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 26 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 270 326 383
Rank change year-on-year +56 +57 -82
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 287 188 200
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.94% 0.61% 0.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.04% 0.69% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 217 111 139
10th Percentile £393 £400 £430
25th Percentile £430 £469 £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% -6.12%
75th Percentile £619 £725 £675
90th Percentile £688 £788 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 4
10th Percentile - £29.67 £17.45
25th Percentile £21.29 £38.48 £20.38
Median hourly rate £22.58 £54.40 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -58.50% +147.27% -
75th Percentile £23.86 £71.58 £37.75
90th Percentile - £81.13 £66.10
UK median hourly rate £22.58 £54.40 £22.00
% change year-on-year -58.50% +147.27% -45.68%

All Process and 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 27,581 27,123 34,426
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 89.93% 87.40% 88.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,503 16,556 23,537
10th Percentile £300 £313 £313
25th Percentile £405 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
75th Percentile £625 £649 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.41% -3.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,803 997 1,447
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.22 £14.62
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.26 £19.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £36.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.14% -20.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +27.14%

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 26 November 2025.

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 26 November 2025. 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 +16 122 £575 -8.37% 45
Midlands +9 57 £519 -15.28% 36
West Midlands +15 52 £519 -16.84% 21
North of England -34 37 £505 +26.19% 46
South East +11 27 £584 +8.10% 83
North West -13 23 £453 +13.25% 21
South West +6 20 £525 -25.53% 23
Yorkshire -28 12 £550 -10.57% 21
East of England -19 6 £500 +33.33% 29
East Midlands -8 5 £402 +7.20% 13
North East -8 2 £500 -9.09% 4
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 34 (11.85%) SAS
2 19 (6.62%) Apache
3 17 (5.92%) JBoss
4 9 (3.14%) Apache Airflow
5 8 (2.79%) WebLogic
6 7 (2.44%) SharePoint
7 6 (2.09%) nginx
8 5 (1.74%) Confluence
8 5 (1.74%) IIS
8 5 (1.74%) iPlanet
8 5 (1.74%) WebSphere
8 5 (1.74%) WebSphere Application Server
9 4 (1.39%) Anypoint
9 4 (1.39%) Apache Spark
9 4 (1.39%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.70%) CMS
11 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.35%) Mule
11 1 (0.35%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.35%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (1.39%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.35%) Endur
2 1 (0.35%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 92 (32.06%) AWS
2 85 (29.62%) Azure
3 57 (19.86%) GitHub
4 41 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
5 38 (13.24%) Azure DevOps
6 28 (9.76%) Serverless
7 24 (8.36%) AWS CloudFormation
8 23 (8.01%) AWS Lambda
8 23 (8.01%) OpenShift
9 18 (6.27%) Amazon S3
9 18 (6.27%) GCP
10 14 (4.88%) Amazon EKS
11 12 (4.18%) Amazon SQS
11 12 (4.18%) Power Platform
12 11 (3.83%) Amazon EC2
12 11 (3.83%) Entra ID
13 9 (3.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 9 (3.14%) Amazon EventBridge
13 9 (3.14%) Azure Data Factory
14 8 (2.79%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 20 (6.97%) HTTPS
2 9 (3.14%) SSL
3 7 (2.44%) DNS
4 6 (2.09%) Firewall
5 5 (1.74%) Kerberos
5 5 (1.74%) Network Security
5 5 (1.74%) TCP/IP
5 5 (1.74%) VPN
6 4 (1.39%) DHCP
7 2 (0.70%) HTTP
8 1 (0.35%) BGP
8 1 (0.35%) Calico
8 1 (0.35%) DMZ
8 1 (0.35%) Ethernet VPN
8 1 (0.35%) Internet
8 1 (0.35%) Software-Defined Networking
8 1 (0.35%) VLAN
8 1 (0.35%) VSAN
8 1 (0.35%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (10.10%) Pentaho
2 16 (5.57%) Relational Database
3 13 (4.53%) Oracle Database
4 12 (4.18%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (3.83%) Data Warehouse
5 11 (3.83%) MongoDB
5 11 (3.83%) NoSQL
5 11 (3.83%) SAS Enterprise Guide
6 10 (3.48%) Amazon RDS
6 10 (3.48%) SQL Server
7 7 (2.44%) Data Lake
8 6 (2.09%) Apache Cassandra
8 6 (2.09%) DynamoDB
9 5 (1.74%) RDBMS
9 5 (1.74%) SAS Visual Analytics
9 5 (1.74%) Star Schema
10 4 (1.39%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (1.39%) Delta Lake
10 4 (1.39%) MySQL
10 4 (1.39%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 98 (34.15%) Git
2 95 (33.10%) Jenkins
3 49 (17.07%) JIRA
4 30 (10.45%) GitLab
5 14 (4.88%) Sonatype Nexus
6 11 (3.83%) JUnit
7 9 (3.14%) Bitbucket Server
7 9 (3.14%) CA Release Automation
7 9 (3.14%) IntelliJ
8 8 (2.79%) Bitbucket
8 8 (2.79%) Eclipse
8 8 (2.79%) Selenium
8 8 (2.79%) SonarQube
9 7 (2.44%) Maven
10 6 (2.09%) MSI
10 6 (2.09%) TeamCity
11 4 (1.39%) CircleCI
12 3 (1.05%) Robot Framework
13 2 (0.70%) Gradle
13 2 (0.70%) Vagrant
General
1 86 (29.97%) Social Skills
2 53 (18.47%) Public Sector
3 31 (10.80%) Finance
4 21 (7.32%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (3.48%) Banking
6 8 (2.79%) Influencing Skills
7 7 (2.44%) Marketing
8 6 (2.09%) Investment Banking
9 5 (1.74%) Digital Healthcare
9 5 (1.74%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.39%) Electronics
10 4 (1.39%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.39%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.70%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.70%) Back Office
11 2 (0.70%) Front Office
11 2 (0.70%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.70%) Publishing
11 2 (0.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 77 (26.83%) Developer
2 31 (10.80%) DevOps Engineer
3 24 (8.36%) Data Engineer
4 22 (7.67%) Senior
5 19 (6.62%) Lead
5 19 (6.62%) Platform Engineer
6 18 (6.27%) Architect
7 12 (4.18%) AWS Engineer
7 12 (4.18%) Azure Engineer
7 12 (4.18%) webMethods Developer
8 11 (3.83%) Full-Stack Developer
9 10 (3.48%) Python Developer
10 9 (3.14%) Java Developer
10 9 (3.14%) Software Engineer
11 8 (2.79%) Cloud Engineer
11 8 (2.79%) Full-Stack Python Developer
12 7 (2.44%) Automation Engineer
12 7 (2.44%) Azure Data Engineer
12 7 (2.44%) Senior DevOps
12 7 (2.44%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (15.33%) REST
2 42 (14.63%) JSON
2 42 (14.63%) SOAP
3 40 (13.94%) XML
4 34 (11.85%) React
5 25 (8.71%) RESTful
6 23 (8.01%) Spring
7 22 (7.67%) OAuth
8 19 (6.62%) AngularJS
8 19 (6.62%) HTML
9 16 (5.57%) Kafka
10 14 (4.88%) pytest
11 13 (4.53%) Spring Boot
12 12 (4.18%) .NET
12 12 (4.18%) Jest
12 12 (4.18%) JMS
12 12 (4.18%) Node.js
12 12 (4.18%) PySpark
12 12 (4.18%) YAML
13 10 (3.48%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 32 (11.15%) Cloud Native
2 13 (4.53%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (3.14%) Data Protection Act
3 9 (3.14%) Private Cloud
4 6 (2.09%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (2.09%) Product Ownership
5 5 (1.74%) PKI
5 5 (1.74%) Security Posture
6 4 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (1.39%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (1.39%) NHS
7 3 (1.05%) Clustering
7 3 (1.05%) CMDB
7 3 (1.05%) Distributed Computing
7 3 (1.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (1.05%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.05%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (1.05%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.05%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 49 (17.07%) Linux
2 30 (10.45%) Windows
3 16 (5.57%) Unix
4 14 (4.88%) Windows Server
5 10 (3.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (1.74%) CentOS
7 3 (1.05%) Android
7 3 (1.05%) Apple iOS
7 3 (1.05%) Ubuntu
7 3 (1.05%) VMS
7 3 (1.05%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.70%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 208 (72.47%) CI/CD
2 197 (68.64%) DevOps
3 120 (41.81%) Agile
4 118 (41.11%) Test Automation
5 95 (33.10%) Problem-Solving
6 93 (32.40%) Infrastructure as Code
7 71 (24.74%) Containerisation
8 65 (22.65%) Analytics
9 59 (20.56%) Continuous Improvement
10 56 (19.51%) Scrum
11 52 (18.12%) Microservices
12 50 (17.42%) Data Pipeline
13 45 (15.68%) ETL
14 44 (15.33%) Data Modelling
14 44 (15.33%) Infrastructure Automation
15 40 (13.94%) Data Integration
16 39 (13.59%) Migration
17 38 (13.24%) Observability
18 36 (12.54%) Business Intelligence
19 29 (10.10%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 96 (33.45%) Python
2 88 (30.66%) SQL
3 55 (19.16%) Java
4 36 (12.54%) PowerShell
5 31 (10.80%) JavaScript
6 28 (9.76%) Bash
6 28 (9.76%) TypeScript
7 19 (6.62%) C#
8 11 (3.83%) Groovy
8 11 (3.83%) Scala
9 10 (3.48%) Bicep
10 8 (2.79%) Go
10 8 (2.79%) Perl
10 8 (2.79%) PHP
10 8 (2.79%) Shell Script
11 6 (2.09%) T-SQL
12 4 (1.39%) DataWeave
13 2 (0.70%) Apex Code
13 2 (0.70%) PromQL
13 2 (0.70%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 124 (43.21%) Security Cleared
2 98 (34.15%) SC Cleared
3 13 (4.53%) AWS Certification
4 12 (4.18%) Degree
5 11 (3.83%) DV Cleared
6 8 (2.79%) Azure Certification
6 8 (2.79%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (2.44%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (2.09%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 4 (1.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.39%) Master's Degree
9 4 (1.39%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 3 (1.05%) Oracle Certification
11 2 (0.70%) CISSP
11 2 (0.70%) OCP
12 1 (0.35%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.35%) CISM
12 1 (0.35%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.35%) OCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (9.76%) Data Quality
2 20 (6.97%) QA
3 6 (2.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (2.09%) NIST
4 4 (1.39%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.39%) NCSC
5 2 (0.70%) GDPR
5 2 (0.70%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.70%) SLA
5 2 (0.70%) WCAG
6 1 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.35%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.35%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.35%) JSP 440
6 1 (0.35%) NIST 800
System Software
1 118 (41.11%) Docker
2 28 (9.76%) Active Directory
3 11 (3.83%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.74%) Tivoli Directory Server
5 4 (1.39%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (1.05%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.70%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.70%) VirtualBox
7 2 (0.70%) Xen
8 1 (0.35%) etcd
8 1 (0.35%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 109 (37.98%) Kubernetes
2 87 (30.31%) Terraform
3 45 (15.68%) Ansible
4 21 (7.32%) Prometheus
5 19 (6.62%) Grafana
6 15 (5.23%) Progress Chef
6 15 (5.23%) Puppet
7 11 (3.83%) Single Sign-On
8 6 (2.09%) ITRS Geneos
9 5 (1.74%) Argo
9 5 (1.74%) CA Single Sign-On
9 5 (1.74%) CA Wily
9 5 (1.74%) Packer
9 5 (1.74%) Tivoli
10 4 (1.39%) CloudHub
10 4 (1.39%) Kibana
10 4 (1.39%) Podman
11 3 (1.05%) Proxmox
11 3 (1.05%) vRealize
11 3 (1.05%) WMI
Vendors
1 76 (26.48%) Microsoft
2 41 (14.29%) Oracle
3 31 (10.80%) Talend
4 29 (10.10%) Denodo
5 21 (7.32%) Databricks
5 21 (7.32%) webMethods
6 20 (6.97%) Splunk
7 19 (6.62%) VMware
8 16 (5.57%) IBM
8 16 (5.57%) SAP
9 12 (4.18%) Red Hat
10 11 (3.83%) Software AG
11 10 (3.48%) Google
12 9 (3.14%) AppDynamics
13 8 (2.79%) Axway
13 8 (2.79%) Pega
13 8 (2.79%) Salesforce
14 6 (2.09%) ServiceNow
15 5 (1.74%) Broadcom
15 5 (1.74%) ForgeRock