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 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 269 261 299
Rank change year-on-year -8 +38 -11
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 122 108 107
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.86% 0.71% 0.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.94% 0.79% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 58 70
10th Percentile £406 £444 £425
25th Percentile £449 £503 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £628 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.37% +9.13% -8.91%
75th Percentile £659 £788 £650
90th Percentile £830 £838 £752
England median daily rate £525 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% -5.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £22.00
England median hourly rate £22.58 £85.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -73.44% +286.36% -

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 13,036 13,640 17,045
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.47% 89.99% 89.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,595 8,770 12,218
10th Percentile £343 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -2.65% -4.24%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £765 £800 £792
England median daily rate £506 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.62% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 238 164 234
10th Percentile £17.98 £17.65 £18.52
25th Percentile £24.50 £23.80 £21.31
Median hourly rate £29.50 £36.65 £34.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.51% +6.23% -12.66%
75th Percentile £47.94 £54.06 £60.00
90th Percentile £66.80 £80.75 £74.63
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.30%

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 15 December 2025.

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 15 December 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 -4 7 £535 -8.94% 8
South London -3 2 £568 -
East London +4 1 £540 -14.29% 2
West London - 1 £375 -
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 2 (1.64%) Apache
1 2 (1.64%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (1.64%) Apache Spark
1 2 (1.64%) Confluence
1 2 (1.64%) nginx
2 1 (0.82%) Camunda
2 1 (0.82%) ColdFusion
2 1 (0.82%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.82%) Traefik
Applications
1 2 (1.64%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.82%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.82%) Endur
1 1 (0.82%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 43 (35.25%) Azure
2 35 (28.69%) AWS
3 22 (18.03%) GitHub
4 19 (15.57%) Serverless
5 18 (14.75%) GitHub Actions
6 15 (12.30%) Azure DevOps
7 14 (11.48%) AWS Lambda
8 12 (9.84%) AWS CloudFormation
9 10 (8.20%) Amazon S3
9 10 (8.20%) GCP
10 9 (7.38%) Power Platform
11 8 (6.56%) Azure Data Factory
12 7 (5.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 7 (5.74%) Amazon EC2
13 6 (4.92%) Datadog
13 6 (4.92%) Entra ID
14 5 (4.10%) Amazon EKS
14 5 (4.10%) IaaS
14 5 (4.10%) SaaS
14 5 (4.10%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (8.20%) HTTPS
2 6 (4.92%) SSL
3 5 (4.10%) DNS
3 5 (4.10%) Firewall
4 4 (3.28%) Network Security
4 4 (3.28%) VPN
5 3 (2.46%) TCP/IP
6 2 (1.64%) DHCP
6 2 (1.64%) HTTP
6 2 (1.64%) Internet
7 1 (0.82%) BGP
7 1 (0.82%) Calico
7 1 (0.82%) DMZ
7 1 (0.82%) Ethernet VPN
7 1 (0.82%) SMS
7 1 (0.82%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.82%) VSAN
7 1 (0.82%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (8.20%) Data Warehouse
1 10 (8.20%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (7.38%) Relational Database
3 7 (5.74%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (4.92%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (4.92%) Data Lake
4 6 (4.92%) NoSQL
4 6 (4.92%) SQL Server
5 5 (4.10%) Power BI
6 4 (3.28%) Spark SQL
7 3 (2.46%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (2.46%) Star Schema
8 2 (1.64%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (1.64%) Delta Lake
8 2 (1.64%) ImageNet
8 2 (1.64%) MySQL
9 1 (0.82%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (0.82%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.82%) Metadata
9 1 (0.82%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 21 (17.21%) Git
2 17 (13.93%) Jenkins
3 12 (9.84%) GitLab
4 5 (4.10%) JIRA
5 3 (2.46%) Maven
6 2 (1.64%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.64%) CircleCI
6 2 (1.64%) Gradle
7 1 (0.82%) Android Studio
7 1 (0.82%) JUnit
7 1 (0.82%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.82%) Mockito
7 1 (0.82%) Selenium
7 1 (0.82%) Spinnaker
7 1 (0.82%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.82%) Vagrant
General
1 36 (29.51%) Social Skills
2 20 (16.39%) Finance
3 16 (13.11%) Public Sector
4 8 (6.56%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (4.10%) Banking
5 5 (4.10%) Marketing
6 3 (2.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (2.46%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.64%) Back Office
7 2 (1.64%) Digital Healthcare
7 2 (1.64%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.64%) Electronics
7 2 (1.64%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.64%) Military
7 2 (1.64%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.82%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.82%) Front Office
8 1 (0.82%) Police
8 1 (0.82%) Publishing
8 1 (0.82%) Retail
Job Titles
1 41 (33.61%) Developer
2 17 (13.93%) Architect
3 14 (11.48%) Lead
4 13 (10.66%) DevOps Engineer
5 10 (8.20%) Technical Architect
6 9 (7.38%) Azure Engineer
7 8 (6.56%) Senior
8 7 (5.74%) Data Engineer
8 7 (5.74%) Python Developer
9 6 (4.92%) Azure Architect
9 6 (4.92%) Azure Data Engineer
9 6 (4.92%) Lead Developer
9 6 (4.92%) Lead DevOps
10 5 (4.10%) Cloud Engineer
10 5 (4.10%) Consultant
10 5 (4.10%) Engineering Manager
10 5 (4.10%) Full-Stack Developer
10 5 (4.10%) Full-Stack Python Developer
10 5 (4.10%) Java Developer
11 4 (3.28%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (13.93%) JSON
1 17 (13.93%) REST
1 17 (13.93%) RESTful
2 15 (12.30%) XML
3 13 (10.66%) React
4 12 (9.84%) SOAP
5 11 (9.02%) Kafka
5 11 (9.02%) Spring
6 10 (8.20%) AngularJS
7 9 (7.38%) .NET
7 9 (7.38%) OAuth
8 8 (6.56%) ARM Templates
8 8 (6.56%) PySpark
9 7 (5.74%) YAML
10 6 (4.92%) Spring Boot
11 5 (4.10%) FastAPI
11 5 (4.10%) HTML
11 5 (4.10%) Jest
11 5 (4.10%) Next.js
11 5 (4.10%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 15 (12.30%) Cloud Native
2 8 (6.56%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (4.10%) Distributed Computing
3 5 (4.10%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (2.46%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (2.46%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.46%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.64%) Clustering
5 2 (1.64%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.64%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (1.64%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.64%) NHS
5 2 (1.64%) PACS
6 1 (0.82%) Animation
6 1 (0.82%) CMDB
6 1 (0.82%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 19 (15.57%) Linux
2 5 (4.10%) Windows
3 3 (2.46%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.64%) Ubuntu
4 2 (1.64%) Unix
4 2 (1.64%) VMS
5 1 (0.82%) Android
5 1 (0.82%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.82%) CentOS
5 1 (0.82%) Debian
5 1 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (66.39%) CI/CD
2 80 (65.57%) DevOps
3 44 (36.07%) Test Automation
4 38 (31.15%) Containerisation
4 38 (31.15%) Infrastructure as Code
5 35 (28.69%) Agile
6 31 (25.41%) Microservices
7 29 (23.77%) Problem-Solving
8 24 (19.67%) Observability
9 20 (16.39%) Analytics
10 18 (14.75%) Continuous Improvement
11 17 (13.93%) Migration
12 16 (13.11%) Data Pipeline
12 16 (13.11%) Infrastructure Automation
13 14 (11.48%) API Development
13 14 (11.48%) ETL
13 14 (11.48%) TDD
14 12 (9.84%) Data Engineering
15 11 (9.02%) High Availability
15 11 (9.02%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 42 (34.43%) Python
2 36 (29.51%) SQL
3 29 (23.77%) Java
4 17 (13.93%) TypeScript
5 14 (11.48%) JavaScript
6 13 (10.66%) Bash
7 9 (7.38%) Bicep
8 8 (6.56%) PowerShell
9 6 (4.92%) C#
10 5 (4.10%) Go
11 3 (2.46%) PHP
12 2 (1.64%) Kotlin
12 2 (1.64%) PromQL
12 2 (1.64%) Ruby
12 2 (1.64%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.82%) CFML
13 1 (0.82%) Groovy
13 1 (0.82%) Perl
13 1 (0.82%) Scala
13 1 (0.82%) Swift
Qualifications
1 34 (27.87%) Security Cleared
2 29 (23.77%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.74%) Azure Certification
4 6 (4.92%) Degree
5 5 (4.10%) AWS Certification
5 5 (4.10%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (3.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (3.28%) DV Cleared
7 3 (2.46%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (2.46%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (2.46%) Master's Degree
7 3 (2.46%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 2 (1.64%) CISSP
9 1 (0.82%) CCNP
9 1 (0.82%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.82%) CISM
9 1 (0.82%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.28%) GDPR
2 3 (2.46%) QA
2 3 (2.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (1.64%) NCSC
3 2 (1.64%) NIST
3 2 (1.64%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.82%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.82%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.82%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.82%) NIST 800
System Software
1 44 (36.07%) Docker
2 8 (6.56%) Active Directory
3 4 (3.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.64%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.64%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (1.64%) Xen
5 1 (0.82%) etcd
5 1 (0.82%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.82%) VirtualBox
5 1 (0.82%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 45 (36.89%) Kubernetes
2 41 (33.61%) Terraform
3 11 (9.02%) Ansible
4 10 (8.20%) Prometheus
5 8 (6.56%) Grafana
6 5 (4.10%) ITRS Geneos
7 4 (3.28%) Progress Chef
8 3 (2.46%) Puppet
8 3 (2.46%) vRealize
9 2 (1.64%) Argo
9 2 (1.64%) Istio
10 1 (0.82%) Fluentd
10 1 (0.82%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.82%) Icinga
10 1 (0.82%) Nagios
10 1 (0.82%) Salt
10 1 (0.82%) VxRail
Vendors
1 30 (24.59%) Microsoft
2 11 (9.02%) Databricks
3 8 (6.56%) VMware
4 6 (4.92%) Google
4 6 (4.92%) SAP
4 6 (4.92%) Splunk
5 5 (4.10%) Axway
5 5 (4.10%) webMethods
6 4 (3.28%) IBM
6 4 (3.28%) Salesforce
6 4 (3.28%) Software AG
7 3 (2.46%) Adobe
7 3 (2.46%) ForgeRock
7 3 (2.46%) Pega
8 2 (1.64%) Atlassian
8 2 (1.64%) Bloomberg
8 2 (1.64%) Oracle
8 2 (1.64%) Refinitiv
8 2 (1.64%) Solace
9 1 (0.82%) Cribl.io