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 9 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
9 Feb 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 269 319 362
Rank change year-on-year +50 +43 -70
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 314 163 191
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.94% 0.63% 0.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.08% 0.70% 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 224 100 135
10th Percentile £385 £374 £463
25th Percentile £429 £446 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £579 £575
Median % change year-on-year -11.19% +0.65% -8.00%
75th Percentile £588 £750 £669
90th Percentile £688 £838 £748
UK median daily rate £510 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -11.30% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 4
10th Percentile £26.63 - -
25th Percentile £34.64 £82.50 £22.00
Median hourly rate £48.63 £85.00 £44.51
Median % change year-on-year -42.79% +90.97% -31.52%
75th Percentile £61.98 £87.50 £68.08
90th Percentile £69.60 - £69.98
UK median hourly rate £48.63 £85.00 £44.51
% change year-on-year -42.79% +90.97% -31.52%

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 29,128 23,342 33,372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.51% 89.73% 87.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,638 14,331 22,291
10th Percentile £306 £310 £300
25th Percentile £410 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £618 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,831 740 1,986
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.96 £21.03 £16.54
Median hourly rate £25.47 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.23% - -
75th Percentile £60.13 £64.50 £61.62
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.66 £34.36
% change year-on-year -22.98% -4.95% +5.71%

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 9 February 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 9 February 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 9 February 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 +19 154 £513 -22.35% 48
North of England -32 44 £476 +8.18% 18
Midlands -14 43 £518 +3.50% 9
West Midlands -22 35 £525 -2.33% 9
North West -9 24 £453 +13.25% 12
South West -10 21 £525 -19.54% 12
South East -17 20 £538 +26.47% 40
Yorkshire -47 17 £500 -16.49% 3
East Midlands -20 8 £393 +4.80%
East of England -21 7 £513 +184.86% 2
North East -16 3 £500 -11.50% 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 23 (7.32%) SAS
2 14 (4.46%) Apache
3 13 (4.14%) JBoss
4 8 (2.55%) WebLogic
5 7 (2.23%) Appian
6 6 (1.91%) Camunda
6 6 (1.91%) SharePoint
7 5 (1.59%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (1.59%) Confluence
7 5 (1.59%) IIS
7 5 (1.59%) iPlanet
7 5 (1.59%) WebSphere
7 5 (1.59%) WebSphere Application Server
8 3 (0.96%) Anypoint
8 3 (0.96%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.96%) CMS
8 3 (0.96%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.64%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.32%) ColdFusion
10 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (1.59%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.64%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.32%) Cloudability
2 1 (0.32%) Endur
2 1 (0.32%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 114 (36.31%) Azure
2 93 (29.62%) AWS
3 67 (21.34%) GitHub
4 48 (15.29%) GitHub Actions
5 43 (13.69%) Azure DevOps
6 32 (10.19%) GCP
7 30 (9.55%) Serverless
8 23 (7.32%) Power Platform
9 17 (5.41%) OpenShift
10 16 (5.10%) AWS CloudFormation
10 16 (5.10%) AWS Lambda
11 15 (4.78%) Entra ID
12 14 (4.46%) Azure Functions
12 14 (4.46%) Power Automate
13 13 (4.14%) Amazon S3
13 13 (4.14%) Azure Data Factory
14 12 (3.82%) Azure AI
15 11 (3.50%) Azure Key Vault
15 11 (3.50%) Azure Logic Apps
16 10 (3.18%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 21 (6.69%) HTTPS
2 9 (2.87%) SSL
3 8 (2.55%) Firewall
4 7 (2.23%) TCP/IP
5 6 (1.91%) DHCP
5 6 (1.91%) DNS
5 6 (1.91%) VPN
6 5 (1.59%) Kerberos
6 5 (1.59%) Network Security
6 5 (1.59%) Software-Defined Networking
7 2 (0.64%) DMZ
7 2 (0.64%) Internet
8 1 (0.32%) BGP
8 1 (0.32%) Calico
8 1 (0.32%) Ethernet VPN
8 1 (0.32%) HTTP
8 1 (0.32%) SMS
8 1 (0.32%) VSAN
8 1 (0.32%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (7.01%) Pentaho
2 18 (5.73%) SQL Server
3 14 (4.46%) Power BI
3 14 (4.46%) Relational Database
4 13 (4.14%) Oracle Database
5 11 (3.50%) NoSQL
6 9 (2.87%) MongoDB
6 9 (2.87%) PostgreSQL
7 8 (2.55%) Amazon RDS
7 8 (2.55%) Azure SQL Database
7 8 (2.55%) Data Lake
7 8 (2.55%) Redis
7 8 (2.55%) Spark SQL
8 7 (2.23%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (2.23%) Pinecone
8 7 (2.23%) SAS Enterprise Guide
9 6 (1.91%) Aerospike
9 6 (1.91%) Apache Cassandra
10 5 (1.59%) DynamoDB
11 3 (0.96%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 92 (29.30%) Git
2 76 (24.20%) Jenkins
3 46 (14.65%) GitLab
4 29 (9.24%) JIRA
5 16 (5.10%) JUnit
6 9 (2.87%) Selenium
7 8 (2.55%) Eclipse
7 8 (2.55%) IntelliJ
8 7 (2.23%) MLflow
9 6 (1.91%) Bitbucket
9 6 (1.91%) Sonatype Nexus
10 5 (1.59%) Bitbucket Server
10 5 (1.59%) CA Release Automation
10 5 (1.59%) CircleCI
11 4 (1.27%) Artifactory
11 4 (1.27%) Mockito
12 3 (0.96%) Gradle
12 3 (0.96%) Maven
12 3 (0.96%) MSI
13 2 (0.64%) LoadRunner
General
1 117 (37.26%) Social Skills
2 56 (17.83%) Public Sector
3 52 (16.56%) Finance
4 36 (11.46%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (2.55%) Influencing Skills
6 7 (2.23%) Marketing
7 6 (1.91%) Legal
8 5 (1.59%) Banking
9 4 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (0.96%) Manufacturing
10 3 (0.96%) Military
10 3 (0.96%) Retail
11 2 (0.64%) Back Office
11 2 (0.64%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.64%) Electronics
11 2 (0.64%) Front Office
11 2 (0.64%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.64%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.64%) Police
11 2 (0.64%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 84 (26.75%) Developer
2 39 (12.42%) DevOps Engineer
3 35 (11.15%) Architect
4 22 (7.01%) Data Engineer
4 22 (7.01%) Senior
5 20 (6.37%) Automation Engineer
6 19 (6.05%) Azure Engineer
7 18 (5.73%) Platform Engineer
8 17 (5.41%) Lead
9 14 (4.46%) Full-Stack Developer
10 12 (3.82%) Python Developer
10 12 (3.82%) webMethods Developer
11 11 (3.50%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 11 (3.50%) Cloud Engineer
12 10 (3.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 10 (3.18%) Technical Architect
13 8 (2.55%) Full-Stack Python Developer
13 8 (2.55%) Platform Architect
14 7 (2.23%) Azure Architect
14 7 (2.23%) SAS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (18.79%) REST
2 41 (13.06%) JSON
3 40 (12.74%) SOAP
4 38 (12.10%) RESTful
5 35 (11.15%) XML
6 32 (10.19%) React
7 24 (7.64%) pytest
8 23 (7.32%) OAuth
9 22 (7.01%) Node.js
10 21 (6.69%) Spring
11 20 (6.37%) HTML
12 17 (5.41%) AngularJS
12 17 (5.41%) PySpark
13 16 (5.10%) FastAPI
13 16 (5.10%) Kafka
14 15 (4.78%) .NET
14 15 (4.78%) Jest
15 14 (4.46%) Web Services
15 14 (4.46%) YAML
16 13 (4.14%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 34 (10.83%) Cloud Native
2 12 (3.82%) Product Ownership
3 11 (3.50%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (3.18%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (2.55%) Data Centre
6 7 (2.23%) Distributed Computing
6 7 (2.23%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (2.23%) Low-Code
7 6 (1.91%) Private Cloud
8 5 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (1.59%) NHS
8 5 (1.59%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.59%) Security Posture
9 4 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.27%) Mobile App
10 3 (0.96%) AI Agents
10 3 (0.96%) Algorithms
10 3 (0.96%) CMDB
10 3 (0.96%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (0.96%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 51 (16.24%) Linux
2 25 (7.96%) Windows
3 15 (4.78%) Unix
4 12 (3.82%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.59%) VMS
6 2 (0.64%) Android
6 2 (0.64%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.32%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.32%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 220 (70.06%) CI/CD
2 199 (63.38%) DevOps
3 113 (35.99%) Test Automation
4 112 (35.67%) Agile
4 112 (35.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 104 (33.12%) Problem-Solving
6 71 (22.61%) Containerisation
7 58 (18.47%) Analytics
8 52 (16.56%) Data Modelling
8 52 (16.56%) Microservices
9 51 (16.24%) Scrum
10 50 (15.92%) Continuous Improvement
11 49 (15.61%) Data Pipeline
11 49 (15.61%) Infrastructure Automation
12 48 (15.29%) ETL
13 40 (12.74%) Observability
14 38 (12.10%) Business Intelligence
15 37 (11.78%) Migration
16 33 (10.51%) AI
17 31 (9.87%) API Development
Programming Languages
1 105 (33.44%) Python
2 87 (27.71%) SQL
3 50 (15.92%) Java
4 44 (14.01%) PowerShell
5 37 (11.78%) Bash
6 34 (10.83%) JavaScript
7 32 (10.19%) TypeScript
8 21 (6.69%) Bicep
9 14 (4.46%) C#
10 9 (2.87%) Groovy
10 9 (2.87%) Scala
11 8 (2.55%) PHP
12 6 (1.91%) Apex Code
12 6 (1.91%) Shell Script
13 5 (1.59%) T-SQL
14 4 (1.27%) Go
15 3 (0.96%) DataWeave
15 3 (0.96%) Kotlin
16 2 (0.64%) Rust
17 1 (0.32%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 131 (41.72%) Security Cleared
2 106 (33.76%) SC Cleared
3 13 (4.14%) Degree
4 11 (3.50%) AWS Certification
4 11 (3.50%) Azure Certification
4 11 (3.50%) DV Cleared
5 9 (2.87%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (2.55%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (2.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 7 (2.23%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (1.27%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.27%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 2 (0.64%) CISSP
9 2 (0.64%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.32%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.32%) ISEB
10 1 (0.32%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.32%) OCA
10 1 (0.32%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (9.87%) Data Quality
2 22 (7.01%) QA
3 11 (3.50%) GDPR
4 7 (2.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (2.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 6 (1.91%) Accessibility
5 6 (1.91%) NIST
6 5 (1.59%) NCSC
7 3 (0.96%) HIPAA
7 3 (0.96%) WCAG
8 2 (0.64%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.64%) SLA
9 1 (0.32%) NIST 800
System Software
1 110 (35.03%) Docker
2 24 (7.64%) Active Directory
3 11 (3.50%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (2.23%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (1.59%) Hyper-V
5 5 (1.59%) Tivoli Directory Server
6 3 (0.96%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.64%) Xen
8 1 (0.32%) etcd
8 1 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.32%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 107 (34.08%) Kubernetes
2 103 (32.80%) Terraform
3 36 (11.46%) Ansible
4 17 (5.41%) Grafana
5 14 (4.46%) Prometheus
6 12 (3.82%) Puppet
7 10 (3.18%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (2.23%) Progress Chef
9 5 (1.59%) CA Single Sign-On
9 5 (1.59%) CA Wily
9 5 (1.59%) Istio
9 5 (1.59%) Podman
9 5 (1.59%) Tivoli
10 4 (1.27%) SCCM
11 3 (0.96%) CloudHub
11 3 (0.96%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (0.96%) Packer
11 3 (0.96%) Proxmox
11 3 (0.96%) vRealize
12 2 (0.64%) Consul
Vendors
1 79 (25.16%) Microsoft
2 29 (9.24%) Oracle
3 23 (7.32%) Talend
4 22 (7.01%) Denodo
5 21 (6.69%) webMethods
6 19 (6.05%) Google
6 19 (6.05%) Salesforce
7 17 (5.41%) OpenAI
8 16 (5.10%) Databricks
8 16 (5.10%) IBM
8 16 (5.10%) Splunk
9 15 (4.78%) VMware
10 14 (4.46%) SAP
11 11 (3.50%) Software AG
12 8 (2.55%) Axway
13 7 (2.23%) Automation Anywhere
13 7 (2.23%) UiPath
14 6 (1.91%) AppDynamics
15 5 (1.59%) Broadcom
15 5 (1.59%) ServiceNow
113 Deployment Automation jobs in England