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

 6 months to
30 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 285 275 308
Rank change year-on-year -10 +33 -11
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 344 214 245
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.85% 0.88% 0.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.00% 0.96% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 234 167 175
10th Percentile £400 £349 £413
25th Percentile £450 £413 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £579 £653 £700
90th Percentile £659 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £518 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -5.91% -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 5
10th Percentile £52.69 - £22.72
25th Percentile £56.36 - -
Median hourly rate £62.59 - £23.80
75th Percentile £68.70 - £67.02
90th Percentile £72.29 - £69.56
UK median hourly rate £62.59 - £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 34,270 22,183 32,209
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.00% 91.18% 86.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,910 14,537 21,121
10th Percentile £318 £310 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £617 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £521 £525
% change year-on-year -4.03% -0.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,134 920 2,242
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.75 £12.92
25th Percentile £20.38 £18.50 £16.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £30.00 £35.68
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -15.92% -4.85%
75th Percentile £67.50 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £79.35 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £41.56 £29.07 £35.00
% change year-on-year +42.95% -16.94% -6.17%

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 30 April 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 30 April 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 30 April 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 +7 181 £544 -5.43% 36
Midlands -37 45 £514 +2.80% 8
North of England -64 40 £476 +19.00% 10
West Midlands -37 31 £525 +5.00% 4
South East -42 29 £538 +33.71% 27
South West -28 26 £545 -5.22% 3
Yorkshire -47 20 £500 -15.97% 3
North West -30 19 £436 +11.51% 4
East Midlands -19 13 £402 -15.37% 4
East of England -41 4 £513 -2.33% 6
North East -22 1 - - 3
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 31 (9.01%) SAS
2 9 (2.62%) Apache Spark
3 8 (2.33%) Appian
4 7 (2.03%) SharePoint
5 6 (1.74%) Camunda
6 5 (1.45%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (1.16%) Confluence
8 3 (0.87%) CMS
8 3 (0.87%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.87%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.58%) Apache
9 2 (0.58%) IBM HTTP Server
9 2 (0.58%) Oracle HTTP Server
9 2 (0.58%) Sitecore CMS
9 2 (0.58%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.58%) WebSphere Application Server
9 2 (0.58%) WebSphere Portal
10 1 (0.29%) ColdFusion
10 1 (0.29%) OpenROAD
10 1 (0.29%) WebLogic
Applications
1 6 (1.74%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.58%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.29%) Cloudability
1 1 (0.29%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 157 (45.64%) Azure
2 109 (31.69%) AWS
3 72 (20.93%) GitHub
4 57 (16.57%) Azure DevOps
5 48 (13.95%) GitHub Actions
6 38 (11.05%) GCP
7 33 (9.59%) Serverless
8 25 (7.27%) AWS CloudFormation
8 25 (7.27%) Power Platform
9 18 (5.23%) Amazon S3
9 18 (5.23%) AWS Lambda
10 17 (4.94%) Entra ID
11 16 (4.65%) Azure Data Factory
11 16 (4.65%) OpenShift
12 15 (4.36%) Power Automate
13 14 (4.07%) Azure Functions
14 13 (3.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 13 (3.78%) Azure AI
14 13 (3.78%) Azure Monitor
15 12 (3.49%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (4.94%) Firewall
2 10 (2.91%) DNS
2 10 (2.91%) TCP/IP
2 10 (2.91%) VPN
3 6 (1.74%) Network Security
4 4 (1.16%) DHCP
4 4 (1.16%) DMZ
4 4 (1.16%) HTTPS
4 4 (1.16%) Software-Defined Networking
5 3 (0.87%) HTTP
5 3 (0.87%) SSL
6 2 (0.58%) Internet
7 1 (0.29%) BGP
7 1 (0.29%) Cisco IOS
7 1 (0.29%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (0.29%) IPsec
7 1 (0.29%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.29%) OSPF
7 1 (0.29%) SMS
7 1 (0.29%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (5.52%) Pentaho
1 19 (5.52%) SQL Server
2 17 (4.94%) Power BI
3 16 (4.65%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (4.65%) Relational Database
4 15 (4.36%) Data Warehouse
5 12 (3.49%) Data Lake
6 9 (2.62%) Amazon RDS
6 9 (2.62%) Azure SQL Database
6 9 (2.62%) NoSQL
6 9 (2.62%) Redis
7 8 (2.33%) Aerospike
7 8 (2.33%) DynamoDB
7 8 (2.33%) Pinecone
7 8 (2.33%) Spark SQL
8 7 (2.03%) Metadata
9 6 (1.74%) MongoDB
9 6 (1.74%) SAS Data Integration Studio
10 5 (1.45%) Amazon Athena
10 5 (1.45%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 87 (25.29%) Git
2 73 (21.22%) Jenkins
3 55 (15.99%) GitLab
4 24 (6.98%) JIRA
5 11 (3.20%) JUnit
6 8 (2.33%) MLflow
7 7 (2.03%) MSI
8 5 (1.45%) Artifactory
8 5 (1.45%) Mockito
9 3 (0.87%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 3 (0.87%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.87%) CircleCI
9 3 (0.87%) Cypress.io
9 3 (0.87%) fastlane
9 3 (0.87%) Selenium
9 3 (0.87%) Visual Studio Code
10 2 (0.58%) git-flow
10 2 (0.58%) Gradle
10 2 (0.58%) InstallShield
10 2 (0.58%) TeamCity
General
1 109 (31.69%) Social Skills
2 68 (19.77%) Public Sector
3 65 (18.90%) Finance
4 34 (9.88%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (4.07%) Banking
6 12 (3.49%) Legal
7 7 (2.03%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (2.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (1.45%) Front Office
8 5 (1.45%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.16%) Marketing
10 3 (0.87%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.58%) Electronics
11 2 (0.58%) Military
11 2 (0.58%) Police
11 2 (0.58%) Retail
11 2 (0.58%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.29%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.29%) Law
12 1 (0.29%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 64 (18.60%) Developer
2 43 (12.50%) Data Engineer
2 43 (12.50%) Senior
3 41 (11.92%) DevOps Engineer
4 36 (10.47%) Architect
5 25 (7.27%) Azure Engineer
6 23 (6.69%) Platform Engineer
7 20 (5.81%) Automation Engineer
8 16 (4.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 16 (4.65%) Lead
9 14 (4.07%) Full-Stack Developer
10 13 (3.78%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 13 (3.78%) Cloud Engineer
10 13 (3.78%) Salesforce Engineer
10 13 (3.78%) Senior Developer
11 12 (3.49%) Platform Architect
12 9 (2.62%) AWS Engineer
12 9 (2.62%) SAS Engineer
13 8 (2.33%) AWS Developer
13 8 (2.33%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (11.05%) REST
1 38 (11.05%) RESTful
2 29 (8.43%) Node.js
2 29 (8.43%) React
3 26 (7.56%) Kafka
4 19 (5.52%) .NET
5 18 (5.23%) AngularJS
5 18 (5.23%) pytest
5 18 (5.23%) YAML
6 17 (4.94%) PySpark
7 14 (4.07%) OAuth
7 14 (4.07%) Spring
7 14 (4.07%) Web Services
8 13 (3.78%) FastAPI
8 13 (3.78%) HTML
8 13 (3.78%) Spring Boot
8 13 (3.78%) Swagger
9 12 (3.49%) CSS
9 12 (3.49%) Django
9 12 (3.49%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 60 (17.44%) Cloud Native
2 22 (6.40%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (4.07%) Legacy Systems
3 14 (4.07%) Product Ownership
4 13 (3.78%) Onboarding
5 10 (2.91%) Data Centre
5 10 (2.91%) Distributed Computing
5 10 (2.91%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (2.33%) Low-Code
7 7 (2.03%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (2.03%) Mobile App
8 6 (1.74%) Security Posture
9 5 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.45%) Enterprise Cloud
9 5 (1.45%) NHS
10 4 (1.16%) Algorithms
10 4 (1.16%) Private Cloud
11 3 (0.87%) AI Agents
11 3 (0.87%) Client/Server
11 3 (0.87%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 44 (12.79%) Linux
2 22 (6.40%) Windows
3 7 (2.03%) Unix
4 6 (1.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (1.74%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.16%) VMS
6 3 (0.87%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.87%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.58%) Android
7 2 (0.58%) Oracle Linux
7 2 (0.58%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
7 2 (0.58%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.58%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.58%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 251 (72.97%) CI/CD
2 206 (59.88%) DevOps
3 137 (39.83%) Infrastructure as Code
4 125 (36.34%) Agile
5 124 (36.05%) Test Automation
6 94 (27.33%) Problem-Solving
7 77 (22.38%) Analytics
7 77 (22.38%) Containerisation
8 63 (18.31%) Continuous Improvement
9 62 (18.02%) Data Pipeline
10 57 (16.57%) Data Modelling
10 57 (16.57%) Microservices
11 56 (16.28%) ETL
11 56 (16.28%) Observability
12 54 (15.70%) Scrum
13 45 (13.08%) AI
14 44 (12.79%) Migration
15 43 (12.50%) Infrastructure Automation
16 42 (12.21%) Business Intelligence
17 39 (11.34%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 123 (35.76%) Python
2 83 (24.13%) SQL
3 58 (16.86%) PowerShell
4 50 (14.53%) Java
5 42 (12.21%) Bash
6 33 (9.59%) JavaScript
7 28 (8.14%) Bicep
7 28 (8.14%) TypeScript
8 22 (6.40%) C#
9 9 (2.62%) PHP
10 8 (2.33%) Apex Code
11 5 (1.45%) Go
12 3 (0.87%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.87%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.87%) Rust
12 3 (0.87%) SAS Macro
12 3 (0.87%) Scala
12 3 (0.87%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.58%) Perl
13 2 (0.58%) Swift
Qualifications
1 126 (36.63%) Security Cleared
2 101 (29.36%) SC Cleared
3 18 (5.23%) Degree
4 15 (4.36%) Azure Certification
5 12 (3.49%) AWS Certification
5 12 (3.49%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (3.20%) Microsoft Certification
7 9 (2.62%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (2.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 8 (2.33%) DV Cleared
9 5 (1.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 4 (1.16%) RHCE
10 4 (1.16%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 3 (0.87%) CCNP
11 3 (0.87%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (0.87%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 3 (0.87%) MCSA
11 3 (0.87%) Oracle Certification
12 2 (0.58%) CISSP
12 2 (0.58%) OCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (11.92%) Data Quality
2 28 (8.14%) QA
3 12 (3.49%) Accessibility
4 11 (3.20%) GDPR
5 7 (2.03%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 7 (2.03%) WCAG
6 6 (1.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.87%) NCSC
8 2 (0.58%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.58%) NIST
9 1 (0.29%) EU AI Act
9 1 (0.29%) SLA
9 1 (0.29%) SOC 2
System Software
1 109 (31.69%) Docker
2 18 (5.23%) Active Directory
2 18 (5.23%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (2.03%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (1.45%) Hyper-V
5 4 (1.16%) Microsoft App-V
6 3 (0.87%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (0.58%) Xen
8 1 (0.29%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.29%) Firmware
8 1 (0.29%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 126 (36.63%) Kubernetes
2 121 (35.17%) Terraform
3 39 (11.34%) Ansible
4 14 (4.07%) Grafana
4 14 (4.07%) Prometheus
5 13 (3.78%) SCCM
6 10 (2.91%) Puppet
7 7 (2.03%) Microsoft Intune
8 6 (1.74%) Progress Chef
9 5 (1.45%) Istio
10 4 (1.16%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (1.16%) WSUS
11 3 (0.87%) Argo
11 3 (0.87%) ITRS Geneos
12 2 (0.58%) CA Wily
12 2 (0.58%) Podman
12 2 (0.58%) Tivoli
12 2 (0.58%) vRealize
13 1 (0.29%) Fluentd
13 1 (0.29%) QRadar
Vendors
1 87 (25.29%) Microsoft
2 24 (6.98%) Salesforce
3 20 (5.81%) Oracle
3 20 (5.81%) Talend
4 19 (5.52%) Denodo
4 19 (5.52%) OpenAI
5 18 (5.23%) Google
6 12 (3.49%) Databricks
6 12 (3.49%) Splunk
7 10 (2.91%) Red Hat
8 8 (2.33%) Automation Anywhere
8 8 (2.33%) UiPath
9 7 (2.03%) Dynatrace
9 7 (2.03%) SAP
9 7 (2.03%) VMware
10 6 (1.74%) Foundry
10 6 (1.74%) IBM
11 4 (1.16%) Apple
11 4 (1.16%) Citrix
11 4 (1.16%) webMethods
81 Deployment Automation jobs in England