385 - £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - £588
Median % change year-on-year - - +30.56%
75th Percentile £710 - £625
90th Percentile £711 - £663
South Yorkshire median daily rate £625 - £588
% change year-on-year - - +30.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 305 351 434
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 95.61% 92.61% 95.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 203 302
10th Percentile £232 £375 £364
25th Percentile £388 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £551
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -9.30% +10.25%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £675
90th Percentile £650 £650 £700
South Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £475 £550
% change year-on-year - -13.64% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 10 3
10th Percentile - £10.90 £11.05
25th Percentile £18.10 £11.33 £11.13
Median hourly rate £18.21 £22.00 £11.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.25% +91.30% -28.13%
75th Percentile £18.41 £23.75 £25.88
90th Percentile £18.47 - £34.35
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.21 £17.62 £10.63
% change year-on-year +3.35% +65.71% -36.54%

Deployment Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Job vacancy trend for Deployment Automation in Sheffield

Deployment Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Deployment Automation in Sheffield.

Daily rate trend for Deployment Automation in Sheffield

Deployment Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Deployment Automation in Sheffield over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Deployment Automation in Sheffield

Deployment Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) GCP
2 2 (28.57%) AWS
2 2 (28.57%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) HTTP
1 2 (28.57%) Kerberos
1 2 (28.57%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) BigQuery
1 2 (28.57%) Hazelcast
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) Jenkins
2 2 (28.57%) Git
2 2 (28.57%) Jaeger
2 2 (28.57%) Selenium
2 2 (28.57%) TestNG
General
1 2 (28.57%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Automation Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) LDAP Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) DevOps Automation Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) ForgeRock Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Storage Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) gRPC
1 2 (28.57%) JWT
1 2 (28.57%) Kafka
1 2 (28.57%) LDAP
1 2 (28.57%) Middleware
1 2 (28.57%) pytest
1 2 (28.57%) REST
1 2 (28.57%) SAML
2 1 (14.29%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Cloud Native
1 2 (28.57%) EMC VMAX
1 2 (28.57%) Replication
2 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (14.29%) Mainframe
2 1 (14.29%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Linux
1 4 (57.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
1 4 (57.14%) Configuration Management
2 2 (28.57%) BDD
2 2 (28.57%) Containerisation
2 2 (28.57%) DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) Identity Management
2 2 (28.57%) Microservices
2 2 (28.57%) PLM
2 2 (28.57%) TDD
2 2 (28.57%) Test Automation
2 2 (28.57%) Validation
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Transformation
3 1 (14.29%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Bash
2 2 (28.57%) Groovy
2 2 (28.57%) Java
2 2 (28.57%) PowerShell
2 2 (28.57%) Python
2 2 (28.57%) SQL
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Kubernetes
2 2 (28.57%) Ansible
2 2 (28.57%) Control-M
2 2 (28.57%) Grafana
2 2 (28.57%) Istio
2 2 (28.57%) Kiali
2 2 (28.57%) Progress Chef
2 2 (28.57%) Puppet
2 2 (28.57%) Terraform
2 2 (28.57%) vRealize
3 1 (14.29%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) 3PAR
1 2 (28.57%) AppDynamics
1 2 (28.57%) Brocade
1 2 (28.57%) Cisco
1 2 (28.57%) EMC
1 2 (28.57%) ForgeRock
1 2 (28.57%) HP
1 2 (28.57%) Splunk
1 2 (28.57%) VMware
1 2 (28.57%) xMatters
2 1 (14.29%) Broadcom
2 1 (14.29%) IBM