Deployment Automation Contracts in the Thames Valley

Deployment Automation
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 104 137 138
Rank change year-on-year +33 +1 -9
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 28 13 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.06% 0.45% 0.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.23% 0.50% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 10 28
10th Percentile £561 - £130
25th Percentile - £413 £140
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £481 £550
Median % change year-on-year +19.48% -12.50% +12.82%
75th Percentile £588 £572 £575
90th Percentile £619 £594 £627
South East median daily rate £575 £633 £550
% change year-on-year -9.13% +15.05% +22.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,268 2,599 3,223
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 85.88% 90.75% 89.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,245 1,764 2,187
10th Percentile £213 £317 £235
25th Percentile £375 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £485
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% +4.12% +7.78%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £585
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £510 £504 £500
% change year-on-year +1.29% +0.70% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 70 89
10th Percentile £14.09 £16.25 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.25 £24.86 £12.25
Median hourly rate £46.25 £52.30 £17.42
Median % change year-on-year -11.57% +200.23% -17.24%
75th Percentile £64.42 £72.69 £24.42
90th Percentile £85.65 £79.19 £63.27
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £52.50 £21.99
% change year-on-year -9.52% +138.80% -20.05%

Deployment Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Deployment Automation in the Thames Valley

Deployment Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate trend for Deployment Automation in the Thames Valley

Deployment Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Deployment Automation in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Deployment Automation in the Thames Valley

Deployment Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Hourly rate trend for Deployment Automation in the Thames Valley

Deployment Automation
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 1 June 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
Berkshire +9 26 £575 +24.32% 3
Buckinghamshire +32 2 £476 - 3
Deployment Automation
South East

Deployment Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 2 (7.14%) Azure
2 1 (3.57%) AWS
2 1 (3.57%) Azure API Management
2 1 (3.57%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (3.57%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (3.57%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (3.57%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (3.57%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (3.57%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (3.57%) Entra ID
2 1 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (3.57%) NuGet
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.71%) Firewall
2 1 (3.57%) DNS
Development Applications
1 8 (28.57%) Git
2 7 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 7 (25.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 18 (64.29%) Social Skills
2 2 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 17 (60.71%) Build Engineer
1 17 (60.71%) Windows Build Engineer
1 17 (60.71%) Windows Engineer
2 5 (17.86%) Developer
3 2 (7.14%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (3.57%) .NET Developer
4 1 (3.57%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (3.57%) Azure Platform Engineer
4 1 (3.57%) C# Software Engineer
4 1 (3.57%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 1 (3.57%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (3.57%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
4 1 (3.57%) Migration Engineer
4 1 (3.57%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (3.57%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
4 1 (3.57%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (25.00%) .NET
1 7 (25.00%) ASP.NET
2 2 (7.14%) YAML
3 1 (3.57%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.57%) Cloud Native
1 1 (3.57%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 17 (60.71%) Windows
1 17 (60.71%) Windows 10
1 17 (60.71%) Windows NT
1 17 (60.71%) Windows Server
1 17 (60.71%) Windows Server 2012
1 17 (60.71%) Windows Server 2016
1 17 (60.71%) Windows Server 2019
2 2 (7.14%) Linux
2 2 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (3.57%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (64.29%) Release Management
1 18 (64.29%) Service Management
2 17 (60.71%) Customer Service
2 17 (60.71%) ITIL
2 17 (60.71%) User Acceptance Testing
3 7 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (7.14%) Containerisation
4 2 (7.14%) DevOps
4 2 (7.14%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (7.14%) Mentoring
4 2 (7.14%) Security Hardening
4 2 (7.14%) Software Engineering
4 2 (7.14%) Test Automation
5 1 (3.57%) Analytics
5 1 (3.57%) Boundary Protection
5 1 (3.57%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (3.57%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (3.57%) High Availability
5 1 (3.57%) Identity Management
5 1 (3.57%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 9 (32.14%) PowerShell
2 7 (25.00%) C#
3 1 (3.57%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 26 (92.86%) Security Cleared
2 17 (60.71%) DV Cleared
3 9 (32.14%) SC Cleared
4 2 (7.14%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (60.71%) QA
System Software
1 18 (64.29%) Active Directory
2 17 (60.71%) Firmware
3 1 (3.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (60.71%) SCCM
1 17 (60.71%) Sysprep
1 17 (60.71%) WSUS
2 7 (25.00%) Ansible
3 4 (14.29%) Kubernetes
4 2 (7.14%) SELinux
4 2 (7.14%) Terraform
4 2 (7.14%) yum
Vendors
1 19 (67.86%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.57%) BMC
2 1 (3.57%) Databricks
2 1 (3.57%) Remedy
2 1 (3.57%) ServiceNow