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 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 279 325 367
Rank change year-on-year +46 +42 -71
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 287 155 178
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.93% 0.58% 0.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.05% 0.65% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 215 99 117
10th Percentile £386 £363 £470
25th Percentile £430 £454 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £612 £575
Median % change year-on-year -15.28% +6.43% -8.00%
75th Percentile £600 £750 £663
90th Percentile £688 £836 £738
UK median daily rate £515 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -14.17% +4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £21.29 £82.50 £22.00
Median hourly rate £22.58 £85.00 £44.51
Median % change year-on-year -73.44% +90.97% -
75th Percentile £23.86 £87.50 £68.08
90th Percentile - - £69.98
UK median hourly rate £22.58 £85.00 £44.51
% change year-on-year -73.44% +90.97% -

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 27,375 23,793 32,010
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.27% 89.07% 87.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,424 14,594 21,607
10th Percentile £304 £310 £305
25th Percentile £410 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £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 1,725 761 1,484
10th Percentile £15.13 £15.53 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.88 £20.30 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £34.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.03% -20.00% +21.43%
75th Percentile £57.50 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.86 £75.00 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.25 £40.50
% change year-on-year -22.00% -20.38% +16.41%

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 12 January 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
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 12 January 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 +19 123 £525 -25.00% 40
Midlands -1 57 £519 -15.28% 27
West Midlands +3 50 £520 -15.03% 8
North of England -36 34 £479 +12.71% 34
South East +2 24 £538 +26.47% 55
South West -6 20 £550 -19.71% 27
North West -22 20 £462 +15.50% 11
Yorkshire -32 11 £521 -15.24% 19
East Midlands -14 7 £393 +4.80% 18
East of England -25 5 £531 +195.14% 22
North East -10 3 £500 -11.50% 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 35 (12.20%) SAS
2 14 (4.88%) Apache
2 14 (4.88%) JBoss
3 8 (2.79%) WebLogic
4 7 (2.44%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (2.09%) nginx
5 6 (2.09%) SharePoint
6 5 (1.74%) Confluence
6 5 (1.74%) IIS
6 5 (1.74%) iPlanet
6 5 (1.74%) WebSphere
6 5 (1.74%) WebSphere Application Server
7 4 (1.39%) Appian
7 4 (1.39%) Oracle Workflow
8 3 (1.05%) Anypoint
8 3 (1.05%) Apache Spark
8 3 (1.05%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.35%) CMS
9 1 (0.35%) ColdFusion
9 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (1.74%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.70%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.35%) Endur
2 1 (0.35%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 94 (32.75%) Azure
2 85 (29.62%) AWS
3 63 (21.95%) GitHub
4 44 (15.33%) GitHub Actions
5 36 (12.54%) Azure DevOps
6 29 (10.10%) Serverless
7 20 (6.97%) AWS Lambda
8 19 (6.62%) Power Platform
9 18 (6.27%) OpenShift
10 17 (5.92%) AWS CloudFormation
11 14 (4.88%) Entra ID
12 13 (4.53%) GCP
13 12 (4.18%) Amazon S3
14 11 (3.83%) Amazon EKS
14 11 (3.83%) Power Automate
15 10 (3.48%) Azure Data Factory
15 10 (3.48%) Azure Key Vault
16 9 (3.14%) Amazon EC2
16 9 (3.14%) Azure Functions
17 8 (2.79%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 21 (7.32%) HTTPS
2 9 (3.14%) SSL
3 6 (2.09%) DNS
3 6 (2.09%) TCP/IP
4 5 (1.74%) DHCP
4 5 (1.74%) Firewall
4 5 (1.74%) Kerberos
5 3 (1.05%) Internet
5 3 (1.05%) VPN
6 2 (0.70%) HTTP
6 2 (0.70%) Network Security
7 1 (0.35%) BGP
7 1 (0.35%) Calico
7 1 (0.35%) DMZ
7 1 (0.35%) Ethernet VPN
7 1 (0.35%) SMS
7 1 (0.35%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.35%) VSAN
7 1 (0.35%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (10.45%) Pentaho
2 20 (6.97%) Relational Database
3 16 (5.57%) SQL Server
4 12 (4.18%) Oracle Database
4 12 (4.18%) Power BI
5 11 (3.83%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (3.83%) SAS Enterprise Guide
6 10 (3.48%) MongoDB
6 10 (3.48%) NoSQL
7 9 (3.14%) Amazon RDS
7 9 (3.14%) Data Lake
8 8 (2.79%) Azure SQL Database
8 8 (2.79%) Data Warehouse
8 8 (2.79%) Redis
8 8 (2.79%) Spark SQL
9 6 (2.09%) Aerospike
9 6 (2.09%) Apache Cassandra
10 5 (1.74%) DynamoDB
10 5 (1.74%) SAS Visual Analytics
11 4 (1.39%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 96 (33.45%) Git
2 83 (28.92%) Jenkins
3 46 (16.03%) JIRA
4 41 (14.29%) GitLab
5 13 (4.53%) JUnit
6 9 (3.14%) Selenium
7 8 (2.79%) Eclipse
7 8 (2.79%) IntelliJ
8 7 (2.44%) Sonatype Nexus
9 6 (2.09%) Bitbucket
9 6 (2.09%) Bitbucket Server
9 6 (2.09%) CA Release Automation
10 5 (1.74%) CircleCI
11 4 (1.39%) MLflow
11 4 (1.39%) SonarQube
12 3 (1.05%) Artifactory
12 3 (1.05%) Maven
12 3 (1.05%) MSI
13 2 (0.70%) Gradle
13 2 (0.70%) LoadRunner
General
1 105 (36.59%) Social Skills
2 58 (20.21%) Public Sector
3 41 (14.29%) Finance
4 27 (9.41%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (2.79%) Influencing Skills
6 7 (2.44%) Marketing
7 6 (2.09%) Banking
8 5 (1.74%) Digital Healthcare
9 4 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.05%) Military
11 2 (0.70%) Back Office
11 2 (0.70%) Electronics
11 2 (0.70%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.70%) Legal
11 2 (0.70%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.70%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.70%) Retail
11 2 (0.70%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.35%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 78 (27.18%) Developer
2 33 (11.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 25 (8.71%) Architect
4 20 (6.97%) Data Engineer
5 17 (5.92%) Senior
6 16 (5.57%) Lead
6 16 (5.57%) Platform Engineer
7 15 (5.23%) Automation Engineer
8 12 (4.18%) webMethods Developer
9 11 (3.83%) Python Developer
10 10 (3.48%) Azure Engineer
10 10 (3.48%) Technical Architect
11 9 (3.14%) Cloud Engineer
11 9 (3.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 8 (2.79%) AWS Engineer
12 8 (2.79%) Full-Stack Developer
12 8 (2.79%) Full-Stack Python Developer
13 7 (2.44%) Analyst
13 7 (2.44%) React Developer
13 7 (2.44%) SAS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (18.47%) REST
2 45 (15.68%) SOAP
3 43 (14.98%) JSON
4 41 (14.29%) XML
5 31 (10.80%) React
5 31 (10.80%) RESTful
6 26 (9.06%) OAuth
7 22 (7.67%) HTML
8 21 (7.32%) pytest
9 18 (6.27%) Spring
10 16 (5.57%) Kafka
10 16 (5.57%) Node.js
10 16 (5.57%) PySpark
11 14 (4.88%) .NET
11 14 (4.88%) AngularJS
11 14 (4.88%) Jest
12 12 (4.18%) FastAPI
12 12 (4.18%) JMS
13 11 (3.83%) Web Services
14 9 (3.14%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 34 (11.85%) Cloud Native
2 13 (4.53%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (2.79%) Data Protection Act
3 8 (2.79%) Distributed Computing
3 8 (2.79%) Private Cloud
4 7 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (2.09%) Product Ownership
6 5 (1.74%) Data Centre
6 5 (1.74%) Security Posture
7 4 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.39%) Low-Code
7 4 (1.39%) NHS
7 4 (1.39%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.05%) CMDB
8 3 (1.05%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.05%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.70%) Algorithms
9 2 (0.70%) Derivative
9 2 (0.70%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 45 (15.68%) Linux
2 21 (7.32%) Windows
3 15 (5.23%) Unix
4 10 (3.48%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.74%) VMS
6 2 (0.70%) Android
6 2 (0.70%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.35%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 203 (70.73%) CI/CD
2 194 (67.60%) DevOps
3 118 (41.11%) Agile
4 111 (38.68%) Test Automation
5 98 (34.15%) Problem-Solving
6 97 (33.80%) Infrastructure as Code
7 77 (26.83%) Containerisation
8 63 (21.95%) Analytics
9 55 (19.16%) Continuous Improvement
9 55 (19.16%) Data Pipeline
10 53 (18.47%) ETL
10 53 (18.47%) Microservices
10 53 (18.47%) Scrum
11 51 (17.77%) Data Modelling
12 47 (16.38%) Infrastructure Automation
13 44 (15.33%) Business Intelligence
14 37 (12.89%) Data Integration
15 35 (12.20%) Migration
16 33 (11.50%) Observability
17 30 (10.45%) Data Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 91 (31.71%) Python
1 91 (31.71%) SQL
2 50 (17.42%) Java
3 32 (11.15%) JavaScript
3 32 (11.15%) PowerShell
4 29 (10.10%) Bash
4 29 (10.10%) TypeScript
5 13 (4.53%) Bicep
6 11 (3.83%) C#
7 9 (3.14%) Groovy
7 9 (3.14%) Scala
8 8 (2.79%) PHP
9 6 (2.09%) Shell Script
10 5 (1.74%) T-SQL
11 4 (1.39%) Go
12 3 (1.05%) DataWeave
13 2 (0.70%) Apex Code
13 2 (0.70%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.70%) Perl
13 2 (0.70%) Rust
Qualifications
1 133 (46.34%) Security Cleared
2 110 (38.33%) SC Cleared
3 17 (5.92%) Degree
4 12 (4.18%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (3.48%) DV Cleared
6 9 (3.14%) AWS Certification
7 8 (2.79%) Azure Certification
8 6 (2.09%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 6 (2.09%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (2.09%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (1.39%) Master's Degree
9 4 (1.39%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 3 (1.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (1.05%) Oracle Certification
11 2 (0.70%) CISSP
11 2 (0.70%) OCP
12 1 (0.35%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.35%) ISEB
12 1 (0.35%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.35%) OCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (11.85%) Data Quality
2 23 (8.01%) QA
3 9 (3.14%) GDPR
4 7 (2.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 6 (2.09%) Accessibility
5 6 (2.09%) NIST
6 5 (1.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (1.39%) NCSC
8 3 (1.05%) WCAG
9 2 (0.70%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.70%) SLA
10 1 (0.35%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.35%) NIST 800
System Software
1 120 (41.81%) Docker
2 23 (8.01%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.44%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (2.09%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (1.74%) Tivoli Directory Server
6 3 (1.05%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.70%) Xen
8 1 (0.35%) etcd
8 1 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.35%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 107 (37.28%) Kubernetes
2 82 (28.57%) Terraform
3 35 (12.20%) Ansible
4 19 (6.62%) Grafana
5 16 (5.57%) Prometheus
6 14 (4.88%) Puppet
7 10 (3.48%) Progress Chef
7 10 (3.48%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (1.74%) CA Single Sign-On
8 5 (1.74%) CA Wily
8 5 (1.74%) Podman
8 5 (1.74%) Tivoli
9 4 (1.39%) ITRS Geneos
9 4 (1.39%) Packer
10 3 (1.05%) CloudHub
10 3 (1.05%) Proxmox
10 3 (1.05%) vRealize
11 2 (0.70%) Istio
11 2 (0.70%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (0.70%) SCCM
Vendors
1 73 (25.44%) Microsoft
2 43 (14.98%) Oracle
3 30 (10.45%) Denodo
3 30 (10.45%) Talend
4 21 (7.32%) webMethods
5 16 (5.57%) Databricks
5 16 (5.57%) IBM
5 16 (5.57%) Splunk
6 15 (5.23%) VMware
7 14 (4.88%) SAP
8 12 (4.18%) Salesforce
9 11 (3.83%) Software AG
10 8 (2.79%) Axway
11 7 (2.44%) Google
12 6 (2.09%) AppDynamics
12 6 (2.09%) OpenAI
12 6 (2.09%) Pega
12 6 (2.09%) Red Hat
13 5 (1.74%) Broadcom
13 5 (1.74%) Cribl.io