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 28 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 246 258 320
Rank change year-on-year +12 +62 +41
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 479 271 214
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.05% 0.98% 0.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.23% 1.08% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 320 211 141
10th Percentile £406 £336 £380
25th Percentile £447 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £604 £624 £688
90th Percentile £676 £700 £775
UK median daily rate £513 £547 £600
% change year-on-year -6.22% -8.92% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 3
10th Percentile £69.77 - -
25th Percentile £74.68 - -
Median hourly rate £76.00 - £23.80
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £75.34 - £23.80
% change year-on-year - - -66.48%

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 38,831 25,009 28,459
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.83% 90.78% 85.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,961 15,919 18,268
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £631 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £753
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,587 1,463 1,501
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.25 £14.00
25th Percentile £18.68 £17.87 £18.11
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -40.82% -
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £69.47 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £40.50
% change year-on-year +63.02% -37.90% -4.71%

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 28 August 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
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 28 August 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 +7 232 £550 -1.79% 183
North of England -19 81 £500 +24.38% 50
South East -34 53 £565 +18.95% 45
South West -4 46 £450 -15.29% 36
Midlands -32 44 £492 -5.10% 14
West Midlands -39 40 £492 -6.27% 8
Yorkshire -25 36 £500 -15.25% 17
North West -29 32 £528 +34.22% 27
North East -27 13 £450 +125.00% 6
East of England -36 8 £850 +54.55% 10
East Midlands -16 4 £474 +26.10% 6
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 23 (4.80%) Confluence
2 18 (3.76%) Apache Spark
3 15 (3.13%) SAS
4 11 (2.30%) Apache
4 11 (2.30%) Apache Airflow
5 8 (1.67%) SharePoint
6 5 (1.04%) CMS
7 3 (0.63%) Oracle Workflow
7 3 (0.63%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.42%) Camunda
8 2 (0.42%) IBM HTTP Server
8 2 (0.42%) nginx
8 2 (0.42%) Oracle HTTP Server
8 2 (0.42%) WebSphere Application Server
8 2 (0.42%) WebSphere Portal
9 1 (0.21%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.21%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.21%) IIS
9 1 (0.21%) OpenROAD
9 1 (0.21%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 3 (0.63%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (0.84%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.21%) Misys Equation
3 1 (0.21%) Misys Midas
3 1 (0.21%) SAP CRM
3 1 (0.21%) SAP MDG
3 1 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.21%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 275 (57.41%) Azure
2 178 (37.16%) AWS
3 145 (30.27%) Azure DevOps
4 115 (24.01%) GitHub
5 89 (18.58%) GitHub Actions
6 62 (12.94%) Serverless
7 58 (12.11%) GCP
8 46 (9.60%) AWS Lambda
9 39 (8.14%) Amazon S3
10 37 (7.72%) Amazon EKS
10 37 (7.72%) Azure Monitor
11 32 (6.68%) Azure AKS
12 30 (6.26%) Amazon ECS
12 30 (6.26%) Entra ID
13 29 (6.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 27 (5.64%) Power Platform
15 26 (5.43%) Amazon EC2
16 21 (4.38%) AWS CloudFormation
16 21 (4.38%) Azure Key Vault
17 20 (4.18%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 35 (7.31%) Firewall
2 28 (5.85%) DNS
3 24 (5.01%) Network Security
4 17 (3.55%) VPN
5 16 (3.34%) TCP/IP
6 7 (1.46%) DHCP
6 7 (1.46%) SSH
7 6 (1.25%) DMZ
7 6 (1.25%) SSL
8 4 (0.84%) Internet
9 3 (0.63%) HTTP
9 3 (0.63%) Kerberos
9 3 (0.63%) NGFW
9 3 (0.63%) Reverse Proxy
10 2 (0.42%) HTTPS
10 2 (0.42%) OpenLDAP
11 1 (0.21%) BGP
11 1 (0.21%) FTP
11 1 (0.21%) SMTP
11 1 (0.21%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (5.85%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (5.43%) SQL Server
3 21 (4.38%) Power BI
4 19 (3.97%) Data Warehouse
4 19 (3.97%) Relational Database
5 18 (3.76%) NoSQL
6 15 (3.13%) Data Lake
7 13 (2.71%) Amazon RDS
7 13 (2.71%) Metadata
7 13 (2.71%) MongoDB
8 12 (2.51%) Pentaho
9 11 (2.30%) Geospatial Data
9 11 (2.30%) Redis
10 9 (1.88%) DynamoDB
10 9 (1.88%) Elasticsearch
10 9 (1.88%) MySQL
11 8 (1.67%) Azure SQL Database
11 8 (1.67%) Big Data
11 8 (1.67%) BigQuery
12 6 (1.25%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 122 (25.47%) Git
2 104 (21.71%) Jenkins
3 85 (17.75%) GitLab
4 39 (8.14%) JIRA
5 16 (3.34%) MSI
6 12 (2.51%) Selenium
7 11 (2.30%) fastlane
8 9 (1.88%) Gradle
8 9 (1.88%) JUnit
9 8 (1.67%) Visual Studio
10 6 (1.25%) Maven
10 6 (1.25%) SonarQube
10 6 (1.25%) Sonatype Nexus
10 6 (1.25%) Visual Studio Code
10 6 (1.25%) Xcode
11 5 (1.04%) Android Studio
11 5 (1.04%) Crashlytics
11 5 (1.04%) MSBuild
12 4 (0.84%) Mockito
12 4 (0.84%) TeamCity
General
1 139 (29.02%) Social Skills
2 88 (18.37%) Public Sector
3 59 (12.32%) Finance
4 51 (10.65%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (5.43%) Banking
6 17 (3.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (2.51%) Documentation Skills
8 9 (1.88%) Retail
9 7 (1.46%) Legal
10 6 (1.25%) Front Office
10 6 (1.25%) Marketing
11 5 (1.04%) Investment Banking
11 5 (1.04%) Manufacturing
12 4 (0.84%) Military
13 3 (0.63%) Financial Institution
13 3 (0.63%) Law
14 2 (0.42%) Aerospace
14 2 (0.42%) Back Office
14 2 (0.42%) Local Government
14 2 (0.42%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 96 (20.04%) Developer
2 92 (19.21%) Senior
3 77 (16.08%) DevOps Engineer
4 43 (8.98%) Lead
5 42 (8.77%) Cloud Engineer
6 41 (8.56%) Data Engineer
7 35 (7.31%) Platform Engineer
8 34 (7.10%) Architect
9 33 (6.89%) Azure Engineer
10 28 (5.85%) Senior Developer
10 28 (5.85%) Software Engineer
11 26 (5.43%) AWS Engineer
12 23 (4.80%) Full-Stack Developer
13 18 (3.76%) AWS DevOps
13 18 (3.76%) Senior DevOps
14 17 (3.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 15 (3.13%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 15 (3.13%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 14 (2.92%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 14 (2.92%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 201 (41.96%) Terraform
2 83 (17.33%) REST
3 73 (15.24%) RESTful
4 60 (12.53%) .NET
5 52 (10.86%) React
6 43 (8.98%) Kafka
7 32 (6.68%) .NET Framework
8 31 (6.47%) HTML
9 29 (6.05%) CSS
10 28 (5.85%) .NET Core
10 28 (5.85%) Spring
10 28 (5.85%) Spring Boot
11 21 (4.38%) AngularJS
11 21 (4.38%) HTML5
11 21 (4.38%) Node.js
12 20 (4.18%) OAuth
13 19 (3.97%) ARM Templates
14 18 (3.76%) CSS3
15 17 (3.55%) PySpark
16 16 (3.34%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 139 (29.02%) Cloud Native
2 41 (8.56%) Product Ownership
3 40 (8.35%) Distributed Systems
4 32 (6.68%) Onboarding
5 27 (5.64%) Enterprise Software
6 17 (3.55%) Legacy Systems
7 13 (2.71%) Hybrid Cloud
8 11 (2.30%) Mobile App
8 11 (2.30%) Security Posture
9 10 (2.09%) Enterprise Cloud
10 9 (1.88%) AI Agents
10 9 (1.88%) NHS
11 8 (1.67%) PKI
11 8 (1.67%) Replication
11 8 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
12 7 (1.46%) Data Protection Act
12 7 (1.46%) Linux Command Line
12 7 (1.46%) Wiki
13 6 (1.25%) Management Information System
13 6 (1.25%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 69 (14.41%) Linux
2 46 (9.60%) Windows
3 22 (4.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 15 (3.13%) Unix
4 15 (3.13%) Windows Server
5 9 (1.88%) Apple iOS
6 7 (1.46%) Ubuntu
7 6 (1.25%) Android
8 4 (0.84%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.63%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.63%) VMS
10 2 (0.42%) Amazon Linux
10 2 (0.42%) Oracle Linux
10 2 (0.42%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 2 (0.42%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.21%) CentOS
11 1 (0.21%) Solaris
11 1 (0.21%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 399 (83.30%) CI/CD
2 303 (63.26%) DevOps
3 231 (48.23%) Infrastructure as Code
4 205 (42.80%) Agile
5 173 (36.12%) Test Automation
6 140 (29.23%) Containerisation
7 115 (24.01%) Continuous Improvement
8 111 (23.17%) Observability
9 100 (20.88%) Analytics
10 97 (20.25%) Microservices
11 96 (20.04%) Problem-Solving
12 87 (18.16%) Platform Engineering
13 84 (17.54%) DevSecOps
14 82 (17.12%) Software Engineering
15 81 (16.91%) AI
16 77 (16.08%) Scrum
17 63 (13.15%) Data Pipeline
18 59 (12.32%) Technical Leadership
19 55 (11.48%) Configuration Management
20 54 (11.27%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 177 (36.95%) Python
2 100 (20.88%) SQL
3 84 (17.54%) PowerShell
4 73 (15.24%) Java
5 60 (12.53%) JavaScript
6 57 (11.90%) C#
7 56 (11.69%) Bash
8 54 (11.27%) Bicep
9 42 (8.77%) TypeScript
10 11 (2.30%) Shell Script
11 9 (1.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 9 (1.88%) Kotlin
12 8 (1.67%) Go
13 6 (1.25%) Swift
14 5 (1.04%) Apex Code
14 5 (1.04%) Scala
15 4 (0.84%) Korn
15 4 (0.84%) Perl
15 4 (0.84%) PHP
16 3 (0.63%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 176 (36.74%) Security Cleared
2 142 (29.65%) SC Cleared
3 35 (7.31%) Degree
4 30 (6.26%) DV Cleared
5 24 (5.01%) Azure Certification
6 23 (4.80%) Computer Science Degree
7 22 (4.59%) AWS Certification
8 16 (3.34%) Microsoft Certification
9 9 (1.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 8 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
11 6 (1.25%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 4 (0.84%) CISSP
12 4 (0.84%) Master's Degree
13 3 (0.63%) GCFA
13 3 (0.63%) GCIH
13 3 (0.63%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 3 (0.63%) MCSA
13 3 (0.63%) MCSE
14 1 (0.21%) DBS Check
14 1 (0.21%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (10.86%) QA
2 36 (7.52%) Accessibility
3 30 (6.26%) WCAG
4 27 (5.64%) Data Quality
5 15 (3.13%) GDPR
5 15 (3.13%) NCSC
6 4 (0.84%) HL7
6 4 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (0.63%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.63%) ISO 20022
7 3 (0.63%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.42%) NIST
9 1 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.21%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.21%) ISO 15022
9 1 (0.21%) JSP 440
9 1 (0.21%) PMO
9 1 (0.21%) SLA
System Software
1 154 (32.15%) Docker
2 24 (5.01%) Active Directory
3 13 (2.71%) Virtual Desktop
4 11 (2.30%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (1.04%) Microsoft App-V
5 5 (1.04%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.42%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 2 (0.42%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.21%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.21%) DFS Replication
7 1 (0.21%) Dovecot
7 1 (0.21%) Firmware
7 1 (0.21%) Postfix
7 1 (0.21%) Squid
7 1 (0.21%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 180 (37.58%) Kubernetes
2 71 (14.82%) Ansible
3 29 (6.05%) Grafana
4 23 (4.80%) Prometheus
5 18 (3.76%) SCCM
6 17 (3.55%) Microsoft Intune
7 12 (2.51%) Progress Chef
8 10 (2.09%) Puppet
9 7 (1.46%) Argo
10 6 (1.25%) Istio
10 6 (1.25%) Single Sign-On
10 6 (1.25%) WSUS
11 4 (0.84%) Control-M
12 3 (0.63%) CASB
13 2 (0.42%) CA Wily
13 2 (0.42%) Kibana
13 2 (0.42%) Tivoli
14 1 (0.21%) FortiGate
14 1 (0.21%) ITRS Geneos
14 1 (0.21%) Nessus
Vendors
1 127 (26.51%) Microsoft
2 32 (6.68%) Google
3 27 (5.64%) Databricks
4 26 (5.43%) Oracle
5 22 (4.59%) Dynatrace
6 17 (3.55%) Red Hat
7 16 (3.34%) Splunk
8 15 (3.13%) Salesforce
9 13 (2.71%) Talend
10 10 (2.09%) Denodo
11 7 (1.46%) Apple
11 7 (1.46%) ServiceNow
12 6 (1.25%) Citrix
13 5 (1.04%) Bloomberg
13 5 (1.04%) CrowdStrike
13 5 (1.04%) Foundry
13 5 (1.04%) IBM
13 5 (1.04%) ION Trading
13 5 (1.04%) Reuters
13 5 (1.04%) VMware