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

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 274 249 314
Rank change year-on-year -25 +65 0
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 374 248 241
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.87% 1.00% 0.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.02% 1.10% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 266 195 169
10th Percentile £402 £330 £400
25th Percentile £450 £413 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £594
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -7.41% -4.96%
75th Percentile £586 £625 £700
90th Percentile £654 £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 - - -65.26%

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 36,560 22,594 31,972
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.16% 91.33% 85.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,106 14,607 20,685
10th Percentile £325 £303 £300
25th Percentile £415 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.48% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £726 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +0.99% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,294 1,062 2,382
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.10 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.00 £27.45 £37.75
Median % change year-on-year +71.22% -27.28% +7.09%
75th Percentile £68.00 £57.50 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £26.27 £37.34
% change year-on-year +67.37% -29.66% +6.69%

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 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 17 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 17 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 -4 194 £550 - 63
North of England -44 55 £471 +18.66% 28
Midlands -28 40 £520 -4.32% 10
South East -45 34 £550 +29.41% 39
West Midlands -31 30 £525 -4.55% 5
South West -25 27 £488 -15.22% 6
North West -26 25 £496 +26.85% 19
Yorkshire -49 22 £475 -18.45% 4
East Midlands -15 9 £447 -5.89% 5
North East -28 8 £450 -18.18% 5
East of England -49 6 £550 - 11
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 (7.49%) SAS
2 13 (3.48%) Apache Spark
3 11 (2.94%) Confluence
4 8 (2.14%) Appian
5 6 (1.60%) Apache
5 6 (1.60%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (1.60%) Camunda
5 6 (1.60%) SharePoint
6 4 (1.07%) CMS
7 3 (0.80%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.53%) IBM HTTP Server
8 2 (0.53%) Oracle HTTP Server
8 2 (0.53%) Sitecore CMS
8 2 (0.53%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.53%) WebSphere Application Server
8 2 (0.53%) WebSphere Portal
9 1 (0.27%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.27%) OpenROAD
9 1 (0.27%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 2 (0.53%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.27%) Cloudability
1 1 (0.27%) SAP MDG
1 1 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 193 (51.60%) Azure
2 131 (35.03%) AWS
3 91 (24.33%) GitHub
4 78 (20.86%) Azure DevOps
5 62 (16.58%) GitHub Actions
6 43 (11.50%) GCP
7 38 (10.16%) Serverless
8 30 (8.02%) Power Platform
9 26 (6.95%) Amazon S3
10 24 (6.42%) AWS Lambda
11 21 (5.61%) Azure Monitor
12 20 (5.35%) AWS CloudFormation
12 20 (5.35%) Azure Data Factory
13 15 (4.01%) Azure Key Vault
14 14 (3.74%) Amazon EKS
14 14 (3.74%) Power Automate
15 13 (3.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 13 (3.48%) Azure AI
15 13 (3.48%) Azure AKS
15 13 (3.48%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 22 (5.88%) Firewall
2 15 (4.01%) VPN
3 14 (3.74%) DNS
4 11 (2.94%) Network Security
4 11 (2.94%) TCP/IP
5 7 (1.87%) DMZ
6 4 (1.07%) Software-Defined Networking
6 4 (1.07%) SSL
7 3 (0.80%) DHCP
8 2 (0.53%) HTTP
8 2 (0.53%) Kerberos
8 2 (0.53%) NGFW
8 2 (0.53%) Reverse Proxy
9 1 (0.27%) BGP
9 1 (0.27%) Cisco IOS
9 1 (0.27%) Cisco Nexus
9 1 (0.27%) MQTT
9 1 (0.27%) OpenLDAP
9 1 (0.27%) OSPF
9 1 (0.27%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
1 22 (5.88%) Power BI
1 22 (5.88%) SQL Server
2 17 (4.55%) Pentaho
3 16 (4.28%) Relational Database
4 14 (3.74%) Data Warehouse
5 12 (3.21%) Data Lake
6 11 (2.94%) Redis
7 10 (2.67%) DynamoDB
7 10 (2.67%) NoSQL
8 9 (2.41%) Amazon RDS
8 9 (2.41%) Metadata
8 9 (2.41%) MongoDB
9 8 (2.14%) Amazon Athena
9 8 (2.14%) Pinecone
10 6 (1.60%) Big Data
10 6 (1.60%) SAS Data Integration Studio
11 5 (1.34%) Aerospike
11 5 (1.34%) Amazon Redshift
11 5 (1.34%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 89 (23.80%) Git
2 75 (20.05%) Jenkins
3 58 (15.51%) GitLab
4 29 (7.75%) JIRA
5 11 (2.94%) fastlane
6 10 (2.67%) MSI
7 9 (2.41%) JUnit
8 8 (2.14%) MLflow
9 6 (1.60%) Gradle
9 6 (1.60%) Xcode
10 5 (1.34%) Android Studio
10 5 (1.34%) Artifactory
10 5 (1.34%) Crashlytics
10 5 (1.34%) Mockito
11 4 (1.07%) git-flow
11 4 (1.07%) Selenium
12 3 (0.80%) Bitbucket
12 3 (0.80%) Cypress.io
12 3 (0.80%) SonarQube
12 3 (0.80%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 109 (29.14%) Social Skills
2 71 (18.98%) Public Sector
3 66 (17.65%) Finance
4 28 (7.49%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (5.08%) Banking
6 16 (4.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 13 (3.48%) Legal
8 8 (2.14%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (1.87%) Front Office
9 7 (1.87%) Investment Banking
10 5 (1.34%) Retail
11 3 (0.80%) Law
12 2 (0.53%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.53%) Marketing
13 1 (0.27%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.27%) Police
13 1 (0.27%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 69 (18.45%) Senior
2 65 (17.38%) Developer
3 53 (14.17%) DevOps Engineer
4 44 (11.76%) Data Engineer
5 34 (9.09%) Architect
6 28 (7.49%) Cloud Engineer
7 25 (6.68%) Lead
8 23 (6.15%) Azure Engineer
8 23 (6.15%) Platform Engineer
8 23 (6.15%) Senior Developer
9 19 (5.08%) Full-Stack Developer
10 18 (4.81%) AWS Engineer
11 16 (4.28%) Software Engineer
12 15 (4.01%) Automation Engineer
13 14 (3.74%) Salesforce Engineer
13 14 (3.74%) Senior DevOps
14 13 (3.48%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 13 (3.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 12 (3.21%) Platform Architect
16 11 (2.94%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (15.51%) RESTful
2 47 (12.57%) REST
3 34 (9.09%) React
4 32 (8.56%) .NET
5 27 (7.22%) Kafka
6 25 (6.68%) Node.js
7 19 (5.08%) OAuth
7 19 (5.08%) PySpark
8 17 (4.55%) AngularJS
9 16 (4.28%) FastAPI
9 16 (4.28%) HTML
9 16 (4.28%) pytest
10 15 (4.01%) .NET Framework
10 15 (4.01%) CSS
11 14 (3.74%) Swagger
11 14 (3.74%) YAML
12 13 (3.48%) Django
12 13 (3.48%) OpenAPI
12 13 (3.48%) Spring
12 13 (3.48%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 92 (24.60%) Cloud Native
2 30 (8.02%) Distributed Systems
3 24 (6.42%) Product Ownership
4 20 (5.35%) Onboarding
5 17 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
6 14 (3.74%) Mobile App
7 10 (2.67%) Data Centre
8 9 (2.41%) Enterprise Software
8 9 (2.41%) Hybrid Cloud
9 8 (2.14%) Distributed Computing
9 8 (2.14%) Low-Code
10 6 (1.60%) Enterprise Cloud
11 5 (1.34%) Security Posture
12 4 (1.07%) Client/Server
12 4 (1.07%) NHS
12 4 (1.07%) Replication
13 3 (0.80%) Data Protection Act
13 3 (0.80%) Derivative
13 3 (0.80%) Energy Derivatives
13 3 (0.80%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 45 (12.03%) Linux
2 28 (7.49%) Windows
3 10 (2.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (1.87%) Unix
5 6 (1.60%) Apple iOS
5 6 (1.60%) Windows Server
6 5 (1.34%) Android
7 3 (0.80%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.53%) Oracle Linux
8 2 (0.53%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
8 2 (0.53%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.53%) VMS
8 2 (0.53%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.53%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.53%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.27%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 298 (79.68%) CI/CD
2 223 (59.63%) DevOps
3 154 (41.18%) Infrastructure as Code
4 144 (38.50%) Agile
5 139 (37.17%) Test Automation
6 91 (24.33%) Analytics
7 82 (21.93%) Containerisation
8 81 (21.66%) Problem-Solving
9 70 (18.72%) Data Pipeline
10 66 (17.65%) Data Modelling
11 65 (17.38%) Scrum
12 64 (17.11%) AI
12 64 (17.11%) Observability
13 62 (16.58%) Continuous Improvement
13 62 (16.58%) Microservices
14 57 (15.24%) ETL
15 50 (13.37%) Validation
16 49 (13.10%) Platform Engineering
17 47 (12.57%) Migration
18 44 (11.76%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 142 (37.97%) Python
2 79 (21.12%) SQL
3 60 (16.04%) PowerShell
4 53 (14.17%) Java
5 38 (10.16%) Bash
6 36 (9.63%) Bicep
7 35 (9.36%) C#
8 29 (7.75%) JavaScript
8 29 (7.75%) TypeScript
9 8 (2.14%) Apex Code
9 8 (2.14%) Kotlin
10 6 (1.60%) Swift
11 5 (1.34%) Go
12 4 (1.07%) Perl
12 4 (1.07%) Rust
12 4 (1.07%) Scala
12 4 (1.07%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.80%) PHP
13 3 (0.80%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.80%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 126 (33.69%) Security Cleared
2 102 (27.27%) SC Cleared
3 21 (5.61%) Degree
4 15 (4.01%) Azure Certification
4 15 (4.01%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (3.48%) DV Cleared
5 13 (3.48%) Microsoft Certification
6 12 (3.21%) AWS Certification
6 12 (3.21%) BPSS Clearance
7 9 (2.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 5 (1.34%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 4 (1.07%) RHCE
10 3 (0.80%) CCNP
10 3 (0.80%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (0.80%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 3 (0.80%) MCSA
10 3 (0.80%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 2 (0.53%) AWS Certified Developer
11 2 (0.53%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.53%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (10.96%) Data Quality
2 32 (8.56%) QA
3 27 (7.22%) Accessibility
4 22 (5.88%) WCAG
5 14 (3.74%) GDPR
6 7 (1.87%) NCSC
7 5 (1.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 4 (1.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.80%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.53%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.27%) Disclosure Scotland
11 1 (0.27%) EU AI Act
11 1 (0.27%) HL7
11 1 (0.27%) SLA
11 1 (0.27%) SOC 2
System Software
1 114 (30.48%) Docker
2 15 (4.01%) Virtual Machines
3 12 (3.21%) Active Directory
4 8 (2.14%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (1.34%) Hyper-V
5 5 (1.34%) Microsoft App-V
6 3 (0.80%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.27%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.27%) Firmware
7 1 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.27%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 136 (36.36%) Kubernetes
2 134 (35.83%) Terraform
3 40 (10.70%) Ansible
4 15 (4.01%) Prometheus
4 15 (4.01%) SCCM
5 12 (3.21%) Grafana
6 8 (2.14%) Microsoft Intune
7 7 (1.87%) Puppet
8 6 (1.60%) Istio
8 6 (1.60%) WSUS
9 4 (1.07%) Argo
9 4 (1.07%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.53%) CA Wily
10 2 (0.53%) Control-M
10 2 (0.53%) Tivoli
11 1 (0.27%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.27%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.27%) Podman
11 1 (0.27%) QRadar
11 1 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 88 (23.53%) Microsoft
2 24 (6.42%) Google
3 21 (5.61%) Salesforce
4 20 (5.35%) Databricks
4 20 (5.35%) OpenAI
5 19 (5.08%) Oracle
6 18 (4.81%) Talend
7 17 (4.55%) Dynatrace
8 16 (4.28%) Denodo
9 11 (2.94%) Red Hat
10 8 (2.14%) Apple
10 8 (2.14%) Automation Anywhere
10 8 (2.14%) UiPath
11 7 (1.87%) Splunk
12 6 (1.60%) Bloomberg
12 6 (1.60%) Citrix
12 6 (1.60%) Foundry
12 6 (1.60%) ION Trading
12 6 (1.60%) Reuters
13 4 (1.07%) VMware