Deployment Automation Contracts in the UK excluding London

Deployment Automation
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 220 269 298
Rank change year-on-year +49 +29 +36
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 116 131 166
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.91% 0.63% 0.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.00% 0.74% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 103 110
10th Percentile £200 £402 £413
25th Percentile £367 £505 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £575 £593
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% -3.04% +9.81%
75th Percentile £588 £634 £700
90th Percentile £650 £700 £746
UK median daily rate £537 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -6.61% -4.17% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £67.26 -
UK median hourly rate - £23.80 £68.50
% change year-on-year - -65.26% -2.14%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,543 17,602 21,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.42% 84.74% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,249 10,520 14,947
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 825 2,048 1,307
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.28 £16.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Deployment Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Deployment Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Deployment Automation in the UK excluding London

Deployment Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Deployment Automation in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Deployment Automation in the UK excluding London

Deployment Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Deployment Automation in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Deployment Automation in the UK excluding London

Deployment Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Deployment Automation in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Deployment Automation in the UK excluding London

Deployment Automation
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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
North of England +25 27 £397 -22.25% 32
South West +39 23 £575 -17.86% 15
Scotland +20 23 £468 +3.89% 11
South East +15 22 £401 -30.26% 40
Midlands +25 12 £500 +39.18% 15
North West +15 11 £391 -23.33% 22
East of England +37 9 £350 -36.36% 9
Yorkshire +12 9 £575 +21.05% 8
West Midlands +18 8 £500 -25.93% 10
North East +3 6 £550 +5.77% 3
East Midlands +9 4 £475 +33.43% 4
Northern Ireland - 2 £200 - 3
Wales - 1 £200 - 8
Deployment Automation
UK

Deployment Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 15 (12.93%) Confluence
2 9 (7.76%) JBoss
3 2 (1.72%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.72%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 27 (23.28%) AWS
2 20 (17.24%) Azure
3 10 (8.62%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (8.62%) SaaS
4 9 (7.76%) OpenShift
5 8 (6.90%) GitHub
6 7 (6.03%) GCP
7 6 (5.17%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (4.31%) Serverless
9 4 (3.45%) Amazon S3
9 4 (3.45%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (3.45%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (3.45%) Power Automate
9 4 (3.45%) Power Platform
9 4 (3.45%) PowerApps
10 3 (2.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (2.59%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (2.59%) AWS CodePipeline
10 3 (2.59%) CloudFront
11 2 (1.72%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.45%) Firewall
1 4 (3.45%) SAN
2 2 (1.72%) DNS
2 2 (1.72%) HTTP
2 2 (1.72%) Kerberos
2 2 (1.72%) VLAN
3 1 (0.86%) IPsec
3 1 (0.86%) LAN
3 1 (0.86%) MPLS
3 1 (0.86%) NAS
3 1 (0.86%) Network Security
3 1 (0.86%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.86%) VPN
3 1 (0.86%) WAN
3 1 (0.86%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (12.93%) Relational Database
2 10 (8.62%) NoSQL
3 9 (7.76%) Elasticsearch
4 8 (6.90%) RDBMS
5 7 (6.03%) MongoDB
6 5 (4.31%) MySQL
7 4 (3.45%) SQL Server
8 3 (2.59%) Apache Cassandra
8 3 (2.59%) Redis
9 2 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (1.72%) BigQuery
9 2 (1.72%) DB2
9 2 (1.72%) Hazelcast
9 2 (1.72%) Power BI
10 1 (0.86%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (0.86%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.86%) Parquet
10 1 (0.86%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 38 (32.76%) Jenkins
2 32 (27.59%) Git
3 28 (24.14%) JIRA
4 22 (18.97%) Bitbucket
5 13 (11.21%) CA Release Automation
6 9 (7.76%) Bitbucket Server
6 9 (7.76%) SonarQube
6 9 (7.76%) Sonatype Nexus
6 9 (7.76%) TeamCity
7 8 (6.90%) Selenium
8 7 (6.03%) Subversion
9 6 (5.17%) JUnit
10 4 (3.45%) Gradle
10 4 (3.45%) HP UFT
10 4 (3.45%) IntelliJ
10 4 (3.45%) Maven
10 4 (3.45%) NetBeans
11 2 (1.72%) GitLab
11 2 (1.72%) Jaeger
11 2 (1.72%) TestNG
General
1 34 (29.31%) Social Skills
2 22 (18.97%) Finance
3 14 (12.07%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (12.07%) Documentation Skills
4 11 (9.48%) Legal
5 7 (6.03%) Public Sector
6 4 (3.45%) Telecoms
7 3 (2.59%) Banking
7 3 (2.59%) Electronics
7 3 (2.59%) Manufacturing
7 3 (2.59%) Marketing
8 2 (1.72%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.72%) Retail
9 1 (0.86%) Front Office
9 1 (0.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.86%) Military
Job Titles
1 29 (25.00%) Developer
2 14 (12.07%) DevOps Engineer
2 14 (12.07%) Python Developer
3 10 (8.62%) Deployment Engineer
4 8 (6.90%) Automation Engineer
4 8 (6.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 7 (6.03%) Lead
6 6 (5.17%) Cloud Engineer
7 5 (4.31%) AWS DevOps
7 5 (4.31%) Java Developer
7 5 (4.31%) Senior
8 4 (3.45%) Full-Stack Developer
9 3 (2.59%) AWS Engineer
9 3 (2.59%) Azure Developer
9 3 (2.59%) Azure Engineer
9 3 (2.59%) IT Engineer
9 3 (2.59%) Platform Engineer
9 3 (2.59%) Python Engineer
9 3 (2.59%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
9 3 (2.59%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (13.79%) REST
2 13 (11.21%) Spring Boot
3 11 (9.48%) Kafka
3 11 (9.48%) SOAP
4 10 (8.62%) Elastic Stack
5 7 (6.03%) React
5 7 (6.03%) RESTful
5 7 (6.03%) Spring
5 7 (6.03%) Web Services
6 6 (5.17%) .NET
7 5 (4.31%) ARM Templates
7 5 (4.31%) CSS
7 5 (4.31%) Node.js
7 5 (4.31%) Vue
8 4 (3.45%) AngularJS
8 4 (3.45%) Hibernate
8 4 (3.45%) HTML
8 4 (3.45%) J2EE
8 4 (3.45%) Spring Integration
8 4 (3.45%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 10 (8.62%) Public Cloud
2 6 (5.17%) Data Structures
3 4 (3.45%) Cloud Native
3 4 (3.45%) Mainframe
3 4 (3.45%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.59%) EMC VMAX
4 3 (2.59%) Replication
4 3 (2.59%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.72%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.72%) Enterprise Storage
5 2 (1.72%) Equities
5 2 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.72%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.86%) CESG
6 1 (0.86%) Client/Server
6 1 (0.86%) Clustering
6 1 (0.86%) PKI
6 1 (0.86%) Video Conferencing
6 1 (0.86%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 43 (37.07%) Windows
2 37 (31.90%) Linux
3 13 (11.21%) Windows Server
4 12 (10.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (6.03%) Unix
6 4 (3.45%) Windows 10
7 2 (1.72%) Windows 7
7 2 (1.72%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.86%) VMS
8 1 (0.86%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.86%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (38.79%) CI/CD
2 41 (35.34%) Problem-Solving
3 40 (34.48%) Agile
4 37 (31.90%) DevOps
5 23 (19.83%) Test Automation
6 22 (18.97%) Microservices
7 21 (18.10%) Configuration Management
7 21 (18.10%) SDLC
8 18 (15.52%) Continuous Integration
8 18 (15.52%) Infrastructure as Code
9 17 (14.66%) Infrastructure Automation
10 16 (13.79%) Migration
10 16 (13.79%) Validation
11 15 (12.93%) Code Quality
12 14 (12.07%) Build Automation
12 14 (12.07%) Scrum
12 14 (12.07%) Service Management
13 11 (9.48%) NsoIT
13 11 (9.48%) Reverse Engineering
14 10 (8.62%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 49 (42.24%) Python
2 21 (18.10%) PowerShell
3 20 (17.24%) Bash
4 16 (13.79%) Java
5 9 (7.76%) Perl
5 9 (7.76%) SQL
6 8 (6.90%) TypeScript
7 7 (6.03%) C#
7 7 (6.03%) JavaScript
8 3 (2.59%) PHP
9 2 (1.72%) Bicep
9 2 (1.72%) Groovy
10 1 (0.86%) Ruby
10 1 (0.86%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.86%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 21 (18.10%) Security Cleared
2 19 (16.38%) SC Cleared
3 13 (11.21%) Microsoft Certification
4 11 (9.48%) OCA
4 11 (9.48%) Oracle Certification
4 11 (9.48%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 10 (8.62%) CCNP
5 10 (8.62%) Cisco Certification
5 10 (8.62%) RHCA
5 10 (8.62%) RHCE
6 6 (5.17%) Degree
7 4 (3.45%) DV Cleared
8 3 (2.59%) AWS Certification
8 3 (2.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (2.59%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (1.72%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.86%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.86%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.86%) MCSA
10 1 (0.86%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.17%) QA
2 2 (1.72%) NCSC
3 1 (0.86%) JSP 440
System Software
1 21 (18.10%) Docker
2 15 (12.93%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (10.34%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.72%) Hyper-V
4 2 (1.72%) Microsoft App-V
4 2 (1.72%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.86%) Firmware
5 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 1 (0.86%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 1 (0.86%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 34 (29.31%) Kubernetes
2 28 (24.14%) Ansible
3 27 (23.28%) Progress Chef
4 23 (19.83%) Terraform
5 19 (16.38%) Puppet
6 15 (12.93%) SCCM
7 11 (9.48%) vCenter Server
8 9 (7.76%) Kibana
9 5 (4.31%) Grafana
10 3 (2.59%) PowerCLI
10 3 (2.59%) WSUS
11 2 (1.72%) Control-M
11 2 (1.72%) Istio
11 2 (1.72%) Kiali
11 2 (1.72%) Prometheus
11 2 (1.72%) Proxmox
11 2 (1.72%) ThinApp
11 2 (1.72%) vRealize
12 1 (0.86%) CA Endevor
12 1 (0.86%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 28 (24.14%) Microsoft
2 17 (14.66%) VMware
3 16 (13.79%) Cisco
4 15 (12.93%) Oracle
5 13 (11.21%) Splunk
6 12 (10.34%) AppDynamics
7 10 (8.62%) Red Hat
8 9 (7.76%) Atlassian
9 7 (6.03%) SAP
10 4 (3.45%) CA Agile Central
11 3 (2.59%) Cloudera
11 3 (2.59%) EMC
11 3 (2.59%) ServiceNow
11 3 (2.59%) Zend
12 2 (1.72%) 3PAR
12 2 (1.72%) Ariba
12 2 (1.72%) Brocade
12 2 (1.72%) HP
12 2 (1.72%) Ivanti
12 2 (1.72%) SolarWinds