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

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 275 248 314
Rank change year-on-year -27 +66 +7
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 407 284 257
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.91% 1.04% 0.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.06% 1.15% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 280 217 178
10th Percentile £400 £331 £400
25th Percentile £449 £413 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% -1.03%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £700
90th Percentile £689 £729 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 3
10th Percentile £57.98 - -
25th Percentile £69.56 - -
Median hourly rate £76.00 - £23.80
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £76.00 - £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 38,249 24,669 31,010
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.41% 90.67% 85.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,059 15,837 20,183
10th Percentile £325 £300 £308
25th Percentile £420 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £645
90th Percentile £735 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,360 1,307 2,114
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.26 £13.18
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.88 £16.30
Median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -8.14%
75th Percentile £68.75 £53.75 £63.67
90th Percentile £83.00 £71.33 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -5.88%

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 17 July 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 17 July 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 17 July 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 -18 209 £550 -1.79% 45
North of England -44 66 £471 +19.72% 16
South East -54 40 £575 +21.05% 27
Midlands -36 38 £515 +3.00% 7
South West -37 33 £475 -17.39% 12
North West -34 30 £500 +30.98% 8
West Midlands -40 30 £515 -6.36% 4
Yorkshire -33 28 £475 -17.39% 2
North East -31 8 £450 +20.00% 6
East Midlands -13 7 £485 +21.10% 3
East of England -41 7 £700 +27.27% 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 24 (5.90%) SAS
2 17 (4.18%) Apache Spark
3 12 (2.95%) Confluence
4 9 (2.21%) Apache
5 6 (1.47%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (1.47%) Camunda
6 5 (1.23%) SharePoint
7 4 (0.98%) Appian
7 4 (0.98%) CMS
8 3 (0.74%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.49%) IBM HTTP Server
9 2 (0.49%) Oracle HTTP Server
9 2 (0.49%) Sitecore CMS
9 2 (0.49%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.49%) WebSphere Application Server
9 2 (0.49%) WebSphere Portal
10 1 (0.25%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.25%) OpenROAD
10 1 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 2 (0.49%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.25%) Cloudability
1 1 (0.25%) Misys Equation
1 1 (0.25%) Misys Midas
1 1 (0.25%) SAP CRM
1 1 (0.25%) SAP MDG
1 1 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 215 (52.83%) Azure
2 143 (35.14%) AWS
3 105 (25.80%) Azure DevOps
4 96 (23.59%) GitHub
5 73 (17.94%) GitHub Actions
6 48 (11.79%) GCP
7 44 (10.81%) Serverless
8 33 (8.11%) Amazon S3
9 32 (7.86%) AWS Lambda
10 29 (7.13%) Power Platform
11 21 (5.16%) Amazon EKS
11 21 (5.16%) Azure Monitor
12 19 (4.67%) Amazon ECS
12 19 (4.67%) Azure Data Factory
13 18 (4.42%) Amazon EC2
13 18 (4.42%) AWS CloudFormation
13 18 (4.42%) Azure AKS
13 18 (4.42%) Azure Key Vault
14 16 (3.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 16 (3.93%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (5.90%) Firewall
2 19 (4.67%) DNS
3 16 (3.93%) Network Security
4 14 (3.44%) VPN
5 10 (2.46%) TCP/IP
6 6 (1.47%) DMZ
6 6 (1.47%) SSL
7 4 (0.98%) Software-Defined Networking
8 2 (0.49%) HTTP
8 2 (0.49%) Kerberos
8 2 (0.49%) NGFW
8 2 (0.49%) Reverse Proxy
9 1 (0.25%) BGP
9 1 (0.25%) Cisco IOS
9 1 (0.25%) DHCP
9 1 (0.25%) Internet
9 1 (0.25%) IPsec
9 1 (0.25%) OSPF
9 1 (0.25%) SNMP
9 1 (0.25%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (6.14%) SQL Server
2 24 (5.90%) PostgreSQL
3 20 (4.91%) Power BI
4 18 (4.42%) Relational Database
5 15 (3.69%) Data Warehouse
6 13 (3.19%) Pentaho
7 12 (2.95%) Data Lake
8 11 (2.70%) NoSQL
9 10 (2.46%) Amazon RDS
9 10 (2.46%) MongoDB
10 8 (1.97%) Amazon Athena
10 8 (1.97%) Geospatial Data
10 8 (1.97%) Metadata
10 8 (1.97%) Redis
11 7 (1.72%) Big Data
11 7 (1.72%) DynamoDB
12 6 (1.47%) MySQL
12 6 (1.47%) SAS Data Integration Studio
13 5 (1.23%) Amazon Redshift
14 4 (0.98%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 93 (22.85%) Git
2 84 (20.64%) Jenkins
3 60 (14.74%) GitLab
4 31 (7.62%) JIRA
5 13 (3.19%) MSI
6 11 (2.70%) fastlane
7 9 (2.21%) Gradle
7 9 (2.21%) JUnit
8 7 (1.72%) Mockito
9 6 (1.47%) Visual Studio
9 6 (1.47%) Xcode
10 5 (1.23%) Android Studio
10 5 (1.23%) Crashlytics
10 5 (1.23%) Maven
10 5 (1.23%) MSBuild
10 5 (1.23%) SonarQube
10 5 (1.23%) Sonatype Nexus
11 4 (0.98%) Cypress.io
11 4 (0.98%) git-flow
11 4 (0.98%) MLflow
General
1 110 (27.03%) Social Skills
2 76 (18.67%) Public Sector
3 57 (14.00%) Finance
4 32 (7.86%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (5.41%) Banking
6 16 (3.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 14 (3.44%) Documentation Skills
8 11 (2.70%) Legal
9 7 (1.72%) Retail
10 6 (1.47%) Front Office
11 5 (1.23%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.74%) Financial Institution
12 3 (0.74%) Law
13 2 (0.49%) Back Office
13 2 (0.49%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.49%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.49%) Presentation Skills
14 1 (0.25%) Marketing
14 1 (0.25%) Military
14 1 (0.25%) Police
Job Titles
1 76 (18.67%) Senior
2 72 (17.69%) Developer
3 65 (15.97%) DevOps Engineer
4 41 (10.07%) Data Engineer
5 33 (8.11%) Architect
6 31 (7.62%) Cloud Engineer
6 31 (7.62%) Lead
7 26 (6.39%) Azure Engineer
8 24 (5.90%) Senior Developer
9 23 (5.65%) Software Engineer
10 22 (5.41%) AWS Engineer
11 21 (5.16%) Full-Stack Developer
11 21 (5.16%) Platform Engineer
12 16 (3.93%) Senior DevOps
13 15 (3.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 13 (3.19%) Python Engineer
14 13 (3.19%) Salesforce Engineer
14 13 (3.19%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 12 (2.95%) AWS DevOps
15 12 (2.95%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (16.46%) RESTful
2 61 (14.99%) REST
3 45 (11.06%) .NET
4 38 (9.34%) React
5 31 (7.62%) Kafka
6 23 (5.65%) Node.js
6 23 (5.65%) Spring
6 23 (5.65%) Spring Boot
7 19 (4.67%) HTML
8 18 (4.42%) .NET Framework
8 18 (4.42%) AngularJS
8 18 (4.42%) CSS
8 18 (4.42%) OAuth
8 18 (4.42%) YAML
9 17 (4.18%) .NET Core
10 16 (3.93%) PySpark
11 15 (3.69%) FastAPI
12 13 (3.19%) HTML5
13 12 (2.95%) Flask
14 11 (2.70%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 110 (27.03%) Cloud Native
2 31 (7.62%) Distributed Systems
3 28 (6.88%) Product Ownership
4 20 (4.91%) Onboarding
5 19 (4.67%) Legacy Systems
6 15 (3.69%) Enterprise Software
7 14 (3.44%) Mobile App
8 9 (2.21%) Hybrid Cloud
9 8 (1.97%) Data Centre
10 7 (1.72%) Enterprise Cloud
10 7 (1.72%) NHS
10 7 (1.72%) Security Posture
11 6 (1.47%) Replication
11 6 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
12 5 (1.23%) AI Agents
13 4 (0.98%) Algorithms
13 4 (0.98%) Data Protection Act
13 4 (0.98%) Distributed Computing
13 4 (0.98%) Linux Command Line
13 4 (0.98%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 45 (11.06%) Linux
2 29 (7.13%) Windows
3 13 (3.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (1.72%) Unix
4 7 (1.72%) Windows Server
5 6 (1.47%) Apple iOS
6 5 (1.23%) Android
6 5 (1.23%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.74%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.49%) Oracle Linux
8 2 (0.49%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
8 2 (0.49%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.49%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.49%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.25%) Solaris
9 1 (0.25%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 326 (80.10%) CI/CD
2 249 (61.18%) DevOps
3 176 (43.24%) Infrastructure as Code
4 165 (40.54%) Agile
5 152 (37.35%) Test Automation
6 98 (24.08%) Containerisation
7 91 (22.36%) Analytics
8 82 (20.15%) Problem-Solving
9 78 (19.16%) Microservices
10 76 (18.67%) Continuous Improvement
11 72 (17.69%) Scrum
12 68 (16.71%) AI
13 67 (16.46%) Observability
14 65 (15.97%) Data Pipeline
15 59 (14.50%) Platform Engineering
15 59 (14.50%) Software Engineering
16 53 (13.02%) Data Modelling
17 52 (12.78%) Validation
18 50 (12.29%) DevSecOps
19 46 (11.30%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 149 (36.61%) Python
2 76 (18.67%) SQL
3 62 (15.23%) PowerShell
4 58 (14.25%) Java
5 45 (11.06%) C#
6 44 (10.81%) Bicep
7 37 (9.09%) Bash
8 36 (8.85%) JavaScript
9 31 (7.62%) TypeScript
10 10 (2.46%) Apex Code
11 9 (2.21%) Kotlin
12 6 (1.47%) Go
12 6 (1.47%) Swift
13 5 (1.23%) Scala
14 4 (0.98%) Perl
15 3 (0.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 3 (0.74%) PHP
15 3 (0.74%) SAS Macro
15 3 (0.74%) Shell Script
16 2 (0.49%) Rust
Qualifications
1 144 (35.38%) Security Cleared
2 123 (30.22%) SC Cleared
3 23 (5.65%) Degree
4 19 (4.67%) DV Cleared
5 18 (4.42%) Azure Certification
5 18 (4.42%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (3.93%) AWS Certification
7 15 (3.69%) Microsoft Certification
8 9 (2.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 8 (1.97%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (1.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 4 (0.98%) RHCE
12 3 (0.74%) CCNP
12 3 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (0.74%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 3 (0.74%) Master's Degree
12 3 (0.74%) MCSA
12 3 (0.74%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 2 (0.49%) AWS Certified Developer
13 2 (0.49%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (9.09%) QA
2 32 (7.86%) Accessibility
3 30 (7.37%) Data Quality
4 27 (6.63%) WCAG
5 11 (2.70%) NCSC
6 10 (2.46%) GDPR
7 3 (0.74%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.74%) HL7
8 2 (0.49%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.25%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.25%) EU AI Act
9 1 (0.25%) PMO
9 1 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.25%) SLA
9 1 (0.25%) SOC 2
System Software
1 124 (30.47%) Docker
2 14 (3.44%) Virtual Machines
3 10 (2.46%) Active Directory
4 9 (2.21%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (1.23%) Hyper-V
5 5 (1.23%) Microsoft App-V
6 4 (0.98%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (0.49%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 1 (0.25%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.25%) Firmware
8 1 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.25%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 157 (38.57%) Terraform
2 150 (36.86%) Kubernetes
3 53 (13.02%) Ansible
4 16 (3.93%) Prometheus
5 14 (3.44%) SCCM
6 13 (3.19%) Grafana
7 8 (1.97%) Microsoft Intune
7 8 (1.97%) Puppet
8 7 (1.72%) Argo
9 5 (1.23%) Istio
9 5 (1.23%) Progress Chef
9 5 (1.23%) WSUS
10 2 (0.49%) CA Wily
10 2 (0.49%) Control-M
10 2 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.49%) Tivoli
11 1 (0.25%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.25%) Packer
11 1 (0.25%) Podman
11 1 (0.25%) QRadar
Vendors
1 93 (22.85%) Microsoft
2 24 (5.90%) Google
3 22 (5.41%) Oracle
4 21 (5.16%) Databricks
4 21 (5.16%) Salesforce
5 19 (4.67%) Dynatrace
6 14 (3.44%) OpenAI
7 13 (3.19%) Talend
8 12 (2.95%) Denodo
8 12 (2.95%) Red Hat
9 9 (2.21%) Foundry
10 7 (1.72%) Splunk
11 6 (1.47%) Apple
11 6 (1.47%) Citrix
11 6 (1.47%) UiPath
12 5 (1.23%) Bloomberg
12 5 (1.23%) ION Trading
12 5 (1.23%) Reuters
12 5 (1.23%) SAP
12 5 (1.23%) VMware