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

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 263 254 300
Rank change year-on-year -9 +46 +23
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 438 275 247
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.96% 1.00% 0.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.13% 1.10% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 300 214 170
10th Percentile £400 £329 £400
25th Percentile £438 £413 £502
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £613
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% -10.20% -2.00%
75th Percentile £603 £625 £700
90th Percentile £675 £721 £775
UK median daily rate £520 £550 £613
% change year-on-year -5.45% -10.20% +2.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 3
10th Percentile £57.98 - -
25th Percentile £69.56 - -
Median hourly rate £76.00 - £23.80
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £76.00 - £23.80
% change year-on-year - - -66.48%

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 38,823 25,045 28,976
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.31% 90.74% 85.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,257 16,045 18,963
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £523 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.60% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,475 1,380 1,752
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.20 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.75 £17.87 £17.80
Median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £42.03
Median % change year-on-year +78.93% -40.16% -1.11%
75th Percentile £68.75 £51.65 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £70.16 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -37.13% -5.88%

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 1 August 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 1 August 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 1 August 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 -3 212 £550 -3.08% 117
North of England -33 70 £484 +23.03% 33
South East -46 50 £555 +16.84% 40
Midlands -22 47 £500 - 11
West Midlands -33 40 £508 -7.73% 9
South West -28 38 £450 -21.74% 20
Yorkshire -23 32 £488 -16.31% 6
North West -38 28 £500 +34.23% 22
North East -31 10 £450 +20.00% 5
East Midlands -15 6 £470 +17.35% 2
East of England -37 6 £850 +54.55% 8
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 27 (6.16%) SAS
2 18 (4.11%) Apache Spark
3 17 (3.88%) Confluence
4 10 (2.28%) Apache
5 8 (1.83%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (1.14%) SharePoint
7 3 (0.68%) CMS
7 3 (0.68%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.46%) Appian
8 2 (0.46%) Camunda
8 2 (0.46%) IBM HTTP Server
8 2 (0.46%) Oracle HTTP Server
8 2 (0.46%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.46%) WebSphere Application Server
8 2 (0.46%) WebSphere Portal
9 1 (0.23%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.23%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.23%) nginx
9 1 (0.23%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.23%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.68%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.23%) Cloudability
1 1 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.23%) Misys Equation
1 1 (0.23%) Misys Midas
1 1 (0.23%) SAP CRM
1 1 (0.23%) SAP MDG
1 1 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 235 (53.65%) Azure
2 158 (36.07%) AWS
3 122 (27.85%) Azure DevOps
4 109 (24.89%) GitHub
5 84 (19.18%) GitHub Actions
6 48 (10.96%) GCP
6 48 (10.96%) Serverless
7 38 (8.68%) Amazon S3
8 37 (8.45%) AWS Lambda
9 30 (6.85%) Amazon EKS
9 30 (6.85%) Power Platform
10 29 (6.62%) Azure Monitor
11 26 (5.94%) Amazon ECS
12 25 (5.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 24 (5.48%) Azure AKS
14 23 (5.25%) AWS CloudFormation
15 22 (5.02%) Amazon EC2
15 22 (5.02%) Entra ID
16 20 (4.57%) Azure Data Factory
16 20 (4.57%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 31 (7.08%) Firewall
2 26 (5.94%) DNS
3 20 (4.57%) Network Security
3 20 (4.57%) VPN
4 15 (3.42%) TCP/IP
5 7 (1.60%) SSL
6 6 (1.37%) DHCP
6 6 (1.37%) DMZ
7 5 (1.14%) SSH
8 3 (0.68%) Internet
8 3 (0.68%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (0.46%) BGP
9 2 (0.46%) Cisco Nexus
9 2 (0.46%) HTTP
9 2 (0.46%) Kerberos
9 2 (0.46%) NGFW
9 2 (0.46%) OSPF
9 2 (0.46%) Software-Defined Networking
10 1 (0.23%) Ethernet VPN
10 1 (0.23%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (5.94%) PostgreSQL
1 26 (5.94%) SQL Server
2 23 (5.25%) Power BI
3 17 (3.88%) Data Warehouse
3 17 (3.88%) Relational Database
4 16 (3.65%) Pentaho
5 14 (3.20%) NoSQL
6 13 (2.97%) Data Lake
7 12 (2.74%) MongoDB
8 11 (2.51%) Amazon RDS
9 10 (2.28%) Redis
10 9 (2.05%) Geospatial Data
11 8 (1.83%) Amazon Athena
11 8 (1.83%) Big Data
11 8 (1.83%) Metadata
11 8 (1.83%) MySQL
12 7 (1.60%) Azure SQL Database
12 7 (1.60%) DynamoDB
13 6 (1.37%) SAS Data Integration Studio
14 5 (1.14%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 109 (24.89%) Git
2 103 (23.52%) Jenkins
3 71 (16.21%) GitLab
4 38 (8.68%) JIRA
5 14 (3.20%) MSI
6 11 (2.51%) fastlane
7 9 (2.05%) Gradle
8 7 (1.60%) JUnit
8 7 (1.60%) Sonatype Nexus
8 7 (1.60%) Visual Studio
9 6 (1.37%) Maven
9 6 (1.37%) MSBuild
9 6 (1.37%) Selenium
9 6 (1.37%) Xcode
10 5 (1.14%) Android Studio
10 5 (1.14%) Crashlytics
10 5 (1.14%) SonarQube
10 5 (1.14%) TeamCity
11 4 (0.91%) Cypress.io
11 4 (0.91%) Mockito
General
1 117 (26.71%) Social Skills
2 84 (19.18%) Public Sector
3 60 (13.70%) Finance
4 38 (8.68%) Analytical Skills
5 28 (6.39%) Banking
6 16 (3.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 14 (3.20%) Documentation Skills
8 9 (2.05%) Legal
8 9 (2.05%) Retail
9 6 (1.37%) Front Office
10 5 (1.14%) Investment Banking
11 4 (0.91%) Manufacturing
11 4 (0.91%) Marketing
11 4 (0.91%) Military
12 3 (0.68%) Financial Institution
12 3 (0.68%) Law
13 2 (0.46%) Back Office
13 2 (0.46%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.46%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.46%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 87 (19.86%) Senior
2 83 (18.95%) Developer
3 66 (15.07%) DevOps Engineer
4 44 (10.05%) Data Engineer
5 38 (8.68%) Lead
6 34 (7.76%) Cloud Engineer
7 32 (7.31%) Architect
8 28 (6.39%) Platform Engineer
8 28 (6.39%) Senior Developer
9 24 (5.48%) Azure Engineer
9 24 (5.48%) Software Engineer
10 23 (5.25%) AWS Engineer
10 23 (5.25%) Full-Stack Developer
11 17 (3.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 17 (3.88%) Senior DevOps
12 14 (3.20%) AWS DevOps
12 14 (3.20%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 13 (2.97%) Java Developer
13 13 (2.97%) Python Engineer
13 13 (2.97%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (15.75%) REST
1 69 (15.75%) RESTful
2 53 (12.10%) .NET
3 40 (9.13%) React
4 35 (7.99%) Kafka
5 27 (6.16%) .NET Framework
6 24 (5.48%) Spring
6 24 (5.48%) Spring Boot
7 22 (5.02%) .NET Core
8 21 (4.79%) Node.js
9 20 (4.57%) HTML
10 19 (4.34%) AngularJS
10 19 (4.34%) OAuth
11 18 (4.11%) CSS
12 17 (3.88%) PySpark
13 16 (3.65%) HTML5
13 16 (3.65%) YAML
14 14 (3.20%) ARM Templates
14 14 (3.20%) FastAPI
15 13 (2.97%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 126 (28.77%) Cloud Native
2 34 (7.76%) Distributed Systems
3 30 (6.85%) Product Ownership
4 27 (6.16%) Onboarding
5 19 (4.34%) Enterprise Software
5 19 (4.34%) Legacy Systems
6 13 (2.97%) Hybrid Cloud
7 12 (2.74%) Mobile App
8 8 (1.83%) NHS
9 7 (1.60%) Data Centre
9 7 (1.60%) Enterprise Cloud
9 7 (1.60%) PKI
9 7 (1.60%) Security Posture
9 7 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (1.37%) Replication
11 5 (1.14%) AI Agents
11 5 (1.14%) Management Information System
12 4 (0.91%) Distributed Architecture
12 4 (0.91%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 57 (13.01%) Linux
2 36 (8.22%) Windows
3 17 (3.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 13 (2.97%) Windows Server
5 9 (2.05%) Unix
6 6 (1.37%) Apple iOS
6 6 (1.37%) Ubuntu
7 5 (1.14%) Android
8 3 (0.68%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.46%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (0.46%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 2 (0.46%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.46%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.23%) Amazon Linux
10 1 (0.23%) CentOS
10 1 (0.23%) Solaris
10 1 (0.23%) VMS
10 1 (0.23%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 362 (82.65%) CI/CD
2 278 (63.47%) DevOps
3 200 (45.66%) Infrastructure as Code
4 182 (41.55%) Agile
5 168 (38.36%) Test Automation
6 112 (25.57%) Containerisation
7 103 (23.52%) Analytics
8 99 (22.60%) Continuous Improvement
9 89 (20.32%) Problem-Solving
10 85 (19.41%) Microservices
11 82 (18.72%) Observability
12 77 (17.58%) Scrum
13 73 (16.67%) AI
13 73 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
14 70 (15.98%) Data Pipeline
15 62 (14.16%) DevSecOps
16 61 (13.93%) Software Engineering
17 57 (13.01%) Validation
18 53 (12.10%) Data Modelling
19 50 (11.42%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 161 (36.76%) Python
2 88 (20.09%) SQL
3 71 (16.21%) PowerShell
4 62 (14.16%) Java
5 49 (11.19%) Bicep
6 48 (10.96%) C#
7 45 (10.27%) JavaScript
8 42 (9.59%) Bash
9 33 (7.53%) TypeScript
10 9 (2.05%) Kotlin
11 6 (1.37%) Apex Code
11 6 (1.37%) Go
11 6 (1.37%) Swift
12 5 (1.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 5 (1.14%) Scala
13 4 (0.91%) Korn
13 4 (0.91%) Perl
13 4 (0.91%) PHP
13 4 (0.91%) Shell Script
14 3 (0.68%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 165 (37.67%) Security Cleared
2 133 (30.37%) SC Cleared
3 27 (6.16%) Degree
4 26 (5.94%) DV Cleared
5 20 (4.57%) AWS Certification
6 18 (4.11%) Azure Certification
6 18 (4.11%) Computer Science Degree
7 15 (3.42%) Microsoft Certification
8 11 (2.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 7 (1.60%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 5 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (0.91%) CCNP
11 4 (0.91%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (0.91%) RHCE
12 3 (0.68%) CISSP
12 3 (0.68%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 3 (0.68%) Master's Degree
12 3 (0.68%) MCSA
12 3 (0.68%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 2 (0.46%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (10.50%) QA
2 35 (7.99%) Accessibility
3 32 (7.31%) Data Quality
4 29 (6.62%) WCAG
5 13 (2.97%) NCSC
6 10 (2.28%) GDPR
7 3 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.68%) HL7
8 2 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.23%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.23%) EU AI Act
9 1 (0.23%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.23%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.23%) PMO
9 1 (0.23%) SLA
9 1 (0.23%) SOC 2
System Software
1 137 (31.28%) Docker
2 17 (3.88%) Active Directory
3 13 (2.97%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (2.05%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (1.14%) Microsoft App-V
5 5 (1.14%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.46%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 2 (0.46%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.23%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.23%) Firmware
7 1 (0.23%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.23%) Varnish
7 1 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 179 (40.87%) Terraform
2 163 (37.21%) Kubernetes
3 61 (13.93%) Ansible
4 18 (4.11%) Grafana
5 17 (3.88%) Prometheus
5 17 (3.88%) SCCM
6 12 (2.74%) Microsoft Intune
7 10 (2.28%) Puppet
8 8 (1.83%) Progress Chef
9 7 (1.60%) Argo
9 7 (1.60%) Istio
10 5 (1.14%) WSUS
11 3 (0.68%) Control-M
12 2 (0.46%) CA Wily
12 2 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.46%) Tivoli
13 1 (0.23%) CASB
13 1 (0.23%) Kubeflow
13 1 (0.23%) Kustomize
13 1 (0.23%) QRadar
Vendors
1 103 (23.52%) Microsoft
2 26 (5.94%) Oracle
3 25 (5.71%) Google
4 24 (5.48%) Databricks
5 22 (5.02%) Dynatrace
6 19 (4.34%) Salesforce
7 16 (3.65%) Talend
8 15 (3.42%) Denodo
9 14 (3.20%) Red Hat
10 11 (2.51%) Splunk
11 6 (1.37%) Apple
11 6 (1.37%) Citrix
11 6 (1.37%) OpenAI
11 6 (1.37%) ServiceNow
11 6 (1.37%) VMware
12 5 (1.14%) Bloomberg
12 5 (1.14%) CrowdStrike
12 5 (1.14%) ION Trading
12 5 (1.14%) Palo Alto
12 5 (1.14%) Reuters