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

 6 months to
22 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 285 266 321
Rank change year-on-year -19 +55 -23
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 346 222 237
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.87% 0.90% 0.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.02% 0.99% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 238 172 173
10th Percentile £400 £363 £413
25th Percentile £447 £425 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% -4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £575 £653 £700
90th Percentile £650 £800 £765
UK median daily rate £513 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -6.82% -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile £52.69 - £30.35
25th Percentile £56.36 - £42.88
Median hourly rate £62.59 - £67.02
75th Percentile £68.70 - £69.14
90th Percentile £72.29 - £70.40
UK median hourly rate £62.59 - £67.02
% change year-on-year - - -2.16%

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 33,784 22,346 32,054
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.23% 91.09% 86.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,591 14,669 21,080
10th Percentile £315 £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 £614 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.89% -0.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,113 899 2,221
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.82 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.51 £15.89
Median hourly rate £42.00 £31.64 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.74% -9.60% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67.25 £64.50 £58.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.10 £72.45
UK median hourly rate £39.00 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.00% -14.29% -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 22 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 22 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 22 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 +6 180 £544 -7.84% 65
Midlands -29 49 £500 - 8
North of England -60 39 £476 +17.84% 11
West Midlands -31 35 £515 +3.00% 4
South East -42 31 £525 +30.60% 44
South West -36 24 £525 -8.70% 16
North West -34 19 £436 +11.51% 7
Yorkshire -49 19 £491 -15.71% 1
East Midlands -26 13 £402 -15.37% 4
East of England -35 3 £513 -2.33% 23
North East -24 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 32 (9.25%) SAS
2 9 (2.60%) Apache Spark
3 8 (2.31%) Appian
4 7 (2.02%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (2.02%) SharePoint
5 6 (1.73%) Apache
5 6 (1.73%) Camunda
6 4 (1.16%) Confluence
6 4 (1.16%) JBoss
6 4 (1.16%) WebLogic
7 3 (0.87%) CMS
7 3 (0.87%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.87%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.58%) IBM HTTP Server
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%) ColdFusion
Applications
1 6 (1.73%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.58%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.29%) Cloudability
1 1 (0.29%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 148 (42.77%) Azure
2 109 (31.50%) AWS
3 71 (20.52%) GitHub
4 54 (15.61%) Azure DevOps
5 47 (13.58%) GitHub Actions
6 34 (9.83%) GCP
6 34 (9.83%) Serverless
7 26 (7.51%) AWS CloudFormation
8 25 (7.23%) Power Platform
9 20 (5.78%) Amazon S3
10 19 (5.49%) AWS Lambda
11 16 (4.62%) OpenShift
11 16 (4.62%) Power Automate
12 15 (4.34%) Azure Data Factory
12 15 (4.34%) Entra ID
13 14 (4.05%) Azure Functions
14 13 (3.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 13 (3.76%) Azure AI
15 12 (3.47%) Azure AKS
15 12 (3.47%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 15 (4.34%) Firewall
2 10 (2.89%) DNS
2 10 (2.89%) TCP/IP
2 10 (2.89%) VPN
3 6 (1.73%) Network Security
4 4 (1.16%) DHCP
4 4 (1.16%) DMZ
4 4 (1.16%) HTTPS
4 4 (1.16%) Software-Defined Networking
5 3 (0.87%) HTTP
5 3 (0.87%) SSL
6 2 (0.58%) Internet
7 1 (0.29%) BGP
7 1 (0.29%) Cisco IOS
7 1 (0.29%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (0.29%) IPsec
7 1 (0.29%) OSPF
7 1 (0.29%) SMS
7 1 (0.29%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (5.78%) Pentaho
2 18 (5.20%) SQL Server
3 16 (4.62%) Power BI
3 16 (4.62%) Relational Database
4 15 (4.34%) Data Warehouse
4 15 (4.34%) PostgreSQL
5 12 (3.47%) NoSQL
6 10 (2.89%) Amazon RDS
6 10 (2.89%) Data Lake
7 9 (2.60%) Azure SQL Database
7 9 (2.60%) MongoDB
7 9 (2.60%) Redis
8 8 (2.31%) Aerospike
8 8 (2.31%) DynamoDB
8 8 (2.31%) Pinecone
8 8 (2.31%) Spark SQL
9 6 (1.73%) Amazon Athena
9 6 (1.73%) Metadata
9 6 (1.73%) SAS Data Integration Studio
10 4 (1.16%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 92 (26.59%) Git
2 77 (22.25%) Jenkins
3 54 (15.61%) GitLab
4 25 (7.23%) JIRA
5 14 (4.05%) JUnit
6 8 (2.31%) MLflow
7 6 (1.73%) Selenium
8 5 (1.45%) Artifactory
8 5 (1.45%) IntelliJ
8 5 (1.45%) Mockito
8 5 (1.45%) MSI
9 4 (1.16%) Bitbucket
9 4 (1.16%) Eclipse
10 3 (0.87%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 3 (0.87%) CircleCI
10 3 (0.87%) Cypress.io
10 3 (0.87%) fastlane
10 3 (0.87%) Visual Studio Code
11 2 (0.58%) git-flow
11 2 (0.58%) TeamCity
General
1 114 (32.95%) Social Skills
2 67 (19.36%) Public Sector
3 64 (18.50%) Finance
4 34 (9.83%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (4.05%) Banking
6 12 (3.47%) Legal
7 7 (2.02%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (2.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (1.73%) Marketing
9 5 (1.45%) Front Office
9 5 (1.45%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.16%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.87%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.58%) Electronics
12 2 (0.58%) Military
12 2 (0.58%) Police
12 2 (0.58%) Retail
12 2 (0.58%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.29%) Law
13 1 (0.29%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 66 (19.08%) Developer
2 44 (12.72%) DevOps Engineer
3 41 (11.85%) Data Engineer
4 40 (11.56%) Senior
5 36 (10.40%) Architect
6 23 (6.65%) Azure Engineer
6 23 (6.65%) Platform Engineer
7 20 (5.78%) Automation Engineer
8 15 (4.34%) Full-Stack Developer
8 15 (4.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 14 (4.05%) Lead
9 14 (4.05%) Salesforce Engineer
10 13 (3.76%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 12 (3.47%) Platform Architect
12 11 (3.18%) Cloud Engineer
12 11 (3.18%) Senior Developer
13 9 (2.60%) AWS Engineer
13 9 (2.60%) SAS Engineer
14 8 (2.31%) AWS Developer
14 8 (2.31%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (11.56%) REST
2 39 (11.27%) RESTful
3 30 (8.67%) React
4 29 (8.38%) Node.js
5 25 (7.23%) Kafka
6 21 (6.07%) pytest
7 18 (5.20%) YAML
8 17 (4.91%) .NET
8 17 (4.91%) AngularJS
8 17 (4.91%) Spring
9 16 (4.62%) HTML
9 16 (4.62%) PySpark
10 15 (4.34%) FastAPI
11 14 (4.05%) JSON
11 14 (4.05%) Web Services
12 13 (3.76%) SOAP
12 13 (3.76%) Spring Boot
12 13 (3.76%) Swagger
13 12 (3.47%) Jest
13 12 (3.47%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 57 (16.47%) Cloud Native
2 19 (5.49%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (4.05%) Legacy Systems
4 13 (3.76%) Onboarding
4 13 (3.76%) Product Ownership
5 10 (2.89%) Data Centre
5 10 (2.89%) Distributed Computing
5 10 (2.89%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (2.31%) Low-Code
7 7 (2.02%) Mobile App
8 6 (1.73%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (1.73%) Security Posture
9 5 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.45%) NHS
10 4 (1.16%) Algorithms
10 4 (1.16%) Enterprise Cloud
10 4 (1.16%) Private Cloud
11 3 (0.87%) AI Agents
11 3 (0.87%) Client/Server
11 3 (0.87%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 43 (12.43%) Linux
2 23 (6.65%) Windows
3 9 (2.60%) Unix
4 6 (1.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (1.73%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.16%) VMS
6 3 (0.87%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.87%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.58%) Android
7 2 (0.58%) Oracle Linux
7 2 (0.58%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
7 2 (0.58%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.58%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.58%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 252 (72.83%) CI/CD
2 210 (60.69%) DevOps
3 139 (40.17%) Infrastructure as Code
4 127 (36.71%) Agile
5 123 (35.55%) Test Automation
6 101 (29.19%) Problem-Solving
7 78 (22.54%) Containerisation
8 75 (21.68%) Analytics
9 65 (18.79%) Continuous Improvement
10 60 (17.34%) Data Pipeline
11 56 (16.18%) Microservices
12 55 (15.90%) Data Modelling
12 55 (15.90%) ETL
12 55 (15.90%) Scrum
13 53 (15.32%) Observability
14 50 (14.45%) Infrastructure Automation
15 44 (12.72%) AI
16 43 (12.43%) Migration
17 42 (12.14%) Business Intelligence
18 39 (11.27%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 122 (35.26%) Python
2 87 (25.14%) SQL
3 55 (15.90%) PowerShell
4 50 (14.45%) Java
5 41 (11.85%) Bash
6 31 (8.96%) JavaScript
7 29 (8.38%) TypeScript
8 25 (7.23%) Bicep
9 19 (5.49%) C#
10 9 (2.60%) PHP
11 8 (2.31%) Apex Code
12 7 (2.02%) Scala
13 3 (0.87%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.87%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.87%) Rust
13 3 (0.87%) SAS Macro
13 3 (0.87%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.58%) Go
14 2 (0.58%) Perl
14 2 (0.58%) Swift
Qualifications
1 129 (37.28%) Security Cleared
2 104 (30.06%) SC Cleared
3 17 (4.91%) Degree
4 15 (4.34%) Azure Certification
5 13 (3.76%) AWS Certification
6 11 (3.18%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (2.89%) Microsoft Certification
8 9 (2.60%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (2.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 8 (2.31%) DV Cleared
10 5 (1.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 4 (1.16%) RHCE
11 4 (1.16%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 3 (0.87%) CCNP
12 3 (0.87%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (0.87%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 3 (0.87%) MCSA
12 3 (0.87%) Oracle Certification
13 2 (0.58%) CISSP
13 2 (0.58%) OCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (11.56%) Data Quality
2 28 (8.09%) QA
3 12 (3.47%) Accessibility
4 11 (3.18%) GDPR
5 7 (2.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (2.02%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 7 (2.02%) WCAG
6 3 (0.87%) NCSC
6 3 (0.87%) NIST
7 2 (0.58%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.58%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.29%) EU AI Act
8 1 (0.29%) SLA
8 1 (0.29%) SOC 2
System Software
1 113 (32.66%) Docker
2 18 (5.20%) Virtual Machines
3 16 (4.62%) Active Directory
4 6 (1.73%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (1.45%) Hyper-V
6 4 (1.16%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (0.58%) Microsoft App-V
7 2 (0.58%) 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
1 126 (36.42%) Kubernetes
2 120 (34.68%) Terraform
3 40 (11.56%) Ansible
4 15 (4.34%) Grafana
4 15 (4.34%) Prometheus
5 12 (3.47%) Puppet
6 11 (3.18%) SCCM
7 6 (1.73%) Progress Chef
8 5 (1.45%) Istio
8 5 (1.45%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (1.16%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (1.16%) WSUS
10 3 (0.87%) Argo
10 3 (0.87%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (0.87%) Podman
11 2 (0.58%) CA Wily
11 2 (0.58%) Packer
11 2 (0.58%) Proxmox
11 2 (0.58%) Tivoli
11 2 (0.58%) vRealize
Vendors
1 82 (23.70%) Microsoft
2 27 (7.80%) Salesforce
3 21 (6.07%) Oracle
3 21 (6.07%) Talend
4 20 (5.78%) Denodo
5 19 (5.49%) OpenAI
6 18 (5.20%) Google
7 12 (3.47%) Databricks
8 11 (3.18%) Splunk
9 10 (2.89%) Red Hat
10 8 (2.31%) Automation Anywhere
10 8 (2.31%) UiPath
10 8 (2.31%) VMware
11 7 (2.02%) Dynatrace
11 7 (2.02%) SAP
11 7 (2.02%) webMethods
12 6 (1.73%) Foundry
12 6 (1.73%) IBM
13 4 (1.16%) Apple
13 4 (1.16%) Citrix
142 Deployment Automation jobs in England