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 14 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 240 248 270
Rank change year-on-year +8 +22 +23
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 218 126 121
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.09% 0.93% 0.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.22% 1.01% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 92 77
10th Percentile £385 £380 £413
25th Percentile £450 £444 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £555 £675
Median % change year-on-year -0.90% -17.78% +12.50%
75th Percentile £638 £653 £750
90th Percentile £750 £800 £780
England median daily rate £513 £550 £613
% change year-on-year -6.82% -10.20% +2.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Median hourly rate - - £23.80
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 17,900 12,495 14,396
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.11% 92.36% 88.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,760 8,322 10,079
10th Percentile £363 £325 £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 £662 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £777 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 283 253 201
10th Percentile £17.07 £16.50 £17.08
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.50 £35.71
Median % change year-on-year +20.34% -17.39% -12.41%
75th Percentile £56.25 £48.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.25
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +2.87%

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 14 August 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 14 August 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 -9 26 £488 -36.07% 11
South London -6 5 £700 +12.90% 1
East London - 3 £612 -
West London -18 2 £775 +50.19% 4
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 13 (5.96%) Apache Spark
2 6 (2.75%) Apache
2 6 (2.75%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.83%) CMS
3 4 (1.83%) SAS
4 2 (0.92%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.46%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.46%) IIS
5 1 (0.46%) nginx
5 1 (0.46%) OpenROAD
5 1 (0.46%) Sitecore CMS
5 1 (0.46%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.46%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.92%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.92%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.46%) Misys Equation
2 1 (0.46%) Misys Midas
2 1 (0.46%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.46%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 115 (52.75%) Azure
2 87 (39.91%) AWS
3 57 (26.15%) Azure DevOps
4 47 (21.56%) GitHub
5 40 (18.35%) GitHub Actions
6 34 (15.60%) Serverless
7 27 (12.39%) AWS Lambda
8 23 (10.55%) Amazon EKS
8 23 (10.55%) Power Platform
9 22 (10.09%) Amazon S3
10 20 (9.17%) GCP
11 19 (8.72%) Amazon ECS
12 16 (7.34%) Amazon SQS
13 15 (6.88%) Amazon EC2
14 14 (6.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 13 (5.96%) AWS CloudFormation
15 13 (5.96%) Azure Monitor
15 13 (5.96%) Entra ID
16 11 (5.05%) Azure AKS
17 10 (4.59%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 16 (7.34%) Firewall
2 6 (2.75%) DMZ
2 6 (2.75%) VPN
3 5 (2.29%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.83%) Internet
4 4 (1.83%) Network Security
5 3 (1.38%) DNS
5 3 (1.38%) Kerberos
5 3 (1.38%) NGFW
6 1 (0.46%) Cisco IOS
6 1 (0.46%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (0.46%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.46%) OpenLDAP
6 1 (0.46%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.46%) SNMP
6 1 (0.46%) SSL
6 1 (0.46%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (8.26%) Power BI
2 15 (6.88%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (6.42%) Data Warehouse
4 13 (5.96%) Relational Database
4 13 (5.96%) SQL Server
5 9 (4.13%) NoSQL
6 8 (3.67%) Amazon RDS
6 8 (3.67%) Big Data
6 8 (3.67%) Data Lake
7 7 (3.21%) Amazon Athena
7 7 (3.21%) Metadata
7 7 (3.21%) Redis
8 6 (2.75%) MongoDB
9 5 (2.29%) DynamoDB
10 4 (1.83%) MySQL
11 3 (1.38%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (1.38%) Base SAS
11 3 (1.38%) Data Mart
11 3 (1.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (1.38%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 43 (19.72%) GitLab
2 40 (18.35%) Git
2 40 (18.35%) Jenkins
3 7 (3.21%) Selenium
4 5 (2.29%) JIRA
4 5 (2.29%) JUnit
4 5 (2.29%) MSI
5 4 (1.83%) Maven
5 4 (1.83%) TeamCity
6 3 (1.38%) Cypress.io
6 3 (1.38%) git-flow
6 3 (1.38%) SonarQube
6 3 (1.38%) Terragrunt
7 2 (0.92%) AdminStudio
7 2 (0.92%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.92%) Gradle
7 2 (0.92%) InstallShield
7 2 (0.92%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (0.92%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.92%) Storybook
General
1 63 (28.90%) Social Skills
2 53 (24.31%) Finance
3 33 (15.14%) Public Sector
4 25 (11.47%) Banking
5 23 (10.55%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (2.75%) Front Office
6 6 (2.75%) Retail
7 5 (2.29%) Investment Banking
8 4 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.83%) Marketing
9 3 (1.38%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.38%) Legal
10 2 (0.92%) Back Office
10 2 (0.92%) Law
10 2 (0.92%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.46%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.46%) Publishing
11 1 (0.46%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 47 (21.56%) Senior
2 42 (19.27%) Developer
3 37 (16.97%) DevOps Engineer
4 24 (11.01%) Cloud Engineer
5 23 (10.55%) Lead
6 17 (7.80%) Architect
6 17 (7.80%) Azure Engineer
7 16 (7.34%) Software Engineer
8 14 (6.42%) AWS Engineer
8 14 (6.42%) Data Engineer
8 14 (6.42%) Senior Developer
9 13 (5.96%) Full-Stack Developer
9 13 (5.96%) Platform Engineer
10 10 (4.59%) AWS DevOps
11 9 (4.13%) Senior Software Engineer
12 8 (3.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 8 (3.67%) Senior DevOps
12 8 (3.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 7 (3.21%) Java Developer
13 7 (3.21%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (18.35%) REST
2 31 (14.22%) RESTful
3 27 (12.39%) React
4 25 (11.47%) Kafka
5 22 (10.09%) .NET
6 12 (5.50%) AngularJS
6 12 (5.50%) PySpark
7 11 (5.05%) Spring
7 11 (5.05%) Spring Boot
8 10 (4.59%) .NET Core
8 10 (4.59%) .NET Framework
8 10 (4.59%) FastAPI
8 10 (4.59%) OAuth
9 9 (4.13%) YAML
10 8 (3.67%) Node.js
10 8 (3.67%) OAuth2
10 8 (3.67%) OpenID
10 8 (3.67%) Redux
11 7 (3.21%) Vue
12 6 (2.75%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 71 (32.57%) Cloud Native
2 27 (12.39%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (5.96%) Onboarding
4 11 (5.05%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (4.13%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (3.67%) Product Ownership
7 5 (2.29%) Enterprise Cloud
7 5 (2.29%) NHS
8 4 (1.83%) AI Agents
8 4 (1.83%) CMDB
8 4 (1.83%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.83%) Distributed Architecture
8 4 (1.83%) Life Science
9 3 (1.38%) Client/Server
9 3 (1.38%) Derivative
9 3 (1.38%) Distributed Computing
9 3 (1.38%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (1.38%) Security Posture
10 2 (0.92%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.92%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 24 (11.01%) Linux
2 13 (5.96%) Windows
3 9 (4.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (2.75%) Unix
5 4 (1.83%) Windows Server
6 3 (1.38%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.92%) VMS
7 2 (0.92%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.92%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.46%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.46%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 170 (77.98%) CI/CD
2 134 (61.47%) DevOps
3 97 (44.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 90 (41.28%) Agile
5 73 (33.49%) Test Automation
6 68 (31.19%) Containerisation
7 45 (20.64%) Microservices
8 43 (19.72%) Observability
9 42 (19.27%) AI
9 42 (19.27%) Continuous Improvement
10 40 (18.35%) Analytics
10 40 (18.35%) Problem-Solving
11 39 (17.89%) Software Engineering
12 35 (16.06%) Platform Engineering
13 34 (15.60%) Event-Driven
14 30 (13.76%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 29 (13.30%) Migration
16 28 (12.84%) Mentoring
17 26 (11.93%) Data Pipeline
17 26 (11.93%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 87 (39.91%) Python
2 50 (22.94%) SQL
3 33 (15.14%) Java
4 32 (14.68%) PowerShell
5 23 (10.55%) C#
5 23 (10.55%) JavaScript
6 17 (7.80%) TypeScript
7 15 (6.88%) Bicep
8 14 (6.42%) Bash
9 7 (3.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 5 (2.29%) Shell Script
11 4 (1.83%) Korn
11 4 (1.83%) Scala
12 3 (1.38%) Apex Code
12 3 (1.38%) PL/SQL
12 3 (1.38%) SAS Macro
13 2 (0.92%) PHP
13 2 (0.92%) R
13 2 (0.92%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.92%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 67 (30.73%) Security Cleared
2 58 (26.61%) SC Cleared
3 21 (9.63%) DV Cleared
4 16 (7.34%) Degree
5 13 (5.96%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (4.13%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (3.67%) AWS Certification
8 5 (2.29%) Azure Certification
9 4 (1.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (1.38%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 3 (1.38%) MCSA
10 3 (1.38%) MCSE
11 2 (0.92%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 2 (0.92%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.46%) AWS Certified Developer
12 1 (0.46%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 1 (0.46%) PhD
12 1 (0.46%) PMP
12 1 (0.46%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (15.14%) QA
2 8 (3.67%) Data Quality
3 7 (3.21%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.38%) GDPR
4 3 (1.38%) ISO 20022
4 3 (1.38%) WCAG
5 1 (0.46%) EU AI Act
5 1 (0.46%) ISO 15022
5 1 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.46%) NCSC
5 1 (0.46%) PMO
5 1 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.46%) SLA
5 1 (0.46%) SOC 2
System Software
1 61 (27.98%) Docker
2 9 (4.13%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.75%) Virtual Desktop
3 6 (2.75%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (2.29%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (0.46%) Varnish
5 1 (0.46%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.46%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.46%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 88 (40.37%) Terraform
2 71 (32.57%) Kubernetes
3 24 (11.01%) Ansible
4 12 (5.50%) SCCM
5 8 (3.67%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (3.67%) Prometheus
6 7 (3.21%) Grafana
7 5 (2.29%) WSUS
8 4 (1.83%) Control-M
8 4 (1.83%) Puppet
9 3 (1.38%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.92%) Argo
10 2 (0.92%) Istio
11 1 (0.46%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.46%) ITRS Geneos
11 1 (0.46%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.46%) Packer
11 1 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.46%) systemd
Vendors
1 46 (21.10%) Microsoft
2 13 (5.96%) Google
3 10 (4.59%) Oracle
3 10 (4.59%) Salesforce
4 9 (4.13%) Databricks
5 6 (2.75%) Red Hat
6 5 (2.29%) Bloomberg
6 5 (2.29%) Citrix
6 5 (2.29%) ION Trading
6 5 (2.29%) Reuters
6 5 (2.29%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.83%) Splunk
8 3 (1.38%) Cisco
8 3 (1.38%) Dynatrace
8 3 (1.38%) Foundry
8 3 (1.38%) IBM
8 3 (1.38%) SaltStack
9 2 (0.92%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.92%) Palo Alto
9 2 (0.92%) UiPath