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

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 279 266 311
Rank change year-on-year -13 +45 -9
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 340 219 239
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.85% 0.89% 0.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.00% 0.98% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 233 170 173
10th Percentile £400 £355 £413
25th Percentile £449 £416 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £550 £594
Median % change year-on-year -5.91% -7.41% -4.96%
75th Percentile £575 £653 £700
90th Percentile £650 £800 £774
UK median daily rate £513 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -6.77% -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 5
10th Percentile £52.69 - £22.72
25th Percentile £56.36 - -
Median hourly rate £62.59 - £23.80
75th Percentile £68.70 - £67.02
90th Percentile £72.29 - £69.56
UK median hourly rate £62.59 - £23.80
% change year-on-year - - -65.26%

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 33,939 22,408 32,216
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.13% 91.13% 86.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,724 14,703 21,181
10th Percentile £316 £310 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.72% -0.05% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,107 917 2,235
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.73 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.51 £15.97
Median hourly rate £42.69 £30.45 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.18% -13.00% -8.74%
75th Percentile £67.25 £63.75 £59.44
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £29.07 £35.00
% change year-on-year +37.60% -16.94% -6.67%

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 April 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 25 April 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 25 April 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 -12 179 £550 -5.17% 34
Midlands -25 46 £500 - 7
North of England -61 39 £476 +17.84% 9
West Midlands -34 32 £520 +4.00% 3
South East -54 31 £525 +30.60% 25
South West -41 23 £531 -7.61% 6
North West -31 19 £436 +11.51% 5
Yorkshire -53 19 £491 -15.71% 1
East Midlands -24 13 £402 -15.37% 4
East of England -43 3 £513 -2.33% 8
North East -23 1 - - 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 31 (9.12%) SAS
2 9 (2.65%) Apache Spark
3 8 (2.35%) Appian
4 7 (2.06%) SharePoint
5 6 (1.76%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (1.76%) Camunda
6 4 (1.18%) Confluence
7 3 (0.88%) Apache
7 3 (0.88%) CMS
7 3 (0.88%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.88%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.59%) IBM HTTP Server
8 2 (0.59%) JBoss
8 2 (0.59%) Oracle HTTP Server
8 2 (0.59%) Sitecore CMS
8 2 (0.59%) WebLogic
8 2 (0.59%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.59%) WebSphere Application Server
8 2 (0.59%) WebSphere Portal
9 1 (0.29%) ColdFusion
Applications
1 6 (1.76%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.59%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.29%) Cloudability
1 1 (0.29%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 150 (44.12%) Azure
2 107 (31.47%) AWS
3 71 (20.88%) GitHub
4 54 (15.88%) Azure DevOps
5 47 (13.82%) GitHub Actions
6 35 (10.29%) GCP
7 33 (9.71%) Serverless
8 25 (7.35%) AWS CloudFormation
8 25 (7.35%) Power Platform
9 19 (5.59%) Amazon S3
10 18 (5.29%) AWS Lambda
11 16 (4.71%) Entra ID
11 16 (4.71%) OpenShift
11 16 (4.71%) Power Automate
12 15 (4.41%) Azure Data Factory
13 14 (4.12%) Azure Functions
14 13 (3.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 13 (3.82%) Azure AI
14 13 (3.82%) Azure Monitor
15 12 (3.53%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (4.71%) Firewall
2 10 (2.94%) DNS
2 10 (2.94%) TCP/IP
2 10 (2.94%) VPN
3 6 (1.76%) Network Security
4 4 (1.18%) DHCP
4 4 (1.18%) DMZ
4 4 (1.18%) HTTPS
4 4 (1.18%) Software-Defined Networking
5 3 (0.88%) HTTP
5 3 (0.88%) SSL
6 2 (0.59%) Internet
7 1 (0.29%) BGP
7 1 (0.29%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (0.29%) IPsec
7 1 (0.29%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.29%) NGFW
7 1 (0.29%) OSPF
7 1 (0.29%) SMS
7 1 (0.29%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (5.59%) Pentaho
2 18 (5.29%) SQL Server
3 16 (4.71%) Power BI
4 15 (4.41%) Data Warehouse
4 15 (4.41%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (4.41%) Relational Database
5 11 (3.24%) Data Lake
6 10 (2.94%) Amazon RDS
7 9 (2.65%) Azure SQL Database
7 9 (2.65%) NoSQL
7 9 (2.65%) Redis
8 8 (2.35%) Aerospike
8 8 (2.35%) DynamoDB
8 8 (2.35%) Pinecone
8 8 (2.35%) Spark SQL
9 7 (2.06%) MongoDB
10 6 (1.76%) Metadata
10 6 (1.76%) SAS Data Integration Studio
11 5 (1.47%) Amazon Athena
11 5 (1.47%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 85 (25.00%) Git
2 75 (22.06%) Jenkins
3 53 (15.59%) GitLab
4 24 (7.06%) JIRA
5 12 (3.53%) JUnit
6 8 (2.35%) MLflow
7 5 (1.47%) Artifactory
7 5 (1.47%) Mockito
7 5 (1.47%) MSI
8 4 (1.18%) Bitbucket
8 4 (1.18%) Selenium
9 3 (0.88%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 3 (0.88%) CircleCI
9 3 (0.88%) Cypress.io
9 3 (0.88%) fastlane
9 3 (0.88%) IntelliJ
9 3 (0.88%) Visual Studio Code
10 2 (0.59%) InstallShield
10 2 (0.59%) LoadRunner
10 2 (0.59%) Xcode
General
1 108 (31.76%) Social Skills
2 68 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 64 (18.82%) Finance
4 34 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (4.12%) Banking
6 12 (3.53%) Legal
7 7 (2.06%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (2.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (1.76%) Marketing
9 5 (1.47%) Front Office
9 5 (1.47%) Investment Banking
10 3 (0.88%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.59%) Electronics
11 2 (0.59%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.59%) Military
11 2 (0.59%) Police
11 2 (0.59%) Retail
11 2 (0.59%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.29%) Law
12 1 (0.29%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 62 (18.24%) Developer
2 43 (12.65%) DevOps Engineer
3 41 (12.06%) Data Engineer
4 40 (11.76%) Senior
5 36 (10.59%) Architect
6 24 (7.06%) Azure Engineer
7 22 (6.47%) Platform Engineer
8 20 (5.88%) Automation Engineer
9 15 (4.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 14 (4.12%) Lead
10 14 (4.12%) Salesforce Engineer
11 13 (3.82%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 12 (3.53%) Cloud Engineer
12 12 (3.53%) Full-Stack Developer
12 12 (3.53%) Platform Architect
13 11 (3.24%) Senior Developer
14 9 (2.65%) AWS Engineer
14 9 (2.65%) SAS Engineer
15 8 (2.35%) AWS Developer
15 8 (2.35%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (11.18%) REST
2 36 (10.59%) RESTful
3 29 (8.53%) Node.js
4 27 (7.94%) React
5 25 (7.35%) Kafka
6 18 (5.29%) pytest
6 18 (5.29%) YAML
7 17 (5.00%) .NET
7 17 (5.00%) AngularJS
8 16 (4.71%) PySpark
9 15 (4.41%) Spring
10 14 (4.12%) HTML
10 14 (4.12%) Web Services
11 13 (3.82%) Spring Boot
11 13 (3.82%) Swagger
12 12 (3.53%) CSS
12 12 (3.53%) FastAPI
12 12 (3.53%) JSON
12 12 (3.53%) OAuth
12 12 (3.53%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 56 (16.47%) Cloud Native
2 20 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (4.12%) Legacy Systems
4 13 (3.82%) Onboarding
4 13 (3.82%) Product Ownership
5 10 (2.94%) Data Centre
5 10 (2.94%) Distributed Computing
5 10 (2.94%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (2.35%) Low-Code
7 7 (2.06%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (2.06%) Mobile App
8 6 (1.76%) Security Posture
9 5 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.47%) Enterprise Cloud
9 5 (1.47%) NHS
10 4 (1.18%) Algorithms
10 4 (1.18%) Private Cloud
11 3 (0.88%) Cyber Threat
11 3 (0.88%) Derivative
11 3 (0.88%) Energy Derivatives
Operating Systems
1 42 (12.35%) Linux
2 22 (6.47%) Windows
3 7 (2.06%) Unix
4 6 (1.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (1.76%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.18%) VMS
6 3 (0.88%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.88%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.59%) Android
7 2 (0.59%) Oracle Linux
7 2 (0.59%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
7 2 (0.59%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.59%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.59%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 245 (72.06%) CI/CD
2 205 (60.29%) DevOps
3 136 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 122 (35.88%) Test Automation
5 121 (35.59%) Agile
6 94 (27.65%) Problem-Solving
7 76 (22.35%) Analytics
8 75 (22.06%) Containerisation
9 62 (18.24%) Continuous Improvement
10 59 (17.35%) Data Pipeline
11 55 (16.18%) Microservices
12 54 (15.88%) Data Modelling
12 54 (15.88%) ETL
12 54 (15.88%) Observability
13 53 (15.59%) Scrum
14 47 (13.82%) Infrastructure Automation
15 44 (12.94%) AI
16 43 (12.65%) Migration
17 41 (12.06%) Business Intelligence
18 38 (11.18%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 118 (34.71%) Python
2 81 (23.82%) SQL
3 55 (16.18%) PowerShell
4 49 (14.41%) Java
5 40 (11.76%) Bash
6 31 (9.12%) JavaScript
7 26 (7.65%) Bicep
7 26 (7.65%) TypeScript
8 19 (5.59%) C#
9 9 (2.65%) PHP
10 8 (2.35%) Apex Code
11 4 (1.18%) Scala
12 3 (0.88%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.88%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.88%) Rust
12 3 (0.88%) SAS Macro
12 3 (0.88%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.59%) Jython
13 2 (0.59%) Perl
13 2 (0.59%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 127 (37.35%) Security Cleared
2 102 (30.00%) SC Cleared
3 17 (5.00%) Degree
4 15 (4.41%) Azure Certification
5 13 (3.82%) AWS Certification
6 11 (3.24%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (3.24%) Microsoft Certification
7 9 (2.65%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (2.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 8 (2.35%) DV Cleared
9 5 (1.47%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 4 (1.18%) RHCE
10 4 (1.18%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 3 (0.88%) CCNP
11 3 (0.88%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (0.88%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 3 (0.88%) MCSA
11 3 (0.88%) Oracle Certification
12 2 (0.59%) CISSP
12 2 (0.59%) OCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (11.76%) Data Quality
2 29 (8.53%) QA
3 12 (3.53%) Accessibility
4 11 (3.24%) GDPR
5 7 (2.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (2.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 7 (2.06%) WCAG
6 3 (0.88%) NCSC
6 3 (0.88%) NIST
7 2 (0.59%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.59%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.29%) EU AI Act
8 1 (0.29%) SLA
8 1 (0.29%) SOC 2
System Software
1 106 (31.18%) Docker
2 18 (5.29%) Virtual Machines
3 17 (5.00%) Active Directory
4 6 (1.76%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (1.47%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.88%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (0.59%) Microsoft App-V
7 2 (0.59%) Xen
8 1 (0.29%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.29%) Firmware
8 1 (0.29%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 123 (36.18%) Kubernetes
2 119 (35.00%) Terraform
3 39 (11.47%) Ansible
4 14 (4.12%) Grafana
4 14 (4.12%) Prometheus
5 11 (3.24%) SCCM
6 10 (2.94%) Puppet
7 6 (1.76%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (1.76%) Progress Chef
8 5 (1.47%) Istio
9 4 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (1.18%) WSUS
10 3 (0.88%) Argo
10 3 (0.88%) ITRS Geneos
11 2 (0.59%) CA Wily
11 2 (0.59%) Podman
11 2 (0.59%) Tivoli
11 2 (0.59%) vRealize
12 1 (0.29%) Packer
12 1 (0.29%) QRadar
Vendors
1 83 (24.41%) Microsoft
2 27 (7.94%) Salesforce
3 20 (5.88%) Oracle
3 20 (5.88%) Talend
4 19 (5.59%) Denodo
4 19 (5.59%) OpenAI
5 18 (5.29%) Google
6 12 (3.53%) Databricks
7 11 (3.24%) Splunk
8 10 (2.94%) Red Hat
9 8 (2.35%) Automation Anywhere
9 8 (2.35%) UiPath
10 7 (2.06%) Dynatrace
10 7 (2.06%) SAP
10 7 (2.06%) VMware
11 6 (1.76%) Foundry
11 6 (1.76%) IBM
12 5 (1.47%) webMethods
13 4 (1.18%) Bloomberg
13 4 (1.18%) Reuters