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

 6 months to
26 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 278 245 314
Rank change year-on-year -33 +69 +1
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 387 262 243
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.89% 1.04% 0.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.04% 1.14% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 272 201 169
10th Percentile £403 £335 £400
25th Percentile £450 £413 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £594
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -7.41% -4.96%
75th Percentile £600 £630 £700
90th Percentile £675 £738 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 5
10th Percentile £60.02 - -
25th Percentile £74.68 - -
Median hourly rate £76.00 - £23.80
75th Percentile - - £67.02
90th Percentile - - £69.56
UK median hourly rate £76.00 - £23.80
% change year-on-year - - -63.94%

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 37,044 23,037 31,936
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.35% 91.39% 85.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,386 14,872 20,693
10th Percentile £325 £300 £304
25th Percentile £417 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £729 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £502 £525
% change year-on-year +2.54% -4.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,321 1,118 2,341
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.87 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +88.87% -34.02% +8.48%
75th Percentile £68.55 £55.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £82.25 £72.50 £72.90
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +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 26 June 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 26 June 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 26 June 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 -6 199 £550 - 56
North of England -36 63 £471 +19.72% 20
Midlands -35 41 £520 -3.17% 10
South East -48 34 £553 +22.78% 39
West Midlands -35 30 £525 -4.55% 7
North West -27 29 £500 +27.88% 11
South West -31 27 £488 -15.22% 12
Yorkshire -38 26 £488 -16.31% 4
East Midlands -5 10 £447 +11.61% 3
North East -26 8 £450 +20.00% 6
East of England -49 7 £700 +27.27% 10
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 (7.24%) SAS
2 15 (3.88%) Apache Spark
3 10 (2.58%) Confluence
4 7 (1.81%) Apache
5 6 (1.55%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (1.55%) Appian
5 6 (1.55%) Camunda
5 6 (1.55%) SharePoint
6 4 (1.03%) CMS
7 3 (0.78%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.52%) IBM HTTP Server
8 2 (0.52%) Oracle HTTP Server
8 2 (0.52%) Sitecore CMS
8 2 (0.52%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.52%) WebSphere Application Server
8 2 (0.52%) WebSphere Portal
9 1 (0.26%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.26%) OpenROAD
9 1 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 2 (0.52%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.26%) Cloudability
1 1 (0.26%) Misys Equation
1 1 (0.26%) Misys Midas
1 1 (0.26%) SAP MDG
1 1 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 200 (51.68%) Azure
2 139 (35.92%) AWS
3 94 (24.29%) GitHub
4 84 (21.71%) Azure DevOps
5 68 (17.57%) GitHub Actions
6 47 (12.14%) GCP
7 41 (10.59%) Serverless
8 29 (7.49%) Power Platform
9 28 (7.24%) Amazon S3
10 27 (6.98%) AWS Lambda
11 21 (5.43%) Azure Monitor
12 20 (5.17%) Azure Data Factory
13 19 (4.91%) AWS CloudFormation
14 16 (4.13%) Amazon EKS
14 16 (4.13%) Azure AKS
14 16 (4.13%) Azure Key Vault
15 14 (3.62%) Amazon ECS
15 14 (3.62%) Amazon SQS
15 14 (3.62%) Entra ID
15 14 (3.62%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 23 (5.94%) Firewall
2 15 (3.88%) DNS
2 15 (3.88%) VPN
3 13 (3.36%) Network Security
4 11 (2.84%) TCP/IP
5 7 (1.81%) DMZ
6 5 (1.29%) SSL
7 4 (1.03%) Software-Defined Networking
8 2 (0.52%) DHCP
8 2 (0.52%) HTTP
8 2 (0.52%) Kerberos
8 2 (0.52%) NGFW
8 2 (0.52%) Reverse Proxy
9 1 (0.26%) BGP
9 1 (0.26%) Cisco IOS
9 1 (0.26%) Cisco Nexus
9 1 (0.26%) MQTT
9 1 (0.26%) OpenLDAP
9 1 (0.26%) OSPF
9 1 (0.26%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (6.46%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (5.94%) SQL Server
3 21 (5.43%) Power BI
4 19 (4.91%) Relational Database
5 17 (4.39%) Pentaho
6 15 (3.88%) Data Warehouse
7 13 (3.36%) Redis
8 12 (3.10%) Data Lake
9 11 (2.84%) NoSQL
10 10 (2.58%) Amazon RDS
10 10 (2.58%) DynamoDB
11 9 (2.33%) Metadata
11 9 (2.33%) MongoDB
12 8 (2.07%) Amazon Athena
13 6 (1.55%) Big Data
13 6 (1.55%) MySQL
13 6 (1.55%) Pinecone
13 6 (1.55%) SAS Data Integration Studio
14 5 (1.29%) Aerospike
14 5 (1.29%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 92 (23.77%) Git
2 82 (21.19%) Jenkins
3 59 (15.25%) GitLab
4 29 (7.49%) JIRA
5 11 (2.84%) fastlane
6 10 (2.58%) JUnit
6 10 (2.58%) MSI
7 7 (1.81%) Gradle
8 6 (1.55%) MLflow
8 6 (1.55%) Mockito
8 6 (1.55%) Xcode
9 5 (1.29%) Android Studio
9 5 (1.29%) Crashlytics
10 4 (1.03%) Artifactory
10 4 (1.03%) git-flow
10 4 (1.03%) Selenium
10 4 (1.03%) SonarQube
10 4 (1.03%) Visual Studio
11 3 (0.78%) Maven
11 3 (0.78%) MSBuild
General
1 112 (28.94%) Social Skills
2 73 (18.86%) Public Sector
3 65 (16.80%) Finance
4 30 (7.75%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (5.94%) Banking
6 16 (4.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (3.10%) Legal
8 9 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (1.81%) Front Office
9 7 (1.81%) Investment Banking
9 7 (1.81%) Retail
10 3 (0.78%) Financial Institution
10 3 (0.78%) Law
11 2 (0.52%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.52%) Marketing
11 2 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.26%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.26%) Police
12 1 (0.26%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 73 (18.86%) Senior
2 65 (16.80%) Developer
3 58 (14.99%) DevOps Engineer
4 46 (11.89%) Data Engineer
5 33 (8.53%) Architect
6 30 (7.75%) Cloud Engineer
7 27 (6.98%) Lead
8 25 (6.46%) Azure Engineer
9 22 (5.68%) Platform Engineer
9 22 (5.68%) Senior Developer
9 22 (5.68%) Software Engineer
10 20 (5.17%) Full-Stack Developer
11 19 (4.91%) AWS Engineer
12 16 (4.13%) Senior DevOps
13 15 (3.88%) Salesforce Engineer
14 14 (3.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 13 (3.36%) Automation Engineer
15 13 (3.36%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 12 (3.10%) Python Engineer
17 11 (2.84%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (15.25%) RESTful
2 55 (14.21%) REST
3 36 (9.30%) React
4 35 (9.04%) .NET
5 30 (7.75%) Kafka
6 24 (6.20%) Node.js
7 20 (5.17%) OAuth
8 19 (4.91%) PySpark
9 18 (4.65%) AngularJS
10 16 (4.13%) FastAPI
11 15 (3.88%) .NET Framework
11 15 (3.88%) HTML
11 15 (3.88%) Spring
11 15 (3.88%) Spring Boot
12 14 (3.62%) CSS
12 14 (3.62%) pytest
12 14 (3.62%) YAML
13 13 (3.36%) .NET Core
13 13 (3.36%) Django
14 12 (3.10%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 98 (25.32%) Cloud Native
2 32 (8.27%) Distributed Systems
3 25 (6.46%) Product Ownership
4 19 (4.91%) Onboarding
5 17 (4.39%) Legacy Systems
6 14 (3.62%) Mobile App
7 12 (3.10%) Enterprise Software
8 9 (2.33%) Data Centre
8 9 (2.33%) Hybrid Cloud
9 7 (1.81%) Enterprise Cloud
9 7 (1.81%) NHS
9 7 (1.81%) Security Posture
10 6 (1.55%) Distributed Computing
10 6 (1.55%) Low-Code
11 5 (1.29%) Replication
11 5 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (1.03%) AI Agents
12 4 (1.03%) Client/Server
13 3 (0.78%) Distributed Architecture
13 3 (0.78%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 47 (12.14%) Linux
2 27 (6.98%) Windows
3 13 (3.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (1.81%) Unix
5 6 (1.55%) Apple iOS
5 6 (1.55%) Windows Server
6 5 (1.29%) Android
6 5 (1.29%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.78%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.52%) Oracle Linux
8 2 (0.52%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
8 2 (0.52%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.52%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.52%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.26%) Solaris
9 1 (0.26%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 309 (79.84%) CI/CD
2 234 (60.47%) DevOps
3 161 (41.60%) Infrastructure as Code
4 158 (40.83%) Agile
5 144 (37.21%) Test Automation
6 94 (24.29%) Analytics
7 86 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
8 85 (21.96%) Containerisation
9 70 (18.09%) Scrum
10 69 (17.83%) Microservices
11 68 (17.57%) Data Pipeline
12 67 (17.31%) AI
12 67 (17.31%) Continuous Improvement
13 66 (17.05%) Observability
14 64 (16.54%) Data Modelling
15 54 (13.95%) ETL
15 54 (13.95%) Platform Engineering
16 52 (13.44%) Software Engineering
17 50 (12.92%) Validation
18 49 (12.66%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 146 (37.73%) Python
2 80 (20.67%) SQL
3 60 (15.50%) PowerShell
4 55 (14.21%) Java
5 39 (10.08%) Bicep
6 38 (9.82%) C#
7 36 (9.30%) Bash
8 30 (7.75%) JavaScript
8 30 (7.75%) TypeScript
9 10 (2.58%) Apex Code
10 9 (2.33%) Kotlin
11 6 (1.55%) Swift
12 5 (1.29%) Go
13 4 (1.03%) Perl
13 4 (1.03%) Rust
13 4 (1.03%) Scala
13 4 (1.03%) Shell Script
14 3 (0.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 3 (0.78%) PHP
14 3 (0.78%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 128 (33.07%) Security Cleared
2 106 (27.39%) SC Cleared
3 23 (5.94%) Degree
4 17 (4.39%) Azure Certification
4 17 (4.39%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (3.88%) DV Cleared
6 13 (3.36%) Microsoft Certification
7 12 (3.10%) AWS Certification
8 11 (2.84%) BPSS Clearance
9 9 (2.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 5 (1.29%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 4 (1.03%) RHCE
12 3 (0.78%) CCNP
12 3 (0.78%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (0.78%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 3 (0.78%) MCSA
12 3 (0.78%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 2 (0.52%) MCSE
13 2 (0.52%) OCA
13 2 (0.52%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (10.08%) Data Quality
2 37 (9.56%) QA
3 26 (6.72%) Accessibility
4 22 (5.68%) WCAG
5 13 (3.36%) GDPR
6 7 (1.81%) NCSC
7 4 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.78%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (0.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.52%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.52%) HL7
10 1 (0.26%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.26%) EU AI Act
10 1 (0.26%) PMO
10 1 (0.26%) SLA
10 1 (0.26%) SOC 2
System Software
1 117 (30.23%) Docker
2 15 (3.88%) Virtual Machines
3 11 (2.84%) Active Directory
4 8 (2.07%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (1.29%) Hyper-V
5 5 (1.29%) Microsoft App-V
6 3 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.26%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 1 (0.26%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.26%) Firmware
7 1 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.26%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 144 (37.21%) Terraform
2 140 (36.18%) Kubernetes
3 45 (11.63%) Ansible
4 16 (4.13%) Prometheus
5 15 (3.88%) SCCM
6 13 (3.36%) Grafana
7 8 (2.07%) Microsoft Intune
8 7 (1.81%) Puppet
9 6 (1.55%) Istio
9 6 (1.55%) WSUS
10 5 (1.29%) Argo
11 4 (1.03%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.52%) CA Wily
12 2 (0.52%) Control-M
12 2 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.52%) Tivoli
13 1 (0.26%) FortiGate
13 1 (0.26%) Kustomize
13 1 (0.26%) QRadar
13 1 (0.26%) vRealize
Vendors
1 90 (23.26%) Microsoft
2 25 (6.46%) Google
3 23 (5.94%) Databricks
4 22 (5.68%) Salesforce
5 19 (4.91%) Oracle
6 18 (4.65%) Dynatrace
6 18 (4.65%) OpenAI
6 18 (4.65%) Talend
7 16 (4.13%) Denodo
8 11 (2.84%) Red Hat
9 8 (2.07%) Apple
10 7 (1.81%) Foundry
10 7 (1.81%) Splunk
11 6 (1.55%) Automation Anywhere
11 6 (1.55%) Bloomberg
11 6 (1.55%) Citrix
11 6 (1.55%) ION Trading
11 6 (1.55%) Reuters
11 6 (1.55%) UiPath
12 4 (1.03%) Palo Alto
125 Deployment Automation jobs in England