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

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 231 271 318
Rank change year-on-year +40 +47 -28
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 142 92 91
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.98% 0.67% 0.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.07% 0.74% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 50 64
10th Percentile £400 £462 £454
25th Percentile £431 £537 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £678 £575
Median % change year-on-year -24.72% +17.83% -11.54%
75th Percentile £626 £822 £653
90th Percentile £785 £838 £763
England median daily rate £516 £614 £575
% change year-on-year -15.85% +6.70% -8.44%
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% -31.52%

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 13,214 12,475 16,410
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.00% 90.45% 88.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,766 7,927 11,738
10th Percentile £350 £350 £340
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £503 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.29% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 215 155 320
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.75 £16.24
25th Percentile £24.89 £24.66 £19.49
Median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +16.67% -16.08%
75th Percentile £56.25 £52.25 £52.50
90th Percentile £71.20 £79.50 £72.84
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.06 £36.50
% change year-on-year -26.15% -6.70% +7.35%

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 26 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 26 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 12 £575 -4.17% 10
West London - 2 £375 - 2
East London 0 1 £540 -14.29%
South London -6 1 £515 -37.20% 2
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 6 (4.23%) Camunda
2 5 (3.52%) Appian
3 3 (2.11%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.41%) nginx
5 1 (0.70%) Apache
5 1 (0.70%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.70%) ColdFusion
5 1 (0.70%) Confluence
5 1 (0.70%) Traefik
Applications
1 2 (1.41%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.70%) Endur
1 1 (0.70%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 63 (44.37%) Azure
2 36 (25.35%) AWS
3 28 (19.72%) GitHub
4 18 (12.68%) GitHub Actions
5 17 (11.97%) GCP
6 16 (11.27%) Azure DevOps
7 15 (10.56%) Serverless
8 14 (9.86%) Power Platform
9 11 (7.75%) AWS Lambda
10 10 (7.04%) Azure Data Factory
11 7 (4.93%) Amazon S3
11 7 (4.93%) AWS CloudFormation
11 7 (4.93%) Azure AI
11 7 (4.93%) Power Automate
12 6 (4.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 6 (4.23%) Datadog
12 6 (4.23%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 5 (3.52%) Anthropic Claude
13 5 (3.52%) Azure AKS
13 5 (3.52%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 10 (7.04%) HTTPS
2 6 (4.23%) Firewall
2 6 (4.23%) SSL
3 5 (3.52%) DHCP
4 4 (2.82%) DNS
4 4 (2.82%) TCP/IP
4 4 (2.82%) VPN
5 3 (2.11%) Network Security
6 2 (1.41%) DMZ
7 1 (0.70%) BGP
7 1 (0.70%) Calico
7 1 (0.70%) Ethernet VPN
7 1 (0.70%) Internet
7 1 (0.70%) SMS
7 1 (0.70%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.70%) VSAN
7 1 (0.70%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (8.45%) Relational Database
1 12 (8.45%) SQL Server
2 9 (6.34%) Power BI
3 8 (5.63%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (5.63%) Spark SQL
4 7 (4.93%) Azure SQL Database
4 7 (4.93%) Data Lake
5 6 (4.23%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (3.52%) NoSQL
6 5 (3.52%) Pinecone
7 4 (2.82%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (2.11%) Apache Cassandra
8 3 (2.11%) Redis
8 3 (2.11%) Star Schema
9 2 (1.41%) ImageNet
9 2 (1.41%) Metadata
10 1 (0.70%) Amazon Athena
10 1 (0.70%) Data Vault
10 1 (0.70%) Delta Lake
10 1 (0.70%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 25 (17.61%) Git
2 15 (10.56%) GitLab
3 12 (8.45%) Jenkins
4 5 (3.52%) MLflow
5 4 (2.82%) Artifactory
6 3 (2.11%) Gradle
6 3 (2.11%) JIRA
6 3 (2.11%) Maven
7 2 (1.41%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.41%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.70%) Android Studio
8 1 (0.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.70%) JUnit
8 1 (0.70%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.70%) Mockito
8 1 (0.70%) Selenium
8 1 (0.70%) Spinnaker
8 1 (0.70%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.70%) Terragrunt
General
1 51 (35.92%) Social Skills
2 37 (26.06%) Finance
3 18 (12.68%) Public Sector
4 8 (5.63%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (4.93%) Marketing
6 5 (3.52%) Banking
7 4 (2.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.11%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.41%) Back Office
9 2 (1.41%) Digital Healthcare
9 2 (1.41%) Electronics
9 2 (1.41%) Front Office
9 2 (1.41%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.41%) Military
9 2 (1.41%) Retail
9 2 (1.41%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.70%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.70%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.70%) Police
Job Titles
1 45 (31.69%) Developer
2 21 (14.79%) Architect
3 17 (11.97%) DevOps Engineer
4 11 (7.75%) Lead
5 10 (7.04%) Technical Architect
6 9 (6.34%) Senior
7 8 (5.63%) Automation Engineer
7 8 (5.63%) Azure Engineer
7 8 (5.63%) Python Developer
8 6 (4.23%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 6 (4.23%) Azure Architect
8 6 (4.23%) Cloud Engineer
8 6 (4.23%) Lead DevOps
8 6 (4.23%) Platform Engineer
9 5 (3.52%) Cloud Architect
9 5 (3.52%) Data Engineer
9 5 (3.52%) Full-Stack Developer
9 5 (3.52%) Full-Stack Python Developer
9 5 (3.52%) React Developer
10 4 (2.82%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (18.31%) REST
1 26 (18.31%) RESTful
2 18 (12.68%) JSON
2 18 (12.68%) React
3 15 (10.56%) XML
4 14 (9.86%) OAuth
5 12 (8.45%) PySpark
5 12 (8.45%) SOAP
5 12 (8.45%) Spring
6 11 (7.75%) AngularJS
6 11 (7.75%) FastAPI
6 11 (7.75%) Spring Boot
7 10 (7.04%) .NET
7 10 (7.04%) pytest
8 9 (6.34%) Kafka
9 7 (4.93%) ARM Templates
9 7 (4.93%) HTML
9 7 (4.93%) Spark Streaming
9 7 (4.93%) Web Services
9 7 (4.93%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (13.38%) Cloud Native
2 8 (5.63%) Distributed Computing
2 8 (5.63%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (4.23%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (3.52%) Low-Code
5 4 (2.82%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.11%) AI Agents
6 3 (2.11%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (2.11%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.41%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (1.41%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.41%) Derivative
7 2 (1.41%) Energy Derivatives
7 2 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.41%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.41%) NHS
7 2 (1.41%) PACS
8 1 (0.70%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 21 (14.79%) Linux
2 8 (5.63%) Windows
3 4 (2.82%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.41%) Unix
4 2 (1.41%) VMS
5 1 (0.70%) Android
5 1 (0.70%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.70%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.70%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (66.90%) CI/CD
2 89 (62.68%) DevOps
3 47 (33.10%) Test Automation
4 46 (32.39%) Infrastructure as Code
5 44 (30.99%) Containerisation
6 42 (29.58%) Agile
7 33 (23.24%) Problem-Solving
8 30 (21.13%) Microservices
9 27 (19.01%) Observability
10 23 (16.20%) Data Pipeline
11 21 (14.79%) API Development
11 21 (14.79%) Migration
12 20 (14.08%) Analytics
12 20 (14.08%) ETL
13 19 (13.38%) Data Engineering
14 18 (12.68%) AI
14 18 (12.68%) Infrastructure Automation
15 15 (10.56%) Workflow
16 14 (9.86%) Continuous Improvement
16 14 (9.86%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 56 (39.44%) Python
2 42 (29.58%) SQL
3 33 (23.24%) Java
4 20 (14.08%) TypeScript
5 15 (10.56%) JavaScript
6 12 (8.45%) Bash
7 11 (7.75%) PowerShell
8 9 (6.34%) Bicep
9 6 (4.23%) C#
10 3 (2.11%) Go
11 2 (1.41%) Kotlin
11 2 (1.41%) PHP
11 2 (1.41%) Rust
11 2 (1.41%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.70%) CFML
12 1 (0.70%) Groovy
12 1 (0.70%) Objective-C
12 1 (0.70%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.70%) Scala
12 1 (0.70%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 39 (27.46%) Security Cleared
2 33 (23.24%) SC Cleared
3 8 (5.63%) Degree
4 7 (4.93%) Azure Certification
5 5 (3.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (3.52%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (2.82%) DV Cleared
7 3 (2.11%) AWS Certification
7 3 (2.11%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (2.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (2.11%) Master's Degree
7 3 (2.11%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 2 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.41%) CISSP
9 1 (0.70%) CCNP
9 1 (0.70%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.70%) CISM
9 1 (0.70%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.75%) GDPR
2 7 (4.93%) Data Quality
2 7 (4.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 6 (4.23%) QA
4 3 (2.11%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.11%) HIPAA
5 2 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.41%) NCSC
5 2 (1.41%) NIST
5 2 (1.41%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.70%) NIST 800
System Software
1 52 (36.62%) Docker
2 9 (6.34%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.41%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.41%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (1.41%) Xen
5 1 (0.70%) etcd
5 1 (0.70%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.70%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 52 (36.62%) Kubernetes
2 44 (30.99%) Terraform
3 9 (6.34%) Ansible
4 7 (4.93%) Grafana
4 7 (4.93%) Prometheus
5 4 (2.82%) ITRS Geneos
6 3 (2.11%) Istio
6 3 (2.11%) vRealize
7 2 (1.41%) SCCM
8 1 (0.70%) Argo
8 1 (0.70%) Fluentd
8 1 (0.70%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.70%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.70%) Puppet
8 1 (0.70%) VxRail
8 1 (0.70%) WSUS
Vendors
1 36 (25.35%) Microsoft
2 11 (7.75%) Google
3 8 (5.63%) Databricks
3 8 (5.63%) Salesforce
4 7 (4.93%) VMware
5 6 (4.23%) OpenAI
5 6 (4.23%) SAP
6 5 (3.52%) Automation Anywhere
6 5 (3.52%) Axway
6 5 (3.52%) Splunk
6 5 (3.52%) UiPath
6 5 (3.52%) webMethods
7 4 (2.82%) IBM
7 4 (2.82%) Software AG
8 3 (2.11%) Adobe
8 3 (2.11%) Apple
8 3 (2.11%) ForgeRock
8 3 (2.11%) Oracle
9 2 (1.41%) Bloomberg
9 2 (1.41%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud