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

6 months to
7 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 240 275 327
Rank change year-on-year +35 +52 +26
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 503 263 210
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.09% 0.95% 0.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.29% 1.05% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 334 204 134
10th Percentile £401 £337 £400
25th Percentile £442 £413 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £606
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% -9.24% +1.00%
75th Percentile £613 £619 £685
90th Percentile £696 £688 £775
UK median daily rate £513 £540 £600
% change year-on-year -5.09% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 3
10th Percentile £66.38 - -
25th Percentile £68.55 - -
Median hourly rate £75.34 - £23.80
75th Percentile £76.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £74.68 - £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 39,024 25,017 28,300
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.79% 90.76% 85.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,038 15,890 17,961
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £636 £626 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,630 1,464 1,392
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.25 £14.50
25th Percentile £18.28 £17.54 £20.00
Median hourly rate £43.56 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +73.20% -41.51% +1.18%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £66.13
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £42.94
% change year-on-year +63.02% -41.43% +2.73%

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 7 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 7 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 +35 251 £544 -1.14% 236
North of England -20 86 £500 +20.92% 66
South East -46 53 £578 +21.58% 49
South West -13 48 £450 -10.00% 42
Midlands -41 43 £492 -5.11% 15
Yorkshire -16 41 £500 -15.25% 17
West Midlands -32 40 £492 -6.29% 11
North West -40 31 £528 +31.22% 39
North East -26 14 £450 +125.00% 10
East of England -35 8 £850 +54.55% 11
East Midlands -16 3 £474 +26.10% 4
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 22 (4.37%) Confluence
2 19 (3.78%) Apache Spark
3 14 (2.78%) SAS
4 13 (2.58%) Apache
4 13 (2.58%) Apache Airflow
5 9 (1.79%) SharePoint
6 7 (1.39%) CMS
7 3 (0.60%) Oracle Workflow
7 3 (0.60%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.40%) Camunda
8 2 (0.40%) IBM HTTP Server
8 2 (0.40%) nginx
8 2 (0.40%) Oracle HTTP Server
8 2 (0.40%) WebSphere Application Server
8 2 (0.40%) WebSphere Portal
9 1 (0.20%) CICS
9 1 (0.20%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.20%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.20%) IIS
9 1 (0.20%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 3 (0.60%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.20%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.20%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 5 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.60%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.20%) Misys Equation
3 1 (0.20%) Misys Midas
3 1 (0.20%) SAP CRM
3 1 (0.20%) SAP MDG
3 1 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.20%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 291 (57.85%) Azure
2 187 (37.18%) AWS
3 154 (30.62%) Azure DevOps
4 123 (24.45%) GitHub
5 93 (18.49%) GitHub Actions
6 70 (13.92%) Serverless
7 60 (11.93%) GCP
8 49 (9.74%) AWS Lambda
9 42 (8.35%) Amazon S3
10 41 (8.15%) Azure Monitor
11 39 (7.75%) Amazon EKS
12 35 (6.96%) Azure AKS
13 34 (6.76%) Entra ID
14 32 (6.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 32 (6.36%) Amazon ECS
15 30 (5.96%) Power Platform
16 28 (5.57%) Amazon EC2
17 23 (4.57%) Azure Key Vault
18 22 (4.37%) Azure Data Factory
19 21 (4.17%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 37 (7.36%) Firewall
2 30 (5.96%) DNS
3 24 (4.77%) Network Security
4 17 (3.38%) VPN
5 16 (3.18%) TCP/IP
6 7 (1.39%) DHCP
6 7 (1.39%) SSH
7 6 (1.19%) DMZ
7 6 (1.19%) SSL
8 4 (0.80%) Internet
9 3 (0.60%) HTTP
9 3 (0.60%) Kerberos
9 3 (0.60%) NGFW
9 3 (0.60%) Reverse Proxy
10 2 (0.40%) HTTPS
10 2 (0.40%) OpenLDAP
11 1 (0.20%) BGP
11 1 (0.20%) FTP
11 1 (0.20%) MPLS
11 1 (0.20%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (5.96%) PostgreSQL
2 28 (5.57%) SQL Server
3 24 (4.77%) Power BI
4 21 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
5 20 (3.98%) NoSQL
5 20 (3.98%) Relational Database
6 17 (3.38%) Data Lake
7 15 (2.98%) Metadata
7 15 (2.98%) MongoDB
8 14 (2.78%) Amazon RDS
9 12 (2.39%) Redis
10 11 (2.19%) Geospatial Data
10 11 (2.19%) Pentaho
11 10 (1.99%) DynamoDB
11 10 (1.99%) MySQL
12 9 (1.79%) Big Data
12 9 (1.79%) Elasticsearch
13 8 (1.59%) Azure SQL Database
13 8 (1.59%) BigQuery
14 7 (1.39%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 131 (26.04%) Git
2 106 (21.07%) Jenkins
3 88 (17.50%) GitLab
4 38 (7.55%) JIRA
5 16 (3.18%) MSI
6 11 (2.19%) fastlane
6 11 (2.19%) Selenium
7 9 (1.79%) Gradle
7 9 (1.79%) JUnit
8 8 (1.59%) Visual Studio
9 6 (1.19%) Maven
9 6 (1.19%) SonarQube
9 6 (1.19%) Sonatype Nexus
9 6 (1.19%) Visual Studio Code
9 6 (1.19%) Xcode
10 5 (0.99%) Android Studio
10 5 (0.99%) Crashlytics
10 5 (0.99%) MSBuild
10 5 (0.99%) TeamCity
11 4 (0.80%) Cypress.io
General
1 146 (29.03%) Social Skills
2 88 (17.50%) Public Sector
3 63 (12.52%) Finance
4 51 (10.14%) Analytical Skills
5 29 (5.77%) Banking
6 18 (3.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (2.39%) Retail
8 11 (2.19%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (1.19%) Front Office
9 6 (1.19%) Legal
9 6 (1.19%) Marketing
10 5 (0.99%) Investment Banking
10 5 (0.99%) Manufacturing
11 4 (0.80%) Law
11 4 (0.80%) Military
12 3 (0.60%) Financial Institution
12 3 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.40%) Back Office
13 2 (0.40%) Health Technology
13 2 (0.40%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 99 (19.68%) Developer
1 99 (19.68%) Senior
2 80 (15.90%) DevOps Engineer
3 46 (9.15%) Lead
4 44 (8.75%) Cloud Engineer
5 43 (8.55%) Data Engineer
6 40 (7.95%) Architect
7 37 (7.36%) Platform Engineer
8 36 (7.16%) Azure Engineer
9 29 (5.77%) Software Engineer
10 28 (5.57%) Senior Developer
11 27 (5.37%) AWS Engineer
12 23 (4.57%) Full-Stack Developer
13 22 (4.37%) Senior DevOps
14 19 (3.78%) AWS DevOps
14 19 (3.78%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 17 (3.38%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 16 (3.18%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 15 (2.98%) Python Engineer
17 15 (2.98%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 213 (42.35%) Terraform
2 94 (18.69%) REST
3 77 (15.31%) RESTful
4 65 (12.92%) .NET
5 55 (10.93%) React
6 46 (9.15%) Kafka
7 33 (6.56%) .NET Framework
7 33 (6.56%) HTML
8 31 (6.16%) CSS
9 30 (5.96%) Spring
9 30 (5.96%) Spring Boot
10 29 (5.77%) .NET Core
11 24 (4.77%) Node.js
12 23 (4.57%) AngularJS
12 23 (4.57%) HTML5
13 22 (4.37%) OAuth
14 20 (3.98%) ARM Templates
14 20 (3.98%) CSS3
15 17 (3.38%) FastAPI
15 17 (3.38%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 147 (29.22%) Cloud Native
2 49 (9.74%) Product Ownership
3 40 (7.95%) Distributed Systems
4 33 (6.56%) Onboarding
5 30 (5.96%) Enterprise Software
6 17 (3.38%) Legacy Systems
7 16 (3.18%) Hybrid Cloud
8 11 (2.19%) Enterprise Cloud
8 11 (2.19%) Mobile App
8 11 (2.19%) Security Posture
9 9 (1.79%) AI Agents
9 9 (1.79%) NHS
9 9 (1.79%) Replication
10 8 (1.59%) Linux Command Line
10 8 (1.59%) PKI
10 8 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
10 8 (1.59%) Wiki
11 7 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
11 7 (1.39%) Management Information System
12 6 (1.19%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 68 (13.52%) Linux
2 46 (9.15%) Windows
3 22 (4.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 15 (2.98%) Unix
4 15 (2.98%) Windows Server
5 9 (1.79%) Apple iOS
6 7 (1.39%) Ubuntu
7 6 (1.19%) Android
8 4 (0.80%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.60%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.60%) VMS
10 2 (0.40%) Amazon Linux
10 2 (0.40%) Oracle Linux
10 2 (0.40%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 2 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.40%) zOS
11 1 (0.20%) CentOS
11 1 (0.20%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 424 (84.29%) CI/CD
2 321 (63.82%) DevOps
3 247 (49.11%) Infrastructure as Code
4 215 (42.74%) Agile
5 181 (35.98%) Test Automation
6 145 (28.83%) Containerisation
7 121 (24.06%) Observability
8 120 (23.86%) Continuous Improvement
9 104 (20.68%) Analytics
10 103 (20.48%) Microservices
11 98 (19.48%) Problem-Solving
12 92 (18.29%) DevSecOps
13 90 (17.89%) Platform Engineering
14 88 (17.50%) Software Engineering
15 87 (17.30%) AI
16 80 (15.90%) Scrum
17 68 (13.52%) Technical Leadership
18 67 (13.32%) Data Pipeline
19 61 (12.13%) Validation
20 58 (11.53%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 182 (36.18%) Python
2 103 (20.48%) SQL
3 84 (16.70%) PowerShell
4 78 (15.51%) Java
5 63 (12.52%) JavaScript
6 61 (12.13%) C#
7 59 (11.73%) Bash
8 57 (11.33%) Bicep
9 46 (9.15%) TypeScript
10 12 (2.39%) Shell Script
11 9 (1.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 9 (1.79%) Kotlin
12 8 (1.59%) Apex Code
12 8 (1.59%) Go
13 6 (1.19%) Swift
14 5 (0.99%) Kusto Query Language
14 5 (0.99%) Scala
15 4 (0.80%) Korn
15 4 (0.80%) Perl
16 3 (0.60%) PHP
Qualifications
1 181 (35.98%) Security Cleared
2 146 (29.03%) SC Cleared
3 37 (7.36%) Degree
4 32 (6.36%) DV Cleared
5 26 (5.17%) Azure Certification
6 25 (4.97%) AWS Certification
6 25 (4.97%) Computer Science Degree
7 15 (2.98%) Microsoft Certification
8 9 (1.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 9 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (1.19%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 4 (0.80%) CISSP
10 4 (0.80%) Master's Degree
11 3 (0.60%) GCFA
11 3 (0.60%) GCIH
11 3 (0.60%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 3 (0.60%) MCSA
11 3 (0.60%) MCSE
12 1 (0.20%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 1 (0.20%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (11.33%) QA
2 37 (7.36%) Accessibility
3 33 (6.56%) Data Quality
4 31 (6.16%) WCAG
5 15 (2.98%) GDPR
5 15 (2.98%) NCSC
6 5 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.80%) HL7
7 4 (0.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (0.60%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (0.60%) ISO 20022
8 3 (0.60%) NIST
8 3 (0.60%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.40%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.20%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.20%) EU AI Act
10 1 (0.20%) ISO 15022
10 1 (0.20%) PMO
System Software
1 156 (31.01%) Docker
2 25 (4.97%) Active Directory
3 13 (2.58%) Virtual Desktop
4 10 (1.99%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.99%) Microsoft App-V
5 5 (0.99%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.40%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 2 (0.40%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.20%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.20%) DFS Replication
7 1 (0.20%) Dovecot
7 1 (0.20%) Firmware
7 1 (0.20%) Postfix
7 1 (0.20%) RACF
7 1 (0.20%) Squid
7 1 (0.20%) Time Sharing Option
7 1 (0.20%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 184 (36.58%) Kubernetes
2 71 (14.12%) Ansible
3 29 (5.77%) Grafana
4 23 (4.57%) Prometheus
5 18 (3.58%) SCCM
6 17 (3.38%) Microsoft Intune
7 12 (2.39%) Progress Chef
8 10 (1.99%) Puppet
9 6 (1.19%) Argo
9 6 (1.19%) Istio
9 6 (1.19%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (1.19%) WSUS
10 4 (0.80%) Control-M
11 3 (0.60%) CASB
12 2 (0.40%) CA Wily
12 2 (0.40%) Kibana
12 2 (0.40%) Tivoli
13 1 (0.20%) FortiGate
13 1 (0.20%) ITRS Geneos
13 1 (0.20%) Nessus
Vendors
1 135 (26.84%) Microsoft
2 34 (6.76%) Google
3 32 (6.36%) Databricks
4 27 (5.37%) Oracle
5 22 (4.37%) Dynatrace
6 19 (3.78%) Salesforce
7 17 (3.38%) Splunk
8 16 (3.18%) Red Hat
9 13 (2.58%) Talend
10 9 (1.79%) Denodo
11 7 (1.39%) Apple
11 7 (1.39%) ServiceNow
12 6 (1.19%) Citrix
12 6 (1.19%) IBM
12 6 (1.19%) MuleSoft
12 6 (1.19%) VMware
13 5 (0.99%) Bloomberg
13 5 (0.99%) ION Trading
13 5 (0.99%) Reuters
13 5 (0.99%) SAP