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

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 110 109 117
Rank change year-on-year -1 +8 +15
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 23 18 11
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.96% 0.95% 0.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.10% 1.01% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 16 7
10th Percentile £366 £425 £568
25th Percentile £422 £524 £638
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £725 £725
Median % change year-on-year -34.48% - +9.43%
75th Percentile £606 £800 £750
90th Percentile £660 £813 £760
Central London median daily rate £488 £725 £713
% change year-on-year -32.76% +1.75% +7.55%

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 2,090 1,776 1,877
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 87.19% 94.02% 91.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,414 1,161 1,281
10th Percentile £368 £331 £375
25th Percentile £455 £425 £463
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 £792
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 22 16
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.57 £17.25
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £20.43
Median hourly rate £19.50 £29.75 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.45% +10.19% -13.60%
75th Percentile £41.25 £54.75 £82.19
90th Percentile £60.78 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £23.16 £31.00 £27.00
% change year-on-year -25.29% +14.81% -22.86%

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 3 August 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 (8.70%) Apache Spark
2 1 (4.35%) Palantir Foundry
Business Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (4.35%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 9 (39.13%) Azure
2 7 (30.43%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (26.09%) AWS
3 6 (26.09%) GCP
4 5 (21.74%) Serverless
5 4 (17.39%) GitHub
5 4 (17.39%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 4 (17.39%) Power Platform
6 3 (13.04%) Azure Functions
6 3 (13.04%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (8.70%) Azure AKS
7 2 (8.70%) Azure API Management
7 2 (8.70%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (8.70%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (8.70%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (8.70%) Cloud Functions
7 2 (8.70%) Google App Engine
7 2 (8.70%) Google Compute Engine
7 2 (8.70%) PaaS
8 1 (4.35%) LangSmith
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.70%) Internet
2 1 (4.35%) BGP
2 1 (4.35%) DNS
2 1 (4.35%) Firewall
2 1 (4.35%) IPsec
2 1 (4.35%) Network Security
2 1 (4.35%) OSPF
2 1 (4.35%) SSL
2 1 (4.35%) TCP/IP
2 1 (4.35%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.04%) NoSQL
1 3 (13.04%) Power BI
2 1 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (4.35%) Apache Hive
2 1 (4.35%) Big Data
2 1 (4.35%) BigQuery
2 1 (4.35%) Db2
2 1 (4.35%) DynamoDB
2 1 (4.35%) Hadoop
2 1 (4.35%) Redis
2 1 (4.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (13.04%) Git
1 3 (13.04%) GitLab
1 3 (13.04%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.35%) JIRA
2 1 (4.35%) JUnit
2 1 (4.35%) TeamCity
2 1 (4.35%) Visual Studio
2 1 (4.35%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 12 (52.17%) Finance
2 6 (26.09%) Social Skills
3 5 (21.74%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (8.70%) Banking
4 2 (8.70%) Marketing
5 1 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (4.35%) Front Office
5 1 (4.35%) Legal
5 1 (4.35%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (4.35%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (34.78%) Developer
2 4 (17.39%) Full-Stack Developer
2 4 (17.39%) Senior
3 3 (13.04%) Senior Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Applications Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Applications Support
4 2 (8.70%) Applications Support Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Automation Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) GCP Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Lead
4 2 (8.70%) Linux Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Linux Systems Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Python Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Support Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Systems Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Dynamics 365 Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (26.09%) React
2 5 (21.74%) REST
3 4 (17.39%) .NET
3 4 (17.39%) AngularJS
3 4 (17.39%) PySpark
4 3 (13.04%) Kafka
4 3 (13.04%) RESTful
5 2 (8.70%) .NET Core
5 2 (8.70%) Node.js
5 2 (8.70%) PyTorch
5 2 (8.70%) Redux
5 2 (8.70%) scikit-learn
5 2 (8.70%) TensorFlow
6 1 (4.35%) ASP.NET Web API
6 1 (4.35%) ASP.NET Web Forms
6 1 (4.35%) GraphQL
6 1 (4.35%) HTML5 Canvas
6 1 (4.35%) React Native
6 1 (4.35%) Spring Boot
6 1 (4.35%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 7 (30.43%) Cloud Native
2 3 (13.04%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (4.35%) Anti-Spyware
3 1 (4.35%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.35%) Derivative
3 1 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (4.35%) Mobile App
3 1 (4.35%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 3 (13.04%) Linux
2 2 (8.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (8.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (86.96%) CI/CD
2 10 (43.48%) Infrastructure as Code
3 9 (39.13%) Test Automation
4 8 (34.78%) Agile
4 8 (34.78%) Containerisation
4 8 (34.78%) DevOps
4 8 (34.78%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (30.43%) Migration
6 6 (26.09%) Cloud Operations
6 6 (26.09%) Data Pipeline
7 5 (21.74%) AI
7 5 (21.74%) Full-Stack Development
7 5 (21.74%) Observability
7 5 (21.74%) Performance Tuning
8 4 (17.39%) Analytics
8 4 (17.39%) API Design
8 4 (17.39%) Data Engineering
8 4 (17.39%) Event-Driven
8 4 (17.39%) Microservices
8 4 (17.39%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 11 (47.83%) Python
2 6 (26.09%) JavaScript
3 5 (21.74%) C#
3 5 (21.74%) SQL
4 4 (17.39%) TypeScript
5 3 (13.04%) Java
5 3 (13.04%) Korn
5 3 (13.04%) PowerShell
6 2 (8.70%) Bicep
6 2 (8.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (4.35%) Bash
Qualifications
1 7 (30.43%) Security Cleared
2 5 (21.74%) SC Cleared
3 4 (17.39%) DV Cleared
4 1 (4.35%) AWS Certification
4 1 (4.35%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (4.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (4.35%) CCNP
4 1 (4.35%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (4.35%) CISSP
4 1 (4.35%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.70%) QA
System Software
1 2 (8.70%) Docker
1 2 (8.70%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (34.78%) Kubernetes
1 8 (34.78%) Terraform
2 3 (13.04%) Ansible
3 2 (8.70%) Progress Chef
3 2 (8.70%) Puppet
4 1 (4.35%) Istio
4 1 (4.35%) Prometheus
4 1 (4.35%) QRadar
Vendors
1 4 (17.39%) Google
2 3 (13.04%) Databricks
3 2 (8.70%) Microsoft
3 2 (8.70%) Red Hat
3 2 (8.70%) SaltStack
4 1 (4.35%) Cloudera
4 1 (4.35%) Dynatrace
4 1 (4.35%) Foundry
4 1 (4.35%) MuleSoft
4 1 (4.35%) Palantir
4 1 (4.35%) Palo Alto
4 1 (4.35%) Salesforce
4 1 (4.35%) SAP
4 1 (4.35%) ServiceNow
4 1 (4.35%) Splunk
4 1 (4.35%) Sybase