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 6 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 101 115
Rank change year-on-year -14 +14 +40
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 15 18 11
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.74% 0.98% 0.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.83% 1.07% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 16 9
10th Percentile £400 £425 £508
25th Percentile £447 £497 £570
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -14.29%
75th Percentile £647 £741 £825
90th Percentile £833 £750 £837
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -11.11%

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 1,810 1,679 2,102
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 88.77% 91.85% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,248 1,045 1,497
10th Percentile £356 £363 £350
25th Percentile £436 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £567
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +1.41% -5.50%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 10 13
10th Percentile £18.75 £22.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.18 £26.25 £18.93
Median hourly rate £28.00 £35.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.13% +42.00% -28.57%
75th Percentile £47.50 £47.50 £41.84
90th Percentile £59.72 £112.00 £49.55
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.81
% change year-on-year -25.40% +25.85% -20.54%

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 6 March 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 1 (6.67%) Camunda
1 1 (6.67%) Palantir Foundry
Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 6 (40.00%) AWS
2 5 (33.33%) Azure
3 2 (13.33%) GitHub
3 2 (13.33%) Serverless
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon Kinesis
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon S3
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (6.67%) AWS CodeBuild
4 1 (6.67%) AWS CodePipeline
4 1 (6.67%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (6.67%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (6.67%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (6.67%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (6.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (6.67%) GCP
4 1 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (6.67%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) DNS
1 2 (13.33%) SSL
1 2 (13.33%) TCP/IP
2 1 (6.67%) BGP
2 1 (6.67%) DHCP
2 1 (6.67%) Firewall
2 1 (6.67%) HTTPS
2 1 (6.67%) IPsec
2 1 (6.67%) Network Security
2 1 (6.67%) OSPF
2 1 (6.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (6.67%) DB2
1 1 (6.67%) DynamoDB
1 1 (6.67%) Metadata
1 1 (6.67%) NoSQL
1 1 (6.67%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (6.67%) Git
2 1 (6.67%) JUnit
General
1 5 (33.33%) Finance
2 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) Developer
2 2 (13.33%) Administrator
2 2 (13.33%) Architect
2 2 (13.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Lead
2 2 (13.33%) Senior
3 1 (6.67%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) AWS Developer
3 1 (6.67%) Azure Administrator
3 1 (6.67%) Azure Data Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Backend Developer
3 1 (6.67%) Data Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) DevOps Automation Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Engineering Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Head of Architecture
3 1 (6.67%) Head of Engineering
3 1 (6.67%) Head of Mobile
3 1 (6.67%) Platform Architect
3 1 (6.67%) Shopify Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (26.67%) REST
2 3 (20.00%) DOM
2 3 (20.00%) GraphQL
2 3 (20.00%) React Native
3 2 (13.33%) PySpark
3 2 (13.33%) Spring
3 2 (13.33%) Spring Boot
4 1 (6.67%) Bootstrap
4 1 (6.67%) CSS
4 1 (6.67%) CSS3
4 1 (6.67%) HTML
4 1 (6.67%) HTML5
4 1 (6.67%) JSON
4 1 (6.67%) Kafka
4 1 (6.67%) Node.js
4 1 (6.67%) OAuth
4 1 (6.67%) React
4 1 (6.67%) RESTful
4 1 (6.67%) SOAP
4 1 (6.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (20.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (6.67%) AI Agents
2 1 (6.67%) Anti-Spyware
2 1 (6.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (6.67%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (6.67%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (13.33%) Linux
1 2 (13.33%) Windows
2 1 (6.67%) Windows 10
2 1 (6.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 8 (53.33%) Test Automation
3 5 (33.33%) Design Patterns
3 5 (33.33%) DevOps
3 5 (33.33%) Observability
4 4 (26.67%) AI
4 4 (26.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (20.00%) Agile
5 3 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
5 3 (20.00%) Fintech
5 3 (20.00%) Line Management
5 3 (20.00%) Micro Frontends
5 3 (20.00%) Software Architecture
5 3 (20.00%) Software Engineering
6 2 (13.33%) Containerisation
6 2 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (13.33%) Data Engineering
6 2 (13.33%) Data Pipeline
6 2 (13.33%) Runbook
6 2 (13.33%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (26.67%) Python
2 3 (20.00%) SQL
3 2 (13.33%) PowerShell
4 1 (6.67%) Go
4 1 (6.67%) Java
4 1 (6.67%) JavaScript
4 1 (6.67%) Ruby
4 1 (6.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) AWS Certification
2 1 (6.67%) AWS Certified Developer
2 1 (6.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (6.67%) CCNP
2 1 (6.67%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (6.67%) CISSP
2 1 (6.67%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) Data Quality
1 1 (6.67%) GDPR
1 1 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) Docker
1 2 (13.33%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (6.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (20.00%) Terraform
2 2 (13.33%) Ansible
2 2 (13.33%) Kubernetes
3 1 (6.67%) QRadar
3 1 (6.67%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) Databricks
2 1 (6.67%) Axway
2 1 (6.67%) Foundry
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.67%) Palantir
2 1 (6.67%) Palo Alto
2 1 (6.67%) Salesforce
2 1 (6.67%) ServiceNow
2 1 (6.67%) Splunk
2 1 (6.67%) Sybase