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

6 months to
3 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 233 265 300
Rank change year-on-year +32 +35 -7
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 150 93 92
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.02% 0.68% 0.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.12% 0.76% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 50 64
10th Percentile £400 £462 £433
25th Percentile £440 £537 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £683 £575
Median % change year-on-year -25.27% +18.70% -8.91%
75th Percentile £625 £825 £666
90th Percentile £784 £838 £773
England median daily rate £518 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -13.75% +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% -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 13,417 12,298 16,505
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.90% 90.53% 88.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,905 7,768 11,834
10th Percentile £350 £350 £338
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 £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 203 153 347
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.05 £16.00
25th Percentile £25.15 £25.23 £19.15
Median hourly rate £34.50 £35.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.83% +18.33% -18.06%
75th Percentile £56.00 £53.75 £51.25
90th Percentile £72.00 £79.75 £72.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £35.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -1.41% +1.43%

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 February 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 February 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 -7 13 £575 - 13
West London - 2 £375 -
East London 0 1 £540 -14.29%
South London -10 1 £515 -37.20% 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 7 (4.67%) Appian
2 6 (4.00%) Camunda
3 3 (2.00%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.67%) Apache
4 1 (0.67%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.67%) ColdFusion
4 1 (0.67%) Confluence
4 1 (0.67%) nginx
4 1 (0.67%) Traefik
Applications
1 2 (1.33%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.67%) Endur
1 1 (0.67%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 73 (48.67%) Azure
2 36 (24.00%) AWS
3 26 (17.33%) GitHub
4 19 (12.67%) Azure DevOps
4 19 (12.67%) GCP
5 17 (11.33%) GitHub Actions
6 16 (10.67%) Power Platform
6 16 (10.67%) Serverless
7 12 (8.00%) Azure AI
7 12 (8.00%) Azure Data Factory
8 9 (6.00%) AWS Lambda
8 9 (6.00%) Power Automate
9 8 (5.33%) Azure Key Vault
10 7 (4.67%) Anthropic Claude
10 7 (4.67%) AWS CloudFormation
10 7 (4.67%) Azure Functions
10 7 (4.67%) Azure Logic Apps
10 7 (4.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 6 (4.00%) Amazon S3
11 6 (4.00%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 10 (6.67%) HTTPS
2 6 (4.00%) Firewall
2 6 (4.00%) SSL
3 5 (3.33%) DHCP
4 4 (2.67%) Software-Defined Networking
4 4 (2.67%) TCP/IP
4 4 (2.67%) VPN
5 3 (2.00%) DNS
5 3 (2.00%) Network Security
6 2 (1.33%) DMZ
7 1 (0.67%) BGP
7 1 (0.67%) Calico
7 1 (0.67%) Ethernet VPN
7 1 (0.67%) Internet
7 1 (0.67%) SMS
7 1 (0.67%) VSAN
7 1 (0.67%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (9.33%) SQL Server
2 10 (6.67%) Relational Database
3 9 (6.00%) Power BI
4 8 (5.33%) Spark SQL
5 7 (4.67%) Azure SQL Database
5 7 (4.67%) Data Lake
5 7 (4.67%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (4.67%) Pinecone
6 5 (3.33%) NoSQL
6 5 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (2.00%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (2.00%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (2.00%) Redis
7 3 (2.00%) Star Schema
8 2 (1.33%) ImageNet
8 2 (1.33%) Metadata
9 1 (0.67%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (0.67%) Data Vault
9 1 (0.67%) Delta Lake
9 1 (0.67%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 28 (18.67%) Git
2 15 (10.00%) GitLab
3 12 (8.00%) Jenkins
4 7 (4.67%) MLflow
5 4 (2.67%) Artifactory
6 3 (2.00%) Gradle
6 3 (2.00%) Maven
7 2 (1.33%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.33%) CircleCI
7 2 (1.33%) JIRA
8 1 (0.67%) Android Studio
8 1 (0.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.67%) JUnit
8 1 (0.67%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.67%) Mockito
8 1 (0.67%) Selenium
8 1 (0.67%) Spinnaker
8 1 (0.67%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.67%) Terragrunt
General
1 55 (36.67%) Social Skills
2 41 (27.33%) Finance
3 18 (12.00%) Public Sector
4 10 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (4.67%) Marketing
6 5 (3.33%) Banking
7 4 (2.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.00%) Investment Banking
8 3 (2.00%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.33%) Back Office
9 2 (1.33%) Electronics
9 2 (1.33%) Front Office
9 2 (1.33%) Military
9 2 (1.33%) Retail
9 2 (1.33%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.67%) Digital Healthcare
10 1 (0.67%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.67%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.67%) Police
Job Titles
1 44 (29.33%) Developer
2 22 (14.67%) Architect
3 16 (10.67%) DevOps Engineer
4 13 (8.67%) Azure Engineer
5 12 (8.00%) Lead
6 11 (7.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 10 (6.67%) Automation Engineer
7 10 (6.67%) Senior
7 10 (6.67%) Technical Architect
8 8 (5.33%) Cloud Engineer
8 8 (5.33%) Python Developer
9 7 (4.67%) Platform Engineer
10 6 (4.00%) Azure Architect
10 6 (4.00%) Data Engineer
10 6 (4.00%) Lead DevOps
11 5 (3.33%) Cloud Architect
11 5 (3.33%) Full-Stack Developer
11 5 (3.33%) Full-Stack Python Developer
11 5 (3.33%) GCP Engineer
11 5 (3.33%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (20.00%) REST
2 27 (18.00%) RESTful
3 20 (13.33%) JSON
4 18 (12.00%) React
5 15 (10.00%) OAuth
6 14 (9.33%) XML
7 13 (8.67%) FastAPI
8 12 (8.00%) PySpark
8 12 (8.00%) pytest
9 11 (7.33%) .NET
9 11 (7.33%) AngularJS
9 11 (7.33%) SOAP
9 11 (7.33%) Spring
9 11 (7.33%) Spring Boot
10 9 (6.00%) Node.js
10 9 (6.00%) Web Services
11 8 (5.33%) Django
11 8 (5.33%) Flask
11 8 (5.33%) Kafka
11 8 (5.33%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 20 (13.33%) Cloud Native
2 10 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
3 8 (5.33%) Distributed Computing
4 7 (4.67%) Low-Code
5 5 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (3.33%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (3.33%) Product Ownership
6 4 (2.67%) Onboarding
7 3 (2.00%) AI Agents
7 3 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.33%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (1.33%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.33%) Derivative
8 2 (1.33%) Energy Derivatives
8 2 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.33%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.33%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.33%) NHS
8 2 (1.33%) PACS
Operating Systems
1 21 (14.00%) Linux
2 8 (5.33%) Windows
3 4 (2.67%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.33%) Unix
4 2 (1.33%) VMS
5 1 (0.67%) Android
5 1 (0.67%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.67%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.67%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 91 (60.67%) DevOps
3 51 (34.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 49 (32.67%) Test Automation
5 46 (30.67%) Containerisation
6 40 (26.67%) Agile
7 33 (22.00%) Problem-Solving
8 28 (18.67%) Observability
9 27 (18.00%) Microservices
10 25 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
11 24 (16.00%) AI
12 23 (15.33%) Analytics
13 22 (14.67%) API Development
13 22 (14.67%) Data Engineering
13 22 (14.67%) ETL
14 21 (14.00%) Migration
15 18 (12.00%) Infrastructure Automation
15 18 (12.00%) Stakeholder Management
15 18 (12.00%) Workflow
16 15 (10.00%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 61 (40.67%) Python
2 44 (29.33%) SQL
3 30 (20.00%) Java
4 20 (13.33%) TypeScript
5 15 (10.00%) JavaScript
5 15 (10.00%) PowerShell
6 13 (8.67%) Bicep
7 12 (8.00%) Bash
8 9 (6.00%) C#
9 3 (2.00%) Go
10 2 (1.33%) Kotlin
10 2 (1.33%) PHP
10 2 (1.33%) Rust
10 2 (1.33%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.67%) CFML
11 1 (0.67%) Objective-C
11 1 (0.67%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.67%) Scala
11 1 (0.67%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.67%) Swift
Qualifications
1 44 (29.33%) Security Cleared
2 37 (24.67%) SC Cleared
3 9 (6.00%) Azure Certification
4 7 (4.67%) Degree
5 5 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (2.67%) AWS Certification
6 4 (2.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (2.67%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.67%) DV Cleared
7 3 (2.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (2.00%) Master's Degree
7 3 (2.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 2 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.33%) CISSP
9 1 (0.67%) CCNP
9 1 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.67%) CISM
9 1 (0.67%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.33%) GDPR
2 9 (6.00%) Data Quality
3 7 (4.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 6 (4.00%) QA
5 3 (2.00%) Accessibility
5 3 (2.00%) HIPAA
6 2 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.33%) NCSC
6 2 (1.33%) NIST
6 2 (1.33%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.67%) NIST 800
System Software
1 52 (34.67%) Docker
2 9 (6.00%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.00%) Hyper-V
3 3 (2.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.33%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.33%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (1.33%) Xen
5 1 (0.67%) etcd
5 1 (0.67%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.67%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 54 (36.00%) Kubernetes
2 49 (32.67%) Terraform
3 9 (6.00%) Ansible
4 6 (4.00%) Grafana
4 6 (4.00%) Prometheus
5 4 (2.67%) ITRS Geneos
6 3 (2.00%) Istio
6 3 (2.00%) vRealize
7 2 (1.33%) SCCM
8 1 (0.67%) Argo
8 1 (0.67%) Fluentd
8 1 (0.67%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.67%) VxRail
8 1 (0.67%) WSUS
Vendors
1 42 (28.00%) Microsoft
2 12 (8.00%) Google
3 11 (7.33%) OpenAI
4 8 (5.33%) Databricks
4 8 (5.33%) Salesforce
5 7 (4.67%) Automation Anywhere
5 7 (4.67%) UiPath
5 7 (4.67%) VMware
6 6 (4.00%) SAP
7 5 (3.33%) Axway
7 5 (3.33%) Foundry
7 5 (3.33%) Splunk
7 5 (3.33%) webMethods
8 4 (2.67%) IBM
8 4 (2.67%) Software AG
9 3 (2.00%) Adobe
9 3 (2.00%) Apple
9 3 (2.00%) ForgeRock
9 3 (2.00%) Oracle
10 2 (1.33%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud