Deployment Automation Contracts in the City of London

Deployment Automation
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Deployment Automation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Deployment Automation over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 93 119 140
Rank change year-on-year +26 +21 +32
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 22 6 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.22% 0.28% 0.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.30% 0.31% 0.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 5 18
10th Percentile £423 £551 £153
25th Percentile £523 £600 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £704 £700
Median % change year-on-year +2.98% +0.57% +21.74%
75th Percentile £800 £738 £775
90th Percentile £805 £745 £825
Central London median daily rate £725 £704 £670
% change year-on-year +2.98% +5.07% +16.52%

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 1,687 1,944 3,153
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.88% 91.05% 91.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,080 1,349 2,115
10th Percentile £350 £363 £350
25th Percentile £450 £463 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.62% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £560 £600
% change year-on-year -1.79% -6.67% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 15 24
10th Percentile £17.02 £20.04 £14.25
25th Percentile £24.43 £20.36 £16.33
Median hourly rate £29.75 £27.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.19% -22.86% -18.83%
75th Percentile £50.75 £40.92 £57.50
90th Percentile £66.25 £67.35 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £31.00 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +11.47% -20.54% -18.13%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Deployment Automation in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Deployment Automation in the City of London

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 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Deployment Automation in the City of London

Deployment Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Deployment Automation in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Deployment Automation in the City of London

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 5 (22.73%) Apache
2 4 (18.18%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 9 (40.91%) AWS
2 8 (36.36%) Amazon S3
3 6 (27.27%) AWS Lambda
3 6 (27.27%) Serverless
4 5 (22.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 5 (22.73%) Amazon Cognito
4 5 (22.73%) Amazon EventBridge
4 5 (22.73%) Amazon SQS
4 5 (22.73%) AWS Step Functions
4 5 (22.73%) Datadog
5 3 (13.64%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (13.64%) GitHub
5 3 (13.64%) OpenShift
6 2 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (9.09%) npm
6 2 (9.09%) Yarn
7 1 (4.55%) Amazon EMR
7 1 (4.55%) AWS Control Tower
7 1 (4.55%) Route 53
7 1 (4.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.55%) DNS
1 1 (4.55%) Firewall
1 1 (4.55%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (27.27%) DynamoDB
1 6 (27.27%) MongoDB
2 5 (22.73%) SQL Server
3 4 (18.18%) Relational Database
4 3 (13.64%) Big Data
4 3 (13.64%) DB2
4 3 (13.64%) Hadoop
4 3 (13.64%) NoSQL
5 2 (9.09%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (4.55%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (4.55%) Apache Iceberg
6 1 (4.55%) Data Lake
6 1 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (4.55%) MySQL
6 1 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (4.55%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (27.27%) Jenkins
2 4 (18.18%) Git
2 4 (18.18%) TeamCity
3 3 (13.64%) GitLab
4 2 (9.09%) Ant
4 2 (9.09%) Babel
4 2 (9.09%) webpack
5 1 (4.55%) Travis CI
General
1 8 (36.36%) Finance
2 6 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 3 (13.64%) Public Sector
4 2 (9.09%) Banking
5 1 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.55%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 6 (27.27%) Developer
2 5 (22.73%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (18.18%) Software Design Engineer
3 4 (18.18%) Software Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Architect
4 2 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 2 (9.09%) Java Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Migration Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Python Developer
4 2 (9.09%) React Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Site Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Angular Developer
5 1 (4.55%) AWS Architect
5 1 (4.55%) AWS Data Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Data Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Java Scala Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Salesforce Architect
5 1 (4.55%) Salesforce Solution Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (36.36%) AngularJS
2 5 (22.73%) GraphQL
2 5 (22.73%) OpenTelemetry
2 5 (22.73%) React
2 5 (22.73%) RESTful
2 5 (22.73%) Web Services
2 5 (22.73%) WebSockets
3 3 (13.64%) Spring
4 2 (9.09%) .NET
4 2 (9.09%) CSS
4 2 (9.09%) CSS3
4 2 (9.09%) HTML
4 2 (9.09%) HTML5
4 2 (9.09%) Material-UI
4 2 (9.09%) Redux
4 2 (9.09%) Semantic UI
4 2 (9.09%) WPF
5 1 (4.55%) AWS CDK
5 1 (4.55%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (4.55%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.55%) Cloud Native
1 1 (4.55%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 5 (22.73%) Linux
2 3 (13.64%) Unix
3 1 (4.55%) VMS
3 1 (4.55%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (86.36%) CI/CD
2 17 (77.27%) DevOps
3 9 (40.91%) Continuous Delivery
3 9 (40.91%) User Experience
4 7 (31.82%) Continuous Integration
4 7 (31.82%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (31.82%) Microservices
4 7 (31.82%) Observability
4 7 (31.82%) Software Engineering
5 6 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (27.27%) Technical Leadership
6 5 (22.73%) Agile
6 5 (22.73%) Clean Code
6 5 (22.73%) Event-Driven
6 5 (22.73%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 5 (22.73%) Fintech
6 5 (22.73%) Mentoring
6 5 (22.73%) Performance Optimisation
7 4 (18.18%) Containerisation
7 4 (18.18%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 15 (68.18%) Python
2 6 (27.27%) C#
3 5 (22.73%) JavaScript
3 5 (22.73%) TypeScript
4 4 (18.18%) Bash
4 4 (18.18%) Java
4 4 (18.18%) Scala
4 4 (18.18%) SQL
5 3 (13.64%) Perl
5 3 (13.64%) Shell Script
6 1 (4.55%) Apex Code
6 1 (4.55%) Go
6 1 (4.55%) PowerShell
6 1 (4.55%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 4 (18.18%) SC Cleared
1 4 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.55%) AWS Certification
2 1 (4.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (4.55%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (4.55%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.09%) QA
2 1 (4.55%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (13.64%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (31.82%) Prometheus
1 7 (31.82%) Terraform
2 6 (27.27%) Kubernetes
3 5 (22.73%) Ansible
4 2 (9.09%) Grafana
4 2 (9.09%) Progress Chef
4 2 (9.09%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (13.64%) Oracle
1 3 (13.64%) Sybase
2 1 (4.55%) Salesforce
2 1 (4.55%) Splunk
2 1 (4.55%) TOWER Software