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 16 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 231 254 330
Rank change year-on-year +23 +76 +30
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 527 271 209
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.14% 0.98% 0.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.35% 1.07% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 346 212 128
10th Percentile £400 £351 £400
25th Percentile £433 £430 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.45% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £610 £620 £685
90th Percentile £694 £688 £750
UK median daily rate £505 £540 £600
% change year-on-year -6.57% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 3
10th Percentile £66.38 - -
25th Percentile £68.55 - -
Median hourly rate £75.34 - £23.80
75th Percentile £76.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £71.84 - £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 39,062 25,238 28,145
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.72% 90.90% 86.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,917 16,041 17,545
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £645
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,725 1,497 1,306
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £14.92
25th Percentile £17.85 £17.87 £20.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -1.91%
75th Percentile £68.00 £49.75 £66.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% +1.18%

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 16 September 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 16 September 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 +33 265 £528 -4.00% 425
North of England -21 91 £500 +8.23% 107
South West -10 53 £450 -10.00% 70
South East -43 51 £575 +21.05% 85
Yorkshire -15 45 £500 -16.39% 25
Midlands -36 44 £492 -5.37% 37
West Midlands -43 42 £492 -6.29% 17
North West -32 32 £525 +16.80% 60
North East -26 14 £450 +125.00% 23
East of England -40 8 £850 +54.55% 13
East Midlands -11 2 £500 +33.16% 20
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 (4.36%) Confluence
2 21 (3.98%) Apache Spark
3 16 (3.04%) Apache
4 15 (2.85%) Apache Airflow
5 14 (2.66%) SAS
5 14 (2.66%) SharePoint
6 7 (1.33%) CMS
7 3 (0.57%) Oracle Workflow
7 3 (0.57%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.38%) Camunda
8 2 (0.38%) IBM Transformation Extender
8 2 (0.38%) nginx
9 1 (0.19%) EPiServer
9 1 (0.19%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.19%) IBM HTTP Server
9 1 (0.19%) IIS
9 1 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.19%) WebSphere Application Server
9 1 (0.19%) WebSphere Portal
9 1 (0.19%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.57%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.19%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.19%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 5 (0.95%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.57%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.19%) Misys Equation
3 1 (0.19%) Misys Midas
3 1 (0.19%) SAP CRM
3 1 (0.19%) SAP MDG
3 1 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.19%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 302 (57.31%) Azure
2 192 (36.43%) AWS
3 160 (30.36%) Azure DevOps
4 122 (23.15%) GitHub
5 92 (17.46%) GitHub Actions
6 72 (13.66%) Serverless
7 65 (12.33%) GCP
8 50 (9.49%) AWS Lambda
9 44 (8.35%) Amazon S3
10 43 (8.16%) Azure Monitor
11 41 (7.78%) Amazon EKS
12 39 (7.40%) Azure AKS
12 39 (7.40%) Entra ID
13 37 (7.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 34 (6.45%) Amazon ECS
15 33 (6.26%) Amazon EC2
16 30 (5.69%) Power Platform
17 23 (4.36%) Azure Key Vault
18 22 (4.17%) Azure Data Factory
19 21 (3.98%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 38 (7.21%) Firewall
2 30 (5.69%) DNS
3 23 (4.36%) Network Security
4 17 (3.23%) VPN
5 15 (2.85%) TCP/IP
6 7 (1.33%) DHCP
6 7 (1.33%) SSH
7 6 (1.14%) DMZ
8 5 (0.95%) Kerberos
8 5 (0.95%) NGFW
8 5 (0.95%) SSL
9 4 (0.76%) Internet
10 3 (0.57%) Reverse Proxy
11 2 (0.38%) HTTP
11 2 (0.38%) HTTPS
11 2 (0.38%) OpenLDAP
12 1 (0.19%) BGP
12 1 (0.19%) FTP
12 1 (0.19%) MPLS
12 1 (0.19%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (5.88%) SQL Server
2 28 (5.31%) PostgreSQL
3 23 (4.36%) Power BI
4 22 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
5 21 (3.98%) Data Lake
5 21 (3.98%) Relational Database
6 19 (3.61%) NoSQL
7 16 (3.04%) Metadata
8 14 (2.66%) MongoDB
9 13 (2.47%) Amazon RDS
10 12 (2.28%) BigQuery
11 11 (2.09%) Geospatial Data
11 11 (2.09%) Pentaho
11 11 (2.09%) Redis
12 10 (1.90%) MySQL
13 9 (1.71%) Big Data
13 9 (1.71%) DynamoDB
13 9 (1.71%) Elasticsearch
13 9 (1.71%) Oracle Database
14 7 (1.33%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 142 (26.94%) Git
2 109 (20.68%) Jenkins
3 91 (17.27%) GitLab
4 40 (7.59%) JIRA
5 16 (3.04%) MSI
6 11 (2.09%) fastlane
6 11 (2.09%) Selenium
7 9 (1.71%) Gradle
8 8 (1.52%) JUnit
8 8 (1.52%) Visual Studio
9 6 (1.14%) Maven
9 6 (1.14%) SonarQube
9 6 (1.14%) Sonatype Nexus
9 6 (1.14%) Visual Studio Code
9 6 (1.14%) Xcode
10 5 (0.95%) Android Studio
10 5 (0.95%) Crashlytics
10 5 (0.95%) Cypress.io
10 5 (0.95%) MSBuild
10 5 (0.95%) TeamCity
General
1 154 (29.22%) Social Skills
2 88 (16.70%) Public Sector
3 73 (13.85%) Finance
4 56 (10.63%) Analytical Skills
5 33 (6.26%) Banking
6 18 (3.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (2.28%) Retail
8 11 (2.09%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (1.14%) Front Office
9 6 (1.14%) Marketing
10 5 (0.95%) Investment Banking
10 5 (0.95%) Manufacturing
11 4 (0.76%) Law
11 4 (0.76%) Legal
11 4 (0.76%) Military
12 3 (0.57%) Financial Institution
12 3 (0.57%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.57%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.38%) Back Office
13 2 (0.38%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 102 (19.35%) Developer
2 100 (18.98%) Senior
3 90 (17.08%) DevOps Engineer
4 49 (9.30%) Lead
5 48 (9.11%) Cloud Engineer
6 45 (8.54%) Data Engineer
7 43 (8.16%) Azure Engineer
8 39 (7.40%) Architect
9 36 (6.83%) Platform Engineer
10 29 (5.50%) Senior Developer
10 29 (5.50%) Software Engineer
11 27 (5.12%) AWS Engineer
12 24 (4.55%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 23 (4.36%) Senior DevOps
14 21 (3.98%) Full-Stack Developer
15 20 (3.80%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 19 (3.61%) AWS DevOps
17 18 (3.42%) GCP Engineer
18 16 (3.04%) AWS DevOps Engineer
18 16 (3.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 227 (43.07%) Terraform
2 100 (18.98%) REST
3 78 (14.80%) RESTful
4 69 (13.09%) .NET
5 54 (10.25%) React
6 47 (8.92%) Kafka
7 34 (6.45%) .NET Framework
7 34 (6.45%) HTML
8 32 (6.07%) CSS
8 32 (6.07%) Spring
8 32 (6.07%) Spring Boot
9 30 (5.69%) .NET Core
10 28 (5.31%) OAuth
11 26 (4.93%) ARM Templates
12 24 (4.55%) Node.js
13 23 (4.36%) HTML5
14 22 (4.17%) AngularJS
15 20 (3.80%) CSS3
15 20 (3.80%) PySpark
16 19 (3.61%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 153 (29.03%) Cloud Native
2 55 (10.44%) Product Ownership
3 40 (7.59%) Distributed Systems
4 36 (6.83%) Onboarding
5 35 (6.64%) Enterprise Software
6 18 (3.42%) Legacy Systems
7 17 (3.23%) Hybrid Cloud
8 13 (2.47%) Wiki
9 12 (2.28%) AI Agents
9 12 (2.28%) Enterprise Cloud
10 11 (2.09%) Mobile App
11 10 (1.90%) Security Posture
11 10 (1.90%) Self-Motivation
12 9 (1.71%) NHS
12 9 (1.71%) PKI
12 9 (1.71%) Replication
13 8 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
13 8 (1.52%) Linux Command Line
14 7 (1.33%) Management Information System
15 6 (1.14%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 73 (13.85%) Linux
2 48 (9.11%) Windows
3 21 (3.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 16 (3.04%) Unix
4 16 (3.04%) Windows Server
5 9 (1.71%) Apple iOS
6 7 (1.33%) Ubuntu
7 6 (1.14%) Android
8 4 (0.76%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.57%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.57%) VMS
10 2 (0.38%) Amazon Linux
10 2 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.38%) zOS
11 1 (0.19%) CentOS
11 1 (0.19%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.19%) Solaris
11 1 (0.19%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 445 (84.44%) CI/CD
2 337 (63.95%) DevOps
3 264 (50.09%) Infrastructure as Code
4 227 (43.07%) Agile
5 187 (35.48%) Test Automation
6 155 (29.41%) Containerisation
7 134 (25.43%) Observability
8 132 (25.05%) Continuous Improvement
9 109 (20.68%) Analytics
10 107 (20.30%) Microservices
11 103 (19.54%) Problem-Solving
12 98 (18.60%) DevSecOps
13 95 (18.03%) AI
14 92 (17.46%) Platform Engineering
14 92 (17.46%) Software Engineering
15 85 (16.13%) Scrum
16 74 (14.04%) Technical Leadership
17 71 (13.47%) Data Pipeline
18 65 (12.33%) Validation
19 64 (12.14%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 189 (35.86%) Python
2 107 (20.30%) SQL
3 91 (17.27%) PowerShell
4 82 (15.56%) Java
5 66 (12.52%) Bicep
6 65 (12.33%) Bash
6 65 (12.33%) JavaScript
7 64 (12.14%) C#
8 47 (8.92%) TypeScript
9 13 (2.47%) Shell Script
10 9 (1.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 9 (1.71%) Go
10 9 (1.71%) Kotlin
11 8 (1.52%) Apex Code
12 6 (1.14%) Kusto Query Language
12 6 (1.14%) Swift
13 5 (0.95%) Korn
13 5 (0.95%) Scala
14 3 (0.57%) Perl
14 3 (0.57%) PHP
Qualifications
1 186 (35.29%) Security Cleared
2 153 (29.03%) SC Cleared
3 37 (7.02%) Degree
4 31 (5.88%) DV Cleared
5 29 (5.50%) Azure Certification
6 26 (4.93%) AWS Certification
7 25 (4.74%) Computer Science Degree
8 17 (3.23%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (1.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 8 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (1.14%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 5 (0.95%) MCSE
12 4 (0.76%) CISSP
12 4 (0.76%) Master's Degree
13 3 (0.57%) GCFA
13 3 (0.57%) GCIH
13 3 (0.57%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 3 (0.57%) MCSA
14 2 (0.38%) ISTQB
15 1 (0.19%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (11.57%) QA
2 36 (6.83%) Accessibility
3 35 (6.64%) Data Quality
4 31 (5.88%) WCAG
5 16 (3.04%) GDPR
5 16 (3.04%) NCSC
6 4 (0.76%) HL7
6 4 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.57%) ISO 20022
7 3 (0.57%) NIST
7 3 (0.57%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.19%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.19%) EU AI Act
8 1 (0.19%) ISO 15022
8 1 (0.19%) PMO
8 1 (0.19%) SOC 2
System Software
1 160 (30.36%) Docker
2 29 (5.50%) Active Directory
3 16 (3.04%) Virtual Desktop
4 10 (1.90%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.95%) Microsoft App-V
5 5 (0.95%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.38%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 2 (0.38%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.19%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.19%) DFS Replication
7 1 (0.19%) Dovecot
7 1 (0.19%) Firmware
7 1 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.19%) Postfix
7 1 (0.19%) RACF
7 1 (0.19%) Squid
7 1 (0.19%) Time Sharing Option
7 1 (0.19%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 190 (36.05%) Kubernetes
2 73 (13.85%) Ansible
3 31 (5.88%) Grafana
4 25 (4.74%) Prometheus
5 20 (3.80%) Microsoft Intune
6 18 (3.42%) SCCM
7 12 (2.28%) Progress Chef
8 10 (1.90%) Puppet
9 7 (1.33%) Argo
9 7 (1.33%) Single Sign-On
10 6 (1.14%) Istio
10 6 (1.14%) WSUS
11 4 (0.76%) Control-M
12 3 (0.57%) CASB
12 3 (0.57%) Tivoli
13 2 (0.38%) Kibana
13 2 (0.38%) Podman
13 2 (0.38%) Tivoli Monitoring
14 1 (0.19%) Kubeflow
14 1 (0.19%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 148 (28.08%) Microsoft
2 38 (7.21%) Google
3 34 (6.45%) Databricks
4 30 (5.69%) Oracle
5 22 (4.17%) Dynatrace
6 19 (3.61%) Salesforce
7 17 (3.23%) Splunk
8 14 (2.66%) Red Hat
9 13 (2.47%) Talend
10 9 (1.71%) Denodo
10 9 (1.71%) IBM
11 7 (1.33%) Apple
11 7 (1.33%) ServiceNow
12 6 (1.14%) Citrix
12 6 (1.14%) MuleSoft
12 6 (1.14%) OpenAI
12 6 (1.14%) VMware
13 5 (0.95%) Confluent
13 5 (0.95%) CrowdStrike
13 5 (0.95%) ION Trading