Deployment Automation Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Deployment Automation
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Deployment Automation skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 95 108
Rank change year-on-year +5 +13 +50
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 30 13 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.67% 0.69% 0.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.89% 0.84% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 12 9
10th Percentile £443 £530 £488
25th Percentile £508 £603 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £612 £675
Median % change year-on-year -14.22% -9.33% +25.00%
75th Percentile £540 £685 £750
90th Percentile £660 - -
England median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

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 1,591 1,545 1,798
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.49% 81.62% 85.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,023 998 1,206
10th Percentile £250 £250 £263
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £663 £725 £725
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 41 51
10th Percentile £12.62 £14.25 £14.54
25th Percentile £16.07 £15.13 £20.24
Median hourly rate £24.34 £22.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.18% -18.18% +56.16%
75th Percentile £35.30 £35.00 £42.25
90th Percentile £50.00 £55.25 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.54
% change year-on-year -41.51% -1.24% +50.14%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Deployment Automation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Deployment Automation

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 15 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Deployment Automation in the West Midlands

Deployment Automation
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Deployment Automation.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Deployment Automation

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 15 September 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
Shropshire - 22 £525 - 2
Warwickshire -3 5 £525 +55.56% 1
Birmingham +7 1 £425 - 3
Herefordshire -2 1 - -
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:

Application Platforms
1 20 (66.67%) SAS
2 4 (13.33%) Oracle Workflow
3 3 (10.00%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (6.67%) nginx
5 1 (3.33%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 8 (26.67%) AWS
2 7 (23.33%) Azure
3 4 (13.33%) GitHub
3 4 (13.33%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (10.00%) Serverless
5 2 (6.67%) Amazon EventBridge
5 2 (6.67%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (3.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (3.33%) Amazon Cognito
6 1 (3.33%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (3.33%) Amazon S3
6 1 (3.33%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (3.33%) AWS CodeBuild
6 1 (3.33%) AWS CodePipeline
6 1 (3.33%) IaaS
6 1 (3.33%) PaaS
6 1 (3.33%) SaaS
6 1 (3.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (53.33%) Pentaho
2 7 (23.33%) SAS Enterprise Guide
3 4 (13.33%) SAS Data Integration Studio
3 4 (13.33%) SAS Visual Analytics
4 3 (10.00%) Oracle Database
4 3 (10.00%) Relational Database
5 1 (3.33%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (3.33%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (3.33%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 19 (63.33%) Git
1 19 (63.33%) JIRA
2 18 (60.00%) Jenkins
3 4 (13.33%) GitLab
4 2 (6.67%) Bitbucket
4 2 (6.67%) SonarQube
5 1 (3.33%) Bitbucket Server
5 1 (3.33%) CA Release Automation
5 1 (3.33%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (3.33%) TeamCity
General
1 6 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 3 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
2 3 (10.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (3.33%) Digital Healthcare
Job Titles
1 3 (10.00%) Data Engineer
1 3 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 3 (10.00%) SAS Engineer
2 2 (6.67%) Configuration Engineer
2 2 (6.67%) Developer
3 1 (3.33%) Administrator
3 1 (3.33%) AWS Developer
3 1 (3.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 1 (3.33%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (3.33%) Configuration Manager
3 1 (3.33%) DevOps Administrator
3 1 (3.33%) Environment Manager
3 1 (3.33%) Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.00%) LDAP
1 3 (10.00%) YAML
2 2 (6.67%) ADO
2 2 (6.67%) HTML
2 2 (6.67%) JSON
2 2 (6.67%) OAuth
2 2 (6.67%) OAuth2
2 2 (6.67%) REST
2 2 (6.67%) SOAP
2 2 (6.67%) XML
3 1 (3.33%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (3.33%) RESTful
3 1 (3.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (3.33%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.33%) Linux
1 1 (3.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (3.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (90.00%) DevOps
2 26 (86.67%) CI/CD
3 23 (76.67%) Agile
4 21 (70.00%) Test Automation
5 20 (66.67%) Analytics
5 20 (66.67%) Data Integration
5 20 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
6 17 (56.67%) Problem-Solving
7 16 (53.33%) Business Intelligence
7 16 (53.33%) Data Analytics
7 16 (53.33%) Data Modelling
7 16 (53.33%) Data Virtualisation
7 16 (53.33%) ETL
7 16 (53.33%) Scrum
8 15 (50.00%) Business Analytics
8 15 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
9 8 (26.67%) Infrastructure as Code
9 8 (26.67%) Risk Assessment
10 7 (23.33%) Containerisation
10 7 (23.33%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 16 (53.33%) SQL
2 5 (16.67%) Java
3 3 (10.00%) Python
4 1 (3.33%) Perl
Qualifications
1 21 (70.00%) Security Cleared
2 19 (63.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (53.33%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.33%) NCSC
System Software
1 24 (80.00%) Docker
2 4 (13.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 22 (73.33%) Kubernetes
2 6 (20.00%) Terraform
3 4 (13.33%) Ansible
4 3 (10.00%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (3.33%) Kibana
5 1 (3.33%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 20 (66.67%) Oracle
2 16 (53.33%) Denodo
2 16 (53.33%) Talend
3 7 (23.33%) Microsoft
4 3 (10.00%) ForgeRock
5 2 (6.67%) Pega
6 1 (3.33%) AppDynamics
6 1 (3.33%) Red Hat
6 1 (3.33%) Splunk