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

6 months to
24 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 291 249 312
Rank change year-on-year -42 +63 -11
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 340 241 237
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.82% 1.00% 0.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.97% 1.10% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 230 190 171
10th Percentile £400 £304 £400
25th Percentile £450 £413 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £579 £629 £700
90th Percentile £650 £739 £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 4
10th Percentile £57.58 - -
25th Percentile £68.57 - £23.80
Median hourly rate £75.34 - £45.41
75th Percentile £76.00 - £68.08
90th Percentile - - £69.98
UK median hourly rate £75.34 - £45.41
% change year-on-year - - -33.71%

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 35,226 21,902 31,378
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.76% 91.29% 86.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,404 14,316 20,563
10th Percentile £325 £305 £300
25th Percentile £413 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £510 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -0.49% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,174 928 2,273
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.42 £12.92
25th Percentile £20.39 £18.20 £16.00
Median hourly rate £45.25 £28.48 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +58.88% -21.97% -2.14%
75th Percentile £67.84 £60.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.17 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.28 £27.94 £36.00
% change year-on-year +51.31% -22.39% -

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 24 May 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 24 May 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 24 May 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 -5 179 £528 -4.00% 41
North of England -64 44 £475 +20.87% 22
Midlands -45 38 £515 -4.10% 7
South East -46 34 £553 +37.44% 25
South West -27 27 £553 -3.91% 7
West Midlands -44 27 £525 -4.55% 4
North West -32 20 £436 +15.04% 12
Yorkshire -53 19 £491 -14.61% 5
East Midlands -22 10 £420 -11.58% 3
North East -27 5 £450 -19.28% 5
East of England -58 4 £513 -6.77%
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 (8.24%) SAS
2 8 (2.35%) Appian
3 7 (2.06%) Apache Spark
3 7 (2.06%) SharePoint
4 6 (1.76%) Camunda
5 5 (1.47%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (1.18%) Confluence
7 3 (0.88%) CMS
7 3 (0.88%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.88%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.59%) IBM HTTP Server
8 2 (0.59%) Oracle HTTP Server
8 2 (0.59%) Sitecore CMS
8 2 (0.59%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.59%) WebSphere Application Server
8 2 (0.59%) WebSphere Portal
9 1 (0.29%) Apache
9 1 (0.29%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.29%) ColdFusion
9 1 (0.29%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 6 (1.76%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.59%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.29%) Cloudability
1 1 (0.29%) SAP MDG
1 1 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 168 (49.41%) Azure
2 114 (33.53%) AWS
3 81 (23.82%) GitHub
4 59 (17.35%) Azure DevOps
5 55 (16.18%) GitHub Actions
6 40 (11.76%) GCP
7 38 (11.18%) Serverless
8 30 (8.82%) Power Platform
9 24 (7.06%) AWS CloudFormation
10 21 (6.18%) AWS Lambda
11 18 (5.29%) Azure Data Factory
11 18 (5.29%) Azure Monitor
12 17 (5.00%) Entra ID
13 16 (4.71%) Amazon S3
13 16 (4.71%) PaaS
14 15 (4.41%) Power Automate
15 14 (4.12%) Azure Functions
15 14 (4.12%) OpenShift
16 13 (3.82%) Azure AI
16 13 (3.82%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (5.59%) Firewall
2 13 (3.82%) DNS
3 12 (3.53%) VPN
4 10 (2.94%) TCP/IP
5 8 (2.35%) Network Security
6 4 (1.18%) DMZ
6 4 (1.18%) Software-Defined Networking
6 4 (1.18%) SSL
7 3 (0.88%) DHCP
7 3 (0.88%) HTTP
8 2 (0.59%) Internet
8 2 (0.59%) Kerberos
8 2 (0.59%) NGFW
9 1 (0.29%) BGP
9 1 (0.29%) HTTPS
9 1 (0.29%) IPsec
9 1 (0.29%) MQTT
9 1 (0.29%) OSPF
9 1 (0.29%) SMS
9 1 (0.29%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (5.88%) Power BI
2 19 (5.59%) SQL Server
3 17 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (4.71%) Pentaho
4 16 (4.71%) Relational Database
5 12 (3.53%) Data Lake
5 12 (3.53%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (2.65%) NoSQL
7 8 (2.35%) Amazon RDS
7 8 (2.35%) DynamoDB
7 8 (2.35%) Metadata
7 8 (2.35%) MongoDB
7 8 (2.35%) Pinecone
7 8 (2.35%) Redis
8 7 (2.06%) Amazon Athena
8 7 (2.06%) Spark SQL
9 6 (1.76%) Azure SQL Database
9 6 (1.76%) SAS Data Integration Studio
10 5 (1.47%) Aerospike
10 5 (1.47%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 83 (24.41%) Git
2 67 (19.71%) Jenkins
3 54 (15.88%) GitLab
4 21 (6.18%) JIRA
5 9 (2.65%) JUnit
6 8 (2.35%) MLflow
7 7 (2.06%) fastlane
8 5 (1.47%) Artifactory
8 5 (1.47%) Mockito
8 5 (1.47%) MSI
8 5 (1.47%) Selenium
9 4 (1.18%) Cypress.io
9 4 (1.18%) git-flow
9 4 (1.18%) Gradle
9 4 (1.18%) Xcode
10 3 (0.88%) Android Studio
10 3 (0.88%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 3 (0.88%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.88%) Crashlytics
10 3 (0.88%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 102 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 62 (18.24%) Public Sector
3 59 (17.35%) Finance
4 33 (9.71%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (4.71%) Banking
6 13 (3.82%) Legal
7 8 (2.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (2.06%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (1.47%) Front Office
9 5 (1.47%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.18%) Retail
11 2 (0.59%) Marketing
11 2 (0.59%) Military
11 2 (0.59%) Police
12 1 (0.29%) Law
12 1 (0.29%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.29%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 60 (17.65%) Developer
2 48 (14.12%) Senior
3 43 (12.65%) DevOps Engineer
4 36 (10.59%) Architect
4 36 (10.59%) Data Engineer
5 23 (6.76%) Azure Engineer
6 21 (6.18%) Cloud Engineer
7 20 (5.88%) Automation Engineer
7 20 (5.88%) Platform Engineer
8 18 (5.29%) Lead
9 17 (5.00%) Full-Stack Developer
9 17 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 17 (5.00%) Senior Developer
10 13 (3.82%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 13 (3.82%) Salesforce Engineer
11 11 (3.24%) Platform Architect
11 11 (3.24%) Software Engineer
12 9 (2.65%) AWS Engineer
13 8 (2.35%) AWS Developer
13 8 (2.35%) SAS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (14.41%) RESTful
2 41 (12.06%) REST
3 29 (8.53%) React
4 26 (7.65%) Node.js
5 25 (7.35%) Kafka
6 24 (7.06%) .NET
7 18 (5.29%) OAuth
8 17 (5.00%) PySpark
9 16 (4.71%) pytest
10 14 (4.12%) AngularJS
10 14 (4.12%) FastAPI
10 14 (4.12%) Swagger
10 14 (4.12%) YAML
11 13 (3.82%) OpenAPI
11 13 (3.82%) Web Services
12 11 (3.24%) Django
12 11 (3.24%) Flask
12 11 (3.24%) HTML
13 10 (2.94%) CSS
13 10 (2.94%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 68 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 22 (6.47%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (6.18%) Product Ownership
4 12 (3.53%) Legacy Systems
4 12 (3.53%) Onboarding
5 11 (3.24%) Data Centre
6 10 (2.94%) Distributed Computing
6 10 (2.94%) Mobile App
7 9 (2.65%) Hybrid Cloud
8 8 (2.35%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (2.35%) Low-Code
9 6 (1.76%) Enterprise Cloud
10 5 (1.47%) Private Cloud
11 4 (1.18%) Algorithms
11 4 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (1.18%) NHS
12 3 (0.88%) Client/Server
12 3 (0.88%) Derivative
12 3 (0.88%) Energy Derivatives
12 3 (0.88%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 41 (12.06%) Linux
2 20 (5.88%) Windows
3 6 (1.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (1.76%) Unix
4 5 (1.47%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.18%) Apple iOS
5 4 (1.18%) VMS
6 3 (0.88%) Android
6 3 (0.88%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.59%) Oracle Linux
7 2 (0.59%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
7 2 (0.59%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.59%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.59%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 260 (76.47%) CI/CD
2 202 (59.41%) DevOps
3 140 (41.18%) Infrastructure as Code
4 127 (37.35%) Agile
5 121 (35.59%) Test Automation
6 79 (23.24%) Problem-Solving
7 76 (22.35%) Analytics
8 72 (21.18%) Containerisation
9 63 (18.53%) Data Pipeline
10 59 (17.35%) Data Modelling
11 57 (16.76%) Observability
11 57 (16.76%) Scrum
12 56 (16.47%) Continuous Improvement
13 55 (16.18%) AI
14 54 (15.88%) Microservices
15 53 (15.59%) ETL
16 49 (14.41%) Migration
17 40 (11.76%) Business Intelligence
18 39 (11.47%) Platform Engineering
18 39 (11.47%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 115 (33.82%) Python
2 73 (21.47%) SQL
3 59 (17.35%) PowerShell
4 48 (14.12%) Java
5 38 (11.18%) Bash
6 34 (10.00%) Bicep
7 31 (9.12%) JavaScript
8 26 (7.65%) C#
8 26 (7.65%) TypeScript
9 8 (2.35%) PHP
10 6 (1.76%) Apex Code
11 5 (1.47%) Go
11 5 (1.47%) Kotlin
12 4 (1.18%) Rust
12 4 (1.18%) Scala
12 4 (1.18%) Swift
13 3 (0.88%) Perl
13 3 (0.88%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.88%) SAS Macro
13 3 (0.88%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 117 (34.41%) Security Cleared
2 90 (26.47%) SC Cleared
3 19 (5.59%) Degree
4 17 (5.00%) Azure Certification
5 13 (3.82%) Microsoft Certification
6 12 (3.53%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (3.53%) DV Cleared
7 11 (3.24%) AWS Certification
8 9 (2.65%) BPSS Clearance
9 7 (2.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (1.18%) RHCE
11 3 (0.88%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 3 (0.88%) CCNP
11 3 (0.88%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (0.88%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 3 (0.88%) MCSA
12 2 (0.59%) AWS Certified Developer
12 2 (0.59%) MCSE
12 2 (0.59%) OCA
12 2 (0.59%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (11.18%) Data Quality
2 32 (9.41%) QA
3 15 (4.41%) Accessibility
4 11 (3.24%) GDPR
5 9 (2.65%) WCAG
6 7 (2.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 5 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.88%) NCSC
9 2 (0.59%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.29%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.29%) EU AI Act
10 1 (0.29%) HL7
10 1 (0.29%) NIST
10 1 (0.29%) SLA
10 1 (0.29%) SOC 2
System Software
1 104 (30.59%) Docker
2 15 (4.41%) Virtual Machines
3 14 (4.12%) Active Directory
4 8 (2.35%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (1.47%) Hyper-V
5 5 (1.47%) Microsoft App-V
6 2 (0.59%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.29%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.29%) Firmware
7 1 (0.29%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 123 (36.18%) Kubernetes
1 123 (36.18%) Terraform
2 41 (12.06%) Ansible
3 14 (4.12%) Prometheus
3 14 (4.12%) SCCM
4 11 (3.24%) Grafana
4 11 (3.24%) Puppet
5 9 (2.65%) Microsoft Intune
6 6 (1.76%) Progress Chef
7 5 (1.47%) Istio
8 4 (1.18%) WSUS
9 3 (0.88%) Argo
10 2 (0.59%) CA Wily
10 2 (0.59%) Podman
10 2 (0.59%) Tivoli
11 1 (0.29%) QRadar
11 1 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 84 (24.71%) Microsoft
2 22 (6.47%) Google
2 22 (6.47%) Salesforce
3 20 (5.88%) OpenAI
4 17 (5.00%) Oracle
4 17 (5.00%) Talend
5 16 (4.71%) Denodo
6 12 (3.53%) Dynatrace
7 11 (3.24%) Databricks
8 10 (2.94%) Red Hat
9 8 (2.35%) Automation Anywhere
9 8 (2.35%) Splunk
9 8 (2.35%) UiPath
10 6 (1.76%) Apple
10 6 (1.76%) Foundry
11 4 (1.18%) Bloomberg
11 4 (1.18%) Citrix
11 4 (1.18%) ION Trading
11 4 (1.18%) Palo Alto
11 4 (1.18%) Reuters