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 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 228 269 280
Rank change year-on-year +41 +11 +31
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 141 130 217
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.07% 0.74% 0.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.16% 0.83% 0.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 85 142
10th Percentile £380 £411 £413
25th Percentile £425 £513 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £673 £750 £700
90th Percentile £809 £780 £825
England median daily rate £550 £600 £613
% change year-on-year -8.33% -2.04% +5.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 2
10th Percentile - - £66.80
25th Percentile - - £69.50
Median hourly rate - £23.80 £74.00
Median % change year-on-year - -67.84% -
75th Percentile - - £78.50
90th Percentile - - £81.20
England median hourly rate - £23.80 £68.00
% change year-on-year - -65.00% +13.33%

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 12,188 15,591 23,116
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.19% 88.48% 90.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,144 11,105 16,751
10th Percentile £331 £340 £370
25th Percentile £425 £445 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £585
Median % change year-on-year - -5.98% +1.74%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 296 262
10th Percentile £16.50 £15.97 £18.50
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.02 £22.93
Median hourly rate £32.00 £30.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -25.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £50.50 £48.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £63.60 £68.75 £82.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £37.50
% change year-on-year -34.02% +1.65% +45.12%

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 4 July 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 4 July 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 +26 24 £725 +1.47% 45
West London +12 3 £516 - 5
South London +1 2 £620 - 5
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 11 (7.80%) Confluence
2 10 (7.09%) Apache
3 7 (4.96%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.42%) ArcGIS
4 2 (1.42%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.42%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.71%) CMS
5 1 (0.71%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 58 (41.13%) AWS
2 38 (26.95%) Azure
3 26 (18.44%) AWS CloudFormation
4 20 (14.18%) Serverless
5 17 (12.06%) Amazon S3
5 17 (12.06%) Azure DevOps
6 16 (11.35%) Amazon EC2
6 16 (11.35%) GitHub
7 12 (8.51%) AWS Lambda
7 12 (8.51%) GCP
8 10 (7.09%) Amazon EKS
9 8 (5.67%) GitHub Actions
10 7 (4.96%) Amazon Cognito
10 7 (4.96%) Amazon SQS
10 7 (4.96%) Entra ID
10 7 (4.96%) OpenShift
11 6 (4.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 6 (4.26%) AWS Step Functions
11 6 (4.26%) Datadog
11 6 (4.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 14 (9.93%) DNS
2 10 (7.09%) TCP/IP
3 8 (5.67%) HTTP
3 8 (5.67%) Internet
4 6 (4.26%) Firewall
5 5 (3.55%) VPN
6 4 (2.84%) NAS
6 4 (2.84%) SAN
7 3 (2.13%) Network Security
8 2 (1.42%) DHCP
8 2 (1.42%) SSL
8 2 (1.42%) VLAN
9 1 (0.71%) Kerberos
9 1 (0.71%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (10.64%) Amazon RDS
2 14 (9.93%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (9.22%) MongoDB
4 12 (8.51%) SQL Server
5 8 (5.67%) Amazon Aurora
5 8 (5.67%) DynamoDB
5 8 (5.67%) NoSQL
5 8 (5.67%) Relational Database
6 6 (4.26%) Big Data
6 6 (4.26%) Data Lake
7 5 (3.55%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (2.84%) Amazon Athena
8 4 (2.84%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (2.84%) DB2
8 4 (2.84%) Hadoop
8 4 (2.84%) MySQL
9 3 (2.13%) Apache Iceberg
9 3 (2.13%) Tableau
10 2 (1.42%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (1.42%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 36 (25.53%) Jenkins
2 23 (16.31%) Git
3 15 (10.64%) JIRA
4 11 (7.80%) TeamCity
5 9 (6.38%) GitLab
6 7 (4.96%) Cypress.io
7 6 (4.26%) Maven
7 6 (4.26%) REST Assured
8 4 (2.84%) IntelliJ
8 4 (2.84%) SonarQube
8 4 (2.84%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (2.13%) Ant
9 3 (2.13%) Babel
9 3 (2.13%) SoapUI
9 3 (2.13%) webpack
10 2 (1.42%) Bitbucket
10 2 (1.42%) Octopus Deploy
11 1 (0.71%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.71%) Vagrant
11 1 (0.71%) Zephyr
General
1 42 (29.79%) Social Skills
2 26 (18.44%) Finance
3 18 (12.77%) Public Sector
4 17 (12.06%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (9.22%) Banking
6 5 (3.55%) Investment Banking
6 5 (3.55%) Marketing
7 4 (2.84%) Electronics
7 4 (2.84%) Manufacturing
7 4 (2.84%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.42%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.42%) Legal
8 2 (1.42%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.71%) Aviation
9 1 (0.71%) Front Office
9 1 (0.71%) Local Government
9 1 (0.71%) Military
9 1 (0.71%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 39 (27.66%) Developer
2 30 (21.28%) Senior
3 28 (19.86%) DevOps Engineer
4 12 (8.51%) Java Developer
5 11 (7.80%) Lead
6 10 (7.09%) Architect
6 10 (7.09%) AWS Engineer
6 10 (7.09%) Senior DevOps
6 10 (7.09%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 8 (5.67%) Senior Developer
8 7 (4.96%) Data Engineer
8 7 (4.96%) Full-Stack Developer
8 7 (4.96%) Software Engineer
9 6 (4.26%) .NET Developer
9 6 (4.26%) Automation Engineer
9 6 (4.26%) Engineering Manager
9 6 (4.26%) Lead Developer
9 6 (4.26%) React Developer
9 6 (4.26%) Senior .NET Developer
10 5 (3.55%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (12.77%) RESTful
2 15 (10.64%) React
3 13 (9.22%) Kafka
3 13 (9.22%) Spring
4 12 (8.51%) .NET
4 12 (8.51%) AngularJS
5 11 (7.80%) Elastic Stack
6 10 (7.09%) GraphQL
7 8 (5.67%) .NET Core
7 8 (5.67%) REST
8 7 (4.96%) Node.js
8 7 (4.96%) OpenTelemetry
8 7 (4.96%) Web Services
8 7 (4.96%) WebSockets
9 6 (4.26%) HTML
9 6 (4.26%) Playwright
9 6 (4.26%) Redux
9 6 (4.26%) Spring Boot
10 5 (3.55%) Jest
10 5 (3.55%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 10 (7.09%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (5.67%) Cloud Native
2 8 (5.67%) Product Ownership
3 5 (3.55%) Management Information System
4 4 (2.84%) Clustering
5 3 (2.13%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (2.13%) EMC VMAX
5 3 (2.13%) Enterprise Storage
6 2 (1.42%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.42%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.42%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.42%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.42%) Replication
6 2 (1.42%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.71%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.71%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.71%) PKI
7 1 (0.71%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 33 (23.40%) Linux
2 17 (12.06%) Windows
3 14 (9.93%) Unix
4 5 (3.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (2.84%) Windows Server
6 3 (2.13%) VMS
7 1 (0.71%) Android
7 1 (0.71%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.71%) CentOS
7 1 (0.71%) Debian
7 1 (0.71%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.71%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (0.71%) Solaris
7 1 (0.71%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.71%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 83 (58.87%) DevOps
3 41 (29.08%) Agile
3 41 (29.08%) Infrastructure as Code
4 38 (26.95%) Test Automation
5 35 (24.82%) Containerisation
6 34 (24.11%) Microservices
7 33 (23.40%) Continuous Integration
7 33 (23.40%) Problem-Solving
8 27 (19.15%) Observability
9 21 (14.89%) Configuration Management
9 21 (14.89%) Continuous Delivery
10 20 (14.18%) Scrum
11 19 (13.48%) Mentoring
12 18 (12.77%) User Experience
13 17 (12.06%) Software Engineering
13 17 (12.06%) TDD
14 16 (11.35%) Continuous Improvement
14 16 (11.35%) Migration
15 15 (10.64%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 40 (28.37%) Python
2 33 (23.40%) Java
3 28 (19.86%) JavaScript
3 28 (19.86%) SQL
4 21 (14.89%) C#
4 21 (14.89%) PowerShell
5 16 (11.35%) TypeScript
6 14 (9.93%) Bash
7 9 (6.38%) Shell Script
8 6 (4.26%) Go
9 5 (3.55%) Perl
9 5 (3.55%) Scala
10 2 (1.42%) C++
10 2 (1.42%) Ruby
11 1 (0.71%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.71%) C
11 1 (0.71%) Groovy
11 1 (0.71%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.71%) PHP
11 1 (0.71%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 31 (21.99%) Security Cleared
2 22 (15.60%) SC Cleared
3 4 (2.84%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (2.84%) Degree
4 3 (2.13%) AWS Certification
4 3 (2.13%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.42%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.71%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.71%) OCP
6 1 (0.71%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (0.71%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (9.93%) QA
2 5 (3.55%) Accessibility
2 5 (3.55%) GDPR
3 2 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.71%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 44 (31.21%) Docker
2 8 (5.67%) Active Directory
3 5 (3.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (2.13%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 3 (2.13%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.71%) BitLocker
5 1 (0.71%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (0.71%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.71%) VirtualBox
5 1 (0.71%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 50 (35.46%) Kubernetes
2 48 (34.04%) Terraform
3 32 (22.70%) Ansible
4 24 (17.02%) Prometheus
5 20 (14.18%) Puppet
6 17 (12.06%) Progress Chef
7 16 (11.35%) Grafana
8 4 (2.84%) SCCM
9 3 (2.13%) Argo
9 3 (2.13%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (1.42%) ITRS Geneos
10 2 (1.42%) Kibana
10 2 (1.42%) Nagios
11 1 (0.71%) EMC NetWorker
11 1 (0.71%) HAProxy
11 1 (0.71%) Rancher
11 1 (0.71%) Salt
11 1 (0.71%) Tivoli
11 1 (0.71%) Tivoli Storage Manager
11 1 (0.71%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 24 (17.02%) Microsoft
2 11 (7.80%) Red Hat
3 10 (7.09%) Oracle
4 9 (6.38%) Google
5 7 (4.96%) Splunk
6 6 (4.26%) VMware
7 5 (3.55%) Databricks
7 5 (3.55%) ServiceNow
7 5 (3.55%) Sybase
8 4 (2.84%) EMC
8 4 (2.84%) SAP
9 3 (2.13%) AppDynamics
9 3 (2.13%) NetApp
9 3 (2.13%) Veritas
10 2 (1.42%) Bloomberg
10 2 (1.42%) Citrix
10 2 (1.42%) Pega
10 2 (1.42%) Refinitiv
10 2 (1.42%) Solace
10 2 (1.42%) TIBCO