Deployment Automation Contracts in England

Deployment Automation
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Deployment Automation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Deployment Automation over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 280 310 299
Rank change year-on-year +30 -11 +39
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 215 242 418
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.88% 0.65% 0.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.97% 0.75% 0.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 168 174 273
10th Percentile £326 £413 £420
25th Percentile £411 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -8.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £653 £700 £700
90th Percentile £800 £775 £788
UK median daily rate £537 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -6.61% -4.17% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 3
10th Percentile - £22.72 £66.10
25th Percentile - - £67.75
Median hourly rate - £23.80 £71.00
Median % change year-on-year - -66.48% -11.25%
75th Percentile - £67.02 £77.25
90th Percentile - £69.56 £80.70
UK median hourly rate - £23.80 £68.50
% change year-on-year - -65.26% -2.14%

All Process and 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 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Deployment Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Deployment Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Deployment Automation in England

Deployment Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Deployment Automation in England.

Daily rate trend for Deployment Automation in England

Deployment Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Deployment Automation in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Deployment Automation in England

Deployment Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Deployment Automation in England.

Hourly rate trend 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 May 2025. 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 +42 119 £575 -14.81% 127
North of England +25 27 £397 -22.25% 32
South West +39 23 £575 -17.86% 15
South East +15 22 £401 -30.26% 40
Midlands +25 12 £500 +39.18% 15
North West +15 11 £391 -23.33% 22
East of England +37 9 £350 -36.36% 9
Yorkshire +12 9 £575 +21.05% 8
West Midlands +18 8 £500 -25.93% 10
North East +3 6 £550 +5.77% 3
East Midlands +9 4 £475 +33.43% 4
Deployment Automation
UK

Deployment Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 24 (11.16%) Confluence
2 9 (4.19%) JBoss
3 8 (3.72%) Apache
3 8 (3.72%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.86%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.93%) ArcGIS
5 2 (0.93%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.47%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.47%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 80 (37.21%) AWS
2 54 (25.12%) Azure
3 27 (12.56%) Amazon EC2
3 27 (12.56%) AWS CloudFormation
4 25 (11.63%) Azure DevOps
5 24 (11.16%) Amazon S3
6 22 (10.23%) OpenShift
7 20 (9.30%) Serverless
8 18 (8.37%) GCP
9 16 (7.44%) GitHub
10 13 (6.05%) AWS Lambda
11 11 (5.12%) Amazon EKS
11 11 (5.12%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 8 (3.72%) Amazon ECS
12 8 (3.72%) Amazon SQS
12 8 (3.72%) GitHub Actions
12 8 (3.72%) Route 53
13 6 (2.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 6 (2.79%) Power Platform
14 5 (2.33%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 16 (7.44%) DNS
2 10 (4.65%) Firewall
3 9 (4.19%) HTTP
3 9 (4.19%) Internet
3 9 (4.19%) TCP/IP
4 8 (3.72%) SAN
5 7 (3.26%) VPN
6 5 (2.33%) NAS
7 3 (1.40%) BGP
7 3 (1.40%) Kerberos
7 3 (1.40%) Multicast
7 3 (1.40%) OSPF
7 3 (1.40%) VLAN
8 2 (0.93%) EIGRP
8 2 (0.93%) IGMP
8 2 (0.93%) MPLS
8 2 (0.93%) SSL
8 2 (0.93%) VPLS
8 2 (0.93%) WAN
9 1 (0.47%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (9.77%) Amazon RDS
1 21 (9.77%) Relational Database
2 18 (8.37%) SQL Server
3 17 (7.91%) MongoDB
3 17 (7.91%) NoSQL
4 10 (4.65%) RDBMS
5 9 (4.19%) Elasticsearch
6 8 (3.72%) MySQL
6 8 (3.72%) PostgreSQL
7 7 (3.26%) Amazon Aurora
8 6 (2.79%) Amazon Athena
8 6 (2.79%) Amazon Redshift
8 6 (2.79%) Azure SQL Database
9 5 (2.33%) Big Data
10 4 (1.86%) Data Lake
10 4 (1.86%) DB2
10 4 (1.86%) Hadoop
10 4 (1.86%) Tableau
11 3 (1.40%) Apache Iceberg
11 3 (1.40%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 76 (35.35%) Jenkins
2 50 (23.26%) Git
3 38 (17.67%) JIRA
4 22 (10.23%) Bitbucket
5 17 (7.91%) TeamCity
6 15 (6.98%) GitLab
7 13 (6.05%) CA Release Automation
8 12 (5.58%) SonarQube
9 10 (4.65%) Sonatype Nexus
10 9 (4.19%) Bitbucket Server
11 8 (3.72%) Selenium
12 7 (3.26%) Subversion
13 6 (2.79%) Artifactory
13 6 (2.79%) Maven
14 5 (2.33%) Cypress.io
14 5 (2.33%) IntelliJ
14 5 (2.33%) REST Assured
15 4 (1.86%) HP UFT
15 4 (1.86%) JUnit
15 4 (1.86%) NetBeans
General
1 58 (26.98%) Social Skills
2 34 (15.81%) Finance
3 23 (10.70%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (9.30%) Public Sector
5 11 (5.12%) Documentation Skills
6 8 (3.72%) Banking
7 7 (3.26%) Legal
7 7 (3.26%) Marketing
8 6 (2.79%) Telecoms
9 5 (2.33%) Electronics
9 5 (2.33%) Front Office
9 5 (2.33%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.93%) Military
10 2 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.93%) Retail
11 1 (0.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 48 (22.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 38 (17.67%) Developer
3 32 (14.88%) Senior
4 19 (8.84%) AWS Engineer
5 13 (6.05%) Architect
5 13 (6.05%) Automation Engineer
5 13 (6.05%) Lead
6 12 (5.58%) AWS DevOps
7 11 (5.12%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 9 (4.19%) Full-Stack Developer
8 9 (4.19%) Java Developer
8 9 (4.19%) Senior DevOps
8 9 (4.19%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 8 (3.72%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 8 (3.72%) Cloud Engineer
9 8 (3.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 8 (3.72%) Kubernetes Engineer
9 8 (3.72%) Platform Engineer
10 7 (3.26%) Deployment Engineer
10 7 (3.26%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (10.23%) REST
2 20 (9.30%) Elastic Stack
3 19 (8.84%) .NET
4 18 (8.37%) Kafka
4 18 (8.37%) React
4 18 (8.37%) RESTful
5 16 (7.44%) Spring Boot
6 15 (6.98%) Web Services
7 14 (6.51%) SOAP
8 13 (6.05%) AngularJS
9 12 (5.58%) HTML
9 12 (5.58%) Spring
10 11 (5.12%) .NET Core
10 11 (5.12%) CSS
11 10 (4.65%) J2EE
11 10 (4.65%) Node.js
12 7 (3.26%) HTML5
13 6 (2.79%) ARM Templates
13 6 (2.79%) Middleware
13 6 (2.79%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 11 (5.12%) Cloud Native
2 7 (3.26%) Management Information System
2 7 (3.26%) Product Ownership
3 6 (2.79%) EMC VMAX
4 5 (2.33%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (2.33%) Enterprise Storage
4 5 (2.33%) Replication
4 5 (2.33%) Tandem
5 4 (1.86%) Data Centre
5 4 (1.86%) Data Structures
5 4 (1.86%) Mainframe
6 3 (1.40%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (1.40%) Clustering
6 3 (1.40%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (1.40%) Virtual Team
7 2 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (0.93%) PKI
7 2 (0.93%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 61 (28.37%) Linux
2 47 (21.86%) Windows
3 16 (7.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 15 (6.98%) Unix
4 15 (6.98%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.86%) VMS
5 4 (1.86%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.93%) Windows 7
6 2 (0.93%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.47%) CentOS
7 1 (0.47%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.47%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (0.47%) Solaris
7 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (58.60%) CI/CD
2 111 (51.63%) DevOps
3 73 (33.95%) Agile
4 62 (28.84%) Problem-Solving
5 52 (24.19%) Continuous Integration
5 52 (24.19%) Test Automation
6 50 (23.26%) Microservices
7 46 (21.40%) Infrastructure as Code
8 41 (19.07%) Containerisation
9 39 (18.14%) Configuration Management
10 27 (12.56%) Continuous Delivery
10 27 (12.56%) Infrastructure Automation
10 27 (12.56%) Migration
11 25 (11.63%) Scrum
11 25 (11.63%) Software Engineering
12 22 (10.23%) Analytics
13 21 (9.77%) Validation
14 20 (9.30%) Observability
15 18 (8.37%) Code Quality
16 17 (7.91%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 79 (36.74%) Python
2 37 (17.21%) PowerShell
3 36 (16.74%) Bash
3 36 (16.74%) Java
4 34 (15.81%) SQL
5 31 (14.42%) JavaScript
6 21 (9.77%) C#
7 15 (6.98%) TypeScript
8 14 (6.51%) Perl
9 8 (3.72%) Go
9 8 (3.72%) Shell Script
10 6 (2.79%) Scala
11 3 (1.40%) Groovy
11 3 (1.40%) PHP
11 3 (1.40%) Ruby
12 2 (0.93%) Bicep
12 2 (0.93%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.93%) VB
12 2 (0.93%) VB6
13 1 (0.47%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 51 (23.72%) Security Cleared
2 45 (20.93%) SC Cleared
3 14 (6.51%) Degree
4 12 (5.58%) CCNP
4 12 (5.58%) Cisco Certification
4 12 (5.58%) Oracle Certification
5 11 (5.12%) Microsoft Certification
5 11 (5.12%) OCA
5 11 (5.12%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 10 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (4.65%) RHCA
6 10 (4.65%) RHCE
7 6 (2.79%) AWS Certification
8 5 (2.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (1.86%) DV Cleared
10 3 (1.40%) Azure Certification
10 3 (1.40%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.93%) CCIE
12 1 (0.47%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (7.91%) QA
2 4 (1.86%) GDPR
3 3 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.40%) NCSC
4 2 (0.93%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.93%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.93%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (0.47%) JSP 440
5 1 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 57 (26.51%) Docker
2 20 (9.30%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (7.91%) Active Directory
4 5 (2.33%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (1.86%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 2 (0.93%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.93%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.47%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (0.47%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.47%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.47%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 77 (35.81%) Kubernetes
2 66 (30.70%) Terraform
3 58 (26.98%) Ansible
4 44 (20.47%) Progress Chef
5 39 (18.14%) Puppet
6 18 (8.37%) Grafana
6 18 (8.37%) Prometheus
7 13 (6.05%) SCCM
8 11 (5.12%) vCenter Server
9 9 (4.19%) Kibana
10 3 (1.40%) PowerCLI
10 3 (1.40%) WSUS
11 2 (0.93%) Control-M
11 2 (0.93%) Istio
11 2 (0.93%) Kiali
11 2 (0.93%) Proxmox
11 2 (0.93%) ThinApp
11 2 (0.93%) vRealize
12 1 (0.47%) Nagios
12 1 (0.47%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 36 (16.74%) Microsoft
2 25 (11.63%) Oracle
3 23 (10.70%) VMware
4 22 (10.23%) Red Hat
5 18 (8.37%) Splunk
6 16 (7.44%) Cisco
7 15 (6.98%) AppDynamics
8 9 (4.19%) Atlassian
8 9 (4.19%) SAP
9 7 (3.26%) Databricks
9 7 (3.26%) EMC
9 7 (3.26%) ServiceNow
10 6 (2.79%) Dataiku
11 5 (2.33%) Google
11 5 (2.33%) NetApp
11 5 (2.33%) Sybase
12 4 (1.86%) CA Agile Central
12 4 (1.86%) Cloudera
12 4 (1.86%) Veritas
13 3 (1.40%) SolarWinds