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

 6 months to
2 Feb 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 264 320 366
Rank change year-on-year +56 +46 -74
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 322 157 186
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.98% 0.60% 0.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.12% 0.67% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 233 96 132
10th Percentile £393 £363 £475
25th Percentile £431 £446 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £606 £575
Median % change year-on-year -14.44% +5.39% -8.00%
75th Percentile £588 £750 £663
90th Percentile £688 £838 £738
UK median daily rate £515 £583 £575
% change year-on-year -11.59% +1.30% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 4
10th Percentile £26.63 - -
25th Percentile £34.64 £82.50 £22.00
Median hourly rate £48.63 £85.00 £44.51
Median % change year-on-year -42.79% +90.97% -31.52%
75th Percentile £61.98 £87.50 £68.08
90th Percentile £69.60 - £69.98
UK median hourly rate £48.63 £85.00 £44.51
% change year-on-year -42.79% +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 28,761 23,490 33,473
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.64% 89.52% 87.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,392 14,344 22,407
10th Percentile £305 £310 £300
25th Percentile £410 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £641 £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 1,792 750 1,956
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.00 £16.75
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -1.41% +1.43%
75th Percentile £60.00 £63.75 £61.90
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -22.62% -7.14% +7.69%

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 2 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 2 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 2 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 +25 148 £510 -25.27% 46
Midlands -1 59 £520 -9.57% 11
West Midlands +4 51 £525 -11.54% 9
North of England -29 42 £482 +9.55% 14
North West -13 25 £453 +13.25% 7
South West -7 22 £538 -21.53% 8
South East -14 19 £538 +26.47% 39
Yorkshire -48 14 £509 -15.03% 4
East Midlands -15 8 £393 +4.80% 2
East of England -25 7 £513 +84.77% 5
North East -15 3 £500 -11.50% 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 38 (11.80%) SAS
2 14 (4.35%) Apache
3 13 (4.04%) JBoss
4 8 (2.48%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (2.48%) WebLogic
5 7 (2.17%) SharePoint
6 6 (1.86%) Appian
6 6 (1.86%) Camunda
7 5 (1.55%) Confluence
7 5 (1.55%) IIS
7 5 (1.55%) iPlanet
7 5 (1.55%) WebSphere
7 5 (1.55%) WebSphere Application Server
8 4 (1.24%) Oracle Workflow
9 3 (0.93%) Anypoint
9 3 (0.93%) Apache Spark
9 3 (0.93%) CMS
9 3 (0.93%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.62%) nginx
10 2 (0.62%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 5 (1.55%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.62%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.31%) Endur
2 1 (0.31%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 114 (35.40%) Azure
2 95 (29.50%) AWS
3 67 (20.81%) GitHub
4 50 (15.53%) GitHub Actions
5 42 (13.04%) Azure DevOps
6 31 (9.63%) Serverless
7 28 (8.70%) GCP
8 24 (7.45%) Power Platform
9 17 (5.28%) AWS CloudFormation
9 17 (5.28%) AWS Lambda
9 17 (5.28%) OpenShift
10 15 (4.66%) Entra ID
11 14 (4.35%) Azure Functions
11 14 (4.35%) Power Automate
12 13 (4.04%) Amazon S3
13 12 (3.73%) Azure Data Factory
13 12 (3.73%) Azure Key Vault
14 11 (3.42%) Azure AI
14 11 (3.42%) Azure Logic Apps
15 10 (3.11%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 21 (6.52%) HTTPS
2 9 (2.80%) SSL
3 7 (2.17%) Firewall
3 7 (2.17%) TCP/IP
4 6 (1.86%) DHCP
5 5 (1.55%) DNS
5 5 (1.55%) Kerberos
6 4 (1.24%) Network Security
6 4 (1.24%) Software-Defined Networking
6 4 (1.24%) VPN
7 2 (0.62%) DMZ
7 2 (0.62%) Internet
8 1 (0.31%) BGP
8 1 (0.31%) Calico
8 1 (0.31%) Ethernet VPN
8 1 (0.31%) HTTP
8 1 (0.31%) SMS
8 1 (0.31%) VSAN
8 1 (0.31%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (10.25%) Pentaho
2 18 (5.59%) SQL Server
3 17 (5.28%) Relational Database
4 14 (4.35%) Power BI
5 13 (4.04%) Oracle Database
6 11 (3.42%) NoSQL
6 11 (3.42%) SAS Enterprise Guide
7 9 (2.80%) MongoDB
7 9 (2.80%) PostgreSQL
8 8 (2.48%) Amazon RDS
8 8 (2.48%) Azure SQL Database
8 8 (2.48%) Data Lake
8 8 (2.48%) Redis
8 8 (2.48%) Spark SQL
9 7 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (1.86%) Aerospike
10 6 (1.86%) Apache Cassandra
10 6 (1.86%) Pinecone
11 5 (1.55%) DynamoDB
11 5 (1.55%) SAS Visual Analytics
Development Applications
1 102 (31.68%) Git
2 85 (26.40%) Jenkins
3 47 (14.60%) GitLab
4 40 (12.42%) JIRA
5 16 (4.97%) JUnit
6 9 (2.80%) Selenium
7 8 (2.48%) Eclipse
7 8 (2.48%) IntelliJ
8 6 (1.86%) Bitbucket
8 6 (1.86%) MLflow
8 6 (1.86%) Sonatype Nexus
9 5 (1.55%) Bitbucket Server
9 5 (1.55%) CA Release Automation
9 5 (1.55%) CircleCI
10 4 (1.24%) Artifactory
10 4 (1.24%) Maven
10 4 (1.24%) Mockito
11 3 (0.93%) Gradle
11 3 (0.93%) MSI
12 2 (0.62%) Cypress.io
General
1 118 (36.65%) Social Skills
2 59 (18.32%) Public Sector
3 51 (15.84%) Finance
4 36 (11.18%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (2.48%) Influencing Skills
6 7 (2.17%) Marketing
7 6 (1.86%) Banking
8 5 (1.55%) Legal
9 4 (1.24%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (0.93%) Investment Banking
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%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.62%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.62%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.31%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 85 (26.40%) Developer
2 36 (11.18%) DevOps Engineer
3 33 (10.25%) Architect
4 24 (7.45%) Data Engineer
5 21 (6.52%) Senior
6 18 (5.59%) Automation Engineer
7 17 (5.28%) Azure Engineer
7 17 (5.28%) Lead
8 16 (4.97%) Platform Engineer
9 14 (4.35%) Full-Stack Developer
10 12 (3.73%) Python Developer
10 12 (3.73%) webMethods Developer
11 11 (3.42%) Cloud Engineer
11 11 (3.42%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 10 (3.11%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 10 (3.11%) Technical Architect
13 9 (2.80%) AWS Engineer
14 8 (2.48%) Full-Stack Python Developer
14 8 (2.48%) Platform Architect
14 8 (2.48%) SAS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (18.63%) REST
2 43 (13.35%) JSON
3 42 (13.04%) SOAP
4 38 (11.80%) RESTful
5 37 (11.49%) XML
6 33 (10.25%) React
7 24 (7.45%) OAuth
8 23 (7.14%) Node.js
8 23 (7.14%) pytest
9 22 (6.83%) HTML
10 21 (6.52%) Spring
11 18 (5.59%) AngularJS
12 17 (5.28%) PySpark
13 16 (4.97%) Kafka
14 15 (4.66%) .NET
14 15 (4.66%) FastAPI
14 15 (4.66%) Jest
15 13 (4.04%) Spring Boot
15 13 (4.04%) Web Services
15 13 (4.04%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 37 (11.49%) Cloud Native
2 12 (3.73%) Distributed Systems
2 12 (3.73%) Product Ownership
3 9 (2.80%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (2.48%) Distributed Computing
5 7 (2.17%) Data Centre
6 6 (1.86%) Low-Code
6 6 (1.86%) Private Cloud
7 5 (1.55%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (1.55%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (1.55%) NHS
7 5 (1.55%) Onboarding
7 5 (1.55%) Security Posture
8 4 (1.24%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.24%) Mobile App
9 3 (0.93%) AI Agents
9 3 (0.93%) CMDB
9 3 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (0.93%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 49 (15.22%) Linux
2 25 (7.76%) Windows
3 15 (4.66%) Unix
4 12 (3.73%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.55%) VMS
6 2 (0.62%) Android
6 2 (0.62%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.31%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.31%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 228 (70.81%) CI/CD
2 210 (65.22%) DevOps
3 126 (39.13%) Agile
4 124 (38.51%) Test Automation
5 113 (35.09%) Problem-Solving
6 111 (34.47%) Infrastructure as Code
7 76 (23.60%) Containerisation
8 71 (22.05%) Analytics
9 63 (19.57%) Data Pipeline
10 62 (19.25%) Scrum
11 61 (18.94%) Data Modelling
12 59 (18.32%) Continuous Improvement
13 58 (18.01%) ETL
14 52 (16.15%) Microservices
15 50 (15.53%) Infrastructure Automation
16 49 (15.22%) Business Intelligence
17 41 (12.73%) Data Integration
18 39 (12.11%) Migration
18 39 (12.11%) Observability
19 33 (10.25%) Data Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 101 (31.37%) Python
2 97 (30.12%) SQL
3 51 (15.84%) Java
4 40 (12.42%) PowerShell
5 34 (10.56%) JavaScript
6 33 (10.25%) Bash
6 33 (10.25%) TypeScript
7 18 (5.59%) Bicep
8 15 (4.66%) C#
9 9 (2.80%) Groovy
9 9 (2.80%) Scala
10 8 (2.48%) PHP
11 7 (2.17%) Shell Script
12 6 (1.86%) Apex Code
13 5 (1.55%) T-SQL
14 4 (1.24%) Go
15 3 (0.93%) DataWeave
16 2 (0.62%) Kotlin
16 2 (0.62%) Rust
17 1 (0.31%) Swift
Qualifications
1 144 (44.72%) Security Cleared
2 118 (36.65%) SC Cleared
3 14 (4.35%) Degree
4 11 (3.42%) AWS Certification
4 11 (3.42%) Azure Certification
4 11 (3.42%) DV Cleared
5 9 (2.80%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (2.48%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (2.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 7 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (1.24%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.24%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 2 (0.62%) CISSP
9 2 (0.62%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.31%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.31%) MCSA
10 1 (0.31%) MCSE
10 1 (0.31%) OCA
10 1 (0.31%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (12.73%) Data Quality
2 23 (7.14%) QA
3 11 (3.42%) GDPR
4 7 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (2.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 6 (1.86%) Accessibility
5 6 (1.86%) NIST
6 5 (1.55%) NCSC
7 3 (0.93%) HIPAA
7 3 (0.93%) WCAG
8 2 (0.62%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.62%) SLA
9 1 (0.31%) NIST 800
System Software
1 126 (39.13%) Docker
2 24 (7.45%) Active Directory
3 8 (2.48%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (2.17%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (1.55%) Tivoli Directory Server
6 4 (1.24%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.93%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.62%) Xen
9 1 (0.31%) etcd
9 1 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.31%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 118 (36.65%) Kubernetes
2 97 (30.12%) Terraform
3 34 (10.56%) Ansible
4 17 (5.28%) Grafana
5 14 (4.35%) Prometheus
6 12 (3.73%) Puppet
7 10 (3.11%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (2.17%) Progress Chef
9 5 (1.55%) CA Single Sign-On
9 5 (1.55%) CA Wily
9 5 (1.55%) Podman
9 5 (1.55%) Tivoli
10 4 (1.24%) Istio
10 4 (1.24%) ITRS Geneos
10 4 (1.24%) Packer
10 4 (1.24%) SCCM
11 3 (0.93%) CloudHub
11 3 (0.93%) Proxmox
11 3 (0.93%) vRealize
12 2 (0.62%) Consul
Vendors
1 83 (25.78%) Microsoft
2 44 (13.66%) Oracle
3 34 (10.56%) Talend
4 33 (10.25%) Denodo
5 21 (6.52%) webMethods
6 17 (5.28%) Salesforce
7 16 (4.97%) Databricks
7 16 (4.97%) Google
7 16 (4.97%) IBM
7 16 (4.97%) Splunk
8 15 (4.66%) OpenAI
8 15 (4.66%) VMware
9 14 (4.35%) SAP
10 11 (3.42%) Software AG
11 8 (2.48%) Axway
12 6 (1.86%) AppDynamics
12 6 (1.86%) Automation Anywhere
12 6 (1.86%) UiPath
13 5 (1.55%) Broadcom
13 5 (1.55%) ServiceNow
108 Deployment Automation jobs in England