Deployment Automation Contract Job Trends in England

Deployment Automation
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Deployment Automation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 263 344 369
Rank change year-on-year +81 +25 -60
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 289 179 230
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.01% 0.57% 0.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.12% 0.66% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 217 102 169
10th Percentile £374 £375 £446
25th Percentile £447 £406 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £570 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £619 £685 £700
90th Percentile £688 £775 £788
UK median daily rate £537 £558 £600
% change year-on-year -3.68% -7.08% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 3
10th Percentile - £29.67 £16.80
25th Percentile £21.29 £38.48 £18.75
Median hourly rate £22.58 £54.40 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -58.50% +147.27% -
75th Percentile £23.86 £71.58 £53.50
90th Percentile - £81.13 £72.40
UK median hourly rate £22.58 £54.40 £22.00
% change year-on-year -58.50% +147.27% -45.68%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Deployment Automation falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 25,903 27,273 36,194
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.83% 86.64% 88.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,408 16,616 24,967
10th Percentile £299 £313 £313
25th Percentile £405 £415 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,658 1,031 1,478
10th Percentile £14.60 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.69 £20.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.63% -9.38% +27.14%
75th Percentile £44.77 £66.55 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.50 £74.50 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £38.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year -33.83% -11.63% +30.30%

Deployment Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Deployment Automation relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Deployment Automation job vacancy trend in England

Deployment Automation
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Deployment Automation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Deployment Automation

Deployment Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Deployment Automation in England over the 6 months to 25 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Deployment Automation in England

Deployment Automation
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Deployment Automation.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Deployment Automation

Deployment Automation
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 25 October 2025. 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
London +17 118 £563 -6.25% 88
Midlands +4 50 £520 -16.60% 10
West Midlands +11 48 £523 -17.72% 8
North of England -18 35 £462 +15.50% 32
East of England +3 28 £550 +46.67% 7
South East +18 25 £595 +24.93% 77
South West +24 22 £500 -27.01% 13
North West -16 21 £453 +13.25% 18
Yorkshire -14 12 £590 -14.18% 12
East Midlands -6 2 £276 -26.40% 2
North East -7 2 £500 -1.72% 2
Deployment Automation
UK

Deployment Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 31 (10.73%) SAS
2 19 (6.57%) Apache
3 15 (5.19%) JBoss
4 8 (2.77%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (2.77%) Confluence
5 6 (2.08%) nginx
5 6 (2.08%) WebLogic
6 5 (1.73%) Anypoint
6 5 (1.73%) IIS
6 5 (1.73%) iPlanet
6 5 (1.73%) SharePoint
6 5 (1.73%) WebSphere
6 5 (1.73%) WebSphere Application Server
7 4 (1.38%) Oracle Workflow
8 3 (1.04%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.69%) Mule
10 1 (0.35%) Camunda
10 1 (0.35%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.35%) Red Hat Fuse
10 1 (0.35%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (1.38%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.35%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 83 (28.72%) AWS
2 75 (25.95%) Azure
3 49 (16.96%) GitHub
4 35 (12.11%) Azure DevOps
5 32 (11.07%) GitHub Actions
6 26 (9.00%) Serverless
7 21 (7.27%) AWS Lambda
8 20 (6.92%) OpenShift
9 19 (6.57%) AWS CloudFormation
9 19 (6.57%) Cohesity
10 17 (5.88%) GCP
11 14 (4.84%) Amazon SQS
12 13 (4.50%) Amazon S3
13 11 (3.81%) Amazon EKS
13 11 (3.81%) Amazon EventBridge
14 10 (3.46%) Power Platform
15 9 (3.11%) Azure Data Factory
16 8 (2.77%) Amazon Cognito
16 8 (2.77%) Entra ID
16 8 (2.77%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 26 (9.00%) DNS
2 19 (6.57%) SAN
3 17 (5.88%) HTTPS
4 9 (3.11%) SSL
5 6 (2.08%) Firewall
5 6 (2.08%) TCP/IP
6 5 (1.73%) Kerberos
7 4 (1.38%) Network Security
7 4 (1.38%) VPN
8 3 (1.04%) DHCP
8 3 (1.04%) HTTP
9 2 (0.69%) Internet
10 1 (0.35%) BGP
10 1 (0.35%) Calico
10 1 (0.35%) Ethernet VPN
10 1 (0.35%) Multicast
10 1 (0.35%) Software-Defined Networking
10 1 (0.35%) VLAN
10 1 (0.35%) VSAN
10 1 (0.35%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (9.00%) Pentaho
2 16 (5.54%) Relational Database
3 13 (4.50%) Oracle Database
3 13 (4.50%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (3.81%) NoSQL
4 11 (3.81%) SAS Enterprise Guide
5 10 (3.46%) MongoDB
6 8 (2.77%) SQL Server
7 7 (2.42%) Data Lake
7 7 (2.42%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (2.42%) DynamoDB
8 6 (2.08%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (2.08%) Apache Cassandra
9 5 (1.73%) MySQL
9 5 (1.73%) RDBMS
9 5 (1.73%) SAS Visual Analytics
10 4 (1.38%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (1.38%) Delta Lake
10 4 (1.38%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (1.38%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 92 (31.83%) Git
2 82 (28.37%) Jenkins
3 48 (16.61%) JIRA
4 21 (7.27%) GitLab
5 18 (6.23%) Sonatype Nexus
6 12 (4.15%) SonarQube
7 10 (3.46%) IntelliJ
7 10 (3.46%) Maven
8 9 (3.11%) Bitbucket Server
8 9 (3.11%) CA Release Automation
8 9 (3.11%) TeamCity
9 8 (2.77%) JUnit
10 7 (2.42%) Bitbucket
11 6 (2.08%) Eclipse
11 6 (2.08%) Selenium
12 5 (1.73%) MSI
13 4 (1.38%) Robot Framework
14 2 (0.69%) CircleCI
14 2 (0.69%) Gradle
14 2 (0.69%) Vagrant
General
1 76 (26.30%) Social Skills
2 40 (13.84%) Public Sector
3 29 (10.03%) Finance
4 19 (6.57%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (3.81%) Banking
6 9 (3.11%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (2.42%) Investment Banking
8 6 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (2.08%) Marketing
9 5 (1.73%) Digital Healthcare
9 5 (1.73%) Electronics
9 5 (1.73%) Legal
9 5 (1.73%) Manufacturing
9 5 (1.73%) Telecoms
10 4 (1.38%) Retail
11 3 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.69%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.69%) Back Office
12 2 (0.69%) Front Office
12 2 (0.69%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 76 (26.30%) Developer
2 27 (9.34%) DevOps Engineer
3 25 (8.65%) Senior
4 22 (7.61%) Lead
5 17 (5.88%) Data Engineer
6 15 (5.19%) Platform Engineer
7 14 (4.84%) Full-Stack Developer
8 13 (4.50%) Java Developer
9 12 (4.15%) Lead Developer
10 10 (3.46%) Architect
10 10 (3.46%) Python Developer
10 10 (3.46%) Software Engineer
11 9 (3.11%) AWS Engineer
11 9 (3.11%) Azure Engineer
11 9 (3.11%) Cloud Engineer
11 9 (3.11%) webMethods Developer
12 8 (2.77%) Automation Engineer
12 8 (2.77%) Full-Stack Python Developer
12 8 (2.77%) Senior DevOps
12 8 (2.77%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (14.53%) REST
2 39 (13.49%) SOAP
3 37 (12.80%) JSON
4 35 (12.11%) XML
5 30 (10.38%) RESTful
6 27 (9.34%) React
7 26 (9.00%) OAuth
8 17 (5.88%) Spring
9 16 (5.54%) HTML
10 15 (5.19%) AngularJS
11 13 (4.50%) .NET
11 13 (4.50%) Kafka
12 11 (3.81%) Spring Boot
13 10 (3.46%) GraphQL
13 10 (3.46%) J2EE
13 10 (3.46%) Jest
13 10 (3.46%) LDAP
13 10 (3.46%) PySpark
13 10 (3.46%) pytest
14 9 (3.11%) JMS
Miscellaneous
1 29 (10.03%) Cloud Native
2 10 (3.46%) Product Ownership
3 9 (3.11%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (2.77%) Private Cloud
5 7 (2.42%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (2.08%) PKI
7 4 (1.38%) Clustering
7 4 (1.38%) Distributed Computing
7 4 (1.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (1.04%) CMDB
8 3 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.04%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.04%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.69%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.69%) IoT
9 2 (0.69%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.69%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 58 (20.07%) Windows
2 46 (15.92%) Linux
3 33 (11.42%) Windows Server
4 23 (7.96%) Windows Server 2019
5 19 (6.57%) Unix
5 19 (6.57%) Windows Server 2016
6 11 (3.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (2.08%) CentOS
8 3 (1.04%) Ubuntu
8 3 (1.04%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.69%) Android
9 2 (0.69%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.69%) Debian
10 1 (0.35%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 190 (65.74%) CI/CD
2 178 (61.59%) DevOps
3 111 (38.41%) Agile
4 95 (32.87%) Test Automation
5 80 (27.68%) Problem-Solving
6 74 (25.61%) Infrastructure as Code
7 59 (20.42%) Containerisation
8 56 (19.38%) Analytics
9 53 (18.34%) Scrum
10 52 (17.99%) Continuous Improvement
11 47 (16.26%) Data Pipeline
12 45 (15.57%) Microservices
13 44 (15.22%) Migration
14 42 (14.53%) ETL
15 40 (13.84%) Data Modelling
16 37 (12.80%) Data Integration
17 34 (11.76%) Business Intelligence
18 32 (11.07%) Observability
19 28 (9.69%) Infrastructure Automation
20 26 (9.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 77 (26.64%) Python
1 77 (26.64%) SQL
2 58 (20.07%) PowerShell
3 57 (19.72%) Java
4 33 (11.42%) JavaScript
5 20 (6.92%) C#
5 20 (6.92%) TypeScript
6 19 (6.57%) Bash
7 13 (4.50%) Groovy
8 11 (3.81%) Shell Script
9 10 (3.46%) Bicep
9 10 (3.46%) Go
10 9 (3.11%) Scala
11 8 (2.77%) Perl
12 7 (2.42%) PHP
13 5 (1.73%) DataWeave
14 4 (1.38%) T-SQL
15 3 (1.04%) PromQL
16 1 (0.35%) Kusto Query Language
16 1 (0.35%) Swift
Qualifications
1 125 (43.25%) Security Cleared
2 80 (27.68%) SC Cleared
3 30 (10.38%) DV Cleared
4 12 (4.15%) Degree
4 12 (4.15%) Microsoft Certification
5 9 (3.11%) Azure Certification
6 8 (2.77%) AWS Certification
6 8 (2.77%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.38%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.04%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 3 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.69%) Oracle Certification
9 2 (0.69%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 1 (0.35%) CCNP
10 1 (0.35%) CISSP
10 1 (0.35%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.35%) MCSA
10 1 (0.35%) MCSE
10 1 (0.35%) OCA
10 1 (0.35%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (8.65%) Data Quality
2 20 (6.92%) QA
3 4 (1.38%) GDPR
3 4 (1.38%) NCSC
4 3 (1.04%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.04%) NIST
5 2 (0.69%) SLA
6 1 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.35%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.35%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.35%) JSP 440
6 1 (0.35%) NIST 800
System Software
1 105 (36.33%) Docker
2 45 (15.57%) Active Directory
3 30 (10.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (6.57%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 19 (6.57%) Virtual Servers
5 5 (1.73%) Tivoli Directory Server
6 3 (1.04%) Microsoft App-V
7 2 (0.69%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.69%) VirtualBox
7 2 (0.69%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.35%) etcd
8 1 (0.35%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 98 (33.91%) Kubernetes
2 74 (25.61%) Terraform
3 63 (21.80%) Ansible
4 25 (8.65%) SCCM
5 24 (8.30%) Prometheus
6 19 (6.57%) WSUS
7 18 (6.23%) Grafana
8 15 (5.19%) Progress Chef
9 13 (4.50%) Puppet
10 11 (3.81%) Single Sign-On
11 6 (2.08%) Kibana
12 5 (1.73%) Argo
12 5 (1.73%) CA Single Sign-On
12 5 (1.73%) CA Wily
12 5 (1.73%) CloudHub
12 5 (1.73%) Microsoft Intune
12 5 (1.73%) Tivoli
13 4 (1.38%) ITRS Geneos
13 4 (1.38%) Packer
13 4 (1.38%) WMI
Vendors
1 95 (32.87%) Microsoft
2 38 (13.15%) Oracle
3 35 (12.11%) VMware
4 34 (11.76%) Splunk
5 28 (9.69%) Talend
6 26 (9.00%) Denodo
7 19 (6.57%) NetApp
8 18 (6.23%) Databricks
9 16 (5.54%) webMethods
10 14 (4.84%) SAP
11 13 (4.50%) IBM
11 13 (4.50%) Red Hat
12 11 (3.81%) Google
13 10 (3.46%) AppDynamics
14 8 (2.77%) Axway
14 8 (2.77%) Pega
14 8 (2.77%) Software AG
15 6 (2.08%) ServiceNow
16 5 (1.73%) Broadcom
16 5 (1.73%) MuleSoft