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

 6 months to
2 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 279 252 314
Rank change year-on-year -27 +62 -3
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 388 268 247
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.88% 1.04% 0.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.04% 1.14% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 271 206 174
10th Percentile £403 £326 £402
25th Percentile £450 £413 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% -1.03%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £700
90th Percentile £675 £738 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 5
10th Percentile £60.02 - -
25th Percentile £74.68 - -
Median hourly rate £76.00 - £23.80
75th Percentile - - £67.02
90th Percentile - - £69.56
UK median hourly rate £76.00 - £23.80
% change year-on-year - - -63.94%

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 37,451 23,541 31,946
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.35% 91.15% 85.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,583 15,155 20,721
10th Percentile £325 £300 £305
25th Percentile £419 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £729 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +2.08% -3.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,352 1,173 2,326
10th Percentile £15.26 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £20.79 £17.88 £16.06
Median hourly rate £46.62 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +85.35% -34.02% +1.65%
75th Percentile £68.50 £55.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £82.25 £72.50 £73.07
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +3.45%

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 2 July 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 2 July 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 2 July 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 -20 196 £550 - 84
North of England -44 65 £471 +19.72% 19
Midlands -24 38 £525 -2.23% 15
South East -48 36 £555 +16.84% 36
South West -29 30 £475 -17.39% 13
North West -35 30 £500 +34.23% 11
West Midlands -36 29 £525 -4.55% 11
Yorkshire -34 27 £488 -16.31% 5
East Midlands -16 8 £470 +17.35% 4
North East -25 8 £450 +20.00% 4
East of England -40 7 £700 +27.27% 6
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 (6.96%) SAS
2 15 (3.87%) Apache Spark
3 12 (3.09%) Confluence
4 7 (1.80%) Apache
5 6 (1.55%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (1.55%) Appian
5 6 (1.55%) Camunda
5 6 (1.55%) SharePoint
6 4 (1.03%) CMS
7 3 (0.77%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.52%) IBM HTTP Server
8 2 (0.52%) Oracle HTTP Server
8 2 (0.52%) Sitecore CMS
8 2 (0.52%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.52%) WebSphere Application Server
8 2 (0.52%) WebSphere Portal
9 1 (0.26%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.26%) OpenROAD
9 1 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 2 (0.52%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.26%) Cloudability
1 1 (0.26%) Misys Equation
1 1 (0.26%) Misys Midas
1 1 (0.26%) SAP MDG
1 1 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 203 (52.32%) Azure
2 137 (35.31%) AWS
3 94 (24.23%) GitHub
4 91 (23.45%) Azure DevOps
5 69 (17.78%) GitHub Actions
6 49 (12.63%) GCP
7 41 (10.57%) Serverless
8 29 (7.47%) Amazon S3
9 28 (7.22%) Power Platform
10 27 (6.96%) AWS Lambda
11 22 (5.67%) Azure Monitor
12 21 (5.41%) Azure Data Factory
13 18 (4.64%) AWS CloudFormation
14 17 (4.38%) Azure Key Vault
15 16 (4.12%) Amazon EKS
15 16 (4.12%) Azure AKS
16 14 (3.61%) Amazon ECS
16 14 (3.61%) Amazon SQS
16 14 (3.61%) Entra ID
16 14 (3.61%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 23 (5.93%) Firewall
2 15 (3.87%) DNS
2 15 (3.87%) VPN
3 14 (3.61%) Network Security
4 11 (2.84%) TCP/IP
5 7 (1.80%) DMZ
6 6 (1.55%) SSL
7 4 (1.03%) Software-Defined Networking
8 2 (0.52%) HTTP
8 2 (0.52%) Kerberos
8 2 (0.52%) NGFW
8 2 (0.52%) Reverse Proxy
9 1 (0.26%) BGP
9 1 (0.26%) Cisco IOS
9 1 (0.26%) Cisco Nexus
9 1 (0.26%) DHCP
9 1 (0.26%) OpenLDAP
9 1 (0.26%) OSPF
9 1 (0.26%) SNMP
9 1 (0.26%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (6.44%) SQL Server
2 23 (5.93%) PostgreSQL
3 20 (5.15%) Power BI
4 18 (4.64%) Relational Database
5 16 (4.12%) Data Warehouse
5 16 (4.12%) Pentaho
6 12 (3.09%) Data Lake
7 11 (2.84%) NoSQL
8 10 (2.58%) Amazon RDS
8 10 (2.58%) MongoDB
8 10 (2.58%) Redis
9 9 (2.32%) Metadata
10 8 (2.06%) Amazon Athena
10 8 (2.06%) DynamoDB
11 7 (1.80%) Geospatial Data
12 6 (1.55%) Big Data
12 6 (1.55%) MySQL
12 6 (1.55%) Pinecone
12 6 (1.55%) SAS Data Integration Studio
13 5 (1.29%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 92 (23.71%) Git
2 82 (21.13%) Jenkins
3 57 (14.69%) GitLab
4 30 (7.73%) JIRA
5 12 (3.09%) MSI
6 11 (2.84%) fastlane
7 8 (2.06%) JUnit
8 7 (1.80%) Gradle
9 6 (1.55%) MLflow
9 6 (1.55%) Mockito
9 6 (1.55%) Xcode
10 5 (1.29%) Android Studio
10 5 (1.29%) Crashlytics
10 5 (1.29%) Visual Studio
11 4 (1.03%) Artifactory
11 4 (1.03%) Cypress.io
11 4 (1.03%) git-flow
11 4 (1.03%) MSBuild
11 4 (1.03%) Selenium
11 4 (1.03%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 110 (28.35%) Social Skills
2 75 (19.33%) Public Sector
3 60 (15.46%) Finance
4 30 (7.73%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (5.67%) Banking
6 16 (4.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (3.09%) Legal
8 10 (2.58%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (1.80%) Front Office
9 7 (1.80%) Retail
10 6 (1.55%) Investment Banking
11 3 (0.77%) Financial Institution
11 3 (0.77%) Law
12 2 (0.52%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.26%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.26%) Marketing
13 1 (0.26%) Police
13 1 (0.26%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 74 (19.07%) Senior
2 65 (16.75%) Developer
3 59 (15.21%) DevOps Engineer
4 46 (11.86%) Data Engineer
5 33 (8.51%) Architect
6 29 (7.47%) Cloud Engineer
6 29 (7.47%) Lead
7 25 (6.44%) Azure Engineer
8 22 (5.67%) Senior Developer
8 22 (5.67%) Software Engineer
9 21 (5.41%) Platform Engineer
10 20 (5.15%) Full-Stack Developer
11 19 (4.90%) AWS Engineer
12 16 (4.12%) Senior DevOps
13 14 (3.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 14 (3.61%) Salesforce Engineer
14 13 (3.35%) Automation Engineer
14 13 (3.35%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 12 (3.09%) Python Engineer
16 11 (2.84%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (15.72%) RESTful
2 55 (14.18%) REST
3 39 (10.05%) .NET
4 35 (9.02%) React
5 28 (7.22%) Kafka
6 21 (5.41%) Node.js
7 20 (5.15%) OAuth
8 18 (4.64%) AngularJS
8 18 (4.64%) PySpark
9 17 (4.38%) .NET Framework
10 16 (4.12%) CSS
10 16 (4.12%) FastAPI
10 16 (4.12%) HTML
10 16 (4.12%) Spring
10 16 (4.12%) Spring Boot
10 16 (4.12%) YAML
11 15 (3.87%) .NET Core
12 13 (3.35%) Django
13 12 (3.09%) pytest
13 12 (3.09%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 98 (25.26%) Cloud Native
2 30 (7.73%) Distributed Systems
3 25 (6.44%) Product Ownership
4 20 (5.15%) Onboarding
5 19 (4.90%) Legacy Systems
6 15 (3.87%) Enterprise Software
7 14 (3.61%) Mobile App
8 9 (2.32%) Data Centre
8 9 (2.32%) Hybrid Cloud
9 7 (1.80%) Enterprise Cloud
9 7 (1.80%) NHS
9 7 (1.80%) Security Posture
10 6 (1.55%) Low-Code
10 6 (1.55%) Replication
11 5 (1.29%) Distributed Computing
11 5 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (1.03%) AI Agents
12 4 (1.03%) Client/Server
13 3 (0.77%) Management Information System
13 3 (0.77%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 45 (11.60%) Linux
2 29 (7.47%) Windows
3 13 (3.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (1.80%) Windows Server
5 6 (1.55%) Apple iOS
5 6 (1.55%) Unix
6 5 (1.29%) Android
6 5 (1.29%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.77%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.52%) Oracle Linux
8 2 (0.52%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
8 2 (0.52%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.52%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.52%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.26%) Solaris
9 1 (0.26%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 310 (79.90%) CI/CD
2 237 (61.08%) DevOps
3 164 (42.27%) Infrastructure as Code
4 157 (40.46%) Agile
5 146 (37.63%) Test Automation
6 95 (24.48%) Analytics
7 89 (22.94%) Containerisation
8 83 (21.39%) Problem-Solving
9 70 (18.04%) Microservices
10 69 (17.78%) Data Pipeline
11 68 (17.53%) Continuous Improvement
11 68 (17.53%) Scrum
12 67 (17.27%) AI
13 65 (16.75%) Observability
14 61 (15.72%) Data Modelling
15 56 (14.43%) Platform Engineering
16 53 (13.66%) ETL
17 52 (13.40%) Software Engineering
18 51 (13.14%) Validation
19 47 (12.11%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 146 (37.63%) Python
2 81 (20.88%) SQL
3 62 (15.98%) PowerShell
4 53 (13.66%) Java
5 43 (11.08%) Bicep
6 41 (10.57%) C#
7 36 (9.28%) Bash
8 31 (7.99%) JavaScript
8 31 (7.99%) TypeScript
9 10 (2.58%) Apex Code
10 9 (2.32%) Kotlin
11 6 (1.55%) Swift
12 5 (1.29%) Go
13 4 (1.03%) Perl
13 4 (1.03%) Scala
13 4 (1.03%) Shell Script
14 3 (0.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 3 (0.77%) PHP
14 3 (0.77%) Rust
14 3 (0.77%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 129 (33.25%) Security Cleared
2 108 (27.84%) SC Cleared
3 23 (5.93%) Degree
4 17 (4.38%) Azure Certification
4 17 (4.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (3.87%) DV Cleared
6 13 (3.35%) Microsoft Certification
7 12 (3.09%) AWS Certification
8 9 (2.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 9 (2.32%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (1.29%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 4 (1.03%) RHCE
11 3 (0.77%) CCNP
11 3 (0.77%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (0.77%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 3 (0.77%) MCSA
11 3 (0.77%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 2 (0.52%) AWS Certified Developer
12 2 (0.52%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (0.52%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (9.79%) Data Quality
2 37 (9.54%) QA
3 29 (7.47%) Accessibility
4 25 (6.44%) WCAG
5 12 (3.09%) GDPR
6 10 (2.58%) NCSC
7 4 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.77%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.52%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.52%) HL7
9 2 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.26%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.26%) EU AI Act
10 1 (0.26%) PMO
10 1 (0.26%) SLA
10 1 (0.26%) SOC 2
System Software
1 120 (30.93%) Docker
2 15 (3.87%) Virtual Machines
3 11 (2.84%) Active Directory
4 8 (2.06%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (1.29%) Hyper-V
5 5 (1.29%) Microsoft App-V
6 3 (0.77%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (0.52%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 1 (0.26%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.26%) Firmware
8 1 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.26%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 149 (38.40%) Terraform
2 144 (37.11%) Kubernetes
3 49 (12.63%) Ansible
4 17 (4.38%) Prometheus
5 15 (3.87%) SCCM
6 14 (3.61%) Grafana
7 8 (2.06%) Microsoft Intune
8 7 (1.80%) Puppet
9 6 (1.55%) Argo
9 6 (1.55%) Istio
9 6 (1.55%) WSUS
10 4 (1.03%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.52%) CA Wily
11 2 (0.52%) Control-M
11 2 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.52%) Tivoli
12 1 (0.26%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.26%) Kustomize
12 1 (0.26%) Podman
12 1 (0.26%) QRadar
Vendors
1 90 (23.20%) Microsoft
2 24 (6.19%) Google
3 21 (5.41%) Databricks
3 21 (5.41%) Salesforce
4 19 (4.90%) Dynatrace
4 19 (4.90%) Oracle
5 18 (4.64%) OpenAI
6 17 (4.38%) Talend
7 15 (3.87%) Denodo
8 11 (2.84%) Red Hat
9 7 (1.80%) Apple
9 7 (1.80%) Foundry
9 7 (1.80%) Splunk
9 7 (1.80%) UiPath
10 6 (1.55%) Automation Anywhere
10 6 (1.55%) Bloomberg
10 6 (1.55%) Citrix
10 6 (1.55%) ION Trading
10 6 (1.55%) Reuters
11 4 (1.03%) VMware
158 Deployment Automation jobs in England