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

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 243 239 259
Rank change year-on-year -4 +20 +29
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 207 135 129
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.03% 0.99% 0.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.16% 1.08% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 101 81
10th Percentile £385 £380 £413
25th Percentile £463 £450 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £560 £675
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% -17.04% +8.00%
75th Percentile £638 £653 £775
90th Percentile £710 £800 £780
England median daily rate £515 £550 £613
% change year-on-year -6.36% -10.20% -2.00%
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 - - -68.48%

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 17,865 12,538 14,582
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.00% 92.17% 88.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,797 8,407 10,335
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.95% -0.94% -4.35%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 295 245 209
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.25
25th Percentile £19.94 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £30.00 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.33% -11.76% -18.07%
75th Percentile £56.63 £49.50 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.25 £71.38
England median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £41.50
% change year-on-year +78.93% -39.40% -2.35%

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 31 July 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 31 July 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 -8 25 £506 -30.17% 14
South London -13 4 £700 +12.90%
East London - 3 £612 - 2
West London -16 2 £775 +50.19%
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 11 (5.31%) Apache Spark
2 5 (2.42%) Apache
2 5 (2.42%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.93%) SAS
4 3 (1.45%) CMS
5 2 (0.97%) Appian
5 2 (0.97%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.48%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.48%) IIS
6 1 (0.48%) nginx
6 1 (0.48%) OpenROAD
6 1 (0.48%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.48%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.48%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.97%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.48%) Misys Equation
1 1 (0.48%) Misys Midas
1 1 (0.48%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 111 (53.62%) Azure
2 81 (39.13%) AWS
3 52 (25.12%) Azure DevOps
4 47 (22.71%) GitHub
5 40 (19.32%) GitHub Actions
6 28 (13.53%) Serverless
7 23 (11.11%) Power Platform
8 22 (10.63%) AWS Lambda
9 19 (9.18%) Amazon S3
10 18 (8.70%) GCP
11 17 (8.21%) Amazon EKS
12 16 (7.73%) Amazon ECS
13 14 (6.76%) Amazon SQS
14 13 (6.28%) AWS CloudFormation
15 12 (5.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 12 (5.80%) Azure AKS
16 11 (5.31%) Azure Data Factory
17 10 (4.83%) Amazon EC2
18 9 (4.35%) Azure Monitor
18 9 (4.35%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 16 (7.73%) Firewall
2 7 (3.38%) VPN
3 6 (2.90%) DMZ
3 6 (2.90%) TCP/IP
4 5 (2.42%) Network Security
5 4 (1.93%) DNS
6 3 (1.45%) Internet
7 2 (0.97%) Kerberos
7 2 (0.97%) NGFW
7 2 (0.97%) SSL
8 1 (0.48%) BGP
8 1 (0.48%) Cisco IOS
8 1 (0.48%) Cisco Nexus
8 1 (0.48%) IPsec
8 1 (0.48%) OpenLDAP
8 1 (0.48%) OSPF
8 1 (0.48%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (0.48%) SNMP
8 1 (0.48%) Software-Defined Networking
8 1 (0.48%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (8.70%) Power BI
2 15 (7.25%) SQL Server
3 14 (6.76%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (6.28%) Data Warehouse
5 12 (5.80%) Relational Database
6 7 (3.38%) Amazon Athena
6 7 (3.38%) Big Data
6 7 (3.38%) Data Lake
6 7 (3.38%) NoSQL
6 7 (3.38%) Redis
7 6 (2.90%) Amazon RDS
7 6 (2.90%) MongoDB
8 5 (2.42%) DynamoDB
8 5 (2.42%) Metadata
9 4 (1.93%) MySQL
10 3 (1.45%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (1.45%) Base SAS
10 3 (1.45%) BigQuery
10 3 (1.45%) Data Mart
10 3 (1.45%) SAS Data Integration Studio
Development Applications
1 39 (18.84%) GitLab
2 33 (15.94%) Git
3 32 (15.46%) Jenkins
4 5 (2.42%) MSI
4 5 (2.42%) TeamCity
5 4 (1.93%) git-flow
5 4 (1.93%) JIRA
6 3 (1.45%) Cypress.io
6 3 (1.45%) JUnit
6 3 (1.45%) Maven
6 3 (1.45%) Selenium
6 3 (1.45%) SonarQube
6 3 (1.45%) Terragrunt
7 2 (0.97%) AdminStudio
7 2 (0.97%) InstallShield
7 2 (0.97%) JMeter
7 2 (0.97%) MSBuild
7 2 (0.97%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (0.97%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.97%) webpack
General
1 54 (26.09%) Social Skills
2 50 (24.15%) Finance
3 35 (16.91%) Public Sector
4 21 (10.14%) Banking
5 19 (9.18%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (2.90%) Front Office
6 6 (2.90%) Retail
7 5 (2.42%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (2.42%) Investment Banking
8 4 (1.93%) Marketing
9 3 (1.45%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.45%) Law
9 3 (1.45%) Legal
10 2 (0.97%) Back Office
10 2 (0.97%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.97%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (0.97%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.48%) Local Government
11 1 (0.48%) Publishing
11 1 (0.48%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 41 (19.81%) Senior
2 38 (18.36%) DevOps Engineer
3 37 (17.87%) Developer
4 21 (10.14%) Cloud Engineer
5 19 (9.18%) Lead
6 17 (8.21%) Architect
7 15 (7.25%) Azure Engineer
8 14 (6.76%) Software Engineer
9 13 (6.28%) AWS Engineer
9 13 (6.28%) Full-Stack Developer
10 12 (5.80%) Data Engineer
10 12 (5.80%) Senior Developer
11 10 (4.83%) AWS DevOps
11 10 (4.83%) Platform Engineer
11 10 (4.83%) Salesforce Engineer
12 8 (3.86%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 8 (3.86%) Senior DevOps
12 8 (3.86%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 7 (3.38%) Python Engineer
13 7 (3.38%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (15.46%) REST
2 30 (14.49%) RESTful
3 26 (12.56%) React
4 23 (11.11%) .NET
5 18 (8.70%) Kafka
6 11 (5.31%) .NET Framework
6 11 (5.31%) FastAPI
6 11 (5.31%) OAuth
6 11 (5.31%) PySpark
7 10 (4.83%) AngularJS
7 10 (4.83%) YAML
8 9 (4.35%) .NET Core
9 8 (3.86%) Node.js
9 8 (3.86%) OpenID
9 8 (3.86%) Redux
10 7 (3.38%) ASP.NET
10 7 (3.38%) Flask
10 7 (3.38%) OAuth2
10 7 (3.38%) Vue
11 6 (2.90%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 67 (32.37%) Cloud Native
2 25 (12.08%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (5.80%) Onboarding
4 11 (5.31%) Legacy Systems
5 9 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (2.90%) Product Ownership
7 5 (2.42%) NHS
8 4 (1.93%) Algorithms
8 4 (1.93%) Distributed Architecture
8 4 (1.93%) Enterprise Cloud
9 3 (1.45%) AI Agents
9 3 (1.45%) Client/Server
9 3 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.45%) Distributed Computing
9 3 (1.45%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (1.45%) Life Science
9 3 (1.45%) Security Posture
10 2 (0.97%) CMDB
10 2 (0.97%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.97%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 14 (6.76%) Linux
2 11 (5.31%) Windows
3 5 (2.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.45%) Ubuntu
4 3 (1.45%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.97%) Unix
5 2 (0.97%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (0.97%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.48%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (0.48%) VMS
6 1 (0.48%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (78.26%) CI/CD
2 126 (60.87%) DevOps
3 94 (45.41%) Infrastructure as Code
4 78 (37.68%) Agile
5 72 (34.78%) Test Automation
6 63 (30.43%) Containerisation
7 44 (21.26%) AI
8 40 (19.32%) Microservices
9 39 (18.84%) Analytics
10 36 (17.39%) Observability
11 35 (16.91%) Continuous Improvement
11 35 (16.91%) Software Engineering
12 34 (16.43%) Problem-Solving
13 33 (15.94%) Platform Engineering
14 30 (14.49%) Event-Driven
15 29 (14.01%) Data Pipeline
16 27 (13.04%) Mentoring
16 27 (13.04%) Migration
16 27 (13.04%) Validation
17 26 (12.56%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 82 (39.61%) Python
2 39 (18.84%) SQL
3 33 (15.94%) PowerShell
4 24 (11.59%) Java
5 23 (11.11%) C#
6 19 (9.18%) JavaScript
7 18 (8.70%) TypeScript
8 16 (7.73%) Bicep
9 15 (7.25%) Bash
10 4 (1.93%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 4 (1.93%) Korn
11 3 (1.45%) Apex Code
11 3 (1.45%) SAS Macro
11 3 (1.45%) Scala
12 2 (0.97%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.97%) PHP
12 2 (0.97%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.97%) R
12 2 (0.97%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.97%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 63 (30.43%) Security Cleared
2 54 (26.09%) SC Cleared
3 19 (9.18%) DV Cleared
4 16 (7.73%) Degree
5 14 (6.76%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (4.83%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (2.90%) AWS Certification
8 5 (2.42%) Azure Certification
9 4 (1.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (1.45%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 3 (1.45%) MCSA
11 2 (0.97%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 2 (0.97%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.97%) MCSE
12 1 (0.48%) CompTIA Security+
12 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 1 (0.48%) PhD
12 1 (0.48%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.48%) PMP
12 1 (0.48%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (14.98%) QA
2 8 (3.86%) Accessibility
2 8 (3.86%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.93%) WCAG
4 3 (1.45%) GDPR
5 1 (0.48%) EU AI Act
5 1 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.48%) NCSC
5 1 (0.48%) PMO
5 1 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.48%) SLA
5 1 (0.48%) SOC 2
System Software
1 57 (27.54%) Docker
2 7 (3.38%) Active Directory
2 7 (3.38%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (2.42%) Microsoft App-V
4 4 (1.93%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.48%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.48%) Varnish
5 1 (0.48%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.48%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.48%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 86 (41.55%) Terraform
2 68 (32.85%) Kubernetes
3 22 (10.63%) Ansible
4 12 (5.80%) SCCM
5 7 (3.38%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (3.38%) Prometheus
6 6 (2.90%) Grafana
7 5 (2.42%) WSUS
8 2 (0.97%) Argo
8 2 (0.97%) Control-M
8 2 (0.97%) Istio
8 2 (0.97%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.97%) Puppet
9 1 (0.48%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.48%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.48%) Packer
9 1 (0.48%) QRadar
9 1 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.48%) systemd
Vendors
1 43 (20.77%) Microsoft
2 13 (6.28%) Salesforce
3 11 (5.31%) Google
4 9 (4.35%) Databricks
5 5 (2.42%) Bloomberg
5 5 (2.42%) Citrix
5 5 (2.42%) ION Trading
5 5 (2.42%) Oracle
5 5 (2.42%) Reuters
6 4 (1.93%) Foundry
6 4 (1.93%) OpenAI
6 4 (1.93%) Red Hat
6 4 (1.93%) UiPath
7 3 (1.45%) Cisco
7 3 (1.45%) Dynatrace
7 3 (1.45%) Palo Alto
7 3 (1.45%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.45%) Splunk
8 2 (0.97%) IBM
8 2 (0.97%) SaltStack