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 29 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
29 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 275 277 309
Rank change year-on-year +2 +32 -9
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 339 216 242
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.84% 0.89% 0.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.99% 0.98% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 230 168 173
10th Percentile £400 £351 £413
25th Percentile £450 £413 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £594
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% -7.41% -4.96%
75th Percentile £575 £653 £700
90th Percentile £650 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £515 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -6.36% -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 5
10th Percentile £52.69 - £22.72
25th Percentile £56.36 - -
Median hourly rate £62.59 - £23.80
75th Percentile £68.70 - £67.02
90th Percentile £72.29 - £69.56
UK median hourly rate £62.59 - £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 34,200 22,151 32,000
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.97% 91.14% 86.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,858 14,510 20,977
10th Percentile £318 £310 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.48% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £617 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -4.31% -0.48% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,144 918 2,231
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.74 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.51 £16.00
Median hourly rate £44.00 £30.45 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +44.50% -14.23% -5.33%
75th Percentile £67.31 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £40.66 £29.07 £35.00
% change year-on-year +39.87% -16.94% -6.17%

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 29 April 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 29 April 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 29 April 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 -14 180 £550 -5.17% 38
Midlands -32 44 £513 +2.60% 7
North of England -64 40 £476 +17.97% 9
West Midlands -37 30 £525 +5.00% 3
South East -49 30 £531 +32.15% 26
South West -32 23 £525 -8.70% 5
Yorkshire -53 20 £500 -14.16% 2
North West -25 19 £436 +11.51% 4
East Midlands -29 13 £402 -15.37% 4
East of England -40 3 £513 -2.33% 6
North East -20 1 - - 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 31 (9.14%) SAS
2 9 (2.65%) Apache Spark
3 8 (2.36%) Appian
4 7 (2.06%) SharePoint
5 6 (1.77%) Camunda
6 5 (1.47%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (1.18%) Confluence
8 3 (0.88%) CMS
8 3 (0.88%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.88%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.59%) Apache
9 2 (0.59%) IBM HTTP Server
9 2 (0.59%) Oracle HTTP Server
9 2 (0.59%) Sitecore CMS
9 2 (0.59%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.59%) WebSphere Application Server
9 2 (0.59%) WebSphere Portal
10 1 (0.29%) ColdFusion
10 1 (0.29%) OpenROAD
10 1 (0.29%) WebLogic
Applications
1 6 (1.77%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.59%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.29%) Cloudability
1 1 (0.29%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 152 (44.84%) Azure
2 106 (31.27%) AWS
3 71 (20.94%) GitHub
4 55 (16.22%) Azure DevOps
5 47 (13.86%) GitHub Actions
6 35 (10.32%) GCP
7 33 (9.73%) Serverless
8 25 (7.37%) Power Platform
9 24 (7.08%) AWS CloudFormation
10 18 (5.31%) Amazon S3
10 18 (5.31%) AWS Lambda
11 17 (5.01%) Entra ID
12 16 (4.72%) OpenShift
13 15 (4.42%) Azure Data Factory
13 15 (4.42%) Power Automate
14 14 (4.13%) Azure Functions
15 13 (3.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 13 (3.83%) Azure AI
15 13 (3.83%) Azure Monitor
16 12 (3.54%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (5.01%) Firewall
2 10 (2.95%) DNS
2 10 (2.95%) TCP/IP
2 10 (2.95%) VPN
3 6 (1.77%) Network Security
4 4 (1.18%) DHCP
4 4 (1.18%) DMZ
4 4 (1.18%) HTTPS
4 4 (1.18%) Software-Defined Networking
5 3 (0.88%) HTTP
5 3 (0.88%) SSL
6 2 (0.59%) Internet
7 1 (0.29%) BGP
7 1 (0.29%) Cisco IOS
7 1 (0.29%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (0.29%) IPsec
7 1 (0.29%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.29%) OSPF
7 1 (0.29%) SMS
7 1 (0.29%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (5.60%) Pentaho
1 19 (5.60%) SQL Server
2 17 (5.01%) Power BI
3 16 (4.72%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (4.72%) Relational Database
4 14 (4.13%) Data Warehouse
5 11 (3.24%) Data Lake
6 9 (2.65%) Amazon RDS
6 9 (2.65%) Azure SQL Database
6 9 (2.65%) NoSQL
6 9 (2.65%) Redis
7 8 (2.36%) Aerospike
7 8 (2.36%) DynamoDB
7 8 (2.36%) Pinecone
7 8 (2.36%) Spark SQL
8 6 (1.77%) Metadata
8 6 (1.77%) MongoDB
8 6 (1.77%) SAS Data Integration Studio
9 5 (1.47%) Amazon Athena
9 5 (1.47%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 85 (25.07%) Git
2 73 (21.53%) Jenkins
3 54 (15.93%) GitLab
4 24 (7.08%) JIRA
5 11 (3.24%) JUnit
6 8 (2.36%) MLflow
7 6 (1.77%) MSI
8 5 (1.47%) Artifactory
8 5 (1.47%) Mockito
9 3 (0.88%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 3 (0.88%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.88%) CircleCI
9 3 (0.88%) Cypress.io
9 3 (0.88%) fastlane
9 3 (0.88%) Selenium
9 3 (0.88%) Visual Studio Code
10 2 (0.59%) git-flow
10 2 (0.59%) Gradle
10 2 (0.59%) InstallShield
10 2 (0.59%) TeamCity
General
1 107 (31.56%) Social Skills
2 68 (20.06%) Public Sector
3 65 (19.17%) Finance
4 34 (10.03%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (4.13%) Banking
6 12 (3.54%) Legal
7 7 (2.06%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (2.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (1.47%) Front Office
8 5 (1.47%) Investment Banking
8 5 (1.47%) Marketing
9 3 (0.88%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.59%) Electronics
10 2 (0.59%) Military
10 2 (0.59%) Police
10 2 (0.59%) Retail
10 2 (0.59%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.29%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.29%) Law
11 1 (0.29%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 63 (18.58%) Developer
2 42 (12.39%) Senior
3 41 (12.09%) Data Engineer
3 41 (12.09%) DevOps Engineer
4 36 (10.62%) Architect
5 25 (7.37%) Azure Engineer
6 22 (6.49%) Platform Engineer
7 20 (5.90%) Automation Engineer
8 16 (4.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 16 (4.72%) Lead
9 14 (4.13%) Full-Stack Developer
10 13 (3.83%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 13 (3.83%) Cloud Engineer
10 13 (3.83%) Salesforce Engineer
10 13 (3.83%) Senior Developer
11 12 (3.54%) Platform Architect
12 9 (2.65%) AWS Engineer
12 9 (2.65%) SAS Engineer
13 8 (2.36%) AWS Developer
13 8 (2.36%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (11.21%) REST
1 38 (11.21%) RESTful
2 29 (8.55%) Node.js
2 29 (8.55%) React
3 26 (7.67%) Kafka
4 19 (5.60%) .NET
5 18 (5.31%) AngularJS
5 18 (5.31%) pytest
5 18 (5.31%) YAML
6 17 (5.01%) PySpark
7 14 (4.13%) OAuth
7 14 (4.13%) Spring
7 14 (4.13%) Web Services
8 13 (3.83%) FastAPI
8 13 (3.83%) HTML
8 13 (3.83%) Spring Boot
8 13 (3.83%) Swagger
9 12 (3.54%) CSS
9 12 (3.54%) Django
9 12 (3.54%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 58 (17.11%) Cloud Native
2 21 (6.19%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (4.13%) Legacy Systems
3 14 (4.13%) Product Ownership
4 13 (3.83%) Onboarding
5 10 (2.95%) Data Centre
5 10 (2.95%) Distributed Computing
5 10 (2.95%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (2.36%) Low-Code
7 7 (2.06%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (2.06%) Mobile App
8 6 (1.77%) Security Posture
9 5 (1.47%) Enterprise Cloud
9 5 (1.47%) NHS
10 4 (1.18%) Algorithms
10 4 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.18%) Private Cloud
11 3 (0.88%) AI Agents
11 3 (0.88%) Cyber Threat
11 3 (0.88%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 42 (12.39%) Linux
2 22 (6.49%) Windows
3 6 (1.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (1.77%) Unix
3 6 (1.77%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.18%) VMS
5 3 (0.88%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.88%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.59%) Android
6 2 (0.59%) Oracle Linux
6 2 (0.59%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
6 2 (0.59%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.59%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.59%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 245 (72.27%) CI/CD
2 203 (59.88%) DevOps
3 135 (39.82%) Infrastructure as Code
4 124 (36.58%) Test Automation
5 121 (35.69%) Agile
6 93 (27.43%) Problem-Solving
7 77 (22.71%) Analytics
8 76 (22.42%) Containerisation
9 61 (17.99%) Continuous Improvement
10 60 (17.70%) Data Pipeline
11 56 (16.52%) Data Modelling
11 56 (16.52%) Microservices
12 54 (15.93%) ETL
12 54 (15.93%) Observability
13 53 (15.63%) Scrum
14 44 (12.98%) AI
14 44 (12.98%) Infrastructure Automation
15 43 (12.68%) Migration
16 42 (12.39%) Business Intelligence
17 38 (11.21%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 120 (35.40%) Python
2 81 (23.89%) SQL
3 57 (16.81%) PowerShell
4 48 (14.16%) Java
5 40 (11.80%) Bash
6 32 (9.44%) JavaScript
7 28 (8.26%) Bicep
8 27 (7.96%) TypeScript
9 21 (6.19%) C#
10 9 (2.65%) PHP
11 8 (2.36%) Apex Code
12 3 (0.88%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.88%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.88%) Rust
12 3 (0.88%) SAS Macro
12 3 (0.88%) Scala
12 3 (0.88%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.59%) Perl
13 2 (0.59%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.59%) Swift
Qualifications
1 125 (36.87%) Security Cleared
2 101 (29.79%) SC Cleared
3 17 (5.01%) Degree
4 15 (4.42%) Azure Certification
5 12 (3.54%) AWS Certification
6 11 (3.24%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (3.24%) Microsoft Certification
7 9 (2.65%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (2.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 8 (2.36%) DV Cleared
9 5 (1.47%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 4 (1.18%) RHCE
10 4 (1.18%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 3 (0.88%) CCNP
11 3 (0.88%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (0.88%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 3 (0.88%) MCSA
11 3 (0.88%) Oracle Certification
12 2 (0.59%) CISSP
12 2 (0.59%) OCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (11.80%) Data Quality
2 28 (8.26%) QA
3 12 (3.54%) Accessibility
4 11 (3.24%) GDPR
5 7 (2.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 7 (2.06%) WCAG
6 6 (1.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.88%) NCSC
8 2 (0.59%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.59%) NIST
9 1 (0.29%) EU AI Act
9 1 (0.29%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.29%) SLA
9 1 (0.29%) SOC 2
System Software
1 106 (31.27%) Docker
2 18 (5.31%) Active Directory
2 18 (5.31%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (2.06%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (1.47%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.88%) Microsoft App-V
5 3 (0.88%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.59%) Xen
7 1 (0.29%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.29%) Firmware
7 1 (0.29%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 124 (36.58%) Kubernetes
2 119 (35.10%) Terraform
3 39 (11.50%) Ansible
4 14 (4.13%) Grafana
4 14 (4.13%) Prometheus
5 12 (3.54%) SCCM
6 9 (2.65%) Puppet
7 7 (2.06%) Microsoft Intune
8 6 (1.77%) Progress Chef
9 5 (1.47%) Istio
10 4 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (1.18%) WSUS
11 3 (0.88%) Argo
11 3 (0.88%) ITRS Geneos
12 2 (0.59%) CA Wily
12 2 (0.59%) Podman
12 2 (0.59%) Tivoli
12 2 (0.59%) vRealize
13 1 (0.29%) Fluentd
13 1 (0.29%) QRadar
Vendors
1 85 (25.07%) Microsoft
2 25 (7.37%) Salesforce
3 20 (5.90%) Oracle
3 20 (5.90%) Talend
4 19 (5.60%) Denodo
4 19 (5.60%) OpenAI
5 18 (5.31%) Google
6 12 (3.54%) Databricks
7 11 (3.24%) Splunk
8 10 (2.95%) Red Hat
9 8 (2.36%) Automation Anywhere
9 8 (2.36%) UiPath
10 7 (2.06%) Dynatrace
10 7 (2.06%) SAP
10 7 (2.06%) VMware
11 6 (1.77%) Foundry
11 6 (1.77%) IBM
12 4 (1.18%) Apple
12 4 (1.18%) Citrix
12 4 (1.18%) webMethods
82 Deployment Automation jobs in England