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

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 268 243 307
Rank change year-on-year -25 +64 +21
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 407 286 258
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.91% 1.04% 0.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.06% 1.15% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 279 218 179
10th Percentile £401 £332 £400
25th Percentile £450 £413 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% -3.03%
75th Percentile £613 £629 £700
90th Percentile £678 £728 £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 38,301 24,864 30,650
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.33% 90.66% 85.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,041 15,953 19,995
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £421 £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 £745 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,379 1,324 2,046
10th Percentile £15.33 £14.23 £13.22
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.88 £16.90
Median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year +88.87% -36.33% -7.06%
75th Percentile £69.10 £53.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £83.00 £71.39 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -10.31%

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 20 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 20 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 20 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 -10 205 £550 -1.79% 66
North of England -47 65 £471 +19.72% 22
South East -57 44 £580 +22.11% 30
Midlands -23 37 £515 +3.00% 7
South West -29 35 £475 -17.39% 14
West Midlands -42 30 £515 -6.36% 4
North West -36 29 £496 +29.93% 12
Yorkshire -42 28 £475 -17.39% 5
North East -30 8 £450 +20.00% 5
East of England -35 7 £700 +27.27% 5
East Midlands -13 6 £470 +17.35% 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%) SharePoint
6 4 (0.98%) CMS
7 3 (0.74%) Appian
7 3 (0.74%) Camunda
7 3 (0.74%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.49%) IBM HTTP Server
8 2 (0.49%) Oracle HTTP Server
8 2 (0.49%) Sitecore CMS
8 2 (0.49%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.49%) WebSphere Application Server
8 2 (0.49%) WebSphere Portal
9 1 (0.25%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.25%) OpenROAD
9 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
2 139 (34.15%) AWS
3 105 (25.80%) Azure DevOps
4 97 (23.83%) GitHub
5 73 (17.94%) GitHub Actions
6 45 (11.06%) GCP
7 44 (10.81%) Serverless
8 32 (7.86%) Amazon S3
9 31 (7.62%) AWS Lambda
10 29 (7.13%) Power Platform
11 25 (6.14%) Azure Monitor
12 21 (5.16%) Amazon EKS
13 19 (4.67%) Amazon ECS
13 19 (4.67%) Azure Key Vault
14 18 (4.42%) AWS CloudFormation
14 18 (4.42%) Azure AKS
14 18 (4.42%) Azure Data Factory
14 18 (4.42%) Entra ID
15 17 (4.18%) Amazon EC2
16 16 (3.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 28 (6.88%) Firewall
2 23 (5.65%) DNS
3 18 (4.42%) Network Security
3 18 (4.42%) VPN
4 14 (3.44%) TCP/IP
5 6 (1.47%) DMZ
5 6 (1.47%) SSL
6 5 (1.23%) DHCP
7 4 (0.98%) Software-Defined Networking
7 4 (0.98%) SSH
8 2 (0.49%) HTTP
8 2 (0.49%) Internet
8 2 (0.49%) Kerberos
8 2 (0.49%) NGFW
8 2 (0.49%) Reverse Proxy
9 1 (0.25%) Cisco IOS
9 1 (0.25%) Cisco Nexus
9 1 (0.25%) OpenLDAP
9 1 (0.25%) OSPF
9 1 (0.25%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (6.14%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (5.90%) SQL Server
3 20 (4.91%) Power BI
4 19 (4.67%) 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
11 7 (1.72%) MySQL
12 6 (1.47%) SAS Data Integration Studio
13 5 (1.23%) Amazon Redshift
14 4 (0.98%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 93 (22.85%) Git
2 84 (20.64%) Jenkins
3 59 (14.50%) 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%) Selenium
General
1 106 (26.04%) Social Skills
2 76 (18.67%) Public Sector
3 54 (13.27%) Finance
4 33 (8.11%) 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
12 3 (0.74%) Military
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%) Pharmaceutical
14 1 (0.25%) Police
Job Titles
1 79 (19.41%) Senior
2 71 (17.44%) Developer
3 64 (15.72%) DevOps Engineer
4 41 (10.07%) Data Engineer
5 33 (8.11%) Architect
6 32 (7.86%) Cloud Engineer
7 31 (7.62%) Lead
8 27 (6.63%) Azure Engineer
9 25 (6.14%) Senior Developer
10 23 (5.65%) Platform Engineer
10 23 (5.65%) Software Engineer
11 21 (5.16%) AWS Engineer
11 21 (5.16%) Full-Stack Developer
12 18 (4.42%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 16 (3.93%) Senior DevOps
14 13 (3.19%) Python Engineer
14 13 (3.19%) Salesforce Engineer
14 13 (3.19%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 12 (2.95%) Solutions Architect
16 11 (2.70%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (15.72%) RESTful
2 57 (14.00%) REST
3 46 (11.30%) .NET
4 36 (8.85%) React
5 30 (7.37%) Kafka
6 22 (5.41%) Node.js
7 20 (4.91%) HTML
7 20 (4.91%) Spring
7 20 (4.91%) Spring Boot
8 19 (4.67%) .NET Framework
8 19 (4.67%) CSS
9 18 (4.42%) .NET Core
9 18 (4.42%) YAML
10 17 (4.18%) OAuth
11 16 (3.93%) AngularJS
11 16 (3.93%) PySpark
12 14 (3.44%) FastAPI
12 14 (3.44%) HTML5
13 11 (2.70%) ARM Templates
13 11 (2.70%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 110 (27.03%) Cloud Native
2 31 (7.62%) Distributed Systems
3 30 (7.37%) Product Ownership
4 24 (5.90%) Onboarding
5 19 (4.67%) Legacy Systems
6 15 (3.69%) Enterprise Software
7 13 (3.19%) Hybrid Cloud
7 13 (3.19%) Mobile App
8 8 (1.97%) Data Centre
9 7 (1.72%) Enterprise Cloud
9 7 (1.72%) NHS
9 7 (1.72%) Security Posture
10 6 (1.47%) Replication
10 6 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (1.23%) AI Agents
12 4 (0.98%) Algorithms
12 4 (0.98%) Data Protection Act
12 4 (0.98%) Distributed Computing
12 4 (0.98%) Linux Command Line
12 4 (0.98%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 49 (12.04%) Linux
2 32 (7.86%) Windows
3 14 (3.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (2.46%) Windows Server
5 7 (1.72%) Unix
6 6 (1.47%) Apple iOS
7 5 (1.23%) Android
7 5 (1.23%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.74%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.49%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (0.49%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 2 (0.49%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.49%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.49%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.25%) CentOS
10 1 (0.25%) Solaris
10 1 (0.25%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 326 (80.10%) CI/CD
2 251 (61.67%) DevOps
3 178 (43.73%) Infrastructure as Code
4 165 (40.54%) Agile
5 151 (37.10%) Test Automation
6 97 (23.83%) Containerisation
7 95 (23.34%) Analytics
8 81 (19.90%) Problem-Solving
9 77 (18.92%) Continuous Improvement
10 74 (18.18%) Microservices
11 70 (17.20%) Scrum
12 69 (16.95%) Observability
13 67 (16.46%) AI
14 64 (15.72%) Data Pipeline
15 62 (15.23%) Platform Engineering
16 59 (14.50%) Software Engineering
17 55 (13.51%) Validation
18 52 (12.78%) Data Modelling
19 50 (12.29%) DevSecOps
20 47 (11.55%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 149 (36.61%) Python
2 75 (18.43%) SQL
3 66 (16.22%) PowerShell
4 56 (13.76%) Java
5 48 (11.79%) Bicep
6 46 (11.30%) C#
7 42 (10.32%) Bash
8 37 (9.09%) JavaScript
9 30 (7.37%) 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
1 148 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 124 (30.47%) SC Cleared
3 25 (6.14%) Degree
4 24 (5.90%) DV Cleared
5 18 (4.42%) Computer Science Degree
6 17 (4.18%) Azure Certification
7 16 (3.93%) AWS Certification
8 14 (3.44%) Microsoft Certification
9 9 (2.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 7 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (1.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 4 (0.98%) RHCE
13 3 (0.74%) CCNP
13 3 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (0.74%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 3 (0.74%) Master's Degree
13 3 (0.74%) MCSA
13 3 (0.74%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 2 (0.49%) CompTIA Security+
14 2 (0.49%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (9.09%) QA
2 33 (8.11%) Accessibility
3 29 (7.13%) Data Quality
4 28 (6.88%) WCAG
5 11 (2.70%) GDPR
5 11 (2.70%) NCSC
6 3 (0.74%) Actionable Recommendations
6 3 (0.74%) HL7
7 2 (0.49%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.25%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.25%) EU AI Act
8 1 (0.25%) PMO
8 1 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.25%) SLA
8 1 (0.25%) SOC 2
System Software
1 119 (29.24%) Docker
2 14 (3.44%) Virtual Machines
3 13 (3.19%) Active Directory
4 9 (2.21%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (1.23%) Microsoft App-V
6 4 (0.98%) Hyper-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
1 160 (39.31%) Terraform
2 146 (35.87%) Kubernetes
3 55 (13.51%) Ansible
4 17 (4.18%) SCCM
5 16 (3.93%) Prometheus
6 14 (3.44%) Grafana
7 11 (2.70%) Microsoft Intune
8 8 (1.97%) Puppet
9 7 (1.72%) Argo
10 5 (1.23%) Istio
10 5 (1.23%) Progress Chef
10 5 (1.23%) WSUS
11 2 (0.49%) CA Wily
11 2 (0.49%) Control-M
11 2 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.49%) Tivoli
12 1 (0.25%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.25%) Kustomize
12 1 (0.25%) Podman
12 1 (0.25%) QRadar
Vendors
1 97 (23.83%) 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 13 (3.19%) OpenAI
6 13 (3.19%) Talend
7 12 (2.95%) Denodo
7 12 (2.95%) Red Hat
8 9 (2.21%) Foundry
9 7 (1.72%) Splunk
10 6 (1.47%) Apple
10 6 (1.47%) Citrix
11 5 (1.23%) Bloomberg
11 5 (1.23%) ION Trading
11 5 (1.23%) Reuters
11 5 (1.23%) SAP
11 5 (1.23%) UiPath
11 5 (1.23%) VMware