Deployment Automation Contracts in the UK excluding London

Deployment Automation
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 261 302 313
Rank change year-on-year +41 +11 -42
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 126 142 207
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.62% 0.62% 0.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.74% 0.69% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 96 149
10th Percentile £396 £413 £381
25th Percentile £504 £456 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year - +9.52% +16.67%
75th Percentile £634 £698 £616
90th Percentile £700 £748 £668
UK median daily rate £575 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £64.08 - -
25th Percentile £64.57 - -
Median hourly rate £67.26 - -
75th Percentile £70.19 - -
90th Percentile £70.83 - -
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
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,112 20,583 27,136
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.30% 89.45% 89.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,220 14,187 18,951
10th Percentile £250 £258 £235
25th Percentile £381 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £656
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,064 1,254 1,350
10th Percentile £12.35 £10.63 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.25 £15.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -4.99%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.74 £61.52
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 the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Deployment Automation in the UK excluding London

Deployment Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Deployment Automation in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Deployment Automation in the UK excluding London

Deployment Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Deployment Automation in the UK excluding London

Deployment Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Deployment Automation in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Deployment Automation in the UK excluding London

Deployment Automation
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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
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
Scotland +48 16 £450 -13.46% 5
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 the UK excluding London 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 24 (19.05%) Confluence
2 5 (3.97%) Apache
2 5 (3.97%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (3.97%) Apache Spark
2 5 (3.97%) JBoss
3 4 (3.17%) IBM HTTP Server
3 4 (3.17%) WebSphere
3 4 (3.17%) WebSphere Application Server
3 4 (3.17%) WebSphere Portal
4 3 (2.38%) CMS
4 3 (2.38%) Drupal
5 2 (1.59%) Cloud Foundry
5 2 (1.59%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.79%) Alfresco
6 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (3.17%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.79%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 28 (22.22%) AWS
2 20 (15.87%) Azure
3 14 (11.11%) OpenShift
4 12 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (6.35%) Amazon EKS
6 5 (3.97%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (3.97%) Amazon EMR
6 5 (3.97%) Amazon S3
6 5 (3.97%) Amazon SQS
6 5 (3.97%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (3.97%) Serverless
6 5 (3.97%) Snowflake
7 3 (2.38%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (2.38%) GCP
7 3 (2.38%) Power Platform
8 2 (1.59%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (1.59%) IaaS
8 2 (1.59%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (0.79%) Azure App Service
9 1 (0.79%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 9 (7.14%) DNS
2 8 (6.35%) Firewall
3 5 (3.97%) FTP
4 4 (3.17%) HTTP
5 3 (2.38%) SSL
6 1 (0.79%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (0.79%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (6.35%) Relational Database
2 6 (4.76%) Big Data
2 6 (4.76%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (3.97%) RDBMS
3 5 (3.97%) SQL Server
4 3 (2.38%) NoSQL
4 3 (2.38%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (2.38%) Power BI
4 3 (2.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (1.59%) Microsoft Analysis Services
5 2 (1.59%) MySQL
5 2 (1.59%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 2 (1.59%) Tableau
6 1 (0.79%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 56 (44.44%) Jenkins
2 37 (29.37%) Git
3 36 (28.57%) JIRA
4 23 (18.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 23 (18.25%) Bitbucket
5 13 (10.32%) Visual Studio
6 7 (5.56%) Maven
7 6 (4.76%) Gradle
7 6 (4.76%) Sonatype Nexus
8 5 (3.97%) Bitbucket Server
8 5 (3.97%) CA Release Automation
8 5 (3.97%) Selenium
8 5 (3.97%) SonarQube
8 5 (3.97%) TeamCity
9 4 (3.17%) Artifactory
9 4 (3.17%) IBM UrbanCode
10 3 (2.38%) Mocha
10 3 (2.38%) Subversion
11 2 (1.59%) GitLab
12 1 (0.79%) webpack
General
1 52 (41.27%) Social Skills
2 27 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (14.29%) Aerospace
4 7 (5.56%) Banking
4 7 (5.56%) Finance
5 6 (4.76%) Manufacturing
5 6 (4.76%) Public Sector
6 5 (3.97%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (0.79%) Electronics
7 1 (0.79%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.79%) Marketing
7 1 (0.79%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 36 (28.57%) Developer
2 19 (15.08%) Build Engineer
2 19 (15.08%) Windows Build Engineer
2 19 (15.08%) Windows Engineer
3 14 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
4 8 (6.35%) Data Engineer
5 7 (5.56%) Support Engineer
6 5 (3.97%) DevOps Engineer
6 5 (3.97%) Integration Engineer
6 5 (3.97%) Senior
6 5 (3.97%) Site Manager
6 5 (3.97%) Site Reliability Manager
6 5 (3.97%) Snowflake Data Engineer
7 4 (3.17%) .NET Developer
7 4 (3.17%) Azure Engineer
7 4 (3.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (3.17%) Middleware Engineer
7 4 (3.17%) Senior Middleware Engineer
8 3 (2.38%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 2 (1.59%) Infrastructure Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (30.16%) .NET
2 24 (19.05%) .NET Core
3 13 (10.32%) ASP.NET
4 7 (5.56%) React
5 6 (4.76%) Spring Boot
6 5 (3.97%) Elastic Stack
6 5 (3.97%) JSON
6 5 (3.97%) XML
7 4 (3.17%) J2EE
7 4 (3.17%) Jest
7 4 (3.17%) Middleware
8 3 (2.38%) Redux
9 2 (1.59%) Kafka
9 2 (1.59%) Vue
9 2 (1.59%) YAML
10 1 (0.79%) AngularJS
10 1 (0.79%) CSS3
10 1 (0.79%) D3.js
10 1 (0.79%) HTML5
10 1 (0.79%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.14%) Cloud Native
2 3 (2.38%) Data Structures
2 3 (2.38%) Mobile App
2 3 (2.38%) Private Cloud
2 3 (2.38%) Public Cloud
3 2 (1.59%) Onboarding
3 2 (1.59%) PKI
4 1 (0.79%) Clustering
4 1 (0.79%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (0.79%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (0.79%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (0.79%) Management Information System
4 1 (0.79%) Mashup
4 1 (0.79%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 44 (34.92%) Windows
2 42 (33.33%) Linux
3 28 (22.22%) Windows Server
4 24 (19.05%) Windows Server 2012
5 23 (18.25%) Windows 10
5 23 (18.25%) Windows Server 2019
6 19 (15.08%) Windows NT
6 19 (15.08%) Windows Server 2016
7 11 (8.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (5.56%) Unix
9 1 (0.79%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (45.24%) CI/CD
2 46 (36.51%) Continuous Integration
3 44 (34.92%) Problem-Solving
4 29 (23.02%) OO
5 28 (22.22%) OOP
6 27 (21.43%) DevOps
6 27 (21.43%) ITIL
7 25 (19.84%) Task Automation
8 24 (19.05%) Configuration Management
8 24 (19.05%) Release Management
9 23 (18.25%) Infrastructure Automation
9 23 (18.25%) Service Management
10 22 (17.46%) Customer Service
11 20 (15.87%) Test Automation
11 20 (15.87%) User Acceptance Testing
12 15 (11.90%) Agile
13 12 (9.52%) Containerisation
13 12 (9.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 12 (9.52%) Software Engineering
14 11 (8.73%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 47 (37.30%) PowerShell
2 45 (35.71%) Python
3 23 (18.25%) C#
4 13 (10.32%) Bash
4 13 (10.32%) Java
5 9 (7.14%) SQL
6 8 (6.35%) Ruby
7 7 (5.56%) Groovy
7 7 (5.56%) Shell Script
8 6 (4.76%) Perl
9 3 (2.38%) JavaScript
9 3 (2.38%) TypeScript
10 2 (1.59%) C++
10 2 (1.59%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.79%) Bicep
11 1 (0.79%) C
Qualifications
1 77 (61.11%) Security Cleared
2 48 (38.10%) SC Cleared
3 23 (18.25%) DV Cleared
4 5 (3.97%) Degree
5 4 (3.17%) MCSE
5 4 (3.17%) MCTS
5 4 (3.17%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.79%) Chartered Engineer
7 1 (0.79%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.79%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (22.22%) QA
2 3 (2.38%) SLA
3 1 (0.79%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.79%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (0.79%) WCAG
System Software
1 31 (24.60%) Active Directory
2 19 (15.08%) Firmware
3 17 (13.49%) Docker
4 13 (10.32%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.59%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.79%) KVM
6 1 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.79%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.79%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 48 (38.10%) Ansible
2 27 (21.43%) Kubernetes
3 24 (19.05%) WSUS
4 23 (18.25%) PowerCLI
4 23 (18.25%) SCCM
5 19 (15.08%) Sysprep
6 15 (11.90%) Terraform
7 5 (3.97%) Kibana
7 5 (3.97%) Progress Chef
8 2 (1.59%) Puppet
9 1 (0.79%) Dell DRAC
9 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.79%) Nagios
9 1 (0.79%) Packer
9 1 (0.79%) SELinux
9 1 (0.79%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.79%) vRealize
9 1 (0.79%) yum
Vendors
1 31 (24.60%) Microsoft
2 23 (18.25%) Atlassian
2 23 (18.25%) HP
3 22 (17.46%) Dell
4 13 (10.32%) VMware
5 5 (3.97%) AppDynamics
5 5 (3.97%) Informatica
5 5 (3.97%) Red Hat
5 5 (3.97%) Splunk
5 5 (3.97%) Talend
6 4 (3.17%) IBM
6 4 (3.17%) ServiceNow
7 3 (2.38%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.59%) CA
9 1 (0.79%) BMC
9 1 (0.79%) Databricks
9 1 (0.79%) Foundry
9 1 (0.79%) Remedy
9 1 (0.79%) SAP
9 1 (0.79%) Sitecore