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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 236 222 269
Rank change year-on-year -14 +47 +22
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 207 143 133
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.05% 1.05% 0.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.18% 1.14% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 136 103 86
10th Percentile £389 £380 £411
25th Percentile £461 £456 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £560 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% -6.67% -4.00%
75th Percentile £638 £670 £750
90th Percentile £738 £810 £780
England median daily rate £525 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% -3.03%
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 17,581 12,493 15,383
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.98% 92.12% 88.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,664 8,343 10,937
10th Percentile £360 £331 £350
25th Percentile £446 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £770 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 274 239 281
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.24
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.66 £20.22
Median hourly rate £36.25 £32.00 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year +13.28% +6.10% -27.33%
75th Percentile £58.44 £50.25 £50.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.35 £69.50
England median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +88.87% -34.02% -8.14%

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 16 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 16 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 -18 22 £625 -13.79% 6
East London - 3 £612 - 3
South London -12 2 £650 +4.84%
West London -15 2 £775 +50.19% 2
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 10 (4.83%) Apache Spark
2 5 (2.42%) Camunda
3 4 (1.93%) Apache
3 4 (1.93%) Appian
3 4 (1.93%) SAS
4 3 (1.45%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.97%) CMS
5 2 (0.97%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.48%) OpenROAD
6 1 (0.48%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 1 (0.48%) Chatbot
Business Applications
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 78 (37.68%) AWS
3 47 (22.71%) Azure DevOps
4 42 (20.29%) GitHub
5 36 (17.39%) GitHub Actions
6 28 (13.53%) Serverless
7 24 (11.59%) GCP
8 22 (10.63%) Power Platform
9 20 (9.66%) AWS Lambda
10 17 (8.21%) Amazon S3
11 16 (7.73%) Amazon EKS
12 14 (6.76%) Amazon ECS
13 13 (6.28%) Amazon SQS
14 12 (5.80%) AWS CloudFormation
14 12 (5.80%) Azure AKS
15 11 (5.31%) Azure AI
16 10 (4.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 10 (4.83%) Azure Data Factory
16 10 (4.83%) Azure Key Vault
17 9 (4.35%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 14 (6.76%) Firewall
2 7 (3.38%) TCP/IP
2 7 (3.38%) VPN
3 6 (2.90%) DMZ
3 6 (2.90%) Network Security
4 4 (1.93%) DNS
4 4 (1.93%) Software-Defined Networking
5 2 (0.97%) Kerberos
5 2 (0.97%) NGFW
6 1 (0.48%) BGP
6 1 (0.48%) Cisco IOS
6 1 (0.48%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (0.48%) DHCP
6 1 (0.48%) Internet
6 1 (0.48%) IPsec
6 1 (0.48%) OpenLDAP
6 1 (0.48%) OSPF
6 1 (0.48%) SNMP
6 1 (0.48%) SSL
6 1 (0.48%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (7.25%) Power BI
2 14 (6.76%) SQL Server
3 12 (5.80%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (5.31%) Data Warehouse
5 10 (4.83%) Relational Database
6 7 (3.38%) Amazon Athena
6 7 (3.38%) NoSQL
7 6 (2.90%) Amazon RDS
7 6 (2.90%) Big Data
7 6 (2.90%) Data Lake
7 6 (2.90%) MongoDB
8 5 (2.42%) DynamoDB
8 5 (2.42%) Metadata
8 5 (2.42%) Redis
9 4 (1.93%) Pinecone
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 33 (15.94%) Git
2 32 (15.46%) GitLab
3 26 (12.56%) Jenkins
4 5 (2.42%) MSI
5 4 (1.93%) git-flow
5 4 (1.93%) MLflow
6 3 (1.45%) Cypress.io
6 3 (1.45%) JIRA
6 3 (1.45%) Maven
6 3 (1.45%) Selenium
6 3 (1.45%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.97%) AdminStudio
7 2 (0.97%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.97%) Gradle
7 2 (0.97%) InstallShield
7 2 (0.97%) JMeter
7 2 (0.97%) JUnit
7 2 (0.97%) Storybook
7 2 (0.97%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.97%) webpack
General
1 55 (26.57%) Social Skills
2 51 (24.64%) Finance
3 34 (16.43%) Public Sector
4 20 (9.66%) Banking
5 18 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (2.90%) Front Office
7 5 (2.42%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (2.42%) Investment Banking
7 5 (2.42%) Retail
8 3 (1.45%) Financial Institution
8 3 (1.45%) Law
8 3 (1.45%) Legal
9 2 (0.97%) Back Office
9 2 (0.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.97%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.48%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.48%) Marketing
10 1 (0.48%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.48%) Police
10 1 (0.48%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 38 (18.36%) Senior
2 37 (17.87%) DevOps Engineer
3 33 (15.94%) Developer
4 20 (9.66%) Architect
4 20 (9.66%) Cloud Engineer
5 18 (8.70%) Azure Engineer
6 17 (8.21%) Lead
7 14 (6.76%) Software Engineer
8 13 (6.28%) AWS Engineer
9 12 (5.80%) Data Engineer
10 11 (5.31%) Full-Stack Developer
10 11 (5.31%) Salesforce Engineer
11 10 (4.83%) Platform Engineer
11 10 (4.83%) Senior Developer
12 9 (4.35%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 9 (4.35%) AWS DevOps
13 8 (3.86%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 8 (3.86%) Senior DevOps
13 8 (3.86%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 8 (3.86%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (16.91%) REST
2 31 (14.98%) RESTful
3 25 (12.08%) React
4 19 (9.18%) .NET
4 19 (9.18%) Kafka
5 13 (6.28%) FastAPI
5 13 (6.28%) OAuth
6 10 (4.83%) AngularJS
6 10 (4.83%) Node.js
6 10 (4.83%) PySpark
6 10 (4.83%) Spring
6 10 (4.83%) Spring Boot
7 9 (4.35%) Flask
7 9 (4.35%) YAML
8 8 (3.86%) Django
8 8 (3.86%) OpenID
9 7 (3.38%) .NET Core
9 7 (3.38%) .NET Framework
9 7 (3.38%) OAuth2
9 7 (3.38%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 58 (28.02%) Cloud Native
2 23 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (5.80%) Legacy Systems
3 12 (5.80%) Onboarding
4 7 (3.38%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (3.38%) Product Ownership
5 5 (2.42%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (1.93%) AI Agents
6 4 (1.93%) Algorithms
6 4 (1.93%) Low-Code
6 4 (1.93%) NHS
7 3 (1.45%) Client/Server
7 3 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.45%) Distributed Architecture
7 3 (1.45%) Distributed Computing
7 3 (1.45%) Enterprise Cloud
7 3 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.45%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.45%) Security Posture
8 2 (0.97%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 12 (5.80%) Linux
2 11 (5.31%) Windows
3 3 (1.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (1.45%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.97%) Ubuntu
4 2 (0.97%) Windows 10
4 2 (0.97%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (0.97%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.48%) Unix
5 1 (0.48%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 158 (76.33%) CI/CD
2 124 (59.90%) DevOps
3 89 (43.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 73 (35.27%) Agile
5 70 (33.82%) Test Automation
6 59 (28.50%) Containerisation
7 43 (20.77%) AI
8 39 (18.84%) Analytics
8 39 (18.84%) Microservices
9 38 (18.36%) Observability
10 36 (17.39%) Software Engineering
11 33 (15.94%) Problem-Solving
12 32 (15.46%) Continuous Improvement
13 31 (14.98%) Platform Engineering
13 31 (14.98%) Validation
14 30 (14.49%) Event-Driven
15 29 (14.01%) Data Pipeline
16 25 (12.08%) Migration
17 23 (11.11%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 23 (11.11%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 82 (39.61%) Python
2 36 (17.39%) SQL
3 35 (16.91%) PowerShell
4 23 (11.11%) C#
4 23 (11.11%) Java
5 20 (9.66%) Bicep
6 18 (8.70%) TypeScript
7 15 (7.25%) Bash
8 14 (6.76%) JavaScript
9 3 (1.45%) Apex Code
9 3 (1.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (1.45%) SAS Macro
9 3 (1.45%) Scala
10 2 (0.97%) C
10 2 (0.97%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.97%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.97%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.48%) PHP
11 1 (0.48%) RPG
11 1 (0.48%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 64 (30.92%) Security Cleared
2 55 (26.57%) SC Cleared
3 16 (7.73%) Degree
3 16 (7.73%) DV Cleared
4 14 (6.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (4.35%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (3.38%) Azure Certification
7 6 (2.90%) AWS Certification
8 5 (2.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (1.45%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 3 (1.45%) MCSA
10 2 (0.97%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (0.97%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.97%) MCSE
11 1 (0.48%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.48%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.48%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.48%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.48%) PMP
11 1 (0.48%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (13.04%) QA
2 9 (4.35%) Data Quality
3 7 (3.38%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.93%) GDPR
5 3 (1.45%) WCAG
6 2 (0.97%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.48%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.48%) PMO
7 1 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.48%) SLA
7 1 (0.48%) SOC 2
System Software
1 60 (28.99%) Docker
2 7 (3.38%) Active Directory
2 7 (3.38%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (2.42%) Microsoft App-V
4 4 (1.93%) Hyper-V
4 4 (1.93%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.48%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.48%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.48%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 84 (40.58%) Terraform
2 71 (34.30%) Kubernetes
3 22 (10.63%) Ansible
4 13 (6.28%) SCCM
5 7 (3.38%) Microsoft Intune
6 6 (2.90%) Prometheus
7 5 (2.42%) Grafana
7 5 (2.42%) WSUS
8 3 (1.45%) Istio
9 2 (0.97%) Argo
9 2 (0.97%) Control-M
10 1 (0.48%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.48%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.48%) Packer
10 1 (0.48%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.48%) Puppet
10 1 (0.48%) QRadar
10 1 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 46 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 14 (6.76%) Google
2 14 (6.76%) Salesforce
3 10 (4.83%) OpenAI
4 9 (4.35%) Foundry
5 6 (2.90%) Databricks
5 6 (2.90%) UiPath
6 5 (2.42%) Bloomberg
6 5 (2.42%) Citrix
6 5 (2.42%) ION Trading
6 5 (2.42%) Oracle
6 5 (2.42%) Reuters
7 4 (1.93%) Automation Anywhere
7 4 (1.93%) Dynatrace
8 3 (1.45%) Palo Alto
8 3 (1.45%) Splunk
9 2 (0.97%) Brio
9 2 (0.97%) Cisco
9 2 (0.97%) IBM
9 2 (0.97%) ServiceNow