Deployment Automation Contracts with Work from Home Options

Deployment Automation
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 258 297 346
Rank change year-on-year +39 +49 -41
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 85 172 303
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.57% 0.70% 0.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.65% 0.78% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 108 232
10th Percentile £356 £458 £426
25th Percentile £440 £461 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £638 £550
Median % change year-on-year -14.93% +16.05% +7.06%
75th Percentile £650 £713 £638
90th Percentile - £750 £787
UK median daily rate £575 £613 £575
% change year-on-year -6.12% +6.52% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £68.50 -
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
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,003 22,075 40,116
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.92% 89.68% 91.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,720 15,632 29,130
10th Percentile £325 £363 £361
25th Percentile £425 £450 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.31% +3.43% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £631
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 566 503 534
10th Percentile £14.94 £18.63 £14.08
25th Percentile £24.44 £26.68 £20.43
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £38.83
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +35.21% +61.78%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £71.75
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £35.65 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.11% +38.82% +5.90%

Deployment Automation
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Deployment Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Deployment Automation trend for jobs with a WFH option

Deployment Automation
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Deployment Automation.

Deployment Automation daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Deployment Automation
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Deployment Automation over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Deployment Automation daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Deployment Automation
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Deployment Automation.

Deployment Automation hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Deployment Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 9 (10.59%) Confluence
2 6 (7.06%) IBM HTTP Server
2 6 (7.06%) WebSphere
2 6 (7.06%) WebSphere Application Server
2 6 (7.06%) WebSphere Portal
3 3 (3.53%) JBoss
4 1 (1.18%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.18%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (1.18%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (3.53%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (1.18%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.18%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 49 (57.65%) Azure
2 45 (52.94%) AWS
3 24 (28.24%) Azure DevOps
4 20 (23.53%) GCP
5 16 (18.82%) IaaS
5 16 (18.82%) PaaS
5 16 (18.82%) SaaS
6 12 (14.12%) GitHub
7 11 (12.94%) GitHub Actions
8 8 (9.41%) Azure Key Vault
8 8 (9.41%) Azure Service Bus
8 8 (9.41%) Serverless
9 6 (7.06%) Azure API Management
9 6 (7.06%) Azure Logic Apps
9 6 (7.06%) Cloud Computing
9 6 (7.06%) Nutanix
9 6 (7.06%) Rubrik
10 5 (5.88%) Power Automate
10 5 (5.88%) Power Platform
10 5 (5.88%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 11 (12.94%) Firewall
2 8 (9.41%) DNS
3 6 (7.06%) DHCP
3 6 (7.06%) HTTP
3 6 (7.06%) Kerberos
3 6 (7.06%) NAS
3 6 (7.06%) SAN
3 6 (7.06%) TCP/IP
3 6 (7.06%) VLAN
4 2 (2.35%) WAN
4 2 (2.35%) Wireless
5 1 (1.18%) BGP
5 1 (1.18%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (1.18%) EIGRP
5 1 (1.18%) Internet
5 1 (1.18%) IPsec
5 1 (1.18%) Network Security
5 1 (1.18%) OSPF
5 1 (1.18%) VoIP
5 1 (1.18%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.06%) Azure SQL Database
2 5 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (5.88%) SQL Server
3 4 (4.71%) Big Data
3 4 (4.71%) Data Lake
3 4 (4.71%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (4.71%) OLTP
3 4 (4.71%) Relational Database
4 3 (3.53%) RDBMS
5 2 (2.35%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (2.35%) MariaDB
5 2 (2.35%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.18%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.18%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.18%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.18%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.18%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 20 (23.53%) Git
2 18 (21.18%) Jenkins
3 14 (16.47%) JIRA
4 13 (15.29%) SonarQube
5 10 (11.76%) TeamCity
6 5 (5.88%) Bitbucket
7 4 (4.71%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 4 (4.71%) GitLab
7 4 (4.71%) IBM UrbanCode
7 4 (4.71%) Sonatype Nexus
7 4 (4.71%) Visual Studio Team System
8 3 (3.53%) Bitbucket Server
8 3 (3.53%) CA Release Automation
9 2 (2.35%) Mocha
9 2 (2.35%) Visual Studio Code
10 1 (1.18%) Ant
10 1 (1.18%) Moq
10 1 (1.18%) NUnit
10 1 (1.18%) Selenium
10 1 (1.18%) SoapUI
General
1 21 (24.71%) Finance
2 17 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 12 (14.12%) Banking
4 9 (10.59%) Public Sector
5 5 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (3.53%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (2.35%) Electronics
7 2 (2.35%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.35%) Marketing
7 2 (2.35%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.18%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.18%) Retail
Job Titles
1 16 (18.82%) Architect
2 15 (17.65%) Developer
3 13 (15.29%) Solutions Architect
4 8 (9.41%) DevOps Engineer
4 8 (9.41%) Lead
5 7 (8.24%) Cloud Engineer
5 7 (8.24%) Senior
6 6 (7.06%) Middleware Engineer
7 5 (5.88%) Azure Developer
8 4 (4.71%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 4 (4.71%) Lead Developer
8 4 (4.71%) Platform Engineer
8 4 (4.71%) Senior Middleware Engineer
9 3 (3.53%) .NET Developer
9 3 (3.53%) AWS DevOps
9 3 (3.53%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 3 (3.53%) Network Engineer
9 3 (3.53%) Principal Developer
9 3 (3.53%) SailPoint Architect
9 3 (3.53%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (20.00%) ARM Templates
2 13 (15.29%) .NET
3 12 (14.12%) SailPoint
4 10 (11.76%) Azure Blueprints
5 6 (7.06%) Elastic Stack
5 6 (7.06%) J2EE
5 6 (7.06%) JSON
5 6 (7.06%) LDAP
5 6 (7.06%) Middleware
5 6 (7.06%) XML
6 5 (5.88%) .NET Core
6 5 (5.88%) .NET Framework
6 5 (5.88%) React
6 5 (5.88%) Web Services
7 4 (4.71%) CSS
7 4 (4.71%) RESTful
7 4 (4.71%) YAML
8 3 (3.53%) Entity Framework
8 3 (3.53%) Redux
8 3 (3.53%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 12 (14.12%) Onboarding
2 11 (12.94%) Management Information System
3 6 (7.06%) Clustering
3 6 (7.06%) Replication
4 4 (4.71%) Data Centre
4 4 (4.71%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.35%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.35%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.35%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (2.35%) N-Tier
6 1 (1.18%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 15 (17.65%) Linux
2 10 (11.76%) Windows
3 9 (10.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (7.06%) Oracle Linux
4 6 (7.06%) Solaris
4 6 (7.06%) Windows Server
5 2 (2.35%) Amazon Linux
5 2 (2.35%) CentOS
6 1 (1.18%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (72.94%) DevOps
2 38 (44.71%) CI/CD
3 28 (32.94%) Containerisation
3 28 (32.94%) Test Automation
4 21 (24.71%) Continuous Integration
5 20 (23.53%) Migration
6 19 (22.35%) High Availability
7 18 (21.18%) Continuous Delivery
8 16 (18.82%) Agile
9 15 (17.65%) Infrastructure as Code
10 14 (16.47%) Cybersecurity
10 14 (16.47%) Release Management
11 13 (15.29%) Application Security
12 12 (14.12%) Cloud Security
12 12 (14.12%) Microservices
12 12 (14.12%) Secrets Management
12 12 (14.12%) Software Engineering
13 11 (12.94%) Architectural Design
14 10 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
14 10 (11.76%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 22 (25.88%) Python
2 20 (23.53%) PowerShell
3 12 (14.12%) C#
4 10 (11.76%) Bash
4 10 (11.76%) Java
5 8 (9.41%) SQL
6 4 (4.71%) JavaScript
7 3 (3.53%) Bicep
7 3 (3.53%) Perl
8 2 (2.35%) Go
8 2 (2.35%) PHP
8 2 (2.35%) Ruby
8 2 (2.35%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 20 (23.53%) SC Cleared
1 20 (23.53%) Security Cleared
2 10 (11.76%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (4.71%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (4.71%) Degree
4 3 (3.53%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (2.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.18%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (1.18%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (11.76%) NCSC
2 6 (7.06%) GDPR
2 6 (7.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 4 (4.71%) QA
4 2 (2.35%) SLA
5 1 (1.18%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 23 (27.06%) Docker
2 11 (12.94%) Active Directory
3 6 (7.06%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (2.35%) vCloud
4 2 (2.35%) VMware NSX
4 2 (2.35%) vSphere
5 1 (1.18%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (1.18%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 32 (37.65%) Terraform
2 27 (31.76%) Kubernetes
3 23 (27.06%) Ansible
4 6 (7.06%) EMC NetWorker
4 6 (7.06%) Netcool
4 6 (7.06%) Tivoli
4 6 (7.06%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 5 (5.88%) Progress Chef
6 4 (4.71%) Grafana
6 4 (4.71%) Kibana
7 3 (3.53%) PowerCLI
7 3 (3.53%) Puppet
8 2 (2.35%) Autotask
8 2 (2.35%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (2.35%) Prometheus
9 1 (1.18%) logstash
9 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 19 (22.35%) Microsoft
1 19 (22.35%) ServiceNow
2 18 (21.18%) CyberArk
3 12 (14.12%) BeyondTrust
3 12 (14.12%) IBM
4 9 (10.59%) Dell
4 9 (10.59%) HP
4 9 (10.59%) Splunk
5 8 (9.41%) Cisco
5 8 (9.41%) Oracle
5 8 (9.41%) VMware
6 6 (7.06%) EMC
6 6 (7.06%) Isilon
6 6 (7.06%) Qualys
6 6 (7.06%) Serena
7 5 (5.88%) SAP
8 3 (3.53%) Atlassian
8 3 (3.53%) BMC
8 3 (3.53%) Red Hat
8 3 (3.53%) Remedy