Deployment Automation Contracts in England

Deployment Automation
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Deployment Automation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Deployment Automation over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 236 306 324
Rank change year-on-year +70 +18 +12
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 279 255 369
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.05% 0.68% 0.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.16% 0.80% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 213 176 247
10th Percentile £328 £400 £413
25th Percentile £413 £504 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% +7.76%
75th Percentile £630 £700 £700
90th Percentile £738 £775 £813
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 4
10th Percentile - - £30.35
25th Percentile - - £52.63
Median hourly rate - £23.80 £68.00
Median % change year-on-year - -65.00% +13.33%
75th Percentile - £67.02 £74.38
90th Percentile - £69.56 £79.55
UK median hourly rate - £23.80 £66.00
% change year-on-year - -63.94% +31.34%

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 24,122 31,895 43,079
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.96% 85.58% 89.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,512 20,709 30,160
10th Percentile £300 £306 £325
25th Percentile £406 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% +0.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,206 2,293 1,566
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.79 £12.00
25th Percentile £17.87 £16.12 £16.70
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.02% +1.65% +46.03%
75th Percentile £54.94 £62.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.00 £73.10 £76.38
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £38.00 £37.34
% change year-on-year -33.82% +1.77% +43.62%

Deployment Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Deployment Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Deployment Automation in England

Deployment Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Deployment Automation in England.

Daily rate trend for Deployment Automation in England

Deployment Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Deployment Automation in England over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Deployment Automation in England

Deployment Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Deployment Automation in England.

Hourly rate trend 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 5 July 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 +56 143 £550 -8.33% 339
North of England +21 36 £393 -20.20% 63
South East +12 28 £475 -17.39% 73
East of England +50 27 £550 - 27
South West +34 26 £575 -17.86% 39
Yorkshire +15 17 £583 +22.63% 17
North West +6 16 £382 -25.15% 41
Midlands +13 15 £506 +39.59% 35
West Midlands +10 9 £550 -18.52% 18
East Midlands +5 6 £401 +12.50% 17
North East - 3 £375 - 6
Deployment Automation
UK

Deployment Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 26 (9.32%) Confluence
2 15 (5.38%) Apache
3 12 (4.30%) JBoss
4 7 (2.51%) Apache Spark
5 4 (1.43%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.72%) Anypoint
6 2 (0.72%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.72%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.72%) Mule
6 2 (0.72%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.36%) CMS
7 1 (0.36%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 86 (30.82%) AWS
2 66 (23.66%) Azure
3 33 (11.83%) Azure DevOps
4 32 (11.47%) AWS CloudFormation
5 28 (10.04%) GitHub
6 24 (8.60%) Serverless
7 23 (8.24%) OpenShift
8 22 (7.89%) Amazon S3
9 21 (7.53%) Amazon EC2
9 21 (7.53%) GCP
10 20 (7.17%) Cohesity
11 15 (5.38%) Amazon EKS
11 15 (5.38%) AWS Lambda
12 13 (4.66%) GitHub Actions
13 10 (3.58%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 9 (3.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 9 (3.23%) Entra ID
15 8 (2.87%) Amazon Cognito
15 8 (2.87%) Amazon SQS
16 7 (2.51%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 38 (13.62%) DNS
2 27 (9.68%) SAN
3 11 (3.94%) HTTP
4 10 (3.58%) Firewall
4 10 (3.58%) TCP/IP
5 9 (3.23%) VPN
6 8 (2.87%) Internet
7 5 (1.79%) NAS
8 4 (1.43%) VLAN
9 3 (1.08%) Kerberos
9 3 (1.08%) Network Security
10 2 (0.72%) DHCP
10 2 (0.72%) SSL
11 1 (0.36%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (7.17%) Relational Database
2 19 (6.81%) Amazon RDS
3 17 (6.09%) MongoDB
4 16 (5.73%) PostgreSQL
5 15 (5.38%) NoSQL
6 14 (5.02%) SQL Server
7 12 (4.30%) Elasticsearch
8 11 (3.94%) RDBMS
9 8 (2.87%) Amazon Aurora
9 8 (2.87%) Data Lake
9 8 (2.87%) DynamoDB
9 8 (2.87%) MySQL
10 6 (2.15%) Azure SQL Database
10 6 (2.15%) Big Data
11 5 (1.79%) Data Warehouse
12 4 (1.43%) Amazon Athena
12 4 (1.43%) DB2
12 4 (1.43%) Delta Lake
12 4 (1.43%) Hadoop
12 4 (1.43%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 83 (29.75%) Jenkins
2 66 (23.66%) Git
3 43 (15.41%) JIRA
4 24 (8.60%) TeamCity
5 21 (7.53%) Sonatype Nexus
6 19 (6.81%) Bitbucket
7 18 (6.45%) SonarQube
8 16 (5.73%) CA Release Automation
9 13 (4.66%) GitLab
10 12 (4.30%) Bitbucket Server
10 12 (4.30%) Maven
11 9 (3.23%) IntelliJ
12 7 (2.51%) Cypress.io
12 7 (2.51%) MSI
12 7 (2.51%) Selenium
13 6 (2.15%) REST Assured
14 5 (1.79%) JUnit
14 5 (1.79%) Subversion
15 4 (1.43%) HP UFT
15 4 (1.43%) NetBeans
General
1 72 (25.81%) Social Skills
2 41 (14.70%) Finance
3 28 (10.04%) Public Sector
4 24 (8.60%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (5.38%) Banking
6 11 (3.94%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (3.23%) Marketing
7 9 (3.23%) Telecoms
8 8 (2.87%) Electronics
8 8 (2.87%) Legal
8 8 (2.87%) Manufacturing
9 6 (2.15%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.43%) Retail
11 2 (0.72%) Military
11 2 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.36%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.36%) Aviation
12 1 (0.36%) Local Government
12 1 (0.36%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 61 (21.86%) Developer
2 43 (15.41%) DevOps Engineer
3 39 (13.98%) Senior
4 18 (6.45%) Java Developer
5 17 (6.09%) Lead
6 16 (5.73%) Automation Engineer
7 15 (5.38%) Architect
8 14 (5.02%) AWS Engineer
9 13 (4.66%) Senior Developer
10 12 (4.30%) Full-Stack Developer
10 12 (4.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 12 (4.30%) Lead Developer
11 11 (3.94%) .NET Developer
11 11 (3.94%) Senior DevOps
11 11 (3.94%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 10 (3.58%) Azure Developer
12 10 (3.58%) Senior .NET Developer
13 9 (3.23%) Platform Engineer
13 9 (3.23%) Software Engineer
14 8 (2.87%) Deployment Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (9.68%) REST
2 24 (8.60%) Elastic Stack
2 24 (8.60%) RESTful
3 23 (8.24%) React
3 23 (8.24%) Spring Boot
4 22 (7.89%) Kafka
5 18 (6.45%) AngularJS
5 18 (6.45%) Spring
6 17 (6.09%) .NET
7 15 (5.38%) Node.js
7 15 (5.38%) SOAP
8 14 (5.02%) Web Services
9 13 (4.66%) .NET Core
10 11 (3.94%) GraphQL
11 10 (3.58%) HTML
12 9 (3.23%) CSS
12 9 (3.23%) J2EE
12 9 (3.23%) Middleware
12 9 (3.23%) OpenTelemetry
13 7 (2.51%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 15 (5.38%) Cloud Native
2 14 (5.02%) Product Ownership
3 11 (3.94%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (2.15%) Clustering
4 6 (2.15%) EMC VMAX
4 6 (2.15%) PKI
5 5 (1.79%) Data Structures
5 5 (1.79%) Enterprise Storage
5 5 (1.79%) Management Information System
5 5 (1.79%) Private Cloud
5 5 (1.79%) Replication
6 4 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.08%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.08%) Distributed Computing
7 3 (1.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.08%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.08%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 82 (29.39%) Windows
2 70 (25.09%) Linux
3 39 (13.98%) Windows Server
4 25 (8.96%) Windows Server 2019
5 24 (8.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 22 (7.89%) Unix
7 20 (7.17%) Windows Server 2016
8 6 (2.15%) CentOS
8 6 (2.15%) Windows 10
9 4 (1.43%) VMS
10 2 (0.72%) Debian
10 2 (0.72%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.72%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.36%) Android
11 1 (0.36%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.36%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.36%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.36%) Solaris
11 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (54.12%) CI/CD
2 139 (49.82%) DevOps
3 89 (31.90%) Agile
4 66 (23.66%) Infrastructure as Code
5 65 (23.30%) Problem-Solving
6 63 (22.58%) Test Automation
7 58 (20.79%) Microservices
8 53 (19.00%) Continuous Integration
9 51 (18.28%) Containerisation
10 47 (16.85%) Migration
11 44 (15.77%) Configuration Management
12 37 (13.26%) Observability
13 35 (12.54%) Build Automation
14 32 (11.47%) Continuous Delivery
15 31 (11.11%) Scrum
16 27 (9.68%) Infrastructure Automation
17 26 (9.32%) Analytics
17 26 (9.32%) Mentoring
18 24 (8.60%) Software Engineering
18 24 (8.60%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 89 (31.90%) Python
2 73 (26.16%) PowerShell
3 58 (20.79%) Java
4 44 (15.77%) SQL
5 42 (15.05%) JavaScript
6 36 (12.90%) Bash
7 29 (10.39%) C#
8 21 (7.53%) TypeScript
9 19 (6.81%) Perl
10 11 (3.94%) Shell Script
11 7 (2.51%) Go
11 7 (2.51%) PHP
11 7 (2.51%) Scala
12 6 (2.15%) Groovy
13 3 (1.08%) Bicep
13 3 (1.08%) Ruby
14 2 (0.72%) DataWeave
14 2 (0.72%) VB
14 2 (0.72%) VB6
14 2 (0.72%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 82 (29.39%) Security Cleared
2 46 (16.49%) SC Cleared
3 28 (10.04%) DV Cleared
4 13 (4.66%) Microsoft Certification
5 12 (4.30%) Oracle Certification
6 11 (3.94%) OCA
6 11 (3.94%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 10 (3.58%) CCNP
7 10 (3.58%) Cisco Certification
7 10 (3.58%) RHCA
7 10 (3.58%) RHCE
8 7 (2.51%) Degree
9 6 (2.15%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (1.79%) AWS Certification
10 5 (1.79%) Azure Certification
11 4 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (1.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.36%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 1 (0.36%) Master's Degree
13 1 (0.36%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (7.17%) QA
2 5 (1.79%) Accessibility
2 5 (1.79%) GDPR
3 3 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.08%) NCSC
4 2 (0.72%) JSP 440
5 1 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.36%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.36%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 70 (25.09%) Docker
2 49 (17.56%) Active Directory
3 43 (15.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (7.17%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 20 (7.17%) Virtual Servers
5 5 (1.79%) Microsoft App-V
5 5 (1.79%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (1.43%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 2 (0.72%) VirtualBox
8 1 (0.36%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.36%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 90 (32.26%) Ansible
2 84 (30.11%) Kubernetes
3 82 (29.39%) Terraform
4 49 (17.56%) Progress Chef
5 41 (14.70%) Puppet
6 33 (11.83%) SCCM
7 27 (9.68%) Prometheus
8 21 (7.53%) Grafana
9 20 (7.17%) WSUS
10 14 (5.02%) Kibana
11 11 (3.94%) vCenter Server
12 5 (1.79%) Microsoft Intune
13 4 (1.43%) WMI
14 3 (1.08%) Argo
14 3 (1.08%) Control-M
14 3 (1.08%) Istio
14 3 (1.08%) ITRS Geneos
14 3 (1.08%) Kiali
14 3 (1.08%) Nagios
14 3 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 77 (27.60%) Microsoft
2 46 (16.49%) VMware
3 43 (15.41%) Splunk
4 28 (10.04%) Red Hat
5 24 (8.60%) NetApp
5 24 (8.60%) Oracle
6 19 (6.81%) AppDynamics
7 16 (5.73%) Cisco
8 11 (3.94%) Google
9 10 (3.58%) Databricks
10 8 (2.87%) Atlassian
10 8 (2.87%) SAP
10 8 (2.87%) ServiceNow
11 7 (2.51%) EMC
12 6 (2.15%) Cloudera
13 5 (1.79%) CA Agile Central
13 5 (1.79%) ForgeRock
13 5 (1.79%) Sybase
14 4 (1.43%) Veritas
15 3 (1.08%) Salesforce