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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
20 Nov 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 283 329 374
Rank change year-on-year +46 +45 -72
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 286 186 205
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.94% 0.60% 0.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.04% 0.69% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 214 110 143
10th Percentile £381 £400 £450
25th Percentile £430 £455 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £619 £725 £681
90th Percentile £692 £788 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 4
10th Percentile - £29.67 £17.45
25th Percentile £21.29 £38.48 £20.38
Median hourly rate £22.58 £54.40 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -58.50% +147.27% -
75th Percentile £23.86 £71.58 £37.75
90th Percentile - £81.13 £66.10
UK median hourly rate £22.58 £54.40 £22.00
% change year-on-year -58.50% +147.27% -45.68%

All Process and 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 27,490 26,978 34,630
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.21% 86.87% 88.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,441 16,489 23,672
10th Percentile £300 £313 £313
25th Percentile £405 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
75th Percentile £625 £644 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,813 961 1,464
10th Percentile £14.87 £15.10 £14.51
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.03% -17.78% +26.90%
75th Percentile £48.75 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.62 £74.75 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £43.95
% change year-on-year -28.14% -20.36% +25.57%

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 November 2025.

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 20 November 2025. 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 +6 125 £575 -8.00% 105
Midlands +13 54 £519 -16.84% 13
West Midlands +5 52 £519 -18.35% 10
North of England -33 39 £492 +23.00% 37
South East +14 26 £584 +8.10% 57
North West -16 23 £453 +13.25% 27
South West +7 20 £525 -25.53% 14
Yorkshire -30 14 £550 -10.57% 9
East of England -26 6 £500 +33.33% 11
North East -9 2 £500 -1.72% 1
East Midlands -16 2 £276 -26.40% 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 34 (11.89%) SAS
2 20 (6.99%) Apache
3 17 (5.94%) JBoss
4 9 (3.15%) Apache Airflow
5 8 (2.80%) WebLogic
6 6 (2.10%) Confluence
6 6 (2.10%) nginx
6 6 (2.10%) SharePoint
7 5 (1.75%) IIS
7 5 (1.75%) iPlanet
7 5 (1.75%) WebSphere
7 5 (1.75%) WebSphere Application Server
8 4 (1.40%) Anypoint
8 4 (1.40%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.70%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.70%) CMS
10 1 (0.35%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.35%) Mule
10 1 (0.35%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (1.40%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.35%) Endur
2 1 (0.35%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 92 (32.17%) AWS
2 85 (29.72%) Azure
3 50 (17.48%) GitHub
4 37 (12.94%) Azure DevOps
5 34 (11.89%) GitHub Actions
6 27 (9.44%) Serverless
7 22 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
8 21 (7.34%) AWS CloudFormation
8 21 (7.34%) OpenShift
9 18 (6.29%) GCP
10 16 (5.59%) Amazon S3
11 13 (4.55%) Amazon EKS
11 13 (4.55%) Amazon SQS
12 11 (3.85%) Entra ID
12 11 (3.85%) Power Platform
13 10 (3.50%) Amazon EC2
13 10 (3.50%) Amazon EventBridge
14 9 (3.15%) Azure Data Factory
15 8 (2.80%) Azure Key Vault
15 8 (2.80%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 20 (6.99%) HTTPS
2 9 (3.15%) SSL
3 6 (2.10%) DNS
3 6 (2.10%) Firewall
4 5 (1.75%) Kerberos
4 5 (1.75%) Network Security
4 5 (1.75%) VPN
5 4 (1.40%) TCP/IP
6 3 (1.05%) DHCP
7 2 (0.70%) HTTP
8 1 (0.35%) BGP
8 1 (0.35%) Calico
8 1 (0.35%) DMZ
8 1 (0.35%) Ethernet VPN
8 1 (0.35%) Internet
8 1 (0.35%) Software-Defined Networking
8 1 (0.35%) VLAN
8 1 (0.35%) VSAN
8 1 (0.35%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (10.14%) Pentaho
2 16 (5.59%) Relational Database
3 13 (4.55%) Oracle Database
4 12 (4.20%) MongoDB
5 11 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
5 11 (3.85%) NoSQL
5 11 (3.85%) SAS Enterprise Guide
6 10 (3.50%) PostgreSQL
7 9 (3.15%) Amazon RDS
7 9 (3.15%) SQL Server
8 7 (2.45%) Data Lake
9 6 (2.10%) Apache Cassandra
9 6 (2.10%) DynamoDB
10 5 (1.75%) MySQL
10 5 (1.75%) RDBMS
10 5 (1.75%) SAS Visual Analytics
10 5 (1.75%) Star Schema
11 4 (1.40%) Azure SQL Database
11 4 (1.40%) Delta Lake
11 4 (1.40%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 100 (34.97%) Git
2 91 (31.82%) Jenkins
3 50 (17.48%) JIRA
4 27 (9.44%) GitLab
5 18 (6.29%) Sonatype Nexus
6 12 (4.20%) IntelliJ
6 12 (4.20%) SonarQube
7 10 (3.50%) JUnit
7 10 (3.50%) Maven
8 9 (3.15%) Bitbucket Server
8 9 (3.15%) CA Release Automation
8 9 (3.15%) TeamCity
9 8 (2.80%) Bitbucket
9 8 (2.80%) Eclipse
9 8 (2.80%) Selenium
10 7 (2.45%) MSI
11 4 (1.40%) CircleCI
11 4 (1.40%) Robot Framework
12 3 (1.05%) Cypress.io
13 2 (0.70%) Gradle
General
1 81 (28.32%) Social Skills
2 50 (17.48%) Public Sector
3 31 (10.84%) Finance
4 23 (8.04%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (3.85%) Banking
6 8 (2.80%) Influencing Skills
7 7 (2.45%) Marketing
8 6 (2.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (2.10%) Investment Banking
9 5 (1.75%) Digital Healthcare
9 5 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.40%) Electronics
10 4 (1.40%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.40%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.70%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.70%) Back Office
11 2 (0.70%) Front Office
11 2 (0.70%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.70%) Publishing
11 2 (0.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 80 (27.97%) Developer
2 30 (10.49%) DevOps Engineer
3 22 (7.69%) Data Engineer
4 21 (7.34%) Senior
5 20 (6.99%) Lead
6 17 (5.94%) Platform Engineer
7 16 (5.59%) Architect
8 14 (4.90%) Full-Stack Developer
9 12 (4.20%) Azure Engineer
9 12 (4.20%) Java Developer
9 12 (4.20%) webMethods Developer
10 10 (3.50%) AWS Engineer
10 10 (3.50%) Python Developer
11 9 (3.15%) Software Engineer
12 8 (2.80%) Automation Engineer
12 8 (2.80%) Cloud Engineer
12 8 (2.80%) Full-Stack Python Developer
12 8 (2.80%) Lead Developer
13 7 (2.45%) Azure Data Engineer
13 7 (2.45%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (15.73%) REST
2 42 (14.69%) JSON
3 41 (14.34%) SOAP
4 40 (13.99%) XML
5 33 (11.54%) React
6 28 (9.79%) RESTful
7 23 (8.04%) Spring
8 22 (7.69%) OAuth
9 19 (6.64%) AngularJS
9 19 (6.64%) HTML
10 16 (5.59%) Spring Boot
11 13 (4.55%) Kafka
12 12 (4.20%) J2EE
12 12 (4.20%) JMS
13 11 (3.85%) .NET
13 11 (3.85%) Jest
13 11 (3.85%) pytest
14 10 (3.50%) PySpark
14 10 (3.50%) YAML
15 9 (3.15%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 27 (9.44%) Cloud Native
2 9 (3.15%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (2.80%) Data Protection Act
3 8 (2.80%) Private Cloud
4 7 (2.45%) Product Ownership
5 6 (2.10%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (2.10%) PKI
6 5 (1.75%) Security Posture
7 4 (1.40%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.05%) Clustering
8 3 (1.05%) CMDB
8 3 (1.05%) Distributed Computing
8 3 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (1.05%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.05%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.05%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.70%) IoT
9 2 (0.70%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 47 (16.43%) Linux
2 33 (11.54%) Windows
3 19 (6.64%) Unix
4 14 (4.90%) Windows Server
5 11 (3.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (2.10%) CentOS
7 4 (1.40%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (1.05%) Android
8 3 (1.05%) Apple iOS
8 3 (1.05%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.70%) Debian
9 2 (0.70%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.35%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 207 (72.38%) CI/CD
2 197 (68.88%) DevOps
3 117 (40.91%) Agile
4 115 (40.21%) Test Automation
5 89 (31.12%) Infrastructure as Code
5 89 (31.12%) Problem-Solving
6 68 (23.78%) Containerisation
7 63 (22.03%) Analytics
8 59 (20.63%) Continuous Improvement
9 57 (19.93%) Scrum
10 51 (17.83%) Microservices
11 50 (17.48%) Data Pipeline
12 43 (15.03%) Data Modelling
12 43 (15.03%) ETL
13 40 (13.99%) Data Integration
13 40 (13.99%) Infrastructure Automation
13 40 (13.99%) Migration
14 37 (12.94%) Observability
15 36 (12.59%) Business Intelligence
16 29 (10.14%) Data Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 94 (32.87%) Python
2 88 (30.77%) SQL
3 57 (19.93%) Java
4 38 (13.29%) PowerShell
5 36 (12.59%) JavaScript
6 28 (9.79%) TypeScript
7 24 (8.39%) Bash
8 18 (6.29%) C#
9 11 (3.85%) Groovy
9 11 (3.85%) Scala
9 11 (3.85%) Shell Script
10 10 (3.50%) Bicep
11 8 (2.80%) Go
11 8 (2.80%) Perl
12 7 (2.45%) PHP
13 5 (1.75%) T-SQL
14 4 (1.40%) DataWeave
15 2 (0.70%) Apex Code
15 2 (0.70%) PromQL
15 2 (0.70%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 125 (43.71%) Security Cleared
2 98 (34.27%) SC Cleared
3 12 (4.20%) AWS Certification
3 12 (4.20%) Degree
4 11 (3.85%) DV Cleared
5 8 (2.80%) Azure Certification
5 8 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (2.45%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (2.10%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 4 (1.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (1.40%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.40%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.40%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 2 (0.70%) CISSP
9 2 (0.70%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.35%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.35%) CISM
10 1 (0.35%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.35%) OCA
10 1 (0.35%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (9.79%) Data Quality
2 20 (6.99%) QA
3 5 (1.75%) Accessibility
3 5 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (1.75%) NIST
4 4 (1.40%) NCSC
5 2 (0.70%) GDPR
5 2 (0.70%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.70%) SLA
5 2 (0.70%) WCAG
6 1 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.35%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.35%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.35%) JSP 440
6 1 (0.35%) NIST 800
System Software
1 120 (41.96%) Docker
2 26 (9.09%) Active Directory
3 12 (4.20%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.75%) Tivoli Directory Server
5 3 (1.05%) Microsoft App-V
6 2 (0.70%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.70%) VirtualBox
6 2 (0.70%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.35%) etcd
7 1 (0.35%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 108 (37.76%) Kubernetes
2 83 (29.02%) Terraform
3 41 (14.34%) Ansible
4 21 (7.34%) Prometheus
5 18 (6.29%) Grafana
6 14 (4.90%) Progress Chef
6 14 (4.90%) Puppet
7 11 (3.85%) Single Sign-On
8 6 (2.10%) ITRS Geneos
9 5 (1.75%) Argo
9 5 (1.75%) CA Single Sign-On
9 5 (1.75%) CA Wily
9 5 (1.75%) Microsoft Intune
9 5 (1.75%) Packer
9 5 (1.75%) Tivoli
10 4 (1.40%) CloudHub
10 4 (1.40%) Kibana
10 4 (1.40%) Podman
10 4 (1.40%) WMI
11 3 (1.05%) vRealize
Vendors
1 75 (26.22%) Microsoft
2 41 (14.34%) Oracle
3 31 (10.84%) Talend
4 29 (10.14%) Denodo
5 21 (7.34%) webMethods
6 19 (6.64%) Splunk
6 19 (6.64%) VMware
7 18 (6.29%) Databricks
8 16 (5.59%) IBM
8 16 (5.59%) SAP
9 12 (4.20%) Red Hat
10 11 (3.85%) Software AG
11 10 (3.50%) Google
12 9 (3.15%) AppDynamics
13 8 (2.80%) Axway
13 8 (2.80%) Pega
13 8 (2.80%) Salesforce
14 6 (2.10%) ServiceNow
15 5 (1.75%) Broadcom
15 5 (1.75%) ForgeRock
225 Deployment Automation jobs in England