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 4 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 102 118
Rank change year-on-year -19 +16 +26
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 17 22 7
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.70% 1.21% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.81% 1.29% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 19 6
10th Percentile £410 £423 £559
25th Percentile £469 £523 £626
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £725 £715
Median % change year-on-year -13.79% +1.47% +2.07%
75th Percentile £675 £800 £747
90th Percentile £850 £805 £750
Central London median daily rate £625 £725 £715
% change year-on-year -13.79% +1.47% +6.64%

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 2,094 1,701 1,946
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 85.78% 93.87% 91.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,417 1,091 1,348
10th Percentile £367 £350 £363
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% -2.17% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £552 £560
% change year-on-year -0.36% -1.43% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 20 15
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.02 £20.04
25th Percentile £18.18 £24.43 £20.36
Median hourly rate £19.50 £29.75 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.45% +10.19% -22.86%
75th Percentile £42.13 £50.75 £40.92
90th Percentile £59.72 £66.25 £67.35
Central London median hourly rate £24.47 £31.00 £27.81
% change year-on-year -21.08% +11.47% -20.54%

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 4 July 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 1 (5.88%) Apache Spark
1 1 (5.88%) Camunda
1 1 (5.88%) Palantir Foundry
Cloud Services
1 8 (47.06%) AWS
2 7 (41.18%) Azure
3 4 (23.53%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (23.53%) GitHub
4 3 (17.65%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (17.65%) Power Platform
4 3 (17.65%) Serverless
5 2 (11.76%) GCP
6 1 (5.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (5.88%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (5.88%) Amazon Kinesis
6 1 (5.88%) Amazon S3
6 1 (5.88%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (5.88%) AWS CodeBuild
6 1 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (5.88%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (5.88%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (5.88%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.76%) DNS
1 2 (11.76%) TCP/IP
2 1 (5.88%) BGP
2 1 (5.88%) DHCP
2 1 (5.88%) Firewall
2 1 (5.88%) IPsec
2 1 (5.88%) Network Security
2 1 (5.88%) OSPF
2 1 (5.88%) SSL
2 1 (5.88%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) NoSQL
1 3 (17.65%) Power BI
2 1 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (5.88%) BigQuery
2 1 (5.88%) Db2
2 1 (5.88%) DynamoDB
2 1 (5.88%) Hadoop
2 1 (5.88%) Metadata
2 1 (5.88%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Git
1 2 (11.76%) GitLab
2 1 (5.88%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.88%) JUnit
General
1 10 (58.82%) Finance
2 5 (29.41%) Social Skills
3 3 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (11.76%) Banking
5 1 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (5.88%) Front Office
5 1 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (5.88%) Legal
5 1 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (23.53%) Developer
1 4 (23.53%) Senior
2 3 (17.65%) Full-Stack Developer
2 3 (17.65%) Lead
2 3 (17.65%) Senior Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Architect
3 2 (11.76%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) AWS Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Data Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Data Science Leader
4 1 (5.88%) DevOps Automation Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Head of Engineering
4 1 (5.88%) Head of Mobile
4 1 (5.88%) Salesforce Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (29.41%) PySpark
1 5 (29.41%) REST
2 4 (23.53%) React
3 3 (17.65%) .NET
3 3 (17.65%) DOM
3 3 (17.65%) GraphQL
3 3 (17.65%) Kafka
3 3 (17.65%) React Native
3 3 (17.65%) RESTful
4 2 (11.76%) .NET Core
4 2 (11.76%) AngularJS
4 2 (11.76%) PyTorch
4 2 (11.76%) Redux
4 2 (11.76%) scikit-learn
4 2 (11.76%) Spring
4 2 (11.76%) Spring Boot
4 2 (11.76%) TensorFlow
5 1 (5.88%) FastAPI
5 1 (5.88%) Google JAX
5 1 (5.88%) Hugging Face
Miscellaneous
1 5 (29.41%) Cloud Native
2 3 (17.65%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (17.65%) Mobile App
3 1 (5.88%) AI Agents
3 1 (5.88%) Anti-Spyware
3 1 (5.88%) Data Centre
3 1 (5.88%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (5.88%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.76%) Linux
1 2 (11.76%) Windows
2 1 (5.88%) Windows 10
2 1 (5.88%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (82.35%) CI/CD
2 8 (47.06%) Observability
2 8 (47.06%) Test Automation
3 7 (41.18%) DevOps
4 6 (35.29%) Agile
4 6 (35.29%) Data Pipeline
5 5 (29.41%) AI
5 5 (29.41%) Micro Frontends
6 4 (23.53%) Analytics
6 4 (23.53%) Data Engineering
6 4 (23.53%) Design Patterns
6 4 (23.53%) Full-Stack Development
6 4 (23.53%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (23.53%) Microservices
7 3 (17.65%) Architectural Patterns
7 3 (17.65%) Containerisation
7 3 (17.65%) Event-Driven
7 3 (17.65%) Line Management
7 3 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (17.65%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (47.06%) Python
2 4 (23.53%) SQL
3 3 (17.65%) C#
3 3 (17.65%) PowerShell
3 3 (17.65%) TypeScript
4 2 (11.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (11.76%) JavaScript
5 1 (5.88%) Bash
5 1 (5.88%) Bicep
5 1 (5.88%) Java
5 1 (5.88%) Korn
Qualifications
1 1 (5.88%) AWS Certification
1 1 (5.88%) AWS Certified Developer
1 1 (5.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (5.88%) CCNP
1 1 (5.88%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (5.88%) CISSP
1 1 (5.88%) CompTIA Security+
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Certified Professional
1 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) Data Quality
1 1 (5.88%) GDPR
1 1 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (5.88%) QA
System Software
1 3 (17.65%) Docker
2 2 (11.76%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (5.88%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (23.53%) Kubernetes
1 4 (23.53%) Terraform
2 2 (11.76%) Ansible
3 1 (5.88%) Istio
3 1 (5.88%) Prometheus
3 1 (5.88%) QRadar
3 1 (5.88%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) Databricks
2 1 (5.88%) Dynatrace
2 1 (5.88%) Foundry
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.88%) Palantir
2 1 (5.88%) Palo Alto
2 1 (5.88%) Salesforce
2 1 (5.88%) ServiceNow
2 1 (5.88%) Splunk
2 1 (5.88%) Sybase