Deployment Automation Contracts in the Midlands

Deployment Automation
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 126 140 171
Rank change year-on-year +14 +31 -38
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 9 18 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.33% 0.55% 0.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.41% 0.62% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 12 20
10th Percentile £345 £390 £443
25th Percentile £356 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £359 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year -15.47% -15.00% +33.33%
75th Percentile £688 £588 £550
90th Percentile - £734 £644
England median daily rate £575 £625 £575
% change year-on-year -8.00% +8.70% +14.77%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,210 2,891 4,388
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.13% 88.14% 87.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,487 2,028 3,224
10th Percentile £234 £250 £250
25th Percentile £356 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +15.15%
75th Percentile £600 £594 £575
90th Percentile £700 £688 £667
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 169 104 145
10th Percentile £11.06 £12.15 £10.50
25th Percentile £13.91 £14.88 £13.73
Median hourly rate £18.00 £21.32 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.57% +21.83% +13.27%
75th Percentile £33.25 £32.77 £22.75
90th Percentile £55.00 £54.63 £35.00
England median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.29% +45.58% +8.70%

Deployment Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Deployment Automation in the Midlands

Deployment Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Deployment Automation in the Midlands

Deployment Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Deployment Automation in the Midlands

Deployment Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Deployment Automation in the Midlands

Deployment Automation
Contract Job Locations in the 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 Midlands 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
East Midlands +10 5 £356 -16.24% 1
West Midlands +19 4 £675 +17.39% 10
Deployment Automation
England

Deployment Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the 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 5 (55.56%) JBoss
2 3 (33.33%) CMS
2 3 (33.33%) Drupal
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) AWS
1 5 (55.56%) OpenShift
2 4 (44.44%) Azure
3 3 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (33.33%) GCP
4 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (33.33%) DNS
1 3 (33.33%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (55.56%) Elasticsearch
1 5 (55.56%) RDBMS
1 5 (55.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (88.89%) Git
1 8 (88.89%) Jenkins
2 5 (55.56%) Bitbucket Server
2 5 (55.56%) CA Release Automation
2 5 (55.56%) JIRA
2 5 (55.56%) SonarQube
2 5 (55.56%) Sonatype Nexus
2 5 (55.56%) TeamCity
3 3 (33.33%) Artifactory
3 3 (33.33%) Selenium
3 3 (33.33%) Subversion
General
1 1 (11.11%) Banking
1 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Cloud Engineer
1 5 (55.56%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (55.56%) Elastic Stack
1 5 (55.56%) Spring Boot
2 1 (11.11%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 3 (33.33%) Mobile App
1 3 (33.33%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (66.67%) Windows
2 5 (55.56%) Linux
2 5 (55.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) CI/CD
1 8 (88.89%) Continuous Integration
1 8 (88.89%) DevOps
2 5 (55.56%) Build Automation
2 5 (55.56%) Code Quality
2 5 (55.56%) Microservices
2 5 (55.56%) Migration
3 4 (44.44%) ITIL
4 3 (33.33%) Agile
4 3 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
4 3 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
4 3 (33.33%) Continuous Delivery
4 3 (33.33%) Kanban
4 3 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
4 3 (33.33%) Roadmaps
4 3 (33.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 3 (33.33%) Scrum
4 3 (33.33%) SDLC
4 3 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 3 (33.33%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) Perl
1 5 (55.56%) Python
2 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 6 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 5 (55.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (55.56%) Kibana
1 5 (55.56%) Kubernetes
1 5 (55.56%) Progress Chef
2 3 (33.33%) Ansible
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) AppDynamics
1 5 (55.56%) Red Hat
1 5 (55.56%) Splunk
2 3 (33.33%) Salesforce
2 3 (33.33%) ServiceNow
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft