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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 222 284 345
Rank change year-on-year +62 +61 +9
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 565 264 191
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.21% 0.94% 0.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.43% 1.04% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 372 205 111
10th Percentile £400 £352 £375
25th Percentile £431 £438 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £550 £588
Median % change year-on-year -5.91% -6.38% -2.08%
75th Percentile £621 £630 £685
90th Percentile £688 £700 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -6.82% -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 4
10th Percentile £62.25 - -
25th Percentile £66.38 £21.29 -
Median hourly rate £74.68 £22.58 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +230.81% -5.15% -50.42%
75th Percentile £76.00 £23.86 £39.73
90th Percentile - - £68.39
UK median hourly rate £69.00 £22.58 £23.80
% change year-on-year +205.65% -5.15% -50.42%

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 39,431 25,424 27,856
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.70% 90.99% 86.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,955 16,149 17,033
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £512 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.64% -2.57% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £645
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,897 1,546 1,199
10th Percentile £13.87 £14.42 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.60 £17.87 £20.30
Median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +63.02% -41.51% -3.37%
75th Percentile £67.50 £46.55 £67.01
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.25 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £39.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +55.07% -40.82% -

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 1 October 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 1 October 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 1 October 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 +56 289 £536 -6.74% 340
North of England -5 105 £500 +6.16% 85
South West 0 53 £450 -18.18% 61
Yorkshire -1 52 £500 -16.39% 23
South East -31 51 £581 +3.43% 81
Midlands -41 44 £489 -6.90% 34
West Midlands -30 42 £488 -7.14% 22
North West -32 36 £513 +13.13% 51
North East -22 17 £450 +50.00% 11
East of England -45 8 £850 +54.55% 21
East Midlands -15 2 £500 +81.16% 12
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 27 (4.78%) Confluence
2 25 (4.42%) Apache Spark
3 24 (4.25%) Apache
4 17 (3.01%) Apache Airflow
5 13 (2.30%) SharePoint
6 8 (1.42%) SAS
7 7 (1.24%) CMS
8 3 (0.53%) IBM Transformation Extender
8 3 (0.53%) nginx
8 3 (0.53%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.35%) CICS
9 2 (0.35%) IIS
10 1 (0.18%) Camunda
10 1 (0.18%) EPiServer
10 1 (0.18%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.18%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.18%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.18%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.53%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.18%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.18%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 5 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.53%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (0.53%) SAP MDG
2 3 (0.53%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.18%) Misys Equation
3 1 (0.18%) Misys Midas
3 1 (0.18%) SAP CRM
3 1 (0.18%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 316 (55.93%) Azure
2 212 (37.52%) AWS
3 161 (28.50%) Azure DevOps
4 125 (22.12%) GitHub
5 95 (16.81%) GitHub Actions
6 83 (14.69%) GCP
7 79 (13.98%) Serverless
8 55 (9.73%) AWS Lambda
9 53 (9.38%) Amazon S3
10 48 (8.50%) Azure Monitor
10 48 (8.50%) Entra ID
11 45 (7.96%) Amazon EKS
12 43 (7.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 42 (7.43%) Azure AKS
14 39 (6.90%) Amazon EC2
15 38 (6.73%) Amazon ECS
16 33 (5.84%) Power Platform
17 25 (4.42%) Azure Key Vault
18 24 (4.25%) Azure Data Factory
19 23 (4.07%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 40 (7.08%) Firewall
2 35 (6.19%) DNS
3 28 (4.96%) Network Security
4 17 (3.01%) VPN
5 16 (2.83%) TCP/IP
6 8 (1.42%) SSH
7 7 (1.24%) DHCP
7 7 (1.24%) SSL
8 5 (0.88%) Kerberos
8 5 (0.88%) NGFW
9 4 (0.71%) BGP
9 4 (0.71%) DMZ
9 4 (0.71%) Ethernet VPN
9 4 (0.71%) Internet
9 4 (0.71%) VXLAN
10 3 (0.53%) NX-OS
10 3 (0.53%) OpenLDAP
10 3 (0.53%) Reverse Proxy
10 3 (0.53%) TACACS
11 2 (0.35%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (5.84%) SQL Server
2 28 (4.96%) PostgreSQL
3 26 (4.60%) Power BI
4 25 (4.42%) Relational Database
5 24 (4.25%) Metadata
6 23 (4.07%) Data Lake
7 22 (3.89%) NoSQL
8 21 (3.72%) Data Warehouse
9 16 (2.83%) Amazon RDS
9 16 (2.83%) BigQuery
9 16 (2.83%) MongoDB
10 13 (2.30%) MySQL
10 13 (2.30%) Redis
11 11 (1.95%) Big Data
11 11 (1.95%) Geospatial Data
12 10 (1.77%) Azure SQL Database
12 10 (1.77%) DynamoDB
13 9 (1.59%) Amazon Redshift
13 9 (1.59%) Elasticsearch
13 9 (1.59%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 155 (27.43%) Git
2 111 (19.65%) Jenkins
3 106 (18.76%) GitLab
4 42 (7.43%) JIRA
5 17 (3.01%) MSI
6 11 (1.95%) Selenium
7 9 (1.59%) fastlane
7 9 (1.59%) Sonatype Nexus
8 8 (1.42%) Gradle
8 8 (1.42%) JUnit
9 7 (1.24%) Visual Studio
10 6 (1.06%) Maven
10 6 (1.06%) SonarQube
11 5 (0.88%) Artifactory
11 5 (0.88%) MSBuild
11 5 (0.88%) Postman
11 5 (0.88%) TeamCity
11 5 (0.88%) Xcode
12 4 (0.71%) Claude Code
12 4 (0.71%) Cypress.io
General
1 180 (31.86%) Social Skills
2 85 (15.04%) Finance
2 85 (15.04%) Public Sector
3 62 (10.97%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (6.37%) Banking
5 19 (3.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 12 (2.12%) Retail
7 9 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (1.24%) Marketing
9 6 (1.06%) Front Office
9 6 (1.06%) Investment Banking
10 5 (0.88%) Financial Institution
10 5 (0.88%) Manufacturing
11 4 (0.71%) Aerospace
11 4 (0.71%) Law
11 4 (0.71%) Military
11 4 (0.71%) Telecoms
12 3 (0.53%) Back Office
12 3 (0.53%) Billing
12 3 (0.53%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 106 (18.76%) Developer
2 105 (18.58%) Senior
3 95 (16.81%) DevOps Engineer
4 55 (9.73%) Lead
5 51 (9.03%) Cloud Engineer
6 49 (8.67%) Data Engineer
7 46 (8.14%) Azure Engineer
8 44 (7.79%) Architect
9 37 (6.55%) Platform Engineer
10 32 (5.66%) AWS Engineer
11 30 (5.31%) Software Engineer
12 28 (4.96%) Senior Developer
13 25 (4.42%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 24 (4.25%) AWS DevOps
15 22 (3.89%) GCP Engineer
15 22 (3.89%) Senior DevOps
16 21 (3.72%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 20 (3.54%) Full-Stack Developer
18 19 (3.36%) Senior DevOps Engineer
19 17 (3.01%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 249 (44.07%) Terraform
2 121 (21.42%) REST
3 83 (14.69%) RESTful
4 71 (12.57%) .NET
5 53 (9.38%) Kafka
5 53 (9.38%) React
6 36 (6.37%) .NET Framework
6 36 (6.37%) OAuth
7 34 (6.02%) Spring
7 34 (6.02%) Spring Boot
8 33 (5.84%) .NET Core
8 33 (5.84%) HTML
9 32 (5.66%) CSS
10 29 (5.13%) ARM Templates
11 24 (4.25%) Node.js
12 23 (4.07%) AngularJS
13 22 (3.89%) HTML5
13 22 (3.89%) OpenID
14 21 (3.72%) JSON
14 21 (3.72%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 164 (29.03%) Cloud Native
2 59 (10.44%) Product Ownership
3 46 (8.14%) Distributed Systems
4 43 (7.61%) Onboarding
5 42 (7.43%) Enterprise Software
6 21 (3.72%) Legacy Systems
7 19 (3.36%) Hybrid Cloud
8 14 (2.48%) Enterprise Cloud
9 13 (2.30%) AI Agents
9 13 (2.30%) PKI
9 13 (2.30%) Wiki
10 12 (2.12%) Self-Motivation
11 11 (1.95%) Security Posture
12 10 (1.77%) Data Protection Act
12 10 (1.77%) Mobile App
13 9 (1.59%) NHS
13 9 (1.59%) Replication
14 8 (1.42%) Data Centre
14 8 (1.42%) Data Structures
14 8 (1.42%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 80 (14.16%) Linux
2 61 (10.80%) Windows
3 20 (3.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 19 (3.36%) Windows Server
5 17 (3.01%) Unix
6 11 (1.95%) Apple iOS
7 8 (1.42%) Windows 10
8 7 (1.24%) Ubuntu
9 6 (1.06%) Android
10 4 (0.71%) Mac OS
10 4 (0.71%) VMS
11 3 (0.53%) zOS
12 2 (0.35%) Amazon Linux
12 2 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.18%) CentOS
13 1 (0.18%) Solaris
13 1 (0.18%) Windows 7
13 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 481 (85.13%) CI/CD
2 356 (63.01%) DevOps
3 287 (50.80%) Infrastructure as Code
4 243 (43.01%) Agile
5 200 (35.40%) Test Automation
6 162 (28.67%) Containerisation
7 156 (27.61%) Observability
8 149 (26.37%) Continuous Improvement
9 119 (21.06%) Problem-Solving
10 115 (20.35%) Microservices
11 111 (19.65%) AI
11 111 (19.65%) Analytics
12 101 (17.88%) DevSecOps
12 101 (17.88%) Software Engineering
13 98 (17.35%) Platform Engineering
14 86 (15.22%) Technical Leadership
15 83 (14.69%) Scrum
16 81 (14.34%) Stakeholder Management
17 79 (13.98%) Validation
18 74 (13.10%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 218 (38.58%) Python
2 113 (20.00%) SQL
3 96 (16.99%) PowerShell
4 86 (15.22%) Java
5 70 (12.39%) Bash
6 69 (12.21%) JavaScript
7 68 (12.04%) C#
8 67 (11.86%) Bicep
9 49 (8.67%) TypeScript
10 18 (3.19%) Shell Script
11 17 (3.01%) Go
12 10 (1.77%) Kotlin
13 9 (1.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 8 (1.42%) Apex Code
15 7 (1.24%) Kusto Query Language
16 5 (0.88%) Korn
16 5 (0.88%) Scala
16 5 (0.88%) Swift
17 4 (0.71%) Perl
17 4 (0.71%) PHP
Qualifications
1 196 (34.69%) Security Cleared
2 158 (27.96%) SC Cleared
3 41 (7.26%) Degree
4 36 (6.37%) DV Cleared
5 31 (5.49%) AWS Certification
5 31 (5.49%) Azure Certification
6 27 (4.78%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (2.48%) Microsoft Certification
8 12 (2.12%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (1.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 7 (1.24%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 6 (1.06%) Master's Degree
12 5 (0.88%) CISSP
12 5 (0.88%) MCSE
13 3 (0.53%) GCFA
13 3 (0.53%) GCIH
14 2 (0.35%) AWS Certified Developer
14 2 (0.35%) DBS Check
14 2 (0.35%) ISTQB
14 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (11.68%) QA
2 41 (7.26%) Data Quality
3 32 (5.66%) Accessibility
4 28 (4.96%) WCAG
5 19 (3.36%) NCSC
6 15 (2.65%) GDPR
7 8 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 6 (1.06%) NIST
9 5 (0.88%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.71%) HL7
10 4 (0.71%) ISO 20022
10 4 (0.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.53%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.18%) Disclosure Scotland
12 1 (0.18%) ISO 15022
12 1 (0.18%) JSP 440
12 1 (0.18%) PMO
12 1 (0.18%) SOC 2
System Software
1 168 (29.73%) Docker
2 42 (7.43%) Active Directory
3 18 (3.19%) Virtual Desktop
4 10 (1.77%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (1.42%) VMware Infrastructure
6 6 (1.06%) Microsoft App-V
7 5 (0.88%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.35%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 2 (0.35%) RACF
8 2 (0.35%) Time Sharing Option
9 1 (0.18%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.18%) DFS Replication
9 1 (0.18%) Dovecot
9 1 (0.18%) Firmware
9 1 (0.18%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.18%) Postfix
9 1 (0.18%) Squid
9 1 (0.18%) Varnish
9 1 (0.18%) zsh
Systems Management
1 200 (35.40%) Kubernetes
2 85 (15.04%) Ansible
3 41 (7.26%) Grafana
4 33 (5.84%) Prometheus
5 24 (4.25%) Microsoft Intune
6 16 (2.83%) SCCM
7 13 (2.30%) Progress Chef
8 11 (1.95%) Puppet
9 10 (1.77%) Single Sign-On
10 9 (1.59%) Argo
11 6 (1.06%) Istio
12 4 (0.71%) Control-M
12 4 (0.71%) WSUS
13 3 (0.53%) CASB
13 3 (0.53%) Kibana
13 3 (0.53%) Packer
13 3 (0.53%) Tivoli
13 3 (0.53%) Tivoli Monitoring
14 2 (0.35%) Podman
15 1 (0.18%) Cilium
Vendors
1 158 (27.96%) Microsoft
2 46 (8.14%) Google
3 37 (6.55%) Databricks
4 26 (4.60%) Splunk
5 25 (4.42%) Oracle
6 22 (3.89%) Dynatrace
7 17 (3.01%) Salesforce
7 17 (3.01%) ServiceNow
8 15 (2.65%) Red Hat
9 11 (1.95%) IBM
10 10 (1.77%) Apple
10 10 (1.77%) Talend
11 9 (1.59%) VMware
12 8 (1.42%) Cisco
12 8 (1.42%) MuleSoft
13 7 (1.24%) OpenAI
14 6 (1.06%) Confluent
14 6 (1.06%) Denodo
14 6 (1.06%) SAP
15 5 (0.88%) Dell