Deployment Automation Contracts in the West Midlands

Deployment Automation
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 89 107 130
Rank change year-on-year +18 +23 +33
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 8 4 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.59% 0.21% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.67% 0.24% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 7
10th Percentile £289 £422 £383
25th Percentile £419 £577 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £675 £575
Median % change year-on-year -25.93% +17.39% +2.68%
75th Percentile £656 £688 £588
90th Percentile £700 - £673
England median daily rate £550 £575 £625
% change year-on-year -4.35% -8.00% +8.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,188 1,636 2,114
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.33% 84.03% 88.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 786 1,083 1,452
10th Percentile £195 £275 £263
25th Percentile £381 £375 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £512
Median % change year-on-year - -2.34% +5.03%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £750 £694
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 115 45
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.09 £12.20
25th Percentile £14.14 £14.00 £13.31
Median hourly rate £18.00 £22.50 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +26.98% +4.24%
75th Percentile £23.99 £41.13 £23.75
90th Percentile £38.19 £57.75 £51.25
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 West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Deployment Automation in the West Midlands

Deployment Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Deployment Automation in the West Midlands

Deployment Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Deployment Automation in the West Midlands

Deployment Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Deployment Automation in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Deployment Automation in the West Midlands

Deployment Automation
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands 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
Warwickshire +3 4 £500 -25.93%
Herefordshire - 3 £700 -
Worcestershire - 2 £700 -
Coventry - 1 £185 -
Deployment Automation
England

Deployment Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) Azure
2 3 (37.50%) AWS
3 2 (25.00%) GCP
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon S3
4 1 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (12.50%) AWS CodeBuild
4 1 (12.50%) AWS CodePipeline
4 1 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (12.50%) Serverless
4 1 (12.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Relational Database
1 2 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Git
2 1 (12.50%) Bitbucket
2 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Lead
1 2 (25.00%) Product Manager
2 1 (12.50%) AWS Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Build Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Developer
2 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Windows Build Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Greenfield Project
1 2 (25.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Windows
2 2 (25.00%) Linux
3 1 (12.50%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) CI/CD
2 4 (50.00%) Agile
2 4 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 4 (50.00%) Scrum
3 3 (37.50%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (37.50%) Product Roadmap
4 2 (25.00%) Backlog Management
4 2 (25.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
4 2 (25.00%) Business Case
4 2 (25.00%) Business Strategy
4 2 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 2 (25.00%) Product Backlog
4 2 (25.00%) Product Requirements
4 2 (25.00%) Product Strategy
4 2 (25.00%) Release Management
4 2 (25.00%) Strategic Roadmap
4 2 (25.00%) Tech Ops
4 2 (25.00%) Technology Roadmap
4 2 (25.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (25.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 2 (25.00%) Degree
1 2 (25.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) NCSC
1 2 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (25.00%) Ansible
2 2 (25.00%) Terraform
3 1 (12.50%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft