Deployment Automation Contracts in the Thames Valley

Deployment Automation
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 26 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 101 110 142
Rank change year-on-year +9 +32 +24
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 8 17 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.48% 0.69% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.52% 0.82% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 16 3
10th Percentile - £473 £431
25th Percentile - £566 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £575 £463
Median % change year-on-year -30.43% +24.32% -19.57%
75th Percentile - £619 £488
90th Percentile £423 - £495
South East median daily rate £475 £575 £698
% change year-on-year -17.39% -17.62% +26.91%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,543 2,078 2,651
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 92.23% 84.82% 90.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 920 1,158 1,810
10th Percentile £300 £264 £313
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £501 £513
Median % change year-on-year -0.20% -2.24% +2.50%
75th Percentile £591 £613 £619
90th Percentile £675 £688 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £518 £515
% change year-on-year -3.39% +0.49% +3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 132 81
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.56 £16.25
25th Percentile £15.03 £20.42 £21.65
Median hourly rate £25.15 £54.02 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -53.44% +8.03% +190.53%
75th Percentile £54.06 £67.58 £66.21
90th Percentile £80.90 £85.65 £75.00
South East median hourly rate £22.07 £55.04 £50.00
% change year-on-year -59.90% +10.08% +105.00%

Deployment Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Deployment Automation in the Thames Valley

Deployment Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Deployment Automation in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Deployment Automation in the Thames Valley

Deployment Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Deployment Automation in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Deployment Automation in the Thames Valley

Deployment Automation
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 26 July 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
Berkshire +9 7 £400 -34.02% 2
Buckinghamshire +4 1 £425 -10.76% 4
Deployment Automation
South East

Deployment Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (12.50%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
1 3 (37.50%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (25.00%) GitHub
3 1 (12.50%) Azure AKS
3 1 (12.50%) Azure API Management
3 1 (12.50%) Azure App Service
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Storage
3 1 (12.50%) Entra ID
3 1 (12.50%) IaaS
3 1 (12.50%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (12.50%) Metadata
1 1 (12.50%) NoSQL
1 1 (12.50%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Git
2 2 (25.00%) AdminStudio
2 2 (25.00%) MSI
3 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Banking
3 1 (12.50%) Finance
3 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
3 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Applications Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) .NET Developer
2 1 (12.50%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
2 1 (12.50%) 2nd Line Desktop Support Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) 2nd Line Support
2 1 (12.50%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Desktop Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Desktop Support
2 1 (12.50%) Desktop Support Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Developer
2 1 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Product Manager
2 1 (12.50%) React Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Release Manager
2 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) ADO
1 2 (25.00%) YAML
2 1 (12.50%) .NET
2 1 (12.50%) .NET Core
2 1 (12.50%) .NET Framework
2 1 (12.50%) ARM Templates
2 1 (12.50%) Entity Framework
2 1 (12.50%) JSON
2 1 (12.50%) OAuth
2 1 (12.50%) OpenID
2 1 (12.50%) React
2 1 (12.50%) REST
2 1 (12.50%) RESTful
2 1 (12.50%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Client/Server
1 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (12.50%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (12.50%) Video Conferencing
1 1 (12.50%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Agile
1 4 (50.00%) DevOps
2 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
2 3 (37.50%) RBAC
3 2 (25.00%) Application Packaging
3 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
3 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (25.00%) Software Deployment
4 1 (12.50%) Change Control
4 1 (12.50%) Change Management
4 1 (12.50%) Data Governance
4 1 (12.50%) Data Management
4 1 (12.50%) Data Protection
4 1 (12.50%) Product Management
4 1 (12.50%) Release Management
4 1 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (12.50%) Scrum
4 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (12.50%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) Bicep
1 1 (12.50%) C#
1 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
1 1 (12.50%) Python
1 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft App-V
2 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Terraform
2 2 (25.00%) SCCM
2 2 (25.00%) ThinApp
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Ivanti
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco
2 1 (12.50%) Salesforce
2 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow