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 3 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 242 224 279
Rank change year-on-year -18 +55 +2
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 196 137 128
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.01% 1.05% 0.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.14% 1.13% 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 101 84
10th Percentile £400 £380 £411
25th Percentile £469 £425 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £756
90th Percentile £733 £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 17,177 12,084 15,599
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.92% 92.22% 88.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,420 8,065 11,124
10th Percentile £360 £331 £341
25th Percentile £438 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £523 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +1.46% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 266 227 298
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £15.98
25th Percentile £23.25 £24.66 £20.02
Median hourly rate £37.25 £32.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.62% +8.33% -26.90%
75th Percentile £59.00 £50.25 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.45 £68.75
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.88% -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 3 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 3 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% 21
East London - 3 £612 - 1
West London -23 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 (4.08%) Apache Spark
2 5 (2.55%) Appian
2 5 (2.55%) Camunda
3 4 (2.04%) SAS
4 3 (1.53%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.02%) Apache
5 2 (1.02%) CMS
5 2 (1.02%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.51%) OpenROAD
6 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
1 105 (53.57%) Azure
2 74 (37.76%) AWS
3 42 (21.43%) GitHub
4 40 (20.41%) Azure DevOps
5 33 (16.84%) GitHub Actions
6 26 (13.27%) Serverless
7 21 (10.71%) GCP
8 19 (9.69%) Power Platform
9 18 (9.18%) AWS Lambda
10 16 (8.16%) Amazon S3
11 14 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
12 12 (6.12%) Amazon ECS
12 12 (6.12%) Azure AKS
12 12 (6.12%) Azure Data Factory
13 11 (5.61%) Amazon SQS
13 11 (5.61%) AWS CloudFormation
13 11 (5.61%) Azure AI
14 10 (5.10%) Azure Key Vault
15 9 (4.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 9 (4.59%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 16 (8.16%) Firewall
2 8 (4.08%) TCP/IP
2 8 (4.08%) VPN
3 7 (3.57%) DMZ
4 6 (3.06%) Network Security
5 4 (2.04%) DNS
5 4 (2.04%) 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 15 (7.65%) SQL Server
2 13 (6.63%) Power BI
3 12 (6.12%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (5.61%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (5.10%) Relational Database
6 7 (3.57%) Amazon Athena
6 7 (3.57%) NoSQL
7 6 (3.06%) Amazon RDS
7 6 (3.06%) Data Lake
7 6 (3.06%) Metadata
7 6 (3.06%) MongoDB
7 6 (3.06%) Redis
8 5 (2.55%) Big Data
8 5 (2.55%) DynamoDB
8 5 (2.55%) Pinecone
9 3 (1.53%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (1.53%) Base SAS
9 3 (1.53%) BigQuery
9 3 (1.53%) Data Mart
9 3 (1.53%) SAS Data Integration Studio
Development Applications
1 36 (18.37%) Git
2 29 (14.80%) GitLab
3 23 (11.73%) Jenkins
4 5 (2.55%) MLflow
4 5 (2.55%) MSI
5 4 (2.04%) git-flow
6 3 (1.53%) Artifactory
6 3 (1.53%) Cypress.io
6 3 (1.53%) JIRA
6 3 (1.53%) Maven
6 3 (1.53%) Selenium
6 3 (1.53%) SonarQube
7 2 (1.02%) AdminStudio
7 2 (1.02%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.02%) Gradle
7 2 (1.02%) InstallShield
7 2 (1.02%) JMeter
7 2 (1.02%) JUnit
7 2 (1.02%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.51%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 54 (27.55%) Social Skills
2 53 (27.04%) Finance
3 33 (16.84%) Public Sector
4 21 (10.71%) Banking
5 16 (8.16%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (3.57%) Front Office
7 6 (3.06%) Investment Banking
8 5 (2.55%) Retail
9 4 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.53%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.53%) Law
10 3 (1.53%) 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 (18.37%) DevOps Engineer
1 36 (18.37%) Senior
2 28 (14.29%) Developer
3 18 (9.18%) Architect
3 18 (9.18%) Cloud Engineer
4 17 (8.67%) Azure Engineer
4 17 (8.67%) Lead
5 14 (7.14%) Data Engineer
6 13 (6.63%) Software Engineer
7 12 (6.12%) Salesforce Engineer
8 11 (5.61%) AWS Engineer
8 11 (5.61%) Full-Stack Developer
9 10 (5.10%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 10 (5.10%) Platform Engineer
9 10 (5.10%) Senior Developer
10 8 (4.08%) Automation Engineer
10 8 (4.08%) AWS DevOps
10 8 (4.08%) Senior DevOps
10 8 (4.08%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 8 (4.08%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (17.35%) REST
2 30 (15.31%) RESTful
3 24 (12.24%) React
4 17 (8.67%) Kafka
5 16 (8.16%) .NET
6 14 (7.14%) OAuth
7 13 (6.63%) FastAPI
8 11 (5.61%) PySpark
9 10 (5.10%) AngularJS
9 10 (5.10%) YAML
10 9 (4.59%) Django
10 9 (4.59%) Flask
10 9 (4.59%) Node.js
10 9 (4.59%) Spring
10 9 (4.59%) Spring Boot
11 8 (4.08%) JWT
11 8 (4.08%) OpenID
12 7 (3.57%) .NET Framework
12 7 (3.57%) PyTorch
12 7 (3.57%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 52 (26.53%) Cloud Native
2 21 (10.71%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (6.63%) Onboarding
4 12 (6.12%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (3.57%) Product Ownership
6 5 (2.55%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (2.55%) Low-Code
7 4 (2.04%) Client/Server
7 4 (2.04%) NHS
8 3 (1.53%) AI Agents
8 3 (1.53%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.53%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.53%) Distributed Architecture
8 3 (1.53%) Distributed Computing
8 3 (1.53%) Enterprise Cloud
8 3 (1.53%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.53%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.53%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.02%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 12 (6.12%) Windows
2 11 (5.61%) Linux
3 3 (1.53%) 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
1 148 (75.51%) CI/CD
2 119 (60.71%) DevOps
3 84 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
4 70 (35.71%) Agile
5 64 (32.65%) Test Automation
6 52 (26.53%) Containerisation
7 41 (20.92%) AI
8 39 (19.90%) Analytics
9 37 (18.88%) Microservices
9 37 (18.88%) Observability
10 32 (16.33%) Problem-Solving
10 32 (16.33%) Validation
11 31 (15.82%) Software Engineering
12 30 (15.31%) Continuous Improvement
13 29 (14.80%) Data Pipeline
13 29 (14.80%) Platform Engineering
14 27 (13.78%) Event-Driven
15 25 (12.76%) Migration
16 24 (12.24%) Data Engineering
16 24 (12.24%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 81 (41.33%) Python
2 36 (18.37%) PowerShell
2 36 (18.37%) SQL
3 22 (11.22%) Java
4 20 (10.20%) Bicep
4 20 (10.20%) C#
5 19 (9.69%) TypeScript
6 15 (7.65%) Bash
7 13 (6.63%) JavaScript
8 3 (1.53%) Apex Code
8 3 (1.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 3 (1.53%) SAS Macro
9 2 (1.02%) C
9 2 (1.02%) Kotlin
9 2 (1.02%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.02%) Rust
9 2 (1.02%) Scala
9 2 (1.02%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.51%) Korn
10 1 (0.51%) RPG
Qualifications
1 57 (29.08%) Security Cleared
2 48 (24.49%) SC Cleared
3 15 (7.65%) Degree
4 13 (6.63%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (5.61%) DV Cleared
6 8 (4.08%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (3.57%) Azure Certification
8 5 (2.55%) AWS Certification
8 5 (2.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (1.53%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 3 (1.53%) 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%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.51%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.51%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.51%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.51%) PMP
11 1 (0.51%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (13.78%) QA
2 12 (6.12%) Data Quality
3 6 (3.06%) Accessibility
4 5 (2.55%) GDPR
5 2 (1.02%) HIPAA
5 2 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.02%) WCAG
6 1 (0.51%) EU AI Act
6 1 (0.51%) PMO
6 1 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.51%) SLA
6 1 (0.51%) SOC 2
System Software
1 57 (29.08%) Docker
2 7 (3.57%) Active Directory
2 7 (3.57%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (2.55%) Microsoft App-V
4 4 (2.04%) Hyper-V
4 4 (2.04%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.51%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.51%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.51%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 82 (41.84%) Terraform
2 64 (32.65%) Kubernetes
3 22 (11.22%) Ansible
4 14 (7.14%) SCCM
5 7 (3.57%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (3.57%) Prometheus
6 6 (3.06%) Grafana
6 6 (3.06%) WSUS
7 3 (1.53%) 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 45 (22.96%) Microsoft
2 14 (7.14%) Salesforce
3 12 (6.12%) Google
4 11 (5.61%) OpenAI
5 7 (3.57%) Foundry
6 6 (3.06%) Bloomberg
6 6 (3.06%) Citrix
6 6 (3.06%) Databricks
6 6 (3.06%) ION Trading
6 6 (3.06%) Reuters
6 6 (3.06%) UiPath
7 5 (2.55%) Automation Anywhere
8 4 (2.04%) Dynatrace
9 3 (1.53%) Oracle
9 3 (1.53%) Palo Alto
9 3 (1.53%) Splunk
10 2 (1.02%) Apple
10 2 (1.02%) Brio
10 2 (1.02%) Cisco
10 2 (1.02%) IBM