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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 208 280 346
Rank change year-on-year +72 +66 +23
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 607 260 185
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.31% 0.93% 0.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.55% 1.02% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 405 198 107
10th Percentile £400 £357 £371
25th Percentile £425 £429 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £622 £625 £685
90th Percentile £700 £691 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £540 £565
% change year-on-year -5.09% -4.42% -5.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 4
10th Percentile £63.25 - -
25th Percentile £66.44 £21.29 -
Median hourly rate £75.34 £22.58 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +233.73% -5.15% -50.42%
75th Percentile £76.00 £23.86 £39.73
90th Percentile £79.83 - £68.39
UK median hourly rate £71.84 £22.58 £23.80
% change year-on-year +218.23% -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 39,226 25,436 27,906
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.80% 90.90% 86.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,709 16,124 17,045
10th Percentile £325 £294 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £641
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,969 1,568 1,160
10th Percentile £13.70 £14.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.43 £17.87 £20.28
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.69
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -41.09% -4.07%
75th Percentile £67.25 £45.80 £67.14
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £25.15 £40.33
% change year-on-year +49.11% -37.63% -7.56%

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 8 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 8 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 8 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 +57 305 £550 -4.64% 318
North of England +25 125 £500 +10.38% 73
Yorkshire +15 61 £500 -15.25% 21
South East -26 57 £589 +2.93% 78
South West -5 52 £450 -10.00% 49
North West -20 44 £513 +13.13% 41
Midlands -43 42 £488 -7.14% 37
West Midlands -37 41 £488 -7.14% 25
North East -20 20 £450 +12.50% 11
East of England -51 10 £850 +54.55% 18
East Midlands -13 1 - - 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 29 (4.78%) Confluence
2 26 (4.28%) Apache Spark
3 25 (4.12%) Apache
4 17 (2.80%) Apache Airflow
5 13 (2.14%) SharePoint
6 7 (1.15%) CMS
6 7 (1.15%) SAS
7 3 (0.49%) IBM Transformation Extender
7 3 (0.49%) IIS
7 3 (0.49%) nginx
7 3 (0.49%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.33%) CICS
8 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.16%) Camunda
9 1 (0.16%) EPiServer
9 1 (0.16%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.16%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.16%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.33%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.16%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.16%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 6 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.49%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (0.49%) SAP MDG
2 3 (0.49%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.16%) Misys Equation
3 1 (0.16%) Misys Midas
3 1 (0.16%) SAP CRM
3 1 (0.16%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.16%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 338 (55.68%) Azure
2 226 (37.23%) AWS
3 170 (28.01%) Azure DevOps
4 136 (22.41%) GitHub
5 100 (16.47%) GitHub Actions
6 92 (15.16%) GCP
7 86 (14.17%) Serverless
8 61 (10.05%) Entra ID
9 57 (9.39%) AWS Lambda
9 57 (9.39%) Azure Monitor
10 55 (9.06%) Amazon S3
11 52 (8.57%) Amazon EKS
12 48 (7.91%) Azure AKS
13 46 (7.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 41 (6.75%) Amazon EC2
14 41 (6.75%) Amazon ECS
15 37 (6.10%) Power Platform
16 30 (4.94%) Azure Key Vault
17 25 (4.12%) Azure Functions
18 24 (3.95%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 47 (7.74%) Firewall
2 40 (6.59%) DNS
3 33 (5.44%) Network Security
4 21 (3.46%) VPN
5 19 (3.13%) TCP/IP
6 11 (1.81%) DHCP
7 10 (1.65%) SSH
8 7 (1.15%) SSL
9 5 (0.82%) Internet
9 5 (0.82%) Kerberos
9 5 (0.82%) NGFW
10 4 (0.66%) BGP
10 4 (0.66%) DMZ
10 4 (0.66%) Ethernet VPN
10 4 (0.66%) VXLAN
11 3 (0.49%) NX-OS
11 3 (0.49%) OpenLDAP
11 3 (0.49%) Reverse Proxy
11 3 (0.49%) TACACS
12 2 (0.33%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (6.75%) SQL Server
2 34 (5.60%) PostgreSQL
3 32 (5.27%) Relational Database
4 28 (4.61%) Power BI
5 25 (4.12%) Metadata
6 24 (3.95%) NoSQL
7 23 (3.79%) Data Lake
8 21 (3.46%) Data Warehouse
9 19 (3.13%) MongoDB
10 18 (2.97%) Amazon RDS
10 18 (2.97%) BigQuery
11 17 (2.80%) MySQL
12 15 (2.47%) Oracle Database
12 15 (2.47%) Redis
13 13 (2.14%) Azure SQL Database
14 11 (1.81%) Big Data
14 11 (1.81%) Elasticsearch
14 11 (1.81%) Geospatial Data
15 9 (1.48%) Delta Lake
15 9 (1.48%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 163 (26.85%) Git
2 115 (18.95%) Jenkins
3 106 (17.46%) GitLab
4 45 (7.41%) JIRA
5 17 (2.80%) MSI
6 11 (1.81%) Selenium
7 9 (1.48%) Sonatype Nexus
8 8 (1.32%) fastlane
8 8 (1.32%) Gradle
8 8 (1.32%) JUnit
8 8 (1.32%) Visual Studio
9 6 (0.99%) Artifactory
9 6 (0.99%) Maven
9 6 (0.99%) MSBuild
9 6 (0.99%) SonarQube
9 6 (0.99%) TeamCity
10 5 (0.82%) Octopus Deploy
10 5 (0.82%) Postman
11 4 (0.66%) Android Studio
11 4 (0.66%) Claude Code
General
1 199 (32.78%) Social Skills
2 98 (16.14%) Finance
3 92 (15.16%) Public Sector
4 70 (11.53%) Analytical Skills
5 41 (6.75%) Banking
6 20 (3.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (1.98%) Retail
8 8 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
8 8 (1.32%) Investment Banking
9 7 (1.15%) Financial Institution
9 7 (1.15%) Front Office
9 7 (1.15%) Manufacturing
9 7 (1.15%) Marketing
10 5 (0.82%) Military
11 4 (0.66%) Aerospace
11 4 (0.66%) Back Office
11 4 (0.66%) Law
11 4 (0.66%) Telecoms
12 3 (0.49%) Billing
12 3 (0.49%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 117 (19.28%) Senior
2 115 (18.95%) Developer
3 102 (16.80%) DevOps Engineer
4 60 (9.88%) Lead
5 54 (8.90%) Cloud Engineer
6 52 (8.57%) Architect
7 50 (8.24%) Data Engineer
8 47 (7.74%) Azure Engineer
9 40 (6.59%) Platform Engineer
10 35 (5.77%) AWS Engineer
11 32 (5.27%) Software Engineer
12 30 (4.94%) Senior Developer
13 26 (4.28%) AWS DevOps
13 26 (4.28%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 24 (3.95%) Senior DevOps
15 23 (3.79%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 23 (3.79%) GCP Engineer
16 22 (3.62%) Full-Stack Developer
17 21 (3.46%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 18 (2.97%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 269 (44.32%) Terraform
2 135 (22.24%) REST
3 87 (14.33%) RESTful
4 78 (12.85%) .NET
5 59 (9.72%) Kafka
6 57 (9.39%) React
7 41 (6.75%) OAuth
8 40 (6.59%) Spring
8 40 (6.59%) Spring Boot
9 39 (6.43%) .NET Framework
10 35 (5.77%) .NET Core
10 35 (5.77%) HTML
11 33 (5.44%) ARM Templates
11 33 (5.44%) CSS
12 27 (4.45%) OpenID
13 26 (4.28%) AngularJS
14 25 (4.12%) Node.js
15 24 (3.95%) OAuth2
16 23 (3.79%) HTML5
16 23 (3.79%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 177 (29.16%) Cloud Native
2 61 (10.05%) Product Ownership
3 54 (8.90%) Distributed Systems
4 50 (8.24%) Enterprise Software
5 47 (7.74%) Onboarding
6 24 (3.95%) Hybrid Cloud
6 24 (3.95%) Legacy Systems
7 15 (2.47%) Enterprise Cloud
8 14 (2.31%) Management Information System
8 14 (2.31%) PKI
8 14 (2.31%) Self-Motivation
8 14 (2.31%) Wiki
9 13 (2.14%) AI Agents
10 12 (1.98%) Data Protection Act
10 12 (1.98%) Replication
11 11 (1.81%) Mobile App
12 10 (1.65%) Security Posture
13 9 (1.48%) Data Centre
13 9 (1.48%) Data Structures
13 9 (1.48%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 84 (13.84%) Linux
2 69 (11.37%) Windows
3 23 (3.79%) Windows Server
4 20 (3.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 17 (2.80%) Unix
6 11 (1.81%) Apple iOS
7 10 (1.65%) Windows 10
8 7 (1.15%) Android
8 7 (1.15%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.66%) Mac OS
9 4 (0.66%) VMS
10 3 (0.49%) zOS
11 2 (0.33%) Amazon Linux
11 2 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.33%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.16%) CentOS
12 1 (0.16%) Solaris
12 1 (0.16%) Windows 7
12 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 522 (86.00%) CI/CD
2 387 (63.76%) DevOps
3 306 (50.41%) Infrastructure as Code
4 259 (42.67%) Agile
5 216 (35.58%) Test Automation
6 177 (29.16%) Observability
7 176 (29.00%) Containerisation
8 166 (27.35%) Continuous Improvement
9 135 (22.24%) Problem-Solving
10 127 (20.92%) Microservices
11 122 (20.10%) Analytics
12 117 (19.28%) Platform Engineering
12 117 (19.28%) Software Engineering
13 115 (18.95%) AI
14 105 (17.30%) DevSecOps
15 93 (15.32%) Technical Leadership
16 91 (14.99%) Stakeholder Management
17 87 (14.33%) Scrum
18 82 (13.51%) Validation
19 79 (13.01%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 227 (37.40%) Python
2 121 (19.93%) SQL
3 106 (17.46%) PowerShell
4 93 (15.32%) Java
5 79 (13.01%) Bash
6 75 (12.36%) Bicep
7 74 (12.19%) C#
7 74 (12.19%) JavaScript
8 55 (9.06%) TypeScript
9 19 (3.13%) Shell Script
10 18 (2.97%) Go
11 11 (1.81%) Kotlin
12 9 (1.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 7 (1.15%) Apex Code
13 7 (1.15%) Kusto Query Language
14 6 (0.99%) Korn
15 5 (0.82%) Perl
15 5 (0.82%) Scala
16 4 (0.66%) PHP
16 4 (0.66%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 210 (34.60%) Security Cleared
2 168 (27.68%) SC Cleared
3 42 (6.92%) Degree
4 41 (6.75%) DV Cleared
5 35 (5.77%) Azure Certification
6 34 (5.60%) AWS Certification
7 27 (4.45%) Computer Science Degree
8 18 (2.97%) BPSS Clearance
9 14 (2.31%) Microsoft Certification
10 9 (1.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 8 (1.32%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 6 (0.99%) Master's Degree
13 5 (0.82%) CISSP
13 5 (0.82%) MCSE
14 3 (0.49%) DBS Check
14 3 (0.49%) GCFA
14 3 (0.49%) GCIH
14 3 (0.49%) TOGAF Certification
15 2 (0.33%) AWS Certified Developer
15 2 (0.33%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (11.04%) QA
2 44 (7.25%) Data Quality
3 33 (5.44%) Accessibility
4 28 (4.61%) WCAG
5 20 (3.29%) NCSC
6 15 (2.47%) GDPR
7 8 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 6 (0.99%) NIST
9 5 (0.82%) HL7
9 5 (0.82%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.66%) ISO 20022
10 4 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.49%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.16%) Disclosure Scotland
12 1 (0.16%) ISO 15022
12 1 (0.16%) JSP 440
12 1 (0.16%) PMO
12 1 (0.16%) SOC 2
System Software
1 178 (29.32%) Docker
2 48 (7.91%) Active Directory
3 18 (2.97%) Virtual Desktop
4 9 (1.48%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (1.48%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.99%) Microsoft App-V
6 5 (0.82%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.33%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 2 (0.33%) Firmware
7 2 (0.33%) Oracle RAC
7 2 (0.33%) RACF
7 2 (0.33%) Time Sharing Option
8 1 (0.16%) DFS Replication
8 1 (0.16%) Dovecot
8 1 (0.16%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.16%) Postfix
8 1 (0.16%) Squid
8 1 (0.16%) Varnish
8 1 (0.16%) zsh
Systems Management
1 218 (35.91%) Kubernetes
2 93 (15.32%) Ansible
3 48 (7.91%) Grafana
4 35 (5.77%) Prometheus
5 28 (4.61%) Microsoft Intune
6 18 (2.97%) SCCM
7 14 (2.31%) Progress Chef
8 12 (1.98%) Puppet
9 11 (1.81%) Single Sign-On
10 9 (1.48%) Argo
11 6 (0.99%) Istio
12 4 (0.66%) Control-M
12 4 (0.66%) WSUS
13 3 (0.49%) CASB
13 3 (0.49%) Kibana
13 3 (0.49%) Packer
13 3 (0.49%) Tivoli
13 3 (0.49%) Tivoli Monitoring
14 2 (0.33%) Data Guard
14 2 (0.33%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 174 (28.67%) Microsoft
2 54 (8.90%) Google
3 39 (6.43%) Databricks
4 30 (4.94%) Oracle
5 28 (4.61%) Dynatrace
6 26 (4.28%) Splunk
7 18 (2.97%) ServiceNow
8 16 (2.64%) Salesforce
9 14 (2.31%) Red Hat
10 13 (2.14%) IBM
11 11 (1.81%) Apple
12 10 (1.65%) Talend
12 10 (1.65%) VMware
13 9 (1.48%) Cisco
14 8 (1.32%) MuleSoft
14 8 (1.32%) SAP
15 7 (1.15%) CrowdStrike
15 7 (1.15%) OpenAI
16 6 (0.99%) Denodo
16 6 (0.99%) UiPath