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 15 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 281 331 370
Rank change year-on-year +50 +39 -66
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 288 190 211
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.95% 0.61% 0.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.06% 0.70% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 220 112 148
10th Percentile £381 £400 £425
25th Percentile £438 £443 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £600 £581
Median % change year-on-year -10.50% +3.27% -3.17%
75th Percentile £619 £738 £688
90th Percentile £688 £788 £751
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 4
10th Percentile - £29.67 £17.45
25th Percentile £21.29 £38.48 £20.38
Median hourly rate £22.58 £54.40 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -58.50% +147.27% -
75th Percentile £23.86 £71.58 £37.75
90th Percentile - £81.13 £66.10
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 27,298 27,047 35,302
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.35% 86.76% 88.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,334 16,519 24,217
10th Percentile £300 £313 £313
25th Percentile £405 £415 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £525 £546
Median % change year-on-year -3.43% -3.85% -0.73%
75th Percentile £625 £642 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.41% -3.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,792 976 1,481
10th Percentile £14.75 £15.10 £14.36
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.25 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -32.03% -16.85% +27.14%
75th Percentile £46.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.98 £74.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £43.42
% change year-on-year -28.14% -19.38% +24.04%

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 15 November 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 15 November 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 +11 120 £575 -8.73% 85
Midlands +7 53 £519 -16.72% 16
West Midlands +8 51 £520 -18.11% 12
North of England -25 39 £492 +23.00% 33
South East +16 26 £584 +22.57% 53
North West -13 22 £453 +13.25% 22
South West +10 20 £525 -25.53% 17
Yorkshire -23 15 £550 -10.57% 10
East of England -17 14 £550 +46.67% 10
North East -10 2 £500 -1.72% 1
East Midlands -11 2 £276 -26.40% 4
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 (10.76%) SAS
2 20 (6.94%) Apache
3 17 (5.90%) JBoss
4 9 (3.13%) Apache Airflow
5 8 (2.78%) WebLogic
6 6 (2.08%) Confluence
6 6 (2.08%) nginx
6 6 (2.08%) SharePoint
7 5 (1.74%) Anypoint
7 5 (1.74%) IIS
7 5 (1.74%) iPlanet
7 5 (1.74%) WebSphere
7 5 (1.74%) WebSphere Application Server
8 4 (1.39%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.69%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.69%) Mule
10 1 (0.35%) Camunda
10 1 (0.35%) CMS
10 1 (0.35%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (1.39%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.35%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 87 (30.21%) AWS
2 84 (29.17%) Azure
3 51 (17.71%) GitHub
4 37 (12.85%) Azure DevOps
5 35 (12.15%) GitHub Actions
6 24 (8.33%) Serverless
7 21 (7.29%) OpenShift
8 19 (6.60%) AWS CloudFormation
8 19 (6.60%) AWS Lambda
9 18 (6.25%) GCP
10 13 (4.51%) Amazon S3
10 13 (4.51%) Amazon SQS
11 11 (3.82%) Entra ID
11 11 (3.82%) Power Platform
12 10 (3.47%) Amazon EKS
12 10 (3.47%) Amazon EventBridge
13 9 (3.13%) Azure Data Factory
14 8 (2.78%) Azure Key Vault
14 8 (2.78%) Cloud Computing
15 7 (2.43%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 20 (6.94%) HTTPS
2 13 (4.51%) DNS
3 9 (3.13%) SSL
4 7 (2.43%) SAN
5 6 (2.08%) Firewall
6 5 (1.74%) Kerberos
6 5 (1.74%) Network Security
6 5 (1.74%) TCP/IP
6 5 (1.74%) VPN
7 3 (1.04%) DHCP
8 2 (0.69%) HTTP
9 1 (0.35%) Calico
9 1 (0.35%) DMZ
9 1 (0.35%) Ethernet VPN
9 1 (0.35%) Internet
9 1 (0.35%) Multicast
9 1 (0.35%) Software-Defined Networking
9 1 (0.35%) VLAN
9 1 (0.35%) VSAN
9 1 (0.35%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (9.03%) Pentaho
2 16 (5.56%) Relational Database
3 13 (4.51%) Oracle Database
4 12 (4.17%) MongoDB
5 11 (3.82%) NoSQL
5 11 (3.82%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (3.82%) SAS Enterprise Guide
6 10 (3.47%) Data Warehouse
7 9 (3.13%) SQL Server
8 7 (2.43%) Data Lake
9 6 (2.08%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (2.08%) Apache Cassandra
9 6 (2.08%) DynamoDB
10 5 (1.74%) MySQL
10 5 (1.74%) RDBMS
10 5 (1.74%) SAS Visual Analytics
11 4 (1.39%) Delta Lake
11 4 (1.39%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (1.39%) Power BI
11 4 (1.39%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 96 (33.33%) Git
2 84 (29.17%) Jenkins
3 46 (15.97%) JIRA
4 24 (8.33%) GitLab
5 18 (6.25%) Sonatype Nexus
6 12 (4.17%) IntelliJ
6 12 (4.17%) SonarQube
7 10 (3.47%) JUnit
7 10 (3.47%) Maven
8 9 (3.13%) Bitbucket Server
8 9 (3.13%) CA Release Automation
8 9 (3.13%) TeamCity
9 8 (2.78%) Bitbucket
9 8 (2.78%) Eclipse
9 8 (2.78%) Selenium
10 7 (2.43%) MSI
11 4 (1.39%) Robot Framework
12 3 (1.04%) Cypress.io
13 2 (0.69%) Gradle
13 2 (0.69%) Vagrant
General
1 81 (28.13%) Social Skills
2 49 (17.01%) Public Sector
3 29 (10.07%) Finance
4 23 (7.99%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (4.17%) Banking
6 8 (2.78%) Influencing Skills
7 7 (2.43%) Investment Banking
7 7 (2.43%) Marketing
8 5 (1.74%) Digital Healthcare
8 5 (1.74%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.39%) Electronics
9 4 (1.39%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.39%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.69%) Aerospace
10 2 (0.69%) Back Office
10 2 (0.69%) Front Office
10 2 (0.69%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (0.69%) Publishing
10 2 (0.69%) Retail
Job Titles
1 80 (27.78%) Developer
2 30 (10.42%) DevOps Engineer
3 21 (7.29%) Senior
4 18 (6.25%) Data Engineer
4 18 (6.25%) Lead
5 17 (5.90%) Platform Engineer
6 15 (5.21%) Architect
7 14 (4.86%) Full-Stack Developer
8 12 (4.17%) Java Developer
8 12 (4.17%) webMethods Developer
9 11 (3.82%) Azure Engineer
10 10 (3.47%) AWS Engineer
10 10 (3.47%) Python Developer
11 9 (3.13%) Software Engineer
12 8 (2.78%) Automation Engineer
12 8 (2.78%) Cloud Engineer
12 8 (2.78%) Full-Stack Python Developer
12 8 (2.78%) Lead Developer
13 7 (2.43%) Senior DevOps
13 7 (2.43%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (15.28%) REST
2 42 (14.58%) JSON
2 42 (14.58%) SOAP
3 40 (13.89%) XML
4 31 (10.76%) React
5 28 (9.72%) RESTful
6 24 (8.33%) OAuth
7 22 (7.64%) Spring
8 18 (6.25%) HTML
9 17 (5.90%) AngularJS
10 14 (4.86%) Spring Boot
11 13 (4.51%) Kafka
12 12 (4.17%) J2EE
12 12 (4.17%) JMS
13 11 (3.82%) .NET
13 11 (3.82%) Jest
14 10 (3.47%) LDAP
14 10 (3.47%) PySpark
14 10 (3.47%) pytest
14 10 (3.47%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 25 (8.68%) Cloud Native
2 8 (2.78%) Private Cloud
3 7 (2.43%) Data Protection Act
3 7 (2.43%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (2.43%) Product Ownership
4 6 (2.08%) PKI
5 5 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (1.74%) Security Posture
6 4 (1.39%) Clustering
6 4 (1.39%) Distributed Computing
6 4 (1.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (1.04%) CMDB
7 3 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.04%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.04%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.04%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.69%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.69%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 45 (15.63%) Linux
2 40 (13.89%) Windows
3 21 (7.29%) Windows Server
4 19 (6.60%) Unix
5 11 (3.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (3.82%) Windows Server 2019
6 7 (2.43%) Windows Server 2016
7 6 (2.08%) CentOS
8 3 (1.04%) Android
8 3 (1.04%) Apple iOS
8 3 (1.04%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.69%) Debian
9 2 (0.69%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.35%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 199 (69.10%) CI/CD
2 190 (65.97%) DevOps
3 115 (39.93%) Agile
4 108 (37.50%) Test Automation
5 83 (28.82%) Infrastructure as Code
5 83 (28.82%) Problem-Solving
6 62 (21.53%) Containerisation
7 59 (20.49%) Analytics
8 55 (19.10%) Scrum
9 54 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
10 47 (16.32%) Data Pipeline
11 46 (15.97%) Microservices
12 41 (14.24%) Migration
13 40 (13.89%) Data Modelling
13 40 (13.89%) ETL
13 40 (13.89%) Infrastructure Automation
14 37 (12.85%) Data Integration
15 34 (11.81%) Observability
16 33 (11.46%) Business Intelligence
17 26 (9.03%) Data Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 87 (30.21%) Python
2 83 (28.82%) SQL
3 58 (20.14%) Java
4 45 (15.63%) PowerShell
5 35 (12.15%) JavaScript
6 26 (9.03%) TypeScript
7 21 (7.29%) Bash
8 18 (6.25%) C#
9 12 (4.17%) Groovy
10 11 (3.82%) Scala
10 11 (3.82%) Shell Script
11 10 (3.47%) Bicep
12 8 (2.78%) Go
12 8 (2.78%) Perl
13 7 (2.43%) PHP
14 5 (1.74%) DataWeave
14 5 (1.74%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.69%) Apex Code
15 2 (0.69%) PromQL
16 1 (0.35%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 127 (44.10%) Security Cleared
2 93 (32.29%) SC Cleared
3 18 (6.25%) DV Cleared
4 12 (4.17%) Degree
5 9 (3.13%) AWS Certification
5 9 (3.13%) Azure Certification
6 8 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (2.78%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (1.39%) Master's Degree
7 4 (1.39%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 3 (1.04%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (0.69%) CISSP
9 2 (0.69%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.35%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.35%) CISM
10 1 (0.35%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.35%) Numerate Degree
10 1 (0.35%) OCA
10 1 (0.35%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (8.68%) Data Quality
2 18 (6.25%) QA
3 5 (1.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (1.74%) NIST
4 4 (1.39%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.39%) NCSC
5 2 (0.69%) GDPR
5 2 (0.69%) PCI DSS
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
6 1 (0.35%) WCAG
System Software
1 111 (38.54%) Docker
2 36 (12.50%) Active Directory
3 19 (6.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (2.43%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 7 (2.43%) Virtual Servers
5 5 (1.74%) 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
1 100 (34.72%) Kubernetes
2 80 (27.78%) Terraform
3 51 (17.71%) Ansible
4 22 (7.64%) Prometheus
5 18 (6.25%) Grafana
6 14 (4.86%) Progress Chef
6 14 (4.86%) Puppet
6 14 (4.86%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (3.13%) SCCM
8 7 (2.43%) WSUS
9 5 (1.74%) Argo
9 5 (1.74%) CA Single Sign-On
9 5 (1.74%) CA Wily
9 5 (1.74%) CloudHub
9 5 (1.74%) Microsoft Intune
9 5 (1.74%) Packer
9 5 (1.74%) Tivoli
10 4 (1.39%) ITRS Geneos
10 4 (1.39%) Kibana
10 4 (1.39%) Podman
Vendors
1 83 (28.82%) Microsoft
2 38 (13.19%) Oracle
3 28 (9.72%) Talend
4 26 (9.03%) Denodo
4 26 (9.03%) VMware
5 25 (8.68%) Splunk
6 21 (7.29%) webMethods
7 18 (6.25%) Databricks
8 16 (5.56%) IBM
8 16 (5.56%) SAP
9 12 (4.17%) Red Hat
10 11 (3.82%) Software AG
11 10 (3.47%) Google
12 9 (3.13%) AppDynamics
12 9 (3.13%) Salesforce
13 8 (2.78%) Axway
13 8 (2.78%) ForgeRock
13 8 (2.78%) Pega
14 7 (2.43%) NetApp
15 6 (2.08%) ServiceNow