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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 111 121 132
Rank change year-on-year +10 +11 +47
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 8 9 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.45% 0.43% 0.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.48% 0.47% 0.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 6 18
10th Percentile £533 £638 £153
25th Percentile £669 £684 £573
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £738 £663
Median % change year-on-year +8.47% +11.32% +12.77%
75th Percentile - £750 £738
90th Percentile - £763 £828
Central London median daily rate £800 £725 £650
% change year-on-year +10.34% +11.54% +10.64%

All Process and 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 1,661 1,932 2,687
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 94.21% 92.09% 90.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,107 1,224 1,857
10th Percentile £325 £375 £363
25th Percentile £419 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £705
90th Percentile £763 £788 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 17 16
10th Percentile £17.35 £15.20 £14.25
25th Percentile £23.98 £20.22 £16.02
Median hourly rate £28.33 £27.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.91% +8.00% -41.86%
75th Percentile £53.50 £78.75 £44.87
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £60.88
Central London median hourly rate £31.25 £35.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -10.71% +34.62% -38.82%

Deployment Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Deployment Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Deployment Automation 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 18 September 2025.

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 and Capabilities in the City of London 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 1 (12.50%) Apache
1 1 (12.50%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) AWS
2 5 (62.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 5 (62.50%) Amazon Cognito
2 5 (62.50%) Amazon EventBridge
2 5 (62.50%) Amazon S3
2 5 (62.50%) Amazon SQS
2 5 (62.50%) AWS Lambda
2 5 (62.50%) AWS Step Functions
2 5 (62.50%) Datadog
2 5 (62.50%) Serverless
3 2 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (12.50%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) HTTPS
1 1 (12.50%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (62.50%) DynamoDB
2 1 (12.50%) Big Data
2 1 (12.50%) DB2
2 1 (12.50%) Hadoop
2 1 (12.50%) MongoDB
2 1 (12.50%) Relational Database
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Git
General
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Software Design Engineer
1 4 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Angular Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Architect
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Java Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Site Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (75.00%) AngularJS
2 5 (62.50%) GraphQL
2 5 (62.50%) OpenTelemetry
2 5 (62.50%) WebSockets
3 1 (12.50%) AWS CDK
3 1 (12.50%) JSON
3 1 (12.50%) OAuth
3 1 (12.50%) React
3 1 (12.50%) REST
3 1 (12.50%) RESTful
3 1 (12.50%) SOAP
3 1 (12.50%) Spring
3 1 (12.50%) Web Services
3 1 (12.50%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Linux
2 1 (12.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) DevOps
2 6 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 6 (75.00%) Observability
3 5 (62.50%) Clean Code
3 5 (62.50%) Event-Driven
3 5 (62.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 5 (62.50%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (62.50%) Mentoring
3 5 (62.50%) Performance Optimisation
3 5 (62.50%) Software Engineering
3 5 (62.50%) Technical Leadership
3 5 (62.50%) User Experience
4 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (25.00%) Test Automation
5 1 (12.50%) Analytical Thinking
5 1 (12.50%) Continuous Delivery
5 1 (12.50%) Data Science
5 1 (12.50%) Fintech
5 1 (12.50%) Proactive Monitoring
5 1 (12.50%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) Python
2 1 (12.50%) Bash
2 1 (12.50%) Go
2 1 (12.50%) Java
2 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
2 1 (12.50%) Perl
2 1 (12.50%) PromQL
2 1 (12.50%) Scala
2 1 (12.50%) Shell Script
2 1 (12.50%) SQL
2 1 (12.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 6 (75.00%) Prometheus
2 2 (25.00%) Terraform
3 1 (12.50%) Grafana
3 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Axway
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle
1 1 (12.50%) Splunk
1 1 (12.50%) Sybase