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 15 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
15 Mar 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 273 286 336
Rank change year-on-year +13 +50 -41
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 348 200 223
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.94% 0.80% 0.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.09% 0.89% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 243 143 164
10th Percentile £393 £380 £450
25th Percentile £430 £425 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -10.43% - -8.73%
75th Percentile £580 £736 £700
90th Percentile £675 £825 £738
UK median daily rate £513 £565 £575
% change year-on-year -9.29% -1.74% -6.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 4
10th Percentile £27.08 - -
25th Percentile £35.77 £82.50 £22.00
Median hourly rate £50.50 £85.00 £44.51
Median % change year-on-year -40.59% +90.97% -31.52%
75th Percentile £62.72 £87.50 £68.08
90th Percentile £69.89 - £69.98
UK median hourly rate £50.50 £85.00 £44.51
% change year-on-year -40.59% +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 31,916 22,554 32,925
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.52% 90.61% 86.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,413 14,598 21,798
10th Percentile £313 £310 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £639 £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 1,990 810 2,146
10th Percentile £15.31 £15.22 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.00 £16.06
Median hourly rate £30.50 £34.06 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.44% +4.78% -12.16%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.50 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -7.69% - -7.14%

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 15 March 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 15 March 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 15 March 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 +3 171 £525 -16.67% 45
Midlands -14 55 £515 -4.10% 11
West Midlands -31 42 £515 -26.43% 10
North of England -48 41 £475 +14.46% 29
South East -40 28 £553 +37.44% 31
South West -24 27 £544 -5.43% 14
North West -20 20 £436 +11.22% 18
Yorkshire -47 18 £491 -14.61% 7
East Midlands -21 12 £402 -6.84% 1
East of England -25 6 £550 +32.53% 1
North East -14 3 £500 -10.31% 4
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 34 (9.77%) SAS
2 10 (2.87%) Apache
3 9 (2.59%) JBoss
4 8 (2.30%) Appian
4 8 (2.30%) WebLogic
5 7 (2.01%) SharePoint
6 6 (1.72%) Apache Spark
6 6 (1.72%) Camunda
6 6 (1.72%) Confluence
7 3 (0.86%) Anypoint
7 3 (0.86%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.86%) CMS
7 3 (0.86%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.57%) Sitecore CMS
8 2 (0.57%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.57%) WebSphere Application Server
9 1 (0.29%) IIS
9 1 (0.29%) iPlanet
9 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.29%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 7 (2.01%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.57%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.29%) Cloudability
1 1 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.29%) Endur
1 1 (0.29%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 136 (39.08%) Azure
2 109 (31.32%) AWS
3 77 (22.13%) GitHub
4 56 (16.09%) GitHub Actions
5 53 (15.23%) Azure DevOps
6 33 (9.48%) GCP
6 33 (9.48%) Serverless
7 28 (8.05%) Power Platform
8 22 (6.32%) AWS CloudFormation
9 19 (5.46%) Amazon S3
10 17 (4.89%) AWS Lambda
10 17 (4.89%) OpenShift
11 16 (4.60%) Azure Data Factory
11 16 (4.60%) Power Automate
12 15 (4.31%) Azure Functions
12 15 (4.31%) Entra ID
13 13 (3.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 13 (3.74%) Amazon EC2
13 13 (3.74%) Azure AI
14 12 (3.45%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.16%) Firewall
1 11 (3.16%) HTTPS
2 9 (2.59%) DNS
3 8 (2.30%) TCP/IP
4 7 (2.01%) Network Security
4 7 (2.01%) SSL
5 6 (1.72%) VPN
6 5 (1.44%) DHCP
6 5 (1.44%) Software-Defined Networking
7 2 (0.57%) BGP
7 2 (0.57%) DMZ
7 2 (0.57%) HTTP
7 2 (0.57%) Internet
8 1 (0.29%) Cisco IOS
8 1 (0.29%) Cisco Nexus
8 1 (0.29%) IPsec
8 1 (0.29%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.29%) OSPF
8 1 (0.29%) SMS
8 1 (0.29%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (7.47%) Pentaho
2 19 (5.46%) SQL Server
3 18 (5.17%) Power BI
4 14 (4.02%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (4.02%) Relational Database
5 12 (3.45%) MongoDB
6 11 (3.16%) Amazon RDS
6 11 (3.16%) NoSQL
7 10 (2.87%) Data Warehouse
7 10 (2.87%) Redis
8 9 (2.59%) Azure SQL Database
9 8 (2.30%) Aerospike
9 8 (2.30%) Data Lake
9 8 (2.30%) Pinecone
9 8 (2.30%) Spark SQL
10 7 (2.01%) DynamoDB
11 6 (1.72%) Oracle Database
12 4 (1.15%) Amazon Athena
12 4 (1.15%) Apache Cassandra
12 4 (1.15%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 101 (29.02%) Git
2 90 (25.86%) Jenkins
3 50 (14.37%) GitLab
4 33 (9.48%) JIRA
5 18 (5.17%) JUnit
6 10 (2.87%) Selenium
7 8 (2.30%) Bitbucket
7 8 (2.30%) Eclipse
7 8 (2.30%) IntelliJ
7 8 (2.30%) MLflow
8 5 (1.44%) CircleCI
8 5 (1.44%) Mockito
9 4 (1.15%) Artifactory
10 3 (0.86%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 3 (0.86%) Maven
10 3 (0.86%) MSI
10 3 (0.86%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.57%) git-flow
11 2 (0.57%) LoadRunner
11 2 (0.57%) Postman
General
1 126 (36.21%) Social Skills
2 68 (19.54%) Public Sector
3 63 (18.10%) Finance
4 42 (12.07%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (2.87%) Banking
6 9 (2.59%) Legal
7 8 (2.30%) Influencing Skills
8 7 (2.01%) Marketing
9 4 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (0.86%) Front Office
10 3 (0.86%) Manufacturing
10 3 (0.86%) Military
11 2 (0.57%) Back Office
11 2 (0.57%) Electronics
11 2 (0.57%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.57%) Police
11 2 (0.57%) Retail
11 2 (0.57%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.29%) Law
Job Titles
1 76 (21.84%) Developer
2 42 (12.07%) Architect
3 39 (11.21%) DevOps Engineer
4 38 (10.92%) Data Engineer
5 30 (8.62%) Senior
6 23 (6.61%) Platform Engineer
7 22 (6.32%) Automation Engineer
7 22 (6.32%) Azure Engineer
7 22 (6.32%) Lead
8 14 (4.02%) Full-Stack Developer
9 12 (3.45%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 12 (3.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 11 (3.16%) Platform Architect
11 10 (2.87%) AWS Engineer
11 10 (2.87%) Cloud Engineer
11 10 (2.87%) Python Developer
11 10 (2.87%) Technical Architect
12 8 (2.30%) React Developer
12 8 (2.30%) SAS Engineer
12 8 (2.30%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (17.24%) REST
2 42 (12.07%) RESTful
3 33 (9.48%) React
4 32 (9.20%) SOAP
5 30 (8.62%) JSON
6 26 (7.47%) Node.js
7 24 (6.90%) XML
8 23 (6.61%) Kafka
8 23 (6.61%) pytest
9 22 (6.32%) Spring
10 21 (6.03%) HTML
11 19 (5.46%) AngularJS
11 19 (5.46%) PySpark
12 18 (5.17%) .NET
12 18 (5.17%) OAuth
13 16 (4.60%) YAML
14 15 (4.31%) FastAPI
14 15 (4.31%) Web Services
15 14 (4.02%) Spring Boot
15 14 (4.02%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 48 (13.79%) Cloud Native
2 16 (4.60%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (4.02%) Legacy Systems
4 12 (3.45%) Product Ownership
5 10 (2.87%) Data Centre
6 9 (2.59%) Distributed Computing
6 9 (2.59%) Hybrid Cloud
7 8 (2.30%) Low-Code
8 6 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
8 6 (1.72%) Onboarding
8 6 (1.72%) Private Cloud
8 6 (1.72%) Security Posture
9 5 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (1.44%) Mobile App
9 5 (1.44%) NHS
10 4 (1.15%) Algorithms
10 4 (1.15%) Enterprise Cloud
10 4 (1.15%) PKI
11 3 (0.86%) Cyber Threat
11 3 (0.86%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 53 (15.23%) Linux
2 22 (6.32%) Windows
3 13 (3.74%) Unix
4 9 (2.59%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (1.15%) VMS
7 2 (0.57%) Android
7 2 (0.57%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.29%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.29%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.29%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
8 1 (0.29%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.29%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 257 (73.85%) CI/CD
2 219 (62.93%) DevOps
3 132 (37.93%) Infrastructure as Code
4 131 (37.64%) Agile
5 127 (36.49%) Test Automation
6 122 (35.06%) Problem-Solving
7 80 (22.99%) Analytics
8 77 (22.13%) Containerisation
9 69 (19.83%) Continuous Improvement
10 62 (17.82%) Data Modelling
10 62 (17.82%) Data Pipeline
10 62 (17.82%) Scrum
11 61 (17.53%) ETL
12 59 (16.95%) Microservices
13 58 (16.67%) Infrastructure Automation
14 49 (14.08%) Business Intelligence
14 49 (14.08%) Observability
15 47 (13.51%) Migration
16 38 (10.92%) AI
17 35 (10.06%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 124 (35.63%) Python
2 100 (28.74%) SQL
3 55 (15.80%) Java
4 53 (15.23%) PowerShell
5 43 (12.36%) Bash
6 38 (10.92%) JavaScript
7 33 (9.48%) TypeScript
8 25 (7.18%) Bicep
9 19 (5.46%) C#
10 10 (2.87%) PHP
10 10 (2.87%) Scala
11 7 (2.01%) Apex Code
12 4 (1.15%) Groovy
12 4 (1.15%) T-SQL
13 3 (0.86%) DataWeave
13 3 (0.86%) Go
13 3 (0.86%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.86%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.86%) Rust
13 3 (0.86%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 140 (40.23%) Security Cleared
2 111 (31.90%) SC Cleared
3 16 (4.60%) Degree
4 15 (4.31%) AWS Certification
5 14 (4.02%) Azure Certification
6 10 (2.87%) BPSS Clearance
6 10 (2.87%) DV Cleared
7 9 (2.59%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (2.30%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 8 (2.30%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (2.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 5 (1.44%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 4 (1.15%) CCNP
11 4 (1.15%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (1.15%) Oracle Certification
12 3 (0.86%) CISSP
12 3 (0.86%) Master's Degree
12 3 (0.86%) OCA
12 3 (0.86%) RHCE
13 2 (0.57%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (11.78%) Data Quality
2 27 (7.76%) QA
3 11 (3.16%) GDPR
4 9 (2.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (2.30%) Accessibility
6 7 (2.01%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 6 (1.72%) NIST
8 5 (1.44%) NCSC
9 4 (1.15%) WCAG
10 3 (0.86%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.57%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.29%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.29%) SOC 2
System Software
1 123 (35.34%) Docker
2 19 (5.46%) Active Directory
3 15 (4.31%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (1.44%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.57%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.57%) Xen
7 1 (0.29%) Tivoli Directory Server
7 1 (0.29%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.29%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 127 (36.49%) Kubernetes
2 122 (35.06%) Terraform
3 46 (13.22%) Ansible
4 18 (5.17%) Grafana
5 17 (4.89%) Prometheus
6 14 (4.02%) Puppet
7 7 (2.01%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (1.44%) Podman
8 5 (1.44%) Progress Chef
9 4 (1.15%) Istio
9 4 (1.15%) SCCM
10 3 (0.86%) Argo
10 3 (0.86%) CloudHub
10 3 (0.86%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (0.86%) Packer
10 3 (0.86%) Proxmox
11 2 (0.57%) CA Wily
11 2 (0.57%) Consul
11 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (0.57%) vRealize
Vendors
1 80 (22.99%) Microsoft
2 27 (7.76%) Talend
3 26 (7.47%) Denodo
4 24 (6.90%) Oracle
5 23 (6.61%) Salesforce
6 19 (5.46%) OpenAI
7 18 (5.17%) Google
8 17 (4.89%) Databricks
9 15 (4.31%) webMethods
10 14 (4.02%) Splunk
10 14 (4.02%) VMware
11 9 (2.59%) IBM
11 9 (2.59%) SAP
12 8 (2.30%) Automation Anywhere
12 8 (2.30%) Red Hat
12 8 (2.30%) UiPath
13 6 (1.72%) Foundry
13 6 (1.72%) Software AG
14 5 (1.44%) Cribl.io
14 5 (1.44%) Palo Alto
117 Deployment Automation jobs in England