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

 6 months to
20 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 279 246 305
Rank change year-on-year -33 +59 +6
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 343 237 236
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.83% 0.98% 0.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.99% 1.07% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 233 188 170
10th Percentile £400 £326 £400
25th Percentile £449 £413 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% -4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £575 £632 £700
90th Percentile £650 £741 £775
UK median daily rate £515 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -6.36% -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 4
10th Percentile £57.58 - -
25th Percentile £68.57 - £23.80
Median hourly rate £75.34 - £45.41
75th Percentile £76.00 - £68.08
90th Percentile - - £69.98
UK median hourly rate £75.34 - £45.41
% change year-on-year - - -33.71%

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 34,792 22,163 31,446
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.62% 91.27% 86.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,183 14,469 20,624
10th Percentile £325 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £510 £514 £525
% change year-on-year -0.88% -2.10% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,136 960 2,252
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.42 £12.93
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.20 £15.99
Median hourly rate £46.11 £28.75 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +60.37% -21.23% -1.75%
75th Percentile £67.84 £62.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £28.17 £36.05
% change year-on-year +50.90% -21.86% +0.13%

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 20 May 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 20 May 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 20 May 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 +4 181 £527 -5.98% 52
North of England -48 45 £475 +19.80% 21
Midlands -37 41 £515 -0.68% 6
South East -54 32 £544 +35.60% 35
South West -34 27 £553 -3.91% 6
West Midlands -34 27 £525 -4.55% 3
North West -32 20 £436 +15.04% 13
Yorkshire -48 20 £500 -13.04% 6
East Midlands -20 13 £402 -15.37% 3
North East -24 5 £450 -18.18% 2
East of England -53 4 £513 -6.77% 2
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 (8.16%) SAS
2 9 (2.62%) Apache Spark
3 8 (2.33%) Appian
4 7 (2.04%) SharePoint
5 6 (1.75%) Camunda
6 5 (1.46%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (1.17%) Confluence
8 3 (0.87%) CMS
8 3 (0.87%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.87%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.58%) IBM HTTP Server
9 2 (0.58%) Oracle HTTP Server
9 2 (0.58%) Sitecore CMS
9 2 (0.58%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.58%) WebSphere Application Server
9 2 (0.58%) WebSphere Portal
10 1 (0.29%) Apache
10 1 (0.29%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.29%) ColdFusion
10 1 (0.29%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 6 (1.75%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.58%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.29%) Cloudability
1 1 (0.29%) SAP MDG
1 1 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 166 (48.40%) Azure
2 115 (33.53%) AWS
3 84 (24.49%) GitHub
4 59 (17.20%) Azure DevOps
5 58 (16.91%) GitHub Actions
6 37 (10.79%) GCP
6 37 (10.79%) Serverless
7 30 (8.75%) Power Platform
8 23 (6.71%) AWS CloudFormation
9 21 (6.12%) AWS Lambda
10 18 (5.25%) Amazon S3
10 18 (5.25%) Azure Data Factory
10 18 (5.25%) Azure Monitor
11 16 (4.66%) Entra ID
11 16 (4.66%) PaaS
12 15 (4.37%) OpenShift
12 15 (4.37%) Power Automate
13 14 (4.08%) Azure Functions
14 13 (3.79%) Azure AI
14 13 (3.79%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (5.54%) Firewall
2 13 (3.79%) DNS
3 12 (3.50%) VPN
4 10 (2.92%) TCP/IP
5 7 (2.04%) Network Security
6 4 (1.17%) DHCP
6 4 (1.17%) DMZ
6 4 (1.17%) Software-Defined Networking
7 3 (0.87%) HTTP
7 3 (0.87%) SSL
8 2 (0.58%) Internet
8 2 (0.58%) Kerberos
8 2 (0.58%) NGFW
9 1 (0.29%) BGP
9 1 (0.29%) Cisco IOS
9 1 (0.29%) HTTPS
9 1 (0.29%) IPsec
9 1 (0.29%) OSPF
9 1 (0.29%) SMS
9 1 (0.29%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (5.83%) PostgreSQL
1 20 (5.83%) Power BI
1 20 (5.83%) SQL Server
2 16 (4.66%) Pentaho
2 16 (4.66%) Relational Database
3 12 (3.50%) Data Lake
3 12 (3.50%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (2.62%) DynamoDB
4 9 (2.62%) NoSQL
4 9 (2.62%) Redis
5 8 (2.33%) Aerospike
5 8 (2.33%) Amazon RDS
5 8 (2.33%) MongoDB
5 8 (2.33%) Pinecone
6 7 (2.04%) Amazon Athena
6 7 (2.04%) Metadata
6 7 (2.04%) Spark SQL
7 6 (1.75%) Azure SQL Database
7 6 (1.75%) SAS Data Integration Studio
8 5 (1.46%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 82 (23.91%) Git
2 70 (20.41%) Jenkins
3 56 (16.33%) GitLab
4 21 (6.12%) JIRA
5 10 (2.92%) JUnit
6 8 (2.33%) MLflow
7 7 (2.04%) fastlane
8 5 (1.46%) Artifactory
8 5 (1.46%) Mockito
8 5 (1.46%) MSI
8 5 (1.46%) Selenium
9 4 (1.17%) Cypress.io
9 4 (1.17%) git-flow
9 4 (1.17%) Gradle
9 4 (1.17%) Xcode
10 3 (0.87%) Android Studio
10 3 (0.87%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 3 (0.87%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.87%) Crashlytics
10 3 (0.87%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 106 (30.90%) Social Skills
2 63 (18.37%) Public Sector
3 62 (18.08%) Finance
4 34 (9.91%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (4.66%) Banking
6 13 (3.79%) Legal
7 8 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (1.46%) Front Office
9 5 (1.46%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.17%) Retail
11 2 (0.58%) Marketing
11 2 (0.58%) Military
11 2 (0.58%) Police
12 1 (0.29%) Law
12 1 (0.29%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.29%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 61 (17.78%) Developer
2 48 (13.99%) Senior
3 43 (12.54%) DevOps Engineer
4 38 (11.08%) Data Engineer
5 36 (10.50%) Architect
6 23 (6.71%) Azure Engineer
7 22 (6.41%) Platform Engineer
8 20 (5.83%) Automation Engineer
8 20 (5.83%) Cloud Engineer
9 18 (5.25%) Lead
10 17 (4.96%) Full-Stack Developer
10 17 (4.96%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 17 (4.96%) Senior Developer
11 13 (3.79%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 13 (3.79%) Salesforce Engineer
12 12 (3.50%) Platform Architect
13 11 (3.21%) AWS Engineer
13 11 (3.21%) Software Engineer
14 8 (2.33%) AWS Developer
14 8 (2.33%) SAS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (13.99%) RESTful
2 41 (11.95%) REST
3 30 (8.75%) React
4 29 (8.45%) Node.js
5 27 (7.87%) Kafka
6 25 (7.29%) .NET
7 19 (5.54%) PySpark
7 19 (5.54%) pytest
8 18 (5.25%) OAuth
9 16 (4.66%) YAML
10 15 (4.37%) AngularJS
11 14 (4.08%) FastAPI
11 14 (4.08%) Swagger
11 14 (4.08%) Web Services
12 13 (3.79%) OpenAPI
13 11 (3.21%) Django
13 11 (3.21%) Flask
13 11 (3.21%) HTML
14 10 (2.92%) CSS
14 10 (2.92%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 70 (20.41%) Cloud Native
2 24 (7.00%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (5.83%) Product Ownership
4 12 (3.50%) Legacy Systems
4 12 (3.50%) Onboarding
5 11 (3.21%) Data Centre
6 10 (2.92%) Distributed Computing
6 10 (2.92%) Mobile App
7 9 (2.62%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (2.62%) Hybrid Cloud
8 8 (2.33%) Low-Code
9 6 (1.75%) Enterprise Cloud
9 6 (1.75%) NHS
10 4 (1.17%) Algorithms
10 4 (1.17%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.17%) Private Cloud
11 3 (0.87%) AI Agents
11 3 (0.87%) Client/Server
11 3 (0.87%) Cyber Threat
11 3 (0.87%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 41 (11.95%) Linux
2 21 (6.12%) Windows
3 6 (1.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (1.75%) Unix
3 6 (1.75%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.46%) VMS
5 4 (1.17%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.87%) Android
6 3 (0.87%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.58%) Oracle Linux
7 2 (0.58%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
7 2 (0.58%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.58%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.58%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 259 (75.51%) CI/CD
2 199 (58.02%) DevOps
3 138 (40.23%) Infrastructure as Code
4 128 (37.32%) Agile
5 123 (35.86%) Test Automation
6 83 (24.20%) Problem-Solving
7 78 (22.74%) Analytics
8 71 (20.70%) Containerisation
9 63 (18.37%) Data Pipeline
10 59 (17.20%) Data Modelling
11 57 (16.62%) Observability
11 57 (16.62%) Scrum
12 56 (16.33%) Continuous Improvement
13 55 (16.03%) ETL
14 54 (15.74%) AI
14 54 (15.74%) Microservices
15 51 (14.87%) Migration
16 41 (11.95%) Platform Engineering
17 40 (11.66%) Business Intelligence
18 38 (11.08%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 114 (33.24%) Python
2 72 (20.99%) SQL
3 59 (17.20%) PowerShell
4 50 (14.58%) Java
5 39 (11.37%) Bash
6 34 (9.91%) Bicep
7 31 (9.04%) JavaScript
8 27 (7.87%) C#
9 26 (7.58%) TypeScript
10 10 (2.92%) PHP
11 6 (1.75%) Apex Code
12 5 (1.46%) Go
12 5 (1.46%) Kotlin
13 4 (1.17%) Scala
13 4 (1.17%) Swift
14 3 (0.87%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.87%) Rust
14 3 (0.87%) SAS Macro
15 2 (0.58%) Perl
15 2 (0.58%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 118 (34.40%) Security Cleared
2 90 (26.24%) SC Cleared
3 18 (5.25%) Degree
4 17 (4.96%) Azure Certification
5 13 (3.79%) Microsoft Certification
6 12 (3.50%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (3.50%) DV Cleared
7 11 (3.21%) AWS Certification
8 8 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
9 7 (2.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (1.17%) RHCE
11 3 (0.87%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 3 (0.87%) CCNP
11 3 (0.87%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (0.87%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 3 (0.87%) MCSA
11 3 (0.87%) Oracle Certification
12 2 (0.58%) AWS Certified Developer
12 2 (0.58%) MCSE
12 2 (0.58%) OCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (11.08%) Data Quality
2 32 (9.33%) QA
3 15 (4.37%) Accessibility
4 11 (3.21%) GDPR
5 9 (2.62%) WCAG
6 7 (2.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 5 (1.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.87%) NCSC
9 2 (0.58%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.29%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.29%) EU AI Act
10 1 (0.29%) HL7
10 1 (0.29%) NIST
10 1 (0.29%) SLA
10 1 (0.29%) SOC 2
System Software
1 102 (29.74%) Docker
2 18 (5.25%) Virtual Machines
3 17 (4.96%) Active Directory
4 8 (2.33%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (1.46%) Hyper-V
5 5 (1.46%) Microsoft App-V
6 2 (0.58%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.58%) Xen
7 1 (0.29%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.29%) Firmware
7 1 (0.29%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 121 (35.28%) Terraform
2 120 (34.99%) Kubernetes
3 42 (12.24%) Ansible
4 14 (4.08%) SCCM
5 13 (3.79%) Prometheus
6 10 (2.92%) Grafana
7 9 (2.62%) Microsoft Intune
7 9 (2.62%) Puppet
8 6 (1.75%) Progress Chef
9 5 (1.46%) Istio
10 4 (1.17%) WSUS
11 3 (0.87%) Argo
12 2 (0.58%) CA Wily
12 2 (0.58%) Tivoli
13 1 (0.29%) Podman
13 1 (0.29%) QRadar
13 1 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 88 (25.66%) Microsoft
2 22 (6.41%) Salesforce
3 20 (5.83%) Google
3 20 (5.83%) OpenAI
4 17 (4.96%) Oracle
4 17 (4.96%) Talend
5 16 (4.66%) Denodo
6 14 (4.08%) Databricks
7 12 (3.50%) Dynatrace
8 10 (2.92%) Red Hat
9 8 (2.33%) Automation Anywhere
9 8 (2.33%) Splunk
9 8 (2.33%) UiPath
10 6 (1.75%) Apple
10 6 (1.75%) Foundry
11 4 (1.17%) Bloomberg
11 4 (1.17%) Citrix
11 4 (1.17%) ION Trading
11 4 (1.17%) Reuters
11 4 (1.17%) VMware
121 Deployment Automation jobs in England