Deployment Automation Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Deployment Automation
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring Deployment Automation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 51 49
Rank change year-on-year -24 -2 +7
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 6 4 1
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 0.88% 0.98% 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.92% 1.09% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 1
10th Percentile £416 £491 -
25th Percentile £515 £549 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £594 £599 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.79% +8.86% -8.33%
75th Percentile £603 £623 £575
90th Percentile £607 - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £594 £599 £550
% change year-on-year -0.79% +8.86% -8.33%

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 652 367 325
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 95.60% 89.95% 96.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 440 194 214
10th Percentile £313 £250 £375
25th Percentile £400 £441 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £515 £556
Median % change year-on-year -6.80% -7.40% +5.94%
75th Percentile £538 £583 £650
90th Percentile £638 £650 £745
South Yorkshire median daily rate £479 £514 £550
% change year-on-year -6.81% -6.59% +9.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 5 3
10th Percentile £14.54 £13.14 £18.80
25th Percentile £15.00 £15.22 £19.25
Median hourly rate £18.87 £20.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.65% - +11.89%
75th Percentile £22.01 £21.50 £25.63
90th Percentile £25.15 - £29.00
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.87 £12.83 £23.75
% change year-on-year +47.08% -45.98% +47.29%

Deployment Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Deployment Automation job vacancy trend in Sheffield

Deployment Automation
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

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

Deployment Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Deployment Automation in Sheffield over the 6 months to 13 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Deployment Automation in Sheffield

Deployment Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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 (16.67%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) GitHub
2 3 (50.00%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) GCP
3 2 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (16.67%) Azure API Management
4 1 (16.67%) Azure Logic Apps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) BigQuery
1 1 (16.67%) Data Lake
1 1 (16.67%) DataStage
1 1 (16.67%) Delta Lake
1 1 (16.67%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (16.67%) Bitbucket
2 1 (16.67%) Git
2 1 (16.67%) Jaeger
2 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Automation Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Data Analytics Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Data Architect
3 1 (16.67%) DevSecOps Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Integration Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Java Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Lead
3 1 (16.67%) Lead Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Lead Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) PySpark
1 1 (16.67%) REST
1 1 (16.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 2 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (16.67%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (16.67%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (16.67%) VLE
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Linux
2 1 (16.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
2 4 (66.67%) DevOps
3 3 (50.00%) Agile
4 2 (33.33%) Data Protection
4 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
4 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
4 2 (33.33%) Webhook
5 1 (16.67%) Analytics
5 1 (16.67%) API Management
5 1 (16.67%) Code Quality
5 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
5 1 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
5 1 (16.67%) DevSecOps
5 1 (16.67%) Event-Driven
5 1 (16.67%) Microservices
5 1 (16.67%) SDLC
5 1 (16.67%) Transpiler
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Groovy
2 2 (33.33%) Python
3 1 (16.67%) Bash
3 1 (16.67%) Bicep
3 1 (16.67%) Java
3 1 (16.67%) Scala
3 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Azure Certification
1 1 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Ansible
2 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 2 (33.33%) Terraform
3 1 (16.67%) Control-M
3 1 (16.67%) Grafana
3 1 (16.67%) Istio
3 1 (16.67%) Kiali
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Databricks
2 1 (16.67%) AppDynamics
2 1 (16.67%) Informatica
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Splunk
2 1 (16.67%) Talend
2 1 (16.67%) xMatters