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 30 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 286 249 308
Rank change year-on-year -37 +59 -3
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 352 245 243
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.84% 1.02% 0.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.99% 1.12% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 244 191 173
10th Percentile £400 £308 £401
25th Percentile £450 £409 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £550 £594
Median % change year-on-year -5.91% -7.41% -1.00%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £700
90th Percentile £650 £738 £775
UK median daily rate £520 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -5.45% -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 4
10th Percentile £57.58 - -
25th Percentile £68.57 - £23.80
Median hourly rate £75.34 - £45.41
75th Percentile £76.00 - £68.08
90th Percentile - - £69.98
UK median hourly rate £75.34 - £45.41
% change year-on-year - - -33.71%

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 35,705 21,941 31,586
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.00% 91.32% 85.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,665 14,273 20,637
10th Percentile £325 £305 £300
25th Percentile £413 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £513 £525
% change year-on-year - -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,224 953 2,305
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.84
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.13 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.00 £28.55 £37.18
Median % change year-on-year +64.62% -23.21% -0.85%
75th Percentile £68.00 £60.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.05 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.30 £27.97 £36.50
% change year-on-year +51.26% -23.38% -1.35%

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 30 May 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 30 May 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 30 May 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 -5 186 £528 -4.00% 27
North of England -58 50 £473 +20.29% 18
Midlands -34 38 £515 -4.10% 4
South East -55 32 £544 +35.26% 22
South West -33 27 £553 -3.91% 4
West Midlands -49 27 £525 -4.55% 3
Yorkshire -54 23 £476 -2.86% 3
North West -37 22 £461 +17.90% 10
East Midlands -17 10 £420 -11.58% 1
North East -24 5 £450 -19.28% 5
East of England -56 4 £513 -6.77% 1
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 (7.95%) SAS
2 10 (2.84%) Apache Spark
3 8 (2.27%) Appian
4 6 (1.70%) Camunda
4 6 (1.70%) SharePoint
5 5 (1.42%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (1.14%) CMS
6 4 (1.14%) Confluence
7 3 (0.85%) Apache
7 3 (0.85%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.57%) IBM HTTP Server
8 2 (0.57%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.57%) Oracle HTTP Server
8 2 (0.57%) Sitecore CMS
8 2 (0.57%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.57%) WebSphere Application Server
8 2 (0.57%) WebSphere Portal
9 1 (0.28%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.28%) ColdFusion
9 1 (0.28%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 6 (1.70%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.57%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.28%) Cloudability
1 1 (0.28%) SAP MDG
1 1 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 177 (50.28%) Azure
2 119 (33.81%) AWS
3 85 (24.15%) GitHub
4 66 (18.75%) Azure DevOps
5 59 (16.76%) GitHub Actions
6 40 (11.36%) GCP
7 37 (10.51%) Serverless
8 29 (8.24%) Power Platform
9 21 (5.97%) Azure Monitor
10 20 (5.68%) AWS CloudFormation
10 20 (5.68%) AWS Lambda
11 19 (5.40%) Azure Data Factory
12 18 (5.11%) Amazon S3
13 16 (4.55%) Entra ID
13 16 (4.55%) PaaS
14 15 (4.26%) Azure Key Vault
15 14 (3.98%) Azure Functions
15 14 (3.98%) Power Automate
16 13 (3.69%) Azure AI
16 13 (3.69%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 19 (5.40%) Firewall
2 13 (3.69%) DNS
3 12 (3.41%) VPN
4 9 (2.56%) TCP/IP
5 8 (2.27%) Network Security
6 4 (1.14%) DMZ
6 4 (1.14%) Software-Defined Networking
6 4 (1.14%) SSL
7 3 (0.85%) DHCP
8 2 (0.57%) HTTP
8 2 (0.57%) Kerberos
8 2 (0.57%) NGFW
9 1 (0.28%) BGP
9 1 (0.28%) HTTPS
9 1 (0.28%) IPsec
9 1 (0.28%) MQTT
9 1 (0.28%) OSPF
9 1 (0.28%) Reverse Proxy
9 1 (0.28%) SMS
9 1 (0.28%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (5.68%) Power BI
1 20 (5.68%) SQL Server
2 18 (5.11%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (4.55%) Pentaho
4 15 (4.26%) Relational Database
5 14 (3.98%) Data Lake
6 13 (3.69%) Data Warehouse
7 9 (2.56%) DynamoDB
7 9 (2.56%) NoSQL
8 8 (2.27%) Amazon Athena
8 8 (2.27%) Metadata
8 8 (2.27%) MongoDB
8 8 (2.27%) Pinecone
8 8 (2.27%) Redis
9 7 (1.99%) Spark SQL
10 6 (1.70%) Amazon RDS
10 6 (1.70%) Azure SQL Database
10 6 (1.70%) Big Data
10 6 (1.70%) SAS Data Integration Studio
11 5 (1.42%) Aerospike
Development Applications
1 82 (23.30%) Git
2 67 (19.03%) Jenkins
3 53 (15.06%) GitLab
4 23 (6.53%) JIRA
5 9 (2.56%) JUnit
6 8 (2.27%) fastlane
6 8 (2.27%) MLflow
7 5 (1.42%) Artifactory
7 5 (1.42%) Gradle
7 5 (1.42%) Mockito
7 5 (1.42%) MSI
7 5 (1.42%) Selenium
8 4 (1.14%) Android Studio
8 4 (1.14%) Crashlytics
8 4 (1.14%) Cypress.io
8 4 (1.14%) git-flow
8 4 (1.14%) Xcode
9 3 (0.85%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.85%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.85%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 104 (29.55%) Social Skills
2 66 (18.75%) Public Sector
3 61 (17.33%) Finance
4 29 (8.24%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (4.55%) Banking
6 13 (3.69%) Legal
7 9 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (1.99%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (1.42%) Front Office
9 5 (1.42%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.14%) Retail
11 2 (0.57%) Marketing
12 1 (0.28%) Law
12 1 (0.28%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.28%) Military
12 1 (0.28%) Police
12 1 (0.28%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 59 (16.76%) Developer
2 54 (15.34%) Senior
3 46 (13.07%) DevOps Engineer
4 39 (11.08%) Data Engineer
5 35 (9.94%) Architect
6 23 (6.53%) Azure Engineer
7 22 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
7 22 (6.25%) Lead
8 20 (5.68%) Automation Engineer
8 20 (5.68%) Platform Engineer
9 18 (5.11%) Senior Developer
10 17 (4.83%) Full-Stack Developer
10 17 (4.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 13 (3.69%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 13 (3.69%) Salesforce Engineer
12 12 (3.41%) Software Engineer
13 11 (3.13%) Platform Architect
14 10 (2.84%) AWS Engineer
15 8 (2.27%) AWS Developer
15 8 (2.27%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (14.20%) RESTful
2 41 (11.65%) REST
3 30 (8.52%) React
4 27 (7.67%) .NET
4 27 (7.67%) Kafka
5 26 (7.39%) Node.js
6 18 (5.11%) OAuth
7 17 (4.83%) PySpark
8 16 (4.55%) pytest
9 15 (4.26%) AngularJS
10 14 (3.98%) FastAPI
10 14 (3.98%) Swagger
10 14 (3.98%) YAML
11 13 (3.69%) OpenAPI
11 13 (3.69%) Web Services
12 11 (3.13%) Django
12 11 (3.13%) Flask
12 11 (3.13%) HTML
13 10 (2.84%) CSS
13 10 (2.84%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 73 (20.74%) Cloud Native
2 23 (6.53%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (5.97%) Product Ownership
4 13 (3.69%) Legacy Systems
4 13 (3.69%) Onboarding
5 11 (3.13%) Mobile App
6 10 (2.84%) Distributed Computing
7 9 (2.56%) Data Centre
7 9 (2.56%) Hybrid Cloud
8 8 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (2.27%) Low-Code
9 6 (1.70%) Enterprise Cloud
10 4 (1.14%) NHS
10 4 (1.14%) Private Cloud
10 4 (1.14%) Replication
11 3 (0.85%) Algorithms
11 3 (0.85%) Client/Server
11 3 (0.85%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (0.85%) Derivative
11 3 (0.85%) Energy Derivatives
Operating Systems
1 41 (11.65%) Linux
2 21 (5.97%) Windows
3 6 (1.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (1.70%) Unix
3 6 (1.70%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.14%) Android
4 4 (1.14%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.85%) Mac OS
5 3 (0.85%) VMS
6 2 (0.57%) Oracle Linux
6 2 (0.57%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
6 2 (0.57%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.57%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.57%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 272 (77.27%) CI/CD
2 207 (58.81%) DevOps
3 144 (40.91%) Infrastructure as Code
4 127 (36.08%) Agile
5 124 (35.23%) Test Automation
6 81 (23.01%) Analytics
7 79 (22.44%) Problem-Solving
8 71 (20.17%) Containerisation
9 65 (18.47%) Data Pipeline
10 62 (17.61%) Data Modelling
10 62 (17.61%) Observability
11 58 (16.48%) Scrum
12 56 (15.91%) AI
12 56 (15.91%) ETL
13 55 (15.63%) Continuous Improvement
14 53 (15.06%) Microservices
15 51 (14.49%) Migration
16 43 (12.22%) Validation
17 42 (11.93%) Platform Engineering
18 40 (11.36%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 119 (33.81%) Python
2 78 (22.16%) SQL
3 58 (16.48%) PowerShell
4 50 (14.20%) Java
5 38 (10.80%) Bash
6 34 (9.66%) Bicep
7 31 (8.81%) JavaScript
8 28 (7.95%) C#
9 25 (7.10%) TypeScript
10 8 (2.27%) PHP
11 6 (1.70%) Apex Code
11 6 (1.70%) Kotlin
12 5 (1.42%) Go
13 4 (1.14%) Rust
13 4 (1.14%) Scala
13 4 (1.14%) Swift
14 3 (0.85%) Perl
14 3 (0.85%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.85%) SAS Macro
14 3 (0.85%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 117 (33.24%) Security Cleared
2 91 (25.85%) SC Cleared
3 19 (5.40%) Degree
4 17 (4.83%) Azure Certification
5 13 (3.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (3.69%) Microsoft Certification
6 12 (3.41%) BPSS Clearance
7 10 (2.84%) AWS Certification
7 10 (2.84%) DV Cleared
8 7 (1.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (1.14%) RHCE
10 3 (0.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 3 (0.85%) CCNP
10 3 (0.85%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (0.85%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 3 (0.85%) MCSA
11 2 (0.57%) AWS Certified Developer
11 2 (0.57%) MCSE
11 2 (0.57%) OCA
11 2 (0.57%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (11.36%) Data Quality
2 33 (9.38%) QA
3 20 (5.68%) Accessibility
4 15 (4.26%) GDPR
5 14 (3.98%) WCAG
6 7 (1.99%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 4 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.57%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.57%) NCSC
9 1 (0.28%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.28%) EU AI Act
9 1 (0.28%) HL7
9 1 (0.28%) SLA
9 1 (0.28%) SOC 2
System Software
1 103 (29.26%) Docker
2 15 (4.26%) Active Directory
3 14 (3.98%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (2.27%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (1.42%) Hyper-V
5 5 (1.42%) Microsoft App-V
6 2 (0.57%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.28%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.28%) Firmware
7 1 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 127 (36.08%) Terraform
2 123 (34.94%) Kubernetes
3 39 (11.08%) Ansible
4 14 (3.98%) SCCM
5 13 (3.69%) Prometheus
6 10 (2.84%) Grafana
7 9 (2.56%) Microsoft Intune
8 8 (2.27%) Puppet
9 6 (1.70%) Istio
10 4 (1.14%) Argo
10 4 (1.14%) Progress Chef
10 4 (1.14%) WSUS
11 2 (0.57%) CA Wily
11 2 (0.57%) Tivoli
12 1 (0.28%) Kustomize
12 1 (0.28%) Podman
12 1 (0.28%) QRadar
12 1 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 86 (24.43%) Microsoft
2 22 (6.25%) Google
2 22 (6.25%) Salesforce
3 20 (5.68%) OpenAI
4 17 (4.83%) Oracle
4 17 (4.83%) Talend
5 16 (4.55%) Denodo
6 15 (4.26%) Databricks
7 13 (3.69%) Dynatrace
8 9 (2.56%) Red Hat
9 8 (2.27%) Automation Anywhere
9 8 (2.27%) UiPath
10 7 (1.99%) Splunk
11 6 (1.70%) Apple
11 6 (1.70%) Foundry
12 4 (1.14%) Bloomberg
12 4 (1.14%) Citrix
12 4 (1.14%) ION Trading
12 4 (1.14%) Palo Alto
12 4 (1.14%) Reuters