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 19 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 250 265 297
Rank change year-on-year +15 +32 -11
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 128 91 93
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.90% 0.66% 0.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.98% 0.73% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 50 60
10th Percentile £400 £453 £425
25th Percentile £438 £508 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £630 £575
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +9.57% -11.54%
75th Percentile £638 £822 £653
90th Percentile £803 £838 £769
England median daily rate £518 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -13.67% +4.35% -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £22.00
England median hourly rate £48.63 £85.00 £44.51
% change year-on-year -42.79% +90.97% -

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 13,030 12,548 16,159
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.21% 90.40% 88.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,606 7,991 11,538
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £560
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -1.79% -6.67%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 221 154 286
10th Percentile £18.25 £19.96 £16.25
25th Percentile £24.61 £24.54 £19.62
Median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £31.13
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +12.45% -14.98%
75th Percentile £55.00 £53.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £80.53 £73.70
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% -12.50% +14.29%

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 19 January 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 19 January 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 -1 10 £535 -6.96% 13
West London - 2 £375 - 1
East London -1 1 £540 -14.29%
South London -5 1 £515 -37.20% 4
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 4 (3.13%) Appian
2 3 (2.34%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.56%) nginx
4 1 (0.78%) Apache
4 1 (0.78%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.78%) Camunda
4 1 (0.78%) ColdFusion
4 1 (0.78%) Confluence
4 1 (0.78%) Traefik
Applications
1 2 (1.56%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.78%) Endur
1 1 (0.78%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 56 (43.75%) Azure
2 31 (24.22%) AWS
3 26 (20.31%) GitHub
4 16 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
4 16 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
5 15 (11.72%) Serverless
6 13 (10.16%) Power Platform
7 11 (8.59%) AWS Lambda
8 9 (7.03%) Azure Data Factory
8 9 (7.03%) GCP
9 7 (5.47%) Amazon S3
9 7 (5.47%) AWS CloudFormation
10 6 (4.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 6 (4.69%) Datadog
10 6 (4.69%) Power Automate
11 5 (3.91%) Amazon ECS
11 5 (3.91%) Azure Key Vault
11 5 (3.91%) Entra ID
11 5 (3.91%) IaaS
11 5 (3.91%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (7.81%) HTTPS
2 6 (4.69%) Firewall
2 6 (4.69%) SSL
3 4 (3.13%) DHCP
3 4 (3.13%) VPN
4 3 (2.34%) DNS
4 3 (2.34%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.56%) DMZ
5 2 (1.56%) Network Security
6 1 (0.78%) BGP
6 1 (0.78%) Calico
6 1 (0.78%) Ethernet VPN
6 1 (0.78%) Internet
6 1 (0.78%) SMS
6 1 (0.78%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (0.78%) VSAN
6 1 (0.78%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (9.38%) Relational Database
2 11 (8.59%) SQL Server
3 9 (7.03%) Power BI
4 8 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (6.25%) Spark SQL
5 7 (5.47%) Azure SQL Database
5 7 (5.47%) Data Lake
6 6 (4.69%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (3.91%) NoSQL
8 4 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (3.13%) Pinecone
9 3 (2.34%) Apache Cassandra
9 3 (2.34%) Redis
9 3 (2.34%) Star Schema
10 2 (1.56%) ImageNet
10 2 (1.56%) Metadata
11 1 (0.78%) Amazon Athena
11 1 (0.78%) Data Vault
11 1 (0.78%) Delta Lake
11 1 (0.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 24 (18.75%) Git
2 15 (11.72%) GitLab
3 11 (8.59%) Jenkins
4 4 (3.13%) Artifactory
4 4 (3.13%) MLflow
5 3 (2.34%) JIRA
6 2 (1.56%) CircleCI
6 2 (1.56%) Gradle
6 2 (1.56%) Maven
7 1 (0.78%) Android Studio
7 1 (0.78%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.78%) JUnit
7 1 (0.78%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.78%) Mockito
7 1 (0.78%) Selenium
7 1 (0.78%) Spinnaker
7 1 (0.78%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.78%) Terragrunt
General
1 46 (35.94%) Social Skills
2 32 (25.00%) Finance
3 17 (13.28%) Public Sector
4 7 (5.47%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (5.47%) Marketing
5 5 (3.91%) Banking
6 3 (2.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (2.34%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.56%) Back Office
7 2 (1.56%) Digital Healthcare
7 2 (1.56%) Electronics
7 2 (1.56%) Front Office
7 2 (1.56%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.56%) Military
7 2 (1.56%) Retail
7 2 (1.56%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.78%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.78%) Police
Job Titles
1 41 (32.03%) Developer
2 17 (13.28%) Architect
2 17 (13.28%) DevOps Engineer
3 11 (8.59%) Lead
4 10 (7.81%) Technical Architect
5 8 (6.25%) Azure Engineer
5 8 (6.25%) Python Developer
5 8 (6.25%) Senior
6 7 (5.47%) Automation Engineer
7 6 (4.69%) Azure Architect
7 6 (4.69%) Cloud Engineer
7 6 (4.69%) Lead DevOps
8 5 (3.91%) Data Engineer
8 5 (3.91%) Full-Stack Developer
8 5 (3.91%) Full-Stack Python Developer
8 5 (3.91%) Platform Engineer
8 5 (3.91%) React Developer
9 4 (3.13%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 4 (3.13%) Azure Data Engineer
9 4 (3.13%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (17.19%) REST
1 22 (17.19%) RESTful
2 18 (14.06%) JSON
3 15 (11.72%) React
3 15 (11.72%) XML
4 13 (10.16%) OAuth
5 12 (9.38%) PySpark
5 12 (9.38%) SOAP
6 10 (7.81%) .NET
7 9 (7.03%) FastAPI
7 9 (7.03%) pytest
8 8 (6.25%) AngularJS
9 7 (5.47%) ARM Templates
9 7 (5.47%) HTML
9 7 (5.47%) Kafka
9 7 (5.47%) Spark Streaming
9 7 (5.47%) Spring
9 7 (5.47%) YAML
10 6 (4.69%) Spring Boot
10 6 (4.69%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 17 (13.28%) Cloud Native
2 8 (6.25%) Distributed Computing
3 7 (5.47%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (4.69%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (3.13%) Low-Code
5 4 (3.13%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.34%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (2.34%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.56%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (1.56%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.56%) Derivative
7 2 (1.56%) Energy Derivatives
7 2 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.56%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.56%) NHS
7 2 (1.56%) PACS
7 2 (1.56%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.78%) Animation
8 1 (0.78%) CMDB
8 1 (0.78%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 20 (15.63%) Linux
2 7 (5.47%) Windows
3 3 (2.34%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.56%) Unix
4 2 (1.56%) VMS
5 1 (0.78%) Android
5 1 (0.78%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.78%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (66.41%) CI/CD
2 81 (63.28%) DevOps
3 44 (34.38%) Infrastructure as Code
4 42 (32.81%) Containerisation
4 42 (32.81%) Test Automation
5 38 (29.69%) Agile
6 29 (22.66%) Problem-Solving
7 27 (21.09%) Microservices
8 23 (17.97%) Observability
9 20 (15.63%) Analytics
9 20 (15.63%) Data Pipeline
10 19 (14.84%) ETL
10 19 (14.84%) Migration
11 18 (14.06%) API Development
12 17 (13.28%) Infrastructure Automation
13 16 (12.50%) Data Engineering
14 15 (11.72%) AI
15 13 (10.16%) DevSecOps
15 13 (10.16%) Performance Tuning
16 12 (9.38%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 51 (39.84%) Python
2 41 (32.03%) SQL
3 28 (21.88%) Java
4 18 (14.06%) TypeScript
5 13 (10.16%) JavaScript
6 11 (8.59%) Bash
7 10 (7.81%) PowerShell
8 9 (7.03%) Bicep
9 4 (3.13%) C#
10 3 (2.34%) Go
11 2 (1.56%) Kotlin
11 2 (1.56%) PHP
11 2 (1.56%) Rust
11 2 (1.56%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.78%) CFML
12 1 (0.78%) Groovy
12 1 (0.78%) Objective-C
12 1 (0.78%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.78%) Ruby
12 1 (0.78%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 36 (28.13%) Security Cleared
2 31 (24.22%) SC Cleared
3 8 (6.25%) Degree
4 7 (5.47%) Azure Certification
5 5 (3.91%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (3.91%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (3.13%) DV Cleared
7 3 (2.34%) AWS Certification
7 3 (2.34%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (2.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (2.34%) Master's Degree
7 3 (2.34%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 2 (1.56%) CISSP
9 1 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.78%) CCNP
9 1 (0.78%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.78%) CISM
9 1 (0.78%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.03%) GDPR
2 7 (5.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 6 (4.69%) Data Quality
3 6 (4.69%) QA
4 3 (2.34%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.56%) NCSC
5 2 (1.56%) NIST
5 2 (1.56%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.78%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.78%) NIST 800
System Software
1 45 (35.16%) Docker
2 8 (6.25%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.34%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.56%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.56%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (1.56%) Xen
5 1 (0.78%) etcd
5 1 (0.78%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.78%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 44 (34.38%) Kubernetes
2 42 (32.81%) Terraform
3 8 (6.25%) Ansible
4 7 (5.47%) Grafana
4 7 (5.47%) Prometheus
5 4 (3.13%) ITRS Geneos
6 3 (2.34%) vRealize
7 2 (1.56%) Istio
8 1 (0.78%) Argo
8 1 (0.78%) Fluentd
8 1 (0.78%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.78%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.78%) Puppet
8 1 (0.78%) SCCM
8 1 (0.78%) VxRail
8 1 (0.78%) WSUS
Vendors
1 35 (27.34%) Microsoft
2 8 (6.25%) Databricks
3 7 (5.47%) Google
3 7 (5.47%) Salesforce
3 7 (5.47%) VMware
4 6 (4.69%) SAP
5 5 (3.91%) Axway
5 5 (3.91%) Splunk
5 5 (3.91%) webMethods
6 4 (3.13%) Automation Anywhere
6 4 (3.13%) IBM
6 4 (3.13%) OpenAI
6 4 (3.13%) Software AG
6 4 (3.13%) UiPath
7 3 (2.34%) Adobe
7 3 (2.34%) Apple
7 3 (2.34%) ForgeRock
7 3 (2.34%) Oracle
8 2 (1.56%) Atlassian
8 2 (1.56%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud