Deployment Automation Contract Job Trends in South Wales

Deployment Automation
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Wales requiring Deployment Automation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in South Wales 0.24% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £725 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 - -
75th Percentile £775 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Wales median daily rate £600 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 314 225 292
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 76.40% 88.93% 80.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 197 158 219
10th Percentile £250 £187 £143
25th Percentile £305 £272 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year - -5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £515 £550 £588
90th Percentile £660 £629 £667
Wales median daily rate £425 £425 £450
% change year-on-year - -5.56% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 26 21
10th Percentile £12.21 £16.00 £11.15
25th Percentile £15.22 £20.12 £15.20
Median hourly rate £21.25 £22.25 £22.68
Median % change year-on-year -4.49% -1.90% +20.54%
75th Percentile £46.85 £38.13 £53.75
90th Percentile £69.50 £45.00 £87.80
Wales median hourly rate £21.25 £22.00 £19.17
% change year-on-year -3.41% +14.76% +1.89%

Deployment Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Deployment Automation job vacancy trend in South Wales

Deployment Automation
Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Deployment Automation

Deployment Automation
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 31 March 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
Cardiff - 1 £750 - 3
Deployment Automation
Wales

Deployment Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Wales 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 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) BrowserStack
1 1 (100.00%) SonarCloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) ADO
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Coaching
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Salesforce