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

 6 months to
28 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 282 277 307
Rank change year-on-year -5 +30 -1
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 338 219 242
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.84% 0.90% 0.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.99% 0.98% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 229 170 173
10th Percentile £400 £355 £413
25th Percentile £450 £416 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £594
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% -7.41% -4.96%
75th Percentile £575 £653 £700
90th Percentile £650 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £514 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -6.55% -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 5
10th Percentile £52.69 - £22.72
25th Percentile £56.36 - -
Median hourly rate £62.59 - £23.80
75th Percentile £68.70 - £67.02
90th Percentile £72.29 - £69.56
UK median hourly rate £62.59 - £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 34,120 22,289 31,993
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.96% 91.13% 86.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,809 14,625 20,976
10th Percentile £318 £310 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -4.40% -0.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,143 919 2,227
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.74 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.38 £18.51 £16.00
Median hourly rate £44.00 £30.45 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +44.50% -13.00% -6.67%
75th Percentile £67.25 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £40.25 £29.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +38.08% -16.71% -6.27%

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 April 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 28 April 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 28 April 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 -6 178 £550 -5.17% 51
Midlands -34 45 £507 +1.30% 8
North of England -67 39 £476 +17.84% 14
West Midlands -38 31 £525 +5.00% 4
South East -53 30 £531 +32.15% 41
South West -35 24 £531 -7.61% 7
North West -25 19 £436 +11.51% 9
Yorkshire -55 19 £491 -15.71% 2
East Midlands -27 13 £402 -15.37% 4
East of England -35 3 £513 -2.33% 6
North East -24 1 - - 3
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 31 (9.17%) SAS
2 9 (2.66%) Apache Spark
3 8 (2.37%) Appian
3 8 (2.37%) SharePoint
4 6 (1.78%) Camunda
5 5 (1.48%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (1.18%) Confluence
7 3 (0.89%) Apache
7 3 (0.89%) CMS
7 3 (0.89%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.89%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.59%) IBM HTTP Server
8 2 (0.59%) JBoss
8 2 (0.59%) Oracle HTTP Server
8 2 (0.59%) Sitecore CMS
8 2 (0.59%) WebLogic
8 2 (0.59%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.59%) WebSphere Application Server
8 2 (0.59%) WebSphere Portal
9 1 (0.30%) ColdFusion
Applications
1 6 (1.78%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.59%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.30%) Cloudability
1 1 (0.30%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 151 (44.67%) Azure
2 106 (31.36%) AWS
3 71 (21.01%) GitHub
4 55 (16.27%) Azure DevOps
5 47 (13.91%) GitHub Actions
6 35 (10.36%) GCP
7 33 (9.76%) Serverless
8 26 (7.69%) Power Platform
9 23 (6.80%) AWS CloudFormation
10 18 (5.33%) Amazon S3
10 18 (5.33%) AWS Lambda
11 16 (4.73%) Entra ID
11 16 (4.73%) OpenShift
11 16 (4.73%) Power Automate
12 15 (4.44%) Azure Data Factory
13 14 (4.14%) Azure Functions
14 13 (3.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 13 (3.85%) Azure AI
14 13 (3.85%) Azure Monitor
15 12 (3.55%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (4.73%) Firewall
2 10 (2.96%) DNS
2 10 (2.96%) TCP/IP
2 10 (2.96%) VPN
3 6 (1.78%) Network Security
4 4 (1.18%) DHCP
4 4 (1.18%) DMZ
4 4 (1.18%) HTTPS
4 4 (1.18%) Software-Defined Networking
5 3 (0.89%) HTTP
5 3 (0.89%) SSL
6 2 (0.59%) Internet
7 1 (0.30%) BGP
7 1 (0.30%) Cisco IOS
7 1 (0.30%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (0.30%) IPsec
7 1 (0.30%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.30%) OSPF
7 1 (0.30%) SMS
7 1 (0.30%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (5.62%) Pentaho
1 19 (5.62%) SQL Server
2 17 (5.03%) Power BI
3 16 (4.73%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (4.73%) Relational Database
4 14 (4.14%) Data Warehouse
5 11 (3.25%) Data Lake
6 9 (2.66%) Amazon RDS
6 9 (2.66%) Azure SQL Database
6 9 (2.66%) NoSQL
6 9 (2.66%) Redis
7 8 (2.37%) Aerospike
7 8 (2.37%) DynamoDB
7 8 (2.37%) Pinecone
7 8 (2.37%) Spark SQL
8 7 (2.07%) MongoDB
9 6 (1.78%) Metadata
9 6 (1.78%) SAS Data Integration Studio
10 5 (1.48%) Amazon Athena
10 5 (1.48%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 85 (25.15%) Git
2 73 (21.60%) Jenkins
3 54 (15.98%) GitLab
4 24 (7.10%) JIRA
5 12 (3.55%) JUnit
6 8 (2.37%) MLflow
7 5 (1.48%) Artifactory
7 5 (1.48%) Mockito
7 5 (1.48%) MSI
8 4 (1.18%) Selenium
9 3 (0.89%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 3 (0.89%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.89%) CircleCI
9 3 (0.89%) Cypress.io
9 3 (0.89%) fastlane
9 3 (0.89%) IntelliJ
9 3 (0.89%) Visual Studio Code
10 2 (0.59%) Eclipse
10 2 (0.59%) git-flow
10 2 (0.59%) Visual Studio
General
1 108 (31.95%) Social Skills
2 67 (19.82%) Public Sector
3 65 (19.23%) Finance
4 34 (10.06%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (4.14%) Banking
6 12 (3.55%) Legal
7 7 (2.07%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (2.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (1.48%) Front Office
8 5 (1.48%) Investment Banking
8 5 (1.48%) Marketing
9 3 (0.89%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.59%) Electronics
10 2 (0.59%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.59%) Military
10 2 (0.59%) Police
10 2 (0.59%) Retail
10 2 (0.59%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.30%) Law
11 1 (0.30%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 63 (18.64%) Developer
2 41 (12.13%) Data Engineer
2 41 (12.13%) DevOps Engineer
2 41 (12.13%) Senior
3 35 (10.36%) Architect
4 24 (7.10%) Azure Engineer
5 22 (6.51%) Platform Engineer
6 20 (5.92%) Automation Engineer
7 15 (4.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 15 (4.44%) Lead
8 13 (3.85%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 13 (3.85%) Full-Stack Developer
8 13 (3.85%) Salesforce Engineer
9 12 (3.55%) Cloud Engineer
9 12 (3.55%) Platform Architect
9 12 (3.55%) Senior Developer
10 9 (2.66%) AWS Engineer
10 9 (2.66%) SAS Engineer
11 8 (2.37%) AWS Developer
11 8 (2.37%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (11.54%) REST
2 37 (10.95%) RESTful
3 29 (8.58%) Node.js
4 28 (8.28%) React
5 26 (7.69%) Kafka
6 19 (5.62%) .NET
7 18 (5.33%) pytest
7 18 (5.33%) YAML
8 17 (5.03%) AngularJS
8 17 (5.03%) PySpark
9 15 (4.44%) Spring
10 14 (4.14%) HTML
10 14 (4.14%) Web Services
11 13 (3.85%) Spring Boot
11 13 (3.85%) Swagger
12 12 (3.55%) CSS
12 12 (3.55%) FastAPI
12 12 (3.55%) JSON
12 12 (3.55%) OAuth
12 12 (3.55%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 58 (17.16%) Cloud Native
2 21 (6.21%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (4.14%) Legacy Systems
3 14 (4.14%) Product Ownership
4 13 (3.85%) Onboarding
5 10 (2.96%) Data Centre
5 10 (2.96%) Distributed Computing
5 10 (2.96%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (2.37%) Low-Code
7 7 (2.07%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (2.07%) Mobile App
8 6 (1.78%) Security Posture
9 5 (1.48%) Enterprise Cloud
9 5 (1.48%) NHS
10 4 (1.18%) Algorithms
10 4 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.18%) Private Cloud
11 3 (0.89%) AI Agents
11 3 (0.89%) Client/Server
11 3 (0.89%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 42 (12.43%) Linux
2 22 (6.51%) Windows
3 7 (2.07%) Unix
4 6 (1.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (1.78%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.18%) VMS
6 3 (0.89%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.89%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.59%) Android
7 2 (0.59%) Oracle Linux
7 2 (0.59%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
7 2 (0.59%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.59%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.59%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 244 (72.19%) CI/CD
2 204 (60.36%) DevOps
3 134 (39.64%) Infrastructure as Code
4 123 (36.39%) Test Automation
5 122 (36.09%) Agile
6 94 (27.81%) Problem-Solving
7 77 (22.78%) Analytics
8 75 (22.19%) Containerisation
9 62 (18.34%) Continuous Improvement
10 59 (17.46%) Data Pipeline
11 56 (16.57%) Microservices
12 55 (16.27%) Data Modelling
13 54 (15.98%) ETL
13 54 (15.98%) Scrum
14 53 (15.68%) Observability
15 45 (13.31%) Infrastructure Automation
16 44 (13.02%) AI
17 43 (12.72%) Migration
18 42 (12.43%) Business Intelligence
19 38 (11.24%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 119 (35.21%) Python
2 81 (23.96%) SQL
3 55 (16.27%) PowerShell
4 49 (14.50%) Java
5 40 (11.83%) Bash
6 32 (9.47%) JavaScript
7 27 (7.99%) TypeScript
8 26 (7.69%) Bicep
9 21 (6.21%) C#
10 9 (2.66%) PHP
11 8 (2.37%) Apex Code
12 4 (1.18%) Scala
13 3 (0.89%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.89%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.89%) Rust
13 3 (0.89%) SAS Macro
13 3 (0.89%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.59%) Perl
14 2 (0.59%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.59%) Swift
Qualifications
1 125 (36.98%) Security Cleared
2 101 (29.88%) SC Cleared
3 17 (5.03%) Degree
4 15 (4.44%) Azure Certification
5 12 (3.55%) AWS Certification
6 11 (3.25%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (3.25%) Microsoft Certification
7 9 (2.66%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (2.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 8 (2.37%) DV Cleared
9 5 (1.48%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 4 (1.18%) RHCE
10 4 (1.18%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 3 (0.89%) CCNP
11 3 (0.89%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (0.89%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 3 (0.89%) MCSA
11 3 (0.89%) Oracle Certification
12 2 (0.59%) CISSP
12 2 (0.59%) OCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (11.83%) Data Quality
2 29 (8.58%) QA
3 12 (3.55%) Accessibility
4 11 (3.25%) GDPR
5 7 (2.07%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 7 (2.07%) WCAG
6 6 (1.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.89%) NCSC
8 2 (0.59%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.59%) NIST
9 1 (0.30%) EU AI Act
9 1 (0.30%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.30%) SLA
9 1 (0.30%) SOC 2
System Software
1 106 (31.36%) Docker
2 18 (5.33%) Virtual Machines
3 17 (5.03%) Active Directory
4 6 (1.78%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (1.48%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.89%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (0.59%) Microsoft App-V
7 2 (0.59%) Xen
8 1 (0.30%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.30%) Firmware
8 1 (0.30%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 123 (36.39%) Kubernetes
2 117 (34.62%) Terraform
3 39 (11.54%) Ansible
4 14 (4.14%) Grafana
4 14 (4.14%) Prometheus
5 11 (3.25%) SCCM
6 10 (2.96%) Puppet
7 6 (1.78%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (1.78%) Progress Chef
8 5 (1.48%) Istio
9 4 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (1.18%) WSUS
10 3 (0.89%) Argo
10 3 (0.89%) ITRS Geneos
11 2 (0.59%) CA Wily
11 2 (0.59%) Podman
11 2 (0.59%) Tivoli
11 2 (0.59%) vRealize
12 1 (0.30%) Fluentd
12 1 (0.30%) QRadar
Vendors
1 84 (24.85%) Microsoft
2 25 (7.40%) Salesforce
3 20 (5.92%) Oracle
3 20 (5.92%) Talend
4 19 (5.62%) Denodo
4 19 (5.62%) OpenAI
5 18 (5.33%) Google
6 12 (3.55%) Databricks
7 11 (3.25%) Splunk
8 10 (2.96%) Red Hat
9 8 (2.37%) Automation Anywhere
9 8 (2.37%) UiPath
10 7 (2.07%) Dynatrace
10 7 (2.07%) SAP
10 7 (2.07%) VMware
11 6 (1.78%) Foundry
11 6 (1.78%) IBM
12 5 (1.48%) webMethods
13 4 (1.18%) Bloomberg
13 4 (1.18%) Reuters
104 Deployment Automation jobs in England