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

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 205 258 280
Rank change year-on-year +53 +22 +30
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 295 117 109
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.45% 0.87% 0.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.63% 0.94% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 199 85 57
10th Percentile £400 £401 £404
25th Percentile £453 £458 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £638 £653 £745
90th Percentile £750 £813 £777
England median daily rate £515 £550 £588
% change year-on-year -6.36% -6.38% -2.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Median hourly rate - - £23.80
England median hourly rate £74.68 £22.58 £23.80
% change year-on-year +230.81% -5.15% -50.42%

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 18,082 12,478 14,464
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.84% 92.59% 89.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,837 8,221 9,471
10th Percentile £358 £331 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £669 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £512 £525
% change year-on-year +2.64% -2.57% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 330 246 179
10th Percentile £16.04 £17.98 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.03 £25.00 £24.17
Median hourly rate £32.50 £30.25 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.44% -14.79% -5.33%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £56.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £75.25
England median hourly rate £40.08 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.36% -41.51% -3.37%

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 2 October 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 2 October 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 33 £523 -24.00% 21
South London -1 9 £700 +12.90% 2
West London -21 5 £663 +28.39% 11
East London +3 1 - - 5
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 17 (5.76%) Apache Spark
2 14 (4.75%) Apache
3 12 (4.07%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (2.37%) CMS
5 4 (1.36%) Confluence
6 3 (1.02%) nginx
7 2 (0.68%) CICS
7 2 (0.68%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.68%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.34%) EPiServer
8 1 (0.34%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.34%) IIS
8 1 (0.34%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.34%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.68%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.68%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.34%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.34%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 5 (1.69%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.02%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.68%) SAP MDG
3 2 (0.68%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.34%) Misys Equation
4 1 (0.34%) Misys Midas
4 1 (0.34%) SAP CRM
4 1 (0.34%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 156 (52.88%) Azure
2 118 (40.00%) AWS
3 73 (24.75%) Azure DevOps
4 68 (23.05%) GitHub
5 56 (18.98%) GitHub Actions
6 54 (18.31%) Serverless
7 38 (12.88%) AWS Lambda
8 36 (12.20%) GCP
9 30 (10.17%) Amazon EKS
9 30 (10.17%) Amazon S3
10 29 (9.83%) Entra ID
11 28 (9.49%) Power Platform
12 27 (9.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 27 (9.15%) Amazon EC2
12 27 (9.15%) Amazon ECS
13 23 (7.80%) Azure Monitor
14 17 (5.76%) Amazon SQS
15 16 (5.42%) Azure Functions
16 15 (5.08%) Azure AKS
17 13 (4.41%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 20 (6.78%) Firewall
2 12 (4.07%) DNS
3 7 (2.37%) TCP/IP
4 6 (2.03%) VPN
5 5 (1.69%) Kerberos
5 5 (1.69%) NGFW
6 4 (1.36%) DMZ
6 4 (1.36%) Internet
6 4 (1.36%) SSL
7 3 (1.02%) Network Security
7 3 (1.02%) OpenLDAP
8 2 (0.68%) HTTP
8 2 (0.68%) HTTPS
8 2 (0.68%) SSH
9 1 (0.34%) Broadband
9 1 (0.34%) FTP
9 1 (0.34%) IMAP
9 1 (0.34%) Reverse Proxy
9 1 (0.34%) SMTP
9 1 (0.34%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (7.12%) Power BI
1 21 (7.12%) SQL Server
2 19 (6.44%) Relational Database
3 18 (6.10%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (5.42%) Data Lake
5 15 (5.08%) Data Warehouse
6 12 (4.07%) Amazon RDS
6 12 (4.07%) NoSQL
7 10 (3.39%) Metadata
7 10 (3.39%) MongoDB
7 10 (3.39%) Redis
8 8 (2.71%) BigQuery
8 8 (2.71%) Delta Lake
8 8 (2.71%) MySQL
9 7 (2.37%) Big Data
9 7 (2.37%) DynamoDB
10 6 (2.03%) Amazon Redshift
10 6 (2.03%) Oracle Database
11 5 (1.69%) Amazon Athena
11 5 (1.69%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 68 (23.05%) Git
2 64 (21.69%) GitLab
3 60 (20.34%) Jenkins
4 17 (5.76%) JIRA
5 9 (3.05%) Selenium
6 5 (1.69%) JUnit
6 5 (1.69%) MSI
6 5 (1.69%) TeamCity
7 4 (1.36%) Bitbucket
7 4 (1.36%) Cypress.io
7 4 (1.36%) Sonatype Nexus
7 4 (1.36%) Terragrunt
8 3 (1.02%) Artifactory
8 3 (1.02%) Maven
8 3 (1.02%) Octopus Deploy
8 3 (1.02%) SonarQube
8 3 (1.02%) Storybook
9 2 (0.68%) AdminStudio
9 2 (0.68%) InstallShield
9 2 (0.68%) JMeter
General
1 98 (33.22%) Social Skills
2 69 (23.39%) Finance
3 42 (14.24%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (11.86%) Public Sector
5 34 (11.53%) Banking
6 7 (2.37%) Marketing
6 7 (2.37%) Retail
7 6 (2.03%) Financial Institution
7 6 (2.03%) Front Office
7 6 (2.03%) Investment Banking
8 4 (1.36%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.36%) Law
9 3 (1.02%) Back Office
9 3 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.68%) Billing
10 2 (0.68%) Health Technology
10 2 (0.68%) Local Government
10 2 (0.68%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (0.68%) Spanish Language
11 1 (0.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 57 (19.32%) DevOps Engineer
2 54 (18.31%) Senior
3 53 (17.97%) Developer
4 32 (10.85%) Lead
5 30 (10.17%) Azure Engineer
6 29 (9.83%) Cloud Engineer
7 25 (8.47%) Architect
8 24 (8.14%) AWS Engineer
9 21 (7.12%) Software Engineer
10 20 (6.78%) Data Engineer
11 18 (6.10%) AWS DevOps
12 16 (5.42%) Platform Engineer
13 15 (5.08%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 15 (5.08%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 12 (4.07%) Senior Developer
14 12 (4.07%) Senior DevOps
14 12 (4.07%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 11 (3.73%) GCP Engineer
15 11 (3.73%) Python Engineer
15 11 (3.73%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 128 (43.39%) Terraform
2 66 (22.37%) REST
3 37 (12.54%) .NET
4 36 (12.20%) RESTful
5 35 (11.86%) Kafka
6 32 (10.85%) React
7 23 (7.80%) OAuth
8 17 (5.76%) OAuth2
8 17 (5.76%) PySpark
9 15 (5.08%) .NET Framework
9 15 (5.08%) AngularJS
9 15 (5.08%) Spring
9 15 (5.08%) Spring Boot
10 14 (4.75%) FastAPI
10 14 (4.75%) OpenID
11 13 (4.41%) .NET Core
11 13 (4.41%) Flask
11 13 (4.41%) HTML
12 12 (4.07%) ASP.NET
12 12 (4.07%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 94 (31.86%) Cloud Native
2 36 (12.20%) Distributed Systems
3 24 (8.14%) Enterprise Software
4 20 (6.78%) Product Ownership
5 17 (5.76%) Onboarding
6 12 (4.07%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (2.71%) Enterprise Cloud
7 8 (2.71%) Self-Motivation
8 7 (2.37%) AI Agents
9 6 (2.03%) CMDB
9 6 (2.03%) Hybrid Cloud
9 6 (2.03%) Life Science
9 6 (2.03%) PKI
10 5 (1.69%) Distributed Architecture
10 5 (1.69%) NHS
10 5 (1.69%) Replication
10 5 (1.69%) Virtual Team
11 4 (1.36%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (1.36%) Low-Code
12 3 (1.02%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 39 (13.22%) Linux
2 18 (6.10%) Windows
3 12 (4.07%) Unix
4 11 (3.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (2.37%) Windows Server
6 4 (1.36%) Ubuntu
6 4 (1.36%) VMS
7 3 (1.02%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.68%) Amazon Linux
8 2 (0.68%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.68%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.68%) zOS
9 1 (0.34%) Android
9 1 (0.34%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 245 (83.05%) CI/CD
2 186 (63.05%) DevOps
3 146 (49.49%) Infrastructure as Code
4 132 (44.75%) Agile
5 88 (29.83%) Containerisation
6 86 (29.15%) Test Automation
7 78 (26.44%) Observability
8 68 (23.05%) AI
8 68 (23.05%) Continuous Improvement
9 63 (21.36%) Software Engineering
10 61 (20.68%) Problem-Solving
11 60 (20.34%) Microservices
12 54 (18.31%) Analytics
12 54 (18.31%) Platform Engineering
13 51 (17.29%) Stakeholder Management
14 50 (16.95%) Technical Leadership
15 46 (15.59%) Event-Driven
16 41 (13.90%) Mentoring
16 41 (13.90%) Migration
16 41 (13.90%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 123 (41.69%) Python
2 64 (21.69%) SQL
3 46 (15.59%) Java
4 41 (13.90%) C#
5 39 (13.22%) PowerShell
6 36 (12.20%) JavaScript
7 29 (9.83%) Bash
8 23 (7.80%) Bicep
8 23 (7.80%) TypeScript
9 13 (4.41%) Shell Script
10 9 (3.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 9 (3.05%) Go
11 6 (2.03%) Korn
12 4 (1.36%) Kusto Query Language
12 4 (1.36%) PHP
12 4 (1.36%) Scala
13 3 (1.02%) C++
13 3 (1.02%) COBOL
13 3 (1.02%) Groovy
14 2 (0.68%) JCL
Qualifications
1 91 (30.85%) Security Cleared
2 75 (25.42%) SC Cleared
3 26 (8.81%) DV Cleared
4 18 (6.10%) Degree
5 15 (5.08%) AWS Certification
5 15 (5.08%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (4.75%) Azure Certification
7 12 (4.07%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (1.69%) MCSE
9 4 (1.36%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.36%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.68%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (0.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 1 (0.34%) CISSP
11 1 (0.34%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.34%) MCSA
11 1 (0.34%) PhD
11 1 (0.34%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.34%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (14.92%) QA
2 24 (8.14%) Data Quality
3 7 (2.37%) GDPR
4 6 (2.03%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.36%) ISO 20022
5 4 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.36%) WCAG
6 3 (1.02%) NCSC
7 2 (0.68%) NIST
8 1 (0.34%) EU AI Act
8 1 (0.34%) ISO 15022
8 1 (0.34%) PMO
8 1 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.34%) SOC 2
System Software
1 87 (29.49%) Docker
2 21 (7.12%) Active Directory
3 10 (3.39%) Virtual Desktop
4 6 (2.03%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (1.69%) Microsoft App-V
6 2 (0.68%) Oracle RAC
6 2 (0.68%) RACF
6 2 (0.68%) Time Sharing Option
7 1 (0.34%) DFS Replication
7 1 (0.34%) Dovecot
7 1 (0.34%) Postfix
7 1 (0.34%) Squid
7 1 (0.34%) Varnish
7 1 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.34%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.34%) zsh
Systems Management
1 93 (31.53%) Kubernetes
2 46 (15.59%) Ansible
3 20 (6.78%) Grafana
4 18 (6.10%) Prometheus
5 12 (4.07%) Microsoft Intune
6 8 (2.71%) SCCM
7 6 (2.03%) Puppet
8 5 (1.69%) Progress Chef
9 4 (1.36%) Argo
9 4 (1.36%) Control-M
9 4 (1.36%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (1.36%) WSUS
10 2 (0.68%) Data Guard
10 2 (0.68%) Istio
10 2 (0.68%) Packer
11 1 (0.34%) Cilium
11 1 (0.34%) HAProxy
11 1 (0.34%) Kubeflow
11 1 (0.34%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.34%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 73 (24.75%) Microsoft
2 25 (8.47%) Databricks
3 23 (7.80%) Google
4 18 (6.10%) Oracle
5 14 (4.75%) Splunk
6 10 (3.39%) ServiceNow
7 8 (2.71%) Red Hat
8 7 (2.37%) Salesforce
9 6 (2.03%) IBM
10 5 (1.69%) Foundry
10 5 (1.69%) UiPath
11 4 (1.36%) Cloudera
11 4 (1.36%) Dynatrace
11 4 (1.36%) Informatica
11 4 (1.36%) ION Trading
11 4 (1.36%) MuleSoft
11 4 (1.36%) OpenAI
12 3 (1.02%) Citrix
12 3 (1.02%) SAP
12 3 (1.02%) Talend