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

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 277 246 310
Rank change year-on-year -31 +64 +14
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 403 284 252
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.90% 1.04% 0.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.05% 1.15% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 278 216 173
10th Percentile £400 £331 £400
25th Percentile £448 £413 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £613
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% -10.20% -1.01%
75th Percentile £609 £625 £700
90th Percentile £679 £719 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £612
% change year-on-year -4.55% -10.17% +2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 3
10th Percentile £57.98 - -
25th Percentile £69.56 - -
Median hourly rate £76.00 - £23.80
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £76.00 - £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 38,297 24,783 30,176
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.34% 90.63% 85.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,016 15,884 19,726
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £420 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £634 £645
90th Percentile £737 £738 £753
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,362 1,330 1,950
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.29 £13.50
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.99 £17.25
Median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +88.87% -37.13% -6.43%
75th Percentile £69.75 £53.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £83.23 £71.46 £74.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £39.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -36.33% -7.06%

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 23 July 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 23 July 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 23 July 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 -9 199 £550 -0.90% 87
North of England -42 64 £471 +18.66% 27
South East -55 47 £575 +21.05% 29
Midlands -35 37 £515 +3.00% 12
South West -29 36 £463 -19.57% 21
West Midlands -41 30 £515 -6.36% 8
North West -32 28 £500 +34.23% 19
Yorkshire -39 28 £471 -18.17% 4
North East -32 8 £450 +20.00% 4
East Midlands -12 6 £470 +17.35% 4
East of England -46 5 £850 +54.55% 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 24 (5.96%) SAS
2 17 (4.22%) Apache Spark
3 16 (3.97%) Confluence
4 9 (2.23%) Apache
5 6 (1.49%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (1.24%) SharePoint
7 3 (0.74%) Appian
7 3 (0.74%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.50%) Camunda
8 2 (0.50%) CMS
8 2 (0.50%) IBM HTTP Server
8 2 (0.50%) Oracle HTTP Server
8 2 (0.50%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.50%) WebSphere Application Server
8 2 (0.50%) WebSphere Portal
9 1 (0.25%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.25%) OpenROAD
9 1 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.25%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.50%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.25%) Cloudability
1 1 (0.25%) Misys Equation
1 1 (0.25%) Misys Midas
1 1 (0.25%) SAP CRM
1 1 (0.25%) SAP MDG
1 1 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 217 (53.85%) Azure
2 137 (34.00%) AWS
3 108 (26.80%) Azure DevOps
4 96 (23.82%) GitHub
5 72 (17.87%) GitHub Actions
6 43 (10.67%) Serverless
7 42 (10.42%) GCP
8 32 (7.94%) Amazon S3
9 31 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
10 28 (6.95%) Azure Monitor
11 27 (6.70%) Power Platform
12 22 (5.46%) Amazon EKS
12 22 (5.46%) Azure Key Vault
13 21 (5.21%) Azure AKS
13 21 (5.21%) Entra ID
14 20 (4.96%) Amazon ECS
15 18 (4.47%) AWS CloudFormation
15 18 (4.47%) Azure Data Factory
16 17 (4.22%) Amazon EC2
17 16 (3.97%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 30 (7.44%) Firewall
2 25 (6.20%) DNS
3 20 (4.96%) Network Security
3 20 (4.96%) VPN
4 15 (3.72%) TCP/IP
5 6 (1.49%) DHCP
5 6 (1.49%) DMZ
5 6 (1.49%) SSL
6 5 (1.24%) Software-Defined Networking
6 5 (1.24%) SSH
7 2 (0.50%) BGP
7 2 (0.50%) Cisco Nexus
7 2 (0.50%) HTTP
7 2 (0.50%) Internet
7 2 (0.50%) Kerberos
7 2 (0.50%) NGFW
7 2 (0.50%) OSPF
7 2 (0.50%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (0.25%) Cisco IOS
8 1 (0.25%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (6.20%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (5.96%) SQL Server
3 19 (4.71%) Power BI
4 18 (4.47%) Relational Database
5 15 (3.72%) Data Warehouse
6 13 (3.23%) NoSQL
6 13 (3.23%) Pentaho
7 12 (2.98%) Data Lake
8 11 (2.73%) MongoDB
9 10 (2.48%) Amazon RDS
10 9 (2.23%) Geospatial Data
10 9 (2.23%) Redis
11 8 (1.99%) Amazon Athena
11 8 (1.99%) Metadata
11 8 (1.99%) MySQL
12 7 (1.74%) Azure SQL Database
12 7 (1.74%) Big Data
12 7 (1.74%) DynamoDB
13 6 (1.49%) SAS Data Integration Studio
14 5 (1.24%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 97 (24.07%) Git
2 86 (21.34%) Jenkins
3 59 (14.64%) GitLab
4 33 (8.19%) JIRA
5 14 (3.47%) MSI
6 11 (2.73%) fastlane
7 8 (1.99%) Gradle
8 7 (1.74%) JUnit
9 6 (1.49%) Sonatype Nexus
9 6 (1.49%) Visual Studio
9 6 (1.49%) Xcode
10 5 (1.24%) Android Studio
10 5 (1.24%) Crashlytics
10 5 (1.24%) Mockito
10 5 (1.24%) MSBuild
10 5 (1.24%) SonarQube
11 4 (0.99%) Cypress.io
11 4 (0.99%) git-flow
11 4 (0.99%) Maven
11 4 (0.99%) Selenium
General
1 106 (26.30%) Social Skills
2 76 (18.86%) Public Sector
3 52 (12.90%) Finance
4 31 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (5.71%) Banking
6 15 (3.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 14 (3.47%) Documentation Skills
8 9 (2.23%) Legal
9 7 (1.74%) Retail
10 6 (1.49%) Front Office
11 5 (1.24%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.74%) Financial Institution
12 3 (0.74%) Law
12 3 (0.74%) Military
13 2 (0.50%) Back Office
13 2 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.50%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
14 1 (0.25%) Pharmaceutical
14 1 (0.25%) Police
Job Titles
1 79 (19.60%) Senior
2 72 (17.87%) Developer
3 63 (15.63%) DevOps Engineer
4 41 (10.17%) Data Engineer
5 33 (8.19%) Cloud Engineer
6 32 (7.94%) Lead
7 30 (7.44%) Architect
8 26 (6.45%) Azure Engineer
9 25 (6.20%) Senior Developer
10 24 (5.96%) Platform Engineer
11 22 (5.46%) AWS Engineer
11 22 (5.46%) Software Engineer
12 20 (4.96%) Full-Stack Developer
13 19 (4.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 16 (3.97%) Senior DevOps
15 13 (3.23%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 12 (2.98%) .NET Developer
16 12 (2.98%) AWS DevOps
16 12 (2.98%) Python Engineer
16 12 (2.98%) Salesforce Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (15.88%) RESTful
2 62 (15.38%) REST
3 48 (11.91%) .NET
4 35 (8.68%) React
5 31 (7.69%) Kafka
6 23 (5.71%) .NET Framework
7 20 (4.96%) .NET Core
7 20 (4.96%) OAuth
8 19 (4.71%) HTML
8 19 (4.71%) Node.js
8 19 (4.71%) Spring
8 19 (4.71%) Spring Boot
9 18 (4.47%) CSS
10 17 (4.22%) YAML
11 16 (3.97%) HTML5
11 16 (3.97%) PySpark
12 14 (3.47%) ARM Templates
13 13 (3.23%) AngularJS
13 13 (3.23%) CSS3
13 13 (3.23%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 111 (27.54%) Cloud Native
2 32 (7.94%) Distributed Systems
3 28 (6.95%) Product Ownership
4 26 (6.45%) Onboarding
5 20 (4.96%) Legacy Systems
6 16 (3.97%) Enterprise Software
7 15 (3.72%) Hybrid Cloud
8 13 (3.23%) Mobile App
9 7 (1.74%) Data Centre
9 7 (1.74%) NHS
9 7 (1.74%) Security Posture
9 7 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (1.49%) Enterprise Cloud
10 6 (1.49%) Replication
11 5 (1.24%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (1.24%) Management Information System
12 4 (0.99%) Algorithms
12 4 (0.99%) Linux Command Line
12 4 (0.99%) PKI
12 4 (0.99%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 49 (12.16%) Linux
2 34 (8.44%) Windows
3 14 (3.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 11 (2.73%) Windows Server
5 8 (1.99%) Unix
6 6 (1.49%) Apple iOS
7 5 (1.24%) Android
7 5 (1.24%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.74%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.50%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (0.50%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 2 (0.50%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.50%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.25%) CentOS
10 1 (0.25%) Solaris
10 1 (0.25%) VMS
10 1 (0.25%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 327 (81.14%) CI/CD
2 251 (62.28%) DevOps
3 180 (44.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 160 (39.70%) Agile
5 151 (37.47%) Test Automation
6 100 (24.81%) Containerisation
7 99 (24.57%) Analytics
8 79 (19.60%) Problem-Solving
9 78 (19.35%) Continuous Improvement
10 75 (18.61%) Microservices
11 71 (17.62%) Observability
12 68 (16.87%) Scrum
13 67 (16.63%) AI
14 64 (15.88%) Platform Engineering
15 63 (15.63%) Data Pipeline
16 58 (14.39%) Software Engineering
17 57 (14.14%) Validation
18 52 (12.90%) DevSecOps
19 50 (12.41%) Data Modelling
20 48 (11.91%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 150 (37.22%) Python
2 76 (18.86%) SQL
3 69 (17.12%) PowerShell
4 53 (13.15%) Java
5 52 (12.90%) Bicep
6 46 (11.41%) C#
7 41 (10.17%) Bash
8 36 (8.93%) JavaScript
9 28 (6.95%) TypeScript
10 9 (2.23%) Kotlin
11 8 (1.99%) Apex Code
12 6 (1.49%) Go
12 6 (1.49%) Swift
13 5 (1.24%) Scala
14 4 (0.99%) Perl
14 4 (0.99%) PHP
15 3 (0.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 3 (0.74%) SAS Macro
15 3 (0.74%) Shell Script
16 2 (0.50%) Rust
Qualifications
1 150 (37.22%) Security Cleared
2 124 (30.77%) SC Cleared
3 26 (6.45%) Degree
4 24 (5.96%) DV Cleared
5 20 (4.96%) Azure Certification
6 18 (4.47%) Computer Science Degree
7 15 (3.72%) AWS Certification
8 14 (3.47%) Microsoft Certification
9 9 (2.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 7 (1.74%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (0.99%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 4 (0.99%) CCNP
11 4 (0.99%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (0.99%) RHCE
12 3 (0.74%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 3 (0.74%) Master's Degree
12 3 (0.74%) MCSA
12 3 (0.74%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 2 (0.50%) CompTIA Security+
13 2 (0.50%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (8.93%) QA
2 34 (8.44%) Accessibility
3 29 (7.20%) Data Quality
3 29 (7.20%) WCAG
4 12 (2.98%) NCSC
5 9 (2.23%) GDPR
6 3 (0.74%) Actionable Recommendations
6 3 (0.74%) HL7
7 2 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.25%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.25%) EU AI Act
8 1 (0.25%) PMO
8 1 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.25%) SLA
8 1 (0.25%) SOC 2
System Software
1 120 (29.78%) Docker
2 16 (3.97%) Active Directory
3 13 (3.23%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (2.23%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (1.24%) Microsoft App-V
5 5 (1.24%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.99%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.50%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 2 (0.50%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.25%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.25%) Firmware
8 1 (0.25%) Varnish
8 1 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 166 (41.19%) Terraform
2 146 (36.23%) Kubernetes
3 56 (13.90%) Ansible
4 17 (4.22%) SCCM
5 16 (3.97%) Prometheus
6 14 (3.47%) Grafana
7 12 (2.98%) Microsoft Intune
8 9 (2.23%) Puppet
9 7 (1.74%) Argo
10 6 (1.49%) Progress Chef
11 5 (1.24%) Istio
11 5 (1.24%) WSUS
12 2 (0.50%) CA Wily
12 2 (0.50%) Control-M
12 2 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.50%) Tivoli
13 1 (0.25%) FortiGate
13 1 (0.25%) Kustomize
13 1 (0.25%) Podman
13 1 (0.25%) QRadar
Vendors
1 101 (25.06%) Microsoft
2 23 (5.71%) Oracle
3 22 (5.46%) Google
4 21 (5.21%) Databricks
5 19 (4.71%) Dynatrace
6 18 (4.47%) Salesforce
7 13 (3.23%) Talend
8 12 (2.98%) Denodo
8 12 (2.98%) Red Hat
9 10 (2.48%) OpenAI
10 7 (1.74%) Foundry
11 6 (1.49%) Apple
11 6 (1.49%) Citrix
11 6 (1.49%) Splunk
11 6 (1.49%) VMware
12 5 (1.24%) Bloomberg
12 5 (1.24%) CrowdStrike
12 5 (1.24%) ION Trading
12 5 (1.24%) Reuters
12 5 (1.24%) SAP