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 8 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
8 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 277 252 322
Rank change year-on-year -25 +70 -6
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 400 280 253
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.90% 1.05% 0.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.05% 1.15% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 275 213 175
10th Percentile £400 £328 £400
25th Percentile £450 £413 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £600 £630 £700
90th Percentile £675 £738 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 5
10th Percentile £60.02 - -
25th Percentile £74.68 - -
Median hourly rate £76.00 - £23.80
75th Percentile - - £67.02
90th Percentile - - £69.56
UK median hourly rate £76.00 - £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 37,991 24,251 31,775
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.46% 90.90% 85.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,934 15,590 20,626
10th Percentile £325 £300 £305
25th Percentile £419 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £524 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.65% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £645
90th Percentile £729 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £517 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +2.28% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,364 1,224 2,273
10th Percentile £15.32 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £20.88 £17.98 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -4.70%
75th Percentile £68.75 £54.81 £61.60
90th Percentile £82.25 £72.20 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% -6.25%

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 8 July 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 8 July 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 8 July 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 -15 204 £550 - 54
North of England -47 68 £471 +19.72% 15
South East -54 38 £555 +16.84% 26
Midlands -37 37 £525 +3.75% 12
South West -30 31 £475 -17.39% 11
Yorkshire -28 30 £488 -16.31% 2
North West -34 30 £500 +30.98% 9
West Midlands -38 29 £525 -4.55% 8
North East -32 8 £450 +20.00% 4
East Midlands -12 7 £485 +21.10% 4
East of England -45 7 £700 +27.27% 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 27 (6.75%) SAS
2 17 (4.25%) Apache Spark
3 11 (2.75%) Confluence
4 9 (2.25%) Apache
5 7 (1.75%) Apache Airflow
6 6 (1.50%) Camunda
7 5 (1.25%) Appian
7 5 (1.25%) SharePoint
8 4 (1.00%) CMS
9 3 (0.75%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.50%) IBM HTTP Server
10 2 (0.50%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 2 (0.50%) Sitecore CMS
10 2 (0.50%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.50%) WebSphere Application Server
10 2 (0.50%) WebSphere Portal
11 1 (0.25%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.25%) OpenROAD
11 1 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 2 (0.50%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.25%) Cloudability
1 1 (0.25%) Misys Equation
1 1 (0.25%) Misys Midas
1 1 (0.25%) SAP CRM
1 1 (0.25%) SAP MDG
1 1 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 211 (52.75%) Azure
2 141 (35.25%) AWS
3 98 (24.50%) Azure DevOps
4 93 (23.25%) GitHub
5 69 (17.25%) GitHub Actions
6 51 (12.75%) GCP
7 41 (10.25%) Serverless
8 30 (7.50%) Amazon S3
9 28 (7.00%) AWS Lambda
9 28 (7.00%) Power Platform
10 22 (5.50%) Azure Monitor
11 20 (5.00%) Azure Data Factory
12 18 (4.50%) AWS CloudFormation
13 17 (4.25%) Azure AKS
13 17 (4.25%) Azure Key Vault
14 16 (4.00%) Amazon EKS
15 15 (3.75%) Amazon EC2
15 15 (3.75%) Amazon SQS
16 14 (3.50%) Amazon ECS
16 14 (3.50%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (6.00%) Firewall
2 17 (4.25%) DNS
3 16 (4.00%) Network Security
4 15 (3.75%) VPN
5 11 (2.75%) TCP/IP
6 7 (1.75%) DMZ
7 6 (1.50%) SSL
8 4 (1.00%) Software-Defined Networking
9 2 (0.50%) HTTP
9 2 (0.50%) Kerberos
9 2 (0.50%) NGFW
9 2 (0.50%) Reverse Proxy
10 1 (0.25%) BGP
10 1 (0.25%) Cisco IOS
10 1 (0.25%) Cisco Nexus
10 1 (0.25%) DHCP
10 1 (0.25%) OpenLDAP
10 1 (0.25%) OSPF
10 1 (0.25%) SNMP
10 1 (0.25%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (6.25%) SQL Server
2 23 (5.75%) PostgreSQL
3 20 (5.00%) Power BI
4 17 (4.25%) Relational Database
5 16 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
5 16 (4.00%) Pentaho
6 11 (2.75%) Amazon RDS
6 11 (2.75%) Data Lake
6 11 (2.75%) NoSQL
7 10 (2.50%) Metadata
7 10 (2.50%) MongoDB
8 8 (2.00%) Amazon Athena
8 8 (2.00%) Redis
9 7 (1.75%) Big Data
9 7 (1.75%) DynamoDB
9 7 (1.75%) Geospatial Data
10 6 (1.50%) MySQL
10 6 (1.50%) SAS Data Integration Studio
11 5 (1.25%) Amazon Redshift
11 5 (1.25%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 93 (23.25%) Git
2 84 (21.00%) Jenkins
3 57 (14.25%) GitLab
4 30 (7.50%) JIRA
5 12 (3.00%) MSI
6 11 (2.75%) fastlane
7 8 (2.00%) Gradle
7 8 (2.00%) JUnit
8 6 (1.50%) Mockito
8 6 (1.50%) Visual Studio
8 6 (1.50%) Xcode
9 5 (1.25%) Android Studio
9 5 (1.25%) Crashlytics
9 5 (1.25%) MLflow
9 5 (1.25%) MSBuild
9 5 (1.25%) Sonatype Nexus
10 4 (1.00%) Cypress.io
10 4 (1.00%) git-flow
10 4 (1.00%) Selenium
10 4 (1.00%) SonarQube
General
1 114 (28.50%) Social Skills
2 76 (19.00%) Public Sector
3 57 (14.25%) Finance
4 32 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (5.75%) Banking
6 16 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 13 (3.25%) Documentation Skills
8 12 (3.00%) Legal
9 8 (2.00%) Retail
10 7 (1.75%) Front Office
11 6 (1.50%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.75%) Financial Institution
12 3 (0.75%) Law
13 2 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.50%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
14 1 (0.25%) Back Office
14 1 (0.25%) Military
14 1 (0.25%) Pharmaceutical
14 1 (0.25%) Police
Job Titles
1 78 (19.50%) Senior
2 69 (17.25%) Developer
3 64 (16.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 46 (11.50%) Data Engineer
5 34 (8.50%) Architect
6 30 (7.50%) Lead
7 29 (7.25%) Cloud Engineer
8 28 (7.00%) Azure Engineer
9 24 (6.00%) Senior Developer
10 22 (5.50%) Software Engineer
11 21 (5.25%) Full-Stack Developer
11 21 (5.25%) Platform Engineer
12 19 (4.75%) AWS Engineer
13 16 (4.00%) Senior DevOps
14 14 (3.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 14 (3.50%) Salesforce Engineer
15 13 (3.25%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 12 (3.00%) Automation Engineer
16 12 (3.00%) Python Engineer
16 12 (3.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (15.25%) RESTful
2 57 (14.25%) REST
3 42 (10.50%) .NET
4 37 (9.25%) React
5 29 (7.25%) Kafka
6 23 (5.75%) Node.js
7 19 (4.75%) OAuth
8 18 (4.50%) AngularJS
8 18 (4.50%) HTML
8 18 (4.50%) Spring
8 18 (4.50%) Spring Boot
8 18 (4.50%) YAML
9 17 (4.25%) .NET Framework
9 17 (4.25%) CSS
9 17 (4.25%) PySpark
10 16 (4.00%) .NET Core
11 15 (3.75%) FastAPI
12 12 (3.00%) Django
12 12 (3.00%) HTML5
13 11 (2.75%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 104 (26.00%) Cloud Native
2 30 (7.50%) Distributed Systems
3 25 (6.25%) Product Ownership
4 20 (5.00%) Onboarding
5 18 (4.50%) Legacy Systems
6 15 (3.75%) Enterprise Software
7 14 (3.50%) Mobile App
8 9 (2.25%) Data Centre
8 9 (2.25%) Hybrid Cloud
9 8 (2.00%) NHS
10 7 (1.75%) Enterprise Cloud
10 7 (1.75%) Security Posture
11 6 (1.50%) Replication
11 6 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
12 5 (1.25%) AI Agents
12 5 (1.25%) Low-Code
13 4 (1.00%) Client/Server
13 4 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
13 4 (1.00%) Distributed Computing
13 4 (1.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 46 (11.50%) Linux
2 30 (7.50%) Windows
3 13 (3.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (1.75%) Windows Server
5 6 (1.50%) Apple iOS
5 6 (1.50%) Unix
6 5 (1.25%) Android
6 5 (1.25%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.75%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.50%) Oracle Linux
8 2 (0.50%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
8 2 (0.50%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.50%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.50%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.25%) Solaris
9 1 (0.25%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 319 (79.75%) CI/CD
2 245 (61.25%) DevOps
3 167 (41.75%) Infrastructure as Code
4 162 (40.50%) Agile
5 148 (37.00%) Test Automation
6 95 (23.75%) Analytics
7 91 (22.75%) Containerisation
8 86 (21.50%) Problem-Solving
9 72 (18.00%) Continuous Improvement
10 71 (17.75%) Microservices
10 71 (17.75%) Scrum
11 69 (17.25%) Data Pipeline
12 68 (17.00%) AI
13 64 (16.00%) Observability
14 58 (14.50%) Data Modelling
15 57 (14.25%) Platform Engineering
16 54 (13.50%) Software Engineering
17 53 (13.25%) Validation
18 51 (12.75%) ETL
19 46 (11.50%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 148 (37.00%) Python
2 82 (20.50%) SQL
3 63 (15.75%) PowerShell
4 54 (13.50%) Java
5 44 (11.00%) C#
6 43 (10.75%) Bicep
7 37 (9.25%) Bash
8 33 (8.25%) JavaScript
9 30 (7.50%) TypeScript
10 10 (2.50%) Apex Code
11 9 (2.25%) Kotlin
12 6 (1.50%) Go
12 6 (1.50%) Swift
13 5 (1.25%) Scala
14 4 (1.00%) Perl
14 4 (1.00%) Shell Script
15 3 (0.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 3 (0.75%) PHP
15 3 (0.75%) SAS Macro
16 2 (0.50%) Rust
Qualifications
1 135 (33.75%) Security Cleared
2 113 (28.25%) SC Cleared
3 24 (6.00%) Degree
4 18 (4.50%) Azure Certification
4 18 (4.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (3.75%) DV Cleared
6 14 (3.50%) Microsoft Certification
7 12 (3.00%) AWS Certification
8 9 (2.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 8 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (1.25%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 4 (1.00%) RHCE
12 3 (0.75%) CCNP
12 3 (0.75%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (0.75%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 3 (0.75%) Master's Degree
12 3 (0.75%) MCSA
12 3 (0.75%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 2 (0.50%) AWS Certified Developer
13 2 (0.50%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (9.00%) Data Quality
1 36 (9.00%) QA
2 30 (7.50%) Accessibility
3 26 (6.50%) WCAG
4 11 (2.75%) GDPR
4 11 (2.75%) NCSC
5 4 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.75%) Actionable Recommendations
6 3 (0.75%) HL7
7 2 (0.50%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.25%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.25%) EU AI Act
8 1 (0.25%) PMO
8 1 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.25%) SLA
8 1 (0.25%) SOC 2
System Software
1 120 (30.00%) Docker
2 15 (3.75%) Virtual Machines
3 10 (2.50%) Active Directory
4 8 (2.00%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (1.25%) Hyper-V
5 5 (1.25%) Microsoft App-V
6 3 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (0.50%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 1 (0.25%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.25%) Firmware
8 1 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.25%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 152 (38.00%) Terraform
2 146 (36.50%) Kubernetes
3 51 (12.75%) Ansible
4 16 (4.00%) Prometheus
5 15 (3.75%) SCCM
6 13 (3.25%) Grafana
7 8 (2.00%) Microsoft Intune
8 7 (1.75%) Puppet
9 6 (1.50%) Argo
9 6 (1.50%) Istio
9 6 (1.50%) WSUS
10 4 (1.00%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.50%) CA Wily
11 2 (0.50%) Control-M
11 2 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.50%) Tivoli
12 1 (0.25%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.25%) Kustomize
12 1 (0.25%) Packer
12 1 (0.25%) Podman
Vendors
1 92 (23.00%) Microsoft
2 24 (6.00%) Google
3 22 (5.50%) Salesforce
4 21 (5.25%) Databricks
4 21 (5.25%) Oracle
5 19 (4.75%) Dynatrace
6 17 (4.25%) Talend
7 16 (4.00%) OpenAI
8 15 (3.75%) Denodo
9 11 (2.75%) Red Hat
10 8 (2.00%) Foundry
11 7 (1.75%) Splunk
11 7 (1.75%) UiPath
12 6 (1.50%) Apple
12 6 (1.50%) Bloomberg
12 6 (1.50%) Citrix
12 6 (1.50%) ION Trading
12 6 (1.50%) Reuters
13 5 (1.25%) Automation Anywhere
13 5 (1.25%) SAP
113 Deployment Automation jobs in England