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

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 251 267 314
Rank change year-on-year +16 +47 +33
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 473 270 219
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.04% 0.98% 0.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.22% 1.08% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 315 213 146
10th Percentile £405 £337 £390
25th Percentile £444 £413 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £604 £625 £700
90th Percentile £675 £705 £775
UK median daily rate £513 £547 £600
% change year-on-year -6.22% -8.92% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 3
10th Percentile £69.35 - -
25th Percentile £73.63 - -
Median hourly rate £76.00 - £23.80
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £76.00 - £23.80
% change year-on-year - - -66.48%

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 38,748 25,020 28,500
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.82% 90.83% 85.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,949 15,925 18,341
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £511 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.74% -2.67% -4.55%
75th Percentile £630 £627 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £753
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,582 1,471 1,520
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.25 £14.05
25th Percentile £19.00 £17.87 £18.13
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +1.18%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.05 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.56 £25.15 £40.94
% change year-on-year +65.23% -38.57% -3.67%

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 25 August 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 25 August 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 +18 228 £550 -1.79% 164
North of England -20 81 £500 +24.38% 54
South East -41 54 £565 +18.95% 29
South West -18 44 £450 -15.29% 33
Midlands -47 44 £492 -5.69% 19
West Midlands -30 40 £492 -6.27% 10
Yorkshire -19 36 £500 -15.25% 15
North West -22 32 £528 +34.22% 28
North East -28 13 £450 +20.00% 12
East of England -39 8 £850 +54.55% 11
East Midlands -18 4 £474 -0.32% 9
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 (4.86%) Confluence
2 18 (3.81%) Apache Spark
3 15 (3.17%) SAS
4 11 (2.33%) Apache
4 11 (2.33%) Apache Airflow
5 8 (1.69%) SharePoint
6 5 (1.06%) CMS
7 3 (0.63%) Oracle Workflow
7 3 (0.63%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.42%) Camunda
8 2 (0.42%) IBM HTTP Server
8 2 (0.42%) nginx
8 2 (0.42%) Oracle HTTP Server
8 2 (0.42%) WebSphere Application Server
8 2 (0.42%) WebSphere Portal
9 1 (0.21%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.21%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.21%) IIS
9 1 (0.21%) OpenROAD
9 1 (0.21%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 3 (0.63%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.21%) Misys Equation
3 1 (0.21%) Misys Midas
3 1 (0.21%) SAP CRM
3 1 (0.21%) SAP MDG
3 1 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.21%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 272 (57.51%) Azure
2 176 (37.21%) AWS
3 142 (30.02%) Azure DevOps
4 113 (23.89%) GitHub
5 88 (18.60%) GitHub Actions
6 60 (12.68%) Serverless
7 58 (12.26%) GCP
8 44 (9.30%) AWS Lambda
9 38 (8.03%) Amazon S3
9 38 (8.03%) Azure Monitor
10 37 (7.82%) Amazon EKS
11 32 (6.77%) Azure AKS
12 31 (6.55%) Entra ID
13 29 (6.13%) Amazon ECS
14 28 (5.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 28 (5.92%) Power Platform
15 26 (5.50%) Amazon EC2
16 21 (4.44%) AWS CloudFormation
16 21 (4.44%) Azure Key Vault
17 20 (4.23%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 35 (7.40%) Firewall
2 28 (5.92%) DNS
3 24 (5.07%) Network Security
4 17 (3.59%) VPN
5 15 (3.17%) TCP/IP
6 7 (1.48%) DHCP
6 7 (1.48%) SSH
7 6 (1.27%) DMZ
7 6 (1.27%) SSL
8 4 (0.85%) Internet
9 3 (0.63%) HTTP
9 3 (0.63%) Kerberos
9 3 (0.63%) NGFW
9 3 (0.63%) Reverse Proxy
10 2 (0.42%) HTTPS
10 2 (0.42%) OpenLDAP
11 1 (0.21%) FTP
11 1 (0.21%) MPLS
11 1 (0.21%) SMTP
11 1 (0.21%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (5.92%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (5.50%) SQL Server
3 21 (4.44%) Power BI
4 19 (4.02%) Data Warehouse
4 19 (4.02%) Relational Database
5 18 (3.81%) NoSQL
6 15 (3.17%) Data Lake
7 13 (2.75%) MongoDB
8 12 (2.54%) Amazon RDS
8 12 (2.54%) Metadata
8 12 (2.54%) Pentaho
9 11 (2.33%) Geospatial Data
9 11 (2.33%) Redis
10 9 (1.90%) Elasticsearch
10 9 (1.90%) MySQL
11 8 (1.69%) Azure SQL Database
11 8 (1.69%) Big Data
11 8 (1.69%) BigQuery
11 8 (1.69%) DynamoDB
12 6 (1.27%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 121 (25.58%) Git
2 103 (21.78%) Jenkins
3 84 (17.76%) GitLab
4 39 (8.25%) JIRA
5 16 (3.38%) MSI
6 11 (2.33%) fastlane
6 11 (2.33%) Selenium
7 9 (1.90%) Gradle
7 9 (1.90%) JUnit
8 8 (1.69%) Visual Studio
9 6 (1.27%) Maven
9 6 (1.27%) SonarQube
9 6 (1.27%) Sonatype Nexus
9 6 (1.27%) Visual Studio Code
9 6 (1.27%) Xcode
10 5 (1.06%) Android Studio
10 5 (1.06%) Crashlytics
10 5 (1.06%) MSBuild
11 4 (0.85%) Mockito
11 4 (0.85%) TeamCity
General
1 138 (29.18%) Social Skills
2 89 (18.82%) Public Sector
3 59 (12.47%) Finance
4 51 (10.78%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (5.50%) Banking
6 17 (3.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (2.54%) Documentation Skills
8 9 (1.90%) Retail
9 7 (1.48%) Legal
10 6 (1.27%) Front Office
10 6 (1.27%) Marketing
11 5 (1.06%) Investment Banking
11 5 (1.06%) Manufacturing
12 4 (0.85%) Military
13 3 (0.63%) Financial Institution
13 3 (0.63%) Law
14 2 (0.42%) Aerospace
14 2 (0.42%) Back Office
14 2 (0.42%) Pharmaceutical
14 2 (0.42%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 95 (20.08%) Developer
2 92 (19.45%) Senior
3 76 (16.07%) DevOps Engineer
4 43 (9.09%) Lead
5 42 (8.88%) Cloud Engineer
6 40 (8.46%) Data Engineer
7 35 (7.40%) Architect
8 34 (7.19%) Platform Engineer
9 32 (6.77%) Azure Engineer
10 28 (5.92%) Senior Developer
11 27 (5.71%) Software Engineer
12 25 (5.29%) AWS Engineer
13 23 (4.86%) Full-Stack Developer
14 18 (3.81%) Senior DevOps
15 17 (3.59%) AWS DevOps
15 17 (3.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 15 (3.17%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 15 (3.17%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 14 (2.96%) Python Engineer
17 14 (2.96%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 199 (42.07%) Terraform
2 83 (17.55%) REST
3 72 (15.22%) RESTful
4 59 (12.47%) .NET
5 49 (10.36%) React
6 43 (9.09%) Kafka
7 31 (6.55%) .NET Framework
8 30 (6.34%) HTML
9 28 (5.92%) .NET Core
9 28 (5.92%) CSS
9 28 (5.92%) Spring
9 28 (5.92%) Spring Boot
10 21 (4.44%) AngularJS
10 21 (4.44%) Node.js
10 21 (4.44%) OAuth
11 20 (4.23%) HTML5
12 19 (4.02%) ARM Templates
13 17 (3.59%) CSS3
13 17 (3.59%) YAML
14 16 (3.38%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 140 (29.60%) Cloud Native
2 41 (8.67%) Product Ownership
3 40 (8.46%) Distributed Systems
4 32 (6.77%) Onboarding
5 27 (5.71%) Enterprise Software
6 18 (3.81%) Legacy Systems
7 13 (2.75%) Hybrid Cloud
8 12 (2.54%) Mobile App
9 11 (2.33%) Security Posture
10 9 (1.90%) AI Agents
10 9 (1.90%) Enterprise Cloud
10 9 (1.90%) NHS
11 8 (1.69%) PKI
11 8 (1.69%) Replication
11 8 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
12 7 (1.48%) Linux Command Line
12 7 (1.48%) Wiki
13 6 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
13 6 (1.27%) Management Information System
13 6 (1.27%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 66 (13.95%) Linux
2 45 (9.51%) Windows
3 20 (4.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 15 (3.17%) Windows Server
5 14 (2.96%) Unix
6 9 (1.90%) Apple iOS
7 7 (1.48%) Ubuntu
8 6 (1.27%) Android
9 4 (0.85%) Windows 10
10 3 (0.63%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.63%) VMS
11 2 (0.42%) Amazon Linux
11 2 (0.42%) Oracle Linux
11 2 (0.42%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 2 (0.42%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.21%) CentOS
12 1 (0.21%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 395 (83.51%) CI/CD
2 299 (63.21%) DevOps
3 227 (47.99%) Infrastructure as Code
4 202 (42.71%) Agile
5 174 (36.79%) Test Automation
6 138 (29.18%) Containerisation
7 113 (23.89%) Continuous Improvement
8 108 (22.83%) Observability
9 100 (21.14%) Analytics
10 97 (20.51%) Microservices
11 95 (20.08%) Problem-Solving
12 84 (17.76%) Platform Engineering
13 82 (17.34%) DevSecOps
14 79 (16.70%) Software Engineering
15 78 (16.49%) AI
16 76 (16.07%) Scrum
17 63 (13.32%) Data Pipeline
18 60 (12.68%) Technical Leadership
19 55 (11.63%) Configuration Management
20 54 (11.42%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 174 (36.79%) Python
2 99 (20.93%) SQL
3 82 (17.34%) PowerShell
4 72 (15.22%) Java
5 58 (12.26%) JavaScript
6 55 (11.63%) Bash
6 55 (11.63%) C#
7 54 (11.42%) Bicep
8 41 (8.67%) TypeScript
9 11 (2.33%) Shell Script
10 9 (1.90%) Kotlin
11 8 (1.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 8 (1.69%) Go
12 6 (1.27%) Apex Code
12 6 (1.27%) Swift
13 5 (1.06%) Scala
14 4 (0.85%) Korn
14 4 (0.85%) Perl
15 3 (0.63%) PHP
15 3 (0.63%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 175 (37.00%) Security Cleared
2 140 (29.60%) SC Cleared
3 35 (7.40%) Degree
4 29 (6.13%) DV Cleared
5 25 (5.29%) Azure Certification
6 23 (4.86%) Computer Science Degree
7 22 (4.65%) AWS Certification
8 16 (3.38%) Microsoft Certification
9 9 (1.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 8 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
11 6 (1.27%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 4 (0.85%) CISSP
12 4 (0.85%) Master's Degree
13 3 (0.63%) GCFA
13 3 (0.63%) GCIH
13 3 (0.63%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 3 (0.63%) MCSA
13 3 (0.63%) MCSE
14 1 (0.21%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 1 (0.21%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (10.99%) QA
2 36 (7.61%) Accessibility
3 30 (6.34%) WCAG
4 26 (5.50%) Data Quality
5 14 (2.96%) GDPR
5 14 (2.96%) NCSC
6 4 (0.85%) HL7
6 4 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (0.63%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.63%) ISO 20022
7 3 (0.63%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.21%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.21%) ISO 15022
8 1 (0.21%) NIST
8 1 (0.21%) PMO
8 1 (0.21%) SLA
8 1 (0.21%) SOC 2
System Software
1 151 (31.92%) Docker
2 25 (5.29%) Active Directory
3 13 (2.75%) Virtual Desktop
4 10 (2.11%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (1.06%) Microsoft App-V
5 5 (1.06%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.42%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 2 (0.42%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.21%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.21%) DFS Replication
7 1 (0.21%) Dovecot
7 1 (0.21%) Firmware
7 1 (0.21%) Postfix
7 1 (0.21%) Squid
7 1 (0.21%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 178 (37.63%) Kubernetes
2 68 (14.38%) Ansible
3 28 (5.92%) Grafana
4 22 (4.65%) Prometheus
5 18 (3.81%) SCCM
6 17 (3.59%) Microsoft Intune
7 12 (2.54%) Progress Chef
8 10 (2.11%) Puppet
9 6 (1.27%) Argo
9 6 (1.27%) Istio
9 6 (1.27%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (1.27%) WSUS
10 4 (0.85%) Control-M
11 3 (0.63%) CASB
12 2 (0.42%) CA Wily
12 2 (0.42%) Kibana
12 2 (0.42%) Tivoli
13 1 (0.21%) FortiGate
13 1 (0.21%) ITRS Geneos
13 1 (0.21%) Nessus
Vendors
1 127 (26.85%) Microsoft
2 32 (6.77%) Google
3 27 (5.71%) Databricks
4 25 (5.29%) Oracle
5 22 (4.65%) Dynatrace
6 16 (3.38%) Red Hat
6 16 (3.38%) Salesforce
7 15 (3.17%) Splunk
8 13 (2.75%) Talend
9 10 (2.11%) Denodo
10 7 (1.48%) Apple
10 7 (1.48%) ServiceNow
11 6 (1.27%) Citrix
12 5 (1.06%) Bloomberg
12 5 (1.06%) CrowdStrike
12 5 (1.06%) IBM
12 5 (1.06%) ION Trading
12 5 (1.06%) Reuters
12 5 (1.06%) VMware
13 4 (0.85%) Confluent