Deployment Automation Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Deployment Automation
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 203 260 291
Rank change year-on-year +57 +31 +56
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 99 89 186
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.00% 0.58% 0.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.10% 0.66% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 57 116
10th Percentile £375 £356 £458
25th Percentile £441 £440 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £543 £608
Median % change year-on-year +1.29% -10.62% +10.45%
75th Percentile £624 £650 £700
90th Percentile £653 - £763
UK median daily rate £537 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -6.61% -4.17% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £66.45
25th Percentile - - £67.13
Median hourly rate - - £68.50
75th Percentile - - £70.13
90th Percentile - - £70.95
UK median hourly rate - £23.80 £68.50
% change year-on-year - -65.26% -2.14%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,017 13,465 23,106
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.06% 87.90% 89.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,189 8,984 16,334
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 221 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.75 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.00 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.30% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.50 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £36.42
% change year-on-year -18.31% -2.53% +45.69%

Deployment Automation
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Deployment Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Deployment Automation trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Deployment Automation
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options 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 remote working options citing Deployment Automation over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

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 remote working options 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 6 (6.06%) Confluence
2 3 (3.03%) JBoss
2 3 (3.03%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.02%) Anypoint
3 2 (2.02%) Apache
3 2 (2.02%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.02%) ArcGIS
3 2 (2.02%) OpenStack
3 2 (2.02%) Umbraco
4 1 (1.01%) IBM Domino
4 1 (1.01%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 46 (46.46%) AWS
2 41 (41.41%) Azure
3 21 (21.21%) Azure DevOps
4 17 (17.17%) AWS CloudFormation
5 14 (14.14%) Amazon EC2
5 14 (14.14%) GitHub
6 12 (12.12%) GCP
7 10 (10.10%) Amazon S3
8 8 (8.08%) Amazon EKS
8 8 (8.08%) OpenShift
8 8 (8.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 6 (6.06%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (6.06%) Route 53
9 6 (6.06%) Serverless
10 3 (3.03%) Azure Functions
10 3 (3.03%) Azure Pipelines
10 3 (3.03%) Power Automate
10 3 (3.03%) Power Platform
10 3 (3.03%) PowerApps
11 2 (2.02%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 14 (14.14%) DNS
2 9 (9.09%) HTTP
3 8 (8.08%) TCP/IP
4 7 (7.07%) Firewall
4 7 (7.07%) Internet
5 6 (6.06%) VPN
6 2 (2.02%) Kerberos
7 1 (1.01%) DHCP
7 1 (1.01%) NAS
7 1 (1.01%) Network Security
7 1 (1.01%) SAN
7 1 (1.01%) SSL
7 1 (1.01%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (13.13%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (8.08%) Amazon Aurora
3 5 (5.05%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (5.05%) NoSQL
4 4 (4.04%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (4.04%) Relational Database
5 3 (3.03%) Amazon Athena
5 3 (3.03%) MongoDB
5 3 (3.03%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (3.03%) RDBMS
5 3 (3.03%) SQL Server
6 2 (2.02%) Apache Iceberg
6 2 (2.02%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (2.02%) GIS
6 2 (2.02%) InterSystems Cache
6 2 (2.02%) Redis
6 2 (2.02%) SAP HANA
6 2 (2.02%) Tableau
7 1 (1.01%) Delta Lake
7 1 (1.01%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 38 (38.38%) Jenkins
2 24 (24.24%) Git
3 16 (16.16%) GitLab
3 16 (16.16%) JIRA
4 10 (10.10%) Bitbucket
5 8 (8.08%) Cypress.io
6 7 (7.07%) REST Assured
7 6 (6.06%) CA Release Automation
7 6 (6.06%) SonarQube
8 5 (5.05%) Octopus Deploy
9 4 (4.04%) JUnit
9 4 (4.04%) Maven
9 4 (4.04%) Selenium
9 4 (4.04%) TeamCity
10 3 (3.03%) HP UFT
10 3 (3.03%) IntelliJ
10 3 (3.03%) JMeter
10 3 (3.03%) NetBeans
10 3 (3.03%) Subversion
10 3 (3.03%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 26 (26.26%) Social Skills
2 17 (17.17%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (10.10%) Finance
4 8 (8.08%) Public Sector
5 4 (4.04%) Marketing
5 4 (4.04%) Telecoms
6 3 (3.03%) Electronics
6 3 (3.03%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.02%) Banking
7 2 (2.02%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.02%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.01%) Front Office
8 1 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 27 (27.27%) Senior
2 22 (22.22%) DevOps Engineer
3 17 (17.17%) Developer
4 10 (10.10%) Automation Engineer
4 10 (10.10%) Senior DevOps
4 10 (10.10%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 9 (9.09%) Architect
5 9 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
5 9 (9.09%) Lead
6 7 (7.07%) Python Engineer
7 6 (6.06%) Cloud Engineer
8 5 (5.05%) .NET Developer
8 5 (5.05%) AWS Architect
8 5 (5.05%) Java Engineer
8 5 (5.05%) Senior .NET Developer
8 5 (5.05%) Senior Developer
9 4 (4.04%) Data Engineer
9 4 (4.04%) Kubernetes Engineer
9 4 (4.04%) Senior Test Engineer
9 4 (4.04%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (13.13%) Elastic Stack
2 10 (10.10%) .NET
3 9 (9.09%) REST
4 8 (8.08%) .NET Core
4 8 (8.08%) Playwright
5 6 (6.06%) CSS
5 6 (6.06%) Kafka
5 6 (6.06%) Spring Boot
6 5 (5.05%) HTML
6 5 (5.05%) Node.js
6 5 (5.05%) Spring
7 4 (4.04%) Jest
7 4 (4.04%) Middleware
8 3 (3.03%) Ajax
8 3 (3.03%) AngularJS
8 3 (3.03%) Hibernate
8 3 (3.03%) J2EE
8 3 (3.03%) SOAP
8 3 (3.03%) Spring Integration
8 3 (3.03%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.08%) Product Ownership
2 7 (7.07%) Cloud Native
3 4 (4.04%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (4.04%) Data Structures
4 3 (3.03%) Mainframe
5 2 (2.02%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.02%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.02%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.02%) Insider Threat
5 2 (2.02%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.02%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.02%) Replication
5 2 (2.02%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.01%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.01%) Clustering
6 1 (1.01%) Equities
6 1 (1.01%) NHS
6 1 (1.01%) Reinsurance
6 1 (1.01%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 33 (33.33%) Linux
2 16 (16.16%) Windows
3 7 (7.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (4.04%) Windows Server
5 3 (3.03%) Unix
5 3 (3.03%) VMS
6 1 (1.01%) Mac OS
6 1 (1.01%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (1.01%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (60.61%) CI/CD
2 56 (56.57%) DevOps
3 33 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
4 32 (32.32%) Agile
4 32 (32.32%) Containerisation
5 28 (28.28%) Infrastructure as Code
6 25 (25.25%) Test Automation
7 24 (24.24%) Problem-Solving
8 19 (19.19%) Configuration Management
9 15 (15.15%) Microservices
10 13 (13.13%) Mentoring
11 11 (11.11%) Scrum
12 10 (10.10%) Software Engineering
13 9 (9.09%) Code Quality
13 9 (9.09%) Cost Management
13 9 (9.09%) Infrastructure Automation
13 9 (9.09%) Migration
14 8 (8.08%) Computer Science
14 8 (8.08%) Continuous Delivery
14 8 (8.08%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 45 (45.45%) Python
2 24 (24.24%) PowerShell
3 22 (22.22%) Bash
4 17 (17.17%) SQL
5 14 (14.14%) C#
5 14 (14.14%) Java
5 14 (14.14%) JavaScript
6 11 (11.11%) TypeScript
7 4 (4.04%) Perl
7 4 (4.04%) Ruby
8 2 (2.02%) Go
8 2 (2.02%) Shell Script
8 2 (2.02%) T-SQL
8 2 (2.02%) VB
8 2 (2.02%) VB6
9 1 (1.01%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 24 (24.24%) Security Cleared
2 23 (23.23%) SC Cleared
3 10 (10.10%) Degree
4 8 (8.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.03%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (2.02%) Azure Certification
6 2 (2.02%) OCA
6 2 (2.02%) Oracle Certification
6 2 (2.02%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (1.01%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.01%) CCNP
7 1 (1.01%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.01%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.01%) MCSA
7 1 (1.01%) MCSE
7 1 (1.01%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (1.01%) RHCA
7 1 (1.01%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (12.12%) QA
2 4 (4.04%) Accessibility
3 3 (3.03%) GDPR
4 2 (2.02%) Government Security Classifications
4 2 (2.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.01%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.01%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 37 (37.37%) Docker
2 8 (8.08%) Active Directory
3 5 (5.05%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (2.02%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 2 (2.02%) Microsoft App-V
4 2 (2.02%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.01%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 45 (45.45%) Kubernetes
2 40 (40.40%) Terraform
3 34 (34.34%) Ansible
4 28 (28.28%) Progress Chef
5 23 (23.23%) Puppet
6 12 (12.12%) Prometheus
7 11 (11.11%) Grafana
8 5 (5.05%) Argo
9 3 (3.03%) Consul
9 3 (3.03%) Kibana
10 2 (2.02%) CloudHub
10 2 (2.02%) Istio
10 2 (2.02%) logstash
10 2 (2.02%) SCCM
10 2 (2.02%) ThinApp
10 2 (2.02%) vCenter Server
11 1 (1.01%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (1.01%) linkerd
11 1 (1.01%) PowerCLI
11 1 (1.01%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 22 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 11 (11.11%) Red Hat
3 8 (8.08%) Google
4 7 (7.07%) Splunk
5 6 (6.06%) SAP
6 5 (5.05%) Cisco
6 5 (5.05%) VMware
7 3 (3.03%) AppDynamics
7 3 (3.03%) CA Agile Central
7 3 (3.03%) CyberArk
7 3 (3.03%) Dynatrace
7 3 (3.03%) Oracle
8 2 (2.02%) BeyondTrust
8 2 (2.02%) Databricks
8 2 (2.02%) IBM
8 2 (2.02%) InterSystems
8 2 (2.02%) Ivanti
8 2 (2.02%) MuleSoft
8 2 (2.02%) Sybase
9 1 (1.01%) Atlassian