Deployment Automation Contracts in the South West

Deployment Automation
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 88 127 133
Rank change year-on-year +39 +6 +30
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 23 30 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 1.37% 0.94% 0.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.52% 1.13% 1.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 28 28
10th Percentile £457 £513 £525
25th Percentile £516 £514 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £700 £700
Median % change year-on-year -17.86% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £652 - -
90th Percentile £700 - £738
England median daily rate £550 £575 £625
% change year-on-year -4.35% -8.00% +8.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 the South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,516 2,656 3,250
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 90.35% 83.03% 89.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 965 1,696 2,395
10th Percentile £235 £220 £313
25th Percentile £400 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £549
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.37% +9.80%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £644
90th Percentile £688 £700 £719
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 145 336 335
10th Percentile £18.33 £13.86 £9.80
25th Percentile £20.48 £27.50 £17.00
Median hourly rate £63.00 £50.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.00% -18.70% +26.16%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.50 £83.36
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Deployment Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Deployment Automation in the South West

Deployment Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Deployment Automation in the South West

Deployment Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for Deployment Automation in the South West

Deployment Automation
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Wiltshire +24 16 £575 -17.86% 2
Gloucestershire +20 4 £600 -17.24% 7
Bristol +18 1 £655 +87.14% 5
Dorset - 1 £475 - 2
Somerset - 1 £450 - 3
Deployment Automation
England

Deployment Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 9 (39.13%) Confluence
2 2 (8.70%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (26.09%) Azure
2 2 (8.70%) Power Automate
2 2 (8.70%) Power Platform
2 2 (8.70%) PowerApps
3 1 (4.35%) AWS
3 1 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.35%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.35%) MySQL
1 1 (4.35%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (56.52%) Bitbucket
2 12 (52.17%) Git
3 10 (43.48%) Jenkins
4 9 (39.13%) JIRA
5 1 (4.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (4.35%) Selenium
General
1 7 (30.43%) Social Skills
2 3 (13.04%) Public Sector
3 2 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.35%) Electronics
4 1 (4.35%) Finance
4 1 (4.35%) Manufacturing
4 1 (4.35%) Marketing
4 1 (4.35%) Military
4 1 (4.35%) Retail
4 1 (4.35%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (26.09%) Automation Engineer
2 5 (21.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Developer
3 3 (13.04%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Software Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Applications Developer
4 2 (8.70%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Linux Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Power Apps Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Release Manager
5 1 (4.35%) .NET Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Lead
5 1 (4.35%) Lead C# Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Python Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Senior
5 1 (4.35%) Senior .NET Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Senior C# Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Software Development Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Windows Build Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (52.17%) REST
2 11 (47.83%) SOAP
3 2 (8.70%) .NET
3 2 (8.70%) .NET Core
3 2 (8.70%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (4.35%) .NET Framework
4 1 (4.35%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (4.35%) React
4 1 (4.35%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.35%) CESG
1 1 (4.35%) Data Centre
1 1 (4.35%) PKI
1 1 (4.35%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 12 (52.17%) Linux
1 12 (52.17%) Windows
2 11 (47.83%) Windows Server
3 1 (4.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (4.35%) VMS
3 1 (4.35%) Windows 10
3 1 (4.35%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (4.35%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (82.61%) Agile
2 15 (65.22%) Configuration Management
3 12 (52.17%) Infrastructure Automation
3 12 (52.17%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (52.17%) Service Management
3 12 (52.17%) Validation
4 11 (47.83%) NsoIT
4 11 (47.83%) Reverse Engineering
5 10 (43.48%) System Testing
6 5 (21.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 4 (17.39%) CI/CD
7 4 (17.39%) DevOps
7 4 (17.39%) Software Engineering
8 3 (13.04%) Release Management
8 3 (13.04%) SDLC
8 3 (13.04%) Test Automation
9 2 (8.70%) Continuous Improvement
9 2 (8.70%) TDD
9 2 (8.70%) Translating Business Requirements
9 2 (8.70%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (60.87%) PowerShell
1 14 (60.87%) Python
2 12 (52.17%) Bash
3 1 (4.35%) C#
3 1 (4.35%) SQL
3 1 (4.35%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 16 (69.57%) SC Cleared
1 16 (69.57%) Security Cleared
2 11 (47.83%) OCA
2 11 (47.83%) Oracle Certification
2 11 (47.83%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 10 (43.48%) CCNP
3 10 (43.48%) Cisco Certification
3 10 (43.48%) RHCA
3 10 (43.48%) RHCE
4 3 (13.04%) DV Cleared
5 2 (8.70%) Degree
5 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (4.35%) Master's Degree
6 1 (4.35%) MCSA
6 1 (4.35%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.04%) QA
2 2 (8.70%) NCSC
3 1 (4.35%) JSP 440
System Software
1 13 (56.52%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (8.70%) Docker
2 2 (8.70%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 14 (60.87%) Ansible
2 11 (47.83%) Progress Chef
2 11 (47.83%) Puppet
2 11 (47.83%) vCenter Server
3 4 (17.39%) Terraform
4 3 (13.04%) PowerCLI
5 2 (8.70%) Kubernetes
6 1 (4.35%) SCCM
Vendors
1 13 (56.52%) Oracle
1 13 (56.52%) VMware
2 10 (43.48%) Cisco
3 9 (39.13%) Atlassian
4 5 (21.74%) Microsoft
5 1 (4.35%) SAP
5 1 (4.35%) SolarWinds
5 1 (4.35%) Veeam