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 14 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 109 131
Rank change year-on-year -6 +22 +46
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 8 11 17
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.46% 0.52% 0.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 0.57% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 8 14
10th Percentile £469 £496 £419
25th Percentile £505 £575 £569
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £663 £663
Median % change year-on-year -13.21% - +12.53%
75th Percentile £800 £741 £764
90th Percentile - £758 £831
Central London median daily rate £575 £625 £663
% change year-on-year -8.00% -5.66% +12.53%

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 1,646 1,941 2,481
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.63% 91.51% 89.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,153 1,189 1,740
10th Percentile £328 £375 £363
25th Percentile £419 £470 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £694
90th Percentile £765 £788 £810
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 17 16
10th Percentile £16.90 £16.70 £15.63
25th Percentile £20.18 £23.13 £17.00
Median hourly rate £27.75 £42.50 £32.75
Median % change year-on-year -34.71% +29.77% -35.78%
75th Percentile £44.63 £112.00 £52.63
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £71.25
Central London median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -21.43% +27.27% -41.33%

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 14 November 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 & 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) AWS
2 3 (37.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 3 (37.50%) Amazon Cognito
2 3 (37.50%) Amazon EventBridge
2 3 (37.50%) Amazon S3
2 3 (37.50%) Amazon SQS
2 3 (37.50%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (37.50%) AWS Step Functions
2 3 (37.50%) Datadog
2 3 (37.50%) Serverless
3 1 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (12.50%) Azure
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (12.50%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) HTTPS
1 2 (25.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Git
General
1 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Developer
1 3 (37.50%) Software Design Engineer
1 3 (37.50%) Software Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Administrator
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Administrator
2 1 (12.50%) Backend Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Site Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) AngularJS
1 3 (37.50%) GraphQL
1 3 (37.50%) OpenTelemetry
1 3 (37.50%) WebSockets
2 2 (25.00%) JSON
2 2 (25.00%) OAuth
2 2 (25.00%) REST
2 2 (25.00%) SOAP
2 2 (25.00%) XML
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) DevOps
2 5 (62.50%) CI/CD
3 4 (50.00%) Observability
3 4 (50.00%) Test Automation
4 3 (37.50%) Clean Code
4 3 (37.50%) Event-Driven
4 3 (37.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (37.50%) Mentoring
4 3 (37.50%) Performance Optimisation
4 3 (37.50%) Software Engineering
4 3 (37.50%) Technical Leadership
4 3 (37.50%) User Experience
5 2 (25.00%) API Development
5 2 (25.00%) API Management
5 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (12.50%) Analytical Thinking
6 1 (12.50%) Containerisation
6 1 (12.50%) GitOps
6 1 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) Go
3 1 (12.50%) Bash
3 1 (12.50%) PromQL
3 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared
1 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (12.50%) Grafana
2 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Axway
2 1 (12.50%) Splunk