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

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 235 256 310
Rank change year-on-year +21 +54 -13
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 150 94 92
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.01% 0.68% 0.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.11% 0.75% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 50 65
10th Percentile £400 £462 £435
25th Percentile £434 £537 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £683 £575
Median % change year-on-year -25.27% +18.70% -8.91%
75th Percentile £626 £825 £650
90th Percentile £803 £838 £761
England median daily rate £516 £606 £575
% change year-on-year -14.81% +5.39% -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £22.00
England median hourly rate £48.63 £85.00 £44.51
% change year-on-year -42.79% +90.97% -31.52%

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 13,482 12,521 16,487
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.03% 90.48% 88.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,929 7,934 11,797
10th Percentile £350 £350 £340
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 208 155 336
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.75 £16.25
25th Percentile £24.90 £24.88 £19.83
Median hourly rate £34.14 £35.00 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.47% +14.75% -18.67%
75th Percentile £56.00 £53.75 £52.50
90th Percentile £70.75 £79.50 £72.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.31 £36.42
% change year-on-year -26.69% -5.80% +4.05%

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 January 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 January 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 -2 13 £575 - 11
West London - 2 £375 -
East London 0 1 £540 -14.29%
South London -5 1 £515 -37.20%
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 6 (4.00%) Appian
1 6 (4.00%) Camunda
2 3 (2.00%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.33%) nginx
4 1 (0.67%) Apache
4 1 (0.67%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.67%) ColdFusion
4 1 (0.67%) Confluence
4 1 (0.67%) Traefik
Applications
1 2 (1.33%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.67%) Endur
1 1 (0.67%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 71 (47.33%) Azure
2 36 (24.00%) AWS
3 27 (18.00%) GitHub
4 19 (12.67%) Azure DevOps
5 18 (12.00%) GCP
6 17 (11.33%) GitHub Actions
6 17 (11.33%) Serverless
7 16 (10.67%) Power Platform
8 11 (7.33%) Azure AI
8 11 (7.33%) Azure Data Factory
9 10 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
10 8 (5.33%) Azure Key Vault
10 8 (5.33%) Power Automate
11 7 (4.67%) AWS CloudFormation
11 7 (4.67%) Azure Functions
11 7 (4.67%) Azure Logic Apps
11 7 (4.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 6 (4.00%) Amazon S3
12 6 (4.00%) Anthropic Claude
12 6 (4.00%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 10 (6.67%) HTTPS
2 6 (4.00%) Firewall
2 6 (4.00%) SSL
3 5 (3.33%) DHCP
4 4 (2.67%) Software-Defined Networking
4 4 (2.67%) TCP/IP
4 4 (2.67%) VPN
5 3 (2.00%) DNS
5 3 (2.00%) Network Security
6 2 (1.33%) DMZ
7 1 (0.67%) BGP
7 1 (0.67%) Calico
7 1 (0.67%) Ethernet VPN
7 1 (0.67%) Internet
7 1 (0.67%) SMS
7 1 (0.67%) VSAN
7 1 (0.67%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (8.67%) SQL Server
2 11 (7.33%) Relational Database
3 9 (6.00%) Power BI
4 8 (5.33%) Spark SQL
5 7 (4.67%) Azure SQL Database
5 7 (4.67%) Data Lake
5 7 (4.67%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (4.00%) Pinecone
7 5 (3.33%) NoSQL
7 5 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (2.00%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (2.00%) Apache Cassandra
8 3 (2.00%) Redis
8 3 (2.00%) Star Schema
9 2 (1.33%) ImageNet
9 2 (1.33%) Metadata
10 1 (0.67%) Amazon Athena
10 1 (0.67%) Data Vault
10 1 (0.67%) Delta Lake
10 1 (0.67%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 28 (18.67%) Git
2 15 (10.00%) GitLab
3 12 (8.00%) Jenkins
4 6 (4.00%) MLflow
5 4 (2.67%) Artifactory
6 3 (2.00%) Gradle
6 3 (2.00%) JIRA
6 3 (2.00%) Maven
7 2 (1.33%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.33%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.67%) Android Studio
8 1 (0.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.67%) JUnit
8 1 (0.67%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.67%) Mockito
8 1 (0.67%) Selenium
8 1 (0.67%) Spinnaker
8 1 (0.67%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.67%) Terragrunt
General
1 54 (36.00%) Social Skills
2 41 (27.33%) Finance
3 19 (12.67%) Public Sector
4 10 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (4.67%) Marketing
6 5 (3.33%) Banking
7 4 (2.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.00%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.33%) Back Office
9 2 (1.33%) Digital Healthcare
9 2 (1.33%) Electronics
9 2 (1.33%) Front Office
9 2 (1.33%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.33%) Military
9 2 (1.33%) Retail
9 2 (1.33%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.67%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.67%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.67%) Police
Job Titles
1 45 (30.00%) Developer
2 22 (14.67%) Architect
3 16 (10.67%) DevOps Engineer
4 13 (8.67%) Azure Engineer
5 12 (8.00%) Lead
6 10 (6.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 10 (6.67%) Senior
6 10 (6.67%) Technical Architect
7 9 (6.00%) Automation Engineer
8 8 (5.33%) Cloud Engineer
8 8 (5.33%) Python Developer
9 7 (4.67%) Platform Engineer
10 6 (4.00%) Azure Architect
10 6 (4.00%) Lead DevOps
11 5 (3.33%) Cloud Architect
11 5 (3.33%) Data Engineer
11 5 (3.33%) Full-Stack Developer
11 5 (3.33%) Full-Stack Python Developer
11 5 (3.33%) GCP Engineer
11 5 (3.33%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (20.00%) REST
2 27 (18.00%) RESTful
3 21 (14.00%) JSON
4 18 (12.00%) React
5 15 (10.00%) OAuth
5 15 (10.00%) XML
6 12 (8.00%) FastAPI
6 12 (8.00%) PySpark
6 12 (8.00%) SOAP
7 11 (7.33%) AngularJS
7 11 (7.33%) pytest
7 11 (7.33%) Spring
7 11 (7.33%) Spring Boot
8 10 (6.67%) .NET
9 9 (6.00%) Node.js
10 8 (5.33%) Kafka
10 8 (5.33%) Web Services
11 7 (4.67%) Django
11 7 (4.67%) HTML
11 7 (4.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (13.33%) Cloud Native
2 9 (6.00%) Legacy Systems
3 8 (5.33%) Distributed Computing
4 6 (4.00%) Low-Code
5 5 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (3.33%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (3.33%) Product Ownership
6 4 (2.67%) Onboarding
7 3 (2.00%) AI Agents
7 3 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.33%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (1.33%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.33%) Derivative
8 2 (1.33%) Energy Derivatives
8 2 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.33%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.33%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.33%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 21 (14.00%) Linux
2 8 (5.33%) Windows
3 4 (2.67%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.33%) Unix
4 2 (1.33%) VMS
5 1 (0.67%) Android
5 1 (0.67%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.67%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.67%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 92 (61.33%) DevOps
3 51 (34.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 49 (32.67%) Test Automation
5 46 (30.67%) Containerisation
6 42 (28.00%) Agile
7 33 (22.00%) Problem-Solving
8 29 (19.33%) Microservices
9 28 (18.67%) Observability
10 24 (16.00%) Data Pipeline
11 22 (14.67%) AI
11 22 (14.67%) Analytics
11 22 (14.67%) API Development
12 21 (14.00%) ETL
12 21 (14.00%) Migration
13 20 (13.33%) Data Engineering
14 18 (12.00%) Infrastructure Automation
15 17 (11.33%) Stakeholder Management
15 17 (11.33%) Workflow
16 14 (9.33%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 60 (40.00%) Python
2 43 (28.67%) SQL
3 32 (21.33%) Java
4 20 (13.33%) TypeScript
5 15 (10.00%) JavaScript
5 15 (10.00%) PowerShell
6 13 (8.67%) Bicep
7 12 (8.00%) Bash
8 9 (6.00%) C#
9 3 (2.00%) Go
10 2 (1.33%) Kotlin
10 2 (1.33%) PHP
10 2 (1.33%) Rust
10 2 (1.33%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.67%) CFML
11 1 (0.67%) Groovy
11 1 (0.67%) Objective-C
11 1 (0.67%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.67%) Scala
11 1 (0.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 44 (29.33%) Security Cleared
2 37 (24.67%) SC Cleared
3 9 (6.00%) Azure Certification
4 8 (5.33%) Degree
5 5 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (2.67%) AWS Certification
6 4 (2.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (2.67%) DV Cleared
7 3 (2.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (2.00%) Master's Degree
7 3 (2.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 2 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.33%) CISSP
9 1 (0.67%) CCNP
9 1 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.67%) CISM
9 1 (0.67%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.33%) GDPR
2 8 (5.33%) Data Quality
3 7 (4.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 6 (4.00%) QA
5 3 (2.00%) Accessibility
5 3 (2.00%) HIPAA
6 2 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.33%) NCSC
6 2 (1.33%) NIST
6 2 (1.33%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.67%) NIST 800
System Software
1 52 (34.67%) Docker
2 9 (6.00%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.00%) Hyper-V
3 3 (2.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.33%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.33%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (1.33%) Xen
5 1 (0.67%) etcd
5 1 (0.67%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.67%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 53 (35.33%) Kubernetes
2 49 (32.67%) Terraform
3 9 (6.00%) Ansible
4 6 (4.00%) Grafana
4 6 (4.00%) Prometheus
5 4 (2.67%) ITRS Geneos
6 3 (2.00%) Istio
6 3 (2.00%) vRealize
7 2 (1.33%) SCCM
8 1 (0.67%) Argo
8 1 (0.67%) Fluentd
8 1 (0.67%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.67%) VxRail
8 1 (0.67%) WSUS
Vendors
1 42 (28.00%) Microsoft
2 12 (8.00%) Google
3 10 (6.67%) OpenAI
4 8 (5.33%) Databricks
4 8 (5.33%) Salesforce
5 7 (4.67%) VMware
6 6 (4.00%) Automation Anywhere
6 6 (4.00%) SAP
6 6 (4.00%) UiPath
7 5 (3.33%) Axway
7 5 (3.33%) Foundry
7 5 (3.33%) Splunk
7 5 (3.33%) webMethods
8 4 (2.67%) IBM
8 4 (2.67%) Software AG
9 3 (2.00%) Adobe
9 3 (2.00%) Apple
9 3 (2.00%) ForgeRock
9 3 (2.00%) Oracle
10 2 (1.33%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud