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 19 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 221 271 318
Rank change year-on-year +50 +47 +39
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 538 271 212
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.16% 0.97% 0.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.36% 1.07% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 355 211 129
10th Percentile £401 £350 £400
25th Percentile £444 £442 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £608 £624 £685
90th Percentile £688 £700 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £540 £600
% change year-on-year -5.09% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 3
10th Percentile £66.38 - -
25th Percentile £68.55 - -
Median hourly rate £75.34 - £23.80
75th Percentile £76.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £71.84 - £23.80
% change year-on-year - - -66.48%

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 39,448 25,281 28,365
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.75% 90.90% 86.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,130 16,062 17,635
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £645
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,805 1,509 1,303
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.75 £17.79 £20.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -3.37%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £66.55
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% -1.91%

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 19 September 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
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 19 September 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 +51 272 £532 -5.51% 343
North of England -15 93 £500 +6.16% 89
South East -31 52 £578 +5.00% 74
South West -2 51 £450 -10.00% 56
Yorkshire -7 46 £500 -16.39% 25
Midlands -41 46 £492 -5.82% 23
West Midlands -40 44 £492 -6.29% 11
North West -42 32 £525 +15.89% 45
North East -36 15 £450 +125.00% 19
East of England -43 8 £850 +54.55% 13
East Midlands -15 2 £500 +33.16% 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 24 (4.46%) Confluence
2 22 (4.09%) Apache Spark
3 18 (3.35%) Apache
4 16 (2.97%) Apache Airflow
5 14 (2.60%) SAS
5 14 (2.60%) SharePoint
6 7 (1.30%) CMS
7 3 (0.56%) Oracle Workflow
7 3 (0.56%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.37%) Camunda
8 2 (0.37%) CICS
8 2 (0.37%) IBM Transformation Extender
8 2 (0.37%) nginx
9 1 (0.19%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.19%) EPiServer
9 1 (0.19%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.19%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.19%) WebSphere Portal
9 1 (0.19%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.56%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.19%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.19%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 5 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.56%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (0.56%) SAP MDG
2 3 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.19%) Misys Equation
3 1 (0.19%) Misys Midas
3 1 (0.19%) SAP CRM
3 1 (0.19%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 305 (56.69%) Azure
2 196 (36.43%) AWS
3 161 (29.93%) Azure DevOps
4 123 (22.86%) GitHub
5 92 (17.10%) GitHub Actions
6 71 (13.20%) GCP
6 71 (13.20%) Serverless
7 49 (9.11%) AWS Lambda
8 46 (8.55%) Azure Monitor
9 45 (8.36%) Amazon S3
10 41 (7.62%) Amazon EKS
10 41 (7.62%) Entra ID
11 40 (7.43%) Azure AKS
12 38 (7.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 35 (6.51%) Amazon EC2
14 34 (6.32%) Amazon ECS
15 30 (5.58%) Power Platform
16 23 (4.28%) Azure Key Vault
17 21 (3.90%) Azure Data Factory
18 20 (3.72%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 39 (7.25%) Firewall
2 30 (5.58%) DNS
3 24 (4.46%) Network Security
4 17 (3.16%) VPN
5 15 (2.79%) TCP/IP
6 7 (1.30%) DHCP
6 7 (1.30%) SSH
7 6 (1.12%) DMZ
8 5 (0.93%) Kerberos
8 5 (0.93%) NGFW
8 5 (0.93%) SSL
9 4 (0.74%) Internet
10 3 (0.56%) BGP
10 3 (0.56%) Ethernet VPN
10 3 (0.56%) Reverse Proxy
10 3 (0.56%) VXLAN
11 2 (0.37%) HTTPS
11 2 (0.37%) NX-OS
11 2 (0.37%) OpenLDAP
11 2 (0.37%) TACACS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (5.76%) SQL Server
2 27 (5.02%) PostgreSQL
3 23 (4.28%) Power BI
3 23 (4.28%) Relational Database
4 22 (4.09%) Data Lake
5 21 (3.90%) Data Warehouse
6 18 (3.35%) NoSQL
7 16 (2.97%) Metadata
8 13 (2.42%) Amazon RDS
8 13 (2.42%) BigQuery
8 13 (2.42%) MongoDB
9 11 (2.04%) Geospatial Data
9 11 (2.04%) Pentaho
9 11 (2.04%) Redis
10 10 (1.86%) MySQL
11 9 (1.67%) Big Data
11 9 (1.67%) Elasticsearch
11 9 (1.67%) Oracle Database
12 8 (1.49%) DynamoDB
13 7 (1.30%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 147 (27.32%) Git
2 112 (20.82%) Jenkins
3 96 (17.84%) GitLab
4 43 (7.99%) JIRA
5 16 (2.97%) MSI
6 11 (2.04%) fastlane
6 11 (2.04%) Selenium
7 9 (1.67%) Gradle
7 9 (1.67%) JUnit
8 8 (1.49%) Visual Studio
9 7 (1.30%) Sonatype Nexus
10 6 (1.12%) Maven
10 6 (1.12%) SonarQube
10 6 (1.12%) Xcode
11 5 (0.93%) Android Studio
11 5 (0.93%) Cypress.io
11 5 (0.93%) MSBuild
11 5 (0.93%) Postman
11 5 (0.93%) TeamCity
11 5 (0.93%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 161 (29.93%) Social Skills
2 87 (16.17%) Public Sector
3 75 (13.94%) Finance
4 57 (10.59%) Analytical Skills
5 35 (6.51%) Banking
6 19 (3.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (2.23%) Retail
8 11 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (1.12%) Front Office
9 6 (1.12%) Marketing
10 5 (0.93%) Investment Banking
10 5 (0.93%) Manufacturing
11 4 (0.74%) Law
11 4 (0.74%) Military
12 3 (0.56%) Financial Institution
12 3 (0.56%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.56%) Legal
12 3 (0.56%) Local Government
12 3 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.56%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 100 (18.59%) Developer
1 100 (18.59%) Senior
2 93 (17.29%) DevOps Engineer
3 51 (9.48%) Lead
4 49 (9.11%) Cloud Engineer
5 45 (8.36%) Azure Engineer
5 45 (8.36%) Data Engineer
6 42 (7.81%) Architect
7 38 (7.06%) Platform Engineer
8 29 (5.39%) AWS Engineer
8 29 (5.39%) Senior Developer
8 29 (5.39%) Software Engineer
9 25 (4.65%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 22 (4.09%) Senior DevOps
11 21 (3.90%) AWS DevOps
12 20 (3.72%) GCP Engineer
13 19 (3.53%) Full-Stack Developer
13 19 (3.53%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 18 (3.35%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 17 (3.16%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 232 (43.12%) Terraform
2 105 (19.52%) REST
3 76 (14.13%) RESTful
4 69 (12.83%) .NET
5 52 (9.67%) React
6 47 (8.74%) Kafka
7 35 (6.51%) .NET Framework
8 34 (6.32%) HTML
9 32 (5.95%) CSS
9 32 (5.95%) Spring
9 32 (5.95%) Spring Boot
10 30 (5.58%) .NET Core
10 30 (5.58%) OAuth
11 27 (5.02%) ARM Templates
12 23 (4.28%) HTML5
12 23 (4.28%) Node.js
13 22 (4.09%) AngularJS
14 21 (3.90%) PySpark
15 20 (3.72%) CSS3
16 19 (3.53%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 155 (28.81%) Cloud Native
2 55 (10.22%) Product Ownership
3 40 (7.43%) Distributed Systems
4 38 (7.06%) Onboarding
5 35 (6.51%) Enterprise Software
6 19 (3.53%) Legacy Systems
7 18 (3.35%) Hybrid Cloud
8 13 (2.42%) Wiki
9 12 (2.23%) AI Agents
9 12 (2.23%) Enterprise Cloud
9 12 (2.23%) Self-Motivation
10 11 (2.04%) Mobile App
10 11 (2.04%) Security Posture
11 9 (1.67%) NHS
11 9 (1.67%) PKI
11 9 (1.67%) Replication
12 8 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
12 8 (1.49%) Linux Command Line
13 7 (1.30%) Data Centre
13 7 (1.30%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 74 (13.75%) Linux
2 52 (9.67%) Windows
3 21 (3.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 16 (2.97%) Unix
4 16 (2.97%) Windows Server
5 9 (1.67%) Apple iOS
6 7 (1.30%) Ubuntu
7 6 (1.12%) Android
8 4 (0.74%) VMS
8 4 (0.74%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.56%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.56%) zOS
10 2 (0.37%) Amazon Linux
10 2 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.19%) CentOS
11 1 (0.19%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.19%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.19%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 458 (85.13%) CI/CD
2 345 (64.13%) DevOps
3 272 (50.56%) Infrastructure as Code
4 234 (43.49%) Agile
5 192 (35.69%) Test Automation
6 156 (29.00%) Containerisation
7 141 (26.21%) Observability
8 139 (25.84%) Continuous Improvement
9 111 (20.63%) Analytics
10 107 (19.89%) Microservices
10 107 (19.89%) Problem-Solving
11 98 (18.22%) AI
11 98 (18.22%) DevSecOps
12 93 (17.29%) Platform Engineering
12 93 (17.29%) Software Engineering
13 85 (15.80%) Scrum
14 77 (14.31%) Technical Leadership
15 72 (13.38%) Data Pipeline
16 70 (13.01%) Stakeholder Management
17 69 (12.83%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 197 (36.62%) Python
2 107 (19.89%) SQL
3 92 (17.10%) PowerShell
4 83 (15.43%) Java
5 67 (12.45%) Bash
6 65 (12.08%) Bicep
6 65 (12.08%) JavaScript
7 64 (11.90%) C#
8 47 (8.74%) TypeScript
9 14 (2.60%) Shell Script
10 13 (2.42%) Go
11 9 (1.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 9 (1.67%) Kotlin
12 8 (1.49%) Apex Code
13 6 (1.12%) Kusto Query Language
13 6 (1.12%) Swift
14 5 (0.93%) Korn
14 5 (0.93%) Scala
15 4 (0.74%) Perl
16 3 (0.56%) PHP
Qualifications
1 189 (35.13%) Security Cleared
2 156 (29.00%) SC Cleared
3 38 (7.06%) Degree
4 30 (5.58%) Azure Certification
4 30 (5.58%) DV Cleared
5 28 (5.20%) AWS Certification
6 26 (4.83%) Computer Science Degree
7 17 (3.16%) Microsoft Certification
8 10 (1.86%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (1.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 6 (1.12%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 5 (0.93%) CISSP
11 5 (0.93%) MCSE
12 4 (0.74%) Master's Degree
13 3 (0.56%) GCFA
13 3 (0.56%) GCIH
13 3 (0.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 3 (0.56%) MCSA
14 2 (0.37%) ISTQB
15 1 (0.19%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (11.52%) QA
2 36 (6.69%) Data Quality
3 35 (6.51%) Accessibility
4 31 (5.76%) WCAG
5 18 (3.35%) NCSC
6 16 (2.97%) GDPR
7 4 (0.74%) HL7
7 4 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (0.56%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (0.56%) ISO 20022
8 3 (0.56%) NIST
8 3 (0.56%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.19%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.19%) EU AI Act
9 1 (0.19%) ISO 15022
9 1 (0.19%) PMO
9 1 (0.19%) SOC 2
System Software
1 162 (30.11%) Docker
2 30 (5.58%) Active Directory
3 16 (2.97%) Virtual Desktop
4 11 (2.04%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (1.30%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (0.93%) Microsoft App-V
7 4 (0.74%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.37%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 2 (0.37%) RACF
8 2 (0.37%) Time Sharing Option
9 1 (0.19%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.19%) DFS Replication
9 1 (0.19%) Dovecot
9 1 (0.19%) Firmware
9 1 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.19%) Postfix
9 1 (0.19%) Squid
9 1 (0.19%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 192 (35.69%) Kubernetes
2 77 (14.31%) Ansible
3 32 (5.95%) Grafana
4 25 (4.65%) Prometheus
5 20 (3.72%) Microsoft Intune
6 18 (3.35%) SCCM
7 11 (2.04%) Progress Chef
8 9 (1.67%) Puppet
9 8 (1.49%) Single Sign-On
10 6 (1.12%) Argo
10 6 (1.12%) Istio
10 6 (1.12%) WSUS
11 4 (0.74%) Control-M
12 3 (0.56%) CASB
12 3 (0.56%) Kibana
12 3 (0.56%) Tivoli
13 2 (0.37%) Packer
13 2 (0.37%) Podman
13 2 (0.37%) Tivoli Monitoring
14 1 (0.19%) Cilium
Vendors
1 149 (27.70%) Microsoft
2 43 (7.99%) Google
3 34 (6.32%) Databricks
4 30 (5.58%) Oracle
5 23 (4.28%) Dynatrace
6 21 (3.90%) Splunk
7 19 (3.53%) Salesforce
8 15 (2.79%) Red Hat
9 13 (2.42%) Talend
10 11 (2.04%) ServiceNow
11 10 (1.86%) IBM
12 9 (1.67%) Denodo
13 8 (1.49%) MuleSoft
13 8 (1.49%) VMware
14 7 (1.30%) Apple
14 7 (1.30%) SAP
15 6 (1.12%) Citrix
15 6 (1.12%) OpenAI
16 5 (0.93%) Confluent
16 5 (0.93%) CrowdStrike