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

 6 months to
12 Feb 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 276 315 369
Rank change year-on-year +39 +54 -71
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 324 172 191
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.95% 0.66% 0.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.09% 0.73% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 230 109 134
10th Percentile £381 £388 £463
25th Percentile £427 £456 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £583 £575
Median % change year-on-year -11.97% +1.30% -8.00%
75th Percentile £588 £750 £672
90th Percentile £688 £838 £748
UK median daily rate £510 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -11.30% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 4
10th Percentile £27.08 - -
25th Percentile £35.77 £82.50 £22.00
Median hourly rate £50.50 £85.00 £44.51
Median % change year-on-year -40.59% +90.97% -31.52%
75th Percentile £62.72 £87.50 £68.08
90th Percentile £69.89 - £69.98
UK median hourly rate £50.50 £85.00 £44.51
% change year-on-year -40.59% +90.97% -31.52%

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 29,739 23,407 32,830
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.55% 89.77% 87.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,003 14,473 21,878
10th Percentile £308 £310 £300
25th Percentile £412 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £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 1,861 738 1,959
10th Percentile £15.09 £15.62 £13.39
25th Percentile £18.00 £21.05 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.77 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.37% - -
75th Percentile £60.61 £64.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £72.90
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £33.07
% change year-on-year -22.62% -1.71% +1.74%

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 February 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 12 February 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 12 February 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 +16 159 £510 -22.14% 48
North of England -36 47 £475 +4.40% 19
Midlands -19 43 £518 +3.50% 16
West Midlands -23 35 £525 -2.33% 15
North West -7 27 £453 +13.25% 11
South West -14 22 £531 -11.46% 13
South East -20 21 £544 +27.94% 35
Yorkshire -47 17 £500 -16.49% 3
East Midlands -16 8 £393 +4.80% 1
East of England -26 7 £513 +184.86% 4
North East -16 3 £500 -11.50% 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 23 (7.10%) SAS
2 14 (4.32%) Apache
3 13 (4.01%) JBoss
4 8 (2.47%) Appian
4 8 (2.47%) WebLogic
5 6 (1.85%) Camunda
5 6 (1.85%) SharePoint
6 5 (1.54%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (1.54%) Confluence
6 5 (1.54%) IIS
6 5 (1.54%) iPlanet
6 5 (1.54%) WebSphere
6 5 (1.54%) WebSphere Application Server
7 3 (0.93%) Anypoint
7 3 (0.93%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.93%) CMS
7 3 (0.93%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.62%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.31%) ColdFusion
9 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (1.54%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.62%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.31%) Cloudability
2 1 (0.31%) Endur
2 1 (0.31%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 119 (36.73%) Azure
2 96 (29.63%) AWS
3 69 (21.30%) GitHub
4 50 (15.43%) GitHub Actions
5 43 (13.27%) Azure DevOps
6 33 (10.19%) GCP
7 30 (9.26%) Serverless
8 23 (7.10%) Power Platform
9 17 (5.25%) OpenShift
10 16 (4.94%) AWS CloudFormation
10 16 (4.94%) AWS Lambda
10 16 (4.94%) Entra ID
11 15 (4.63%) Power Automate
12 14 (4.32%) Amazon S3
12 14 (4.32%) Azure Data Factory
12 14 (4.32%) Azure Functions
13 13 (4.01%) Azure AI
14 12 (3.70%) Azure Key Vault
15 11 (3.40%) Azure Logic Apps
16 10 (3.09%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (6.48%) HTTPS
2 10 (3.09%) SSL
3 9 (2.78%) Firewall
4 8 (2.47%) DNS
4 8 (2.47%) TCP/IP
4 8 (2.47%) VPN
5 6 (1.85%) DHCP
5 6 (1.85%) Network Security
6 5 (1.54%) Kerberos
6 5 (1.54%) Software-Defined Networking
7 2 (0.62%) BGP
7 2 (0.62%) DMZ
7 2 (0.62%) Internet
8 1 (0.31%) Ethernet VPN
8 1 (0.31%) HTTP
8 1 (0.31%) IPsec
8 1 (0.31%) OSPF
8 1 (0.31%) SMS
8 1 (0.31%) VSAN
8 1 (0.31%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (6.79%) Pentaho
2 19 (5.86%) SQL Server
3 14 (4.32%) Power BI
3 14 (4.32%) Relational Database
4 13 (4.01%) Oracle Database
5 11 (3.40%) NoSQL
6 10 (3.09%) MongoDB
7 9 (2.78%) Amazon RDS
7 9 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
8 8 (2.47%) Azure SQL Database
8 8 (2.47%) Data Lake
8 8 (2.47%) Pinecone
8 8 (2.47%) Redis
8 8 (2.47%) Spark SQL
9 7 (2.16%) Data Warehouse
9 7 (2.16%) SAS Enterprise Guide
10 6 (1.85%) Aerospike
10 6 (1.85%) Apache Cassandra
11 5 (1.54%) DynamoDB
12 3 (0.93%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 92 (28.40%) Git
2 77 (23.77%) Jenkins
3 47 (14.51%) GitLab
4 30 (9.26%) JIRA
5 16 (4.94%) JUnit
6 9 (2.78%) Selenium
7 8 (2.47%) Eclipse
7 8 (2.47%) IntelliJ
7 8 (2.47%) MLflow
8 7 (2.16%) Bitbucket
9 6 (1.85%) Sonatype Nexus
10 5 (1.54%) Bitbucket Server
10 5 (1.54%) CA Release Automation
10 5 (1.54%) CircleCI
10 5 (1.54%) Mockito
11 4 (1.23%) Artifactory
12 3 (0.93%) Gradle
12 3 (0.93%) Maven
12 3 (0.93%) MSI
13 2 (0.62%) LoadRunner
General
1 119 (36.73%) Social Skills
2 58 (17.90%) Public Sector
3 54 (16.67%) Finance
4 36 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (2.47%) Influencing Skills
6 7 (2.16%) Marketing
7 6 (1.85%) Legal
8 5 (1.54%) Banking
9 4 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (0.93%) Manufacturing
10 3 (0.93%) Military
10 3 (0.93%) Retail
11 2 (0.62%) Back Office
11 2 (0.62%) Electronics
11 2 (0.62%) Front Office
11 2 (0.62%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.62%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.62%) Police
11 2 (0.62%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 86 (26.54%) Developer
2 39 (12.04%) DevOps Engineer
3 36 (11.11%) Architect
4 26 (8.02%) Senior
5 22 (6.79%) Data Engineer
6 21 (6.48%) Automation Engineer
7 19 (5.86%) Azure Engineer
7 19 (5.86%) Platform Engineer
8 17 (5.25%) Lead
9 15 (4.63%) Full-Stack Developer
10 12 (3.70%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 12 (3.70%) Cloud Engineer
10 12 (3.70%) Python Developer
10 12 (3.70%) webMethods Developer
11 10 (3.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 10 (3.09%) Technical Architect
12 8 (2.47%) AWS Engineer
12 8 (2.47%) Full-Stack Python Developer
12 8 (2.47%) Platform Architect
12 8 (2.47%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (18.52%) REST
2 41 (12.65%) JSON
2 41 (12.65%) RESTful
3 40 (12.35%) SOAP
4 35 (10.80%) XML
5 33 (10.19%) React
6 25 (7.72%) OAuth
6 25 (7.72%) pytest
7 22 (6.79%) Node.js
8 21 (6.48%) Spring
9 20 (6.17%) HTML
10 18 (5.56%) .NET
10 18 (5.56%) Kafka
11 17 (5.25%) AngularJS
11 17 (5.25%) FastAPI
11 17 (5.25%) PySpark
12 15 (4.63%) Jest
12 15 (4.63%) Web Services
13 14 (4.32%) Swagger
13 14 (4.32%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 38 (11.73%) Cloud Native
2 12 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
2 12 (3.70%) Product Ownership
3 11 (3.40%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (3.09%) Data Centre
5 8 (2.47%) Hybrid Cloud
5 8 (2.47%) Low-Code
6 7 (2.16%) Distributed Computing
7 6 (1.85%) Private Cloud
8 5 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (1.54%) NHS
8 5 (1.54%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.54%) Security Posture
9 4 (1.23%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.23%) Mobile App
9 4 (1.23%) PKI
10 3 (0.93%) AI Agents
10 3 (0.93%) CMDB
10 3 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 53 (16.36%) Linux
2 25 (7.72%) Windows
3 16 (4.94%) Unix
4 12 (3.70%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.54%) VMS
6 2 (0.62%) Android
6 2 (0.62%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.31%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.31%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.31%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 226 (69.75%) CI/CD
2 202 (62.35%) DevOps
3 117 (36.11%) Infrastructure as Code
4 116 (35.80%) Test Automation
5 114 (35.19%) Agile
6 105 (32.41%) Problem-Solving
7 73 (22.53%) Containerisation
8 58 (17.90%) Analytics
9 54 (16.67%) Microservices
10 53 (16.36%) Data Modelling
11 52 (16.05%) Scrum
12 51 (15.74%) Continuous Improvement
13 50 (15.43%) Data Pipeline
13 50 (15.43%) Infrastructure Automation
14 49 (15.12%) ETL
15 42 (12.96%) Observability
16 38 (11.73%) Business Intelligence
16 38 (11.73%) Migration
17 36 (11.11%) AI
18 33 (10.19%) API Development
Programming Languages
1 109 (33.64%) Python
2 88 (27.16%) SQL
3 51 (15.74%) Java
4 45 (13.89%) PowerShell
5 38 (11.73%) Bash
6 34 (10.49%) JavaScript
7 33 (10.19%) TypeScript
8 23 (7.10%) Bicep
9 17 (5.25%) C#
10 9 (2.78%) Groovy
10 9 (2.78%) Scala
11 8 (2.47%) PHP
12 6 (1.85%) Apex Code
12 6 (1.85%) Shell Script
13 5 (1.54%) Go
13 5 (1.54%) T-SQL
14 3 (0.93%) DataWeave
14 3 (0.93%) Kotlin
15 2 (0.62%) Rust
16 1 (0.31%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 132 (40.74%) Security Cleared
2 106 (32.72%) SC Cleared
3 14 (4.32%) Degree
4 13 (4.01%) AWS Certification
5 12 (3.70%) Azure Certification
6 11 (3.40%) DV Cleared
7 9 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (2.47%) Computer Science Degree
8 8 (2.47%) Microsoft Certification
9 7 (2.16%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 5 (1.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (1.23%) Master's Degree
11 4 (1.23%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 3 (0.93%) CISSP
13 2 (0.62%) CCNP
13 2 (0.62%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (0.62%) Oracle Certification
14 1 (0.31%) ITIL Certification
14 1 (0.31%) MCSA
14 1 (0.31%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (9.88%) Data Quality
2 23 (7.10%) QA
3 11 (3.40%) GDPR
4 7 (2.16%) Accessibility
4 7 (2.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (2.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 6 (1.85%) NCSC
5 6 (1.85%) NIST
6 4 (1.23%) WCAG
7 3 (0.93%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.62%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.62%) SLA
9 1 (0.31%) NIST 800
System Software
1 114 (35.19%) Docker
2 24 (7.41%) Active Directory
3 12 (3.70%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (2.16%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (1.54%) Hyper-V
5 5 (1.54%) Tivoli Directory Server
6 3 (0.93%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.62%) Xen
8 1 (0.31%) etcd
8 1 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.31%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 110 (33.95%) Kubernetes
2 107 (33.02%) Terraform
3 37 (11.42%) Ansible
4 17 (5.25%) Grafana
5 14 (4.32%) Prometheus
6 12 (3.70%) Puppet
7 10 (3.09%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (2.16%) Progress Chef
9 5 (1.54%) CA Single Sign-On
9 5 (1.54%) CA Wily
9 5 (1.54%) Istio
9 5 (1.54%) Podman
9 5 (1.54%) Tivoli
10 4 (1.23%) SCCM
11 3 (0.93%) Argo
11 3 (0.93%) CloudHub
11 3 (0.93%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (0.93%) Packer
11 3 (0.93%) Proxmox
11 3 (0.93%) vRealize
Vendors
1 79 (24.38%) Microsoft
2 29 (8.95%) Oracle
3 23 (7.10%) Talend
4 22 (6.79%) Denodo
5 21 (6.48%) webMethods
6 20 (6.17%) Google
7 19 (5.86%) Salesforce
8 18 (5.56%) OpenAI
9 17 (5.25%) Splunk
10 16 (4.94%) Databricks
10 16 (4.94%) IBM
11 15 (4.63%) VMware
12 14 (4.32%) SAP
13 11 (3.40%) Software AG
14 8 (2.47%) Automation Anywhere
14 8 (2.47%) Axway
14 8 (2.47%) UiPath
15 6 (1.85%) AppDynamics
16 5 (1.54%) Broadcom
16 5 (1.54%) ServiceNow
119 Deployment Automation jobs in England