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 17 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 277 285 333
Rank change year-on-year +8 +48 -43
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 340 200 224
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.92% 0.81% 0.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.07% 0.90% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 237 143 164
10th Percentile £393 £380 £450
25th Percentile £431 £425 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -9.57% - -8.23%
75th Percentile £580 £736 £700
90th Percentile £675 £825 £738
UK median daily rate £515 £565 £575
% change year-on-year -8.85% -1.74% -5.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 4
10th Percentile £27.08 - -
25th Percentile £35.77 £82.50 £22.00
Median hourly rate £50.50 £85.00 £44.51
Median % change year-on-year -40.59% +90.97% -31.52%
75th Percentile £62.72 £87.50 £68.08
90th Percentile £69.89 - £69.98
UK median hourly rate £50.50 £85.00 £44.51
% change year-on-year -40.59% +90.97% -31.52%

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 31,848 22,266 32,932
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.46% 90.63% 86.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,386 14,474 21,796
10th Percentile £313 £310 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.29% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £640 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,978 815 2,152
10th Percentile £15.29 £15.18 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.00 £16.06
Median hourly rate £30.79 £34.11 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.73% +4.95% -12.87%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.50 £70.50
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -7.69% - -7.14%

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 17 March 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 17 March 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 17 March 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 -3 170 £525 -16.67% 50
Midlands -17 51 £515 -4.10% 12
North of England -54 39 £475 +14.46% 31
West Midlands -36 38 £520 -25.71% 11
South East -31 28 £553 +37.44% 28
South West -17 27 £544 -5.43% 14
North West -25 18 £414 +5.48% 19
Yorkshire -45 18 £491 -14.61% 6
East Midlands -22 12 £402 -6.84% 1
East of England -27 6 £550 +32.53% 1
North East -13 3 £500 -10.31% 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 34 (10.00%) SAS
2 8 (2.35%) Appian
3 7 (2.06%) SharePoint
4 6 (1.76%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.76%) Camunda
5 5 (1.47%) Apache
5 5 (1.47%) Confluence
6 4 (1.18%) JBoss
6 4 (1.18%) WebLogic
7 3 (0.88%) Anypoint
7 3 (0.88%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.88%) CMS
7 3 (0.88%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.59%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.29%) IBM HTTP Server
9 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.29%) OpenROAD
9 1 (0.29%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.29%) WebSphere Application Server
9 1 (0.29%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 7 (2.06%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.59%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.29%) Cloudability
1 1 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.29%) Endur
1 1 (0.29%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 133 (39.12%) Azure
2 104 (30.59%) AWS
3 74 (21.76%) GitHub
4 54 (15.88%) GitHub Actions
5 51 (15.00%) Azure DevOps
6 33 (9.71%) Serverless
7 32 (9.41%) GCP
8 28 (8.24%) Power Platform
9 22 (6.47%) AWS CloudFormation
10 19 (5.59%) Amazon S3
11 17 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
12 16 (4.71%) OpenShift
12 16 (4.71%) Power Automate
13 15 (4.41%) Azure Functions
13 15 (4.41%) Entra ID
14 14 (4.12%) Azure Data Factory
15 13 (3.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 13 (3.82%) Amazon EC2
15 13 (3.82%) Azure AI
16 12 (3.53%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.24%) Firewall
2 9 (2.65%) DNS
2 9 (2.65%) HTTPS
3 8 (2.35%) TCP/IP
4 7 (2.06%) Network Security
5 6 (1.76%) VPN
6 5 (1.47%) DHCP
6 5 (1.47%) Software-Defined Networking
6 5 (1.47%) SSL
7 2 (0.59%) BGP
7 2 (0.59%) DMZ
7 2 (0.59%) HTTP
7 2 (0.59%) Internet
8 1 (0.29%) Cisco IOS
8 1 (0.29%) Cisco Nexus
8 1 (0.29%) IPsec
8 1 (0.29%) OSPF
8 1 (0.29%) SMS
8 1 (0.29%) SNMP
8 1 (0.29%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (7.65%) Pentaho
2 18 (5.29%) Power BI
2 18 (5.29%) SQL Server
3 14 (4.12%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (4.12%) Relational Database
4 11 (3.24%) Amazon RDS
4 11 (3.24%) NoSQL
5 10 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
5 10 (2.94%) Redis
6 9 (2.65%) Azure SQL Database
7 8 (2.35%) Aerospike
7 8 (2.35%) Data Lake
7 8 (2.35%) MongoDB
7 8 (2.35%) Pinecone
7 8 (2.35%) Spark SQL
8 7 (2.06%) DynamoDB
9 5 (1.47%) Oracle Database
10 4 (1.18%) Amazon Athena
10 4 (1.18%) Metadata
10 4 (1.18%) SAS Enterprise Guide
Development Applications
1 96 (28.24%) Git
2 89 (26.18%) Jenkins
3 50 (14.71%) GitLab
4 32 (9.41%) JIRA
5 14 (4.12%) JUnit
6 8 (2.35%) MLflow
7 7 (2.06%) Bitbucket
8 6 (1.76%) Selenium
9 5 (1.47%) CircleCI
9 5 (1.47%) Mockito
10 4 (1.18%) Artifactory
10 4 (1.18%) Eclipse
10 4 (1.18%) IntelliJ
11 3 (0.88%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 3 (0.88%) Maven
11 3 (0.88%) MSI
12 2 (0.59%) Cypress.io
12 2 (0.59%) Gradle
12 2 (0.59%) LoadRunner
12 2 (0.59%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 121 (35.59%) Social Skills
2 69 (20.29%) Public Sector
3 62 (18.24%) Finance
4 42 (12.35%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (2.94%) Banking
5 10 (2.94%) Legal
6 7 (2.06%) Marketing
7 4 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (0.88%) Front Office
8 3 (0.88%) Manufacturing
8 3 (0.88%) Military
9 2 (0.59%) Back Office
9 2 (0.59%) Electronics
9 2 (0.59%) Investment Banking
9 2 (0.59%) Police
9 2 (0.59%) Retail
9 2 (0.59%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.29%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 71 (20.88%) Developer
2 40 (11.76%) Architect
3 39 (11.47%) DevOps Engineer
4 38 (11.18%) Data Engineer
5 28 (8.24%) Senior
6 24 (7.06%) Platform Engineer
7 22 (6.47%) Automation Engineer
7 22 (6.47%) Azure Engineer
7 22 (6.47%) Lead
8 14 (4.12%) Full-Stack Developer
9 12 (3.53%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 12 (3.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 11 (3.24%) Platform Architect
11 10 (2.94%) AWS Engineer
11 10 (2.94%) Cloud Engineer
11 10 (2.94%) Python Developer
11 10 (2.94%) Technical Architect
12 8 (2.35%) React Developer
12 8 (2.35%) SAS Engineer
13 7 (2.06%) AWS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (15.88%) REST
2 40 (11.76%) RESTful
3 33 (9.71%) React
4 26 (7.65%) Node.js
4 26 (7.65%) SOAP
5 23 (6.76%) JSON
5 23 (6.76%) Kafka
5 23 (6.76%) pytest
6 19 (5.59%) AngularJS
7 18 (5.29%) Spring
8 17 (5.00%) PySpark
8 17 (5.00%) XML
9 16 (4.71%) .NET
9 16 (4.71%) HTML
9 16 (4.71%) YAML
10 15 (4.41%) FastAPI
10 15 (4.41%) OAuth
10 15 (4.41%) Web Services
11 14 (4.12%) Spring Boot
11 14 (4.12%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 47 (13.82%) Cloud Native
2 16 (4.71%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (4.12%) Legacy Systems
4 12 (3.53%) Product Ownership
5 10 (2.94%) Data Centre
6 9 (2.65%) Distributed Computing
6 9 (2.65%) Hybrid Cloud
7 8 (2.35%) Low-Code
8 6 (1.76%) Data Protection Act
8 6 (1.76%) Onboarding
8 6 (1.76%) Private Cloud
8 6 (1.76%) Security Posture
9 5 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (1.47%) Mobile App
9 5 (1.47%) NHS
10 4 (1.18%) Algorithms
10 4 (1.18%) Enterprise Cloud
10 4 (1.18%) PKI
11 3 (0.88%) Cyber Threat
11 3 (0.88%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 50 (14.71%) Linux
2 22 (6.47%) Windows
3 8 (2.35%) Unix
3 8 (2.35%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.18%) VMS
6 2 (0.59%) Android
6 2 (0.59%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.59%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.29%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.29%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (0.29%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
7 1 (0.29%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 251 (73.82%) CI/CD
2 209 (61.47%) DevOps
3 127 (37.35%) Infrastructure as Code
4 126 (37.06%) Agile
5 123 (36.18%) Test Automation
6 117 (34.41%) Problem-Solving
7 78 (22.94%) Analytics
8 74 (21.76%) Containerisation
9 65 (19.12%) Continuous Improvement
10 62 (18.24%) Data Modelling
11 60 (17.65%) Data Pipeline
12 59 (17.35%) ETL
13 57 (16.76%) Scrum
14 53 (15.59%) Microservices
15 52 (15.29%) Infrastructure Automation
16 49 (14.41%) Business Intelligence
16 49 (14.41%) Observability
17 43 (12.65%) Migration
18 38 (11.18%) AI
19 35 (10.29%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 124 (36.47%) Python
2 93 (27.35%) SQL
3 53 (15.59%) PowerShell
4 51 (15.00%) Java
5 43 (12.65%) Bash
6 35 (10.29%) JavaScript
7 31 (9.12%) TypeScript
8 23 (6.76%) Bicep
9 19 (5.59%) C#
10 9 (2.65%) PHP
11 7 (2.06%) Apex Code
12 6 (1.76%) Scala
13 4 (1.18%) T-SQL
14 3 (0.88%) DataWeave
14 3 (0.88%) Go
14 3 (0.88%) Groovy
14 3 (0.88%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.88%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.88%) Rust
15 2 (0.59%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 138 (40.59%) Security Cleared
2 108 (31.76%) SC Cleared
3 15 (4.41%) AWS Certification
4 14 (4.12%) Degree
5 12 (3.53%) Azure Certification
6 11 (3.24%) DV Cleared
7 9 (2.65%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (2.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 8 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (2.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 7 (2.06%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (1.47%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 4 (1.18%) CCNP
11 4 (1.18%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (1.18%) Oracle Certification
12 3 (0.88%) CISSP
12 3 (0.88%) OCA
12 3 (0.88%) RHCE
13 2 (0.59%) RHCA
14 1 (0.29%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (12.06%) Data Quality
2 27 (7.94%) QA
3 11 (3.24%) GDPR
4 9 (2.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (2.35%) Accessibility
6 7 (2.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 6 (1.76%) NIST
8 5 (1.47%) NCSC
9 4 (1.18%) WCAG
10 3 (0.88%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.59%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.29%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.29%) SOC 2
System Software
1 115 (33.82%) Docker
2 18 (5.29%) Active Directory
3 15 (4.41%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (1.76%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (1.47%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.59%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.59%) Xen
7 1 (0.29%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.29%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 126 (37.06%) Kubernetes
2 121 (35.59%) Terraform
3 46 (13.53%) Ansible
4 18 (5.29%) Grafana
5 17 (5.00%) Prometheus
6 10 (2.94%) Puppet
7 6 (1.76%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (1.47%) Podman
8 5 (1.47%) SCCM
9 4 (1.18%) Istio
9 4 (1.18%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.88%) Argo
10 3 (0.88%) CloudHub
10 3 (0.88%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (0.88%) Packer
10 3 (0.88%) Proxmox
11 2 (0.59%) Consul
11 2 (0.59%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (0.59%) vRealize
12 1 (0.29%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 77 (22.65%) Microsoft
2 27 (7.94%) Talend
3 26 (7.65%) Denodo
4 24 (7.06%) Salesforce
5 23 (6.76%) Oracle
6 19 (5.59%) OpenAI
7 18 (5.29%) Google
8 15 (4.41%) Databricks
9 14 (4.12%) VMware
10 13 (3.82%) Splunk
11 11 (3.24%) webMethods
12 9 (2.65%) SAP
13 8 (2.35%) Automation Anywhere
13 8 (2.35%) IBM
13 8 (2.35%) Red Hat
13 8 (2.35%) UiPath
14 6 (1.76%) Foundry
14 6 (1.76%) Software AG
15 5 (1.47%) Cribl.io
15 5 (1.47%) Palo Alto