Deployment Automation Contract Job Trends in the South East

Deployment Automation
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Deployment Automation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 161 161 190
Rank change year-on-year 0 +29 +8
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 28 8 20
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.64% 0.21% 0.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.75% 0.24% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 3 15
10th Percentile £368 £385 £425
25th Percentile £413 £400 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £584 £450 £575
Median % change year-on-year +29.72% -21.74% -2.13%
75th Percentile £620 £563 -
90th Percentile £700 £615 -
England median daily rate £525 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% -6.31%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,711 3,307 4,517
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 85.31% 88.12% 89.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,428 2,059 2,912
10th Percentile £221 £250 £213
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £523
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -1.91% +1.95%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £615
90th Percentile £675 £688 £688
England median daily rate £505 £525 £544
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.49% -1.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 370 125 234
10th Percentile £14.73 £19.33 £16.60
25th Percentile £17.00 £26.00 £25.43
Median hourly rate £22.38 £47.78 £53.50
Median % change year-on-year -53.16% -10.69% +42.67%
75th Percentile £48.75 £63.43 £65.71
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.95 £76.53
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.70%

Deployment Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Deployment Automation relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Deployment Automation job vacancy trend in the South East

Deployment Automation
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Deployment Automation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Deployment Automation

Deployment Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Deployment Automation in the South East over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Deployment Automation in the South East

Deployment Automation
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Deployment Automation.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Deployment Automation

Deployment Automation
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 18 December 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
Hampshire -5 18 £600 +33.33% 6
Thames Valley - 9 £425 - 4
Berkshire - 7 £425 - 4
Buckinghamshire - 1 £425 -
Oxfordshire - 1 £300 -
Surrey - 1 - - 3
Deployment Automation
England

Deployment Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 3 (10.71%) Anypoint
2 1 (3.57%) Apache
2 1 (3.57%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (3.57%) nginx
2 1 (3.57%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 15 (53.57%) Azure
2 10 (35.71%) AWS
3 9 (32.14%) GitHub
4 8 (28.57%) Amazon EKS
5 7 (25.00%) OpenShift
6 6 (21.43%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (21.43%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (17.86%) GCP
8 4 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (10.71%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (10.71%) Entra ID
9 3 (10.71%) Serverless
10 2 (7.14%) Amazon S3
10 2 (7.14%) AWS CodePipeline
10 2 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (7.14%) Azure AKS
10 2 (7.14%) Azure Key Vault
10 2 (7.14%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (7.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 1 (3.57%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.57%) DNS
1 1 (3.57%) HTTP
1 1 (3.57%) Internet
1 1 (3.57%) TCP/IP
1 1 (3.57%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.71%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (7.14%) Metadata
3 1 (3.57%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (3.57%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (3.57%) Data Lake
3 1 (3.57%) MongoDB
3 1 (3.57%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (46.43%) Jenkins
2 6 (21.43%) Git
3 5 (17.86%) GitLab
4 2 (7.14%) JIRA
4 2 (7.14%) SonarQube
5 1 (3.57%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (3.57%) Gatling
5 1 (3.57%) JMeter
5 1 (3.57%) LoadRunner
5 1 (3.57%) MSI
5 1 (3.57%) Poetry
5 1 (3.57%) Pylint
5 1 (3.57%) Robot Framework
5 1 (3.57%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 5 (17.86%) Public Sector
1 5 (17.86%) Social Skills
2 3 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.57%) Aerospace
3 1 (3.57%) Banking
3 1 (3.57%) Digital Healthcare
3 1 (3.57%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (28.57%) Platform Engineer
2 5 (17.86%) Lead
3 4 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Architect
4 2 (7.14%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (7.14%) Technical Specialist
5 1 (3.57%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Azure Architect
5 1 (3.57%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) DevOps Architect
5 1 (3.57%) Infrastructure Architect
5 1 (3.57%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Senior
5 1 (3.57%) Senior DevOps
5 1 (3.57%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (17.86%) Middleware
1 5 (17.86%) React
1 5 (17.86%) SOAP
2 4 (14.29%) REST
3 2 (7.14%) ADO
3 2 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (7.14%) YAML
4 1 (3.57%) Azure Blueprints
4 1 (3.57%) HTML
4 1 (3.57%) JSON
4 1 (3.57%) Kafka
4 1 (3.57%) Keycloak
4 1 (3.57%) OAuth
4 1 (3.57%) OAuth2
4 1 (3.57%) ONNX
4 1 (3.57%) PySpark
4 1 (3.57%) pytest
4 1 (3.57%) RESTful
4 1 (3.57%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (25.00%) Private Cloud
2 3 (10.71%) Cloud Native
2 3 (10.71%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (7.14%) PKI
3 2 (7.14%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.57%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (14.29%) Linux
2 1 (3.57%) CentOS
2 1 (3.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (3.57%) Windows
2 1 (3.57%) Windows Server
2 1 (3.57%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 17 (60.71%) DevOps
2 17 (60.71%) Infrastructure as Code
3 12 (42.86%) Containerisation
3 12 (42.86%) Platform Engineering
4 10 (35.71%) High Availability
5 8 (28.57%) Agile
5 8 (28.57%) Migration
5 8 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (25.00%) Configuration Management
7 5 (17.86%) Incident Response
7 5 (17.86%) Open Source
8 4 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
8 4 (14.29%) Infrastructure Automation
8 4 (14.29%) Microservices
8 4 (14.29%) Observability
8 4 (14.29%) RBAC
8 4 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 4 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
9 3 (10.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 11 (39.29%) Python
2 8 (28.57%) PowerShell
3 7 (25.00%) SQL
4 6 (21.43%) Java
4 6 (21.43%) JavaScript
5 5 (17.86%) C#
6 3 (10.71%) DataWeave
7 2 (7.14%) Bash
7 2 (7.14%) Bicep
8 1 (3.57%) PHP
8 1 (3.57%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (67.86%) Security Cleared
2 13 (46.43%) SC Cleared
3 5 (17.86%) DV Cleared
4 2 (7.14%) AWS Certification
4 2 (7.14%) Degree
5 1 (3.57%) Azure Certification
5 1 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (3.57%) OCP
5 1 (3.57%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (17.86%) QA
2 3 (10.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (7.14%) NCSC
3 2 (7.14%) NIST
4 1 (3.57%) GDPR
4 1 (3.57%) Government Security Classifications
4 1 (3.57%) JSP 440
System Software
1 4 (14.29%) Docker
2 2 (7.14%) Active Directory
2 2 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 14 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 13 (46.43%) Ansible
3 12 (42.86%) Terraform
4 4 (14.29%) Grafana
4 4 (14.29%) Prometheus
5 3 (10.71%) CloudHub
5 3 (10.71%) Puppet
6 2 (7.14%) Progress Chef
7 1 (3.57%) Cilium
7 1 (3.57%) Podman
7 1 (3.57%) Rsyslog
7 1 (3.57%) SCOM
7 1 (3.57%) WMI
Vendors
1 8 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 7 (25.00%) Red Hat
3 3 (10.71%) MuleSoft
3 3 (10.71%) VMware
4 1 (3.57%) Databricks
4 1 (3.57%) Google
4 1 (3.57%) NVIDIA
4 1 (3.57%) Pega
4 1 (3.57%) Salesforce
4 1 (3.57%) Splunk
4 1 (3.57%) Tenable