Deployment Automation Contracts

Deployment Automation
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 305 332 344
Rank change year-on-year +27 +12 -17
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 297 405 679
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.69% 0.72% 0.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.81% 0.81% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 216 248 494
10th Percentile £410 £413 £437
25th Percentile £505 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +15.00%
75th Percentile £691 £700 £650
90th Percentile £748 £800 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £575 £525
% change year-on-year - +9.52% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 2
10th Percentile - £65.30 £41.98
25th Percentile - £65.75 £44.56
Median hourly rate £23.80 £68.50 £50.25
Median % change year-on-year -65.26% +36.32% +11.22%
75th Percentile £67.02 £74.38 £57.06
90th Percentile £69.56 £79.55 £60.33
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.26 - £40.50
% change year-on-year - - -11.96%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,802 50,277 79,372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.47% 89.69% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,632 34,811 55,790
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +9.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,530 1,673 1,868
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.72 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +9.74%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.76%

Deployment Automation
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Deployment Automation in the UK

Deployment Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Deployment Automation in the UK

Deployment Automation
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Deployment Automation in the UK

Deployment Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Deployment Automation in the UK

Deployment Automation
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Deployment Automation over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Deployment Automation in the UK

Deployment Automation
Top 14 Contract Locations

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 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
England -3 245 £585 -4.57% 84
UK excluding London +33 131 £575 - 56
London +19 119 £663 +6.00% 31
Work from Home +30 84 £543 -9.50% 40
South East +15 55 £575 -9.13% 14
South West +17 29 £700 - 14
North of England +11 19 £510 -12.82% 10
Scotland +45 17 £450 -13.46% 5
North West +20 11 £510 -10.13% 5
Midlands +13 9 £359 -15.47% 8
Yorkshire +8 8 £475 -20.83% 4
East Midlands +8 5 £356 -16.24% 2
West Midlands +9 4 £675 +17.39% 6
East of England -2 2 £550 -33.33% 1

Deployment Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 31 (10.44%) Confluence
2 10 (3.37%) Apache Spark
2 10 (3.37%) SharePoint
3 9 (3.03%) WebSphere
4 7 (2.36%) IBM HTTP Server
4 7 (2.36%) WebSphere Application Server
4 7 (2.36%) WebSphere Portal
5 5 (1.68%) Apache
5 5 (1.68%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (1.68%) JBoss
5 5 (1.68%) WordPress
6 4 (1.35%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (1.01%) CMS
7 3 (1.01%) Drupal
7 3 (1.01%) IIS
8 2 (0.67%) Alfresco
8 2 (0.67%) Cloud Foundry
8 2 (0.67%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.34%) OpenStack
Applications
1 5 (1.68%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (1.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.01%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.34%) Endur
3 1 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 97 (32.66%) Azure
2 94 (31.65%) AWS
3 45 (15.15%) Azure DevOps
4 42 (14.14%) GCP
5 34 (11.45%) GitHub
5 34 (11.45%) Serverless
6 31 (10.44%) PaaS
7 29 (9.76%) IaaS
8 27 (9.09%) SaaS
9 18 (6.06%) Power Platform
10 16 (5.39%) Azure Key Vault
10 16 (5.39%) OpenShift
11 15 (5.05%) Azure Service Bus
11 15 (5.05%) Power Automate
11 15 (5.05%) PowerApps
12 14 (4.71%) Amazon EC2
12 14 (4.71%) Amazon S3
12 14 (4.71%) AWS CloudFormation
12 14 (4.71%) GitHub Actions
13 12 (4.04%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 27 (9.09%) Firewall
2 20 (6.73%) DNS
3 9 (3.03%) Internet
4 8 (2.69%) NAS
4 8 (2.69%) SAN
5 7 (2.36%) HTTP
6 6 (2.02%) Cisco Nexus
6 6 (2.02%) DHCP
6 6 (2.02%) Wireless
7 5 (1.68%) FTP
7 5 (1.68%) Kerberos
7 5 (1.68%) TCP/IP
7 5 (1.68%) VLAN
7 5 (1.68%) VPN
8 3 (1.01%) DKIM
8 3 (1.01%) Extranet
8 3 (1.01%) LAN
8 3 (1.01%) SSL
8 3 (1.01%) WAN
8 3 (1.01%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (7.41%) SQL Server
2 14 (4.71%) Big Data
3 13 (4.38%) NoSQL
4 12 (4.04%) Azure SQL Database
4 12 (4.04%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (4.04%) Relational Database
5 8 (2.69%) Power BI
6 7 (2.36%) Data Lake
6 7 (2.36%) Elasticsearch
6 7 (2.36%) MongoDB
6 7 (2.36%) OLTP
7 6 (2.02%) RDBMS
8 5 (1.68%) BigQuery
8 5 (1.68%) PostgreSQL
9 4 (1.35%) Spark SQL
10 3 (1.01%) MySQL
10 3 (1.01%) Qlik Sense
10 3 (1.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (0.67%) DB2
11 2 (0.67%) Microsoft Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 82 (27.61%) Jenkins
2 77 (25.93%) Git
3 47 (15.82%) JIRA
4 29 (9.76%) Bitbucket
5 28 (9.43%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 18 (6.06%) SonarQube
7 15 (5.05%) TeamCity
8 13 (4.38%) Visual Studio
9 12 (4.04%) Sonatype Nexus
10 8 (2.69%) GitLab
11 7 (2.36%) IBM UrbanCode
11 7 (2.36%) Maven
11 7 (2.36%) Visual Studio Team System
12 6 (2.02%) Gradle
12 6 (2.02%) Selenium
13 5 (1.68%) Bitbucket Server
13 5 (1.68%) CA Release Automation
14 4 (1.35%) Artifactory
14 4 (1.35%) Mocha
15 3 (1.01%) webpack
General
1 71 (23.91%) Social Skills
2 53 (17.85%) Finance
3 31 (10.44%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (9.09%) Banking
5 18 (6.06%) Aerospace
5 18 (6.06%) Public Sector
6 10 (3.37%) Retail
7 9 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (2.36%) Financial Institution
8 7 (2.36%) Manufacturing
9 5 (1.68%) Pharmaceutical
10 4 (1.35%) Local Government
11 3 (1.01%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.67%) Back Office
12 2 (0.67%) Electronics
12 2 (0.67%) Marketing
12 2 (0.67%) Publishing
12 2 (0.67%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.34%) German Language
13 1 (0.34%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 77 (25.93%) Developer
2 51 (17.17%) Architect
3 30 (10.10%) Senior
4 26 (8.75%) Solutions Architect
5 20 (6.73%) Cloud Engineer
6 19 (6.40%) Security Architect
7 17 (5.72%) Build Engineer
7 17 (5.72%) Windows Build Engineer
7 17 (5.72%) Windows Engineer
8 15 (5.05%) Lead
9 14 (4.71%) DevOps Engineer
10 13 (4.38%) Data Engineer
11 11 (3.70%) .NET Developer
12 10 (3.37%) Cloud Architect
13 9 (3.03%) C# Developer
13 9 (3.03%) Cloud Security Architect
13 9 (3.03%) Support Engineer
14 8 (2.69%) Network Engineer
14 8 (2.69%) Senior Security Architect
14 8 (2.69%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (23.57%) .NET
2 34 (11.45%) .NET Core
3 23 (7.74%) ARM Templates
3 23 (7.74%) React
4 18 (6.06%) SailPoint
5 17 (5.72%) Web Services
6 16 (5.39%) .NET Framework
6 16 (5.39%) ASP.NET
7 15 (5.05%) XML
8 14 (4.71%) CSS
8 14 (4.71%) JSON
9 10 (3.37%) Azure Blueprints
10 9 (3.03%) HTML
10 9 (3.03%) Kafka
10 9 (3.03%) RESTful
10 9 (3.03%) Spring Boot
11 8 (2.69%) Elastic Stack
11 8 (2.69%) Middleware
11 8 (2.69%) Node.js
12 7 (2.36%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 15 (5.05%) Mobile App
1 15 (5.05%) Onboarding
2 13 (4.38%) Cloud Native
3 12 (4.04%) IoT
4 11 (3.70%) Management Information System
5 6 (2.02%) Clustering
5 6 (2.02%) Data Centre
5 6 (2.02%) Hedge funds
5 6 (2.02%) Replication
5 6 (2.02%) Virtual Team
6 5 (1.68%) Distributed Architecture
6 5 (1.68%) PKI
6 5 (1.68%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.01%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.01%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.01%) Fat Client
7 3 (1.01%) Mashup
7 3 (1.01%) N-Tier
7 3 (1.01%) Private Cloud
7 3 (1.01%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 67 (22.56%) Linux
2 56 (18.86%) Windows
3 32 (10.77%) Windows Server
4 22 (7.41%) Windows 10
4 22 (7.41%) Windows Server 2012
4 22 (7.41%) Windows Server 2019
5 19 (6.40%) Unix
6 18 (6.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 17 (5.72%) Windows NT
7 17 (5.72%) Windows Server 2016
8 5 (1.68%) Oracle Linux
8 5 (1.68%) Solaris
9 3 (1.01%) CentOS
10 2 (0.67%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (0.34%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (41.41%) CI/CD
2 120 (40.40%) DevOps
3 78 (26.26%) Continuous Integration
4 73 (24.58%) Test Automation
5 59 (19.87%) Problem-Solving
6 54 (18.18%) Agile
7 51 (17.17%) Containerisation
8 46 (15.49%) Application Security
9 41 (13.80%) Migration
10 39 (13.13%) Infrastructure as Code
11 36 (12.12%) Task Automation
12 33 (11.11%) Infrastructure Automation
12 33 (11.11%) ITIL
12 33 (11.11%) Release Management
12 33 (11.11%) Software Engineering
13 32 (10.77%) OO
14 30 (10.10%) Cloud Security
14 30 (10.10%) Configuration Management
15 29 (9.76%) Microservices
15 29 (9.76%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 83 (27.95%) Python
2 74 (24.92%) PowerShell
3 56 (18.86%) C#
4 45 (15.15%) Java
5 37 (12.46%) SQL
6 24 (8.08%) JavaScript
7 23 (7.74%) Bash
8 13 (4.38%) TypeScript
9 10 (3.37%) Ruby
10 8 (2.69%) C++
10 8 (2.69%) Shell Script
11 7 (2.36%) Groovy
12 6 (2.02%) Perl
13 5 (1.68%) Go
14 4 (1.35%) T-SQL
15 3 (1.01%) PHP
16 2 (0.67%) Bicep
17 1 (0.34%) R
Qualifications
1 99 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 71 (23.91%) SC Cleared
3 21 (7.07%) DV Cleared
4 12 (4.04%) Degree
5 10 (3.37%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (2.69%) AWS Certification
6 8 (2.69%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.68%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.35%) MCSE
8 4 (1.35%) MCTS
8 4 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (0.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.34%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.34%) CEH
10 1 (0.34%) Chartered Engineer
10 1 (0.34%) CISSP
10 1 (0.34%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.34%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (10.77%) QA
2 13 (4.38%) NCSC
3 12 (4.04%) NIST
4 7 (2.36%) Accessibility
4 7 (2.36%) SLA
5 5 (1.68%) GDPR
5 5 (1.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.67%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.34%) ISO 15022
7 1 (0.34%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.34%) WCAG
System Software
1 41 (13.80%) Active Directory
2 40 (13.47%) Docker
3 22 (7.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (5.72%) Firmware
5 5 (1.68%) Hyper-V
6 4 (1.35%) BitLocker
6 4 (1.35%) Microsoft App-V
7 3 (1.01%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.67%) vCloud
8 2 (0.67%) vSphere
9 1 (0.34%) KVM
9 1 (0.34%) Postfix
9 1 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 81 (27.27%) Ansible
2 69 (23.23%) Terraform
3 61 (20.54%) Kubernetes
4 25 (8.42%) SCCM
5 23 (7.74%) PowerCLI
6 22 (7.41%) WSUS
7 17 (5.72%) Sysprep
8 10 (3.37%) Puppet
9 8 (2.69%) Progress Chef
10 7 (2.36%) Grafana
11 6 (2.02%) Kibana
12 5 (1.68%) EMC NetWorker
12 5 (1.68%) Microsoft Intune
12 5 (1.68%) Netcool
12 5 (1.68%) Tivoli
12 5 (1.68%) Tivoli Storage Manager
13 4 (1.35%) Prometheus
14 3 (1.01%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 3 (1.01%) NetBackup
14 3 (1.01%) VxRail
Vendors
1 65 (21.89%) Microsoft
2 30 (10.10%) Dell
2 30 (10.10%) HP
3 27 (9.09%) ServiceNow
4 24 (8.08%) VMware
5 23 (7.74%) Atlassian
5 23 (7.74%) CyberArk
6 18 (6.06%) BeyondTrust
7 15 (5.05%) Cisco
8 14 (4.71%) IBM
9 12 (4.04%) Oracle
10 11 (3.70%) Splunk
11 10 (3.37%) F5
11 10 (3.37%) Google
12 9 (3.03%) Juniper
13 8 (2.69%) EMC
13 8 (2.69%) Salesforce
14 7 (2.36%) Databricks
15 6 (2.02%) Fortinet
15 6 (2.02%) Palo Alto