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 19 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
19 Jan 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 275 338 368
Rank change year-on-year +63 +30 -75
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 295 150 180
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.93% 0.56% 0.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.06% 0.63% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 220 95 121
10th Percentile £392 £363 £463
25th Percentile £430 £454 £514
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -13.67% +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £600 £750 £663
90th Percentile £688 £838 £738
UK median daily rate £515 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -14.17% +4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 4
10th Percentile £26.63 - -
25th Percentile £34.64 £82.50 £22.00
Median hourly rate £48.63 £85.00 £44.51
Median % change year-on-year -42.79% +90.97% -
75th Percentile £61.98 £87.50 £68.08
90th Percentile £69.60 - £69.98
UK median hourly rate £48.63 £85.00 £44.51
% change year-on-year -42.79% +90.97% -

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 27,911 23,801 32,210
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.11% 89.29% 87.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,824 14,585 21,671
10th Percentile £304 £310 £304
25th Percentile £409 £413 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £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 1,743 772 1,617
10th Percentile £15.18 £15.62 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.88 £20.94 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -12.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile £57.50 £64.20 £64.50
90th Percentile £69.43 £75.00 £75.84
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £38.85
% change year-on-year -22.62% -16.34% +19.54%

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 19 January 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 19 January 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 19 January 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 +15 128 £510 -19.05% 36
Midlands +6 59 £519 -15.28% 31
West Midlands +7 52 £525 -14.22% 12
North of England -28 36 £482 -4.08% 39
South West +4 21 £550 -19.71% 32
South East -2 21 £538 +26.47% 61
North West -14 20 £462 +15.50% 14
Yorkshire -36 13 £500 -18.70% 19
East Midlands -18 7 £393 +4.80% 19
East of England -19 5 £531 +195.14% 34
North East -15 3 £500 -11.50% 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 38 (12.88%) SAS
2 14 (4.75%) Apache
3 13 (4.41%) JBoss
4 8 (2.71%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (2.71%) WebLogic
5 6 (2.03%) nginx
5 6 (2.03%) SharePoint
6 5 (1.69%) Confluence
6 5 (1.69%) IIS
6 5 (1.69%) iPlanet
6 5 (1.69%) WebSphere
6 5 (1.69%) WebSphere Application Server
7 4 (1.36%) Appian
7 4 (1.36%) Oracle Workflow
8 3 (1.02%) Anypoint
8 3 (1.02%) Apache Spark
8 3 (1.02%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.34%) CMS
9 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.34%) Traefik
Applications
1 5 (1.69%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.68%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (1.02%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.34%) Endur
2 1 (0.34%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 96 (32.54%) Azure
2 90 (30.51%) AWS
3 67 (22.71%) GitHub
4 47 (15.93%) GitHub Actions
5 36 (12.20%) Azure DevOps
6 30 (10.17%) Serverless
7 21 (7.12%) AWS Lambda
8 20 (6.78%) Power Platform
9 18 (6.10%) GCP
10 17 (5.76%) AWS CloudFormation
10 17 (5.76%) OpenShift
11 14 (4.75%) Entra ID
12 13 (4.41%) Amazon S3
13 11 (3.73%) Power Automate
14 10 (3.39%) Azure Data Factory
15 9 (3.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 9 (3.05%) Amazon EC2
15 9 (3.05%) Amazon EKS
15 9 (3.05%) Azure Functions
15 9 (3.05%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 21 (7.12%) HTTPS
2 9 (3.05%) SSL
3 7 (2.37%) Firewall
4 6 (2.03%) TCP/IP
5 5 (1.69%) DHCP
5 5 (1.69%) DNS
5 5 (1.69%) Kerberos
6 4 (1.36%) VPN
7 3 (1.02%) Network Security
8 2 (0.68%) DMZ
8 2 (0.68%) Internet
9 1 (0.34%) BGP
9 1 (0.34%) Calico
9 1 (0.34%) Ethernet VPN
9 1 (0.34%) HTTP
9 1 (0.34%) SMS
9 1 (0.34%) Software-Defined Networking
9 1 (0.34%) VSAN
9 1 (0.34%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (11.19%) Pentaho
2 19 (6.44%) Relational Database
3 16 (5.42%) SQL Server
4 13 (4.41%) Oracle Database
4 13 (4.41%) Power BI
5 11 (3.73%) SAS Enterprise Guide
6 10 (3.39%) MongoDB
6 10 (3.39%) PostgreSQL
7 9 (3.05%) Amazon RDS
7 9 (3.05%) NoSQL
8 8 (2.71%) Azure SQL Database
8 8 (2.71%) Data Lake
8 8 (2.71%) Data Warehouse
8 8 (2.71%) Redis
8 8 (2.71%) Spark SQL
9 6 (2.03%) Aerospike
9 6 (2.03%) Apache Cassandra
10 5 (1.69%) DynamoDB
10 5 (1.69%) SAS Visual Analytics
11 4 (1.36%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 96 (32.54%) Git
2 85 (28.81%) Jenkins
3 45 (15.25%) JIRA
4 42 (14.24%) GitLab
5 13 (4.41%) JUnit
6 9 (3.05%) Selenium
7 8 (2.71%) Eclipse
7 8 (2.71%) IntelliJ
8 6 (2.03%) Sonatype Nexus
9 5 (1.69%) Bitbucket
9 5 (1.69%) Bitbucket Server
9 5 (1.69%) CA Release Automation
9 5 (1.69%) CircleCI
10 4 (1.36%) Artifactory
10 4 (1.36%) MLflow
11 3 (1.02%) Maven
11 3 (1.02%) MSI
11 3 (1.02%) SonarQube
12 2 (0.68%) Cypress.io
12 2 (0.68%) Gradle
General
1 110 (37.29%) Social Skills
2 60 (20.34%) Public Sector
3 42 (14.24%) Finance
4 29 (9.83%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (2.71%) Influencing Skills
6 7 (2.37%) Marketing
7 6 (2.03%) Banking
8 5 (1.69%) Digital Healthcare
9 4 (1.36%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.02%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.02%) Legal
10 3 (1.02%) Military
10 3 (1.02%) Retail
11 2 (0.68%) Back Office
11 2 (0.68%) Electronics
11 2 (0.68%) Front Office
11 2 (0.68%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.68%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.68%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 79 (26.78%) Developer
2 34 (11.53%) DevOps Engineer
3 27 (9.15%) Architect
4 24 (8.14%) Data Engineer
5 19 (6.44%) Senior
6 16 (5.42%) Automation Engineer
6 16 (5.42%) Lead
7 15 (5.08%) Platform Engineer
8 12 (4.07%) Python Developer
8 12 (4.07%) webMethods Developer
9 11 (3.73%) Azure Engineer
10 10 (3.39%) Technical Architect
11 9 (3.05%) Cloud Engineer
11 9 (3.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 8 (2.71%) AWS Engineer
12 8 (2.71%) Full-Stack Developer
12 8 (2.71%) Full-Stack Python Developer
12 8 (2.71%) SAS Engineer
13 7 (2.37%) Azure Architect
13 7 (2.37%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (18.31%) REST
2 45 (15.25%) SOAP
3 44 (14.92%) JSON
4 41 (13.90%) XML
5 31 (10.51%) RESTful
6 29 (9.83%) React
7 26 (8.81%) OAuth
8 22 (7.46%) HTML
9 21 (7.12%) pytest
10 17 (5.76%) PySpark
10 17 (5.76%) Spring
11 16 (5.42%) Node.js
12 15 (5.08%) Kafka
13 14 (4.75%) Jest
14 13 (4.41%) .NET
14 13 (4.41%) AngularJS
15 12 (4.07%) FastAPI
15 12 (4.07%) JMS
16 11 (3.73%) Web Services
17 10 (3.39%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 37 (12.54%) Cloud Native
2 13 (4.41%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (2.71%) Data Protection Act
3 8 (2.71%) Distributed Computing
4 7 (2.37%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (2.37%) Private Cloud
4 7 (2.37%) Product Ownership
5 6 (2.03%) Data Centre
6 5 (1.69%) NHS
6 5 (1.69%) Onboarding
6 5 (1.69%) Security Posture
7 4 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.36%) Low-Code
8 3 (1.02%) CMDB
8 3 (1.02%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.02%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (1.02%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.68%) Management Information System
9 2 (0.68%) PACS
Operating Systems
1 46 (15.59%) Linux
2 23 (7.80%) Windows
3 15 (5.08%) Unix
4 10 (3.39%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.69%) VMS
6 2 (0.68%) Android
6 2 (0.68%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.34%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 210 (71.19%) CI/CD
2 199 (67.46%) DevOps
3 120 (40.68%) Agile
4 114 (38.64%) Test Automation
5 105 (35.59%) Problem-Solving
6 101 (34.24%) Infrastructure as Code
7 77 (26.10%) Containerisation
8 68 (23.05%) Analytics
9 59 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
10 58 (19.66%) Continuous Improvement
11 56 (18.98%) ETL
11 56 (18.98%) Scrum
12 55 (18.64%) Data Modelling
13 52 (17.63%) Microservices
14 48 (16.27%) Business Intelligence
14 48 (16.27%) Infrastructure Automation
15 40 (13.56%) Data Integration
16 38 (12.88%) Migration
17 34 (11.53%) Observability
18 33 (11.19%) Data Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 95 (32.20%) Python
2 94 (31.86%) SQL
3 49 (16.61%) Java
4 34 (11.53%) PowerShell
5 31 (10.51%) JavaScript
6 30 (10.17%) Bash
7 29 (9.83%) TypeScript
8 13 (4.41%) Bicep
9 9 (3.05%) C#
9 9 (3.05%) Groovy
9 9 (3.05%) Scala
10 8 (2.71%) PHP
11 7 (2.37%) Shell Script
12 5 (1.69%) T-SQL
13 4 (1.36%) Go
14 3 (1.02%) DataWeave
15 2 (0.68%) Apex Code
15 2 (0.68%) Kotlin
15 2 (0.68%) Rust
16 1 (0.34%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 136 (46.10%) Security Cleared
2 113 (38.31%) SC Cleared
3 18 (6.10%) Degree
4 12 (4.07%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (3.73%) DV Cleared
6 9 (3.05%) AWS Certification
7 8 (2.71%) Azure Certification
8 6 (2.03%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 6 (2.03%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (2.03%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (1.36%) Master's Degree
9 4 (1.36%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 3 (1.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (1.02%) Oracle Certification
11 2 (0.68%) CISSP
11 2 (0.68%) OCP
12 1 (0.34%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.34%) CISM
12 1 (0.34%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.34%) OCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (13.22%) Data Quality
2 23 (7.80%) QA
3 9 (3.05%) GDPR
4 7 (2.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (2.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 6 (2.03%) Accessibility
5 6 (2.03%) NIST
6 5 (1.69%) NCSC
7 3 (1.02%) WCAG
8 2 (0.68%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.68%) SLA
9 1 (0.34%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.34%) NIST 800
System Software
1 122 (41.36%) Docker
2 22 (7.46%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.37%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (2.37%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.69%) Tivoli Directory Server
5 3 (1.02%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.68%) Xen
7 1 (0.34%) etcd
7 1 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.34%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 109 (36.95%) Kubernetes
2 87 (29.49%) Terraform
3 34 (11.53%) Ansible
4 18 (6.10%) Grafana
5 15 (5.08%) Prometheus
6 13 (4.41%) Puppet
7 10 (3.39%) Single Sign-On
8 8 (2.71%) Progress Chef
9 5 (1.69%) CA Single Sign-On
9 5 (1.69%) CA Wily
9 5 (1.69%) Podman
9 5 (1.69%) Tivoli
10 4 (1.36%) ITRS Geneos
10 4 (1.36%) Packer
11 3 (1.02%) CloudHub
11 3 (1.02%) Istio
11 3 (1.02%) Proxmox
11 3 (1.02%) SCCM
11 3 (1.02%) vRealize
12 2 (0.68%) Consul
Vendors
1 74 (25.08%) Microsoft
2 44 (14.92%) Oracle
3 34 (11.53%) Talend
4 33 (11.19%) Denodo
5 21 (7.12%) webMethods
6 16 (5.42%) Databricks
6 16 (5.42%) IBM
7 15 (5.08%) Splunk
7 15 (5.08%) VMware
8 14 (4.75%) SAP
9 12 (4.07%) Salesforce
10 11 (3.73%) Software AG
11 10 (3.39%) Google
12 8 (2.71%) Axway
13 7 (2.37%) OpenAI
14 6 (2.03%) Pega
15 5 (1.69%) AppDynamics
15 5 (1.69%) Broadcom
15 5 (1.69%) Cribl.io
15 5 (1.69%) ServiceNow
225 Deployment Automation jobs in England