Deployment Automation Contracts

Deployment Automation
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 277 306 326
Rank change year-on-year +29 +20 +25
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 267 297 461
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.91% 0.68% 0.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.00% 0.79% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 189 217 289
10th Percentile £268 £413 £430
25th Percentile £400 £505 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.61% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £700
90th Percentile £758 £747 £778
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £575 £593
% change year-on-year -17.39% -3.04% +9.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 4
10th Percentile - £22.72 £65.30
25th Percentile - - £65.75
Median hourly rate - £23.80 £68.50
Median % change year-on-year - -65.26% -2.14%
75th Percentile - £67.02 £74.38
90th Percentile - £69.56 £79.55
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £67.26 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

Deployment Automation
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Deployment Automation in the UK

Deployment Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Deployment Automation in the UK

Deployment Automation
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Deployment Automation over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Deployment Automation in the UK

Deployment Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Deployment Automation in the UK

Deployment Automation
Top 17 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 1 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
England +30 215 £550 -4.35% 227
London +42 119 £575 -14.81% 137
UK excluding London +49 116 £475 -17.39% 133
Work from Home +49 98 £550 +1.29% 127
North of England +25 27 £397 -22.25% 31
South West +39 23 £575 -17.86% 15
Scotland +20 23 £468 +3.89% 11
South East +15 22 £401 -30.26% 47
Midlands +25 12 £500 +39.18% 16
North West +15 11 £391 -23.33% 21
East of England +37 9 £350 -36.36% 9
Yorkshire +12 9 £575 +21.05% 8
West Midlands +18 8 £500 -25.93% 10
North East +3 6 £550 +5.77% 3
East Midlands +9 4 £475 +33.43% 4
Northern Ireland - 2 £200 - 3
Wales - 1 £200 - 6

Deployment Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 24 (8.99%) Confluence
2 10 (3.75%) JBoss
3 9 (3.37%) Apache
4 8 (3.00%) Apache Spark
5 5 (1.87%) SharePoint
6 4 (1.50%) OpenStack
7 3 (1.12%) Anypoint
8 2 (0.75%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.75%) Umbraco
9 1 (0.37%) IBM Domino
9 1 (0.37%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.37%) Mule
Applications
1 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 96 (35.96%) AWS
2 71 (26.59%) Azure
3 38 (14.23%) Azure DevOps
4 31 (11.61%) AWS CloudFormation
5 30 (11.24%) GitHub
6 28 (10.49%) Amazon EC2
7 26 (9.74%) Amazon S3
8 25 (9.36%) OpenShift
9 23 (8.61%) GCP
10 22 (8.24%) Serverless
11 16 (5.99%) GitHub Actions
11 16 (5.99%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 15 (5.62%) AWS Lambda
13 11 (4.12%) Amazon EKS
13 11 (4.12%) SaaS
14 9 (3.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 9 (3.37%) Route 53
15 8 (3.00%) Amazon ECS
15 8 (3.00%) Amazon SQS
16 7 (2.62%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 18 (6.74%) DNS
2 14 (5.24%) Firewall
3 10 (3.75%) HTTP
3 10 (3.75%) TCP/IP
3 10 (3.75%) VPN
4 9 (3.37%) Internet
5 8 (3.00%) SAN
6 5 (1.87%) NAS
7 3 (1.12%) BGP
7 3 (1.12%) Kerberos
7 3 (1.12%) MPLS
7 3 (1.12%) Multicast
7 3 (1.12%) Network Security
7 3 (1.12%) OSPF
7 3 (1.12%) VLAN
7 3 (1.12%) WAN
8 2 (0.75%) EIGRP
8 2 (0.75%) IGMP
8 2 (0.75%) SSL
8 2 (0.75%) VPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (8.99%) Relational Database
2 22 (8.24%) Amazon RDS
3 20 (7.49%) MongoDB
4 19 (7.12%) NoSQL
5 18 (6.74%) SQL Server
6 13 (4.87%) Elasticsearch
7 11 (4.12%) RDBMS
8 10 (3.75%) PostgreSQL
9 9 (3.37%) MySQL
10 8 (3.00%) Amazon Aurora
11 6 (2.25%) Amazon Athena
11 6 (2.25%) Amazon Redshift
11 6 (2.25%) Azure SQL Database
11 6 (2.25%) DB2
12 5 (1.87%) Big Data
12 5 (1.87%) Redis
13 4 (1.50%) Data Lake
13 4 (1.50%) Hadoop
13 4 (1.50%) Tableau
14 3 (1.12%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 92 (34.46%) Jenkins
2 61 (22.85%) Git
3 46 (17.23%) JIRA
4 29 (10.86%) Bitbucket
5 27 (10.11%) GitLab
6 18 (6.74%) TeamCity
7 14 (5.24%) CA Release Automation
7 14 (5.24%) SonarQube
8 11 (4.12%) Sonatype Nexus
9 10 (3.75%) Bitbucket Server
10 9 (3.37%) Artifactory
10 9 (3.37%) Cypress.io
11 8 (3.00%) REST Assured
11 8 (3.00%) Selenium
12 7 (2.62%) Maven
12 7 (2.62%) Subversion
13 6 (2.25%) JUnit
13 6 (2.25%) Octopus Deploy
14 5 (1.87%) Gradle
14 5 (1.87%) IntelliJ
General
1 72 (26.97%) Social Skills
2 50 (18.73%) Finance
3 30 (11.24%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (7.87%) Public Sector
5 17 (6.37%) Documentation Skills
6 13 (4.87%) Legal
7 10 (3.75%) Banking
8 7 (2.62%) Marketing
8 7 (2.62%) Telecoms
9 6 (2.25%) Front Office
10 5 (1.87%) Electronics
10 5 (1.87%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.75%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.75%) Military
11 2 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.75%) Retail
12 1 (0.37%) Arabic Language
12 1 (0.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 58 (21.72%) Developer
2 54 (20.22%) DevOps Engineer
3 36 (13.48%) Senior
4 21 (7.87%) AWS Engineer
5 18 (6.74%) Lead
6 17 (6.37%) Python Developer
7 16 (5.99%) Automation Engineer
8 15 (5.62%) Architect
9 13 (4.87%) AWS DevOps
10 12 (4.49%) Cloud Engineer
10 12 (4.49%) Deployment Engineer
10 12 (4.49%) Senior DevOps
10 12 (4.49%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 11 (4.12%) Java Developer
11 11 (4.12%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 10 (3.75%) Full-Stack Developer
12 10 (3.75%) Platform Engineer
13 9 (3.37%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 9 (3.37%) Kubernetes Engineer
14 8 (3.00%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (9.36%) REST
2 22 (8.24%) Kafka
3 21 (7.87%) Elastic Stack
3 21 (7.87%) RESTful
4 20 (7.49%) .NET
4 20 (7.49%) React
5 18 (6.74%) Spring Boot
6 16 (5.99%) Web Services
7 15 (5.62%) SOAP
7 15 (5.62%) Spring
8 13 (4.87%) AngularJS
9 12 (4.49%) CSS
9 12 (4.49%) HTML
10 11 (4.12%) .NET Core
11 10 (3.75%) J2EE
11 10 (3.75%) Node.js
12 8 (3.00%) Playwright
13 7 (2.62%) HTML5
14 6 (2.25%) JSON
14 6 (2.25%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 14 (5.24%) Cloud Native
2 12 (4.49%) Public Cloud
3 8 (3.00%) Product Ownership
4 7 (2.62%) Management Information System
5 6 (2.25%) Data Structures
5 6 (2.25%) EMC VMAX
6 5 (1.87%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (1.87%) Enterprise Storage
6 5 (1.87%) Replication
6 5 (1.87%) Tandem
6 5 (1.87%) Virtual Team
7 4 (1.50%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (1.50%) Data Centre
7 4 (1.50%) Mainframe
8 3 (1.12%) Clustering
8 3 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.75%) Equities
9 2 (0.75%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 75 (28.09%) Linux
2 59 (22.10%) Windows
3 20 (7.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 16 (5.99%) Unix
4 16 (5.99%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.50%) VMS
5 4 (1.50%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.75%) Windows 7
6 2 (0.75%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.37%) CentOS
7 1 (0.37%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.37%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (0.37%) Solaris
7 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 153 (57.30%) CI/CD
2 133 (49.81%) DevOps
3 84 (31.46%) Agile
4 79 (29.59%) Problem-Solving
5 66 (24.72%) Test Automation
6 60 (22.47%) Continuous Integration
7 55 (20.60%) Infrastructure as Code
8 54 (20.22%) Microservices
9 53 (19.85%) Containerisation
10 41 (15.36%) Configuration Management
11 31 (11.61%) SDLC
12 30 (11.24%) Software Engineering
13 29 (10.86%) Infrastructure Automation
13 29 (10.86%) Migration
14 28 (10.49%) Scrum
15 27 (10.11%) Continuous Delivery
16 26 (9.74%) Code Quality
17 23 (8.61%) Validation
18 22 (8.24%) Analytics
19 21 (7.87%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 109 (40.82%) Python
2 46 (17.23%) PowerShell
3 44 (16.48%) Java
4 42 (15.73%) Bash
5 38 (14.23%) SQL
6 35 (13.11%) JavaScript
7 26 (9.74%) C#
8 25 (9.36%) TypeScript
9 15 (5.62%) Perl
10 9 (3.37%) Go
10 9 (3.37%) Shell Script
11 6 (2.25%) Scala
12 4 (1.50%) Ruby
13 3 (1.12%) Groovy
13 3 (1.12%) PHP
14 2 (0.75%) Bicep
14 2 (0.75%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.75%) VB
14 2 (0.75%) VB6
15 1 (0.37%) DataWeave
Qualifications
1 54 (20.22%) Security Cleared
2 48 (17.98%) SC Cleared
3 19 (7.12%) Degree
4 16 (5.99%) Microsoft Certification
5 15 (5.62%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (4.49%) CCNP
6 12 (4.49%) Cisco Certification
6 12 (4.49%) Oracle Certification
7 11 (4.12%) OCA
7 11 (4.12%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 10 (3.75%) RHCA
8 10 (3.75%) RHCE
9 6 (2.25%) AWS Certification
10 5 (1.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (1.50%) Azure Certification
11 4 (1.50%) DV Cleared
12 3 (1.12%) Master's Degree
13 2 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (0.75%) CCIE
14 1 (0.37%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (7.87%) QA
2 4 (1.50%) Accessibility
2 4 (1.50%) GDPR
3 3 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.12%) NCSC
4 2 (0.75%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.75%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (0.37%) JSP 440
5 1 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 76 (28.46%) Docker
2 22 (8.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (7.12%) Active Directory
4 6 (2.25%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (1.50%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 3 (1.12%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 2 (0.75%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.75%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.37%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.37%) Firmware
8 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.37%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.37%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 98 (36.70%) Kubernetes
2 79 (29.59%) Terraform
3 69 (25.84%) Ansible
4 52 (19.48%) Progress Chef
5 42 (15.73%) Puppet
6 20 (7.49%) Grafana
6 20 (7.49%) Prometheus
7 18 (6.74%) SCCM
8 11 (4.12%) vCenter Server
9 10 (3.75%) Kibana
10 6 (2.25%) Argo
11 4 (1.50%) Consul
11 4 (1.50%) Istio
12 3 (1.12%) CloudHub
12 3 (1.12%) logstash
12 3 (1.12%) PowerCLI
12 3 (1.12%) WSUS
13 2 (0.75%) Control-M
13 2 (0.75%) ThinApp
13 2 (0.75%) vRealize
Vendors
1 46 (17.23%) Microsoft
2 25 (9.36%) Oracle
2 25 (9.36%) VMware
3 24 (8.99%) Red Hat
4 23 (8.61%) Splunk
5 19 (7.12%) Cisco
6 16 (5.99%) AppDynamics
7 12 (4.49%) Google
7 12 (4.49%) SAP
8 9 (3.37%) Atlassian
9 7 (2.62%) Databricks
9 7 (2.62%) EMC
9 7 (2.62%) ServiceNow
9 7 (2.62%) Sybase
10 6 (2.25%) Dataiku
11 5 (1.87%) Dynatrace
11 5 (1.87%) NetApp
12 4 (1.50%) CA Agile Central
12 4 (1.50%) Cloudera
12 4 (1.50%) Veritas