Deployment Automation Contracts in the South East

Deployment Automation
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for Deployment Automation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Deployment Automation over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 146 161 154
Rank change year-on-year +15 -7 +22
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 55 51 102
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.97% 0.90% 1.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.17% 1.02% 1.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 28 69
10th Percentile £390 £411 £140
25th Percentile £566 £445 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £633 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.13% +15.05% +22.22%
75th Percentile £619 £698 £613
90th Percentile - £711 £650
England median daily rate £585 £613 £575
% change year-on-year -4.57% +6.52% +13.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £67.02 - -
England median hourly rate £23.80 £71.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -66.48% +18.33% +25.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

Deployment Automation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,683 5,022 6,900
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 82.99% 89.03% 89.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,708 3,452 4,710
10th Percentile £260 £250 £231
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £504 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.29% +0.70% +8.11%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £600
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 451 220 272
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.21 £12.25
25th Percentile £18.26 £22.47 £15.38
Median hourly rate £47.50 £52.50 £21.99
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +138.80% -20.05%
75th Percentile £62.60 £65.00 £47.77
90th Percentile £76.86 £75.00 £63.15
England median hourly rate £37.50 £37.32 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.48% +49.28% +11.11%

Deployment Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Deployment Automation in the South East

Deployment Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Deployment Automation in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Deployment Automation in the South East

Deployment Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Deployment Automation in the South East over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Deployment Automation in the South East

Deployment Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Deployment Automation in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Deployment Automation in the South East

Deployment Automation
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 1 June 2024. 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
Thames Valley +33 28 £575 +19.48% 6
Berkshire +9 26 £575 +24.32% 3
Hampshire +3 20 £300 -59.18% 4
Surrey +18 6 £613 -12.50% 1
Buckinghamshire +32 2 £476 - 3
West Sussex -8 1 £550 -21.20% 1
Deployment Automation
England

Deployment Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (1.82%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 2 (3.64%) AWS
1 2 (3.64%) Azure
2 1 (1.82%) Azure API Management
2 1 (1.82%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (1.82%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (1.82%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (1.82%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (1.82%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (1.82%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (1.82%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (1.82%) Entra ID
2 1 (1.82%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (1.82%) NuGet
Communications & Networking
1 6 (10.91%) DNS
2 3 (5.45%) Firewall
3 1 (1.82%) WAN
Development Applications
1 14 (25.45%) Git
1 14 (25.45%) Jenkins
2 13 (23.64%) Visual Studio
3 2 (3.64%) GitLab
3 2 (3.64%) JIRA
4 1 (1.82%) Artifactory
4 1 (1.82%) JUnit
4 1 (1.82%) Selenium
4 1 (1.82%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (1.82%) TestNG
4 1 (1.82%) Travis CI
General
1 19 (34.55%) Social Skills
2 2 (3.64%) Public Sector
3 1 (1.82%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (30.91%) Build Engineer
1 17 (30.91%) Windows Build Engineer
1 17 (30.91%) Windows Engineer
2 11 (20.00%) Developer
3 5 (9.09%) Integration Engineer
4 3 (5.45%) .NET Developer
4 3 (5.45%) Architect
4 3 (5.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (5.45%) Infrastructure Support
4 3 (5.45%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 3 (5.45%) Support Engineer
4 3 (5.45%) Wintel Engineer
4 3 (5.45%) Wintel Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (5.45%) Wintel Support
4 3 (5.45%) Wintel Support Engineer
5 2 (3.64%) Analyst
5 2 (3.64%) Environment Analyst
5 2 (3.64%) Security Architect
5 2 (3.64%) Software Engineer
5 2 (3.64%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (23.64%) .NET
1 13 (23.64%) ASP.NET
2 2 (3.64%) YAML
3 1 (1.82%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 1 (1.82%) Cloud Native
1 1 (1.82%) Management Information System
1 1 (1.82%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 31 (56.36%) Windows
2 27 (49.09%) Windows Server
3 22 (40.00%) Windows Server 2012
3 22 (40.00%) Windows Server 2019
4 21 (38.18%) Windows 10
5 17 (30.91%) Windows NT
5 17 (30.91%) Windows Server 2016
6 8 (14.55%) Linux
6 8 (14.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (1.82%) CentOS
7 1 (1.82%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (32.73%) Release Management
1 18 (32.73%) Service Management
2 17 (30.91%) Customer Service
2 17 (30.91%) ITIL
2 17 (30.91%) User Acceptance Testing
3 14 (25.45%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (18.18%) Open Source
5 5 (9.09%) Patch Management
6 4 (7.27%) CI/CD
6 4 (7.27%) Containerisation
6 4 (7.27%) DevOps
6 4 (7.27%) Test Automation
7 3 (5.45%) Computer Science
7 3 (5.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 3 (5.45%) Software Engineering
7 3 (5.45%) Software Testing
8 2 (3.64%) Infrastructure as Code
8 2 (3.64%) Mentoring
8 2 (3.64%) SDLC
8 2 (3.64%) Security Hardening
Programming Languages
1 19 (34.55%) PowerShell
2 13 (23.64%) C#
3 1 (1.82%) Bash
3 1 (1.82%) Bicep
3 1 (1.82%) Java
3 1 (1.82%) Python
Qualifications
1 46 (83.64%) Security Cleared
2 19 (34.55%) SC Cleared
3 17 (30.91%) DV Cleared
4 5 (9.09%) Degree
5 4 (7.27%) MCSE
5 4 (7.27%) MCTS
5 4 (7.27%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (3.64%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.82%) Chartered Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (30.91%) QA
2 3 (5.45%) NCSC
System Software
1 23 (41.82%) Active Directory
2 17 (30.91%) Firmware
3 10 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (3.64%) Docker
5 1 (1.82%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 22 (40.00%) WSUS
2 21 (38.18%) SCCM
3 17 (30.91%) Sysprep
4 14 (25.45%) Ansible
5 6 (10.91%) Kubernetes
6 2 (3.64%) SELinux
6 2 (3.64%) Terraform
6 2 (3.64%) yum
7 1 (1.82%) Packer
Vendors
1 24 (43.64%) Microsoft
2 10 (18.18%) VMware
3 1 (1.82%) BMC
3 1 (1.82%) Databricks
3 1 (1.82%) Remedy
3 1 (1.82%) ServiceNow
3 1 (1.82%) Sitecore