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 22 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 266 314 341
Rank change year-on-year +48 +27 +3
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 304 289 408
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.01% 0.66% 0.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.11% 0.78% 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 226 208 253
10th Percentile £280 £406 £413
25th Percentile £406 £505 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £613
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -6.12% +6.52%
75th Percentile £600 £700 £700
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £537 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -6.61% -4.17% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 5
10th Percentile - - £35.30
25th Percentile - - £65.00
Median hourly rate - £23.80 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year - -63.94% +31.34%
75th Percentile - £67.02 £71.50
90th Percentile - £69.56 £78.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £67.26 £16.00
% change year-on-year - +320.38% -60.49%

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 27,300 37,213 49,708
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 91.00% 84.87% 89.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,271 23,689 34,319
10th Percentile £300 £300 £325
25th Percentile £406 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.29% -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,283 2,619 1,694
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.73 £11.33
25th Percentile £17.70 £16.06 £15.75
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% +7.14% +34.62%
75th Percentile £55.00 £61.30 £64.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.08 £38.12 £32.40
% change year-on-year -34.22% +17.65% +54.29%

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 22 June 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 22 June 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 +73 254 £550 -7.87% 944
UK excluding London +56 143 £537 -6.61% 610
London +57 129 £550 -18.52% 497
Work from Home +73 116 £538 -1.01% 470
North of England +27 32 £397 -22.25% 137
East of England +45 27 £550 - 41
South West +42 25 £575 -17.86% 65
South East +17 23 £450 -21.74% 224
Scotland +10 23 £500 +11.11% 61
Yorkshire +15 15 £583 +22.63% 42
Midlands +13 13 £537 +48.14% 62
North West +12 13 £391 -23.33% 78
West Midlands +12 7 £550 -18.52% 37
East Midlands +6 6 £401 +12.50% 24
North East - 4 £550 - 18
Northern Ireland - 2 £200 - 9
Wales - 1 £200 - 18

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 26 (8.55%) Confluence
2 16 (5.26%) Apache
3 11 (3.62%) JBoss
4 7 (2.30%) Apache Spark
5 5 (1.64%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.99%) Anypoint
6 3 (0.99%) Mule
6 3 (0.99%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.66%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.66%) Umbraco
8 1 (0.33%) CMS
8 1 (0.33%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.33%) IBM Domino
Applications
1 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 95 (31.25%) AWS
2 73 (24.01%) Azure
3 43 (14.14%) Azure DevOps
4 34 (11.18%) AWS CloudFormation
4 34 (11.18%) GitHub
5 26 (8.55%) Serverless
6 25 (8.22%) Amazon S3
7 21 (6.91%) Amazon EC2
7 21 (6.91%) GCP
7 21 (6.91%) OpenShift
8 20 (6.58%) Cohesity
9 19 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
10 18 (5.92%) AWS Lambda
11 13 (4.28%) SaaS
11 13 (4.28%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 12 (3.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 12 (3.95%) Amazon EKS
13 11 (3.62%) Amazon Cognito
14 8 (2.63%) Entra ID
14 8 (2.63%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 38 (12.50%) DNS
2 27 (8.88%) SAN
3 12 (3.95%) Firewall
4 11 (3.62%) HTTP
4 11 (3.62%) TCP/IP
5 9 (2.96%) VPN
6 8 (2.63%) Internet
7 5 (1.64%) NAS
8 4 (1.32%) Network Security
8 4 (1.32%) VLAN
9 3 (0.99%) Kerberos
10 2 (0.66%) DHCP
10 2 (0.66%) SSL
11 1 (0.33%) IPsec
11 1 (0.33%) LAN
11 1 (0.33%) MPLS
11 1 (0.33%) Multicast
11 1 (0.33%) WAN
11 1 (0.33%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (7.24%) Relational Database
2 20 (6.58%) Amazon RDS
2 20 (6.58%) MongoDB
3 16 (5.26%) NoSQL
4 14 (4.61%) Elasticsearch
4 14 (4.61%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (4.61%) SQL Server
5 11 (3.62%) Amazon Aurora
6 10 (3.29%) RDBMS
7 9 (2.96%) MySQL
8 8 (2.63%) DynamoDB
9 6 (1.97%) Azure SQL Database
9 6 (1.97%) Big Data
9 6 (1.97%) DB2
10 4 (1.32%) Amazon Athena
10 4 (1.32%) BigQuery
10 4 (1.32%) Data Lake
10 4 (1.32%) Hadoop
11 3 (0.99%) Parquet
11 3 (0.99%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 93 (30.59%) Jenkins
2 72 (23.68%) Git
3 50 (16.45%) JIRA
4 27 (8.88%) GitLab
5 26 (8.55%) Bitbucket
6 23 (7.57%) TeamCity
7 20 (6.58%) Sonatype Nexus
8 18 (5.92%) SonarQube
9 15 (4.93%) CA Release Automation
10 13 (4.28%) Cypress.io
10 13 (4.28%) IntelliJ
11 12 (3.95%) Maven
12 11 (3.62%) Bitbucket Server
13 9 (2.96%) REST Assured
14 7 (2.30%) JUnit
14 7 (2.30%) MSI
14 7 (2.30%) Selenium
15 6 (1.97%) Visual Studio Code
16 5 (1.64%) Gradle
16 5 (1.64%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 84 (27.63%) Social Skills
2 57 (18.75%) Finance
3 30 (9.87%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (9.54%) Public Sector
5 17 (5.59%) Documentation Skills
6 15 (4.93%) Legal
7 14 (4.61%) Banking
8 10 (3.29%) Marketing
8 10 (3.29%) Telecoms
9 9 (2.96%) Electronics
9 9 (2.96%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.32%) Investment Banking
11 3 (0.99%) Retail
12 2 (0.66%) Front Office
12 2 (0.66%) Military
12 2 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.33%) Aviation
13 1 (0.33%) Local Government
13 1 (0.33%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 74 (24.34%) Developer
2 48 (15.79%) DevOps Engineer
3 39 (12.83%) Senior
4 23 (7.57%) Lead
5 19 (6.25%) Automation Engineer
6 18 (5.92%) Java Developer
7 16 (5.26%) Architect
7 16 (5.26%) AWS Engineer
8 14 (4.61%) Deployment Engineer
9 13 (4.28%) Full-Stack Developer
9 13 (4.28%) Senior Developer
10 12 (3.95%) Lead Developer
10 12 (3.95%) Senior DevOps
10 12 (3.95%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 11 (3.62%) .NET Developer
11 11 (3.62%) Cloud Engineer
11 11 (3.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 11 (3.62%) Python Developer
12 10 (3.29%) React Developer
12 10 (3.29%) Senior .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (9.87%) REST
2 28 (9.21%) RESTful
3 23 (7.57%) Elastic Stack
3 23 (7.57%) React
3 23 (7.57%) Spring Boot
4 22 (7.24%) Kafka
5 18 (5.92%) .NET
5 18 (5.92%) Spring
6 17 (5.59%) AngularJS
7 16 (5.26%) SOAP
8 15 (4.93%) Web Services
9 14 (4.61%) GraphQL
10 13 (4.28%) .NET Core
10 13 (4.28%) Node.js
11 12 (3.95%) CSS
12 10 (3.29%) HTML
12 10 (3.29%) Playwright
13 9 (2.96%) J2EE
13 9 (2.96%) OAuth
13 9 (2.96%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 16 (5.26%) Product Ownership
2 15 (4.93%) Cloud Native
3 11 (3.62%) Public Cloud
4 9 (2.96%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (2.30%) Virtual Team
6 6 (1.97%) Data Structures
6 6 (1.97%) EMC VMAX
6 6 (1.97%) PKI
7 5 (1.64%) Analytical Mindset
7 5 (1.64%) Clustering
7 5 (1.64%) Enterprise Storage
7 5 (1.64%) Management Information System
7 5 (1.64%) Replication
8 4 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (0.99%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (0.99%) Mainframe
9 3 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.66%) Distributed Computing
10 2 (0.66%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 92 (30.26%) Windows
2 81 (26.64%) Linux
3 40 (13.16%) Windows Server
4 26 (8.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 25 (8.22%) Windows Server 2019
6 22 (7.24%) Unix
7 20 (6.58%) Windows Server 2016
8 7 (2.30%) CentOS
9 6 (1.97%) Windows 10
10 4 (1.32%) VMS
11 2 (0.66%) Debian
11 2 (0.66%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.66%) Windows 7
12 1 (0.33%) Android
12 1 (0.33%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.33%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.33%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.33%) Solaris
12 1 (0.33%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 160 (52.63%) CI/CD
2 148 (48.68%) DevOps
3 99 (32.57%) Agile
4 80 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
5 65 (21.38%) Test Automation
6 64 (21.05%) Infrastructure as Code
7 58 (19.08%) Microservices
8 57 (18.75%) Containerisation
8 57 (18.75%) Continuous Integration
9 42 (13.82%) Configuration Management
9 42 (13.82%) Migration
10 38 (12.50%) Build Automation
11 32 (10.53%) Continuous Delivery
12 31 (10.20%) Mentoring
12 31 (10.20%) Scrum
13 29 (9.54%) Observability
14 28 (9.21%) Software Engineering
15 27 (8.88%) SDLC
16 26 (8.55%) Infrastructure Automation
17 25 (8.22%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 106 (34.87%) Python
2 77 (25.33%) PowerShell
3 59 (19.41%) Java
4 43 (14.14%) JavaScript
5 39 (12.83%) Bash
5 39 (12.83%) SQL
6 32 (10.53%) C#
7 31 (10.20%) TypeScript
8 17 (5.59%) Perl
9 11 (3.62%) Shell Script
10 7 (2.30%) PHP
11 6 (1.97%) Go
11 6 (1.97%) Groovy
12 5 (1.64%) Scala
13 3 (0.99%) DataWeave
13 3 (0.99%) Ruby
14 2 (0.66%) Bicep
14 2 (0.66%) C++
14 2 (0.66%) VB6
14 2 (0.66%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 79 (25.99%) Security Cleared
2 44 (14.47%) SC Cleared
3 28 (9.21%) DV Cleared
4 18 (5.92%) Microsoft Certification
5 12 (3.95%) Degree
5 12 (3.95%) Oracle Certification
6 11 (3.62%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (3.62%) OCA
6 11 (3.62%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 10 (3.29%) CCNP
7 10 (3.29%) Cisco Certification
7 10 (3.29%) RHCA
7 10 (3.29%) RHCE
8 4 (1.32%) AWS Certification
8 4 (1.32%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.33%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.33%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (7.89%) QA
2 7 (2.30%) Accessibility
3 6 (1.97%) GDPR
4 3 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.66%) NCSC
6 1 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.33%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.33%) JSP 440
6 1 (0.33%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.33%) SOC 2
System Software
1 80 (26.32%) Docker
2 48 (15.79%) Active Directory
3 45 (14.80%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (6.58%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 20 (6.58%) Virtual Servers
5 5 (1.64%) Microsoft App-V
5 5 (1.64%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (1.32%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 3 (0.99%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 2 (0.66%) VirtualBox
9 1 (0.33%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.33%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 96 (31.58%) Ansible
2 91 (29.93%) Kubernetes
3 87 (28.62%) Terraform
4 53 (17.43%) Progress Chef
5 43 (14.14%) Puppet
6 39 (12.83%) SCCM
7 26 (8.55%) Prometheus
8 21 (6.91%) Grafana
9 20 (6.58%) WSUS
10 13 (4.28%) Kibana
11 11 (3.62%) vCenter Server
12 8 (2.63%) Argo
13 5 (1.64%) Istio
13 5 (1.64%) Microsoft Intune
14 4 (1.32%) Consul
14 4 (1.32%) WMI
15 3 (0.99%) CloudHub
15 3 (0.99%) Control-M
15 3 (0.99%) Kiali
15 3 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 81 (26.64%) Microsoft
2 48 (15.79%) VMware
3 44 (14.47%) Splunk
4 26 (8.55%) Red Hat
5 24 (7.89%) NetApp
5 24 (7.89%) Oracle
6 19 (6.25%) Cisco
7 18 (5.92%) AppDynamics
8 16 (5.26%) Google
9 12 (3.95%) SAP
10 8 (2.63%) Atlassian
10 8 (2.63%) ServiceNow
11 7 (2.30%) EMC
11 7 (2.30%) Sybase
12 6 (1.97%) Databricks
13 5 (1.64%) CA Agile Central
13 5 (1.64%) Dynatrace
13 5 (1.64%) ForgeRock
14 4 (1.32%) Cloudera
14 4 (1.32%) Veritas