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

6 months to
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 268 312 360
Rank change year-on-year +44 +48 -59
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 330 173 193
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.97% 0.66% 0.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.10% 0.74% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 235 110 135
10th Percentile £381 £389 £463
25th Percentile £427 £457 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £585 £575
Median % change year-on-year -12.31% +1.74% -8.00%
75th Percentile £588 £750 £669
90th Percentile £688 £838 £748
UK median daily rate £510 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -11.30% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 4
10th Percentile £27.08 - -
25th Percentile £35.77 £82.50 £22.00
Median hourly rate £50.50 £85.00 £44.51
Median % change year-on-year -40.59% +90.97% -31.52%
75th Percentile £62.72 £87.50 £68.08
90th Percentile £69.89 - £69.98
UK median hourly rate £50.50 £85.00 £44.51
% change year-on-year -40.59% +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 29,880 23,401 33,008
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.55% 89.79% 87.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,087 14,489 22,006
10th Percentile £309 £310 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £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 1,872 735 1,965
10th Percentile £15.10 £15.62 £13.35
25th Percentile £18.03 £21.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.77 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.37% - -
75th Percentile £60.61 £64.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £72.84
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £33.53
% change year-on-year -22.62% -3.06% +3.15%

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 13 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 13 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 13 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 +30 164 £513 -21.76% 46
North of England -31 47 £475 +4.40% 16
Midlands -21 43 £518 +3.50% 12
West Midlands -21 35 £525 +5.00% 10
North West -16 27 £453 +13.25% 8
South West -8 23 £525 -12.50% 12
South East -28 21 £544 +27.94% 39
Yorkshire -51 17 £500 -16.49% 3
East Midlands -23 8 £393 +4.80% 2
East of England -24 7 £513 +184.86% 4
North East -15 3 £500 -11.50% 5
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 (6.97%) SAS
2 14 (4.24%) Apache
3 13 (3.94%) JBoss
4 8 (2.42%) Appian
4 8 (2.42%) WebLogic
5 6 (1.82%) Camunda
5 6 (1.82%) SharePoint
6 5 (1.52%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (1.52%) Confluence
6 5 (1.52%) IIS
6 5 (1.52%) iPlanet
6 5 (1.52%) WebSphere
6 5 (1.52%) WebSphere Application Server
7 3 (0.91%) Anypoint
7 3 (0.91%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.91%) CMS
7 3 (0.91%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.61%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.30%) ColdFusion
9 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (1.52%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.61%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.30%) Cloudability
2 1 (0.30%) Endur
2 1 (0.30%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 124 (37.58%) Azure
2 99 (30.00%) AWS
3 72 (21.82%) GitHub
4 52 (15.76%) GitHub Actions
5 44 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
6 34 (10.30%) GCP
7 31 (9.39%) Serverless
8 24 (7.27%) Power Platform
9 17 (5.15%) OpenShift
10 16 (4.85%) AWS CloudFormation
10 16 (4.85%) AWS Lambda
10 16 (4.85%) Entra ID
11 15 (4.55%) Power Automate
12 14 (4.24%) Amazon S3
12 14 (4.24%) Azure Data Factory
12 14 (4.24%) Azure Functions
13 13 (3.94%) Azure AI
14 12 (3.64%) Azure Key Vault
15 11 (3.33%) Azure Logic Apps
16 10 (3.03%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (6.36%) HTTPS
2 10 (3.03%) SSL
3 9 (2.73%) Firewall
4 8 (2.42%) DNS
4 8 (2.42%) TCP/IP
4 8 (2.42%) VPN
5 6 (1.82%) DHCP
5 6 (1.82%) Network Security
6 5 (1.52%) Kerberos
6 5 (1.52%) Software-Defined Networking
7 2 (0.61%) BGP
7 2 (0.61%) DMZ
7 2 (0.61%) Internet
8 1 (0.30%) Calico
8 1 (0.30%) Ethernet VPN
8 1 (0.30%) HTTP
8 1 (0.30%) IPsec
8 1 (0.30%) OSPF
8 1 (0.30%) VSAN
8 1 (0.30%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (6.67%) Pentaho
2 19 (5.76%) SQL Server
3 15 (4.55%) Power BI
4 14 (4.24%) Relational Database
5 13 (3.94%) Oracle Database
6 11 (3.33%) NoSQL
7 10 (3.03%) MongoDB
7 10 (3.03%) PostgreSQL
8 9 (2.73%) Amazon RDS
9 8 (2.42%) Azure SQL Database
9 8 (2.42%) Data Lake
9 8 (2.42%) Pinecone
9 8 (2.42%) Redis
9 8 (2.42%) Spark SQL
10 7 (2.12%) Data Warehouse
10 7 (2.12%) SAS Enterprise Guide
11 6 (1.82%) Aerospike
11 6 (1.82%) Apache Cassandra
12 5 (1.52%) DynamoDB
13 3 (0.91%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 95 (28.79%) Git
2 77 (23.33%) Jenkins
3 48 (14.55%) GitLab
4 30 (9.09%) JIRA
5 16 (4.85%) JUnit
6 9 (2.73%) Selenium
7 8 (2.42%) Eclipse
7 8 (2.42%) IntelliJ
7 8 (2.42%) MLflow
8 7 (2.12%) Bitbucket
9 6 (1.82%) Sonatype Nexus
10 5 (1.52%) Bitbucket Server
10 5 (1.52%) CA Release Automation
10 5 (1.52%) CircleCI
10 5 (1.52%) Mockito
11 4 (1.21%) Artifactory
12 3 (0.91%) Gradle
12 3 (0.91%) Maven
12 3 (0.91%) MSI
13 2 (0.61%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 121 (36.67%) Social Skills
2 59 (17.88%) Public Sector
3 56 (16.97%) Finance
4 36 (10.91%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (2.42%) Influencing Skills
6 7 (2.12%) Legal
6 7 (2.12%) Marketing
7 5 (1.52%) Banking
8 4 (1.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (0.91%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (0.91%) Manufacturing
9 3 (0.91%) Military
9 3 (0.91%) Retail
10 2 (0.61%) Back Office
10 2 (0.61%) Electronics
10 2 (0.61%) Front Office
10 2 (0.61%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.61%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (0.61%) Police
10 2 (0.61%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 88 (26.67%) Developer
2 41 (12.42%) DevOps Engineer
3 36 (10.91%) Architect
4 26 (7.88%) Senior
5 22 (6.67%) Data Engineer
6 21 (6.36%) Automation Engineer
7 20 (6.06%) Azure Engineer
8 19 (5.76%) Platform Engineer
9 17 (5.15%) Lead
10 15 (4.55%) Full-Stack Developer
11 13 (3.94%) Cloud Engineer
12 12 (3.64%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 12 (3.64%) Python Developer
12 12 (3.64%) webMethods Developer
13 10 (3.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 10 (3.03%) Technical Architect
14 8 (2.42%) AWS Engineer
14 8 (2.42%) Full-Stack Python Developer
14 8 (2.42%) Platform Architect
14 8 (2.42%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (18.18%) REST
2 41 (12.42%) JSON
2 41 (12.42%) RESTful
3 40 (12.12%) SOAP
4 35 (10.61%) XML
5 33 (10.00%) React
6 25 (7.58%) OAuth
6 25 (7.58%) pytest
7 22 (6.67%) Node.js
8 21 (6.36%) HTML
8 21 (6.36%) Spring
9 19 (5.76%) .NET
10 18 (5.45%) Kafka
10 18 (5.45%) PySpark
11 17 (5.15%) AngularJS
11 17 (5.15%) FastAPI
12 15 (4.55%) Jest
12 15 (4.55%) Web Services
13 14 (4.24%) CSS
13 14 (4.24%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 38 (11.52%) Cloud Native
2 12 (3.64%) Distributed Systems
2 12 (3.64%) Legacy Systems
2 12 (3.64%) Product Ownership
3 10 (3.03%) Data Centre
4 8 (2.42%) Hybrid Cloud
4 8 (2.42%) Low-Code
5 7 (2.12%) Distributed Computing
6 6 (1.82%) Private Cloud
7 5 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (1.52%) NHS
7 5 (1.52%) Onboarding
7 5 (1.52%) Security Posture
8 4 (1.21%) Algorithms
8 4 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.21%) Mobile App
8 4 (1.21%) PKI
9 3 (0.91%) CMDB
9 3 (0.91%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (0.91%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 55 (16.67%) Linux
2 25 (7.58%) Windows
3 16 (4.85%) Unix
4 12 (3.64%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.52%) VMS
6 2 (0.61%) Android
6 2 (0.61%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.30%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.30%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.30%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 232 (70.30%) CI/CD
2 207 (62.73%) DevOps
3 122 (36.97%) Infrastructure as Code
4 119 (36.06%) Test Automation
5 116 (35.15%) Agile
6 105 (31.82%) Problem-Solving
7 74 (22.42%) Containerisation
8 60 (18.18%) Analytics
9 55 (16.67%) Microservices
10 53 (16.06%) Data Modelling
10 53 (16.06%) Infrastructure Automation
10 53 (16.06%) Scrum
11 52 (15.76%) Continuous Improvement
12 51 (15.45%) Data Pipeline
13 49 (14.85%) ETL
14 42 (12.73%) Observability
15 40 (12.12%) Migration
16 39 (11.82%) Business Intelligence
17 38 (11.52%) AI
18 33 (10.00%) API Development
Programming Languages
1 113 (34.24%) Python
2 89 (26.97%) SQL
3 51 (15.45%) Java
4 46 (13.94%) PowerShell
5 39 (11.82%) Bash
6 35 (10.61%) JavaScript
7 33 (10.00%) TypeScript
8 23 (6.97%) Bicep
9 18 (5.45%) C#
10 9 (2.73%) Groovy
10 9 (2.73%) Scala
11 8 (2.42%) PHP
12 7 (2.12%) Shell Script
13 6 (1.82%) Apex Code
14 5 (1.52%) Go
14 5 (1.52%) T-SQL
15 3 (0.91%) DataWeave
15 3 (0.91%) Kotlin
16 2 (0.61%) Rust
17 1 (0.30%) Swift
Qualifications
1 133 (40.30%) Security Cleared
2 107 (32.42%) SC Cleared
3 15 (4.55%) Degree
4 14 (4.24%) AWS Certification
5 13 (3.94%) Azure Certification
6 11 (3.33%) DV Cleared
7 9 (2.73%) BPSS Clearance
7 9 (2.73%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (2.42%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 8 (2.42%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (1.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (1.21%) Master's Degree
10 4 (1.21%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 3 (0.91%) CISSP
12 2 (0.61%) CCNP
12 2 (0.61%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.61%) Oracle Certification
13 1 (0.30%) CISM
13 1 (0.30%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.30%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (9.70%) Data Quality
2 23 (6.97%) QA
3 11 (3.33%) GDPR
4 7 (2.12%) Accessibility
4 7 (2.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (2.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 6 (1.82%) NCSC
5 6 (1.82%) NIST
6 4 (1.21%) WCAG
7 3 (0.91%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.61%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.61%) SLA
9 1 (0.30%) NIST 800
System Software
1 115 (34.85%) Docker
2 24 (7.27%) Active Directory
3 13 (3.94%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (2.12%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (1.52%) Hyper-V
5 5 (1.52%) Tivoli Directory Server
6 3 (0.91%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.61%) Xen
8 1 (0.30%) etcd
8 1 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.30%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 113 (34.24%) Kubernetes
2 111 (33.64%) Terraform
3 37 (11.21%) Ansible
4 17 (5.15%) Grafana
5 14 (4.24%) Prometheus
6 12 (3.64%) Puppet
7 10 (3.03%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (2.12%) Progress Chef
9 5 (1.52%) CA Single Sign-On
9 5 (1.52%) CA Wily
9 5 (1.52%) Istio
9 5 (1.52%) Podman
9 5 (1.52%) Tivoli
10 4 (1.21%) SCCM
11 3 (0.91%) Argo
11 3 (0.91%) CloudHub
11 3 (0.91%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (0.91%) Packer
11 3 (0.91%) Proxmox
11 3 (0.91%) vRealize
Vendors
1 80 (24.24%) Microsoft
2 29 (8.79%) Oracle
3 23 (6.97%) Talend
4 22 (6.67%) Denodo
5 21 (6.36%) webMethods
6 20 (6.06%) Google
6 20 (6.06%) Salesforce
7 18 (5.45%) OpenAI
8 17 (5.15%) Databricks
8 17 (5.15%) Splunk
9 16 (4.85%) IBM
10 15 (4.55%) VMware
11 14 (4.24%) SAP
12 11 (3.33%) Software AG
13 8 (2.42%) Automation Anywhere
13 8 (2.42%) Axway
13 8 (2.42%) UiPath
14 6 (1.82%) AppDynamics
14 6 (1.82%) Foundry
15 5 (1.52%) Broadcom