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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 277 263 318
Rank change year-on-year -14 +55 -8
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 381 252 243
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.88% 1.01% 0.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.03% 1.11% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 272 198 169
10th Percentile £402 £332 £400
25th Percentile £450 £413 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £700
90th Percentile £665 £738 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -6.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 5
10th Percentile £60.02 - -
25th Percentile £74.68 - -
Median hourly rate £76.00 - £23.80
75th Percentile - - £67.02
90th Percentile - - £69.56
UK median hourly rate £76.00 - £23.80
% change year-on-year - - -63.94%

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 36,836 22,759 32,181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.26% 91.40% 85.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,282 14,723 20,802
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £415 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £730 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £502 £525
% change year-on-year +2.19% -4.48% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,303 1,078 2,398
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.10 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.50 £27.40 £37.63
Median % change year-on-year +73.36% -27.18% +4.81%
75th Percentile £68.75 £56.25 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year +72.39% -32.00% +7.05%

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 20 June 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 20 June 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 20 June 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 -12 200 £550 - 44
North of England -51 57 £471 +18.66% 20
Midlands -31 40 £520 -3.17% 8
South East -51 34 £550 +22.22% 35
West Midlands -36 30 £525 -4.55% 4
South West -26 27 £488 -15.22% 7
North West -31 26 £492 +25.83% 13
Yorkshire -51 23 £488 -16.31% 3
East Midlands -14 9 £447 +11.61% 4
North East -31 8 £450 -18.18% 4
East of England -54 6 £550 - 10
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 28 (7.35%) SAS
2 14 (3.67%) Apache Spark
3 11 (2.89%) Confluence
4 7 (1.84%) Appian
4 7 (1.84%) SharePoint
5 6 (1.57%) Apache
5 6 (1.57%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (1.57%) Camunda
6 4 (1.05%) CMS
7 3 (0.79%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.52%) IBM HTTP Server
8 2 (0.52%) Oracle HTTP Server
8 2 (0.52%) Sitecore CMS
8 2 (0.52%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.52%) WebSphere Application Server
8 2 (0.52%) WebSphere Portal
9 1 (0.26%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.26%) OpenROAD
9 1 (0.26%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 2 (0.52%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.26%) Cloudability
1 1 (0.26%) SAP MDG
1 1 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 195 (51.18%) Azure
2 134 (35.17%) AWS
3 93 (24.41%) GitHub
4 81 (21.26%) Azure DevOps
5 66 (17.32%) GitHub Actions
6 44 (11.55%) GCP
7 42 (11.02%) Serverless
8 31 (8.14%) Power Platform
9 27 (7.09%) Amazon S3
9 27 (7.09%) AWS Lambda
10 21 (5.51%) Azure Monitor
11 20 (5.25%) AWS CloudFormation
12 19 (4.99%) Azure Data Factory
13 17 (4.46%) Azure Key Vault
14 16 (4.20%) Amazon EKS
15 14 (3.67%) Amazon ECS
15 14 (3.67%) Amazon SQS
16 13 (3.41%) Amazon EC2
16 13 (3.41%) PaaS
16 13 (3.41%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 22 (5.77%) Firewall
2 15 (3.94%) DNS
2 15 (3.94%) VPN
3 11 (2.89%) Network Security
3 11 (2.89%) TCP/IP
4 7 (1.84%) DMZ
5 4 (1.05%) Software-Defined Networking
5 4 (1.05%) SSL
6 3 (0.79%) DHCP
7 2 (0.52%) HTTP
7 2 (0.52%) Kerberos
7 2 (0.52%) NGFW
7 2 (0.52%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (0.26%) BGP
8 1 (0.26%) Cisco IOS
8 1 (0.26%) Cisco Nexus
8 1 (0.26%) MQTT
8 1 (0.26%) OpenLDAP
8 1 (0.26%) OSPF
8 1 (0.26%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (6.04%) Power BI
2 21 (5.51%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (5.51%) SQL Server
3 18 (4.72%) Relational Database
4 17 (4.46%) Pentaho
5 14 (3.67%) Data Warehouse
6 12 (3.15%) Data Lake
7 11 (2.89%) NoSQL
7 11 (2.89%) Redis
8 10 (2.62%) Amazon RDS
8 10 (2.62%) DynamoDB
9 9 (2.36%) Metadata
9 9 (2.36%) MongoDB
10 8 (2.10%) Amazon Athena
11 7 (1.84%) Pinecone
12 6 (1.57%) Big Data
12 6 (1.57%) SAS Data Integration Studio
13 5 (1.31%) Aerospike
13 5 (1.31%) Amazon Redshift
13 5 (1.31%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 90 (23.62%) Git
2 78 (20.47%) Jenkins
3 61 (16.01%) GitLab
4 29 (7.61%) JIRA
5 11 (2.89%) fastlane
6 10 (2.62%) MSI
7 9 (2.36%) JUnit
8 7 (1.84%) MLflow
9 6 (1.57%) Gradle
9 6 (1.57%) Xcode
10 5 (1.31%) Android Studio
10 5 (1.31%) Artifactory
10 5 (1.31%) Crashlytics
10 5 (1.31%) Mockito
11 4 (1.05%) git-flow
11 4 (1.05%) Selenium
12 3 (0.79%) Bitbucket
12 3 (0.79%) Cypress.io
12 3 (0.79%) SonarQube
12 3 (0.79%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 111 (29.13%) Social Skills
2 75 (19.69%) Public Sector
3 67 (17.59%) Finance
4 29 (7.61%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (5.51%) Banking
6 16 (4.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (3.15%) Legal
8 8 (2.10%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (1.84%) Front Office
9 7 (1.84%) Investment Banking
10 5 (1.31%) Retail
11 3 (0.79%) Financial Institution
11 3 (0.79%) Law
12 2 (0.52%) Marketing
13 1 (0.26%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.26%) Police
13 1 (0.26%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.26%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 71 (18.64%) Senior
2 65 (17.06%) Developer
3 55 (14.44%) DevOps Engineer
4 44 (11.55%) Data Engineer
5 35 (9.19%) Architect
6 30 (7.87%) Cloud Engineer
7 26 (6.82%) Lead
8 23 (6.04%) Azure Engineer
8 23 (6.04%) Platform Engineer
8 23 (6.04%) Senior Developer
9 20 (5.25%) Full-Stack Developer
9 20 (5.25%) Software Engineer
10 19 (4.99%) AWS Engineer
11 15 (3.94%) Salesforce Engineer
12 14 (3.67%) Automation Engineer
12 14 (3.67%) Senior DevOps
13 13 (3.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 12 (3.15%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 12 (3.15%) Platform Architect
15 11 (2.89%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (15.22%) RESTful
2 50 (13.12%) REST
3 35 (9.19%) React
4 32 (8.40%) .NET
5 27 (7.09%) Kafka
6 25 (6.56%) Node.js
7 20 (5.25%) PySpark
8 18 (4.72%) AngularJS
8 18 (4.72%) OAuth
9 17 (4.46%) FastAPI
10 16 (4.20%) HTML
11 15 (3.94%) .NET Framework
11 15 (3.94%) CSS
11 15 (3.94%) pytest
12 14 (3.67%) YAML
13 13 (3.41%) .NET Core
13 13 (3.41%) Flask
13 13 (3.41%) Spring
13 13 (3.41%) Spring Boot
13 13 (3.41%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 94 (24.67%) Cloud Native
2 32 (8.40%) Distributed Systems
3 25 (6.56%) Product Ownership
4 20 (5.25%) Onboarding
5 17 (4.46%) Legacy Systems
6 14 (3.67%) Mobile App
7 10 (2.62%) Data Centre
7 10 (2.62%) Enterprise Software
8 9 (2.36%) Hybrid Cloud
9 8 (2.10%) Distributed Computing
10 7 (1.84%) Enterprise Cloud
10 7 (1.84%) Low-Code
10 7 (1.84%) NHS
11 5 (1.31%) Security Posture
12 4 (1.05%) Client/Server
12 4 (1.05%) Replication
12 4 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
13 3 (0.79%) Data Protection Act
13 3 (0.79%) Derivative
13 3 (0.79%) Energy Derivatives
Operating Systems
1 45 (11.81%) Linux
2 28 (7.35%) Windows
3 10 (2.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (1.84%) Unix
5 6 (1.57%) Apple iOS
5 6 (1.57%) Windows Server
6 5 (1.31%) Android
7 3 (0.79%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.52%) Oracle Linux
8 2 (0.52%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
8 2 (0.52%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.52%) VMS
8 2 (0.52%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.52%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.52%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.26%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 304 (79.79%) CI/CD
2 229 (60.10%) DevOps
3 158 (41.47%) Infrastructure as Code
4 151 (39.63%) Agile
5 138 (36.22%) Test Automation
6 93 (24.41%) Analytics
7 83 (21.78%) Containerisation
8 82 (21.52%) Problem-Solving
9 69 (18.11%) Data Pipeline
10 65 (17.06%) AI
10 65 (17.06%) Data Modelling
10 65 (17.06%) Microservices
10 65 (17.06%) Observability
10 65 (17.06%) Scrum
11 63 (16.54%) Continuous Improvement
12 56 (14.70%) ETL
13 52 (13.65%) Platform Engineering
14 49 (12.86%) Validation
15 48 (12.60%) Migration
15 48 (12.60%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 144 (37.80%) Python
2 80 (21.00%) SQL
3 60 (15.75%) PowerShell
4 54 (14.17%) Java
5 37 (9.71%) Bash
5 37 (9.71%) Bicep
5 37 (9.71%) C#
6 30 (7.87%) JavaScript
6 30 (7.87%) TypeScript
7 9 (2.36%) Apex Code
8 8 (2.10%) Kotlin
9 6 (1.57%) Swift
10 5 (1.31%) Go
11 4 (1.05%) Perl
11 4 (1.05%) Rust
11 4 (1.05%) Scala
11 4 (1.05%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (0.79%) PHP
12 3 (0.79%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 128 (33.60%) Security Cleared
2 104 (27.30%) SC Cleared
3 21 (5.51%) Degree
4 16 (4.20%) Azure Certification
5 15 (3.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (3.94%) DV Cleared
6 13 (3.41%) Microsoft Certification
7 12 (3.15%) AWS Certification
8 11 (2.89%) BPSS Clearance
9 9 (2.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 5 (1.31%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 4 (1.05%) RHCE
12 3 (0.79%) CCNP
12 3 (0.79%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (0.79%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 3 (0.79%) MCSA
12 3 (0.79%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 2 (0.52%) AWS Certified Developer
13 2 (0.52%) Master's Degree
13 2 (0.52%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (10.50%) Data Quality
2 36 (9.45%) QA
3 25 (6.56%) Accessibility
4 22 (5.77%) WCAG
5 14 (3.67%) GDPR
6 7 (1.84%) NCSC
7 5 (1.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 4 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.79%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.52%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.52%) HL7
11 1 (0.26%) Disclosure Scotland
11 1 (0.26%) EU AI Act
11 1 (0.26%) SLA
11 1 (0.26%) SOC 2
System Software
1 115 (30.18%) Docker
2 15 (3.94%) Virtual Machines
3 12 (3.15%) Active Directory
4 8 (2.10%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (1.31%) Hyper-V
5 5 (1.31%) Microsoft App-V
6 3 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.26%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.26%) Firmware
7 1 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.26%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 139 (36.48%) Terraform
2 137 (35.96%) Kubernetes
3 40 (10.50%) Ansible
4 15 (3.94%) Prometheus
4 15 (3.94%) SCCM
5 12 (3.15%) Grafana
6 8 (2.10%) Microsoft Intune
7 7 (1.84%) Puppet
8 6 (1.57%) Istio
8 6 (1.57%) WSUS
9 4 (1.05%) Argo
9 4 (1.05%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.52%) CA Wily
10 2 (0.52%) Control-M
10 2 (0.52%) Tivoli
11 1 (0.26%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.26%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.26%) Podman
11 1 (0.26%) QRadar
11 1 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 92 (24.15%) Microsoft
2 25 (6.56%) Google
3 22 (5.77%) Salesforce
4 21 (5.51%) Databricks
5 20 (5.25%) OpenAI
6 18 (4.72%) Oracle
6 18 (4.72%) Talend
7 17 (4.46%) Dynatrace
8 16 (4.20%) Denodo
9 11 (2.89%) Red Hat
10 8 (2.10%) Apple
11 7 (1.84%) Automation Anywhere
11 7 (1.84%) Foundry
11 7 (1.84%) Splunk
11 7 (1.84%) UiPath
12 6 (1.57%) Bloomberg
12 6 (1.57%) Citrix
12 6 (1.57%) ION Trading
12 6 (1.57%) Reuters
13 4 (1.05%) VMware