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

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 222 277 349
Rank change year-on-year +55 +72 +4
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 572 261 188
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.23% 0.93% 0.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.46% 1.02% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 377 199 109
10th Percentile £400 £357 £373
25th Percentile £430 £430 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £620 £625 £685
90th Percentile £693 £690 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £540 £565
% change year-on-year -5.09% -4.42% -5.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 4
10th Percentile £62.25 - -
25th Percentile £66.38 £21.29 -
Median hourly rate £74.68 £22.58 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +230.81% -5.15% -50.42%
75th Percentile £76.00 £23.86 £39.73
90th Percentile - - £68.39
UK median hourly rate £69.00 £22.58 £23.80
% change year-on-year +205.65% -5.15% -50.42%

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 39,229 25,540 27,994
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.68% 90.96% 86.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,740 16,195 17,136
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £512 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £643
90th Percentile £738 £734 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,947 1,574 1,191
10th Percentile £13.81 £14.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.54 £17.87 £20.50
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% -3.37%
75th Percentile £67.47 £46.55 £67.01
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £38.62 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +53.57% -40.82% -

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 4 October 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 4 October 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 4 October 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 +46 294 £538 -6.72% 325
North of England +7 110 £500 +10.38% 118
Yorkshire +4 55 £500 -15.25% 38
South West +1 52 £450 -10.00% 71
South East -29 52 £575 +0.44% 107
Midlands -38 41 £488 -7.14% 61
West Midlands -39 40 £488 -7.14% 35
North West -26 38 £525 +15.89% 61
North East -23 17 £450 +12.50% 19
East of England -39 8 £850 +54.55% 32
East Midlands -10 1 - - 26
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 (4.90%) Confluence
2 26 (4.55%) Apache Spark
3 25 (4.37%) Apache
4 17 (2.97%) Apache Airflow
5 13 (2.27%) SharePoint
6 7 (1.22%) CMS
6 7 (1.22%) SAS
7 3 (0.52%) IBM Transformation Extender
7 3 (0.52%) nginx
7 3 (0.52%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.35%) CICS
8 2 (0.35%) IIS
9 1 (0.17%) Camunda
9 1 (0.17%) EPiServer
9 1 (0.17%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.17%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.17%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.17%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.35%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.17%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.17%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 5 (0.87%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.52%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (0.52%) SAP MDG
2 3 (0.52%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.17%) Misys Equation
3 1 (0.17%) Misys Midas
3 1 (0.17%) SAP CRM
3 1 (0.17%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 317 (55.42%) Azure
2 216 (37.76%) AWS
3 162 (28.32%) Azure DevOps
4 128 (22.38%) GitHub
5 97 (16.96%) GitHub Actions
6 86 (15.03%) GCP
7 79 (13.81%) Serverless
8 55 (9.62%) AWS Lambda
9 53 (9.27%) Amazon S3
10 50 (8.74%) Entra ID
11 49 (8.57%) Amazon EKS
11 49 (8.57%) Azure Monitor
12 46 (8.04%) Azure AKS
13 44 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 39 (6.82%) Amazon EC2
14 39 (6.82%) Amazon ECS
15 32 (5.59%) Power Platform
16 27 (4.72%) Azure Key Vault
17 24 (4.20%) Azure Data Factory
18 23 (4.02%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 42 (7.34%) Firewall
2 36 (6.29%) DNS
3 29 (5.07%) Network Security
4 17 (2.97%) VPN
5 16 (2.80%) TCP/IP
6 8 (1.40%) SSH
7 7 (1.22%) DHCP
7 7 (1.22%) SSL
8 5 (0.87%) Kerberos
8 5 (0.87%) NGFW
9 4 (0.70%) BGP
9 4 (0.70%) DMZ
9 4 (0.70%) Ethernet VPN
9 4 (0.70%) Internet
9 4 (0.70%) VXLAN
10 3 (0.52%) NX-OS
10 3 (0.52%) OpenLDAP
10 3 (0.52%) Reverse Proxy
10 3 (0.52%) TACACS
11 2 (0.35%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (6.12%) SQL Server
2 30 (5.24%) PostgreSQL
3 27 (4.72%) Relational Database
4 26 (4.55%) Power BI
5 23 (4.02%) Data Lake
5 23 (4.02%) Metadata
5 23 (4.02%) NoSQL
6 21 (3.67%) Data Warehouse
7 18 (3.15%) MongoDB
8 17 (2.97%) BigQuery
9 16 (2.80%) Amazon RDS
10 15 (2.62%) MySQL
11 13 (2.27%) Redis
12 12 (2.10%) Oracle Database
13 11 (1.92%) Azure SQL Database
13 11 (1.92%) Big Data
13 11 (1.92%) Geospatial Data
14 10 (1.75%) Elasticsearch
15 9 (1.57%) Amazon Redshift
15 9 (1.57%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 155 (27.10%) Git
2 112 (19.58%) Jenkins
3 105 (18.36%) GitLab
4 44 (7.69%) JIRA
5 17 (2.97%) MSI
6 11 (1.92%) Selenium
7 9 (1.57%) Sonatype Nexus
8 8 (1.40%) fastlane
8 8 (1.40%) Gradle
8 8 (1.40%) JUnit
9 7 (1.22%) Visual Studio
10 6 (1.05%) Maven
10 6 (1.05%) SonarQube
11 5 (0.87%) Artifactory
11 5 (0.87%) MSBuild
11 5 (0.87%) Postman
11 5 (0.87%) TeamCity
12 4 (0.70%) Claude Code
12 4 (0.70%) Cypress.io
12 4 (0.70%) Terragrunt
General
1 186 (32.52%) Social Skills
2 89 (15.56%) Finance
3 86 (15.03%) Public Sector
4 64 (11.19%) Analytical Skills
5 39 (6.82%) Banking
6 19 (3.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (2.10%) Retail
8 8 (1.40%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (1.22%) Investment Banking
9 7 (1.22%) Marketing
10 6 (1.05%) Financial Institution
10 6 (1.05%) Front Office
11 5 (0.87%) Manufacturing
12 4 (0.70%) Aerospace
12 4 (0.70%) Law
12 4 (0.70%) Military
12 4 (0.70%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.52%) Back Office
13 3 (0.52%) Billing
13 3 (0.52%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 108 (18.88%) Developer
2 107 (18.71%) Senior
3 98 (17.13%) DevOps Engineer
4 56 (9.79%) Lead
5 51 (8.92%) Cloud Engineer
6 50 (8.74%) Data Engineer
7 46 (8.04%) Azure Engineer
8 44 (7.69%) Architect
9 37 (6.47%) Platform Engineer
10 34 (5.94%) AWS Engineer
11 32 (5.59%) Software Engineer
12 28 (4.90%) Senior Developer
13 26 (4.55%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 25 (4.37%) AWS DevOps
15 23 (4.02%) Senior DevOps
16 22 (3.85%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 22 (3.85%) GCP Engineer
17 21 (3.67%) Full-Stack Developer
18 20 (3.50%) Senior DevOps Engineer
19 17 (2.97%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 254 (44.41%) Terraform
2 124 (21.68%) REST
3 84 (14.69%) RESTful
4 73 (12.76%) .NET
5 55 (9.62%) Kafka
6 54 (9.44%) React
7 37 (6.47%) .NET Framework
7 37 (6.47%) OAuth
8 35 (6.12%) Spring
8 35 (6.12%) Spring Boot
9 34 (5.94%) .NET Core
10 33 (5.77%) HTML
11 32 (5.59%) CSS
12 30 (5.24%) ARM Templates
13 23 (4.02%) AngularJS
13 23 (4.02%) Node.js
13 23 (4.02%) OpenID
14 22 (3.85%) HTML5
14 22 (3.85%) JSON
14 22 (3.85%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 169 (29.55%) Cloud Native
2 59 (10.31%) Product Ownership
3 49 (8.57%) Distributed Systems
4 44 (7.69%) Onboarding
5 43 (7.52%) Enterprise Software
6 21 (3.67%) Legacy Systems
7 19 (3.32%) Hybrid Cloud
8 14 (2.45%) Enterprise Cloud
8 14 (2.45%) Wiki
9 13 (2.27%) AI Agents
9 13 (2.27%) PKI
9 13 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
10 10 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
10 10 (1.75%) Mobile App
10 10 (1.75%) Replication
10 10 (1.75%) Security Posture
11 9 (1.57%) NHS
12 8 (1.40%) Data Centre
12 8 (1.40%) Data Structures
12 8 (1.40%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 79 (13.81%) Linux
2 60 (10.49%) Windows
3 20 (3.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 19 (3.32%) Windows Server
5 17 (2.97%) Unix
6 10 (1.75%) Apple iOS
7 8 (1.40%) Windows 10
8 7 (1.22%) Android
8 7 (1.22%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.70%) Mac OS
9 4 (0.70%) VMS
10 3 (0.52%) zOS
11 2 (0.35%) Amazon Linux
11 2 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.17%) CentOS
12 1 (0.17%) Solaris
12 1 (0.17%) Windows 7
12 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 489 (85.49%) CI/CD
2 362 (63.29%) DevOps
3 290 (50.70%) Infrastructure as Code
4 247 (43.18%) Agile
5 201 (35.14%) Test Automation
6 164 (28.67%) Containerisation
7 161 (28.15%) Observability
8 152 (26.57%) Continuous Improvement
9 125 (21.85%) Problem-Solving
10 116 (20.28%) Microservices
11 114 (19.93%) AI
12 113 (19.76%) Analytics
13 105 (18.36%) Platform Engineering
13 105 (18.36%) Software Engineering
14 101 (17.66%) DevSecOps
15 87 (15.21%) Technical Leadership
16 85 (14.86%) Scrum
17 83 (14.51%) Stakeholder Management
18 76 (13.29%) Validation
19 74 (12.94%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 223 (38.99%) Python
2 117 (20.45%) SQL
3 97 (16.96%) PowerShell
4 87 (15.21%) Java
5 73 (12.76%) Bash
6 70 (12.24%) C#
7 69 (12.06%) JavaScript
8 67 (11.71%) Bicep
9 49 (8.57%) TypeScript
10 18 (3.15%) Shell Script
11 17 (2.97%) Go
12 11 (1.92%) Kotlin
13 9 (1.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 7 (1.22%) Apex Code
14 7 (1.22%) Kusto Query Language
15 6 (1.05%) Korn
16 5 (0.87%) Perl
16 5 (0.87%) Scala
17 4 (0.70%) PHP
17 4 (0.70%) Swift
Qualifications
1 195 (34.09%) Security Cleared
2 157 (27.45%) SC Cleared
3 41 (7.17%) Degree
4 37 (6.47%) DV Cleared
5 32 (5.59%) AWS Certification
6 31 (5.42%) Azure Certification
7 27 (4.72%) Computer Science Degree
8 14 (2.45%) BPSS Clearance
8 14 (2.45%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (1.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 7 (1.22%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 6 (1.05%) Master's Degree
12 5 (0.87%) CISSP
12 5 (0.87%) MCSE
13 3 (0.52%) GCFA
13 3 (0.52%) GCIH
14 2 (0.35%) AWS Certified Developer
14 2 (0.35%) DBS Check
14 2 (0.35%) ISTQB
14 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (11.19%) QA
2 42 (7.34%) Data Quality
3 32 (5.59%) Accessibility
4 28 (4.90%) WCAG
5 19 (3.32%) NCSC
6 15 (2.62%) GDPR
7 8 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 6 (1.05%) NIST
9 5 (0.87%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.70%) HL7
10 4 (0.70%) ISO 20022
10 4 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.52%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.17%) Disclosure Scotland
12 1 (0.17%) ISO 15022
12 1 (0.17%) JSP 440
12 1 (0.17%) PMO
12 1 (0.17%) SOC 2
System Software
1 171 (29.90%) Docker
2 43 (7.52%) Active Directory
3 17 (2.97%) Virtual Desktop
4 9 (1.57%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (1.40%) VMware Infrastructure
6 6 (1.05%) Microsoft App-V
7 5 (0.87%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.35%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 2 (0.35%) Oracle RAC
8 2 (0.35%) RACF
8 2 (0.35%) Time Sharing Option
9 1 (0.17%) DFS Replication
9 1 (0.17%) Dovecot
9 1 (0.17%) Postfix
9 1 (0.17%) Squid
9 1 (0.17%) Varnish
9 1 (0.17%) zsh
Systems Management
1 206 (36.01%) Kubernetes
2 87 (15.21%) Ansible
3 42 (7.34%) Grafana
4 34 (5.94%) Prometheus
5 23 (4.02%) Microsoft Intune
6 15 (2.62%) SCCM
7 13 (2.27%) Progress Chef
8 11 (1.92%) Puppet
9 10 (1.75%) Single Sign-On
10 9 (1.57%) Argo
11 6 (1.05%) Istio
12 4 (0.70%) Control-M
12 4 (0.70%) WSUS
13 3 (0.52%) CASB
13 3 (0.52%) Kibana
13 3 (0.52%) Packer
13 3 (0.52%) Tivoli
13 3 (0.52%) Tivoli Monitoring
14 2 (0.35%) Data Guard
14 2 (0.35%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 158 (27.62%) Microsoft
2 48 (8.39%) Google
3 39 (6.82%) Databricks
4 27 (4.72%) Oracle
5 26 (4.55%) Splunk
6 22 (3.85%) Dynatrace
7 17 (2.97%) ServiceNow
8 16 (2.80%) Salesforce
9 14 (2.45%) Red Hat
10 12 (2.10%) IBM
11 10 (1.75%) Apple
11 10 (1.75%) Talend
12 9 (1.57%) VMware
13 8 (1.40%) Cisco
13 8 (1.40%) MuleSoft
14 7 (1.22%) OpenAI
14 7 (1.22%) SAP
15 6 (1.05%) Confluent
15 6 (1.05%) Denodo
16 5 (0.87%) UiPath