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

 6 months to
5 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 274 254 304
Rank change year-on-year -20 +50 +14
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 363 245 243
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.87% 1.02% 0.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.02% 1.11% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 252 190 173
10th Percentile £400 £326 £401
25th Percentile £450 £413 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £550 £594
Median % change year-on-year -5.91% -7.41% -4.96%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £700
90th Percentile £650 £738 £775
UK median daily rate £520 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -5.45% -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 5
10th Percentile £57.58 - -
25th Percentile £68.57 - -
Median hourly rate £75.34 - £23.80
75th Percentile £76.00 - £67.02
90th Percentile - - £69.56
UK median hourly rate £75.34 - £23.80
% change year-on-year - - -65.26%

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 35,679 21,999 31,507
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.05% 91.35% 85.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,608 14,249 20,517
10th Percentile £325 £304 £300
25th Percentile £413 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +0.49% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,238 979 2,317
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.83
25th Percentile £20.76 £18.10 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £28.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +66.67% -24.00% +1.35%
75th Percentile £68.00 £59.60 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.93 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £27.53 £36.50
% change year-on-year +59.68% -24.58% +1.39%

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 June 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 June 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 June 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 -4 193 £533 -3.14% 77
North of England -59 51 £471 +18.66% 29
Midlands -23 39 £515 -5.24% 10
South East -55 33 £544 +27.64% 35
West Midlands -34 28 £525 -4.55% 5
South West -28 27 £553 -3.91% 8
Yorkshire -42 24 £476 -18.28% 3
North West -27 22 £461 +17.90% 18
East Midlands -18 10 £420 -11.58% 5
North East -27 5 £450 -18.18% 8
East of England -52 4 £513 -6.77% 10
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 28 (7.71%) SAS
2 10 (2.75%) Apache Spark
3 8 (2.20%) Appian
4 6 (1.65%) Camunda
4 6 (1.65%) Confluence
4 6 (1.65%) SharePoint
5 5 (1.38%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (1.10%) CMS
7 3 (0.83%) Apache
7 3 (0.83%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.55%) IBM HTTP Server
8 2 (0.55%) Oracle HTTP Server
8 2 (0.55%) Sitecore CMS
8 2 (0.55%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.55%) WebSphere Application Server
8 2 (0.55%) WebSphere Portal
9 1 (0.28%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.28%) ColdFusion
9 1 (0.28%) OpenROAD
9 1 (0.28%) OpenStack
Applications
1 6 (1.65%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.55%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.28%) Cloudability
1 1 (0.28%) SAP MDG
1 1 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 180 (49.59%) Azure
2 125 (34.44%) AWS
3 89 (24.52%) GitHub
4 69 (19.01%) Azure DevOps
5 62 (17.08%) GitHub Actions
6 41 (11.29%) GCP
7 39 (10.74%) Serverless
8 31 (8.54%) Power Platform
9 22 (6.06%) AWS Lambda
10 21 (5.79%) Azure Monitor
11 20 (5.51%) Amazon S3
11 20 (5.51%) Azure Data Factory
12 19 (5.23%) AWS CloudFormation
13 16 (4.41%) Azure Key Vault
13 16 (4.41%) Entra ID
13 16 (4.41%) PaaS
14 14 (3.86%) Azure Functions
14 14 (3.86%) Power Automate
15 13 (3.58%) Azure AI
15 13 (3.58%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (5.79%) Firewall
2 14 (3.86%) DNS
2 14 (3.86%) VPN
3 11 (3.03%) TCP/IP
4 9 (2.48%) Network Security
5 6 (1.65%) DMZ
6 4 (1.10%) Software-Defined Networking
6 4 (1.10%) SSL
7 3 (0.83%) DHCP
8 2 (0.55%) HTTP
8 2 (0.55%) Kerberos
8 2 (0.55%) NGFW
8 2 (0.55%) Reverse Proxy
9 1 (0.28%) Cisco IOS
9 1 (0.28%) Cisco Nexus
9 1 (0.28%) HTTPS
9 1 (0.28%) MQTT
9 1 (0.28%) OpenLDAP
9 1 (0.28%) SMS
9 1 (0.28%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (6.06%) Power BI
2 21 (5.79%) SQL Server
3 19 (5.23%) PostgreSQL
4 17 (4.68%) Pentaho
5 15 (4.13%) Data Warehouse
5 15 (4.13%) Relational Database
6 13 (3.58%) Data Lake
7 9 (2.48%) DynamoDB
7 9 (2.48%) MongoDB
7 9 (2.48%) NoSQL
7 9 (2.48%) Redis
8 8 (2.20%) Amazon Athena
8 8 (2.20%) Metadata
8 8 (2.20%) Pinecone
9 7 (1.93%) Amazon RDS
10 6 (1.65%) Big Data
10 6 (1.65%) SAS Data Integration Studio
10 6 (1.65%) Spark SQL
11 5 (1.38%) Aerospike
11 5 (1.38%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 83 (22.87%) Git
2 72 (19.83%) Jenkins
3 58 (15.98%) GitLab
4 24 (6.61%) JIRA
5 9 (2.48%) JUnit
6 8 (2.20%) fastlane
6 8 (2.20%) MLflow
7 5 (1.38%) Artifactory
7 5 (1.38%) Gradle
7 5 (1.38%) Mockito
7 5 (1.38%) MSI
8 4 (1.10%) Android Studio
8 4 (1.10%) Crashlytics
8 4 (1.10%) Cypress.io
8 4 (1.10%) git-flow
8 4 (1.10%) Selenium
8 4 (1.10%) Xcode
9 3 (0.83%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 3 (0.83%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.83%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 108 (29.75%) Social Skills
2 69 (19.01%) Public Sector
3 65 (17.91%) Finance
4 29 (7.99%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (4.96%) Banking
6 13 (3.58%) Legal
7 9 (2.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (1.93%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (1.93%) Front Office
8 7 (1.93%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.10%) Retail
10 2 (0.55%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.55%) Marketing
11 1 (0.28%) Law
11 1 (0.28%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.28%) Military
11 1 (0.28%) Police
11 1 (0.28%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 61 (16.80%) Developer
2 60 (16.53%) Senior
3 49 (13.50%) DevOps Engineer
4 40 (11.02%) Data Engineer
5 34 (9.37%) Architect
6 23 (6.34%) Azure Engineer
6 23 (6.34%) Cloud Engineer
6 23 (6.34%) Lead
7 20 (5.51%) Platform Engineer
8 19 (5.23%) Automation Engineer
8 19 (5.23%) Senior Developer
9 18 (4.96%) Full-Stack Developer
10 17 (4.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 14 (3.86%) AWS Engineer
12 13 (3.58%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 13 (3.58%) Salesforce Engineer
12 13 (3.58%) Software Engineer
13 11 (3.03%) Platform Architect
14 10 (2.75%) Senior DevOps
15 9 (2.48%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (14.05%) RESTful
2 43 (11.85%) REST
3 32 (8.82%) React
4 28 (7.71%) .NET
5 27 (7.44%) Kafka
5 27 (7.44%) Node.js
6 18 (4.96%) OAuth
7 17 (4.68%) PySpark
8 16 (4.41%) AngularJS
8 16 (4.41%) pytest
9 15 (4.13%) FastAPI
10 14 (3.86%) Swagger
10 14 (3.86%) YAML
11 13 (3.58%) OpenAPI
11 13 (3.58%) Web Services
12 12 (3.31%) Flask
13 11 (3.03%) Django
13 11 (3.03%) HTML
13 11 (3.03%) Spring
13 11 (3.03%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 79 (21.76%) Cloud Native
2 27 (7.44%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (5.79%) Product Ownership
4 15 (4.13%) Onboarding
5 13 (3.58%) Legacy Systems
6 11 (3.03%) Mobile App
7 9 (2.48%) Distributed Computing
7 9 (2.48%) Hybrid Cloud
8 8 (2.20%) Data Centre
8 8 (2.20%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (2.20%) Low-Code
9 6 (1.65%) Enterprise Cloud
10 4 (1.10%) Client/Server
10 4 (1.10%) NHS
10 4 (1.10%) Replication
11 3 (0.83%) Algorithms
11 3 (0.83%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (0.83%) Derivative
11 3 (0.83%) Energy Derivatives
11 3 (0.83%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 42 (11.57%) Linux
2 24 (6.61%) Windows
3 7 (1.93%) Unix
4 6 (1.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (1.65%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.10%) Android
5 4 (1.10%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.83%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.55%) Oracle Linux
7 2 (0.55%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
7 2 (0.55%) VMS
7 2 (0.55%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.55%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.55%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.28%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 283 (77.96%) CI/CD
2 214 (58.95%) DevOps
3 147 (40.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 134 (36.91%) Agile
5 130 (35.81%) Test Automation
6 83 (22.87%) Analytics
7 80 (22.04%) Problem-Solving
8 75 (20.66%) Containerisation
9 67 (18.46%) Data Pipeline
10 66 (18.18%) Data Modelling
11 63 (17.36%) Observability
12 59 (16.25%) AI
12 59 (16.25%) Scrum
13 58 (15.98%) Continuous Improvement
13 58 (15.98%) ETL
14 57 (15.70%) Microservices
15 50 (13.77%) Migration
16 46 (12.67%) Validation
17 44 (12.12%) Platform Engineering
18 42 (11.57%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 124 (34.16%) Python
2 81 (22.31%) SQL
3 62 (17.08%) PowerShell
4 50 (13.77%) Java
5 38 (10.47%) Bash
6 34 (9.37%) Bicep
7 32 (8.82%) JavaScript
8 29 (7.99%) C#
9 27 (7.44%) TypeScript
10 8 (2.20%) PHP
11 7 (1.93%) Kotlin
12 6 (1.65%) Apex Code
13 5 (1.38%) Go
14 4 (1.10%) Perl
14 4 (1.10%) Rust
14 4 (1.10%) Scala
14 4 (1.10%) Shell Script
14 4 (1.10%) Swift
15 3 (0.83%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.83%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 122 (33.61%) Security Cleared
2 96 (26.45%) SC Cleared
3 19 (5.23%) Degree
4 17 (4.68%) Azure Certification
5 13 (3.58%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (3.58%) Microsoft Certification
6 12 (3.31%) BPSS Clearance
6 12 (3.31%) DV Cleared
7 10 (2.75%) AWS Certification
8 7 (1.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (1.10%) RHCE
10 3 (0.83%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 3 (0.83%) CCNP
10 3 (0.83%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (0.83%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 3 (0.83%) MCSA
11 2 (0.55%) AWS Certified Developer
11 2 (0.55%) MCSE
11 2 (0.55%) OCA
11 2 (0.55%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (11.02%) Data Quality
2 33 (9.09%) QA
3 20 (5.51%) Accessibility
4 15 (4.13%) GDPR
4 15 (4.13%) WCAG
5 6 (1.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 4 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.83%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.55%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.55%) NCSC
9 1 (0.28%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.28%) EU AI Act
9 1 (0.28%) HL7
9 1 (0.28%) SLA
9 1 (0.28%) SOC 2
System Software
1 106 (29.20%) Docker
2 15 (4.13%) Active Directory
3 13 (3.58%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (2.20%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (1.38%) Hyper-V
5 5 (1.38%) Microsoft App-V
6 2 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.28%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.28%) Firmware
7 1 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 130 (35.81%) Terraform
2 127 (34.99%) Kubernetes
3 38 (10.47%) Ansible
4 16 (4.41%) SCCM
5 14 (3.86%) Prometheus
6 11 (3.03%) Grafana
7 9 (2.48%) Microsoft Intune
8 7 (1.93%) Puppet
9 6 (1.65%) Istio
9 6 (1.65%) WSUS
10 4 (1.10%) Argo
10 4 (1.10%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.55%) CA Wily
11 2 (0.55%) Control-M
11 2 (0.55%) Tivoli
12 1 (0.28%) Kustomize
12 1 (0.28%) Podman
12 1 (0.28%) QRadar
12 1 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 87 (23.97%) Microsoft
2 23 (6.34%) Google
3 22 (6.06%) Salesforce
4 20 (5.51%) OpenAI
5 18 (4.96%) Oracle
5 18 (4.96%) Talend
6 16 (4.41%) Databricks
6 16 (4.41%) Denodo
7 14 (3.86%) Dynatrace
8 9 (2.48%) Red Hat
9 8 (2.20%) Automation Anywhere
9 8 (2.20%) UiPath
10 6 (1.65%) Apple
10 6 (1.65%) Bloomberg
10 6 (1.65%) Citrix
10 6 (1.65%) Foundry
10 6 (1.65%) ION Trading
10 6 (1.65%) Reuters
10 6 (1.65%) Splunk
11 4 (1.10%) SAP
168 Deployment Automation jobs in England