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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 195 275 296
Rank change year-on-year +80 +21 +18
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 145 126 137
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.13% 0.61% 0.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.24% 0.73% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 99 90
10th Percentile £200 £400 £413
25th Percentile £392 £505 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £575 £650 £698
90th Percentile £618 £700 £746
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £67.26 -
UK median hourly rate - £45.41 £68.50
% change year-on-year - -33.71% +36.32%

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 11,664 17,222 20,402
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.66% 83.58% 89.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,264 10,282 14,009
10th Percentile £235 £250 £260
25th Percentile £375 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +3.04%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £690
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 845 2,110 1,238
10th Percentile £13.83 £12.40 £10.63
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.39 £15.22
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.82% +8.57% +75.00%
75th Percentile £60.63 £61.30 £64.63
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £36.50 £36.13
% change year-on-year -24.66% +1.04% +40.67%

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 29 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 29 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 +21 31 £393 -22.94% 203
East of England +58 29 £550 - 115
South West +39 25 £575 -17.86% 100
Scotland +20 25 £475 +5.56% 47
South East +14 23 £402 -30.09% 259
Yorkshire +15 13 £490 +3.16% 78
North West +7 13 £391 -23.33% 102
Midlands +15 12 £537 +49.48% 151
West Midlands +19 8 £550 -18.52% 83
North East - 5 £558 - 23
East Midlands +6 4 £475 +33.43% 58
Northern Ireland - 2 £200 - 11
Wales - 1 £200 - 25
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 14 (9.66%) Confluence
2 10 (6.90%) JBoss
3 2 (1.38%) Anypoint
3 2 (1.38%) Mule
3 2 (1.38%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.69%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 27 (18.62%) AWS
2 20 (13.79%) Azure
2 20 (13.79%) Cohesity
3 12 (8.28%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (7.59%) SaaS
5 10 (6.90%) GitHub
5 10 (6.90%) OpenShift
6 7 (4.83%) AWS CloudFormation
6 7 (4.83%) GitHub Actions
6 7 (4.83%) Serverless
7 6 (4.14%) Amazon S3
7 6 (4.14%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (4.14%) GCP
8 5 (3.45%) AWS CodePipeline
9 4 (2.76%) Amazon Cognito
9 4 (2.76%) CloudFront
9 4 (2.76%) Power Automate
9 4 (2.76%) Power Platform
9 4 (2.76%) PowerApps
10 3 (2.07%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 23 (15.86%) SAN
2 21 (14.48%) DNS
3 2 (1.38%) Firewall
3 2 (1.38%) HTTP
3 2 (1.38%) Kerberos
3 2 (1.38%) VLAN
4 1 (0.69%) IPsec
4 1 (0.69%) LAN
4 1 (0.69%) MPLS
4 1 (0.69%) NAS
4 1 (0.69%) Network Security
4 1 (0.69%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.69%) VPN
4 1 (0.69%) WAN
4 1 (0.69%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (10.34%) Relational Database
2 10 (6.90%) Elasticsearch
3 9 (6.21%) NoSQL
3 9 (6.21%) RDBMS
4 7 (4.83%) MongoDB
5 4 (2.76%) MySQL
6 3 (2.07%) Amazon Aurora
6 3 (2.07%) BigQuery
7 2 (1.38%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.38%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (1.38%) DB2
7 2 (1.38%) Hazelcast
7 2 (1.38%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.38%) Power BI
7 2 (1.38%) Redis
8 1 (0.69%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.69%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.69%) Parquet
8 1 (0.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 43 (29.66%) Jenkins
2 33 (22.76%) Git
3 28 (19.31%) JIRA
4 19 (13.10%) Bitbucket
5 14 (9.66%) CA Release Automation
6 11 (7.59%) SonarQube
6 11 (7.59%) Sonatype Nexus
7 10 (6.90%) Bitbucket Server
7 10 (6.90%) TeamCity
8 8 (5.52%) Selenium
9 6 (4.14%) GitLab
9 6 (4.14%) IntelliJ
9 6 (4.14%) JUnit
9 6 (4.14%) Subversion
10 4 (2.76%) Gradle
10 4 (2.76%) HP UFT
10 4 (2.76%) Maven
10 4 (2.76%) NetBeans
11 3 (2.07%) Cypress.io
11 3 (2.07%) MSI
General
1 36 (24.83%) Social Skills
2 28 (19.31%) Finance
3 16 (11.03%) Documentation Skills
4 14 (9.66%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (8.97%) Legal
6 10 (6.90%) Public Sector
7 7 (4.83%) Telecoms
8 6 (4.14%) Electronics
8 6 (4.14%) Manufacturing
8 6 (4.14%) Marketing
9 3 (2.07%) Banking
9 3 (2.07%) Retail
10 1 (0.69%) Front Office
10 1 (0.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.69%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.69%) Military
10 1 (0.69%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 33 (22.76%) Developer
2 15 (10.34%) DevOps Engineer
3 12 (8.28%) Deployment Engineer
4 11 (7.59%) Python Developer
5 10 (6.90%) Lead
6 8 (5.52%) Automation Engineer
6 8 (5.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 8 (5.52%) Senior
7 6 (4.14%) Azure Developer
7 6 (4.14%) Lead Developer
8 5 (3.45%) .NET Developer
8 5 (3.45%) AWS DevOps
8 5 (3.45%) Cloud Engineer
8 5 (3.45%) Java Developer
8 5 (3.45%) Senior Developer
9 4 (2.76%) AWS Engineer
9 4 (2.76%) C# .NET Developer
9 4 (2.76%) C# Developer
9 4 (2.76%) Python Engineer
9 4 (2.76%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (13.10%) REST
2 14 (9.66%) Spring Boot
3 13 (8.97%) SOAP
4 12 (8.28%) Kafka
5 11 (7.59%) Elastic Stack
6 8 (5.52%) React
6 8 (5.52%) RESTful
6 8 (5.52%) Web Services
7 7 (4.83%) CSS
7 7 (4.83%) Node.js
7 7 (4.83%) Spring
8 6 (4.14%) .NET
9 5 (3.45%) .NET Core
9 5 (3.45%) AngularJS
9 5 (3.45%) AWS CDK
10 4 (2.76%) ARM Templates
10 4 (2.76%) AWS Amplify
10 4 (2.76%) GraphQL
10 4 (2.76%) JWT
10 4 (2.76%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 11 (7.59%) Public Cloud
2 6 (4.14%) Data Structures
3 5 (3.45%) Product Ownership
4 4 (2.76%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.07%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (2.07%) EMC VMAX
5 3 (2.07%) Mainframe
5 3 (2.07%) Replication
5 3 (2.07%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (2.07%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.38%) Enterprise Storage
6 2 (1.38%) Equities
6 2 (1.38%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.38%) PKI
7 1 (0.69%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.69%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.69%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.69%) Insider Threat
7 1 (0.69%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.69%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 67 (46.21%) Windows
2 36 (24.83%) Linux
3 33 (22.76%) Windows Server
4 22 (15.17%) Windows Server 2019
5 20 (13.79%) Windows Server 2016
6 14 (9.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 8 (5.52%) Unix
8 6 (4.14%) Windows 10
9 2 (1.38%) Windows 7
10 1 (0.69%) CentOS
10 1 (0.69%) VMS
10 1 (0.69%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (35.17%) CI/CD
2 45 (31.03%) Agile
2 45 (31.03%) DevOps
3 41 (28.28%) Problem-Solving
4 33 (22.76%) Build Automation
5 26 (17.93%) Test Automation
6 23 (15.86%) Microservices
7 21 (14.48%) Migration
8 20 (13.79%) Operations Management
8 20 (13.79%) SIEM
9 19 (13.10%) Infrastructure as Code
10 18 (12.41%) Configuration Management
10 18 (12.41%) SDLC
11 17 (11.72%) Continuous Integration
12 16 (11.03%) Infrastructure Automation
13 15 (10.34%) Code Quality
14 14 (9.66%) Validation
15 12 (8.28%) Scrum
16 11 (7.59%) OWASP
16 11 (7.59%) Reverse Engineering
Programming Languages
1 47 (32.41%) Python
2 45 (31.03%) PowerShell
3 22 (15.17%) Java
4 20 (13.79%) Bash
5 12 (8.28%) SQL
6 10 (6.90%) Perl
7 9 (6.21%) C#
7 9 (6.21%) TypeScript
8 8 (5.52%) JavaScript
9 3 (2.07%) Bicep
9 3 (2.07%) Groovy
9 3 (2.07%) PHP
10 2 (1.38%) DataWeave
11 1 (0.69%) Ruby
11 1 (0.69%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.69%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 41 (28.28%) Security Cleared
2 24 (16.55%) DV Cleared
3 19 (13.10%) SC Cleared
4 16 (11.03%) Microsoft Certification
5 11 (7.59%) OCA
5 11 (7.59%) Oracle Certification
5 11 (7.59%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 10 (6.90%) CCNP
6 10 (6.90%) Cisco Certification
6 10 (6.90%) RHCA
6 10 (6.90%) RHCE
7 3 (2.07%) Azure Certification
7 3 (2.07%) Degree
8 2 (1.38%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.69%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.69%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.69%) MCSA
9 1 (0.69%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.76%) QA
2 2 (1.38%) NCSC
3 1 (0.69%) JSP 440
System Software
1 35 (24.14%) Active Directory
2 34 (23.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (15.17%) Docker
4 20 (13.79%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 20 (13.79%) Virtual Servers
5 4 (2.76%) Microsoft App-V
6 2 (1.38%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.69%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.69%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 49 (33.79%) Ansible
2 36 (24.83%) SCCM
3 33 (22.76%) Kubernetes
4 28 (19.31%) Progress Chef
5 27 (18.62%) Terraform
6 20 (13.79%) WSUS
7 19 (13.10%) Puppet
8 11 (7.59%) vCenter Server
9 10 (6.90%) Kibana
10 6 (4.14%) Grafana
11 3 (2.07%) Control-M
11 3 (2.07%) Istio
11 3 (2.07%) Kiali
12 2 (1.38%) CloudHub
12 2 (1.38%) PowerCLI
12 2 (1.38%) Prometheus
12 2 (1.38%) Proxmox
12 2 (1.38%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (1.38%) ThinApp
12 2 (1.38%) vRealize
Vendors
1 54 (37.24%) Microsoft
2 36 (24.83%) VMware
3 34 (23.45%) Splunk
4 21 (14.48%) NetApp
5 16 (11.03%) Cisco
6 14 (9.66%) AppDynamics
6 14 (9.66%) Oracle
7 11 (7.59%) Red Hat
8 8 (5.52%) Atlassian
9 7 (4.83%) SAP
10 4 (2.76%) CA Agile Central
10 4 (2.76%) Cloudera
10 4 (2.76%) ForgeRock
11 3 (2.07%) EMC
11 3 (2.07%) ServiceNow
11 3 (2.07%) xMatters
12 2 (1.38%) HP
12 2 (1.38%) Salesforce
12 2 (1.38%) Sybase
12 2 (1.38%) Zend