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 10 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 255 245 309
Rank change year-on-year -10 +64 +25
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 449 288 242
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.99% 1.03% 0.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.16% 1.14% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 307 228 167
10th Percentile £401 £336 £400
25th Percentile £436 £413 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £613
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% -10.20% -
75th Percentile £600 £625 £700
90th Percentile £674 £736 £775
UK median daily rate £515 £542 £612
% change year-on-year -4.89% -11.56% +2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 3
10th Percentile £56.75 - -
25th Percentile £66.50 - -
Median hourly rate £76.00 - £23.80
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £76.00 - £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 38,771 25,264 28,522
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.11% 90.78% 85.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,101 16,147 18,629
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,535 1,418 1,654
10th Percentile £14.56 £14.20 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.50 £17.87 £18.39
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +2.19%
75th Percentile £68.75 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.05 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £40.94
% change year-on-year +68.99% -38.57% -3.67%

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 10 August 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 10 August 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 10 August 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 -13 215 £550 -4.56% 151
North of England -27 70 £500 +25.00% 45
Midlands -28 52 £500 -4.17% 14
South East -49 52 £555 +16.84% 34
West Midlands -31 45 £500 -4.76% 8
South West -26 39 £450 -21.74% 24
North West -29 29 £525 +33.59% 26
Yorkshire -30 29 £500 -14.16% 12
North East -32 12 £450 +20.00% 7
East of England -36 7 £850 +54.55% 12
East Midlands -8 6 £470 +17.35% 6
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 28 (6.24%) SAS
2 19 (4.23%) Apache Spark
2 19 (4.23%) Confluence
3 11 (2.45%) Apache
4 10 (2.23%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (1.11%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.67%) CMS
6 3 (0.67%) Oracle Workflow
6 3 (0.67%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.45%) Camunda
7 2 (0.45%) IBM HTTP Server
7 2 (0.45%) Oracle HTTP Server
7 2 (0.45%) WebSphere Application Server
7 2 (0.45%) WebSphere Portal
8 1 (0.22%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.22%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.22%) IIS
8 1 (0.22%) nginx
8 1 (0.22%) OpenROAD
8 1 (0.22%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 3 (0.67%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.45%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.22%) Misys Equation
1 1 (0.22%) Misys Midas
1 1 (0.22%) SAP CRM
1 1 (0.22%) SAP MDG
1 1 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 243 (54.12%) Azure
2 162 (36.08%) AWS
3 126 (28.06%) Azure DevOps
4 110 (24.50%) GitHub
5 86 (19.15%) GitHub Actions
6 49 (10.91%) Serverless
7 47 (10.47%) GCP
8 39 (8.69%) Amazon S3
8 39 (8.69%) AWS Lambda
9 34 (7.57%) Azure Monitor
10 33 (7.35%) Amazon EKS
11 30 (6.68%) Power Platform
12 27 (6.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 27 (6.01%) Amazon ECS
12 27 (6.01%) Azure AKS
13 24 (5.35%) Amazon EC2
13 24 (5.35%) Entra ID
14 23 (5.12%) AWS CloudFormation
15 20 (4.45%) Azure Data Factory
15 20 (4.45%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 34 (7.57%) Firewall
2 26 (5.79%) DNS
3 20 (4.45%) Network Security
4 17 (3.79%) VPN
5 15 (3.34%) TCP/IP
6 7 (1.56%) SSL
7 6 (1.34%) DHCP
7 6 (1.34%) DMZ
8 5 (1.11%) SSH
9 4 (0.89%) Internet
10 3 (0.67%) Kerberos
10 3 (0.67%) NGFW
10 3 (0.67%) Reverse Proxy
11 2 (0.45%) BGP
11 2 (0.45%) Cisco Nexus
11 2 (0.45%) HTTP
11 2 (0.45%) OSPF
12 1 (0.22%) Cisco IOS
12 1 (0.22%) IPsec
12 1 (0.22%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (6.01%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (5.35%) SQL Server
3 23 (5.12%) Power BI
4 20 (4.45%) Data Warehouse
5 18 (4.01%) Pentaho
5 18 (4.01%) Relational Database
6 15 (3.34%) Data Lake
6 15 (3.34%) NoSQL
7 12 (2.67%) MongoDB
8 11 (2.45%) Geospatial Data
8 11 (2.45%) Metadata
9 10 (2.23%) Amazon RDS
9 10 (2.23%) Redis
10 8 (1.78%) Amazon Athena
10 8 (1.78%) Azure SQL Database
10 8 (1.78%) Big Data
10 8 (1.78%) DynamoDB
10 8 (1.78%) MySQL
11 6 (1.34%) SAS Data Integration Studio
12 5 (1.11%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 116 (25.84%) Git
2 106 (23.61%) Jenkins
3 72 (16.04%) GitLab
4 40 (8.91%) JIRA
5 16 (3.56%) MSI
6 11 (2.45%) fastlane
7 9 (2.00%) Gradle
8 8 (1.78%) Selenium
8 8 (1.78%) Visual Studio
9 7 (1.56%) JUnit
9 7 (1.56%) Sonatype Nexus
10 6 (1.34%) Maven
10 6 (1.34%) Xcode
11 5 (1.11%) Android Studio
11 5 (1.11%) Crashlytics
11 5 (1.11%) MSBuild
11 5 (1.11%) SonarQube
11 5 (1.11%) Visual Studio Code
12 4 (0.89%) Cypress.io
12 4 (0.89%) git-flow
General
1 122 (27.17%) Social Skills
2 89 (19.82%) Public Sector
3 61 (13.59%) Finance
4 45 (10.02%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (6.68%) Banking
6 17 (3.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 13 (2.90%) Documentation Skills
8 9 (2.00%) Retail
9 8 (1.78%) Legal
10 6 (1.34%) Front Office
11 5 (1.11%) Investment Banking
12 4 (0.89%) Manufacturing
12 4 (0.89%) Marketing
12 4 (0.89%) Military
13 3 (0.67%) Financial Institution
14 2 (0.45%) Back Office
14 2 (0.45%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (0.45%) Law
14 2 (0.45%) Pharmaceutical
14 2 (0.45%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 91 (20.27%) Senior
2 87 (19.38%) Developer
3 64 (14.25%) DevOps Engineer
4 50 (11.14%) Data Engineer
5 41 (9.13%) Lead
6 36 (8.02%) Cloud Engineer
7 32 (7.13%) Architect
8 29 (6.46%) Senior Developer
9 28 (6.24%) Platform Engineer
10 26 (5.79%) Software Engineer
11 25 (5.57%) Azure Engineer
12 23 (5.12%) AWS Engineer
13 22 (4.90%) Full-Stack Developer
14 17 (3.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 17 (3.79%) Senior DevOps
15 14 (3.12%) AWS DevOps
15 14 (3.12%) Python Engineer
15 14 (3.12%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 13 (2.90%) .NET Developer
16 13 (2.90%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (16.04%) REST
2 70 (15.59%) RESTful
3 54 (12.03%) .NET
4 40 (8.91%) React
5 38 (8.46%) Kafka
6 29 (6.46%) .NET Framework
7 26 (5.79%) Spring
7 26 (5.79%) Spring Boot
8 24 (5.35%) .NET Core
9 23 (5.12%) HTML
10 21 (4.68%) Node.js
11 20 (4.45%) AngularJS
11 20 (4.45%) CSS
12 19 (4.23%) OAuth
13 18 (4.01%) HTML5
13 18 (4.01%) PySpark
14 17 (3.79%) YAML
15 15 (3.34%) CSS3
16 13 (2.90%) ARM Templates
16 13 (2.90%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 126 (28.06%) Cloud Native
2 34 (7.57%) Distributed Systems
3 31 (6.90%) Product Ownership
4 30 (6.68%) Onboarding
5 21 (4.68%) Enterprise Software
6 19 (4.23%) Legacy Systems
7 12 (2.67%) Mobile App
8 10 (2.23%) Hybrid Cloud
9 9 (2.00%) NHS
10 8 (1.78%) Enterprise Cloud
10 8 (1.78%) Security Posture
10 8 (1.78%) Self-Motivation
11 6 (1.34%) Data Protection Act
11 6 (1.34%) PKI
11 6 (1.34%) Replication
12 5 (1.11%) AI Agents
12 5 (1.11%) Data Centre
12 5 (1.11%) Management Information System
13 4 (0.89%) ARM Cortex
13 4 (0.89%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 58 (12.92%) Linux
2 38 (8.46%) Windows
3 19 (4.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 13 (2.90%) Windows Server
5 10 (2.23%) Unix
6 6 (1.34%) Apple iOS
6 6 (1.34%) Ubuntu
7 5 (1.11%) Android
8 3 (0.67%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.45%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (0.45%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 2 (0.45%) VMS
9 2 (0.45%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.22%) Amazon Linux
10 1 (0.22%) CentOS
10 1 (0.22%) Solaris
10 1 (0.22%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 369 (82.18%) CI/CD
2 286 (63.70%) DevOps
3 207 (46.10%) Infrastructure as Code
4 196 (43.65%) Agile
5 176 (39.20%) Test Automation
6 119 (26.50%) Containerisation
7 110 (24.50%) Analytics
8 109 (24.28%) Continuous Improvement
9 93 (20.71%) Problem-Solving
10 88 (19.60%) Microservices
11 86 (19.15%) Observability
12 81 (18.04%) Scrum
13 74 (16.48%) Data Pipeline
13 74 (16.48%) Platform Engineering
14 71 (15.81%) AI
15 68 (15.14%) Software Engineering
16 64 (14.25%) DevSecOps
17 55 (12.25%) Data Modelling
17 55 (12.25%) Validation
18 53 (11.80%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 166 (36.97%) Python
2 96 (21.38%) SQL
3 72 (16.04%) PowerShell
4 65 (14.48%) Java
5 51 (11.36%) C#
6 50 (11.14%) JavaScript
7 48 (10.69%) Bicep
8 42 (9.35%) Bash
9 34 (7.57%) TypeScript
10 8 (1.78%) Kotlin
11 6 (1.34%) Apex Code
11 6 (1.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 6 (1.34%) Scala
11 6 (1.34%) Swift
12 5 (1.11%) Go
12 5 (1.11%) Shell Script
13 4 (0.89%) Korn
13 4 (0.89%) Perl
13 4 (0.89%) PHP
14 3 (0.67%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 174 (38.75%) Security Cleared
2 140 (31.18%) SC Cleared
3 30 (6.68%) Degree
4 27 (6.01%) DV Cleared
5 21 (4.68%) AWS Certification
6 20 (4.45%) Azure Certification
7 19 (4.23%) Computer Science Degree
8 15 (3.34%) Microsoft Certification
9 10 (2.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 7 (1.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 6 (1.34%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (0.89%) CCNP
12 4 (0.89%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (0.89%) CISSP
12 4 (0.89%) RHCE
13 3 (0.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 3 (0.67%) Master's Degree
13 3 (0.67%) MCSA
13 3 (0.67%) MCSE
13 3 (0.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (10.69%) QA
2 36 (8.02%) Accessibility
3 33 (7.35%) Data Quality
4 30 (6.68%) WCAG
5 15 (3.34%) NCSC
6 11 (2.45%) GDPR
7 4 (0.89%) HL7
8 3 (0.67%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (0.67%) ISO 20022
8 3 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.45%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.22%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.22%) EU AI Act
10 1 (0.22%) ISO 15022
10 1 (0.22%) PMO
10 1 (0.22%) SLA
10 1 (0.22%) SOC 2
System Software
1 143 (31.85%) Docker
2 18 (4.01%) Active Directory
3 11 (2.45%) Virtual Desktop
3 11 (2.45%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (1.11%) Microsoft App-V
4 5 (1.11%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.45%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 2 (0.45%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.22%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.22%) Firmware
6 1 (0.22%) Varnish
6 1 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 181 (40.31%) Terraform
2 167 (37.19%) Kubernetes
3 62 (13.81%) Ansible
4 21 (4.68%) Grafana
5 18 (4.01%) Prometheus
6 17 (3.79%) SCCM
7 13 (2.90%) Microsoft Intune
8 11 (2.45%) Progress Chef
8 11 (2.45%) Puppet
9 6 (1.34%) Argo
9 6 (1.34%) Istio
10 5 (1.11%) WSUS
11 4 (0.89%) Control-M
11 4 (0.89%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.45%) CA Wily
12 2 (0.45%) CASB
12 2 (0.45%) Tivoli
13 1 (0.22%) Kubeflow
13 1 (0.22%) Kustomize
13 1 (0.22%) Podman
Vendors
1 108 (24.05%) Microsoft
2 28 (6.24%) Oracle
3 26 (5.79%) Databricks
4 25 (5.57%) Google
5 22 (4.90%) Dynatrace
6 18 (4.01%) Talend
7 17 (3.79%) Salesforce
8 16 (3.56%) Denodo
9 15 (3.34%) Red Hat
10 13 (2.90%) Splunk
11 7 (1.56%) ServiceNow
12 6 (1.34%) Apple
12 6 (1.34%) Citrix
12 6 (1.34%) VMware
13 5 (1.11%) Bloomberg
13 5 (1.11%) CrowdStrike
13 5 (1.11%) IBM
13 5 (1.11%) ION Trading
13 5 (1.11%) Reuters
13 5 (1.11%) SAP