Deployment Automation Contract Job Trends in London

Deployment Automation
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Deployment Automation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 236 219 278
Rank change year-on-year -17 +59 +2
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 197 135 124
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.02% 1.05% 0.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.15% 1.14% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 101 81
10th Percentile £400 £380 £413
25th Percentile £469 £425 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £775
90th Percentile £729 £813 £780
England median daily rate £525 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% -1.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £50.25 - -
Median hourly rate £50.50 - £23.80
75th Percentile £50.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £76.00 - £23.80
% change year-on-year - - -65.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,131 11,893 15,475
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.90% 92.25% 88.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,394 7,948 11,029
10th Percentile £360 £333 £343
25th Percentile £438 £425 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.64% - -6.14%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £685
90th Percentile £763 £799 £800
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 266 223 303
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £15.59
25th Percentile £23.91 £24.66 £20.01
Median hourly rate £37.50 £32.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +8.33% -26.42%
75th Percentile £59.00 £49.88 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.20 £68.60
England median hourly rate £46.90 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.48% -34.02% +1.65%

Deployment Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Deployment Automation relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Deployment Automation job vacancy trend in London

Deployment Automation
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Deployment Automation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Deployment Automation

Deployment Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Deployment Automation in London over the 6 months to 1 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Deployment Automation in London

Deployment Automation
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Deployment Automation.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Deployment Automation

Deployment Automation
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Deployment Automation within the London region over the 6 months to 1 July 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London -17 18 £625 -13.79% 19
East London - 3 £612 - 1
West London -19 1 £775 +50.19% 1
Deployment Automation
England

Deployment Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 8 (4.06%) Apache Spark
2 6 (3.05%) Appian
3 5 (2.54%) Camunda
4 4 (2.03%) SAS
5 3 (1.52%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (1.02%) Apache
6 2 (1.02%) CMS
6 2 (1.02%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.51%) OpenROAD
7 1 (0.51%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 1 (0.51%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.51%) Misys Equation
1 1 (0.51%) Misys Midas
Cloud Services
1 106 (53.81%) Azure
2 74 (37.56%) AWS
3 42 (21.32%) GitHub
4 39 (19.80%) Azure DevOps
5 33 (16.75%) GitHub Actions
6 26 (13.20%) Serverless
7 21 (10.66%) GCP
7 21 (10.66%) Power Platform
8 18 (9.14%) AWS Lambda
9 16 (8.12%) Amazon S3
10 14 (7.11%) Amazon EKS
11 13 (6.60%) Azure Data Factory
12 12 (6.09%) Amazon ECS
12 12 (6.09%) Azure AI
12 12 (6.09%) Azure AKS
13 11 (5.58%) Amazon SQS
13 11 (5.58%) AWS CloudFormation
14 10 (5.08%) Azure Key Vault
15 9 (4.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 9 (4.57%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 15 (7.61%) Firewall
2 8 (4.06%) TCP/IP
2 8 (4.06%) VPN
3 7 (3.55%) DMZ
4 6 (3.05%) Network Security
5 4 (2.03%) DNS
5 4 (2.03%) Software-Defined Networking
6 2 (1.02%) Kerberos
6 2 (1.02%) NGFW
7 1 (0.51%) BGP
7 1 (0.51%) Cisco IOS
7 1 (0.51%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (0.51%) DHCP
7 1 (0.51%) IPsec
7 1 (0.51%) OpenLDAP
7 1 (0.51%) OSPF
7 1 (0.51%) SNMP
7 1 (0.51%) SSL
7 1 (0.51%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (8.12%) SQL Server
2 15 (7.61%) Power BI
3 12 (6.09%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (6.09%) Relational Database
4 11 (5.58%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (4.06%) Data Lake
6 7 (3.55%) Amazon Athena
6 7 (3.55%) NoSQL
7 6 (3.05%) Amazon RDS
7 6 (3.05%) Metadata
7 6 (3.05%) MongoDB
7 6 (3.05%) Pinecone
7 6 (3.05%) Redis
8 5 (2.54%) Big Data
8 5 (2.54%) DynamoDB
9 3 (1.52%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (1.52%) BigQuery
9 3 (1.52%) Data Mart
9 3 (1.52%) SAS Data Integration Studio
9 3 (1.52%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 38 (19.29%) Git
2 31 (15.74%) GitLab
3 23 (11.68%) Jenkins
4 6 (3.05%) MLflow
5 5 (2.54%) MSI
6 4 (2.03%) git-flow
7 3 (1.52%) Artifactory
7 3 (1.52%) Cypress.io
7 3 (1.52%) JIRA
7 3 (1.52%) Maven
7 3 (1.52%) Selenium
7 3 (1.52%) SonarQube
8 2 (1.02%) AdminStudio
8 2 (1.02%) Bitbucket
8 2 (1.02%) Gradle
8 2 (1.02%) InstallShield
8 2 (1.02%) JMeter
8 2 (1.02%) JUnit
8 2 (1.02%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.51%) MSBuild
General
1 57 (28.93%) Social Skills
2 56 (28.43%) Finance
3 33 (16.75%) Public Sector
4 21 (10.66%) Banking
5 16 (8.12%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (3.55%) Front Office
7 6 (3.05%) Investment Banking
8 5 (2.54%) Retail
9 4 (2.03%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.52%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.52%) Law
10 3 (1.52%) Legal
11 2 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.51%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.51%) Marketing
12 1 (0.51%) Police
12 1 (0.51%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 36 (18.27%) Senior
2 35 (17.77%) DevOps Engineer
3 29 (14.72%) Developer
4 18 (9.14%) Architect
4 18 (9.14%) Cloud Engineer
5 17 (8.63%) Lead
6 16 (8.12%) Azure Engineer
7 14 (7.11%) Data Engineer
8 13 (6.60%) Software Engineer
9 12 (6.09%) Salesforce Engineer
10 11 (5.58%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 11 (5.58%) AWS Engineer
10 11 (5.58%) Full-Stack Developer
11 10 (5.08%) Platform Engineer
11 10 (5.08%) Senior Developer
12 9 (4.57%) Automation Engineer
13 8 (4.06%) AWS DevOps
13 8 (4.06%) Senior DevOps
13 8 (4.06%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 8 (4.06%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (17.77%) REST
2 31 (15.74%) RESTful
3 24 (12.18%) React
4 17 (8.63%) Kafka
5 16 (8.12%) .NET
6 15 (7.61%) OAuth
7 14 (7.11%) FastAPI
8 13 (6.60%) PySpark
9 10 (5.08%) AngularJS
9 10 (5.08%) Django
9 10 (5.08%) Flask
9 10 (5.08%) YAML
10 9 (4.57%) JWT
10 9 (4.57%) Node.js
10 9 (4.57%) Spring
10 9 (4.57%) Spring Boot
11 8 (4.06%) OpenID
11 8 (4.06%) PyTorch
11 8 (4.06%) scikit-learn
11 8 (4.06%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 51 (25.89%) Cloud Native
2 21 (10.66%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (6.60%) Legacy Systems
3 13 (6.60%) Onboarding
4 7 (3.55%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (3.55%) Product Ownership
5 6 (3.05%) Low-Code
6 5 (2.54%) Distributed Computing
6 5 (2.54%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (2.03%) Client/Server
7 4 (2.03%) NHS
8 3 (1.52%) AI Agents
8 3 (1.52%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.52%) Distributed Architecture
8 3 (1.52%) Enterprise Cloud
8 3 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.52%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.52%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.02%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 12 (6.09%) Windows
2 11 (5.58%) Linux
3 3 (1.52%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.02%) Ubuntu
4 2 (1.02%) Windows 10
4 2 (1.02%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (1.02%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.51%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (76.65%) CI/CD
2 120 (60.91%) DevOps
3 84 (42.64%) Infrastructure as Code
4 72 (36.55%) Agile
5 65 (32.99%) Test Automation
6 53 (26.90%) Containerisation
7 42 (21.32%) AI
8 40 (20.30%) Analytics
9 37 (18.78%) Microservices
9 37 (18.78%) Observability
10 33 (16.75%) Validation
11 32 (16.24%) Problem-Solving
12 31 (15.74%) Data Pipeline
12 31 (15.74%) Software Engineering
13 30 (15.23%) Continuous Improvement
14 29 (14.72%) Platform Engineering
15 27 (13.71%) Event-Driven
16 26 (13.20%) Data Engineering
17 25 (12.69%) Data Modelling
17 25 (12.69%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 84 (42.64%) Python
2 39 (19.80%) SQL
3 36 (18.27%) PowerShell
4 24 (12.18%) Java
5 20 (10.15%) Bicep
5 20 (10.15%) C#
6 19 (9.64%) TypeScript
7 15 (7.61%) Bash
8 13 (6.60%) JavaScript
9 3 (1.52%) Apex Code
9 3 (1.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (1.52%) SAS Macro
10 2 (1.02%) C
10 2 (1.02%) Kotlin
10 2 (1.02%) PL/SQL
10 2 (1.02%) Rust
10 2 (1.02%) Scala
10 2 (1.02%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.51%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.51%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 56 (28.43%) Security Cleared
2 47 (23.86%) SC Cleared
3 15 (7.61%) Degree
4 13 (6.60%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (5.58%) DV Cleared
6 8 (4.06%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (3.55%) Azure Certification
8 5 (2.54%) AWS Certification
8 5 (2.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (1.52%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 3 (1.52%) MCSA
10 2 (1.02%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (1.02%) MCSE
11 1 (0.51%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.51%) CCNP
11 1 (0.51%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.51%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 1 (0.51%) PMP
11 1 (0.51%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (13.71%) QA
2 13 (6.60%) Data Quality
3 7 (3.55%) GDPR
4 6 (3.05%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (1.02%) HIPAA
6 2 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.02%) WCAG
7 1 (0.51%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.51%) PMO
7 1 (0.51%) SLA
7 1 (0.51%) SOC 2
System Software
1 60 (30.46%) Docker
2 7 (3.55%) Active Directory
2 7 (3.55%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (2.54%) Microsoft App-V
4 4 (2.03%) Hyper-V
4 4 (2.03%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.51%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.51%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.51%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 82 (41.62%) Terraform
2 67 (34.01%) Kubernetes
3 22 (11.17%) Ansible
4 14 (7.11%) SCCM
5 7 (3.55%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (3.55%) Prometheus
6 6 (3.05%) Grafana
6 6 (3.05%) WSUS
7 3 (1.52%) Istio
8 2 (1.02%) Control-M
9 1 (0.51%) Argo
9 1 (0.51%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.51%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.51%) Packer
9 1 (0.51%) QRadar
9 1 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 47 (23.86%) Microsoft
2 14 (7.11%) Salesforce
3 12 (6.09%) Google
3 12 (6.09%) OpenAI
4 7 (3.55%) Foundry
4 7 (3.55%) UiPath
5 6 (3.05%) Automation Anywhere
5 6 (3.05%) Bloomberg
5 6 (3.05%) Citrix
5 6 (3.05%) Databricks
5 6 (3.05%) ION Trading
5 6 (3.05%) Reuters
6 4 (2.03%) Dynatrace
7 3 (1.52%) Oracle
7 3 (1.52%) Palo Alto
7 3 (1.52%) Splunk
8 2 (1.02%) Apple
8 2 (1.02%) Brio
8 2 (1.02%) Cisco
8 2 (1.02%) IBM