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

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 229 281 349
Rank change year-on-year +52 +68 +16
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 545 260 194
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.18% 0.94% 0.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.40% 1.03% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 356 203 114
10th Percentile £400 £351 £375
25th Percentile £438 £442 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.59% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £613 £628 £685
90th Percentile £688 £700 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £550 £594
% change year-on-year -6.82% -7.37% -1.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 4
10th Percentile £66.38 - -
25th Percentile £68.55 £21.29 -
Median hourly rate £75.34 £22.58 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +233.73% -5.15% -50.42%
75th Percentile £76.00 £23.86 £39.73
90th Percentile - - £68.39
UK median hourly rate £71.84 £22.58 £23.80
% change year-on-year +218.23% -5.15% -50.42%

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 39,007 25,232 28,124
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.55% 90.97% 86.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,733 16,031 17,231
10th Percentile £325 £295 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £645
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,853 1,544 1,222
10th Percentile £13.90 £14.38 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.60 £17.85 £20.26
Median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +63.02% -41.51% -3.37%
75th Percentile £67.50 £47.00 £67.02
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.25 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £39.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +55.07% -40.82% -1.16%

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 28 September 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 28 September 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 +55 280 £530 -7.78% 266
North of England -4 98 £500 +3.84% 80
Yorkshire -3 50 £500 -16.39% 26
South West -3 50 £450 -14.29% 51
South East -33 49 £581 +3.52% 50
Midlands -35 44 £491 -6.46% 27
West Midlands -37 42 £490 -6.67% 19
North West -42 32 £530 +17.00% 47
North East -24 16 £450 +50.00% 7
East of England -40 8 £850 +54.55% 15
East Midlands -15 2 £500 +81.16% 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 25 (4.59%) Confluence
2 22 (4.04%) Apache Spark
3 20 (3.67%) Apache
4 18 (3.30%) Apache Airflow
5 14 (2.57%) SharePoint
6 10 (1.83%) SAS
7 7 (1.28%) CMS
8 3 (0.55%) IBM Transformation Extender
8 3 (0.55%) nginx
8 3 (0.55%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.37%) CICS
9 2 (0.37%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.18%) Camunda
10 1 (0.18%) EPiServer
10 1 (0.18%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.18%) IIS
10 1 (0.18%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.18%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.18%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.55%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.18%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.18%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 5 (0.92%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.55%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (0.55%) SAP MDG
2 3 (0.55%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.18%) Misys Equation
3 1 (0.18%) Misys Midas
3 1 (0.18%) SAP CRM
3 1 (0.18%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 306 (56.15%) Azure
2 205 (37.61%) AWS
3 160 (29.36%) Azure DevOps
4 125 (22.94%) GitHub
5 94 (17.25%) GitHub Actions
6 79 (14.50%) GCP
7 76 (13.94%) Serverless
8 52 (9.54%) AWS Lambda
9 47 (8.62%) Azure Monitor
10 46 (8.44%) Amazon S3
11 43 (7.89%) Amazon EKS
11 43 (7.89%) Entra ID
12 41 (7.52%) Azure AKS
13 40 (7.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 36 (6.61%) Amazon EC2
14 36 (6.61%) Amazon ECS
15 30 (5.50%) Power Platform
16 24 (4.40%) Azure Key Vault
17 22 (4.04%) Amazon SQS
17 22 (4.04%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 39 (7.16%) Firewall
2 32 (5.87%) DNS
3 27 (4.95%) Network Security
4 16 (2.94%) VPN
5 13 (2.39%) TCP/IP
6 8 (1.47%) SSH
7 7 (1.28%) DHCP
8 6 (1.10%) SSL
9 5 (0.92%) Kerberos
9 5 (0.92%) NGFW
10 4 (0.73%) BGP
10 4 (0.73%) DMZ
10 4 (0.73%) Ethernet VPN
10 4 (0.73%) Internet
10 4 (0.73%) VXLAN
11 3 (0.55%) NX-OS
11 3 (0.55%) Reverse Proxy
11 3 (0.55%) TACACS
12 2 (0.37%) HTTPS
12 2 (0.37%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (5.87%) SQL Server
2 28 (5.14%) PostgreSQL
3 24 (4.40%) Relational Database
4 23 (4.22%) Data Lake
4 23 (4.22%) Power BI
5 22 (4.04%) Data Warehouse
6 20 (3.67%) NoSQL
7 18 (3.30%) Metadata
8 16 (2.94%) BigQuery
9 14 (2.57%) MongoDB
10 13 (2.39%) Amazon RDS
10 13 (2.39%) MySQL
11 12 (2.20%) Redis
12 11 (2.02%) Geospatial Data
13 9 (1.65%) DynamoDB
13 9 (1.65%) Elasticsearch
13 9 (1.65%) Oracle Database
13 9 (1.65%) Pentaho
14 8 (1.47%) Amazon Redshift
14 8 (1.47%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 151 (27.71%) Git
2 110 (20.18%) Jenkins
3 102 (18.72%) GitLab
4 40 (7.34%) JIRA
5 16 (2.94%) MSI
6 11 (2.02%) Selenium
7 9 (1.65%) fastlane
8 8 (1.47%) Gradle
8 8 (1.47%) JUnit
8 8 (1.47%) Sonatype Nexus
9 7 (1.28%) Visual Studio
10 6 (1.10%) Maven
11 5 (0.92%) MSBuild
11 5 (0.92%) Postman
11 5 (0.92%) SonarQube
11 5 (0.92%) TeamCity
11 5 (0.92%) Xcode
12 4 (0.73%) Claude Code
12 4 (0.73%) Terragrunt
12 4 (0.73%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 172 (31.56%) Social Skills
2 83 (15.23%) Public Sector
3 79 (14.50%) Finance
4 58 (10.64%) Analytical Skills
5 33 (6.06%) Banking
6 18 (3.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (2.20%) Retail
8 10 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (1.28%) Marketing
10 5 (0.92%) Front Office
10 5 (0.92%) Manufacturing
11 4 (0.73%) Financial Institution
11 4 (0.73%) Law
11 4 (0.73%) Military
11 4 (0.73%) Telecoms
12 3 (0.55%) Billing
12 3 (0.55%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.55%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.55%) Local Government
12 3 (0.55%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 103 (18.90%) Developer
2 100 (18.35%) Senior
3 94 (17.25%) DevOps Engineer
4 54 (9.91%) Lead
5 51 (9.36%) Cloud Engineer
6 46 (8.44%) Azure Engineer
7 45 (8.26%) Data Engineer
8 43 (7.89%) Architect
9 36 (6.61%) Platform Engineer
10 31 (5.69%) AWS Engineer
11 30 (5.50%) Software Engineer
12 28 (5.14%) Senior Developer
13 25 (4.59%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 23 (4.22%) AWS DevOps
15 22 (4.04%) Senior DevOps
16 21 (3.85%) GCP Engineer
17 20 (3.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
18 19 (3.49%) Full-Stack Developer
18 19 (3.49%) Senior DevOps Engineer
19 17 (3.12%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 240 (44.04%) Terraform
2 113 (20.73%) REST
3 81 (14.86%) RESTful
4 71 (13.03%) .NET
5 51 (9.36%) React
6 49 (8.99%) Kafka
7 36 (6.61%) .NET Framework
8 33 (6.06%) OAuth
8 33 (6.06%) Spring
8 33 (6.06%) Spring Boot
9 32 (5.87%) .NET Core
9 32 (5.87%) HTML
10 31 (5.69%) CSS
11 27 (4.95%) ARM Templates
12 24 (4.40%) Node.js
13 22 (4.04%) AngularJS
14 21 (3.85%) HTML5
14 21 (3.85%) PySpark
15 20 (3.67%) OAuth2
15 20 (3.67%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 160 (29.36%) Cloud Native
2 59 (10.83%) Product Ownership
3 44 (8.07%) Distributed Systems
4 41 (7.52%) Onboarding
5 39 (7.16%) Enterprise Software
6 20 (3.67%) Legacy Systems
7 19 (3.49%) Hybrid Cloud
8 14 (2.57%) Enterprise Cloud
9 13 (2.39%) AI Agents
9 13 (2.39%) Wiki
10 12 (2.20%) PKI
10 12 (2.20%) Self-Motivation
11 10 (1.83%) Mobile App
11 10 (1.83%) Security Posture
12 9 (1.65%) Data Protection Act
12 9 (1.65%) NHS
12 9 (1.65%) Replication
13 8 (1.47%) Data Centre
13 8 (1.47%) Linux Command Line
13 8 (1.47%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 78 (14.31%) Linux
2 53 (9.72%) Windows
3 20 (3.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 16 (2.94%) Unix
4 16 (2.94%) Windows Server
5 8 (1.47%) Apple iOS
6 7 (1.28%) Ubuntu
7 6 (1.10%) Android
8 4 (0.73%) Mac OS
8 4 (0.73%) VMS
8 4 (0.73%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.55%) zOS
10 2 (0.37%) Amazon Linux
10 2 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.18%) CentOS
11 1 (0.18%) Solaris
11 1 (0.18%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 465 (85.32%) CI/CD
2 343 (62.94%) DevOps
3 280 (51.38%) Infrastructure as Code
4 234 (42.94%) Agile
5 193 (35.41%) Test Automation
6 159 (29.17%) Containerisation
7 151 (27.71%) Observability
8 142 (26.06%) Continuous Improvement
9 110 (20.18%) Microservices
10 108 (19.82%) Analytics
11 106 (19.45%) AI
11 106 (19.45%) Problem-Solving
12 101 (18.53%) DevSecOps
13 99 (18.17%) Software Engineering
14 94 (17.25%) Platform Engineering
15 83 (15.23%) Scrum
16 81 (14.86%) Technical Leadership
17 78 (14.31%) Stakeholder Management
18 71 (13.03%) Validation
19 70 (12.84%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 208 (38.17%) Python
2 106 (19.45%) SQL
3 88 (16.15%) PowerShell
4 84 (15.41%) Java
5 69 (12.66%) Bash
6 67 (12.29%) C#
6 67 (12.29%) JavaScript
7 65 (11.93%) Bicep
8 49 (8.99%) TypeScript
9 17 (3.12%) Shell Script
10 16 (2.94%) Go
11 10 (1.83%) Kotlin
12 9 (1.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 8 (1.47%) Apex Code
14 6 (1.10%) Kusto Query Language
15 5 (0.92%) Korn
15 5 (0.92%) Scala
15 5 (0.92%) Swift
16 4 (0.73%) Perl
16 4 (0.73%) PHP
Qualifications
1 191 (35.05%) Security Cleared
2 157 (28.81%) SC Cleared
3 37 (6.79%) Degree
4 32 (5.87%) DV Cleared
5 30 (5.50%) AWS Certification
6 29 (5.32%) Azure Certification
7 26 (4.77%) Computer Science Degree
8 14 (2.57%) Microsoft Certification
9 11 (2.02%) BPSS Clearance
10 8 (1.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 7 (1.28%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 5 (0.92%) CISSP
12 5 (0.92%) Master's Degree
12 5 (0.92%) MCSE
13 3 (0.55%) GCFA
13 3 (0.55%) GCIH
14 2 (0.37%) AWS Certified Developer
14 2 (0.37%) ISTQB
14 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 1 (0.18%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (11.74%) QA
2 38 (6.97%) Data Quality
3 32 (5.87%) Accessibility
4 28 (5.14%) WCAG
5 18 (3.30%) NCSC
6 15 (2.75%) GDPR
7 8 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 6 (1.10%) NIST
9 5 (0.92%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.73%) HL7
10 4 (0.73%) ISO 20022
10 4 (0.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.55%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.18%) Disclosure Scotland
12 1 (0.18%) EU AI Act
12 1 (0.18%) ISO 15022
12 1 (0.18%) JSP 440
12 1 (0.18%) SOC 2
System Software
1 165 (30.28%) Docker
2 34 (6.24%) Active Directory
3 15 (2.75%) Virtual Desktop
4 11 (2.02%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (1.47%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (0.92%) Microsoft App-V
6 5 (0.92%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.37%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 2 (0.37%) RACF
7 2 (0.37%) Time Sharing Option
8 1 (0.18%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.18%) DFS Replication
8 1 (0.18%) Dovecot
8 1 (0.18%) Firmware
8 1 (0.18%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.18%) Postfix
8 1 (0.18%) Squid
8 1 (0.18%) Varnish
8 1 (0.18%) zsh
Systems Management
1 192 (35.23%) Kubernetes
2 81 (14.86%) Ansible
3 38 (6.97%) Grafana
4 31 (5.69%) Prometheus
5 20 (3.67%) Microsoft Intune
6 15 (2.75%) SCCM
7 12 (2.20%) Progress Chef
8 10 (1.83%) Puppet
8 10 (1.83%) Single Sign-On
9 8 (1.47%) Argo
10 6 (1.10%) Istio
11 4 (0.73%) Control-M
11 4 (0.73%) WSUS
12 3 (0.55%) CASB
12 3 (0.55%) Kibana
12 3 (0.55%) Packer
12 3 (0.55%) Tivoli
12 3 (0.55%) Tivoli Monitoring
13 2 (0.37%) Podman
14 1 (0.18%) Cilium
Vendors
1 150 (27.52%) Microsoft
2 46 (8.44%) Google
3 36 (6.61%) Databricks
4 26 (4.77%) Oracle
5 25 (4.59%) Splunk
6 22 (4.04%) Dynatrace
7 16 (2.94%) Salesforce
8 15 (2.75%) Red Hat
8 15 (2.75%) ServiceNow
9 11 (2.02%) IBM
9 11 (2.02%) Talend
10 9 (1.65%) VMware
11 8 (1.47%) Cisco
11 8 (1.47%) MuleSoft
12 7 (1.28%) Apple
12 7 (1.28%) Denodo
12 7 (1.28%) OpenAI
13 6 (1.10%) Confluent
13 6 (1.10%) SAP
14 5 (0.92%) Dell