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 5 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
5 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 272 236 306
Rank change year-on-year -36 +70 +18
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 389 279 255
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.88% 1.05% 0.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.03% 1.16% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 269 213 176
10th Percentile £402 £328 £400
25th Percentile £450 £413 £504
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £600 £630 £700
90th Percentile £675 £738 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 5
10th Percentile £60.02 - -
25th Percentile £74.68 - -
Median hourly rate £76.00 - £23.80
75th Percentile - - £67.02
90th Percentile - - £69.56
UK median hourly rate £76.00 - £23.80
% change year-on-year - - -63.94%

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 37,627 24,117 31,905
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.34% 90.98% 85.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,684 15,510 20,711
10th Percentile £325 £300 £305
25th Percentile £419 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.55% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £730 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +1.98% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,363 1,203 2,295
10th Percentile £15.26 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £20.79 £17.93 £16.18
Median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% +1.65%
75th Percentile £68.55 £55.00 £61.80
90th Percentile £82.25 £72.30 £72.95
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.75
% change year-on-year +74.79% -33.38% +0.67%

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 5 July 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 5 July 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 5 July 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 -28 197 £550 - 83
North of England -43 66 £471 +19.72% 19
Midlands -36 37 £525 +3.75% 14
South East -48 36 £565 +18.95% 36
South West -18 31 £475 -17.39% 14
North West -28 30 £500 +30.98% 11
West Midlands -42 29 £525 -4.55% 11
Yorkshire -43 28 £488 -16.31% 5
North East -31 8 £450 +20.00% 4
East Midlands -14 7 £485 +21.10% 3
East of England -50 7 £700 +27.27% 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 27 (6.94%) SAS
2 15 (3.86%) Apache Spark
3 11 (2.83%) Confluence
4 7 (1.80%) Apache
5 6 (1.54%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (1.54%) Camunda
6 5 (1.29%) Appian
6 5 (1.29%) SharePoint
7 4 (1.03%) CMS
8 3 (0.77%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.51%) IBM HTTP Server
9 2 (0.51%) Oracle HTTP Server
9 2 (0.51%) Sitecore CMS
9 2 (0.51%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.51%) WebSphere Application Server
9 2 (0.51%) WebSphere Portal
10 1 (0.26%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.26%) OpenROAD
10 1 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 2 (0.51%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.26%) Cloudability
1 1 (0.26%) Misys Equation
1 1 (0.26%) Misys Midas
1 1 (0.26%) SAP MDG
1 1 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 203 (52.19%) Azure
2 137 (35.22%) AWS
3 92 (23.65%) Azure DevOps
3 92 (23.65%) GitHub
4 68 (17.48%) GitHub Actions
5 49 (12.60%) GCP
6 40 (10.28%) Serverless
7 29 (7.46%) Amazon S3
8 27 (6.94%) AWS Lambda
8 27 (6.94%) Power Platform
9 21 (5.40%) Azure Monitor
10 20 (5.14%) Azure Data Factory
11 18 (4.63%) AWS CloudFormation
12 16 (4.11%) Amazon EKS
12 16 (4.11%) Azure AKS
12 16 (4.11%) Azure Key Vault
13 14 (3.60%) Amazon EC2
13 14 (3.60%) Amazon ECS
13 14 (3.60%) Amazon SQS
13 14 (3.60%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (6.17%) Firewall
2 15 (3.86%) DNS
2 15 (3.86%) VPN
3 14 (3.60%) Network Security
4 11 (2.83%) TCP/IP
5 7 (1.80%) DMZ
6 6 (1.54%) SSL
7 4 (1.03%) Software-Defined Networking
8 2 (0.51%) HTTP
8 2 (0.51%) Kerberos
8 2 (0.51%) NGFW
8 2 (0.51%) Reverse Proxy
9 1 (0.26%) BGP
9 1 (0.26%) Cisco IOS
9 1 (0.26%) Cisco Nexus
9 1 (0.26%) DHCP
9 1 (0.26%) OpenLDAP
9 1 (0.26%) OSPF
9 1 (0.26%) SNMP
9 1 (0.26%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (6.17%) SQL Server
2 22 (5.66%) PostgreSQL
3 19 (4.88%) Power BI
4 17 (4.37%) Relational Database
5 16 (4.11%) Data Warehouse
5 16 (4.11%) Pentaho
6 11 (2.83%) Data Lake
6 11 (2.83%) NoSQL
7 10 (2.57%) Amazon RDS
7 10 (2.57%) MongoDB
8 9 (2.31%) Metadata
9 8 (2.06%) Amazon Athena
9 8 (2.06%) Redis
10 7 (1.80%) DynamoDB
10 7 (1.80%) Geospatial Data
11 6 (1.54%) Big Data
11 6 (1.54%) MySQL
11 6 (1.54%) SAS Data Integration Studio
12 5 (1.29%) Amazon Redshift
12 5 (1.29%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 91 (23.39%) Git
2 82 (21.08%) Jenkins
3 56 (14.40%) GitLab
4 29 (7.46%) JIRA
5 12 (3.08%) MSI
6 11 (2.83%) fastlane
7 8 (2.06%) Gradle
7 8 (2.06%) JUnit
8 6 (1.54%) Mockito
8 6 (1.54%) Xcode
9 5 (1.29%) Android Studio
9 5 (1.29%) Crashlytics
9 5 (1.29%) MLflow
9 5 (1.29%) Visual Studio
10 4 (1.03%) Artifactory
10 4 (1.03%) git-flow
10 4 (1.03%) Maven
10 4 (1.03%) MSBuild
10 4 (1.03%) SonarQube
10 4 (1.03%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 108 (27.76%) Social Skills
2 75 (19.28%) Public Sector
3 57 (14.65%) Finance
4 31 (7.97%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (5.91%) Banking
6 16 (4.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (3.08%) Legal
8 11 (2.83%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (1.80%) Front Office
9 7 (1.80%) Retail
10 6 (1.54%) Investment Banking
11 3 (0.77%) Financial Institution
11 3 (0.77%) Law
12 2 (0.51%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.51%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.26%) Back Office
13 1 (0.26%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.26%) Marketing
13 1 (0.26%) Military
13 1 (0.26%) Police
Job Titles
1 76 (19.54%) Senior
2 67 (17.22%) Developer
3 60 (15.42%) DevOps Engineer
4 46 (11.83%) Data Engineer
5 32 (8.23%) Architect
6 30 (7.71%) Lead
7 29 (7.46%) Cloud Engineer
8 26 (6.68%) Azure Engineer
9 24 (6.17%) Senior Developer
10 22 (5.66%) Software Engineer
11 21 (5.40%) Full-Stack Developer
11 21 (5.40%) Platform Engineer
12 19 (4.88%) AWS Engineer
13 16 (4.11%) Senior DevOps
14 14 (3.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 14 (3.60%) Salesforce Engineer
15 13 (3.34%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 12 (3.08%) Automation Engineer
16 12 (3.08%) Python Engineer
16 12 (3.08%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (15.17%) RESTful
2 55 (14.14%) REST
3 40 (10.28%) .NET
4 35 (9.00%) React
5 26 (6.68%) Kafka
6 22 (5.66%) Node.js
7 19 (4.88%) OAuth
8 18 (4.63%) AngularJS
8 18 (4.63%) Spring
8 18 (4.63%) Spring Boot
9 17 (4.37%) .NET Framework
9 17 (4.37%) HTML
9 17 (4.37%) PySpark
10 16 (4.11%) CSS
10 16 (4.11%) YAML
11 15 (3.86%) .NET Core
11 15 (3.86%) FastAPI
12 12 (3.08%) Django
13 11 (2.83%) HTML5
13 11 (2.83%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 98 (25.19%) Cloud Native
2 29 (7.46%) Distributed Systems
3 25 (6.43%) Product Ownership
4 20 (5.14%) Onboarding
5 18 (4.63%) Legacy Systems
6 15 (3.86%) Enterprise Software
7 14 (3.60%) Mobile App
8 9 (2.31%) Data Centre
8 9 (2.31%) Hybrid Cloud
9 7 (1.80%) Enterprise Cloud
9 7 (1.80%) NHS
9 7 (1.80%) Security Posture
10 6 (1.54%) Replication
11 5 (1.29%) Low-Code
11 5 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (1.03%) AI Agents
12 4 (1.03%) Client/Server
12 4 (1.03%) Distributed Computing
12 4 (1.03%) PKI
13 3 (0.77%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 45 (11.57%) Linux
2 29 (7.46%) Windows
3 13 (3.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (1.80%) Windows Server
5 6 (1.54%) Apple iOS
5 6 (1.54%) Unix
6 5 (1.29%) Android
6 5 (1.29%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.77%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.51%) Oracle Linux
8 2 (0.51%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
8 2 (0.51%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.51%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.51%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.26%) Solaris
9 1 (0.26%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 310 (79.69%) CI/CD
2 236 (60.67%) DevOps
3 162 (41.65%) Infrastructure as Code
4 158 (40.62%) Agile
5 146 (37.53%) Test Automation
6 94 (24.16%) Analytics
7 88 (22.62%) Containerisation
8 83 (21.34%) Problem-Solving
9 70 (17.99%) Continuous Improvement
9 70 (17.99%) Microservices
9 70 (17.99%) Scrum
10 67 (17.22%) AI
10 67 (17.22%) Data Pipeline
11 63 (16.20%) Observability
12 58 (14.91%) Data Modelling
13 56 (14.40%) Platform Engineering
14 52 (13.37%) Software Engineering
15 51 (13.11%) ETL
15 51 (13.11%) Validation
16 47 (12.08%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 143 (36.76%) Python
2 81 (20.82%) SQL
3 61 (15.68%) PowerShell
4 53 (13.62%) Java
5 43 (11.05%) Bicep
6 42 (10.80%) C#
7 36 (9.25%) Bash
8 31 (7.97%) JavaScript
9 30 (7.71%) TypeScript
10 10 (2.57%) Apex Code
11 9 (2.31%) Kotlin
12 6 (1.54%) Swift
13 5 (1.29%) Go
14 4 (1.03%) Perl
14 4 (1.03%) Scala
14 4 (1.03%) Shell Script
15 3 (0.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 3 (0.77%) PHP
15 3 (0.77%) SAS Macro
16 2 (0.51%) Rust
Qualifications
1 132 (33.93%) Security Cleared
2 110 (28.28%) SC Cleared
3 23 (5.91%) Degree
4 17 (4.37%) Azure Certification
4 17 (4.37%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (3.86%) DV Cleared
6 13 (3.34%) Microsoft Certification
7 12 (3.08%) AWS Certification
8 9 (2.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 8 (2.06%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (1.29%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 4 (1.03%) RHCE
12 3 (0.77%) CCNP
12 3 (0.77%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (0.77%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 3 (0.77%) MCSA
12 3 (0.77%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 2 (0.51%) AWS Certified Developer
13 2 (0.51%) CompTIA Security+
13 2 (0.51%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (9.25%) Data Quality
1 36 (9.25%) QA
2 29 (7.46%) Accessibility
3 25 (6.43%) WCAG
4 11 (2.83%) GDPR
4 11 (2.83%) NCSC
5 4 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.77%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.51%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.51%) HL7
8 1 (0.26%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.26%) EU AI Act
8 1 (0.26%) PMO
8 1 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.26%) SLA
8 1 (0.26%) SOC 2
System Software
1 118 (30.33%) Docker
2 15 (3.86%) Virtual Machines
3 10 (2.57%) Active Directory
4 8 (2.06%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (1.29%) Hyper-V
5 5 (1.29%) Microsoft App-V
6 3 (0.77%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (0.51%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 1 (0.26%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.26%) Firmware
8 1 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.26%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 148 (38.05%) Terraform
2 142 (36.50%) Kubernetes
3 50 (12.85%) Ansible
4 16 (4.11%) Prometheus
5 15 (3.86%) SCCM
6 13 (3.34%) Grafana
7 8 (2.06%) Microsoft Intune
8 7 (1.80%) Puppet
9 6 (1.54%) Argo
9 6 (1.54%) Istio
9 6 (1.54%) WSUS
10 4 (1.03%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.51%) CA Wily
11 2 (0.51%) Control-M
11 2 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.51%) Tivoli
12 1 (0.26%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.26%) Kustomize
12 1 (0.26%) Podman
12 1 (0.26%) QRadar
Vendors
1 88 (22.62%) Microsoft
2 23 (5.91%) Google
3 21 (5.40%) Oracle
3 21 (5.40%) Salesforce
4 20 (5.14%) Databricks
5 19 (4.88%) Dynatrace
6 17 (4.37%) Talend
7 16 (4.11%) OpenAI
8 15 (3.86%) Denodo
9 11 (2.83%) Red Hat
10 7 (1.80%) Foundry
10 7 (1.80%) Splunk
10 7 (1.80%) UiPath
11 6 (1.54%) Apple
11 6 (1.54%) Bloomberg
11 6 (1.54%) Citrix
11 6 (1.54%) ION Trading
11 6 (1.54%) Reuters
12 5 (1.29%) Automation Anywhere
13 4 (1.03%) Palo Alto
157 Deployment Automation jobs in England