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 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 119 114 125
Rank change year-on-year -5 +11 +53
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 6 12 15
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.33% 0.58% 0.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.37% 0.63% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 9 13
10th Percentile £466 £498 £483
25th Percentile £470 £563 £570
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -10.83% -4.00% +6.38%
75th Percentile £613 £725 £688
90th Percentile - £755 £832
Central London median daily rate £535 £588 £625
% change year-on-year -8.94% -6.00% +6.16%

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 1,638 1,897 2,284
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.85% 92.04% 89.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,161 1,158 1,637
10th Percentile £340 £363 £363
25th Percentile £421 £465 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -0.86%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £756 £788 £804
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 15 11
10th Percentile £19.98 £15.80 £17.00
25th Percentile £24.36 £22.00 £17.97
Median hourly rate £31.00 £42.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.06% +70.00% -41.86%
75th Percentile £43.33 £102.25 £42.38
90th Percentile £55.25 £127.30 £73.75
Central London median hourly rate £26.57 £35.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year -24.09% +37.25% -37.04%

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
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) Azure Key Vault
1 1 (16.67%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) HTTPS
1 2 (33.33%) SSL
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Git
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) Backend Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Shopify Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Site Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) JSON
1 2 (33.33%) OAuth
1 2 (33.33%) REST
1 2 (33.33%) SOAP
1 2 (33.33%) XML
2 1 (16.67%) Bootstrap
2 1 (16.67%) CSS
2 1 (16.67%) CSS3
2 1 (16.67%) HTML
2 1 (16.67%) HTML5
2 1 (16.67%) Node.js
2 1 (16.67%) React
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Test Automation
2 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (50.00%) DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) API Development
3 2 (33.33%) API Management
3 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (16.67%) Analytical Thinking
4 1 (16.67%) Capacity Management
4 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
4 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (16.67%) Design Patterns
4 1 (16.67%) E-Commerce
4 1 (16.67%) GitOps
4 1 (16.67%) High Availability
4 1 (16.67%) Observability
4 1 (16.67%) Proactive Monitoring
4 1 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (16.67%) SFIA
4 1 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) Webhook
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Go
1 2 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) Bash
2 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
2 1 (16.67%) PromQL
2 1 (16.67%) Ruby
2 1 (16.67%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Grafana
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (16.67%) Prometheus
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Axway
2 1 (16.67%) Splunk