Deployment Automation Contracts in England

Deployment Automation
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Deployment Automation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Deployment Automation over the 6 months leading up to 20 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 247 305 310
Rank change year-on-year +58 +5 +20
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 237 236 379
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.98% 0.65% 0.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.07% 0.75% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 188 170 247
10th Percentile £326 £400 £413
25th Percentile £413 £513 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -8.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £632 £700 £700
90th Percentile £741 £775 £800
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 3
10th Percentile - - £66.10
25th Percentile - £23.80 £67.75
Median hourly rate - £45.41 £71.00
Median % change year-on-year - -36.04% +18.33%
75th Percentile - £68.08 £77.25
90th Percentile - £69.98 £80.70
UK median hourly rate - £45.41 £68.50
% change year-on-year - -33.71% +14.17%

All Process and 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 22,169 31,438 43,665
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.25% 86.37% 90.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,471 20,622 30,640
10th Percentile £306 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £514 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.10% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 963 2,250 1,536
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.92 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.13 £15.96 £16.13
Median hourly rate £28.60 £36.50 £37.15
Median % change year-on-year -21.64% -1.75% +48.60%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £36.05 £36.00
% change year-on-year -22.32% +0.13% +40.19%

Deployment Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Deployment Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Deployment Automation in England

Deployment Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Deployment Automation in England.

Daily rate trend for Deployment Automation in England

Deployment Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Deployment Automation in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Deployment Automation in England

Deployment Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Deployment Automation in England.

Hourly rate trend 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 20 May 2025. 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 +52 117 £560 -17.04% 204
North of England +27 29 £397 -22.25% 76
East of England +52 28 £550 - 22
South West +36 24 £575 -17.86% 27
South East +13 22 £401 -30.26% 82
Midlands +19 13 £519 +44.33% 36
North West +16 12 £379 -25.69% 45
Yorkshire +22 11 £575 +21.05% 25
West Midlands +9 9 £550 -18.52% 24
North East - 6 £550 - 7
East Midlands +9 4 £475 +33.43% 9
Deployment Automation
UK

Deployment Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 23 (9.70%) Confluence
2 9 (3.80%) Apache
2 9 (3.80%) JBoss
3 8 (3.38%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.27%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.84%) ArcGIS
5 2 (0.84%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.42%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.42%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.42%) Mule
6 1 (0.42%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 72 (30.38%) AWS
2 52 (21.94%) Azure
3 28 (11.81%) Azure DevOps
4 24 (10.13%) AWS CloudFormation
5 22 (9.28%) Amazon EC2
6 20 (8.44%) Cohesity
7 19 (8.02%) Amazon S3
7 19 (8.02%) OpenShift
8 17 (7.17%) GCP
8 17 (7.17%) Serverless
9 16 (6.75%) GitHub
10 12 (5.06%) Amazon EKS
11 10 (4.22%) AWS Lambda
11 10 (4.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 8 (3.38%) Route 53
13 7 (2.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 7 (2.95%) GitHub Actions
14 6 (2.53%) Amazon SQS
15 5 (2.11%) Amazon ECS
15 5 (2.11%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 36 (15.19%) DNS
2 27 (11.39%) SAN
3 11 (4.64%) TCP/IP
4 10 (4.22%) HTTP
5 9 (3.80%) Firewall
5 9 (3.80%) Internet
6 7 (2.95%) VPN
7 5 (2.11%) NAS
8 3 (1.27%) Kerberos
8 3 (1.27%) Multicast
8 3 (1.27%) VLAN
9 2 (0.84%) BGP
9 2 (0.84%) OSPF
9 2 (0.84%) SSL
10 1 (0.42%) DHCP
10 1 (0.42%) EIGRP
10 1 (0.42%) IGMP
10 1 (0.42%) MPLS
10 1 (0.42%) VPLS
10 1 (0.42%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (8.44%) Relational Database
2 19 (8.02%) Amazon RDS
3 17 (7.17%) MongoDB
3 17 (7.17%) NoSQL
4 16 (6.75%) SQL Server
5 11 (4.64%) PostgreSQL
6 9 (3.80%) Elasticsearch
6 9 (3.80%) RDBMS
7 8 (3.38%) Amazon Aurora
8 7 (2.95%) MySQL
9 6 (2.53%) Azure SQL Database
9 6 (2.53%) Big Data
10 5 (2.11%) Amazon Athena
11 4 (1.69%) BigQuery
11 4 (1.69%) Data Lake
11 4 (1.69%) DB2
11 4 (1.69%) DynamoDB
11 4 (1.69%) Hadoop
11 4 (1.69%) Tableau
12 3 (1.27%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 69 (29.11%) Jenkins
2 48 (20.25%) Git
3 36 (15.19%) JIRA
4 19 (8.02%) Bitbucket
5 17 (7.17%) TeamCity
6 14 (5.91%) GitLab
7 13 (5.49%) CA Release Automation
8 12 (5.06%) SonarQube
9 10 (4.22%) Sonatype Nexus
10 9 (3.80%) Bitbucket Server
11 8 (3.38%) Selenium
12 7 (2.95%) Subversion
13 5 (2.11%) Cypress.io
13 5 (2.11%) IntelliJ
13 5 (2.11%) Maven
13 5 (2.11%) REST Assured
14 4 (1.69%) Gradle
14 4 (1.69%) HP UFT
14 4 (1.69%) JUnit
14 4 (1.69%) NetBeans
General
1 61 (25.74%) Social Skills
2 34 (14.35%) Finance
3 23 (9.70%) Public Sector
4 21 (8.86%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (5.06%) Documentation Skills
6 10 (4.22%) Marketing
7 9 (3.80%) Banking
7 9 (3.80%) Telecoms
8 8 (3.38%) Electronics
8 8 (3.38%) Legal
8 8 (3.38%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.27%) Retail
10 2 (0.84%) Front Office
10 2 (0.84%) Military
10 2 (0.84%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.42%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 46 (19.41%) Developer
2 44 (18.57%) DevOps Engineer
3 34 (14.35%) Senior
4 15 (6.33%) AWS Engineer
5 14 (5.91%) Lead
6 13 (5.49%) Architect
6 13 (5.49%) Automation Engineer
7 11 (4.64%) Java Developer
8 10 (4.22%) Senior Developer
9 9 (3.80%) .NET Developer
9 9 (3.80%) AWS DevOps
9 9 (3.80%) Full-Stack Developer
9 9 (3.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 9 (3.80%) Senior DevOps
9 9 (3.80%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 8 (3.38%) Azure Developer
10 8 (3.38%) Cloud Engineer
10 8 (3.38%) Deployment Engineer
10 8 (3.38%) Senior .NET Developer
10 8 (3.38%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (9.28%) REST
2 21 (8.86%) Elastic Stack
2 21 (8.86%) RESTful
3 19 (8.02%) .NET
3 19 (8.02%) Kafka
4 17 (7.17%) React
5 16 (6.75%) Spring Boot
6 15 (6.33%) Web Services
7 14 (5.91%) AngularJS
7 14 (5.91%) SOAP
8 13 (5.49%) .NET Core
8 13 (5.49%) Spring
9 12 (5.06%) HTML
10 11 (4.64%) CSS
11 10 (4.22%) Node.js
12 7 (2.95%) GraphQL
12 7 (2.95%) HTML5
12 7 (2.95%) J2EE
12 7 (2.95%) OpenTelemetry
13 6 (2.53%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 12 (5.06%) Cloud Native
2 10 (4.22%) Product Ownership
3 8 (3.38%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (2.53%) EMC VMAX
4 6 (2.53%) Management Information System
5 5 (2.11%) Enterprise Storage
5 5 (2.11%) Replication
6 4 (1.69%) Clustering
6 4 (1.69%) Data Structures
6 4 (1.69%) Mainframe
7 3 (1.27%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.84%) Data Centre
8 2 (0.84%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (0.84%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.84%) Mobile App
8 2 (0.84%) PKI
8 2 (0.84%) Tandem
8 2 (0.84%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 69 (29.11%) Windows
2 62 (26.16%) Linux
3 34 (14.35%) Windows Server
4 21 (8.86%) Windows Server 2019
5 20 (8.44%) Windows Server 2016
6 17 (7.17%) Unix
7 16 (6.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (2.11%) Windows 10
9 4 (1.69%) VMS
10 2 (0.84%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.42%) CentOS
11 1 (0.42%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.42%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.42%) Solaris
11 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (51.05%) CI/CD
2 110 (46.41%) DevOps
3 72 (30.38%) Agile
4 62 (26.16%) Problem-Solving
5 51 (21.52%) Continuous Integration
5 51 (21.52%) Microservices
6 47 (19.83%) Test Automation
7 46 (19.41%) Infrastructure as Code
8 43 (18.14%) Containerisation
9 37 (15.61%) Configuration Management
10 30 (12.66%) Build Automation
10 30 (12.66%) Continuous Delivery
11 29 (12.24%) Migration
12 26 (10.97%) Infrastructure Automation
13 25 (10.55%) Scrum
14 22 (9.28%) Observability
15 21 (8.86%) Software Engineering
16 20 (8.44%) Analytics
16 20 (8.44%) Mentoring
16 20 (8.44%) Operations Management
Programming Languages
1 74 (31.22%) Python
2 59 (24.89%) PowerShell
3 39 (16.46%) Java
4 35 (14.77%) Bash
4 35 (14.77%) SQL
5 31 (13.08%) JavaScript
6 24 (10.13%) C#
7 15 (6.33%) TypeScript
8 13 (5.49%) Perl
9 7 (2.95%) Shell Script
10 6 (2.53%) Scala
11 5 (2.11%) Go
12 4 (1.69%) Groovy
13 3 (1.27%) Bicep
13 3 (1.27%) PHP
14 2 (0.84%) Ruby
14 2 (0.84%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.84%) VB
14 2 (0.84%) VB6
14 2 (0.84%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 70 (29.54%) Security Cleared
2 45 (18.99%) SC Cleared
3 23 (9.70%) DV Cleared
4 13 (5.49%) Microsoft Certification
5 12 (5.06%) Oracle Certification
6 11 (4.64%) CCNP
6 11 (4.64%) Cisco Certification
6 11 (4.64%) OCA
6 11 (4.64%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 10 (4.22%) Degree
7 10 (4.22%) RHCA
7 10 (4.22%) RHCE
8 7 (2.95%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.69%) AWS Certification
9 4 (1.69%) Azure Certification
10 3 (1.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.84%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.42%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.42%) Numerate Degree
12 1 (0.42%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (6.33%) QA
2 6 (2.53%) GDPR
3 3 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.27%) NCSC
4 2 (0.84%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.84%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.84%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (0.42%) JSP 440
5 1 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 56 (23.63%) Docker
2 39 (16.46%) Active Directory
3 38 (16.03%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (8.44%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 20 (8.44%) Virtual Servers
5 5 (2.11%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (1.69%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 2 (0.84%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.42%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.42%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.42%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.42%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 79 (33.33%) Ansible
2 75 (31.65%) Kubernetes
3 65 (27.43%) Terraform
4 44 (18.57%) Progress Chef
5 39 (16.46%) Puppet
6 33 (13.92%) SCCM
7 22 (9.28%) Prometheus
8 21 (8.86%) Grafana
8 21 (8.86%) WSUS
9 11 (4.64%) Kibana
9 11 (4.64%) vCenter Server
10 3 (1.27%) Control-M
10 3 (1.27%) Istio
10 3 (1.27%) Kiali
10 3 (1.27%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.84%) PowerCLI
11 2 (0.84%) Proxmox
11 2 (0.84%) ThinApp
11 2 (0.84%) vRealize
12 1 (0.42%) Rancher
Vendors
1 59 (24.89%) Microsoft
2 41 (17.30%) VMware
3 38 (16.03%) Splunk
4 24 (10.13%) NetApp
5 23 (9.70%) Oracle
5 23 (9.70%) Red Hat
6 16 (6.75%) AppDynamics
6 16 (6.75%) Cisco
7 11 (4.64%) SAP
8 8 (3.38%) Atlassian
9 7 (2.95%) EMC
9 7 (2.95%) ServiceNow
10 6 (2.53%) Google
11 5 (2.11%) Databricks
11 5 (2.11%) ForgeRock
11 5 (2.11%) Sybase
12 4 (1.69%) CA Agile Central
12 4 (1.69%) Cloudera
12 4 (1.69%) Dataiku
12 4 (1.69%) Veritas