Deployment Automation Contracts in England

Deployment Automation
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with 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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 303 306 325
Rank change year-on-year +3 +19 -22
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 236 379 579
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.65% 0.79% 0.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.75% 0.87% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 170 247 430
10th Percentile £400 £413 £434
25th Percentile £513 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +8.70% +14.77%
75th Percentile £700 £700 £650
90th Percentile £775 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £575 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 1
10th Percentile - £66.10 -
25th Percentile £23.80 £67.75 £57.50
Median hourly rate £45.41 £71.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.04% +18.33% +25.00%
75th Percentile £68.08 £77.25 £62.50
90th Percentile £69.98 £80.70 -
UK median hourly rate £45.41 £68.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -33.71% +14.17% +30.43%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,464 43,415 63,929
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.38% 90.10% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,624 30,476 45,458
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £448 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,249 1,526 1,738
10th Percentile £12.92 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.95 £16.20 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.29% +45.58% +8.70%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +7.00%

Deployment Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Deployment Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Deployment Automation in England

Deployment Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Deployment Automation in England.

Daily rate trend for Deployment Automation in England

Deployment Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Deployment Automation in England over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Deployment Automation in England

Deployment Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Deployment Automation in England.

Hourly rate trend for Deployment Automation in England

Deployment Automation
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Deployment Automation in England over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Deployment Automation in England

Deployment Automation
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 18 May 2024. 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
London +13 114 £675 +8.00% 33
South East +34 52 £575 -9.80% 21
South West +15 30 £700 +16.67% 15
North of England +15 17 £510 -7.27% 12
North West +18 11 £510 -2.86% 8
Midlands +14 9 £359 -15.47% 11
Yorkshire 0 6 £475 -15.56% 3
East Midlands +10 5 £356 -16.24% 1
West Midlands +19 4 £675 +17.39% 10
East of England -1 2 £550 -33.33% 3
Deployment Automation
UK

Deployment Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 31 (13.14%) Confluence
2 10 (4.24%) Apache Spark
3 9 (3.81%) SharePoint
4 5 (2.12%) Apache
4 5 (2.12%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (2.12%) JBoss
4 5 (2.12%) WordPress
5 3 (1.27%) CMS
5 3 (1.27%) Drupal
5 3 (1.27%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.85%) Alfresco
6 2 (0.85%) IIS
7 1 (0.42%) IBM HTTP Server
7 1 (0.42%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.42%) WebSphere Application Server
7 1 (0.42%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 5 (2.12%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.27%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.42%) Endur
2 1 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.42%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 72 (30.51%) Azure
2 60 (25.42%) AWS
3 32 (13.56%) Serverless
4 31 (13.14%) Azure DevOps
4 31 (13.14%) GCP
5 19 (8.05%) IaaS
5 19 (8.05%) PaaS
6 18 (7.63%) GitHub
6 18 (7.63%) SaaS
7 16 (6.78%) Power Platform
8 14 (5.93%) Azure Service Bus
9 13 (5.51%) Amazon S3
9 13 (5.51%) AWS CloudFormation
9 13 (5.51%) Power Automate
9 13 (5.51%) PowerApps
10 12 (5.08%) Azure Key Vault
11 11 (4.66%) Amazon EC2
12 10 (4.24%) Amazon EMR
12 10 (4.24%) Azure Functions
12 10 (4.24%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 20 (8.47%) DNS
2 16 (6.78%) Firewall
3 8 (3.39%) NAS
3 8 (3.39%) SAN
4 7 (2.97%) DHCP
5 6 (2.54%) Internet
5 6 (2.54%) Kerberos
5 6 (2.54%) TCP/IP
5 6 (2.54%) VLAN
6 5 (2.12%) FTP
7 4 (1.69%) Cisco Nexus
7 4 (1.69%) VPN
8 3 (1.27%) SSL
8 3 (1.27%) Wireless
9 2 (0.85%) DKIM
9 2 (0.85%) DMARC
9 2 (0.85%) Extranet
9 2 (0.85%) LAN
9 2 (0.85%) Network Security
9 2 (0.85%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (8.47%) SQL Server
2 13 (5.51%) Big Data
2 13 (5.51%) NoSQL
3 12 (5.08%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (4.66%) Relational Database
5 8 (3.39%) Azure SQL Database
6 7 (2.97%) Data Lake
6 7 (2.97%) MongoDB
6 7 (2.97%) OLTP
7 6 (2.54%) Elasticsearch
7 6 (2.54%) Power BI
8 5 (2.12%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (2.12%) RDBMS
9 4 (1.69%) BigQuery
10 3 (1.27%) MySQL
10 3 (1.27%) Spark SQL
10 3 (1.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Analysis Services
11 2 (0.85%) Qlik Sense
11 2 (0.85%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 71 (30.08%) Jenkins
2 65 (27.54%) Git
3 45 (19.07%) JIRA
4 28 (11.86%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 28 (11.86%) Bitbucket
5 16 (6.78%) TeamCity
6 13 (5.51%) Visual Studio
7 10 (4.24%) Sonatype Nexus
8 8 (3.39%) SonarQube
9 7 (2.97%) Visual Studio Team System
10 6 (2.54%) Selenium
11 5 (2.12%) Bitbucket Server
11 5 (2.12%) CA Release Automation
11 5 (2.12%) GitLab
12 4 (1.69%) Artifactory
12 4 (1.69%) Mocha
13 3 (1.27%) Babel
13 3 (1.27%) Subversion
13 3 (1.27%) webpack
14 2 (0.85%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 63 (26.69%) Social Skills
2 41 (17.37%) Finance
3 29 (12.29%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (7.63%) Aerospace
5 14 (5.93%) Banking
6 9 (3.81%) Public Sector
7 8 (3.39%) Retail
8 7 (2.97%) Manufacturing
9 6 (2.54%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (2.12%) Pharmaceutical
11 4 (1.69%) Financial Institution
11 4 (1.69%) Local Government
12 2 (0.85%) Back Office
12 2 (0.85%) Electronics
12 2 (0.85%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.85%) Marketing
12 2 (0.85%) Publishing
12 2 (0.85%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.42%) German Language
13 1 (0.42%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 73 (30.93%) Developer
2 35 (14.83%) Architect
3 23 (9.75%) Senior
4 19 (8.05%) Build Engineer
4 19 (8.05%) Windows Build Engineer
4 19 (8.05%) Windows Engineer
5 17 (7.20%) Security Architect
6 16 (6.78%) Cloud Engineer
7 13 (5.51%) Lead
8 12 (5.08%) Solutions Architect
9 11 (4.66%) Data Engineer
10 10 (4.24%) Cloud Architect
10 10 (4.24%) DevOps Engineer
11 9 (3.81%) .NET Developer
11 9 (3.81%) C# Developer
11 9 (3.81%) Cloud Security Architect
11 9 (3.81%) Full Stack Developer
12 8 (3.39%) Senior Security Architect
12 8 (3.39%) Software Engineer
12 8 (3.39%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (27.54%) .NET
2 31 (13.14%) .NET Core
3 22 (9.32%) React
4 16 (6.78%) ASP.NET
5 14 (5.93%) Web Services
6 13 (5.51%) XML
7 12 (5.08%) JSON
8 10 (4.24%) .NET Framework
8 10 (4.24%) CSS
8 10 (4.24%) Kafka
9 9 (3.81%) ARM Templates
9 9 (3.81%) HTML
9 9 (3.81%) Spring Boot
10 8 (3.39%) SailPoint
11 7 (2.97%) Elastic Stack
11 7 (2.97%) Node.js
12 6 (2.54%) LDAP
12 6 (2.54%) Redux
13 5 (2.12%) Jest
13 5 (2.12%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 15 (6.36%) Mobile App
2 12 (5.08%) IoT
3 8 (3.39%) Cloud Native
4 7 (2.97%) Replication
5 6 (2.54%) Clustering
6 5 (2.12%) Distributed Architecture
6 5 (2.12%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.69%) Hedge funds
7 4 (1.69%) PKI
7 4 (1.69%) Virtual Team
8 3 (1.27%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.27%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.27%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.27%) Private Cloud
8 3 (1.27%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.85%) Fat Client
9 2 (0.85%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (0.85%) Mashup
9 2 (0.85%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 52 (22.03%) Linux
2 51 (21.61%) Windows
3 34 (14.41%) Windows Server
4 24 (10.17%) Windows 10
4 24 (10.17%) Windows Server 2012
5 23 (9.75%) Windows Server 2019
6 19 (8.05%) Windows NT
6 19 (8.05%) Windows Server 2016
7 17 (7.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 9 (3.81%) Unix
9 6 (2.54%) Oracle Linux
9 6 (2.54%) Solaris
10 1 (0.42%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (41.10%) CI/CD
2 84 (35.59%) DevOps
3 68 (28.81%) Continuous Integration
4 60 (25.42%) Test Automation
5 48 (20.34%) Agile
6 47 (19.92%) Problem-Solving
7 35 (14.83%) Infrastructure as Code
7 35 (14.83%) Task Automation
8 32 (13.56%) OO
9 30 (12.71%) Infrastructure Automation
10 28 (11.86%) Application Security
10 28 (11.86%) ITIL
10 28 (11.86%) Microservices
10 28 (11.86%) OOP
11 27 (11.44%) Containerisation
12 26 (11.02%) Configuration Management
12 26 (11.02%) Migration
13 25 (10.59%) SDLC
14 24 (10.17%) Scrum
14 24 (10.17%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 70 (29.66%) PowerShell
2 67 (28.39%) Python
3 51 (21.61%) C#
4 41 (17.37%) Java
5 31 (13.14%) SQL
6 20 (8.47%) JavaScript
7 14 (5.93%) Bash
8 13 (5.51%) TypeScript
9 8 (3.39%) C++
10 6 (2.54%) Perl
11 3 (1.27%) Go
12 2 (0.85%) Bicep
12 2 (0.85%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.42%) PHP
13 1 (0.42%) R
13 1 (0.42%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 86 (36.44%) Security Cleared
2 57 (24.15%) SC Cleared
3 23 (9.75%) DV Cleared
4 9 (3.81%) Degree
5 6 (2.54%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (2.12%) AWS Certification
6 5 (2.12%) Master's Degree
7 4 (1.69%) MCSE
7 4 (1.69%) MCTS
7 4 (1.69%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.42%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.42%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.42%) CEH
8 1 (0.42%) Chartered Engineer
8 1 (0.42%) CISSP
8 1 (0.42%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.42%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (14.41%) QA
2 12 (5.08%) NIST
3 7 (2.97%) Accessibility
4 6 (2.54%) GDPR
4 6 (2.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 6 (2.54%) SLA
5 1 (0.42%) ISO 15022
5 1 (0.42%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.42%) WCAG
System Software
1 41 (17.37%) Active Directory
2 24 (10.17%) Docker
3 19 (8.05%) Firmware
3 19 (8.05%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.69%) Hyper-V
5 3 (1.27%) BitLocker
5 3 (1.27%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.42%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 60 (25.42%) Ansible
2 48 (20.34%) Terraform
3 40 (16.95%) Kubernetes
4 26 (11.02%) SCCM
5 24 (10.17%) WSUS
6 23 (9.75%) PowerCLI
7 19 (8.05%) Sysprep
8 6 (2.54%) EMC NetWorker
8 6 (2.54%) Kibana
8 6 (2.54%) Netcool
8 6 (2.54%) Progress Chef
8 6 (2.54%) Tivoli
8 6 (2.54%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 5 (2.12%) Puppet
10 4 (1.69%) Grafana
10 4 (1.69%) Microsoft Intune
11 3 (1.27%) Prometheus
12 2 (0.85%) NetBackup
12 2 (0.85%) SCOM
12 2 (0.85%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 67 (28.39%) Microsoft
2 30 (12.71%) Dell
2 30 (12.71%) HP
3 23 (9.75%) Atlassian
4 19 (8.05%) VMware
5 18 (7.63%) ServiceNow
6 14 (5.93%) CyberArk
7 13 (5.51%) Cisco
8 12 (5.08%) Splunk
9 9 (3.81%) Google
9 9 (3.81%) Oracle
10 8 (3.39%) BeyondTrust
10 8 (3.39%) EMC
10 8 (3.39%) Salesforce
11 7 (2.97%) F5
11 7 (2.97%) IBM
12 6 (2.54%) Isilon
12 6 (2.54%) Juniper
12 6 (2.54%) Qualys
12 6 (2.54%) Serena