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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 238 268 324
Rank change year-on-year +30 +56 +34
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 509 267 210
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.10% 0.96% 0.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.30% 1.06% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 338 207 131
10th Percentile £400 £338 £400
25th Percentile £431 £413 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £613 £619 £685
90th Percentile £691 £693 £775
UK median daily rate £509 £540 £600
% change year-on-year -5.74% -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 £71.84 - £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 39,304 25,245 28,138
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.88% 90.83% 85.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,151 16,024 17,695
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.95% -2.87% -4.55%
75th Percentile £636 £625 £650
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 2,693 1,483 1,349
10th Percentile £14.01 £14.31 £14.84
25th Percentile £17.85 £17.87 £20.22
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% +1.18%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £66.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% +2.87%

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 10 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 10 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 +33 257 £536 -2.50% 164
North of England -21 87 £500 +24.38% 46
South East -40 52 £580 +22.11% 35
South West -11 48 £450 -10.00% 35
Midlands -37 45 £492 -5.11% 13
West Midlands -26 42 £492 -6.29% 8
Yorkshire -20 41 £500 -15.25% 12
North West -41 32 £525 +30.60% 30
North East -33 14 £450 +125.00% 4
East of England -46 8 £850 +54.55% 6
East Midlands -17 3 £474 +26.10% 5
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 (4.32%) Confluence
2 19 (3.73%) Apache Spark
3 14 (2.75%) SAS
4 13 (2.55%) Apache
4 13 (2.55%) Apache Airflow
5 9 (1.77%) SharePoint
6 7 (1.38%) CMS
7 3 (0.59%) Oracle Workflow
7 3 (0.59%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.39%) Camunda
8 2 (0.39%) IBM HTTP Server
8 2 (0.39%) nginx
8 2 (0.39%) Oracle HTTP Server
8 2 (0.39%) WebSphere Application Server
8 2 (0.39%) 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 (0.59%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.20%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.20%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 5 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.59%) 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
1 293 (57.56%) Azure
2 190 (37.33%) AWS
3 154 (30.26%) Azure DevOps
4 125 (24.56%) GitHub
5 95 (18.66%) GitHub Actions
6 72 (14.15%) Serverless
7 60 (11.79%) GCP
8 51 (10.02%) AWS Lambda
9 44 (8.64%) Amazon S3
10 42 (8.25%) Amazon EKS
11 41 (8.06%) Azure Monitor
12 35 (6.88%) Azure AKS
13 34 (6.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 34 (6.68%) Amazon ECS
13 34 (6.68%) Entra ID
14 31 (6.09%) Amazon EC2
14 31 (6.09%) Power Platform
15 23 (4.52%) Azure Key Vault
16 22 (4.32%) Azure Data Factory
17 21 (4.13%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 37 (7.27%) Firewall
2 30 (5.89%) DNS
3 24 (4.72%) Network Security
4 17 (3.34%) VPN
5 16 (3.14%) TCP/IP
6 7 (1.38%) DHCP
6 7 (1.38%) SSH
7 6 (1.18%) DMZ
7 6 (1.18%) SSL
8 4 (0.79%) Internet
9 3 (0.59%) HTTP
9 3 (0.59%) Kerberos
9 3 (0.59%) NGFW
9 3 (0.59%) Reverse Proxy
10 2 (0.39%) HTTPS
10 2 (0.39%) OpenLDAP
11 1 (0.20%) BGP
11 1 (0.20%) MPLS
11 1 (0.20%) OSPF
11 1 (0.20%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (5.89%) PostgreSQL
2 29 (5.70%) SQL Server
3 24 (4.72%) Power BI
4 20 (3.93%) Data Warehouse
4 20 (3.93%) NoSQL
4 20 (3.93%) Relational Database
5 18 (3.54%) Data Lake
6 15 (2.95%) Metadata
6 15 (2.95%) MongoDB
7 14 (2.75%) Amazon RDS
8 12 (2.36%) Redis
9 11 (2.16%) Geospatial Data
9 11 (2.16%) Pentaho
10 10 (1.96%) DynamoDB
10 10 (1.96%) MySQL
11 9 (1.77%) Big Data
11 9 (1.77%) Elasticsearch
12 8 (1.57%) Azure SQL Database
12 8 (1.57%) BigQuery
13 7 (1.38%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 132 (25.93%) Git
2 108 (21.22%) Jenkins
3 89 (17.49%) GitLab
4 39 (7.66%) JIRA
5 16 (3.14%) MSI
6 11 (2.16%) fastlane
6 11 (2.16%) Selenium
7 9 (1.77%) Gradle
7 9 (1.77%) JUnit
8 8 (1.57%) Visual Studio
9 6 (1.18%) Maven
9 6 (1.18%) SonarQube
9 6 (1.18%) Sonatype Nexus
9 6 (1.18%) Visual Studio Code
9 6 (1.18%) Xcode
10 5 (0.98%) Android Studio
10 5 (0.98%) Crashlytics
10 5 (0.98%) Cypress.io
10 5 (0.98%) MSBuild
10 5 (0.98%) TeamCity
General
1 148 (29.08%) Social Skills
2 89 (17.49%) Public Sector
3 66 (12.97%) Finance
4 52 (10.22%) Analytical Skills
5 31 (6.09%) Banking
6 18 (3.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (2.36%) Retail
8 11 (2.16%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (1.18%) Front Office
9 6 (1.18%) Legal
9 6 (1.18%) Marketing
10 5 (0.98%) Investment Banking
10 5 (0.98%) Manufacturing
11 4 (0.79%) Law
11 4 (0.79%) Military
12 3 (0.59%) Financial Institution
12 3 (0.59%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.39%) Billing
13 2 (0.39%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.39%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 101 (19.84%) Developer
2 100 (19.65%) Senior
3 82 (16.11%) DevOps Engineer
4 47 (9.23%) Lead
5 44 (8.64%) Cloud Engineer
6 43 (8.45%) Data Engineer
7 39 (7.66%) Architect
8 37 (7.27%) Azure Engineer
8 37 (7.27%) Platform Engineer
9 29 (5.70%) Software Engineer
10 28 (5.50%) Senior Developer
11 27 (5.30%) AWS Engineer
12 23 (4.52%) Full-Stack Developer
13 22 (4.32%) Senior DevOps
14 19 (3.73%) AWS DevOps
14 19 (3.73%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 18 (3.54%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 16 (3.14%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 16 (3.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 15 (2.95%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 215 (42.24%) Terraform
2 96 (18.86%) REST
3 79 (15.52%) RESTful
4 67 (13.16%) .NET
5 55 (10.81%) React
6 47 (9.23%) Kafka
7 34 (6.68%) HTML
8 33 (6.48%) .NET Framework
9 32 (6.29%) CSS
9 32 (6.29%) Spring
9 32 (6.29%) Spring Boot
10 29 (5.70%) .NET Core
11 24 (4.72%) AngularJS
11 24 (4.72%) Node.js
12 23 (4.52%) HTML5
13 22 (4.32%) OAuth
14 20 (3.93%) ARM Templates
14 20 (3.93%) CSS3
15 17 (3.34%) FastAPI
15 17 (3.34%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 151 (29.67%) Cloud Native
2 51 (10.02%) Product Ownership
3 40 (7.86%) Distributed Systems
4 34 (6.68%) Onboarding
5 30 (5.89%) Enterprise Software
6 17 (3.34%) Legacy Systems
7 16 (3.14%) Hybrid Cloud
8 11 (2.16%) Enterprise Cloud
8 11 (2.16%) Mobile App
8 11 (2.16%) Security Posture
9 10 (1.96%) AI Agents
10 9 (1.77%) NHS
10 9 (1.77%) Replication
10 9 (1.77%) Self-Motivation
11 8 (1.57%) Data Protection Act
11 8 (1.57%) Linux Command Line
11 8 (1.57%) PKI
11 8 (1.57%) Wiki
12 7 (1.38%) Management Information System
13 6 (1.18%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 70 (13.75%) Linux
2 48 (9.43%) Windows
3 23 (4.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 16 (3.14%) Unix
4 16 (3.14%) Windows Server
5 9 (1.77%) Apple iOS
6 7 (1.38%) Ubuntu
7 6 (1.18%) Android
8 5 (0.98%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.59%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.59%) VMS
10 2 (0.39%) Amazon Linux
10 2 (0.39%) Oracle Linux
10 2 (0.39%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 2 (0.39%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.39%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.39%) zOS
11 1 (0.20%) CentOS
11 1 (0.20%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 430 (84.48%) CI/CD
2 327 (64.24%) DevOps
3 250 (49.12%) Infrastructure as Code
4 220 (43.22%) Agile
5 186 (36.54%) Test Automation
6 147 (28.88%) Containerisation
7 125 (24.56%) Observability
8 123 (24.17%) Continuous Improvement
9 105 (20.63%) Analytics
9 105 (20.63%) Microservices
10 100 (19.65%) Problem-Solving
11 94 (18.47%) DevSecOps
12 92 (18.07%) Software Engineering
13 91 (17.88%) Platform Engineering
14 89 (17.49%) AI
15 83 (16.31%) Scrum
16 69 (13.56%) Technical Leadership
17 68 (13.36%) Data Pipeline
18 61 (11.98%) Validation
19 58 (11.39%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 183 (35.95%) Python
2 105 (20.63%) SQL
3 85 (16.70%) PowerShell
4 80 (15.72%) Java
5 64 (12.57%) JavaScript
6 62 (12.18%) C#
7 59 (11.59%) Bash
8 58 (11.39%) Bicep
9 47 (9.23%) TypeScript
10 13 (2.55%) Shell Script
11 9 (1.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 9 (1.77%) Kotlin
12 8 (1.57%) Apex Code
12 8 (1.57%) Go
13 6 (1.18%) Swift
14 5 (0.98%) Kusto Query Language
14 5 (0.98%) Scala
15 4 (0.79%) Korn
15 4 (0.79%) Perl
16 3 (0.59%) PHP
Qualifications
1 184 (36.15%) Security Cleared
2 149 (29.27%) SC Cleared
3 37 (7.27%) Degree
4 32 (6.29%) DV Cleared
5 27 (5.30%) AWS Certification
6 26 (5.11%) Azure Certification
7 25 (4.91%) Computer Science Degree
8 15 (2.95%) Microsoft Certification
9 9 (1.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 8 (1.57%) BPSS Clearance
11 6 (1.18%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 4 (0.79%) CISSP
12 4 (0.79%) Master's Degree
13 3 (0.59%) GCFA
13 3 (0.59%) GCIH
13 3 (0.59%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 3 (0.59%) MCSA
13 3 (0.59%) MCSE
14 1 (0.20%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 1 (0.20%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (11.59%) QA
2 37 (7.27%) Accessibility
3 33 (6.48%) Data Quality
4 31 (6.09%) WCAG
5 15 (2.95%) GDPR
5 15 (2.95%) NCSC
6 5 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.79%) HL7
7 4 (0.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (0.59%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (0.59%) ISO 20022
8 3 (0.59%) NIST
8 3 (0.59%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.39%) 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%) ISO 15022
10 1 (0.20%) JSP 440
10 1 (0.20%) PMO
System Software
1 158 (31.04%) Docker
2 26 (5.11%) Active Directory
3 13 (2.55%) Virtual Desktop
4 9 (1.77%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.98%) Microsoft App-V
5 5 (0.98%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.39%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 2 (0.39%) 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 (36.15%) Kubernetes
2 72 (14.15%) Ansible
3 30 (5.89%) Grafana
4 24 (4.72%) Prometheus
5 19 (3.73%) SCCM
6 17 (3.34%) Microsoft Intune
7 12 (2.36%) Progress Chef
8 10 (1.96%) Puppet
9 6 (1.18%) Argo
9 6 (1.18%) Istio
9 6 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (1.18%) WSUS
10 4 (0.79%) Control-M
11 3 (0.59%) CASB
12 2 (0.39%) CA Wily
12 2 (0.39%) Kibana
12 2 (0.39%) Tivoli
13 1 (0.20%) FortiGate
13 1 (0.20%) ITRS Geneos
13 1 (0.20%) systemd
Vendors
1 138 (27.11%) Microsoft
2 34 (6.68%) Databricks
2 34 (6.68%) Google
3 28 (5.50%) Oracle
4 22 (4.32%) Dynatrace
5 19 (3.73%) Salesforce
6 17 (3.34%) Splunk
7 16 (3.14%) Red Hat
8 13 (2.55%) Talend
9 9 (1.77%) Denodo
10 7 (1.38%) Apple
10 7 (1.38%) ServiceNow
11 6 (1.18%) Citrix
11 6 (1.18%) IBM
11 6 (1.18%) MuleSoft
11 6 (1.18%) VMware
12 5 (0.98%) Confluent
12 5 (0.98%) CrowdStrike
12 5 (0.98%) Foundry
12 5 (0.98%) OpenAI