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 27 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 287 242 307
Rank change year-on-year -45 +65 +5
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 346 239 238
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.83% 1.01% 0.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.98% 1.10% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 237 188 171
10th Percentile £400 £298 £400
25th Percentile £450 £411 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £580 £626 £700
90th Percentile £650 £741 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 4
10th Percentile £57.58 - -
25th Percentile £68.57 - £23.80
Median hourly rate £75.34 - £45.41
75th Percentile £76.00 - £68.08
90th Percentile - - £69.98
UK median hourly rate £75.34 - £45.41
% change year-on-year - - -33.71%

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 35,337 21,704 31,436
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.82% 91.29% 85.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,449 14,185 20,585
10th Percentile £325 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £512 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -0.14% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,203 923 2,285
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.13 £15.95
Median hourly rate £45.00 £28.00 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +60.71% -23.29% -2.67%
75th Percentile £68.00 £60.00 £61.25
90th Percentile £81.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £41.94 £27.45 £36.02
% change year-on-year +52.79% -23.80% -2.64%

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 27 May 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 27 May 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 27 May 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 -10 181 £538 -2.27% 56
North of England -54 47 £475 +20.87% 24
Midlands -44 38 £515 -4.10% 7
South East -46 34 £553 +37.44% 22
South West -27 27 £553 -3.91% 8
West Midlands -42 27 £525 -4.55% 5
Yorkshire -44 22 £479 -2.24% 6
North West -31 21 £447 +17.94% 12
East Midlands -25 10 £420 -11.58% 2
North East -25 4 £450 -19.28% 6
East of England -53 4 £513 -6.77% 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 28 (8.09%) SAS
2 9 (2.60%) Apache Spark
3 8 (2.31%) Appian
4 6 (1.73%) Camunda
4 6 (1.73%) SharePoint
5 5 (1.45%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (1.16%) CMS
6 4 (1.16%) Confluence
7 3 (0.87%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.58%) Apache
8 2 (0.58%) IBM HTTP Server
8 2 (0.58%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.58%) Oracle HTTP Server
8 2 (0.58%) Sitecore CMS
8 2 (0.58%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.58%) WebSphere Application Server
8 2 (0.58%) WebSphere Portal
9 1 (0.29%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.29%) ColdFusion
9 1 (0.29%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 6 (1.73%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.58%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.29%) Cloudability
1 1 (0.29%) SAP MDG
1 1 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 172 (49.71%) Azure
2 118 (34.10%) AWS
3 82 (23.70%) GitHub
4 62 (17.92%) Azure DevOps
5 56 (16.18%) GitHub Actions
6 40 (11.56%) GCP
7 37 (10.69%) Serverless
8 29 (8.38%) Power Platform
9 21 (6.07%) AWS CloudFormation
10 20 (5.78%) AWS Lambda
10 20 (5.78%) Azure Monitor
11 19 (5.49%) Azure Data Factory
12 17 (4.91%) Amazon S3
12 17 (4.91%) Entra ID
13 16 (4.62%) PaaS
14 14 (4.05%) Azure Key Vault
14 14 (4.05%) Power Automate
15 13 (3.76%) Azure AI
15 13 (3.76%) Azure Functions
15 13 (3.76%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (5.49%) Firewall
2 14 (4.05%) DNS
3 12 (3.47%) VPN
4 10 (2.89%) TCP/IP
5 8 (2.31%) Network Security
6 4 (1.16%) DMZ
6 4 (1.16%) Software-Defined Networking
6 4 (1.16%) SSL
7 3 (0.87%) DHCP
7 3 (0.87%) HTTP
8 2 (0.58%) Kerberos
8 2 (0.58%) NGFW
9 1 (0.29%) BGP
9 1 (0.29%) HTTPS
9 1 (0.29%) Internet
9 1 (0.29%) IPsec
9 1 (0.29%) MQTT
9 1 (0.29%) OSPF
9 1 (0.29%) SMS
9 1 (0.29%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (5.78%) Power BI
1 20 (5.78%) SQL Server
2 18 (5.20%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (4.62%) Pentaho
4 15 (4.34%) Relational Database
5 14 (4.05%) Data Lake
6 13 (3.76%) Data Warehouse
7 9 (2.60%) NoSQL
8 8 (2.31%) DynamoDB
8 8 (2.31%) Metadata
8 8 (2.31%) MongoDB
8 8 (2.31%) Pinecone
8 8 (2.31%) Redis
9 7 (2.02%) Amazon Athena
9 7 (2.02%) Amazon RDS
9 7 (2.02%) Spark SQL
10 6 (1.73%) Azure SQL Database
10 6 (1.73%) Big Data
10 6 (1.73%) SAS Data Integration Studio
11 5 (1.45%) Aerospike
Development Applications
1 83 (23.99%) Git
2 67 (19.36%) Jenkins
3 54 (15.61%) GitLab
4 21 (6.07%) JIRA
5 9 (2.60%) JUnit
6 8 (2.31%) MLflow
7 7 (2.02%) fastlane
8 5 (1.45%) Artifactory
8 5 (1.45%) Mockito
8 5 (1.45%) MSI
8 5 (1.45%) Selenium
9 4 (1.16%) Cypress.io
9 4 (1.16%) git-flow
9 4 (1.16%) Gradle
9 4 (1.16%) Xcode
10 3 (0.87%) Android Studio
10 3 (0.87%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.87%) Crashlytics
10 3 (0.87%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.87%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 102 (29.48%) Social Skills
2 66 (19.08%) Public Sector
3 59 (17.05%) Finance
4 29 (8.38%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (4.62%) Banking
6 13 (3.76%) Legal
7 8 (2.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (2.02%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (1.45%) Front Office
9 5 (1.45%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.16%) Retail
11 2 (0.58%) Marketing
11 2 (0.58%) Military
11 2 (0.58%) Police
12 1 (0.29%) Law
12 1 (0.29%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.29%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 59 (17.05%) Developer
2 54 (15.61%) Senior
3 47 (13.58%) DevOps Engineer
4 38 (10.98%) Data Engineer
5 34 (9.83%) Architect
6 23 (6.65%) Azure Engineer
7 22 (6.36%) Lead
8 21 (6.07%) Cloud Engineer
9 20 (5.78%) Automation Engineer
9 20 (5.78%) Platform Engineer
10 18 (5.20%) Senior Developer
11 17 (4.91%) Full-Stack Developer
11 17 (4.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 13 (3.76%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 13 (3.76%) Salesforce Engineer
13 11 (3.18%) Platform Architect
13 11 (3.18%) Software Engineer
14 10 (2.89%) AWS Engineer
15 8 (2.31%) AWS Developer
15 8 (2.31%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (14.16%) RESTful
2 41 (11.85%) REST
3 29 (8.38%) React
4 27 (7.80%) Kafka
5 26 (7.51%) .NET
5 26 (7.51%) Node.js
6 18 (5.20%) OAuth
7 16 (4.62%) PySpark
7 16 (4.62%) pytest
8 14 (4.05%) AngularJS
8 14 (4.05%) FastAPI
8 14 (4.05%) Swagger
8 14 (4.05%) YAML
9 13 (3.76%) OpenAPI
9 13 (3.76%) Web Services
10 11 (3.18%) Django
10 11 (3.18%) Flask
10 11 (3.18%) HTML
11 10 (2.89%) CSS
11 10 (2.89%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 72 (20.81%) Cloud Native
2 23 (6.65%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (6.07%) Product Ownership
4 13 (3.76%) Onboarding
5 12 (3.47%) Legacy Systems
6 10 (2.89%) Distributed Computing
6 10 (2.89%) Mobile App
7 9 (2.60%) Data Centre
7 9 (2.60%) Hybrid Cloud
8 8 (2.31%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (2.31%) Low-Code
9 6 (1.73%) Enterprise Cloud
10 4 (1.16%) Algorithms
10 4 (1.16%) NHS
10 4 (1.16%) Private Cloud
10 4 (1.16%) Replication
11 3 (0.87%) Client/Server
11 3 (0.87%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (0.87%) Derivative
11 3 (0.87%) Energy Derivatives
Operating Systems
1 42 (12.14%) Linux
2 21 (6.07%) Windows
3 6 (1.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (1.73%) Unix
3 6 (1.73%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.16%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.87%) Android
5 3 (0.87%) Mac OS
5 3 (0.87%) VMS
6 2 (0.58%) Oracle Linux
6 2 (0.58%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
6 2 (0.58%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.58%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.58%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 266 (76.88%) CI/CD
2 205 (59.25%) DevOps
3 144 (41.62%) Infrastructure as Code
4 124 (35.84%) Agile
5 121 (34.97%) Test Automation
6 77 (22.25%) Analytics
6 77 (22.25%) Problem-Solving
7 73 (21.10%) Containerisation
8 65 (18.79%) Data Pipeline
9 62 (17.92%) Data Modelling
10 61 (17.63%) Observability
11 58 (16.76%) Scrum
12 56 (16.18%) AI
12 56 (16.18%) ETL
13 55 (15.90%) Microservices
14 54 (15.61%) Continuous Improvement
15 49 (14.16%) Migration
16 42 (12.14%) Platform Engineering
16 42 (12.14%) Validation
17 40 (11.56%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 117 (33.82%) Python
2 76 (21.97%) SQL
3 58 (16.76%) PowerShell
4 50 (14.45%) Java
5 38 (10.98%) Bash
6 34 (9.83%) Bicep
7 31 (8.96%) JavaScript
8 27 (7.80%) C#
9 25 (7.23%) TypeScript
10 8 (2.31%) PHP
11 6 (1.73%) Apex Code
11 6 (1.73%) Kotlin
12 5 (1.45%) Go
13 4 (1.16%) Rust
13 4 (1.16%) Scala
13 4 (1.16%) Swift
14 3 (0.87%) Perl
14 3 (0.87%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.87%) SAS Macro
14 3 (0.87%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 119 (34.39%) Security Cleared
2 93 (26.88%) SC Cleared
3 19 (5.49%) Degree
4 17 (4.91%) Azure Certification
5 13 (3.76%) Microsoft Certification
6 12 (3.47%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (3.18%) BPSS Clearance
7 11 (3.18%) DV Cleared
8 10 (2.89%) AWS Certification
9 7 (2.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (1.16%) RHCE
11 3 (0.87%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 3 (0.87%) CCNP
11 3 (0.87%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (0.87%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 3 (0.87%) MCSA
12 2 (0.58%) AWS Certified Developer
12 2 (0.58%) MCSE
12 2 (0.58%) OCA
12 2 (0.58%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (11.56%) Data Quality
2 30 (8.67%) QA
3 18 (5.20%) Accessibility
4 14 (4.05%) GDPR
5 12 (3.47%) WCAG
6 7 (2.02%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 4 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.58%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.58%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.58%) NCSC
9 1 (0.29%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.29%) EU AI Act
9 1 (0.29%) HL7
9 1 (0.29%) SLA
9 1 (0.29%) SOC 2
System Software
1 105 (30.35%) Docker
2 15 (4.34%) Active Directory
3 14 (4.05%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (2.31%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (1.45%) Hyper-V
5 5 (1.45%) Microsoft App-V
6 2 (0.58%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.29%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.29%) Firmware
7 1 (0.29%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 127 (36.71%) Terraform
2 125 (36.13%) Kubernetes
3 40 (11.56%) Ansible
4 14 (4.05%) Prometheus
4 14 (4.05%) SCCM
5 11 (3.18%) Grafana
6 10 (2.89%) Puppet
7 9 (2.60%) Microsoft Intune
8 6 (1.73%) Istio
9 5 (1.45%) Progress Chef
10 4 (1.16%) Argo
10 4 (1.16%) WSUS
11 2 (0.58%) CA Wily
11 2 (0.58%) Podman
11 2 (0.58%) Tivoli
12 1 (0.29%) Kustomize
12 1 (0.29%) QRadar
12 1 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 86 (24.86%) Microsoft
2 22 (6.36%) Salesforce
3 21 (6.07%) Google
4 20 (5.78%) OpenAI
5 17 (4.91%) Oracle
5 17 (4.91%) Talend
6 16 (4.62%) Denodo
7 13 (3.76%) Databricks
8 12 (3.47%) Dynatrace
9 10 (2.89%) Red Hat
10 8 (2.31%) Automation Anywhere
10 8 (2.31%) UiPath
11 7 (2.02%) Splunk
12 6 (1.73%) Apple
12 6 (1.73%) Foundry
13 4 (1.16%) Bloomberg
13 4 (1.16%) Citrix
13 4 (1.16%) ION Trading
13 4 (1.16%) Palo Alto
13 4 (1.16%) Reuters