Deployment Automation Contracts in Scotland

Deployment Automation
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 22 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
22 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 107 153 154
Rank change year-on-year +46 +1 -16
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 15 9 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.72% 0.34% 0.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.81% 0.37% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 5 15
10th Percentile £415 £503 £375
25th Percentile £440 £506 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £520 £520
Median % change year-on-year -13.46% - +20.79%
75th Percentile £634 £563 £539
90th Percentile - £569 £591
UK median daily rate £575 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +15.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,841 2,465 3,165
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 87.88% 92.39% 93.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,140 1,739 2,231
10th Percentile £219 £260 £250
25th Percentile £363 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £550
90th Percentile £650 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £533
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.29% +7.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 55 49
10th Percentile £12.30 £10.63 £15.04
25th Percentile £15.92 £11.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £19.50 £15.99 £37.43
Median % change year-on-year +21.95% -57.28% -6.43%
75th Percentile £42.71 £50.74 £48.75
90th Percentile £60.75 £67.13 £56.00
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £37.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year -2.58% +44.08% +7.00%

Deployment Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Deployment Automation in Scotland

Deployment Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Deployment Automation in Scotland

Deployment Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Deployment Automation in Scotland over the 6 months to 22 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Deployment Automation in Scotland

Deployment Automation
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 22 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
Edinburgh +35 10 £623 +19.71% 2
Glasgow +10 4 £440 - 4
Renfrewshire - 1 £600 -
Deployment Automation
UK

Deployment Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 4 (26.67%) IBM HTTP Server
1 4 (26.67%) WebSphere
1 4 (26.67%) WebSphere Application Server
1 4 (26.67%) WebSphere Portal
2 2 (13.33%) Cloud Foundry
Cloud Services
1 9 (60.00%) OpenShift
2 8 (53.33%) Amazon EKS
2 8 (53.33%) AWS
3 1 (6.67%) Azure
3 1 (6.67%) IaaS
3 1 (6.67%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (40.00%) Firewall
2 4 (26.67%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) Big Data
1 1 (6.67%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 7 (46.67%) Jenkins
1 7 (46.67%) Maven
2 6 (40.00%) Git
2 6 (40.00%) Gradle
3 4 (26.67%) IBM UrbanCode
General
1 5 (33.33%) Banking
2 3 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Finance
2 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) Site Manager
1 5 (33.33%) Site Reliability Manager
2 4 (26.67%) Cloud Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Middleware Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Senior
2 4 (26.67%) Senior Middleware Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Architect
3 1 (6.67%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Deployment Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Network Deployment Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Network Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Senior WebSphere Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Technical Architect
3 1 (6.67%) VMware Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) WebSphere Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (26.67%) J2EE
1 4 (26.67%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 2 (13.33%) Public Cloud
3 1 (6.67%) Clustering
3 1 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (6.67%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 7 (46.67%) Linux
2 6 (40.00%) Unix
2 6 (40.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (53.33%) CI/CD
2 8 (53.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 6 (40.00%) Application Security
3 6 (40.00%) Continuous Integration
3 6 (40.00%) OWASP
4 5 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
4 5 (33.33%) Service-Level Objective
4 5 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 4 (26.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (26.67%) ITIL
6 3 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
6 3 (20.00%) DevOps
6 3 (20.00%) Problem Management
6 3 (20.00%) Service Management
7 2 (13.33%) Customer Service
7 2 (13.33%) Mentoring
7 2 (13.33%) Service Delivery
8 1 (6.67%) Change Management
8 1 (6.67%) Network Design
Programming Languages
1 8 (53.33%) Bash
1 8 (53.33%) Python
1 8 (53.33%) Ruby
2 7 (46.67%) Groovy
2 7 (46.67%) Shell Script
3 2 (13.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 6 (40.00%) Docker
2 2 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (6.67%) KVM
3 1 (6.67%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 9 (60.00%) Kubernetes
2 8 (53.33%) Ansible
2 8 (53.33%) Terraform
3 1 (6.67%) Nagios
3 1 (6.67%) Puppet
3 1 (6.67%) vCenter Server
3 1 (6.67%) vRealize
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) IBM
2 2 (13.33%) VMware
3 1 (6.67%) Foundry