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

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 111 106 118
Rank change year-on-year -5 +12 +8
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 30 10 9
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.36% 0.57% 0.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.51% 0.61% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 9 6
10th Percentile £417 £471 £638
25th Percentile £431 £525 £684
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £800 £738
Median % change year-on-year -35.94% +8.47% +11.32%
75th Percentile £588 - £750
90th Percentile £638 - £763
Central London median daily rate £523 £688 £725
% change year-on-year -24.00% -5.17% +9.43%

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 1,981 1,642 1,949
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.00% 94.37% 91.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,370 1,103 1,211
10th Percentile £365 £325 £368
25th Percentile £455 £420 £470
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 £771 £792
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -3.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 20 19
10th Percentile £16.98 £17.02 £15.60
25th Percentile £17.60 £21.54 £21.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £27.83 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year -24.53% -27.73% +40.00%
75th Percentile £36.13 £47.00 £102.25
90th Percentile £59.70 £66.25 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £25.00 £28.33 £35.00
% change year-on-year -11.74% -19.07% +30.84%

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 October 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 (6.67%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (3.33%) SAP CRM
2 1 (3.33%) SAP MDG
2 1 (3.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 14 (46.67%) Azure
2 12 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (23.33%) Power Platform
4 6 (20.00%) GCP
5 5 (16.67%) AWS
5 5 (16.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 4 (13.33%) Azure Data Factory
6 4 (13.33%) Azure Functions
6 4 (13.33%) Serverless
7 3 (10.00%) Azure API Management
7 3 (10.00%) Azure Service Bus
7 3 (10.00%) Cloud Functions
7 3 (10.00%) Google App Engine
7 3 (10.00%) Google Compute Engine
8 2 (6.67%) Azure AI
8 2 (6.67%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (6.67%) GitHub
8 2 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (6.67%) PaaS
8 2 (6.67%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (13.33%) Power BI
2 2 (6.67%) NoSQL
2 2 (6.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (3.33%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (3.33%) Apache Hive
3 1 (3.33%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (3.33%) Big Data
3 1 (3.33%) BigQuery
3 1 (3.33%) Hadoop
3 1 (3.33%) KDB
3 1 (3.33%) Kdb+
3 1 (3.33%) Metadata
3 1 (3.33%) MongoDB
3 1 (3.33%) Redis
3 1 (3.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (26.67%) Git
2 4 (13.33%) GitLab
2 4 (13.33%) Jenkins
3 3 (10.00%) JIRA
4 2 (6.67%) Visual Studio
4 2 (6.67%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (3.33%) Bitbucket
5 1 (3.33%) Postman
5 1 (3.33%) QUnit
5 1 (3.33%) rollup.js
5 1 (3.33%) Storybook
5 1 (3.33%) TeamCity
5 1 (3.33%) Visual Studio Team System
5 1 (3.33%) webpack
General
1 11 (36.67%) Finance
2 8 (26.67%) Social Skills
3 7 (23.33%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (10.00%) Banking
4 3 (10.00%) Marketing
5 1 (3.33%) Front Office
5 1 (3.33%) Law
5 1 (3.33%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (3.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (33.33%) Developer
2 4 (13.33%) Applications Engineer
2 4 (13.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 3 (10.00%) Applications Support
3 3 (10.00%) Applications Support Engineer
3 3 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 3 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (10.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 3 (10.00%) GCP Engineer
3 3 (10.00%) Support Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Automation Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Linux Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Linux Systems Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Python Developer
4 2 (6.67%) Senior
4 2 (6.67%) Senior Developer
4 2 (6.67%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (6.67%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (30.00%) Terraform
2 7 (23.33%) REST
3 6 (20.00%) React
4 5 (16.67%) .NET
5 4 (13.33%) AngularJS
6 3 (10.00%) HTML
6 3 (10.00%) JSON
6 3 (10.00%) Middleware
6 3 (10.00%) PySpark
6 3 (10.00%) Redux
6 3 (10.00%) RESTful
7 2 (6.67%) .NET Core
7 2 (6.67%) .NET Framework
7 2 (6.67%) HTML5 Canvas
7 2 (6.67%) Node.js
7 2 (6.67%) OAuth
7 2 (6.67%) OAuth2
7 2 (6.67%) PyTorch
7 2 (6.67%) scikit-learn
7 2 (6.67%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (6.67%) Derivative
2 2 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (6.67%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 1 (3.33%) AI Agents
3 1 (3.33%) Fixed Income
3 1 (3.33%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (13.33%) Linux
2 3 (10.00%) Unix
3 2 (6.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (86.67%) CI/CD
2 14 (46.67%) DevOps
3 12 (40.00%) Agile
3 12 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 11 (36.67%) Test Automation
5 9 (30.00%) Migration
5 9 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (26.67%) Containerisation
7 7 (23.33%) Performance Tuning
8 6 (20.00%) Cloud Operations
8 6 (20.00%) Observability
8 6 (20.00%) Runbook
9 5 (16.67%) AI
9 5 (16.67%) API Design
9 5 (16.67%) API Integration
9 5 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
9 5 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
10 4 (13.33%) Data Modelling
10 4 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
10 4 (13.33%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 11 (36.67%) Python
2 9 (30.00%) JavaScript
3 8 (26.67%) C#
3 8 (26.67%) SQL
4 5 (16.67%) Java
5 4 (13.33%) Bicep
5 4 (13.33%) TypeScript
6 3 (10.00%) Korn
7 2 (6.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (6.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 11 (36.67%) Security Cleared
2 6 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 5 (16.67%) DV Cleared
4 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (3.33%) Degree
5 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.67%) Data Quality
1 2 (6.67%) GDPR
1 2 (6.67%) QA
System Software
1 3 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 3 (10.00%) Ansible
3 2 (6.67%) Progress Chef
3 2 (6.67%) Puppet
4 1 (3.33%) Istio
4 1 (3.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (16.67%) Google
3 4 (13.33%) Databricks
4 2 (6.67%) Foundry
4 2 (6.67%) MuleSoft
4 2 (6.67%) Red Hat
4 2 (6.67%) SaltStack
4 2 (6.67%) SAP
5 1 (3.33%) Cloudera
5 1 (3.33%) Dell
5 1 (3.33%) Dynatrace
5 1 (3.33%) IBM
5 1 (3.33%) Informatica
5 1 (3.33%) Salesforce
5 1 (3.33%) ServiceNow
5 1 (3.33%) Splunk