Deployment Automation Contracts in London

Deployment Automation
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Deployment Automation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Deployment Automation over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 234 276 288
Rank change year-on-year +42 +12 +3
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 119 115 216
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.95% 0.64% 0.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.03% 0.73% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 75 140
10th Percentile £380 £413 £458
25th Percentile £463 £513 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £675 £625
Median % change year-on-year -14.81% +8.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £744 £772 £716
90th Percentile £825 £780 £825
England median daily rate £550 £575 £625
% change year-on-year -4.35% -8.00% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 2
10th Percentile - £22.36 £66.80
25th Percentile - £22.90 £69.50
Median hourly rate - £23.80 £74.00
Median % change year-on-year - -67.84% -7.50%
75th Percentile - - £78.50
90th Percentile - - £81.20
England median hourly rate - £23.80 £71.00
% change year-on-year - -66.48% -11.25%

All Process and 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 11,564 15,790 24,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.55% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,847 11,316 17,711
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 324 278
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £47.56 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.93 £76.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Deployment Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Deployment Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Deployment Automation in London

Deployment Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Deployment Automation in London.

Daily rate trend for Deployment Automation in London

Deployment Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Deployment Automation in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Deployment Automation in London

Deployment Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Deployment Automation in London.

Hourly rate trend for Deployment Automation in London

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 May 2025. 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 +18 22 £578 -3.75% 10
South London +7 2 £820 +26.15% 1
East London +15 1 £630 +6.06%
West London +12 1 £520 - 9
Deployment Automation
England

Deployment Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 9 (7.56%) Confluence
2 8 (6.72%) Apache
2 8 (6.72%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.68%) ArcGIS
3 2 (1.68%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.68%) Umbraco
4 1 (0.84%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.84%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 56 (47.06%) AWS
2 35 (29.41%) Azure
3 22 (18.49%) Amazon EC2
3 22 (18.49%) AWS CloudFormation
4 19 (15.97%) Amazon S3
5 16 (13.45%) Azure DevOps
5 16 (13.45%) Serverless
6 13 (10.92%) GitHub
6 13 (10.92%) OpenShift
7 11 (9.24%) GCP
8 10 (8.40%) Amazon EKS
8 10 (8.40%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (5.88%) Amazon ECS
9 7 (5.88%) Amazon SQS
9 7 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (5.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 6 (5.04%) Route 53
11 4 (3.36%) Azure Functions
11 4 (3.36%) Entra ID
12 3 (2.52%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 12 (10.08%) DNS
2 9 (7.56%) Internet
2 9 (7.56%) TCP/IP
3 7 (5.88%) HTTP
4 5 (4.20%) Firewall
4 5 (4.20%) VPN
5 4 (3.36%) NAS
5 4 (3.36%) SAN
6 3 (2.52%) BGP
6 3 (2.52%) Multicast
6 3 (2.52%) OSPF
7 2 (1.68%) EIGRP
7 2 (1.68%) IGMP
7 2 (1.68%) MPLS
7 2 (1.68%) SSL
7 2 (1.68%) VPLS
7 2 (1.68%) WAN
8 1 (0.84%) DHCP
8 1 (0.84%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.84%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
2 14 (11.76%) SQL Server
3 12 (10.08%) MongoDB
4 8 (6.72%) NoSQL
4 8 (6.72%) Relational Database
5 7 (5.88%) Amazon Aurora
5 7 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (5.04%) Amazon Athena
6 6 (5.04%) Amazon Redshift
7 5 (4.20%) Azure SQL Database
7 5 (4.20%) Big Data
8 4 (3.36%) Data Lake
8 4 (3.36%) DB2
8 4 (3.36%) Hadoop
8 4 (3.36%) Tableau
9 3 (2.52%) Apache Iceberg
9 3 (2.52%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (2.52%) DynamoDB
9 3 (2.52%) MySQL
10 2 (1.68%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 43 (36.13%) Jenkins
2 14 (11.76%) Git
3 13 (10.92%) GitLab
3 13 (10.92%) JIRA
4 8 (6.72%) TeamCity
5 6 (5.04%) Artifactory
6 5 (4.20%) Cypress.io
6 5 (4.20%) REST Assured
7 4 (3.36%) Bitbucket
8 3 (2.52%) Ant
8 3 (2.52%) Babel
8 3 (2.52%) SonarQube
8 3 (2.52%) webpack
9 2 (1.68%) Maven
9 2 (1.68%) Octopus Deploy
9 2 (1.68%) SoapUI
10 1 (0.84%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.84%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.84%) Travis CI
10 1 (0.84%) Zephyr
General
1 34 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 25 (21.01%) Finance
3 14 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (10.92%) Public Sector
5 7 (5.88%) Banking
6 5 (4.20%) Front Office
7 4 (3.36%) Marketing
8 3 (2.52%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.68%) Electronics
9 2 (1.68%) Legal
9 2 (1.68%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.68%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.68%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.84%) Military
Job Titles
1 33 (27.73%) DevOps Engineer
2 27 (22.69%) Senior
3 23 (19.33%) Developer
4 16 (13.45%) AWS Engineer
5 10 (8.40%) Architect
6 8 (6.72%) Kubernetes Engineer
6 8 (6.72%) Lead
6 8 (6.72%) Senior DevOps
6 8 (6.72%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 7 (5.88%) AWS DevOps
7 7 (5.88%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 7 (5.88%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 6 (5.04%) Data Engineer
8 6 (5.04%) Java Developer
9 5 (4.20%) Automation Engineer
9 5 (4.20%) Linux Engineer
9 5 (4.20%) Platform Engineer
9 5 (4.20%) React Developer
9 5 (4.20%) Senior Developer
9 5 (4.20%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (11.76%) .NET
2 12 (10.08%) React
2 12 (10.08%) RESTful
3 10 (8.40%) Elastic Stack
4 9 (7.56%) AngularJS
4 9 (7.56%) Kafka
5 8 (6.72%) .NET Core
5 8 (6.72%) HTML
5 8 (6.72%) Web Services
6 7 (5.88%) CSS
6 7 (5.88%) Spring
7 6 (5.04%) J2EE
7 6 (5.04%) REST
8 5 (4.20%) Node.js
8 5 (4.20%) Playwright
9 4 (3.36%) Middleware
9 4 (3.36%) OpenTelemetry
9 4 (3.36%) PySpark
10 3 (2.52%) SOAP
10 3 (2.52%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.88%) Cloud Native
2 6 (5.04%) Product Ownership
3 5 (4.20%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (4.20%) Tandem
4 3 (2.52%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (2.52%) EMC VMAX
4 3 (2.52%) Enterprise Storage
4 3 (2.52%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.52%) Virtual Team
5 2 (1.68%) Clustering
5 2 (1.68%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.68%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.68%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.68%) Replication
6 1 (0.84%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.84%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.84%) NHS
6 1 (0.84%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.84%) PKI
6 1 (0.84%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 30 (25.21%) Linux
2 12 (10.08%) Windows
3 9 (7.56%) Unix
4 4 (3.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (2.52%) VMS
5 3 (2.52%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.84%) CentOS
6 1 (0.84%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.84%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (0.84%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (68.91%) CI/CD
2 74 (62.18%) DevOps
3 37 (31.09%) Agile
4 36 (30.25%) Test Automation
5 35 (29.41%) Continuous Integration
6 30 (25.21%) Containerisation
6 30 (25.21%) Problem-Solving
7 28 (23.53%) Infrastructure as Code
8 27 (22.69%) Microservices
9 19 (15.97%) Continuous Delivery
10 18 (15.13%) Software Engineering
11 17 (14.29%) Analytics
11 17 (14.29%) Configuration Management
11 17 (14.29%) Data Science
12 14 (11.76%) Observability
13 12 (10.08%) Mentoring
14 11 (9.24%) Data Pipeline
14 11 (9.24%) Migration
14 11 (9.24%) Scrum
15 10 (8.40%) Data Security
Programming Languages
1 42 (35.29%) Python
2 28 (23.53%) SQL
3 26 (21.85%) Java
4 24 (20.17%) JavaScript
5 19 (15.97%) C#
6 15 (12.61%) PowerShell
7 14 (11.76%) Bash
8 12 (10.08%) TypeScript
9 8 (6.72%) Go
9 8 (6.72%) Shell Script
10 6 (5.04%) Scala
11 5 (4.20%) Perl
12 2 (1.68%) Ruby
12 2 (1.68%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.84%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.84%) C
13 1 (0.84%) C++
13 1 (0.84%) Groovy
13 1 (0.84%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 27 (22.69%) Security Cleared
2 23 (19.33%) SC Cleared
3 8 (6.72%) Degree
4 7 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.52%) AWS Certification
5 3 (2.52%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (1.68%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.68%) CCIE
6 2 (1.68%) CCNP
6 2 (1.68%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.84%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.84%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.84%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.84%) OCP
7 1 (0.84%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.84%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (9.24%) QA
2 4 (3.36%) GDPR
3 3 (2.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.68%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.68%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.68%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (0.84%) NCSC
5 1 (0.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 36 (30.25%) Docker
2 6 (5.04%) Active Directory
3 5 (4.20%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (2.52%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 3 (2.52%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.84%) BitLocker
5 1 (0.84%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.84%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 45 (37.82%) Kubernetes
1 45 (37.82%) Terraform
2 33 (27.73%) Ansible
3 19 (15.97%) Puppet
4 16 (13.45%) Progress Chef
5 15 (12.61%) Prometheus
6 13 (10.92%) Grafana
7 3 (2.52%) SCCM
8 1 (0.84%) EMC NetWorker
8 1 (0.84%) HAProxy
8 1 (0.84%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.84%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.84%) Nagios
8 1 (0.84%) Netcool
8 1 (0.84%) Rancher
8 1 (0.84%) Tivoli
8 1 (0.84%) Tivoli Storage Manager
8 1 (0.84%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 13 (10.92%) Microsoft
2 12 (10.08%) Red Hat
3 10 (8.40%) Oracle
4 6 (5.04%) Databricks
4 6 (5.04%) Dataiku
4 6 (5.04%) VMware
5 5 (4.20%) Splunk
5 5 (4.20%) Sybase
6 4 (3.36%) EMC
6 4 (3.36%) Google
6 4 (3.36%) ServiceNow
7 3 (2.52%) AppDynamics
7 3 (2.52%) NetApp
7 3 (2.52%) Veritas
8 2 (1.68%) CyberArk
8 2 (1.68%) SAP
8 2 (1.68%) TIBCO
9 1 (0.84%) Arista
9 1 (0.84%) Cloudera
9 1 (0.84%) Okta