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 19 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
19 Feb 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 272 321 358
Rank change year-on-year +49 +37 -57
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 332 180 199
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.96% 0.69% 0.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.09% 0.77% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 237 116 141
10th Percentile £388 £371 £463
25th Percentile £429 £457 £514
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £594 £575
Median % change year-on-year -13.26% +3.26% -8.44%
75th Percentile £588 £750 £688
90th Percentile £688 £836 £744
UK median daily rate £511 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -11.09% - -5.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 4
10th Percentile £27.08 - -
25th Percentile £35.77 £82.50 £22.00
Median hourly rate £50.50 £85.00 £44.51
Median % change year-on-year -40.59% +90.97% -31.52%
75th Percentile £62.72 £87.50 £68.08
90th Percentile £69.89 - £69.98
UK median hourly rate £50.50 £85.00 £44.51
% change year-on-year -40.59% +90.97% -31.52%

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 30,349 23,302 32,721
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.42% 89.94% 87.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,395 14,514 21,728
10th Percentile £311 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,903 732 1,999
10th Percentile £15.18 £15.62 £13.39
25th Percentile £18.26 £21.20 £16.25
Median hourly rate £26.78 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.49% - -
75th Percentile £61.18 £64.79 £60.13
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.23 £73.05
UK median hourly rate £25.50 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -21.54% -7.14% -

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 19 February 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Deployment Automation in England over the 6 months to 19 February 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Deployment Automation in England

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 19 February 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 +3 163 £525 -19.54% 54
North of England -46 47 £475 +7.95% 21
Midlands -31 46 £520 +4.00% 11
West Midlands -31 37 £525 -25.00% 9
North West -10 27 £453 +14.54% 11
South West -14 23 £531 -18.27% 15
South East -18 21 £544 +27.94% 38
Yorkshire -45 17 £500 -16.49% 4
East Midlands -19 8 £393 +12.13% 2
East of England -26 7 £513 +184.86% 3
North East -16 3 £500 -11.50% 6
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 25 (7.53%) SAS
2 14 (4.22%) Apache
3 13 (3.92%) JBoss
4 8 (2.41%) Appian
4 8 (2.41%) WebLogic
5 6 (1.81%) Camunda
5 6 (1.81%) SharePoint
6 5 (1.51%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (1.51%) Confluence
6 5 (1.51%) IIS
6 5 (1.51%) iPlanet
6 5 (1.51%) WebSphere
6 5 (1.51%) WebSphere Application Server
7 3 (0.90%) Anypoint
7 3 (0.90%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.90%) CMS
7 3 (0.90%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.60%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.30%) ColdFusion
9 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (1.51%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.60%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.30%) Cloudability
2 1 (0.30%) Endur
2 1 (0.30%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 125 (37.65%) Azure
2 101 (30.42%) AWS
3 74 (22.29%) GitHub
4 53 (15.96%) GitHub Actions
5 43 (12.95%) Azure DevOps
6 34 (10.24%) GCP
7 31 (9.34%) Serverless
8 25 (7.53%) Power Platform
9 17 (5.12%) OpenShift
10 16 (4.82%) AWS CloudFormation
10 16 (4.82%) AWS Lambda
11 15 (4.52%) Azure Data Factory
11 15 (4.52%) Entra ID
11 15 (4.52%) Power Automate
12 14 (4.22%) Amazon S3
12 14 (4.22%) Azure Functions
13 13 (3.92%) Azure AI
14 12 (3.61%) Azure Key Vault
15 11 (3.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 11 (3.31%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 20 (6.02%) HTTPS
2 10 (3.01%) SSL
3 9 (2.71%) Firewall
4 8 (2.41%) DNS
4 8 (2.41%) TCP/IP
5 7 (2.11%) VPN
6 6 (1.81%) DHCP
6 6 (1.81%) Network Security
7 5 (1.51%) Kerberos
7 5 (1.51%) Software-Defined Networking
8 2 (0.60%) BGP
8 2 (0.60%) DMZ
8 2 (0.60%) Internet
9 1 (0.30%) Cisco IOS
9 1 (0.30%) Cisco Nexus
9 1 (0.30%) HTTP
9 1 (0.30%) IPsec
9 1 (0.30%) OSPF
9 1 (0.30%) SMS
9 1 (0.30%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (6.93%) Pentaho
2 20 (6.02%) SQL Server
3 16 (4.82%) Power BI
4 14 (4.22%) Relational Database
5 13 (3.92%) Oracle Database
6 11 (3.31%) MongoDB
6 11 (3.31%) NoSQL
6 11 (3.31%) PostgreSQL
7 9 (2.71%) Amazon RDS
8 8 (2.41%) Azure SQL Database
8 8 (2.41%) Data Lake
8 8 (2.41%) Data Warehouse
8 8 (2.41%) Pinecone
8 8 (2.41%) Redis
8 8 (2.41%) Spark SQL
9 7 (2.11%) Apache Cassandra
9 7 (2.11%) SAS Enterprise Guide
10 6 (1.81%) Aerospike
11 5 (1.51%) DynamoDB
12 4 (1.20%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 96 (28.92%) Git
2 80 (24.10%) Jenkins
3 48 (14.46%) GitLab
4 31 (9.34%) JIRA
5 16 (4.82%) JUnit
6 9 (2.71%) Selenium
7 8 (2.41%) Eclipse
7 8 (2.41%) IntelliJ
7 8 (2.41%) MLflow
8 7 (2.11%) Bitbucket
8 7 (2.11%) Sonatype Nexus
9 5 (1.51%) Bitbucket Server
9 5 (1.51%) CA Release Automation
9 5 (1.51%) CircleCI
9 5 (1.51%) Mockito
10 4 (1.20%) Artifactory
11 3 (0.90%) Gradle
11 3 (0.90%) Maven
11 3 (0.90%) MSI
12 2 (0.60%) LoadRunner
General
1 120 (36.14%) Social Skills
2 59 (17.77%) Public Sector
3 57 (17.17%) Finance
4 36 (10.84%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (2.41%) Influencing Skills
6 7 (2.11%) Legal
6 7 (2.11%) Marketing
7 6 (1.81%) Banking
8 4 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (0.90%) Manufacturing
9 3 (0.90%) Military
10 2 (0.60%) Back Office
10 2 (0.60%) Electronics
10 2 (0.60%) Front Office
10 2 (0.60%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.60%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (0.60%) Police
10 2 (0.60%) Retail
10 2 (0.60%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 86 (25.90%) Developer
2 41 (12.35%) DevOps Engineer
3 36 (10.84%) Architect
4 28 (8.43%) Senior
5 25 (7.53%) Data Engineer
6 21 (6.33%) Automation Engineer
7 20 (6.02%) Azure Engineer
8 19 (5.72%) Platform Engineer
9 17 (5.12%) Lead
10 15 (4.52%) Full-Stack Developer
11 12 (3.61%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 12 (3.61%) Cloud Engineer
11 12 (3.61%) Python Developer
12 11 (3.31%) webMethods Developer
13 10 (3.01%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 10 (3.01%) Technical Architect
14 9 (2.71%) AWS Engineer
15 8 (2.41%) Full-Stack Python Developer
15 8 (2.41%) Platform Architect
15 8 (2.41%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (18.07%) REST
2 41 (12.35%) RESTful
3 40 (12.05%) JSON
3 40 (12.05%) SOAP
4 34 (10.24%) React
4 34 (10.24%) XML
5 25 (7.53%) OAuth
5 25 (7.53%) pytest
6 23 (6.93%) Node.js
7 21 (6.33%) HTML
7 21 (6.33%) Spring
8 19 (5.72%) .NET
9 18 (5.42%) AngularJS
9 18 (5.42%) Kafka
9 18 (5.42%) PySpark
10 17 (5.12%) FastAPI
11 15 (4.52%) Jest
11 15 (4.52%) Web Services
11 15 (4.52%) YAML
12 14 (4.22%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 38 (11.45%) Cloud Native
2 12 (3.61%) Distributed Systems
2 12 (3.61%) Legacy Systems
2 12 (3.61%) Product Ownership
3 10 (3.01%) Data Centre
4 8 (2.41%) Hybrid Cloud
4 8 (2.41%) Low-Code
5 7 (2.11%) Distributed Computing
6 6 (1.81%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (1.81%) Onboarding
6 6 (1.81%) Private Cloud
7 5 (1.51%) NHS
7 5 (1.51%) Security Posture
8 4 (1.20%) Algorithms
8 4 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.20%) Mobile App
8 4 (1.20%) PKI
9 3 (0.90%) CMDB
9 3 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (0.90%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 55 (16.57%) Linux
2 25 (7.53%) Windows
3 16 (4.82%) Unix
4 12 (3.61%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.51%) VMS
6 2 (0.60%) Android
6 2 (0.60%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.30%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.30%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.30%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 237 (71.39%) CI/CD
2 208 (62.65%) DevOps
3 122 (36.75%) Infrastructure as Code
4 121 (36.45%) Test Automation
5 119 (35.84%) Agile
6 106 (31.93%) Problem-Solving
7 75 (22.59%) Containerisation
8 62 (18.67%) Analytics
9 55 (16.57%) Continuous Improvement
9 55 (16.57%) Microservices
9 55 (16.57%) Scrum
10 54 (16.27%) Data Modelling
10 54 (16.27%) Data Pipeline
11 53 (15.96%) Infrastructure Automation
12 51 (15.36%) ETL
13 43 (12.95%) Observability
14 42 (12.65%) Business Intelligence
15 40 (12.05%) Migration
16 39 (11.75%) AI
17 33 (9.94%) API Development
Programming Languages
1 115 (34.64%) Python
2 92 (27.71%) SQL
3 52 (15.66%) Java
4 47 (14.16%) PowerShell
5 38 (11.45%) Bash
6 36 (10.84%) JavaScript
7 34 (10.24%) TypeScript
8 23 (6.93%) Bicep
9 19 (5.72%) C#
10 10 (3.01%) Scala
11 9 (2.71%) Groovy
11 9 (2.71%) PHP
12 7 (2.11%) Shell Script
13 6 (1.81%) Apex Code
14 5 (1.51%) Go
14 5 (1.51%) T-SQL
15 3 (0.90%) DataWeave
15 3 (0.90%) Kotlin
16 2 (0.60%) Rust
17 1 (0.30%) Swift
Qualifications
1 134 (40.36%) Security Cleared
2 106 (31.93%) SC Cleared
3 15 (4.52%) Degree
4 14 (4.22%) AWS Certification
5 13 (3.92%) Azure Certification
6 11 (3.31%) DV Cleared
7 9 (2.71%) BPSS Clearance
7 9 (2.71%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (2.41%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 8 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (1.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (1.20%) Master's Degree
10 4 (1.20%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 3 (0.90%) CISSP
12 2 (0.60%) CCNP
12 2 (0.60%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.60%) Oracle Certification
13 1 (0.30%) ISEB
13 1 (0.30%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.30%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (10.24%) Data Quality
2 23 (6.93%) QA
3 11 (3.31%) GDPR
4 7 (2.11%) Accessibility
4 7 (2.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (2.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 6 (1.81%) NCSC
5 6 (1.81%) NIST
6 4 (1.20%) WCAG
7 3 (0.90%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.60%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.30%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.30%) SLA
System Software
1 119 (35.84%) Docker
2 23 (6.93%) Active Directory
3 13 (3.92%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (2.11%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (1.51%) Hyper-V
5 5 (1.51%) Tivoli Directory Server
6 3 (0.90%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.60%) Xen
8 1 (0.30%) etcd
8 1 (0.30%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.30%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 116 (34.94%) Kubernetes
2 113 (34.04%) Terraform
3 38 (11.45%) Ansible
4 17 (5.12%) Grafana
5 15 (4.52%) Prometheus
6 12 (3.61%) Puppet
7 10 (3.01%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (2.11%) Progress Chef
9 6 (1.81%) Istio
10 5 (1.51%) CA Single Sign-On
10 5 (1.51%) CA Wily
10 5 (1.51%) Podman
10 5 (1.51%) Tivoli
11 4 (1.20%) SCCM
12 3 (0.90%) Argo
12 3 (0.90%) CloudHub
12 3 (0.90%) ITRS Geneos
12 3 (0.90%) Packer
12 3 (0.90%) Proxmox
12 3 (0.90%) vRealize
Vendors
1 81 (24.40%) Microsoft
2 29 (8.73%) Oracle
3 24 (7.23%) Talend
4 23 (6.93%) Denodo
5 20 (6.02%) Google
5 20 (6.02%) Salesforce
5 20 (6.02%) webMethods
6 19 (5.72%) OpenAI
7 17 (5.12%) Databricks
7 17 (5.12%) Splunk
8 15 (4.52%) IBM
8 15 (4.52%) VMware
9 14 (4.22%) SAP
10 10 (3.01%) Software AG
11 8 (2.41%) Automation Anywhere
11 8 (2.41%) Axway
11 8 (2.41%) UiPath
12 6 (1.81%) AppDynamics
12 6 (1.81%) Foundry
13 5 (1.51%) Broadcom
126 Deployment Automation jobs in England