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

 6 months to
27 Mar 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 272 265 311
Rank change year-on-year -7 +46 -21
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 355 211 241
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.94% 0.87% 0.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.09% 0.96% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 241 158 177
10th Percentile £393 £380 £425
25th Percentile £430 £425 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £565 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.85% -1.74% -8.34%
75th Percentile £575 £705 £700
90th Percentile £650 £825 £738
UK median daily rate £510 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -7.27% -4.35% -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 4
10th Percentile £52.69 - -
25th Percentile £56.36 - £22.00
Median hourly rate £62.59 - £44.51
75th Percentile £68.70 - £68.08
90th Percentile £72.29 - £69.98
UK median hourly rate £62.59 - £44.51
% change year-on-year - - -39.85%

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 32,472 22,014 32,706
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.22% 90.86% 86.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,793 14,527 21,615
10th Percentile £313 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £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 1,988 846 2,159
10th Percentile £15.37 £15.00 £13.00
25th Percentile £19.00 £20.33 £16.00
Median hourly rate £35.91 £32.50 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.49% -1.52% -12.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £58.70
90th Percentile £76.55 £76.72 £71.87
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +9.38% -1.54% -9.72%

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 27 March 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 27 March 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 27 March 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 -13 177 £525 -16.00% 49
Midlands -28 52 £515 -0.68% 21
West Midlands -29 39 £515 -26.43% 19
North of England -57 39 £475 +18.16% 24
South East -34 34 £531 +32.15% 21
South West -15 29 £538 -6.52% 12
Yorkshire -46 19 £482 -16.17% 5
North West -26 18 £401 +2.56% 14
East Midlands -23 12 £402 -15.37% 2
East of England -33 4 £513 +2.55% 2
North East -15 2 £600 +7.62% 5
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 36 (10.14%) SAS
2 8 (2.25%) Appian
3 7 (1.97%) Apache Spark
3 7 (1.97%) Camunda
3 7 (1.97%) SharePoint
4 5 (1.41%) Apache
4 5 (1.41%) Confluence
5 4 (1.13%) JBoss
5 4 (1.13%) WebLogic
6 3 (0.85%) Anypoint
6 3 (0.85%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.85%) CMS
6 3 (0.85%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.56%) IBM HTTP Server
7 2 (0.56%) Oracle HTTP Server
7 2 (0.56%) Sitecore CMS
7 2 (0.56%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.56%) WebSphere Application Server
7 2 (0.56%) WebSphere Portal
8 1 (0.28%) ColdFusion
Applications
1 7 (1.97%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.56%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.28%) Cloudability
1 1 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.28%) Endur
1 1 (0.28%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 140 (39.44%) Azure
2 110 (30.99%) AWS
3 75 (21.13%) GitHub
4 56 (15.77%) Azure DevOps
5 53 (14.93%) GitHub Actions
6 34 (9.58%) Serverless
7 32 (9.01%) GCP
8 27 (7.61%) Power Platform
9 25 (7.04%) AWS CloudFormation
10 19 (5.35%) Amazon S3
11 18 (5.07%) AWS Lambda
11 18 (5.07%) OpenShift
12 16 (4.51%) Power Automate
13 15 (4.23%) Azure Functions
14 14 (3.94%) Azure Data Factory
14 14 (3.94%) Entra ID
15 13 (3.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 13 (3.66%) Azure AI
16 12 (3.38%) Amazon EC2
16 12 (3.38%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (3.94%) Firewall
2 10 (2.82%) DNS
2 10 (2.82%) TCP/IP
3 8 (2.25%) VPN
4 7 (1.97%) HTTPS
4 7 (1.97%) Network Security
5 5 (1.41%) DHCP
5 5 (1.41%) Software-Defined Networking
5 5 (1.41%) SSL
6 4 (1.13%) DMZ
7 3 (0.85%) HTTP
8 2 (0.56%) BGP
8 2 (0.56%) Internet
9 1 (0.28%) Cisco IOS
9 1 (0.28%) Cisco Nexus
9 1 (0.28%) IPsec
9 1 (0.28%) OSPF
9 1 (0.28%) SMS
9 1 (0.28%) SNMP
9 1 (0.28%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (7.61%) Pentaho
2 19 (5.35%) SQL Server
3 17 (4.79%) Power BI
4 15 (4.23%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (4.23%) Relational Database
5 12 (3.38%) Data Warehouse
6 11 (3.10%) NoSQL
7 10 (2.82%) Amazon RDS
7 10 (2.82%) Redis
8 9 (2.54%) Azure SQL Database
8 9 (2.54%) MongoDB
9 8 (2.25%) Aerospike
9 8 (2.25%) Data Lake
9 8 (2.25%) Pinecone
9 8 (2.25%) Spark SQL
10 7 (1.97%) DynamoDB
11 5 (1.41%) Amazon Athena
11 5 (1.41%) Metadata
11 5 (1.41%) Oracle Database
12 4 (1.13%) SAS Enterprise Guide
Development Applications
1 99 (27.89%) Git
2 94 (26.48%) Jenkins
3 52 (14.65%) GitLab
4 35 (9.86%) JIRA
5 15 (4.23%) JUnit
6 8 (2.25%) MLflow
7 7 (1.97%) Bitbucket
8 6 (1.69%) Selenium
9 5 (1.41%) Artifactory
9 5 (1.41%) CircleCI
9 5 (1.41%) IntelliJ
9 5 (1.41%) Mockito
10 4 (1.13%) Eclipse
11 3 (0.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 3 (0.85%) Cypress.io
11 3 (0.85%) Gradle
11 3 (0.85%) MSI
12 2 (0.56%) Introscope
12 2 (0.56%) LoadRunner
12 2 (0.56%) Visual Studio
General
1 123 (34.65%) Social Skills
2 77 (21.69%) Public Sector
3 64 (18.03%) Finance
4 43 (12.11%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (3.66%) Banking
6 12 (3.38%) Legal
7 7 (1.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (1.97%) Marketing
8 5 (1.41%) Front Office
9 4 (1.13%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.13%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.13%) Investment Banking
10 3 (0.85%) Manufacturing
10 3 (0.85%) Military
11 2 (0.56%) Back Office
11 2 (0.56%) Electronics
11 2 (0.56%) Police
11 2 (0.56%) Retail
11 2 (0.56%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.28%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 73 (20.56%) Developer
2 44 (12.39%) DevOps Engineer
3 40 (11.27%) Architect
4 39 (10.99%) Data Engineer
5 32 (9.01%) Senior
6 27 (7.61%) Platform Engineer
7 22 (6.20%) Automation Engineer
7 22 (6.20%) Azure Engineer
8 21 (5.92%) Lead
9 16 (4.51%) Full-Stack Developer
10 12 (3.38%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 12 (3.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 12 (3.38%) Platform Architect
11 10 (2.82%) Technical Architect
12 9 (2.54%) AWS Engineer
12 9 (2.54%) Cloud Engineer
12 9 (2.54%) Consultant
12 9 (2.54%) Python Developer
12 9 (2.54%) Senior Developer
13 8 (2.25%) SAS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (15.21%) REST
2 42 (11.83%) RESTful
3 36 (10.14%) React
4 27 (7.61%) Node.js
5 25 (7.04%) Kafka
6 24 (6.76%) SOAP
7 22 (6.20%) pytest
8 21 (5.92%) AngularJS
8 21 (5.92%) JSON
9 19 (5.35%) Spring
10 18 (5.07%) HTML
11 17 (4.79%) YAML
12 16 (4.51%) .NET
12 16 (4.51%) PySpark
13 15 (4.23%) Spring Boot
13 15 (4.23%) Web Services
13 15 (4.23%) XML
14 14 (3.94%) CSS
14 14 (3.94%) OAuth
14 14 (3.94%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 49 (13.80%) Cloud Native
2 17 (4.79%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (3.94%) Legacy Systems
4 13 (3.66%) Product Ownership
5 10 (2.82%) Data Centre
5 10 (2.82%) Distributed Computing
6 9 (2.54%) Hybrid Cloud
7 8 (2.25%) Low-Code
7 8 (2.25%) Onboarding
8 7 (1.97%) Mobile App
9 6 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (1.69%) Private Cloud
10 5 (1.41%) NHS
10 5 (1.41%) Security Posture
11 4 (1.13%) Enterprise Cloud
11 4 (1.13%) PKI
12 3 (0.85%) Algorithms
12 3 (0.85%) Cyber Threat
12 3 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 50 (14.08%) Linux
2 24 (6.76%) Windows
3 9 (2.54%) Unix
4 7 (1.97%) Windows Server
5 6 (1.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (1.13%) VMS
7 3 (0.85%) Android
7 3 (0.85%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.56%) Oracle Linux
8 2 (0.56%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
8 2 (0.56%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.28%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.28%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 262 (73.80%) CI/CD
2 221 (62.25%) DevOps
3 135 (38.03%) Agile
3 135 (38.03%) Infrastructure as Code
4 130 (36.62%) Test Automation
5 119 (33.52%) Problem-Solving
6 80 (22.54%) Analytics
7 75 (21.13%) Containerisation
8 68 (19.15%) Continuous Improvement
9 64 (18.03%) Data Modelling
10 62 (17.46%) Scrum
11 60 (16.90%) Data Pipeline
12 59 (16.62%) ETL
13 56 (15.77%) Microservices
14 51 (14.37%) Infrastructure Automation
15 50 (14.08%) Observability
16 48 (13.52%) Business Intelligence
17 44 (12.39%) Migration
18 41 (11.55%) Platform Engineering
19 37 (10.42%) AI
Programming Languages
1 126 (35.49%) Python
2 93 (26.20%) SQL
3 59 (16.62%) PowerShell
4 54 (15.21%) Java
5 44 (12.39%) Bash
6 36 (10.14%) JavaScript
7 31 (8.73%) TypeScript
8 24 (6.76%) Bicep
9 20 (5.63%) C#
10 9 (2.54%) PHP
11 7 (1.97%) Apex Code
12 6 (1.69%) Scala
13 4 (1.13%) Kotlin
13 4 (1.13%) T-SQL
14 3 (0.85%) DataWeave
14 3 (0.85%) Go
14 3 (0.85%) Groovy
14 3 (0.85%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.85%) Rust
14 3 (0.85%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 142 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 111 (31.27%) SC Cleared
3 16 (4.51%) Degree
4 15 (4.23%) AWS Certification
5 12 (3.38%) Azure Certification
5 12 (3.38%) DV Cleared
6 10 (2.82%) Microsoft Certification
7 9 (2.54%) BPSS Clearance
7 9 (2.54%) Computer Science Degree
8 8 (2.25%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 7 (1.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 5 (1.41%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 4 (1.13%) CCNP
11 4 (1.13%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (1.13%) Oracle Certification
12 3 (0.85%) CISSP
12 3 (0.85%) MCSA
12 3 (0.85%) OCA
12 3 (0.85%) RHCE
13 2 (0.56%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (12.11%) Data Quality
2 27 (7.61%) QA
3 12 (3.38%) Accessibility
4 11 (3.10%) GDPR
5 8 (2.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (1.97%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 7 (1.97%) WCAG
7 5 (1.41%) NCSC
7 5 (1.41%) NIST
8 3 (0.85%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.56%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.28%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.28%) SLA
10 1 (0.28%) SOC 2
System Software
1 118 (33.24%) Docker
2 18 (5.07%) Active Directory
3 16 (4.51%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (1.69%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (1.41%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.56%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.56%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.56%) Xen
7 1 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.28%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 130 (36.62%) Kubernetes
2 125 (35.21%) Terraform
3 46 (12.96%) Ansible
4 18 (5.07%) Grafana
5 17 (4.79%) Prometheus
6 11 (3.10%) Puppet
7 7 (1.97%) SCCM
8 6 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (1.41%) Podman
9 5 (1.41%) Progress Chef
10 4 (1.13%) Argo
10 4 (1.13%) Istio
11 3 (0.85%) CloudHub
11 3 (0.85%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (0.85%) Microsoft Intune
11 3 (0.85%) Packer
11 3 (0.85%) Proxmox
11 3 (0.85%) WSUS
12 2 (0.56%) CA Wily
12 2 (0.56%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 82 (23.10%) Microsoft
2 28 (7.89%) Talend
3 27 (7.61%) Denodo
3 27 (7.61%) Salesforce
4 25 (7.04%) Oracle
5 19 (5.35%) Google
5 19 (5.35%) OpenAI
6 14 (3.94%) VMware
7 13 (3.66%) Splunk
8 12 (3.38%) Databricks
9 10 (2.82%) Red Hat
10 9 (2.54%) SAP
10 9 (2.54%) webMethods
11 8 (2.25%) Automation Anywhere
11 8 (2.25%) IBM
11 8 (2.25%) UiPath
12 6 (1.69%) Dynatrace
12 6 (1.69%) Foundry
13 5 (1.41%) Apple
13 5 (1.41%) Software AG
125 Deployment Automation jobs in England