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

6 months to
24 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 290 331 372
Rank change year-on-year +41 +41 -72
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 282 188 203
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.93% 0.60% 0.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.04% 0.69% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 213 111 141
10th Percentile £385 £400 £431
25th Percentile £430 £469 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £619 £725 £675
90th Percentile £688 £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 27,211 27,167 34,832
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 89.94% 87.25% 88.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,255 16,583 23,814
10th Percentile £300 £313 £313
25th Percentile £405 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
75th Percentile £625 £649 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £531
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.13% -3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,796 995 1,467
10th Percentile £14.92 £15.10 £14.50
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.22 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £36.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.14% -20.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £43.90
% change year-on-year -28.14% -20.27% +25.43%

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 24 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 24 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 +2 121 £575 -8.37% 36
Midlands +11 57 £519 -15.28% 6
West Midlands +19 52 £519 -16.84% 6
North of England -24 37 £505 +26.19% 16
South East +12 25 £573 +6.02% 49
North West -13 23 £453 +13.25% 10
South West +16 20 £525 -25.53% 8
Yorkshire -27 12 £550 -10.57% 5
East of England -17 6 £500 +33.33% 6
East Midlands -7 5 £402 +7.20%
North East -8 2 £500 -9.09% 1
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 (12.06%) SAS
2 19 (6.74%) Apache
3 17 (6.03%) JBoss
4 9 (3.19%) Apache Airflow
5 8 (2.84%) WebLogic
6 6 (2.13%) nginx
6 6 (2.13%) SharePoint
7 5 (1.77%) Confluence
7 5 (1.77%) IIS
7 5 (1.77%) iPlanet
7 5 (1.77%) WebSphere
7 5 (1.77%) WebSphere Application Server
8 4 (1.42%) Anypoint
8 4 (1.42%) Apache Spark
8 4 (1.42%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.71%) 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 (1.42%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.35%) Endur
2 1 (0.35%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 89 (31.56%) AWS
2 83 (29.43%) Azure
3 53 (18.79%) GitHub
4 37 (13.12%) Azure DevOps
4 37 (13.12%) GitHub Actions
5 26 (9.22%) Serverless
6 22 (7.80%) OpenShift
7 21 (7.45%) AWS CloudFormation
7 21 (7.45%) AWS Lambda
8 18 (6.38%) GCP
9 17 (6.03%) Amazon S3
10 13 (4.61%) Amazon EKS
11 12 (4.26%) Amazon SQS
12 11 (3.90%) Entra ID
12 11 (3.90%) Power Platform
13 10 (3.55%) Amazon EC2
14 9 (3.19%) Amazon EventBridge
14 9 (3.19%) Azure Data Factory
15 8 (2.84%) Azure Key Vault
15 8 (2.84%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 20 (7.09%) HTTPS
2 9 (3.19%) SSL
3 7 (2.48%) DNS
4 6 (2.13%) Firewall
5 5 (1.77%) Kerberos
5 5 (1.77%) Network Security
5 5 (1.77%) TCP/IP
5 5 (1.77%) VPN
6 4 (1.42%) DHCP
7 2 (0.71%) 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 (10.28%) Pentaho
2 16 (5.67%) Relational Database
3 13 (4.61%) Oracle Database
4 12 (4.26%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (3.90%) Data Warehouse
5 11 (3.90%) MongoDB
5 11 (3.90%) NoSQL
5 11 (3.90%) SAS Enterprise Guide
6 10 (3.55%) SQL Server
7 9 (3.19%) Amazon RDS
8 7 (2.48%) Data Lake
9 6 (2.13%) Apache Cassandra
9 6 (2.13%) DynamoDB
10 5 (1.77%) RDBMS
10 5 (1.77%) SAS Visual Analytics
10 5 (1.77%) Star Schema
11 4 (1.42%) Azure SQL Database
11 4 (1.42%) Delta Lake
11 4 (1.42%) MySQL
11 4 (1.42%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 96 (34.04%) Git
2 92 (32.62%) Jenkins
3 49 (17.38%) JIRA
4 28 (9.93%) GitLab
5 14 (4.96%) Sonatype Nexus
6 11 (3.90%) JUnit
7 9 (3.19%) Bitbucket Server
7 9 (3.19%) CA Release Automation
7 9 (3.19%) IntelliJ
8 8 (2.84%) Bitbucket
8 8 (2.84%) Eclipse
8 8 (2.84%) Selenium
8 8 (2.84%) SonarQube
9 7 (2.48%) Maven
10 6 (2.13%) MSI
10 6 (2.13%) TeamCity
11 4 (1.42%) CircleCI
12 3 (1.06%) Robot Framework
13 2 (0.71%) Gradle
13 2 (0.71%) Vagrant
General
1 84 (29.79%) Social Skills
2 51 (18.09%) Public Sector
3 31 (10.99%) Finance
4 19 (6.74%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (3.55%) Banking
6 8 (2.84%) Influencing Skills
7 7 (2.48%) Marketing
8 6 (2.13%) Investment Banking
9 5 (1.77%) Digital Healthcare
9 5 (1.77%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (1.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.42%) Electronics
10 4 (1.42%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.42%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.71%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.71%) Back Office
11 2 (0.71%) Front Office
11 2 (0.71%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.71%) Publishing
11 2 (0.71%) Retail
Job Titles
1 76 (26.95%) Developer
2 30 (10.64%) DevOps Engineer
3 24 (8.51%) Data Engineer
4 21 (7.45%) Senior
5 19 (6.74%) Lead
5 19 (6.74%) Platform Engineer
6 17 (6.03%) Architect
7 12 (4.26%) AWS Engineer
7 12 (4.26%) Azure Engineer
7 12 (4.26%) webMethods Developer
8 11 (3.90%) Full-Stack Developer
9 10 (3.55%) Python Developer
10 9 (3.19%) Java Developer
11 8 (2.84%) Cloud Engineer
11 8 (2.84%) Full-Stack Python Developer
11 8 (2.84%) Software Engineer
12 7 (2.48%) Automation Engineer
12 7 (2.48%) Azure Data Engineer
12 7 (2.48%) Senior DevOps
12 7 (2.48%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (15.60%) REST
2 42 (14.89%) JSON
2 42 (14.89%) SOAP
3 40 (14.18%) XML
4 34 (12.06%) React
5 25 (8.87%) RESTful
6 23 (8.16%) Spring
7 22 (7.80%) OAuth
8 19 (6.74%) AngularJS
8 19 (6.74%) HTML
9 16 (5.67%) Kafka
10 14 (4.96%) pytest
11 13 (4.61%) Spring Boot
12 12 (4.26%) .NET
12 12 (4.26%) Jest
12 12 (4.26%) JMS
12 12 (4.26%) PySpark
12 12 (4.26%) YAML
13 11 (3.90%) Node.js
14 10 (3.55%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 30 (10.64%) Cloud Native
2 12 (4.26%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (2.84%) Data Protection Act
3 8 (2.84%) Private Cloud
4 6 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (2.13%) Product Ownership
5 5 (1.77%) PKI
5 5 (1.77%) Security Posture
6 4 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (1.42%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (1.42%) NHS
7 3 (1.06%) Clustering
7 3 (1.06%) CMDB
7 3 (1.06%) Distributed Computing
7 3 (1.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.06%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (1.06%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.06%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 48 (17.02%) Linux
2 30 (10.64%) Windows
3 16 (5.67%) Unix
4 14 (4.96%) Windows Server
5 10 (3.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (1.77%) CentOS
7 3 (1.06%) Android
7 3 (1.06%) Apple iOS
7 3 (1.06%) Ubuntu
7 3 (1.06%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.71%) Debian
8 2 (0.71%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 204 (72.34%) CI/CD
2 194 (68.79%) DevOps
3 119 (42.20%) Agile
4 116 (41.13%) Test Automation
5 93 (32.98%) Problem-Solving
6 89 (31.56%) Infrastructure as Code
7 68 (24.11%) Containerisation
8 65 (23.05%) Analytics
9 58 (20.57%) Continuous Improvement
10 56 (19.86%) Scrum
11 50 (17.73%) Data Pipeline
11 50 (17.73%) Microservices
12 45 (15.96%) ETL
13 44 (15.60%) Data Modelling
14 41 (14.54%) Infrastructure Automation
15 40 (14.18%) Data Integration
16 39 (13.83%) Migration
17 36 (12.77%) Business Intelligence
17 36 (12.77%) Observability
18 29 (10.28%) Data Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 94 (33.33%) Python
2 88 (31.21%) SQL
3 55 (19.50%) Java
4 34 (12.06%) PowerShell
5 31 (10.99%) JavaScript
6 27 (9.57%) TypeScript
7 26 (9.22%) Bash
8 19 (6.74%) C#
9 11 (3.90%) Groovy
9 11 (3.90%) Scala
10 10 (3.55%) Bicep
11 8 (2.84%) Go
11 8 (2.84%) Perl
11 8 (2.84%) PHP
11 8 (2.84%) Shell Script
12 6 (2.13%) T-SQL
13 4 (1.42%) DataWeave
14 2 (0.71%) Apex Code
14 2 (0.71%) PromQL
14 2 (0.71%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 123 (43.62%) Security Cleared
2 98 (34.75%) SC Cleared
3 12 (4.26%) AWS Certification
3 12 (4.26%) Degree
4 10 (3.55%) DV Cleared
5 8 (2.84%) Azure Certification
5 8 (2.84%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (2.48%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (2.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 4 (1.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (1.42%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.42%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.42%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 3 (1.06%) Oracle Certification
10 2 (0.71%) CISSP
10 2 (0.71%) OCP
11 1 (0.35%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.35%) CISM
11 1 (0.35%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.35%) OCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (9.93%) Data Quality
2 19 (6.74%) QA
3 5 (1.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (1.77%) NIST
4 4 (1.42%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.42%) NCSC
5 2 (0.71%) GDPR
5 2 (0.71%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.71%) SLA
5 2 (0.71%) 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
1 116 (41.13%) Docker
2 28 (9.93%) Active Directory
3 11 (3.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.77%) Tivoli Directory Server
5 3 (1.06%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (1.06%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.71%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.71%) VirtualBox
6 2 (0.71%) Xen
7 1 (0.35%) etcd
7 1 (0.35%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 107 (37.94%) Kubernetes
2 83 (29.43%) Terraform
3 43 (15.25%) Ansible
4 20 (7.09%) Prometheus
5 18 (6.38%) Grafana
6 14 (4.96%) Progress Chef
6 14 (4.96%) Puppet
7 11 (3.90%) Single Sign-On
8 6 (2.13%) ITRS Geneos
9 5 (1.77%) Argo
9 5 (1.77%) CA Single Sign-On
9 5 (1.77%) CA Wily
9 5 (1.77%) Packer
9 5 (1.77%) Tivoli
10 4 (1.42%) CloudHub
10 4 (1.42%) Kibana
10 4 (1.42%) Podman
11 3 (1.06%) Proxmox
11 3 (1.06%) vRealize
11 3 (1.06%) WMI
Vendors
1 75 (26.60%) Microsoft
2 41 (14.54%) Oracle
3 31 (10.99%) Talend
4 29 (10.28%) Denodo
5 21 (7.45%) Databricks
5 21 (7.45%) webMethods
6 19 (6.74%) Splunk
6 19 (6.74%) VMware
7 16 (5.67%) IBM
7 16 (5.67%) SAP
8 12 (4.26%) Red Hat
9 11 (3.90%) Software AG
10 10 (3.55%) Google
11 9 (3.19%) AppDynamics
12 8 (2.84%) Axway
12 8 (2.84%) Pega
12 8 (2.84%) Salesforce
13 6 (2.13%) ServiceNow
14 5 (1.77%) Broadcom
14 5 (1.77%) ForgeRock