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

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 223 233 291
Rank change year-on-year +10 +58 -19
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 200 126 119
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.06% 1.01% 0.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.19% 1.10% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 95 76
10th Percentile £415 £380 £411
25th Percentile £469 £425 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £675
Median % change year-on-year - -18.52% +8.00%
75th Percentile £638 £721 £775
90th Percentile £720 £820 £780
England median daily rate £525 £550 £594
% change year-on-year -4.55% -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 16,816 11,468 15,660
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.80% 92.31% 88.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,190 7,694 11,171
10th Percentile £360 £340 £343
25th Percentile £436 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £519 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.23% -1.00% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 257 206 315
10th Percentile £18.07 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.66 £20.01
Median hourly rate £37.50 £33.45 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.12% +11.48% -24.84%
75th Percentile £59.00 £50.38 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £67.60
England median hourly rate £47.00 £27.40 £37.50
% change year-on-year +71.53% -26.93% +5.19%

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 18 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 18 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 -25 19 £625 -13.79% 2
East London - 2 £612 - 1
West London -26 1 £775 +50.19% 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 (4.00%) Apache Spark
1 8 (4.00%) Appian
2 5 (2.50%) Camunda
3 4 (2.00%) SAS
4 3 (1.50%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.00%) Apache
5 2 (1.00%) CMS
6 1 (0.50%) OpenROAD
6 1 (0.50%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.50%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 106 (53.00%) Azure
2 73 (36.50%) AWS
3 45 (22.50%) GitHub
4 35 (17.50%) Azure DevOps
5 31 (15.50%) GitHub Actions
6 25 (12.50%) Serverless
7 23 (11.50%) Power Platform
8 20 (10.00%) GCP
9 18 (9.00%) AWS Lambda
10 15 (7.50%) Amazon S3
11 14 (7.00%) Amazon EKS
11 14 (7.00%) Azure Data Factory
12 13 (6.50%) AWS CloudFormation
12 13 (6.50%) Azure AI
13 12 (6.00%) Amazon ECS
14 11 (5.50%) Amazon SQS
14 11 (5.50%) Azure AKS
15 9 (4.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 9 (4.50%) Azure Key Vault
15 9 (4.50%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 15 (7.50%) Firewall
2 8 (4.00%) TCP/IP
2 8 (4.00%) VPN
3 7 (3.50%) DMZ
4 6 (3.00%) Network Security
5 4 (2.00%) DNS
5 4 (2.00%) Software-Defined Networking
6 3 (1.50%) DHCP
7 2 (1.00%) Kerberos
7 2 (1.00%) NGFW
8 1 (0.50%) BGP
8 1 (0.50%) Cisco IOS
8 1 (0.50%) Cisco Nexus
8 1 (0.50%) IPsec
8 1 (0.50%) OpenLDAP
8 1 (0.50%) OSPF
8 1 (0.50%) SNMP
8 1 (0.50%) SSL
8 1 (0.50%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (8.50%) Power BI
1 17 (8.50%) SQL Server
2 11 (5.50%) Data Warehouse
2 11 (5.50%) Relational Database
3 10 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (4.50%) Data Lake
5 8 (4.00%) Pinecone
6 7 (3.50%) Amazon Athena
6 7 (3.50%) NoSQL
7 6 (3.00%) Amazon RDS
7 6 (3.00%) Metadata
7 6 (3.00%) MongoDB
7 6 (3.00%) Redis
8 5 (2.50%) Big Data
8 5 (2.50%) DynamoDB
8 5 (2.50%) Spark SQL
9 3 (1.50%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (1.50%) BigQuery
9 3 (1.50%) Data Mart
9 3 (1.50%) SAS Data Integration Studio
Development Applications
1 38 (19.00%) Git
2 30 (15.00%) GitLab
3 19 (9.50%) Jenkins
4 8 (4.00%) MLflow
5 5 (2.50%) Artifactory
5 5 (2.50%) MSI
6 4 (2.00%) git-flow
7 3 (1.50%) JIRA
7 3 (1.50%) Selenium
8 2 (1.00%) AdminStudio
8 2 (1.00%) Bitbucket
8 2 (1.00%) Cypress.io
8 2 (1.00%) InstallShield
8 2 (1.00%) JMeter
8 2 (1.00%) Maven
8 2 (1.00%) SonarQube
8 2 (1.00%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.50%) Moq
9 1 (0.50%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.50%) WiX
General
1 60 (30.00%) Finance
2 59 (29.50%) Social Skills
3 34 (17.00%) Public Sector
4 20 (10.00%) Banking
5 14 (7.00%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (3.50%) Front Office
6 7 (3.50%) Investment Banking
7 4 (2.00%) Retail
8 3 (1.50%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.50%) Law
8 3 (1.50%) Legal
9 2 (1.00%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.00%) Marketing
10 1 (0.50%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.50%) Police
10 1 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.50%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 38 (19.00%) Senior
2 35 (17.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 30 (15.00%) Developer
4 20 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
5 17 (8.50%) Architect
6 16 (8.00%) Azure Engineer
7 15 (7.50%) Lead
8 14 (7.00%) Salesforce Engineer
9 13 (6.50%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 13 (6.50%) Data Engineer
9 13 (6.50%) Senior Developer
10 12 (6.00%) Platform Engineer
11 11 (5.50%) Automation Engineer
11 11 (5.50%) AWS Engineer
11 11 (5.50%) Full-Stack Developer
11 11 (5.50%) Software Engineer
12 8 (4.00%) AWS DevOps
12 8 (4.00%) Solutions Architect
13 7 (3.50%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 7 (3.50%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (16.50%) REST
2 31 (15.50%) RESTful
3 25 (12.50%) React
4 16 (8.00%) FastAPI
4 16 (8.00%) Kafka
5 15 (7.50%) .NET
5 15 (7.50%) OAuth
5 15 (7.50%) PySpark
6 12 (6.00%) Flask
7 11 (5.50%) Django
7 11 (5.50%) Node.js
8 10 (5.00%) AngularJS
8 10 (5.00%) JWT
8 10 (5.00%) pytest
8 10 (5.00%) PyTorch
8 10 (5.00%) scikit-learn
8 10 (5.00%) TensorFlow
9 9 (4.50%) Hugging Face
9 9 (4.50%) Swagger
9 9 (4.50%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 50 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 21 (10.50%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (7.50%) Onboarding
4 13 (6.50%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (4.00%) Low-Code
6 7 (3.50%) Distributed Computing
7 6 (3.00%) Product Ownership
8 5 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (2.50%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (2.00%) Client/Server
10 3 (1.50%) AI Agents
10 3 (1.50%) Algorithms
10 3 (1.50%) Cyber Threat
10 3 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.50%) Derivative
10 3 (1.50%) Energy Derivatives
10 3 (1.50%) Enterprise Cloud
10 3 (1.50%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (1.50%) Mobile App
10 3 (1.50%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 14 (7.00%) Linux
1 14 (7.00%) Windows
2 3 (1.50%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.00%) Windows 10
3 2 (1.00%) Windows Server 2016
3 2 (1.00%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.50%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.50%) Unix
4 1 (0.50%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 153 (76.50%) CI/CD
2 118 (59.00%) DevOps
3 87 (43.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 68 (34.00%) Agile
5 65 (32.50%) Test Automation
6 54 (27.00%) Containerisation
7 43 (21.50%) AI
8 41 (20.50%) Observability
9 39 (19.50%) Analytics
10 35 (17.50%) Microservices
11 34 (17.00%) Data Pipeline
12 33 (16.50%) Validation
13 30 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
14 29 (14.50%) Data Engineering
14 29 (14.50%) Platform Engineering
14 29 (14.50%) Software Engineering
15 27 (13.50%) Continuous Improvement
15 27 (13.50%) Data Modelling
15 27 (13.50%) ETL
15 27 (13.50%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 90 (45.00%) Python
2 41 (20.50%) SQL
3 37 (18.50%) PowerShell
4 25 (12.50%) Java
5 19 (9.50%) Bicep
5 19 (9.50%) TypeScript
6 18 (9.00%) C#
7 15 (7.50%) Bash
8 13 (6.50%) JavaScript
9 3 (1.50%) Apex Code
9 3 (1.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (1.50%) PL/SQL
9 3 (1.50%) Rust
9 3 (1.50%) SAS Macro
10 2 (1.00%) C
10 2 (1.00%) Scala
10 2 (1.00%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.50%) C++
11 1 (0.50%) PHP
11 1 (0.50%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 57 (28.50%) Security Cleared
2 46 (23.00%) SC Cleared
3 13 (6.50%) Degree
4 11 (5.50%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (5.50%) DV Cleared
5 8 (4.00%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (3.50%) Azure Certification
7 5 (2.50%) AWS Certification
7 5 (2.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (1.50%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 3 (1.50%) MCSA
9 2 (1.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.00%) MCSE
10 1 (0.50%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.50%) CISSP
10 1 (0.50%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.50%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (0.50%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (12.00%) QA
2 15 (7.50%) Data Quality
3 8 (4.00%) GDPR
4 6 (3.00%) Accessibility
5 5 (2.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (1.00%) HIPAA
6 2 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.50%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.50%) SLA
7 1 (0.50%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.50%) WCAG
System Software
1 60 (30.00%) Docker
2 7 (3.50%) Active Directory
2 7 (3.50%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (2.50%) Microsoft App-V
4 4 (2.00%) Hyper-V
4 4 (2.00%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.50%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.50%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 81 (40.50%) Terraform
2 66 (33.00%) Kubernetes
3 19 (9.50%) Ansible
4 14 (7.00%) SCCM
5 8 (4.00%) Prometheus
6 7 (3.50%) Grafana
6 7 (3.50%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (3.00%) WSUS
8 3 (1.50%) Istio
9 2 (1.00%) Control-M
10 1 (0.50%) Argo
10 1 (0.50%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.50%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.50%) QRadar
Vendors
1 48 (24.00%) Microsoft
2 16 (8.00%) Salesforce
3 13 (6.50%) OpenAI
4 12 (6.00%) Google
5 8 (4.00%) Automation Anywhere
5 8 (4.00%) UiPath
6 6 (3.00%) Bloomberg
6 6 (3.00%) Citrix
6 6 (3.00%) Foundry
6 6 (3.00%) ION Trading
6 6 (3.00%) Reuters
7 5 (2.50%) Databricks
8 4 (2.00%) Dynatrace
9 3 (1.50%) Apple
9 3 (1.50%) Palo Alto
9 3 (1.50%) Splunk
10 2 (1.00%) Brio
10 2 (1.00%) Cisco
10 2 (1.00%) Oracle
10 2 (1.00%) ServiceNow