Deployment Automation Contracts with Work from Home Options

Deployment Automation
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Deployment Automation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Deployment Automation over the 6 months to 17 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 260 276 322
Rank change year-on-year +16 +46 -42
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 92 201 319
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.59% 0.76% 0.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.67% 0.84% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 126 237
10th Percentile £356 £453 £414
25th Percentile £440 £475 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.50% +9.09% +1.85%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £633
90th Percentile £653 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £575 £625 £575
% change year-on-year -8.00% +8.70% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
10th Percentile - £66.45 £54.15
25th Percentile - £67.13 £58.88
Median hourly rate - £68.50 £68.00
Median % change year-on-year - +0.74% +70.00%
75th Percentile - £70.13 £78.38
90th Percentile - £70.95 £83.85
UK median hourly rate £44.51 £68.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year -35.02% -2.14% +57.30%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Deployment Automation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,725 23,816 41,000
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.81% 89.82% 91.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,166 16,792 29,748
10th Percentile £325 £363 £360
25th Percentile £425 £450 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +9.38%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £748 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 546 545 545
10th Percentile £14.43 £19.00 £13.50
25th Percentile £23.63 £30.00 £20.00
Median hourly rate £38.12 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.69% +57.14% +32.08%
75th Percentile £57.50 £68.75 £54.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.90
UK median hourly rate £34.00 £35.90 £24.82
% change year-on-year -5.29% +44.64% -0.72%

Deployment Automation
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Deployment Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Deployment Automation trend for jobs with a WFH option

Deployment Automation
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Deployment Automation.

Deployment Automation daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Deployment Automation
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Deployment Automation over the 6 months to 17 April 2024.

Deployment Automation daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Deployment Automation
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Deployment Automation.

Deployment Automation hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Deployment Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 10 (10.87%) Confluence
2 6 (6.52%) IBM HTTP Server
2 6 (6.52%) WebSphere
2 6 (6.52%) WebSphere Application Server
2 6 (6.52%) WebSphere Portal
3 3 (3.26%) JBoss
4 1 (1.09%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (3.26%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (1.09%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (1.09%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.09%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 58 (63.04%) Azure
2 50 (54.35%) AWS
3 27 (29.35%) Azure DevOps
4 21 (22.83%) GCP
5 20 (21.74%) PaaS
6 17 (18.48%) IaaS
6 17 (18.48%) SaaS
7 13 (14.13%) GitHub
8 12 (13.04%) GitHub Actions
9 9 (9.78%) Serverless
10 8 (8.70%) Azure API Management
11 7 (7.61%) Azure Key Vault
11 7 (7.61%) Azure Service Bus
11 7 (7.61%) Cloud Computing
11 7 (7.61%) Nutanix
11 7 (7.61%) Rubrik
12 5 (5.43%) Azure Functions
12 5 (5.43%) Azure Logic Apps
12 5 (5.43%) Power Automate
12 5 (5.43%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 10 (10.87%) Firewall
2 9 (9.78%) DNS
3 7 (7.61%) DHCP
3 7 (7.61%) Kerberos
3 7 (7.61%) NAS
3 7 (7.61%) SAN
3 7 (7.61%) TCP/IP
3 7 (7.61%) VLAN
4 6 (6.52%) HTTP
5 4 (4.35%) Network Security
6 1 (1.09%) BGP
6 1 (1.09%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (1.09%) EIGRP
6 1 (1.09%) IPsec
6 1 (1.09%) OSPF
6 1 (1.09%) SD-WAN
6 1 (1.09%) VoIP
6 1 (1.09%) VPN
6 1 (1.09%) WAN
6 1 (1.09%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.52%) SQL Server
2 5 (5.43%) Azure SQL Database
2 5 (5.43%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (4.35%) Big Data
3 4 (4.35%) Data Lake
3 4 (4.35%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (4.35%) Relational Database
4 3 (3.26%) OLTP
4 3 (3.26%) RDBMS
5 2 (2.17%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (2.17%) MariaDB
5 2 (2.17%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.17%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.17%) Power BI
6 1 (1.09%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.09%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.09%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 20 (21.74%) Git
2 19 (20.65%) Jenkins
3 16 (17.39%) JIRA
4 14 (15.22%) SonarQube
5 11 (11.96%) TeamCity
6 5 (5.43%) Bitbucket
7 4 (4.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 4 (4.35%) GitLab
7 4 (4.35%) IBM UrbanCode
8 3 (3.26%) Bitbucket Server
8 3 (3.26%) CA Release Automation
8 3 (3.26%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (3.26%) Visual Studio Team System
9 2 (2.17%) Mocha
9 2 (2.17%) NUnit
9 2 (2.17%) Visual Studio Code
10 1 (1.09%) Babel
10 1 (1.09%) JMeter
10 1 (1.09%) NeoLoad
10 1 (1.09%) webpack
General
1 23 (25.00%) Finance
2 15 (16.30%) Social Skills
3 11 (11.96%) Banking
4 9 (9.78%) Public Sector
5 5 (5.43%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (3.26%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (2.17%) Electronics
7 2 (2.17%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.17%) Marketing
7 2 (2.17%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.09%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 18 (19.57%) Architect
2 17 (18.48%) Developer
3 15 (16.30%) Solutions Architect
4 10 (10.87%) Cloud Engineer
5 8 (8.70%) DevOps Engineer
5 8 (8.70%) Lead
5 8 (8.70%) Senior
6 6 (6.52%) Azure Engineer
6 6 (6.52%) Middleware Engineer
7 5 (5.43%) Azure Developer
8 4 (4.35%) .NET Developer
8 4 (4.35%) AWS Engineer
8 4 (4.35%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 4 (4.35%) Platform Engineer
8 4 (4.35%) SailPoint Architect
8 4 (4.35%) Senior Middleware Engineer
9 3 (3.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (3.26%) Lead Developer
9 3 (3.26%) Principal Developer
9 3 (3.26%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (17.39%) ARM Templates
2 15 (16.30%) .NET
3 14 (15.22%) SailPoint
4 10 (10.87%) Azure Blueprints
5 7 (7.61%) LDAP
6 6 (6.52%) Elastic Stack
6 6 (6.52%) J2EE
6 6 (6.52%) JSON
6 6 (6.52%) Middleware
6 6 (6.52%) Web Services
6 6 (6.52%) XML
7 5 (5.43%) .NET Core
7 5 (5.43%) .NET Framework
7 5 (5.43%) React
8 4 (4.35%) CSS
8 4 (4.35%) RESTful
8 4 (4.35%) YAML
9 3 (3.26%) Entity Framework
9 3 (3.26%) Redux
9 3 (3.26%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 12 (13.04%) Onboarding
2 11 (11.96%) Management Information System
3 7 (7.61%) Clustering
3 7 (7.61%) Replication
4 5 (5.43%) Cloud Native
5 4 (4.35%) Data Centre
6 3 (3.26%) Public Cloud
7 2 (2.17%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (2.17%) N-Tier
8 1 (1.09%) Credit Risk
8 1 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.09%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 17 (18.48%) Linux
2 13 (14.13%) Windows
3 10 (10.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (7.61%) Oracle Linux
4 7 (7.61%) Solaris
4 7 (7.61%) Windows Server
5 2 (2.17%) Amazon Linux
5 2 (2.17%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (76.09%) DevOps
2 39 (42.39%) CI/CD
3 30 (32.61%) Containerisation
4 29 (31.52%) Test Automation
5 22 (23.91%) Continuous Integration
5 22 (23.91%) Migration
6 21 (22.83%) High Availability
7 20 (21.74%) Infrastructure as Code
8 19 (20.65%) Agile
9 16 (17.39%) Continuous Delivery
10 14 (15.22%) Application Security
10 14 (15.22%) Cloud Security
10 14 (15.22%) Cybersecurity
10 14 (15.22%) Release Management
10 14 (15.22%) Secrets Management
11 13 (14.13%) Microservices
11 13 (14.13%) Software Engineering
12 12 (13.04%) Architectural Design
13 11 (11.96%) Mentoring
14 10 (10.87%) Performance Analysis
Programming Languages
1 24 (26.09%) Python
2 22 (23.91%) PowerShell
3 13 (14.13%) C#
4 12 (13.04%) SQL
5 11 (11.96%) Bash
6 10 (10.87%) Java
7 4 (4.35%) JavaScript
8 3 (3.26%) Perl
9 2 (2.17%) Bicep
9 2 (2.17%) Go
9 2 (2.17%) PHP
9 2 (2.17%) Ruby
9 2 (2.17%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 20 (21.74%) SC Cleared
1 20 (21.74%) Security Cleared
2 10 (10.87%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (4.35%) Degree
4 3 (3.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.17%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (2.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.09%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (1.09%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (10.87%) NCSC
2 7 (7.61%) GDPR
2 7 (7.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 4 (4.35%) QA
4 2 (2.17%) SLA
5 1 (1.09%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 26 (28.26%) Docker
2 12 (13.04%) Active Directory
3 8 (8.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (2.17%) vCloud
4 2 (2.17%) VMware NSX
4 2 (2.17%) vSphere
5 1 (1.09%) IAG
5 1 (1.09%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 34 (36.96%) Terraform
2 29 (31.52%) Kubernetes
3 23 (25.00%) Ansible
4 7 (7.61%) EMC NetWorker
4 7 (7.61%) Netcool
4 7 (7.61%) Tivoli
4 7 (7.61%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 5 (5.43%) Progress Chef
6 4 (4.35%) Kibana
7 3 (3.26%) Grafana
7 3 (3.26%) PowerCLI
8 2 (2.17%) Autotask
8 2 (2.17%) Prometheus
8 2 (2.17%) Puppet
9 1 (1.09%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (1.09%) logstash
9 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 21 (22.83%) ServiceNow
2 20 (21.74%) CyberArk
3 19 (20.65%) Microsoft
4 13 (14.13%) BeyondTrust
4 13 (14.13%) IBM
5 10 (10.87%) Dell
5 10 (10.87%) HP
5 10 (10.87%) Oracle
5 10 (10.87%) Splunk
5 10 (10.87%) VMware
6 8 (8.70%) Cisco
7 7 (7.61%) EMC
7 7 (7.61%) Isilon
7 7 (7.61%) Qualys
7 7 (7.61%) Serena
8 5 (5.43%) SAP
9 4 (4.35%) Databricks
10 3 (3.26%) AppDynamics
10 3 (3.26%) BMC
10 3 (3.26%) Remedy