Deployment Automation Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Deployment Automation
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Deployment Automation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 110 119
Rank change year-on-year -5 +9 +24
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 25 11 9
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.10% 0.62% 0.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.24% 0.65% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 10 6
10th Percentile £418 £514 £638
25th Percentile £423 £581 £684
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £800 £738
Median % change year-on-year -39.84% +8.47% +11.32%
75th Percentile £588 - £750
90th Percentile £638 £803 £763
Central London median daily rate £519 £800 £725
% change year-on-year -35.16% +10.34% +14.85%

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of London

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 City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,010 1,681 1,910
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 88.20% 94.23% 91.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,381 1,112 1,243
10th Percentile £380 £325 £377
25th Percentile £460 £419 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 22 16
10th Percentile - £17.35 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.60 £23.98 £19.79
Median hourly rate £21.00 £28.33 £26.63
Median % change year-on-year -25.86% +6.38% -3.18%
75th Percentile £32.05 £53.50 £82.19
90th Percentile £50.59 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £24.00 £29.07 £27.00
% change year-on-year -17.44% +7.67% -1.82%

Deployment Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Deployment Automation job vacancy trend in the City of London

Deployment Automation
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Deployment Automation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Deployment Automation

Deployment Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Deployment Automation in the City of London over the 6 months to 2 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Deployment Automation in the City of London

Deployment Automation
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Deployment Automation.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Deployment Automation

Deployment Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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 2 (8.00%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (4.00%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 11 (44.00%) Azure
1 11 (44.00%) Azure DevOps
2 6 (24.00%) GCP
3 5 (20.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 4 (16.00%) Azure Functions
4 4 (16.00%) Power Platform
4 4 (16.00%) Serverless
5 3 (12.00%) AWS
5 3 (12.00%) Azure API Management
5 3 (12.00%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (12.00%) Azure Service Bus
5 3 (12.00%) Cloud Functions
5 3 (12.00%) Google App Engine
5 3 (12.00%) Google Compute Engine
6 2 (8.00%) Azure AI
6 2 (8.00%) Azure AKS
6 2 (8.00%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (8.00%) GitHub
6 2 (8.00%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (8.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.00%) NoSQL
1 2 (8.00%) Power BI
1 2 (8.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (4.00%) Apache Hive
2 1 (4.00%) Big Data
2 1 (4.00%) BigQuery
2 1 (4.00%) Hadoop
2 1 (4.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (12.00%) Git
1 3 (12.00%) GitLab
1 3 (12.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (8.00%) JIRA
2 2 (8.00%) Visual Studio
2 2 (8.00%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (4.00%) rollup.js
3 1 (4.00%) Storybook
3 1 (4.00%) TeamCity
3 1 (4.00%) webpack
General
1 11 (44.00%) Finance
2 6 (24.00%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (24.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (12.00%) Marketing
4 2 (8.00%) Banking
5 1 (4.00%) Front Office
5 1 (4.00%) Legal
5 1 (4.00%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (4.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (40.00%) Developer
2 4 (16.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (16.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 3 (12.00%) Applications Engineer
3 3 (12.00%) Applications Support
3 3 (12.00%) Applications Support Engineer
3 3 (12.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 3 (12.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 3 (12.00%) Azure Engineer
3 3 (12.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 3 (12.00%) GCP Engineer
3 3 (12.00%) Python Developer
3 3 (12.00%) Support Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Automation Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Dynamics 365 Developer
4 2 (8.00%) Linux Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Senior
4 2 (8.00%) Senior Developer
4 2 (8.00%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (8.00%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (36.00%) Terraform
2 7 (28.00%) React
3 5 (20.00%) .NET
3 5 (20.00%) AngularJS
3 5 (20.00%) REST
4 3 (12.00%) HTML
4 3 (12.00%) PySpark
4 3 (12.00%) Redux
4 3 (12.00%) RESTful
5 2 (8.00%) .NET Core
5 2 (8.00%) .NET Framework
5 2 (8.00%) ASP.NET Web API
5 2 (8.00%) HTML5 Canvas
5 2 (8.00%) Kafka
5 2 (8.00%) Middleware
5 2 (8.00%) Node.js
5 2 (8.00%) PyTorch
5 2 (8.00%) scikit-learn
5 2 (8.00%) TensorFlow
6 1 (4.00%) ASP.NET Web Forms
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (12.00%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (8.00%) Derivative
3 2 (8.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (12.00%) Linux
2 2 (8.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (8.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (92.00%) CI/CD
2 11 (44.00%) DevOps
2 11 (44.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 9 (36.00%) Agile
3 9 (36.00%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (36.00%) Test Automation
4 8 (32.00%) Containerisation
4 8 (32.00%) Migration
5 6 (24.00%) Cloud Operations
5 6 (24.00%) Observability
6 5 (20.00%) AI
6 5 (20.00%) API Design
6 5 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
6 5 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
6 5 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
6 5 (20.00%) Runbook
7 4 (16.00%) DevSecOps
7 4 (16.00%) SDLC
8 3 (12.00%) API Integration
8 3 (12.00%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 10 (40.00%) Python
2 9 (36.00%) JavaScript
3 8 (32.00%) C#
4 5 (20.00%) SQL
4 5 (20.00%) TypeScript
5 4 (16.00%) Bicep
5 4 (16.00%) Java
6 3 (12.00%) Korn
7 2 (8.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (8.00%) PowerShell
8 1 (4.00%) Bash
Qualifications
1 9 (36.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (24.00%) SC Cleared
3 5 (20.00%) DV Cleared
4 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.00%) GDPR
1 2 (8.00%) QA
System Software
1 3 (12.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (8.00%) Ansible
2 2 (8.00%) Progress Chef
2 2 (8.00%) Puppet
3 1 (4.00%) Istio
3 1 (4.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (20.00%) Google
2 3 (12.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (8.00%) Databricks
3 2 (8.00%) Foundry
3 2 (8.00%) Red Hat
3 2 (8.00%) SaltStack
4 1 (4.00%) Cloudera
4 1 (4.00%) Dynatrace
4 1 (4.00%) MuleSoft
4 1 (4.00%) Salesforce
4 1 (4.00%) SAP