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

 6 months to
1 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 277 266 324
Rank change year-on-year -11 +58 -29
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 357 219 236
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.94% 0.90% 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.09% 0.99% 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 243 165 172
10th Percentile £394 £380 £428
25th Percentile £444 £425 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £565 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.85% -1.74% -9.80%
75th Percentile £575 £700 £700
90th Percentile £650 £825 £738
UK median daily rate £513 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -6.82% -4.35% -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 4
10th Percentile £52.69 - -
25th Percentile £56.36 - £22.00
Median hourly rate £62.59 - £44.51
75th Percentile £68.70 - £68.08
90th Percentile £72.29 - £69.98
UK median hourly rate £62.59 - £44.51
% change year-on-year - - -35.02%

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 32,858 22,016 32,689
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.08% 90.81% 86.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,074 14,505 21,608
10th Percentile £313 £313 £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 £638 £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 2,007 857 2,166
10th Percentile £15.34 £15.00 £13.00
25th Percentile £19.27 £20.00 £16.00
Median hourly rate £37.00 £32.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.85% - -13.33%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £58.36
90th Percentile £77.50 £76.63 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £32.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +10.94% -1.54% -11.33%

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 1 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 1 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 1 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 -15 175 £531 -15.00% 49
Midlands -30 56 £515 -0.68% 21
West Midlands -26 43 £515 -26.43% 19
North of England -58 40 £476 +18.58% 24
South East -36 35 £538 +26.17% 21
South West -22 27 £525 -8.70% 12
Yorkshire -45 20 £491 -14.61% 5
North West -34 18 £425 +8.70% 14
East Midlands -24 12 £402 -15.37% 2
East of England -30 4 £513 +2.55% 2
North East -16 2 £600 +9.09% 5
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 40 (11.20%) SAS
2 8 (2.24%) Appian
2 8 (2.24%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.96%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.68%) Camunda
5 5 (1.40%) Apache
5 5 (1.40%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (1.12%) Confluence
6 4 (1.12%) JBoss
6 4 (1.12%) WebLogic
7 3 (0.84%) Anypoint
7 3 (0.84%) CMS
7 3 (0.84%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.56%) IBM HTTP Server
8 2 (0.56%) Oracle HTTP Server
8 2 (0.56%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.56%) Sitecore CMS
8 2 (0.56%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.56%) WebSphere Application Server
8 2 (0.56%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 6 (1.68%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.56%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.28%) Cloudability
1 1 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.28%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 141 (39.50%) Azure
2 108 (30.25%) AWS
3 74 (20.73%) GitHub
4 55 (15.41%) Azure DevOps
5 50 (14.01%) GitHub Actions
6 34 (9.52%) Serverless
7 31 (8.68%) GCP
8 27 (7.56%) Power Platform
9 25 (7.00%) AWS CloudFormation
10 18 (5.04%) Amazon S3
10 18 (5.04%) AWS Lambda
11 17 (4.76%) OpenShift
12 16 (4.48%) Power Automate
13 15 (4.20%) Azure Data Factory
13 15 (4.20%) Azure Functions
14 14 (3.92%) Entra ID
15 13 (3.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 13 (3.64%) Azure AI
16 12 (3.36%) Amazon EC2
16 12 (3.36%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.64%) Firewall
2 10 (2.80%) DNS
2 10 (2.80%) TCP/IP
3 8 (2.24%) VPN
4 7 (1.96%) HTTPS
5 6 (1.68%) Network Security
6 5 (1.40%) DHCP
6 5 (1.40%) SSL
7 4 (1.12%) Software-Defined Networking
8 3 (0.84%) DMZ
8 3 (0.84%) HTTP
9 2 (0.56%) Internet
10 1 (0.28%) BGP
10 1 (0.28%) Cisco IOS
10 1 (0.28%) Cisco Nexus
10 1 (0.28%) IPsec
10 1 (0.28%) OSPF
10 1 (0.28%) SMS
10 1 (0.28%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (8.12%) Pentaho
2 18 (5.04%) SQL Server
3 17 (4.76%) Power BI
4 15 (4.20%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (4.20%) Relational Database
5 13 (3.64%) Data Warehouse
6 11 (3.08%) NoSQL
7 10 (2.80%) Amazon RDS
8 9 (2.52%) Azure SQL Database
8 9 (2.52%) Data Lake
8 9 (2.52%) MongoDB
8 9 (2.52%) Redis
9 8 (2.24%) Aerospike
9 8 (2.24%) Pinecone
9 8 (2.24%) Spark SQL
10 7 (1.96%) DynamoDB
11 6 (1.68%) Metadata
11 6 (1.68%) SAS Enterprise Guide
12 5 (1.40%) Amazon Athena
12 5 (1.40%) SAS Data Integration Studio
Development Applications
1 100 (28.01%) Git
2 95 (26.61%) Jenkins
3 53 (14.85%) GitLab
4 36 (10.08%) JIRA
5 15 (4.20%) JUnit
6 8 (2.24%) MLflow
7 6 (1.68%) Bitbucket
7 6 (1.68%) Mockito
7 6 (1.68%) Selenium
8 5 (1.40%) Artifactory
8 5 (1.40%) CircleCI
8 5 (1.40%) IntelliJ
9 4 (1.12%) Eclipse
10 3 (0.84%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 3 (0.84%) Cypress.io
10 3 (0.84%) Gradle
10 3 (0.84%) MSI
11 2 (0.56%) Android Studio
11 2 (0.56%) git-flow
11 2 (0.56%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 121 (33.89%) Social Skills
2 75 (21.01%) Public Sector
3 64 (17.93%) Finance
4 39 (10.92%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (3.64%) Banking
6 12 (3.36%) Legal
7 7 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (1.96%) Marketing
8 5 (1.40%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (1.40%) Front Office
9 4 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.12%) Investment Banking
10 3 (0.84%) Manufacturing
10 3 (0.84%) Military
11 2 (0.56%) Electronics
11 2 (0.56%) Police
11 2 (0.56%) Retail
11 2 (0.56%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.28%) Back Office
12 1 (0.28%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 73 (20.45%) Developer
2 43 (12.04%) DevOps Engineer
3 42 (11.76%) Data Engineer
4 38 (10.64%) Architect
5 33 (9.24%) Senior
6 25 (7.00%) Platform Engineer
7 22 (6.16%) Azure Engineer
8 21 (5.88%) Lead
9 20 (5.60%) Automation Engineer
10 16 (4.48%) Full-Stack Developer
11 13 (3.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 12 (3.36%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 12 (3.36%) Platform Architect
13 10 (2.80%) Cloud Engineer
13 10 (2.80%) SAS Engineer
13 10 (2.80%) Senior Developer
14 9 (2.52%) AWS Engineer
14 9 (2.52%) Consultant
14 9 (2.52%) Python Developer
15 8 (2.24%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (14.57%) REST
2 41 (11.48%) RESTful
3 34 (9.52%) React
4 27 (7.56%) Node.js
5 25 (7.00%) Kafka
6 24 (6.72%) SOAP
7 22 (6.16%) pytest
8 20 (5.60%) AngularJS
8 20 (5.60%) JSON
9 18 (5.04%) HTML
9 18 (5.04%) Spring
9 18 (5.04%) YAML
10 17 (4.76%) .NET
11 16 (4.48%) PySpark
12 15 (4.20%) Web Services
12 15 (4.20%) XML
13 14 (3.92%) CSS
13 14 (3.92%) FastAPI
13 14 (3.92%) OAuth
13 14 (3.92%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 53 (14.85%) Cloud Native
2 17 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (3.92%) Legacy Systems
4 13 (3.64%) Product Ownership
5 10 (2.80%) Distributed Computing
6 9 (2.52%) Data Centre
6 9 (2.52%) Hybrid Cloud
7 8 (2.24%) Low-Code
7 8 (2.24%) Onboarding
8 7 (1.96%) Mobile App
9 6 (1.68%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (1.68%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (1.68%) Security Posture
10 5 (1.40%) NHS
10 5 (1.40%) Private Cloud
11 4 (1.12%) Enterprise Cloud
12 3 (0.84%) Algorithms
12 3 (0.84%) CMDB
12 3 (0.84%) Cyber Threat
12 3 (0.84%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 46 (12.89%) Linux
2 21 (5.88%) Windows
3 10 (2.80%) Unix
4 6 (1.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (1.40%) Windows Server
6 4 (1.12%) VMS
7 3 (0.84%) Android
7 3 (0.84%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.56%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.56%) Oracle Linux
8 2 (0.56%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
8 2 (0.56%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 264 (73.95%) CI/CD
2 224 (62.75%) DevOps
3 137 (38.38%) Test Automation
4 136 (38.10%) Agile
5 135 (37.82%) Infrastructure as Code
6 119 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
7 84 (23.53%) Analytics
8 76 (21.29%) Containerisation
9 71 (19.89%) Continuous Improvement
10 65 (18.21%) Data Modelling
11 64 (17.93%) Data Pipeline
12 63 (17.65%) Scrum
13 61 (17.09%) ETL
14 55 (15.41%) Microservices
15 50 (14.01%) Business Intelligence
15 50 (14.01%) Observability
16 48 (13.45%) Infrastructure Automation
17 45 (12.61%) Migration
18 41 (11.48%) Platform Engineering
19 40 (11.20%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 122 (34.17%) Python
2 95 (26.61%) SQL
3 58 (16.25%) PowerShell
4 53 (14.85%) Java
5 41 (11.48%) Bash
6 36 (10.08%) JavaScript
7 31 (8.68%) TypeScript
8 24 (6.72%) Bicep
9 20 (5.60%) C#
10 9 (2.52%) PHP
11 8 (2.24%) Apex Code
12 6 (1.68%) Scala
13 4 (1.12%) Kotlin
13 4 (1.12%) T-SQL
14 3 (0.84%) DataWeave
14 3 (0.84%) Groovy
14 3 (0.84%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.84%) Rust
14 3 (0.84%) SAS Macro
15 2 (0.56%) Perl
Qualifications
1 142 (39.78%) Security Cleared
2 111 (31.09%) SC Cleared
3 14 (3.92%) Degree
4 12 (3.36%) AWS Certification
4 12 (3.36%) Azure Certification
5 10 (2.80%) DV Cleared
6 9 (2.52%) BPSS Clearance
6 9 (2.52%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (2.52%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (1.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 5 (1.40%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 4 (1.12%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 3 (0.84%) CCNP
10 3 (0.84%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (0.84%) Oracle Certification
10 3 (0.84%) RHCE
11 2 (0.56%) CISSP
11 2 (0.56%) MCSA
11 2 (0.56%) OCA
11 2 (0.56%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (12.61%) Data Quality
2 29 (8.12%) QA
3 12 (3.36%) Accessibility
3 12 (3.36%) GDPR
4 8 (2.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (1.96%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 7 (1.96%) WCAG
6 4 (1.12%) NCSC
6 4 (1.12%) NIST
7 3 (0.84%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.56%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.28%) SLA
9 1 (0.28%) SOC 2
System Software
1 120 (33.61%) Docker
2 17 (4.76%) Active Directory
2 17 (4.76%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (1.40%) Hyper-V
3 5 (1.40%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.84%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.56%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.56%) Xen
6 1 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 130 (36.41%) Kubernetes
2 120 (33.61%) Terraform
3 43 (12.04%) Ansible
4 17 (4.76%) Grafana
5 16 (4.48%) Prometheus
6 11 (3.08%) Puppet
7 7 (1.96%) SCCM
8 6 (1.68%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (1.40%) Podman
9 5 (1.40%) Progress Chef
10 4 (1.12%) Argo
10 4 (1.12%) Istio
10 4 (1.12%) Microsoft Intune
11 3 (0.84%) CloudHub
11 3 (0.84%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (0.84%) Packer
11 3 (0.84%) Proxmox
11 3 (0.84%) WSUS
12 2 (0.56%) Consul
12 2 (0.56%) vRealize
Vendors
1 84 (23.53%) Microsoft
2 30 (8.40%) Talend
3 29 (8.12%) Denodo
4 28 (7.84%) Oracle
4 28 (7.84%) Salesforce
5 19 (5.32%) Google
5 19 (5.32%) OpenAI
6 12 (3.36%) Databricks
6 12 (3.36%) Splunk
7 11 (3.08%) VMware
8 10 (2.80%) Red Hat
9 9 (2.52%) SAP
9 9 (2.52%) webMethods
10 8 (2.24%) Automation Anywhere
10 8 (2.24%) IBM
10 8 (2.24%) UiPath
11 6 (1.68%) Dynatrace
11 6 (1.68%) Foundry
12 5 (1.40%) Apple
12 5 (1.40%) Software AG
125 Deployment Automation jobs in England