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

 6 months to
18 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 276 265 301
Rank change year-on-year -11 +36 +4
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 354 224 240
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.90% 0.91% 0.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.05% 1.00% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 243 173 175
10th Percentile £400 £363 £413
25th Percentile £447 £425 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% -4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £575 £668 £700
90th Percentile £650 £810 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -6.77% -4.35% -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 4
10th Percentile £52.69 - -
25th Percentile £56.36 - £22.00
Median hourly rate £62.59 - £44.51
75th Percentile £68.70 - £68.08
90th Percentile £72.29 - £69.98
UK median hourly rate £62.59 - £44.51
% change year-on-year - - -35.02%

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 33,651 22,305 32,263
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.36% 91.07% 86.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,531 14,664 21,253
10th Percentile £313 £310 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -4.31% -0.48% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,083 886 2,215
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.80 £12.85
25th Percentile £20.27 £18.51 £15.75
Median hourly rate £41.86 £31.64 £34.21
Median % change year-on-year +32.29% -7.51% -6.66%
75th Percentile £67.13 £63.75 £58.69
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.38 £71.75
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £30.00 £33.78
% change year-on-year +25.00% -11.18% -5.92%

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 18 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 18 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 18 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 +3 179 £538 -10.42% 45
Midlands -24 56 £515 +3.00% 10
West Midlands -32 42 £518 -13.75% 7
North of England -60 39 £476 +17.84% 15
South East -29 35 £525 +30.60% 26
South West -26 24 £525 -8.70% 10
North West -38 19 £436 +11.51% 7
Yorkshire -50 19 £491 -15.71% 4
East Midlands -25 13 £402 -15.37% 3
East of England -35 3 £513 +2.55% 10
North East -18 1 - - 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 39 (11.02%) SAS
2 8 (2.26%) Apache Spark
2 8 (2.26%) Appian
3 7 (1.98%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (1.98%) SharePoint
4 6 (1.69%) Apache
4 6 (1.69%) Camunda
5 4 (1.13%) Confluence
5 4 (1.13%) JBoss
5 4 (1.13%) WebLogic
6 3 (0.85%) Anypoint
6 3 (0.85%) CMS
6 3 (0.85%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.85%) Oracle Workflow
7 2 (0.56%) IBM HTTP Server
7 2 (0.56%) Oracle HTTP Server
7 2 (0.56%) Sitecore CMS
7 2 (0.56%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.56%) WebSphere Application Server
7 2 (0.56%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 6 (1.69%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.56%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.28%) Cloudability
1 1 (0.28%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 144 (40.68%) Azure
2 108 (30.51%) AWS
3 73 (20.62%) GitHub
4 53 (14.97%) Azure DevOps
5 49 (13.84%) GitHub Actions
6 34 (9.60%) Serverless
7 33 (9.32%) GCP
8 26 (7.34%) AWS CloudFormation
9 25 (7.06%) Power Platform
10 20 (5.65%) Amazon S3
11 19 (5.37%) AWS Lambda
12 17 (4.80%) OpenShift
13 16 (4.52%) Power Automate
14 15 (4.24%) Azure Data Factory
15 14 (3.95%) Azure Functions
15 14 (3.95%) Entra ID
16 13 (3.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 13 (3.67%) Azure AI
17 12 (3.39%) Azure AKS
17 12 (3.39%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 15 (4.24%) Firewall
2 11 (3.11%) DNS
2 11 (3.11%) TCP/IP
3 10 (2.82%) VPN
4 6 (1.69%) Network Security
5 5 (1.41%) DHCP
6 4 (1.13%) DMZ
6 4 (1.13%) HTTPS
6 4 (1.13%) Software-Defined Networking
6 4 (1.13%) SSL
7 3 (0.85%) HTTP
8 2 (0.56%) Internet
9 1 (0.28%) BGP
9 1 (0.28%) Cisco IOS
9 1 (0.28%) Cisco Nexus
9 1 (0.28%) IPsec
9 1 (0.28%) OSPF
9 1 (0.28%) SMS
9 1 (0.28%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (7.63%) Pentaho
2 19 (5.37%) SQL Server
3 16 (4.52%) Power BI
3 16 (4.52%) Relational Database
4 15 (4.24%) PostgreSQL
5 14 (3.95%) Data Warehouse
6 12 (3.39%) NoSQL
7 10 (2.82%) Amazon RDS
8 9 (2.54%) Azure SQL Database
8 9 (2.54%) Data Lake
8 9 (2.54%) MongoDB
8 9 (2.54%) Redis
9 8 (2.26%) Aerospike
9 8 (2.26%) DynamoDB
9 8 (2.26%) Pinecone
9 8 (2.26%) Spark SQL
10 7 (1.98%) SAS Enterprise Guide
11 6 (1.69%) Amazon Athena
11 6 (1.69%) Metadata
11 6 (1.69%) SAS Data Integration Studio
Development Applications
1 97 (27.40%) Git
2 86 (24.29%) Jenkins
3 54 (15.25%) GitLab
4 30 (8.47%) JIRA
5 15 (4.24%) JUnit
6 8 (2.26%) MLflow
7 6 (1.69%) Mockito
7 6 (1.69%) Selenium
8 5 (1.41%) Artifactory
8 5 (1.41%) Bitbucket
8 5 (1.41%) CircleCI
8 5 (1.41%) IntelliJ
9 4 (1.13%) Eclipse
9 4 (1.13%) MSI
10 3 (0.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 3 (0.85%) Cypress.io
10 3 (0.85%) fastlane
10 3 (0.85%) Gradle
10 3 (0.85%) Visual Studio Code
11 2 (0.56%) Android Studio
General
1 117 (33.05%) Social Skills
2 69 (19.49%) Public Sector
3 63 (17.80%) Finance
4 34 (9.60%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (3.95%) Banking
6 12 (3.39%) Legal
7 7 (1.98%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (1.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (1.69%) Marketing
9 5 (1.41%) Front Office
9 5 (1.41%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.13%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.85%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.56%) Electronics
12 2 (0.56%) Military
12 2 (0.56%) Police
12 2 (0.56%) Retail
12 2 (0.56%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.28%) Law
13 1 (0.28%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 68 (19.21%) Developer
2 44 (12.43%) DevOps Engineer
3 43 (12.15%) Data Engineer
4 38 (10.73%) Senior
5 36 (10.17%) Architect
6 24 (6.78%) Platform Engineer
7 23 (6.50%) Azure Engineer
8 20 (5.65%) Automation Engineer
9 19 (5.37%) Lead
10 15 (4.24%) Full-Stack Developer
11 14 (3.95%) Salesforce Engineer
12 13 (3.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 13 (3.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 12 (3.39%) Platform Architect
14 11 (3.11%) Cloud Engineer
15 10 (2.82%) SAS Engineer
15 10 (2.82%) Senior Developer
16 9 (2.54%) AWS Engineer
17 8 (2.26%) AWS Developer
17 8 (2.26%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (12.15%) REST
2 41 (11.58%) RESTful
3 32 (9.04%) React
4 29 (8.19%) Node.js
5 25 (7.06%) Kafka
6 21 (5.93%) pytest
7 18 (5.08%) .NET
7 18 (5.08%) AngularJS
7 18 (5.08%) YAML
8 17 (4.80%) SOAP
8 17 (4.80%) Spring
9 16 (4.52%) HTML
9 16 (4.52%) PySpark
10 15 (4.24%) FastAPI
10 15 (4.24%) Web Services
11 13 (3.67%) JSON
11 13 (3.67%) Spring Boot
11 13 (3.67%) Swagger
12 12 (3.39%) Jest
12 12 (3.39%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 57 (16.10%) Cloud Native
2 18 (5.08%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (3.95%) Legacy Systems
4 13 (3.67%) Product Ownership
5 12 (3.39%) Onboarding
6 10 (2.82%) Data Centre
6 10 (2.82%) Distributed Computing
6 10 (2.82%) Hybrid Cloud
7 8 (2.26%) Low-Code
8 7 (1.98%) Mobile App
9 6 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (1.69%) Security Posture
10 5 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (1.41%) NHS
10 5 (1.41%) Private Cloud
11 4 (1.13%) Enterprise Cloud
12 3 (0.85%) AI Agents
12 3 (0.85%) Algorithms
12 3 (0.85%) Client/Server
12 3 (0.85%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 43 (12.15%) Linux
2 23 (6.50%) Windows
3 9 (2.54%) Unix
4 6 (1.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (1.69%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.13%) Apple iOS
5 4 (1.13%) VMS
6 3 (0.85%) Android
6 3 (0.85%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.56%) Oracle Linux
7 2 (0.56%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
7 2 (0.56%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 262 (74.01%) CI/CD
2 219 (61.86%) DevOps
3 139 (39.27%) Infrastructure as Code
4 133 (37.57%) Agile
5 131 (37.01%) Test Automation
6 109 (30.79%) Problem-Solving
7 82 (23.16%) Analytics
8 76 (21.47%) Containerisation
9 69 (19.49%) Continuous Improvement
10 64 (18.08%) Data Pipeline
11 60 (16.95%) Data Modelling
11 60 (16.95%) ETL
12 59 (16.67%) Scrum
13 55 (15.54%) Microservices
14 52 (14.69%) Observability
15 49 (13.84%) Infrastructure Automation
16 47 (13.28%) Business Intelligence
17 45 (12.71%) Migration
18 44 (12.43%) AI
19 40 (11.30%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 122 (34.46%) Python
2 93 (26.27%) SQL
3 55 (15.54%) PowerShell
4 51 (14.41%) Java
5 40 (11.30%) Bash
6 32 (9.04%) JavaScript
7 29 (8.19%) TypeScript
8 25 (7.06%) Bicep
9 21 (5.93%) C#
10 9 (2.54%) PHP
11 8 (2.26%) Apex Code
12 7 (1.98%) Scala
13 4 (1.13%) Kotlin
13 4 (1.13%) T-SQL
14 3 (0.85%) DataWeave
14 3 (0.85%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.85%) Rust
14 3 (0.85%) SAS Macro
14 3 (0.85%) Swift
15 2 (0.56%) Perl
Qualifications
1 135 (38.14%) Security Cleared
2 109 (30.79%) SC Cleared
3 17 (4.80%) Degree
4 15 (4.24%) Azure Certification
5 13 (3.67%) AWS Certification
6 11 (3.11%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (2.82%) Microsoft Certification
8 9 (2.54%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (2.54%) DV Cleared
9 8 (2.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 5 (1.41%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 4 (1.13%) RHCE
11 4 (1.13%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 3 (0.85%) CCNP
12 3 (0.85%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (0.85%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 3 (0.85%) MCSA
12 3 (0.85%) Oracle Certification
13 2 (0.56%) CISSP
13 2 (0.56%) OCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (12.15%) Data Quality
2 28 (7.91%) QA
3 12 (3.39%) Accessibility
4 11 (3.11%) GDPR
5 7 (1.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (1.98%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 7 (1.98%) WCAG
6 3 (0.85%) NCSC
6 3 (0.85%) NIST
7 2 (0.56%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.56%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.28%) EU AI Act
8 1 (0.28%) SLA
8 1 (0.28%) SOC 2
System Software
1 118 (33.33%) Docker
2 18 (5.08%) Virtual Machines
3 16 (4.52%) Active Directory
4 5 (1.41%) Hyper-V
4 5 (1.41%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (1.13%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.56%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.56%) Xen
7 1 (0.28%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.28%) Firmware
7 1 (0.28%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 129 (36.44%) Kubernetes
2 120 (33.90%) Terraform
3 41 (11.58%) Ansible
4 15 (4.24%) Grafana
4 15 (4.24%) Prometheus
5 12 (3.39%) Puppet
6 10 (2.82%) SCCM
7 6 (1.69%) Progress Chef
8 5 (1.41%) Istio
9 4 (1.13%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (1.13%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (1.13%) WSUS
10 3 (0.85%) Argo
10 3 (0.85%) CloudHub
10 3 (0.85%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (0.85%) Podman
11 2 (0.56%) CA Wily
11 2 (0.56%) Packer
11 2 (0.56%) Proxmox
11 2 (0.56%) vRealize
Vendors
1 83 (23.45%) Microsoft
2 28 (7.91%) Oracle
2 28 (7.91%) Talend
3 27 (7.63%) Denodo
3 27 (7.63%) Salesforce
4 19 (5.37%) Google
4 19 (5.37%) OpenAI
5 12 (3.39%) Databricks
6 11 (3.11%) Red Hat
6 11 (3.11%) Splunk
7 9 (2.54%) VMware
8 8 (2.26%) Automation Anywhere
8 8 (2.26%) UiPath
9 7 (1.98%) Dynatrace
9 7 (1.98%) SAP
9 7 (1.98%) webMethods
10 6 (1.69%) Foundry
10 6 (1.69%) IBM
11 5 (1.41%) Apple
12 4 (1.13%) Citrix
110 Deployment Automation jobs in England