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

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 274 244 322
Rank change year-on-year -30 +78 -13
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 387 254 240
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.89% 1.02% 0.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.05% 1.11% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 274 198 168
10th Percentile £402 £332 £400
25th Percentile £450 £413 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £597
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -7.87% -4.48%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £700
90th Percentile £675 £738 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 5
10th Percentile £60.02 - -
25th Percentile £74.68 - -
Median hourly rate £76.00 - £23.80
75th Percentile - - £67.02
90th Percentile - - £69.56
UK median hourly rate £76.00 - £23.80
% change year-on-year - - -63.94%

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 36,943 22,820 31,966
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.26% 91.36% 85.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,357 14,745 20,676
10th Percentile £325 £300 £303
25th Percentile £415 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £730 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £502 £525
% change year-on-year +2.09% -4.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,312 1,098 2,392
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.00 £27.06 £37.63
Median % change year-on-year +73.67% -28.07% +7.07%
75th Percentile £68.55 £55.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.25 £74.13 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +7.14%

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 23 June 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 23 June 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 23 June 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 -10 203 £550 - 50
North of England -48 58 £471 +18.66% 19
Midlands -24 40 £520 -3.17% 8
South East -48 35 £550 +22.22% 33
West Midlands -34 30 £525 -4.55% 5
North West -27 27 £496 +26.85% 10
South West -30 27 £488 -15.22% 9
Yorkshire -44 23 £488 -16.31% 4
East Midlands -14 9 £447 +11.61% 3
North East -31 8 £450 -18.18% 6
East of England -47 7 £700 +27.27% 9
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 28 (7.24%) SAS
2 15 (3.88%) Apache Spark
3 11 (2.84%) Confluence
4 7 (1.81%) Apache
4 7 (1.81%) Appian
4 7 (1.81%) SharePoint
5 6 (1.55%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (1.55%) Camunda
6 4 (1.03%) CMS
7 3 (0.78%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.52%) IBM HTTP Server
8 2 (0.52%) Oracle HTTP Server
8 2 (0.52%) Sitecore CMS
8 2 (0.52%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.52%) WebSphere Application Server
8 2 (0.52%) WebSphere Portal
9 1 (0.26%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.26%) OpenROAD
9 1 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 2 (0.52%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.26%) Cloudability
1 1 (0.26%) Misys Equation
1 1 (0.26%) Misys Midas
1 1 (0.26%) SAP MDG
1 1 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 200 (51.68%) Azure
2 136 (35.14%) AWS
3 92 (23.77%) GitHub
4 83 (21.45%) Azure DevOps
5 65 (16.80%) GitHub Actions
6 45 (11.63%) GCP
7 42 (10.85%) Serverless
8 32 (8.27%) Power Platform
9 27 (6.98%) Amazon S3
9 27 (6.98%) AWS Lambda
10 21 (5.43%) Azure Monitor
11 20 (5.17%) AWS CloudFormation
11 20 (5.17%) Azure Data Factory
12 17 (4.39%) Azure Key Vault
13 16 (4.13%) Amazon EKS
14 15 (3.88%) Azure AKS
15 14 (3.62%) Amazon ECS
15 14 (3.62%) Amazon SQS
16 13 (3.36%) Amazon EC2
16 13 (3.36%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (5.68%) Firewall
2 15 (3.88%) DNS
2 15 (3.88%) VPN
3 11 (2.84%) Network Security
3 11 (2.84%) TCP/IP
4 7 (1.81%) DMZ
5 4 (1.03%) Software-Defined Networking
5 4 (1.03%) SSL
6 3 (0.78%) DHCP
7 2 (0.52%) HTTP
7 2 (0.52%) Kerberos
7 2 (0.52%) NGFW
7 2 (0.52%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (0.26%) BGP
8 1 (0.26%) Cisco IOS
8 1 (0.26%) Cisco Nexus
8 1 (0.26%) MQTT
8 1 (0.26%) OpenLDAP
8 1 (0.26%) OSPF
8 1 (0.26%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (6.20%) PostgreSQL
1 24 (6.20%) Power BI
2 22 (5.68%) SQL Server
3 21 (5.43%) Relational Database
4 17 (4.39%) Pentaho
5 15 (3.88%) Data Warehouse
6 13 (3.36%) Data Lake
6 13 (3.36%) Redis
7 11 (2.84%) NoSQL
8 10 (2.58%) Amazon RDS
8 10 (2.58%) DynamoDB
9 9 (2.33%) Metadata
9 9 (2.33%) MongoDB
10 8 (2.07%) Amazon Athena
11 7 (1.81%) Pinecone
12 6 (1.55%) Big Data
12 6 (1.55%) MySQL
12 6 (1.55%) SAS Data Integration Studio
13 5 (1.29%) Aerospike
13 5 (1.29%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 90 (23.26%) Git
2 78 (20.16%) Jenkins
3 61 (15.76%) GitLab
4 29 (7.49%) JIRA
5 11 (2.84%) fastlane
6 10 (2.58%) JUnit
6 10 (2.58%) MSI
7 7 (1.81%) Gradle
7 7 (1.81%) MLflow
8 6 (1.55%) Mockito
8 6 (1.55%) Xcode
9 5 (1.29%) Android Studio
9 5 (1.29%) Crashlytics
10 4 (1.03%) Artifactory
10 4 (1.03%) git-flow
10 4 (1.03%) Selenium
10 4 (1.03%) SonarQube
11 3 (0.78%) Cypress.io
11 3 (0.78%) Maven
11 3 (0.78%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 115 (29.72%) Social Skills
2 75 (19.38%) Public Sector
3 67 (17.31%) Finance
4 30 (7.75%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (5.68%) Banking
6 16 (4.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (3.10%) Legal
8 8 (2.07%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (1.81%) Front Office
9 7 (1.81%) Investment Banking
9 7 (1.81%) Retail
10 3 (0.78%) Financial Institution
10 3 (0.78%) Law
11 2 (0.52%) Marketing
11 2 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.26%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.26%) Police
12 1 (0.26%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 73 (18.86%) Senior
2 66 (17.05%) Developer
3 56 (14.47%) DevOps Engineer
4 46 (11.89%) Data Engineer
5 34 (8.79%) Architect
6 30 (7.75%) Cloud Engineer
7 26 (6.72%) Lead
8 24 (6.20%) Azure Engineer
9 23 (5.94%) Platform Engineer
9 23 (5.94%) Senior Developer
10 20 (5.17%) Full-Stack Developer
10 20 (5.17%) Software Engineer
11 19 (4.91%) AWS Engineer
12 16 (4.13%) Salesforce Engineer
12 16 (4.13%) Senior DevOps
13 14 (3.62%) Automation Engineer
13 14 (3.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 13 (3.36%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 12 (3.10%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 12 (3.10%) Platform Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (15.25%) RESTful
2 53 (13.70%) REST
3 37 (9.56%) React
4 32 (8.27%) .NET
5 28 (7.24%) Kafka
6 25 (6.46%) Node.js
7 21 (5.43%) PySpark
8 20 (5.17%) OAuth
9 18 (4.65%) AngularJS
10 17 (4.39%) FastAPI
11 16 (4.13%) HTML
12 15 (3.88%) .NET Framework
12 15 (3.88%) CSS
12 15 (3.88%) pytest
13 14 (3.62%) Django
13 14 (3.62%) Spring
13 14 (3.62%) Spring Boot
13 14 (3.62%) YAML
14 13 (3.36%) Flask
14 13 (3.36%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 96 (24.81%) Cloud Native
2 32 (8.27%) Distributed Systems
3 25 (6.46%) Product Ownership
4 20 (5.17%) Onboarding
5 17 (4.39%) Legacy Systems
6 14 (3.62%) Mobile App
7 10 (2.58%) Enterprise Software
8 9 (2.33%) Data Centre
8 9 (2.33%) Hybrid Cloud
9 8 (2.07%) Distributed Computing
10 7 (1.81%) Enterprise Cloud
10 7 (1.81%) Low-Code
10 7 (1.81%) NHS
10 7 (1.81%) Security Posture
11 4 (1.03%) AI Agents
11 4 (1.03%) Client/Server
11 4 (1.03%) Replication
11 4 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
12 3 (0.78%) Cyber Threat
12 3 (0.78%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 47 (12.14%) Linux
2 28 (7.24%) Windows
3 12 (3.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (1.81%) Unix
5 6 (1.55%) Apple iOS
5 6 (1.55%) Windows Server
6 5 (1.29%) Android
7 4 (1.03%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.78%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.52%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (0.52%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 2 (0.52%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.52%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.52%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.26%) Solaris
10 1 (0.26%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 308 (79.59%) CI/CD
2 232 (59.95%) DevOps
3 159 (41.09%) Infrastructure as Code
4 156 (40.31%) Agile
5 142 (36.69%) Test Automation
6 95 (24.55%) Analytics
7 84 (21.71%) Containerisation
7 84 (21.71%) Problem-Solving
8 70 (18.09%) Data Pipeline
9 69 (17.83%) Scrum
10 68 (17.57%) AI
11 66 (17.05%) Continuous Improvement
11 66 (17.05%) Data Modelling
11 66 (17.05%) Microservices
11 66 (17.05%) Observability
12 57 (14.73%) ETL
13 52 (13.44%) Platform Engineering
14 51 (13.18%) Validation
15 50 (12.92%) Software Engineering
16 48 (12.40%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 147 (37.98%) Python
2 81 (20.93%) SQL
3 59 (15.25%) PowerShell
4 55 (14.21%) Java
5 38 (9.82%) Bicep
6 37 (9.56%) C#
7 36 (9.30%) Bash
8 30 (7.75%) JavaScript
8 30 (7.75%) TypeScript
9 10 (2.58%) Apex Code
10 8 (2.07%) Kotlin
11 6 (1.55%) Swift
12 5 (1.29%) Go
13 4 (1.03%) Perl
13 4 (1.03%) Rust
13 4 (1.03%) Scala
13 4 (1.03%) Shell Script
14 3 (0.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 3 (0.78%) PHP
14 3 (0.78%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 129 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 105 (27.13%) SC Cleared
3 22 (5.68%) Degree
4 17 (4.39%) Azure Certification
5 16 (4.13%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (3.88%) DV Cleared
7 13 (3.36%) Microsoft Certification
8 12 (3.10%) AWS Certification
9 11 (2.84%) BPSS Clearance
10 9 (2.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 5 (1.29%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 4 (1.03%) RHCE
13 3 (0.78%) CCNP
13 3 (0.78%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (0.78%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 3 (0.78%) MCSA
13 3 (0.78%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 2 (0.52%) AWS Certified Developer
14 2 (0.52%) Master's Degree
14 2 (0.52%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (10.59%) Data Quality
2 37 (9.56%) QA
3 26 (6.72%) Accessibility
4 22 (5.68%) WCAG
5 14 (3.62%) GDPR
6 7 (1.81%) NCSC
7 5 (1.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 4 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.78%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.52%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.52%) HL7
11 1 (0.26%) Disclosure Scotland
11 1 (0.26%) EU AI Act
11 1 (0.26%) PMO
11 1 (0.26%) SLA
11 1 (0.26%) SOC 2
System Software
1 118 (30.49%) Docker
2 14 (3.62%) Virtual Machines
3 12 (3.10%) Active Directory
4 8 (2.07%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (1.29%) Hyper-V
5 5 (1.29%) Microsoft App-V
6 3 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.26%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.26%) Firmware
7 1 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.26%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 140 (36.18%) Kubernetes
1 140 (36.18%) Terraform
2 41 (10.59%) Ansible
3 15 (3.88%) Prometheus
3 15 (3.88%) SCCM
4 12 (3.10%) Grafana
5 8 (2.07%) Microsoft Intune
6 7 (1.81%) Puppet
7 6 (1.55%) Istio
7 6 (1.55%) WSUS
8 4 (1.03%) Argo
8 4 (1.03%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.52%) CA Wily
9 2 (0.52%) Control-M
9 2 (0.52%) Tivoli
10 1 (0.26%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.26%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.26%) QRadar
10 1 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.26%) vRealize
Vendors
1 92 (23.77%) Microsoft
2 25 (6.46%) Google
3 23 (5.94%) Salesforce
4 22 (5.68%) Databricks
5 20 (5.17%) OpenAI
6 19 (4.91%) Oracle
7 18 (4.65%) Talend
8 17 (4.39%) Dynatrace
9 16 (4.13%) Denodo
10 11 (2.84%) Red Hat
11 8 (2.07%) Apple
12 7 (1.81%) Automation Anywhere
12 7 (1.81%) Foundry
12 7 (1.81%) Splunk
12 7 (1.81%) UiPath
13 6 (1.55%) Bloomberg
13 6 (1.55%) Citrix
13 6 (1.55%) ION Trading
13 6 (1.55%) Reuters
14 4 (1.03%) IBM