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

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 236 234 280
Rank change year-on-year -2 +46 -5
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 191 123 121
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.01% 1.00% 0.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.14% 1.09% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 92 78
10th Percentile £404 £380 £412
25th Percentile £456 £425 £514
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £663
Median % change year-on-year - -16.98% +6.00%
75th Percentile £625 £683 £775
90th Percentile £675 £811 £780
England median daily rate £520 £550 £594
% change year-on-year -5.45% -7.41% -4.96%
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 - - -66.48%

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 16,716 11,308 15,611
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.77% 92.32% 88.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,135 7,565 11,176
10th Percentile £359 £346 £340
25th Percentile £435 £425 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £676 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £515 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 251 198 317
10th Percentile £18.07 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.17 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £33.45 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.12% +19.45% -28.97%
75th Percentile £58.96 £49.94 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £67.40
England median hourly rate £47.50 £28.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +69.64% -25.33% +5.63%

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 12 June 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 12 June 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 -24 18 £625 -13.79% 11
East London - 2 £612 -
West London -25 1 £375 -27.33% 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 (4.19%) Appian
2 7 (3.66%) Apache Spark
3 5 (2.62%) Camunda
4 4 (2.09%) SAS
5 3 (1.57%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (1.05%) Apache
6 2 (1.05%) CMS
7 1 (0.52%) OpenROAD
7 1 (0.52%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.52%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.52%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 103 (53.93%) Azure
2 68 (35.60%) AWS
3 41 (21.47%) GitHub
4 33 (17.28%) Azure DevOps
5 27 (14.14%) GitHub Actions
6 22 (11.52%) Power Platform
7 21 (10.99%) Serverless
8 20 (10.47%) GCP
9 14 (7.33%) AWS CloudFormation
9 14 (7.33%) AWS Lambda
9 14 (7.33%) Azure Data Factory
10 13 (6.81%) Amazon S3
10 13 (6.81%) Azure AI
11 11 (5.76%) Amazon EKS
12 10 (5.24%) Azure AKS
13 9 (4.71%) Amazon ECS
13 9 (4.71%) Amazon SQS
13 9 (4.71%) Power Automate
14 8 (4.19%) Azure Key Vault
14 8 (4.19%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 15 (7.85%) Firewall
2 8 (4.19%) TCP/IP
2 8 (4.19%) VPN
3 7 (3.66%) DMZ
4 4 (2.09%) Network Security
4 4 (2.09%) Software-Defined Networking
5 3 (1.57%) DHCP
5 3 (1.57%) DNS
6 2 (1.05%) Kerberos
6 2 (1.05%) NGFW
7 1 (0.52%) BGP
7 1 (0.52%) Cisco IOS
7 1 (0.52%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (0.52%) IPsec
7 1 (0.52%) OpenLDAP
7 1 (0.52%) OSPF
7 1 (0.52%) SNMP
7 1 (0.52%) SSL
7 1 (0.52%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (8.90%) SQL Server
2 16 (8.38%) Power BI
3 11 (5.76%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (5.24%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (5.24%) Relational Database
5 9 (4.71%) Data Lake
6 8 (4.19%) Pinecone
7 7 (3.66%) Amazon Athena
8 6 (3.14%) Metadata
8 6 (3.14%) MongoDB
8 6 (3.14%) NoSQL
8 6 (3.14%) Redis
9 5 (2.62%) Big Data
9 5 (2.62%) Spark SQL
10 4 (2.09%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (2.09%) DynamoDB
11 3 (1.57%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (1.57%) BigQuery
11 3 (1.57%) Data Mart
11 3 (1.57%) SAS Data Integration Studio
Development Applications
1 36 (18.85%) Git
2 27 (14.14%) GitLab
3 16 (8.38%) Jenkins
4 8 (4.19%) MLflow
5 5 (2.62%) Artifactory
5 5 (2.62%) MSI
6 4 (2.09%) git-flow
7 3 (1.57%) JIRA
7 3 (1.57%) Selenium
8 2 (1.05%) AdminStudio
8 2 (1.05%) Bitbucket
8 2 (1.05%) Cypress.io
8 2 (1.05%) InstallShield
8 2 (1.05%) JMeter
8 2 (1.05%) Maven
8 2 (1.05%) SonarQube
8 2 (1.05%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.52%) Moq
9 1 (0.52%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.52%) WiX
General
1 58 (30.37%) Finance
2 57 (29.84%) Social Skills
3 30 (15.71%) Public Sector
4 18 (9.42%) Banking
5 13 (6.81%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (3.66%) Front Office
6 7 (3.66%) Investment Banking
7 4 (2.09%) Retail
8 3 (1.57%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.57%) Law
8 3 (1.57%) Legal
9 2 (1.05%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.05%) Marketing
10 1 (0.52%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.52%) Police
10 1 (0.52%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 34 (17.80%) Senior
2 32 (16.75%) DevOps Engineer
3 29 (15.18%) Developer
4 17 (8.90%) Architect
4 17 (8.90%) Cloud Engineer
5 16 (8.38%) Azure Engineer
6 13 (6.81%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 13 (6.81%) Data Engineer
6 13 (6.81%) Lead
6 13 (6.81%) Salesforce Engineer
7 12 (6.28%) Platform Engineer
7 12 (6.28%) Senior Developer
8 11 (5.76%) Automation Engineer
9 10 (5.24%) Full-Stack Developer
10 8 (4.19%) AWS Engineer
10 8 (4.19%) Software Engineer
10 8 (4.19%) Solutions Architect
11 6 (3.14%) AWS DevOps
11 6 (3.14%) Senior DevOps
11 6 (3.14%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (16.23%) REST
1 31 (16.23%) RESTful
2 23 (12.04%) React
3 16 (8.38%) Kafka
4 15 (7.85%) .NET
4 15 (7.85%) OAuth
5 14 (7.33%) PySpark
6 13 (6.81%) FastAPI
7 11 (5.76%) Django
7 11 (5.76%) Node.js
8 10 (5.24%) Flask
8 10 (5.24%) JWT
8 10 (5.24%) pytest
9 9 (4.71%) AngularJS
9 9 (4.71%) Hugging Face
9 9 (4.71%) PyTorch
9 9 (4.71%) scikit-learn
9 9 (4.71%) Swagger
9 9 (4.71%) TensorFlow
9 9 (4.71%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 47 (24.61%) Cloud Native
2 18 (9.42%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (7.85%) Onboarding
4 12 (6.28%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (4.19%) Low-Code
6 7 (3.66%) Distributed Computing
7 6 (3.14%) Product Ownership
8 5 (2.62%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (2.62%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (2.09%) Client/Server
10 3 (1.57%) AI Agents
10 3 (1.57%) Algorithms
10 3 (1.57%) Cyber Threat
10 3 (1.57%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.57%) Derivative
10 3 (1.57%) Energy Derivatives
10 3 (1.57%) Enterprise Cloud
10 3 (1.57%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (1.57%) Mobile App
11 2 (1.05%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 14 (7.33%) Windows
2 13 (6.81%) Linux
3 3 (1.57%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.05%) Windows 10
4 2 (1.05%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (1.05%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.52%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.52%) Unix
5 1 (0.52%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 145 (75.92%) CI/CD
2 113 (59.16%) DevOps
3 81 (42.41%) Infrastructure as Code
4 63 (32.98%) Test Automation
5 61 (31.94%) Agile
6 50 (26.18%) Containerisation
7 42 (21.99%) AI
8 39 (20.42%) Observability
9 38 (19.90%) Analytics
10 34 (17.80%) Data Pipeline
11 33 (17.28%) Microservices
11 33 (17.28%) Validation
12 28 (14.66%) Problem-Solving
13 27 (14.14%) Data Engineering
13 27 (14.14%) Data Modelling
13 27 (14.14%) ETL
14 26 (13.61%) Migration
14 26 (13.61%) Platform Engineering
15 25 (13.09%) Software Engineering
16 23 (12.04%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 84 (43.98%) Python
2 38 (19.90%) SQL
3 37 (19.37%) PowerShell
4 24 (12.57%) Java
5 18 (9.42%) C#
5 18 (9.42%) TypeScript
6 17 (8.90%) Bicep
7 14 (7.33%) Bash
8 13 (6.81%) JavaScript
9 3 (1.57%) PL/SQL
9 3 (1.57%) Rust
9 3 (1.57%) SAS Macro
10 2 (1.05%) Apex Code
10 2 (1.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (1.05%) Scala
10 2 (1.05%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.52%) C
11 1 (0.52%) C++
11 1 (0.52%) PHP
11 1 (0.52%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 53 (27.75%) Security Cleared
2 42 (21.99%) SC Cleared
3 12 (6.28%) Degree
4 10 (5.24%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (4.71%) DV Cleared
6 8 (4.19%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (3.14%) Azure Certification
8 5 (2.62%) AWS Certification
8 5 (2.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (1.57%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 3 (1.57%) MCSA
10 2 (1.05%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (1.05%) MCSE
11 1 (0.52%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.52%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.52%) CISSP
11 1 (0.52%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 1 (0.52%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (11.52%) QA
2 15 (7.85%) Data Quality
3 8 (4.19%) GDPR
4 6 (3.14%) Accessibility
5 5 (2.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (1.05%) HIPAA
6 2 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.52%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.52%) SLA
7 1 (0.52%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.52%) WCAG
System Software
1 56 (29.32%) Docker
2 7 (3.66%) Active Directory
2 7 (3.66%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (2.62%) Microsoft App-V
4 4 (2.09%) Hyper-V
4 4 (2.09%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.52%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.52%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.52%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 76 (39.79%) Terraform
2 63 (32.98%) Kubernetes
3 18 (9.42%) Ansible
4 14 (7.33%) SCCM
5 7 (3.66%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (3.66%) Prometheus
6 6 (3.14%) Grafana
6 6 (3.14%) WSUS
7 3 (1.57%) Istio
8 2 (1.05%) Control-M
9 1 (0.52%) Argo
9 1 (0.52%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.52%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.52%) QRadar
Vendors
1 48 (25.13%) Microsoft
2 15 (7.85%) Salesforce
3 13 (6.81%) OpenAI
4 12 (6.28%) Google
5 8 (4.19%) Automation Anywhere
5 8 (4.19%) UiPath
6 6 (3.14%) Bloomberg
6 6 (3.14%) Citrix
6 6 (3.14%) Foundry
6 6 (3.14%) ION Trading
6 6 (3.14%) Reuters
7 5 (2.62%) Databricks
8 4 (2.09%) Dynatrace
8 4 (2.09%) Splunk
9 3 (1.57%) Apple
9 3 (1.57%) Palo Alto
10 2 (1.05%) Brio
10 2 (1.05%) Cisco
10 2 (1.05%) Oracle
10 2 (1.05%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud