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 16 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 249 258 298
Rank change year-on-year +9 +40 +37
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 463 273 238
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.01% 0.98% 0.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.19% 1.08% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 314 213 164
10th Percentile £406 £335 £400
25th Percentile £447 £413 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £613
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% -10.20% +2.08%
75th Percentile £603 £619 £700
90th Percentile £675 £709 £775
UK median daily rate £515 £540 £612
% change year-on-year -4.63% -11.80% +2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 3
10th Percentile £69.35 - -
25th Percentile £73.63 - -
Median hourly rate £76.00 - £23.80
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £76.00 - £23.80
% change year-on-year - - -66.48%

All Process & 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 39,024 25,239 28,517
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.10% 90.81% 85.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,245 16,077 18,561
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £628 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,548 1,443 1,638
10th Percentile £14.42 £14.20 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.33 £17.87 £18.25
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £42.75
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.17% +3.59%
75th Percentile £68.55 £50.63 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.13 £25.15 £40.94
% change year-on-year +67.50% -38.57% -1.35%

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 16 August 2026.

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 16 August 2026. 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 +6 221 £550 -0.90% 39
North of England -36 74 £500 +24.69% 29
South East -48 55 £555 +16.84% 27
Midlands -23 53 £496 -4.33% 12
West Midlands -29 46 £496 -4.92% 10
South West -30 39 £450 -15.29% 18
Yorkshire -27 34 £500 -14.16% 8
North West -28 28 £530 +34.86% 15
North East -30 12 £450 +20.00% 6
East of England -41 7 £850 +54.55% 9
East Midlands -16 6 £470 -1.05% 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 29 (6.26%) SAS
2 20 (4.32%) Apache Spark
3 19 (4.10%) Confluence
4 11 (2.38%) Apache
5 10 (2.16%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (1.08%) SharePoint
7 4 (0.86%) CMS
8 3 (0.65%) Oracle Workflow
8 3 (0.65%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.43%) Camunda
9 2 (0.43%) IBM HTTP Server
9 2 (0.43%) Oracle HTTP Server
9 2 (0.43%) WebSphere Application Server
9 2 (0.43%) WebSphere Portal
10 1 (0.22%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.22%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.22%) IIS
10 1 (0.22%) nginx
10 1 (0.22%) OpenROAD
10 1 (0.22%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 3 (0.65%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.22%) Misys Equation
2 1 (0.22%) Misys Midas
2 1 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.22%) SAP CRM
2 1 (0.22%) SAP MDG
2 1 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.22%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 250 (54.00%) Azure
2 167 (36.07%) AWS
3 134 (28.94%) Azure DevOps
4 110 (23.76%) GitHub
5 84 (18.14%) GitHub Actions
6 53 (11.45%) GCP
7 52 (11.23%) Serverless
8 42 (9.07%) AWS Lambda
9 40 (8.64%) Amazon S3
10 36 (7.78%) Amazon EKS
11 34 (7.34%) Azure Monitor
12 29 (6.26%) Amazon ECS
12 29 (6.26%) Power Platform
13 28 (6.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 26 (5.62%) Amazon EC2
14 26 (5.62%) Azure AKS
15 25 (5.40%) Entra ID
16 23 (4.97%) AWS CloudFormation
17 20 (4.32%) Amazon SQS
17 20 (4.32%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 34 (7.34%) Firewall
2 26 (5.62%) DNS
3 23 (4.97%) Network Security
4 16 (3.46%) VPN
5 14 (3.02%) TCP/IP
6 6 (1.30%) DHCP
6 6 (1.30%) DMZ
6 6 (1.30%) SSL
7 5 (1.08%) SSH
8 4 (0.86%) Internet
9 3 (0.65%) Kerberos
9 3 (0.65%) NGFW
9 3 (0.65%) Reverse Proxy
10 2 (0.43%) Cisco Nexus
10 2 (0.43%) HTTP
11 1 (0.22%) MQTT
11 1 (0.22%) SD-WAN
11 1 (0.22%) SNMP
11 1 (0.22%) Software-Defined Networking
11 1 (0.22%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (5.83%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (5.18%) SQL Server
3 22 (4.75%) Power BI
4 20 (4.32%) Data Warehouse
5 19 (4.10%) Pentaho
6 18 (3.89%) Relational Database
7 17 (3.67%) NoSQL
8 15 (3.24%) Data Lake
9 12 (2.59%) Metadata
10 11 (2.38%) Amazon RDS
10 11 (2.38%) Geospatial Data
10 11 (2.38%) MongoDB
11 10 (2.16%) Redis
12 9 (1.94%) Azure SQL Database
12 9 (1.94%) Big Data
13 8 (1.73%) Amazon Athena
13 8 (1.73%) DynamoDB
13 8 (1.73%) MySQL
14 7 (1.51%) BigQuery
15 6 (1.30%) SAS Data Integration Studio
Development Applications
1 121 (26.13%) Git
2 115 (24.84%) Jenkins
3 80 (17.28%) GitLab
4 41 (8.86%) JIRA
5 16 (3.46%) MSI
6 11 (2.38%) fastlane
7 9 (1.94%) Gradle
7 9 (1.94%) JUnit
7 9 (1.94%) Selenium
8 8 (1.73%) Visual Studio
9 7 (1.51%) Sonatype Nexus
10 6 (1.30%) Maven
10 6 (1.30%) Xcode
11 5 (1.08%) Android Studio
11 5 (1.08%) Crashlytics
11 5 (1.08%) MSBuild
11 5 (1.08%) SonarQube
11 5 (1.08%) Visual Studio Code
12 4 (0.86%) Cypress.io
12 4 (0.86%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 130 (28.08%) Social Skills
2 89 (19.22%) Public Sector
3 62 (13.39%) Finance
4 46 (9.94%) Analytical Skills
5 29 (6.26%) Banking
6 17 (3.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (2.59%) Documentation Skills
8 9 (1.94%) Retail
9 7 (1.51%) Legal
10 6 (1.30%) Front Office
11 5 (1.08%) Investment Banking
11 5 (1.08%) Marketing
12 4 (0.86%) Manufacturing
12 4 (0.86%) Military
13 3 (0.65%) Financial Institution
14 2 (0.43%) Back Office
14 2 (0.43%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (0.43%) Law
14 2 (0.43%) Pharmaceutical
14 2 (0.43%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 93 (20.09%) Senior
2 89 (19.22%) Developer
3 66 (14.25%) DevOps Engineer
4 52 (11.23%) Data Engineer
5 44 (9.50%) Lead
6 39 (8.42%) Cloud Engineer
7 33 (7.13%) Architect
8 32 (6.91%) Platform Engineer
9 30 (6.48%) Senior Developer
10 27 (5.83%) Azure Engineer
11 26 (5.62%) Software Engineer
12 23 (4.97%) AWS Engineer
13 22 (4.75%) Full-Stack Developer
14 18 (3.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 17 (3.67%) Senior DevOps
16 14 (3.02%) AWS DevOps
16 14 (3.02%) Java Developer
16 14 (3.02%) Python Engineer
16 14 (3.02%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 13 (2.81%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (16.41%) REST
2 72 (15.55%) RESTful
3 53 (11.45%) .NET
4 41 (8.86%) React
5 40 (8.64%) Kafka
6 28 (6.05%) .NET Framework
6 28 (6.05%) Spring
6 28 (6.05%) Spring Boot
7 25 (5.40%) .NET Core
8 23 (4.97%) HTML
9 21 (4.54%) Node.js
10 20 (4.32%) AngularJS
10 20 (4.32%) CSS
11 18 (3.89%) HTML5
11 18 (3.89%) OAuth
11 18 (3.89%) PySpark
12 16 (3.46%) YAML
13 15 (3.24%) CSS3
14 13 (2.81%) ARM Templates
14 13 (2.81%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 133 (28.73%) Cloud Native
2 36 (7.78%) Distributed Systems
3 32 (6.91%) Product Ownership
4 30 (6.48%) Onboarding
5 22 (4.75%) Enterprise Software
6 18 (3.89%) Legacy Systems
7 12 (2.59%) Mobile App
8 11 (2.38%) Hybrid Cloud
8 11 (2.38%) Security Posture
9 9 (1.94%) Enterprise Cloud
9 9 (1.94%) NHS
10 8 (1.73%) Self-Motivation
11 7 (1.51%) AI Agents
11 7 (1.51%) Data Protection Act
12 6 (1.30%) Linux Command Line
12 6 (1.30%) PKI
12 6 (1.30%) Replication
13 5 (1.08%) Management Information System
14 4 (0.86%) CMDB
14 4 (0.86%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 65 (14.04%) Linux
2 40 (8.64%) Windows
3 21 (4.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 13 (2.81%) Unix
4 13 (2.81%) Windows Server
5 6 (1.30%) Apple iOS
5 6 (1.30%) Ubuntu
6 5 (1.08%) Android
7 2 (0.43%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.43%) Oracle Linux
7 2 (0.43%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
7 2 (0.43%) VMS
7 2 (0.43%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.22%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.22%) CentOS
8 1 (0.22%) Solaris
8 1 (0.22%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 384 (82.94%) CI/CD
2 299 (64.58%) DevOps
3 217 (46.87%) Infrastructure as Code
4 203 (43.84%) Agile
5 177 (38.23%) Test Automation
6 130 (28.08%) Containerisation
7 119 (25.70%) Continuous Improvement
8 111 (23.97%) Analytics
9 97 (20.95%) Observability
10 96 (20.73%) Problem-Solving
11 90 (19.44%) Microservices
12 81 (17.49%) Scrum
13 80 (17.28%) Platform Engineering
14 76 (16.41%) Data Pipeline
15 73 (15.77%) AI
15 73 (15.77%) DevSecOps
16 71 (15.33%) Software Engineering
17 58 (12.53%) Configuration Management
17 58 (12.53%) Data Modelling
18 56 (12.10%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 174 (37.58%) Python
2 104 (22.46%) SQL
3 74 (15.98%) PowerShell
4 70 (15.12%) Java
5 52 (11.23%) C#
6 50 (10.80%) JavaScript
7 48 (10.37%) Bash
7 48 (10.37%) Bicep
8 34 (7.34%) TypeScript
9 8 (1.73%) Kotlin
9 8 (1.73%) Shell Script
10 7 (1.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 7 (1.51%) Go
11 6 (1.30%) Apex Code
11 6 (1.30%) Scala
11 6 (1.30%) Swift
12 4 (0.86%) Korn
12 4 (0.86%) Perl
12 4 (0.86%) PHP
13 3 (0.65%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 179 (38.66%) Security Cleared
2 146 (31.53%) SC Cleared
3 30 (6.48%) Degree
4 28 (6.05%) DV Cleared
5 21 (4.54%) AWS Certification
6 20 (4.32%) Azure Certification
7 19 (4.10%) Computer Science Degree
8 14 (3.02%) Microsoft Certification
9 10 (2.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 6 (1.30%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 6 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (0.86%) CISSP
11 4 (0.86%) RHCE
12 3 (0.65%) CCNP
12 3 (0.65%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (0.65%) GCFA
12 3 (0.65%) GCIH
12 3 (0.65%) MCSA
12 3 (0.65%) MCSE
12 3 (0.65%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (10.58%) QA
2 36 (7.78%) Accessibility
3 35 (7.56%) Data Quality
4 30 (6.48%) WCAG
5 14 (3.02%) GDPR
5 14 (3.02%) NCSC
6 4 (0.86%) HL7
6 4 (0.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (0.65%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.65%) ISO 20022
7 3 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.65%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.22%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.22%) EU AI Act
8 1 (0.22%) ISO 15022
8 1 (0.22%) NIST
8 1 (0.22%) PMO
8 1 (0.22%) SLA
8 1 (0.22%) SOC 2
System Software
1 149 (32.18%) Docker
2 19 (4.10%) Active Directory
3 11 (2.38%) Virtual Desktop
4 9 (1.94%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (1.08%) Microsoft App-V
5 5 (1.08%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.43%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 2 (0.43%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.22%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.22%) Firmware
7 1 (0.22%) Varnish
7 1 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 192 (41.47%) Terraform
2 179 (38.66%) Kubernetes
3 68 (14.69%) Ansible
4 23 (4.97%) Grafana
5 20 (4.32%) Prometheus
6 17 (3.67%) SCCM
7 13 (2.81%) Microsoft Intune
7 13 (2.81%) Progress Chef
8 12 (2.59%) Puppet
9 7 (1.51%) Istio
10 6 (1.30%) Argo
11 5 (1.08%) WSUS
12 4 (0.86%) Control-M
12 4 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
13 3 (0.65%) CASB
14 2 (0.43%) CA Wily
14 2 (0.43%) Tivoli
15 1 (0.22%) Kubeflow
15 1 (0.22%) Kustomize
15 1 (0.22%) vRealize
Vendors
1 115 (24.84%) Microsoft
2 30 (6.48%) Oracle
3 29 (6.26%) Google
4 25 (5.40%) Databricks
5 22 (4.75%) Dynatrace
6 19 (4.10%) Talend
7 17 (3.67%) Denodo
7 17 (3.67%) Red Hat
7 17 (3.67%) Salesforce
8 13 (2.81%) Splunk
9 7 (1.51%) ServiceNow
10 6 (1.30%) Apple
10 6 (1.30%) Citrix
10 6 (1.30%) VMware
11 5 (1.08%) Bloomberg
11 5 (1.08%) CrowdStrike
11 5 (1.08%) IBM
11 5 (1.08%) ION Trading
11 5 (1.08%) Reuters
11 5 (1.08%) SAP