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

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 247 257 301
Rank change year-on-year +10 +44 +45
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 478 271 233
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.05% 0.98% 0.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.23% 1.08% 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 322 212 160
10th Percentile £406 £335 £400
25th Percentile £447 £413 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £612
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% -10.17% +2.04%
75th Percentile £600 £619 £700
90th Percentile £675 £710 £775
UK median daily rate £513 £539 £612
% change year-on-year -4.83% -12.01% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 3
10th Percentile £69.35 - -
25th Percentile £73.63 - -
Median hourly rate £76.00 - £23.80
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £76.00 - £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 38,841 25,050 28,543
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.95% 90.82% 85.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,105 15,945 18,525
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £511 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.68% -2.61% -4.55%
75th Percentile £630 £626 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,548 1,450 1,590
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.20 £14.12
25th Percentile £19.25 £17.87 £18.14
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +5.81%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.45 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.56 £25.15 £40.94
% change year-on-year +65.23% -38.57% +0.61%

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 August 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 19 August 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 +14 226 £550 -1.79% 165
North of England -35 78 £500 +24.69% 56
South East -46 55 £555 +16.84% 41
Midlands -15 54 £492 -5.11% 22
West Midlands -31 48 £492 -5.69% 14
South West -19 44 £450 -15.29% 24
Yorkshire -26 35 £500 -14.16% 13
North West -37 30 £528 +34.22% 31
North East -27 13 £450 +20.00% 13
East of England -45 8 £850 +54.55% 11
East Midlands -14 6 £470 -1.05% 8
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 (5.86%) SAS
2 21 (4.39%) Apache Spark
2 21 (4.39%) Confluence
3 11 (2.30%) Apache
4 10 (2.09%) Apache Airflow
5 9 (1.88%) SharePoint
6 4 (0.84%) CMS
7 3 (0.63%) Oracle Workflow
7 3 (0.63%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.42%) Camunda
8 2 (0.42%) IBM HTTP Server
8 2 (0.42%) Oracle HTTP Server
8 2 (0.42%) WebSphere Application Server
8 2 (0.42%) WebSphere Portal
9 1 (0.21%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.21%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.21%) IIS
9 1 (0.21%) nginx
9 1 (0.21%) OpenROAD
9 1 (0.21%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 3 (0.63%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.21%) Misys Equation
2 1 (0.21%) Misys Midas
2 1 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.21%) SAP CRM
2 1 (0.21%) SAP MDG
2 1 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.21%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 263 (55.02%) Azure
2 175 (36.61%) AWS
3 139 (29.08%) Azure DevOps
4 112 (23.43%) GitHub
5 87 (18.20%) GitHub Actions
6 54 (11.30%) GCP
6 54 (11.30%) Serverless
7 43 (9.00%) AWS Lambda
8 40 (8.37%) Amazon S3
9 37 (7.74%) Amazon EKS
10 35 (7.32%) Azure Monitor
11 30 (6.28%) Azure AKS
12 29 (6.07%) Amazon ECS
13 28 (5.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 28 (5.86%) Entra ID
13 28 (5.86%) Power Platform
14 26 (5.44%) Amazon EC2
15 24 (5.02%) AWS CloudFormation
16 21 (4.39%) Amazon SQS
17 20 (4.18%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 34 (7.11%) Firewall
2 27 (5.65%) DNS
3 23 (4.81%) Network Security
4 16 (3.35%) VPN
5 14 (2.93%) TCP/IP
6 6 (1.26%) DHCP
6 6 (1.26%) DMZ
6 6 (1.26%) SSL
7 5 (1.05%) SSH
8 4 (0.84%) Internet
9 3 (0.63%) Kerberos
9 3 (0.63%) NGFW
9 3 (0.63%) Reverse Proxy
10 2 (0.42%) HTTP
11 1 (0.21%) BGP
11 1 (0.21%) HTTPS
11 1 (0.21%) MPLS
11 1 (0.21%) OSPF
11 1 (0.21%) VLAN
11 1 (0.21%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (5.65%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (5.23%) SQL Server
3 22 (4.60%) Power BI
4 19 (3.97%) Data Warehouse
4 19 (3.97%) Pentaho
5 18 (3.77%) NoSQL
5 18 (3.77%) Relational Database
6 15 (3.14%) Data Lake
7 12 (2.51%) MongoDB
7 12 (2.51%) Redis
8 11 (2.30%) Amazon RDS
8 11 (2.30%) Geospatial Data
8 11 (2.30%) Metadata
9 10 (2.09%) Big Data
10 9 (1.88%) Azure SQL Database
11 8 (1.67%) DynamoDB
11 8 (1.67%) MySQL
12 7 (1.46%) Amazon Athena
12 7 (1.46%) BigQuery
12 7 (1.46%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 128 (26.78%) Git
2 115 (24.06%) Jenkins
3 82 (17.15%) GitLab
4 43 (9.00%) JIRA
5 16 (3.35%) MSI
6 11 (2.30%) fastlane
7 9 (1.88%) Gradle
7 9 (1.88%) JUnit
7 9 (1.88%) Selenium
8 8 (1.67%) Visual Studio
9 6 (1.26%) Maven
9 6 (1.26%) Sonatype Nexus
9 6 (1.26%) Xcode
10 5 (1.05%) Android Studio
10 5 (1.05%) Crashlytics
10 5 (1.05%) MSBuild
10 5 (1.05%) SonarQube
10 5 (1.05%) Visual Studio Code
11 4 (0.84%) Cypress.io
11 4 (0.84%) TeamCity
General
1 136 (28.45%) Social Skills
2 90 (18.83%) Public Sector
3 63 (13.18%) Finance
4 49 (10.25%) Analytical Skills
5 29 (6.07%) Banking
6 17 (3.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (2.51%) Documentation Skills
8 9 (1.88%) Retail
9 7 (1.46%) Legal
10 6 (1.26%) Front Office
11 5 (1.05%) Investment Banking
11 5 (1.05%) Manufacturing
11 5 (1.05%) Marketing
12 4 (0.84%) Military
13 3 (0.63%) Financial Institution
14 2 (0.42%) Aerospace
14 2 (0.42%) Back Office
14 2 (0.42%) Law
14 2 (0.42%) Pharmaceutical
14 2 (0.42%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 93 (19.46%) Developer
1 93 (19.46%) Senior
2 70 (14.64%) DevOps Engineer
3 50 (10.46%) Data Engineer
4 44 (9.21%) Lead
5 41 (8.58%) Cloud Engineer
6 34 (7.11%) Architect
7 32 (6.69%) Azure Engineer
8 31 (6.49%) Platform Engineer
9 30 (6.28%) Senior Developer
10 27 (5.65%) Software Engineer
11 23 (4.81%) AWS Engineer
11 23 (4.81%) Full-Stack Developer
12 18 (3.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 17 (3.56%) Senior DevOps
14 14 (2.93%) AWS DevOps
14 14 (2.93%) Java Developer
14 14 (2.93%) Python Engineer
14 14 (2.93%) Senior Cloud Engineer
14 14 (2.93%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (16.95%) REST
2 75 (15.69%) RESTful
3 56 (11.72%) .NET
4 45 (9.41%) React
5 44 (9.21%) Kafka
6 30 (6.28%) .NET Framework
7 29 (6.07%) Spring
7 29 (6.07%) Spring Boot
8 28 (5.86%) .NET Core
9 27 (5.65%) HTML
10 25 (5.23%) CSS
11 21 (4.39%) Node.js
12 20 (4.18%) AngularJS
13 19 (3.97%) HTML5
13 19 (3.97%) OAuth
14 18 (3.77%) PySpark
15 16 (3.35%) ARM Templates
15 16 (3.35%) CSS3
15 16 (3.35%) YAML
16 14 (2.93%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 138 (28.87%) Cloud Native
2 41 (8.58%) Distributed Systems
3 38 (7.95%) Product Ownership
4 31 (6.49%) Onboarding
5 26 (5.44%) Enterprise Software
6 18 (3.77%) Legacy Systems
7 12 (2.51%) Hybrid Cloud
7 12 (2.51%) Mobile App
8 11 (2.30%) Security Posture
9 10 (2.09%) Enterprise Cloud
10 9 (1.88%) AI Agents
10 9 (1.88%) NHS
11 8 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
12 7 (1.46%) Wiki
13 6 (1.26%) Data Protection Act
13 6 (1.26%) Linux Command Line
13 6 (1.26%) Management Information System
13 6 (1.26%) PKI
13 6 (1.26%) Replication
14 4 (0.84%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 66 (13.81%) Linux
2 43 (9.00%) Windows
3 21 (4.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 14 (2.93%) Unix
5 13 (2.72%) Windows Server
6 8 (1.67%) Apple iOS
7 6 (1.26%) Android
7 6 (1.26%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.63%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.63%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.42%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (0.42%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 2 (0.42%) VMS
9 2 (0.42%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.21%) Amazon Linux
10 1 (0.21%) CentOS
10 1 (0.21%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 398 (83.26%) CI/CD
2 307 (64.23%) DevOps
3 223 (46.65%) Infrastructure as Code
4 211 (44.14%) Agile
5 181 (37.87%) Test Automation
6 135 (28.24%) Containerisation
7 123 (25.73%) Continuous Improvement
8 111 (23.22%) Analytics
9 103 (21.55%) Problem-Solving
10 101 (21.13%) Observability
11 97 (20.29%) Microservices
12 84 (17.57%) Scrum
13 80 (16.74%) Platform Engineering
14 78 (16.32%) DevSecOps
15 76 (15.90%) AI
15 76 (15.90%) Software Engineering
16 74 (15.48%) Data Pipeline
17 59 (12.34%) Configuration Management
18 58 (12.13%) Data Modelling
19 56 (11.72%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 176 (36.82%) Python
2 106 (22.18%) SQL
3 81 (16.95%) PowerShell
4 71 (14.85%) Java
5 54 (11.30%) C#
6 53 (11.09%) Bash
6 53 (11.09%) JavaScript
7 51 (10.67%) Bicep
8 38 (7.95%) TypeScript
9 10 (2.09%) Shell Script
10 9 (1.88%) Kotlin
11 7 (1.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 7 (1.46%) Go
12 6 (1.26%) Apex Code
12 6 (1.26%) Swift
13 5 (1.05%) Scala
14 4 (0.84%) Korn
14 4 (0.84%) Perl
15 3 (0.63%) PHP
15 3 (0.63%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 185 (38.70%) Security Cleared
2 152 (31.80%) SC Cleared
3 34 (7.11%) Degree
4 28 (5.86%) DV Cleared
5 22 (4.60%) AWS Certification
5 22 (4.60%) Azure Certification
5 22 (4.60%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (3.14%) Microsoft Certification
7 10 (2.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 8 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (1.26%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 4 (0.84%) CISSP
10 4 (0.84%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.84%) RHCE
11 3 (0.63%) CCNP
11 3 (0.63%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (0.63%) GCIH
11 3 (0.63%) MCSA
11 3 (0.63%) MCSE
11 3 (0.63%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (10.67%) QA
2 36 (7.53%) Accessibility
3 34 (7.11%) Data Quality
4 30 (6.28%) WCAG
5 14 (2.93%) GDPR
5 14 (2.93%) NCSC
6 4 (0.84%) HL7
6 4 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (0.63%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.63%) ISO 20022
7 3 (0.63%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.21%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.21%) ISO 15022
8 1 (0.21%) NIST
8 1 (0.21%) PMO
8 1 (0.21%) SLA
8 1 (0.21%) SOC 2
System Software
1 155 (32.43%) Docker
2 21 (4.39%) Active Directory
3 12 (2.51%) Virtual Desktop
4 9 (1.88%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (1.26%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (1.05%) Microsoft App-V
7 2 (0.42%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 2 (0.42%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.21%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.21%) Firmware
8 1 (0.21%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 196 (41.00%) Terraform
2 185 (38.70%) Kubernetes
3 67 (14.02%) Ansible
4 25 (5.23%) Grafana
5 20 (4.18%) Prometheus
6 18 (3.77%) SCCM
7 16 (3.35%) Microsoft Intune
8 14 (2.93%) Progress Chef
9 12 (2.51%) Puppet
10 6 (1.26%) Argo
10 6 (1.26%) Istio
10 6 (1.26%) Single Sign-On
11 5 (1.05%) WSUS
12 4 (0.84%) Control-M
13 3 (0.63%) CASB
14 2 (0.42%) CA Wily
14 2 (0.42%) Tivoli
15 1 (0.21%) Kubeflow
15 1 (0.21%) Kustomize
15 1 (0.21%) vRealize
Vendors
1 121 (25.31%) Microsoft
2 30 (6.28%) Oracle
3 29 (6.07%) Google
4 25 (5.23%) Databricks
5 21 (4.39%) Dynatrace
6 19 (3.97%) Talend
7 17 (3.56%) Denodo
7 17 (3.56%) Red Hat
7 17 (3.56%) Salesforce
8 14 (2.93%) Splunk
9 7 (1.46%) Apple
9 7 (1.46%) ServiceNow
9 7 (1.46%) VMware
10 6 (1.26%) Citrix
11 5 (1.05%) Bloomberg
11 5 (1.05%) CrowdStrike
11 5 (1.05%) IBM
11 5 (1.05%) ION Trading
11 5 (1.05%) Reuters
12 4 (0.84%) Confluent