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 1 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 282 332 385
Rank change year-on-year +50 +53 -79
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 280 187 199
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.92% 0.61% 0.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.03% 0.70% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 211 114 138
10th Percentile £381 £400 £429
25th Percentile £430 £475 £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% -6.12%
75th Percentile £619 £725 £675
90th Percentile £688 £821 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -13.33% +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% -

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 27,266 26,819 34,391
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 89.52% 87.66% 88.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,363 16,442 23,467
10th Percentile £300 £313 £313
25th Percentile £405 £418 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £548
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.11% -0.45%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.59% -3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,775 968 1,450
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.22 £14.64
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.26 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.14%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £33.00 £43.42
% change year-on-year -23.79% -23.99% +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 1 December 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 1 December 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 +19 116 £575 -8.73% 22
Midlands +4 57 £519 -15.28% 8
West Midlands +12 52 £519 -16.84% 7
North of England -29 37 £518 +29.38% 20
South East +12 27 £595 +10.19% 45
North West -13 22 £462 +15.50% 10
South West +11 19 £525 -25.53% 13
Yorkshire -32 12 £550 -10.57% 6
East Midlands -7 5 £402 +7.20% 1
East of England -20 5 £531 +41.67% 8
North East -7 3 £500 -9.09% 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 34 (12.14%) SAS
2 18 (6.43%) Apache
3 16 (5.71%) JBoss
4 9 (3.21%) Apache Airflow
5 8 (2.86%) WebLogic
6 7 (2.50%) SharePoint
7 6 (2.14%) nginx
8 5 (1.79%) Confluence
8 5 (1.79%) IIS
8 5 (1.79%) iPlanet
8 5 (1.79%) WebSphere
8 5 (1.79%) WebSphere Application Server
9 4 (1.43%) Apache Spark
9 4 (1.43%) Oracle Workflow
10 3 (1.07%) Anypoint
11 2 (0.71%) CMS
12 1 (0.36%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
12 1 (0.36%) OpenStack
12 1 (0.36%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (1.43%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.36%) Endur
2 1 (0.36%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 91 (32.50%) AWS
2 83 (29.64%) Azure
3 55 (19.64%) GitHub
4 39 (13.93%) GitHub Actions
5 36 (12.86%) Azure DevOps
6 28 (10.00%) Serverless
7 23 (8.21%) AWS CloudFormation
8 22 (7.86%) AWS Lambda
8 22 (7.86%) OpenShift
9 17 (6.07%) Amazon S3
9 17 (6.07%) GCP
10 15 (5.36%) Amazon EKS
11 13 (4.64%) Power Platform
12 12 (4.29%) Amazon EC2
12 12 (4.29%) Entra ID
13 10 (3.57%) Amazon SQS
14 9 (3.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 9 (3.21%) Azure Data Factory
15 8 (2.86%) Amazon EventBridge
15 8 (2.86%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 20 (7.14%) HTTPS
2 9 (3.21%) SSL
3 8 (2.86%) DNS
4 6 (2.14%) Firewall
4 6 (2.14%) TCP/IP
5 5 (1.79%) Kerberos
5 5 (1.79%) Network Security
5 5 (1.79%) VPN
6 4 (1.43%) DHCP
7 3 (1.07%) HTTP
7 3 (1.07%) Internet
8 1 (0.36%) BGP
8 1 (0.36%) Calico
8 1 (0.36%) DMZ
8 1 (0.36%) Ethernet VPN
8 1 (0.36%) Software-Defined Networking
8 1 (0.36%) VLAN
8 1 (0.36%) VSAN
8 1 (0.36%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (10.36%) Pentaho
2 16 (5.71%) Relational Database
3 12 (4.29%) Oracle Database
4 11 (3.93%) Amazon RDS
4 11 (3.93%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (3.93%) MongoDB
4 11 (3.93%) NoSQL
4 11 (3.93%) SAS Enterprise Guide
5 10 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (3.57%) SQL Server
6 8 (2.86%) Data Lake
7 6 (2.14%) Apache Cassandra
8 5 (1.79%) Power BI
8 5 (1.79%) SAS Visual Analytics
8 5 (1.79%) Star Schema
9 4 (1.43%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (1.43%) Delta Lake
9 4 (1.43%) DynamoDB
9 4 (1.43%) MySQL
9 4 (1.43%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 98 (35.00%) Git
2 91 (32.50%) Jenkins
3 48 (17.14%) JIRA
4 31 (11.07%) GitLab
5 12 (4.29%) Sonatype Nexus
6 10 (3.57%) JUnit
7 9 (3.21%) IntelliJ
8 8 (2.86%) Bitbucket
8 8 (2.86%) Bitbucket Server
8 8 (2.86%) CA Release Automation
8 8 (2.86%) Eclipse
8 8 (2.86%) Selenium
9 7 (2.50%) SonarQube
10 5 (1.79%) Maven
10 5 (1.79%) MSI
10 5 (1.79%) TeamCity
11 4 (1.43%) CircleCI
12 2 (0.71%) Gradle
12 2 (0.71%) Postman
12 2 (0.71%) Robot Framework
General
1 88 (31.43%) Social Skills
2 52 (18.57%) Public Sector
3 27 (9.64%) Finance
4 24 (8.57%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (2.86%) Influencing Skills
6 6 (2.14%) Banking
7 5 (1.79%) Digital Healthcare
7 5 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (1.79%) Marketing
8 3 (1.07%) Investment Banking
9 2 (0.71%) Aerospace
9 2 (0.71%) Back Office
9 2 (0.71%) Electronics
9 2 (0.71%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.71%) Military
9 2 (0.71%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (0.71%) Publishing
9 2 (0.71%) Retail
9 2 (0.71%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 74 (26.43%) Developer
2 30 (10.71%) DevOps Engineer
3 24 (8.57%) Data Engineer
4 19 (6.79%) Architect
4 19 (6.79%) Platform Engineer
5 18 (6.43%) Senior
6 17 (6.07%) Lead
7 12 (4.29%) AWS Engineer
7 12 (4.29%) Azure Engineer
7 12 (4.29%) webMethods Developer
8 10 (3.57%) Full-Stack Developer
8 10 (3.57%) Python Developer
9 8 (2.86%) Cloud Engineer
9 8 (2.86%) Full-Stack Python Developer
9 8 (2.86%) Java Developer
9 8 (2.86%) Software Engineer
10 7 (2.50%) Automation Engineer
10 7 (2.50%) Azure Data Engineer
10 7 (2.50%) Senior DevOps
10 7 (2.50%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (15.00%) JSON
1 42 (15.00%) REST
2 41 (14.64%) SOAP
3 40 (14.29%) XML
4 32 (11.43%) React
5 25 (8.93%) RESTful
6 21 (7.50%) OAuth
6 21 (7.50%) Spring
7 19 (6.79%) HTML
8 17 (6.07%) AngularJS
9 14 (5.00%) Kafka
9 14 (5.00%) pytest
10 13 (4.64%) PySpark
11 12 (4.29%) JMS
11 12 (4.29%) Spring Boot
11 12 (4.29%) YAML
12 11 (3.93%) Node.js
13 10 (3.57%) .NET
13 10 (3.57%) Jest
13 10 (3.57%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 32 (11.43%) Cloud Native
2 12 (4.29%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (3.21%) Data Protection Act
3 9 (3.21%) Private Cloud
4 6 (2.14%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (1.79%) Product Ownership
5 5 (1.79%) Security Posture
6 4 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (1.43%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (1.43%) NHS
6 4 (1.43%) PKI
7 3 (1.07%) CMDB
7 3 (1.07%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.07%) Distributed Computing
7 3 (1.07%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.07%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (1.07%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.07%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.07%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.71%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 47 (16.79%) Linux
2 28 (10.00%) Windows
3 16 (5.71%) Unix
4 13 (4.64%) Windows Server
5 8 (2.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (1.43%) CentOS
7 3 (1.07%) Android
7 3 (1.07%) Apple iOS
7 3 (1.07%) Ubuntu
7 3 (1.07%) VMS
8 2 (0.71%) Debian
8 2 (0.71%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 203 (72.50%) CI/CD
2 193 (68.93%) DevOps
3 116 (41.43%) Agile
4 112 (40.00%) Test Automation
5 98 (35.00%) Problem-Solving
6 92 (32.86%) Infrastructure as Code
7 73 (26.07%) Containerisation
8 64 (22.86%) Analytics
9 59 (21.07%) Continuous Improvement
10 55 (19.64%) Scrum
11 52 (18.57%) Microservices
12 51 (18.21%) Data Pipeline
13 46 (16.43%) ETL
14 44 (15.71%) Data Modelling
15 43 (15.36%) Infrastructure Automation
16 40 (14.29%) Data Integration
17 36 (12.86%) Migration
18 35 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
19 33 (11.79%) Observability
20 29 (10.36%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 92 (32.86%) Python
2 87 (31.07%) SQL
3 52 (18.57%) Java
4 31 (11.07%) PowerShell
5 29 (10.36%) JavaScript
6 28 (10.00%) Bash
7 26 (9.29%) TypeScript
8 16 (5.71%) C#
9 11 (3.93%) Scala
10 10 (3.57%) Bicep
10 10 (3.57%) Groovy
11 8 (2.86%) Shell Script
12 7 (2.50%) Go
12 7 (2.50%) Perl
12 7 (2.50%) PHP
13 6 (2.14%) T-SQL
14 3 (1.07%) DataWeave
15 2 (0.71%) Kotlin
15 2 (0.71%) PromQL
15 2 (0.71%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 127 (45.36%) Security Cleared
2 102 (36.43%) SC Cleared
3 13 (4.64%) AWS Certification
4 12 (4.29%) Degree
4 12 (4.29%) DV Cleared
5 7 (2.50%) Azure Certification
5 7 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (2.14%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 4 (1.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (1.43%) Master's Degree
7 4 (1.43%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 3 (1.07%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.07%) Oracle Certification
9 2 (0.71%) CISSP
9 2 (0.71%) OCP
10 1 (0.36%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.36%) CISM
10 1 (0.36%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.36%) OCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (10.00%) Data Quality
2 20 (7.14%) QA
3 6 (2.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (2.14%) NIST
4 5 (1.79%) NCSC
5 4 (1.43%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.07%) GDPR
7 2 (0.71%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.71%) SLA
7 2 (0.71%) WCAG
8 1 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.36%) Government Security Classifications
8 1 (0.36%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.36%) JSP 440
8 1 (0.36%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 117 (41.79%) Docker
2 26 (9.29%) Active Directory
3 10 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.79%) Tivoli Directory Server
5 4 (1.43%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (1.07%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.71%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.71%) VirtualBox
7 2 (0.71%) Xen
8 1 (0.36%) etcd
8 1 (0.36%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 107 (38.21%) Kubernetes
2 84 (30.00%) Terraform
3 45 (16.07%) Ansible
4 20 (7.14%) Grafana
4 20 (7.14%) Prometheus
5 16 (5.71%) Puppet
6 15 (5.36%) Progress Chef
7 11 (3.93%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (1.79%) CA Single Sign-On
8 5 (1.79%) CA Wily
8 5 (1.79%) ITRS Geneos
8 5 (1.79%) Packer
8 5 (1.79%) Podman
8 5 (1.79%) Tivoli
9 3 (1.07%) Argo
9 3 (1.07%) CloudHub
9 3 (1.07%) Kibana
9 3 (1.07%) Proxmox
9 3 (1.07%) vRealize
10 2 (0.71%) Istio
Vendors
1 72 (25.71%) Microsoft
2 40 (14.29%) Oracle
3 31 (11.07%) Talend
4 29 (10.36%) Denodo
5 21 (7.50%) Databricks
5 21 (7.50%) webMethods
6 19 (6.79%) Splunk
7 18 (6.43%) VMware
8 16 (5.71%) IBM
9 14 (5.00%) SAP
10 12 (4.29%) Red Hat
11 11 (3.93%) Software AG
12 9 (3.21%) Google
13 8 (2.86%) AppDynamics
13 8 (2.86%) Axway
13 8 (2.86%) Pega
14 7 (2.50%) Salesforce
15 5 (1.79%) Broadcom
15 5 (1.79%) ForgeRock
15 5 (1.79%) ServiceNow