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

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 243 234 254
Rank change year-on-year -9 +20 +26
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 202 135 128
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.01% 1.00% 0.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.14% 1.08% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 100 80
10th Percentile £385 £380 £412
25th Percentile £463 £444 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £555 £675
Median % change year-on-year -0.90% -17.78% +8.00%
75th Percentile £638 £658 £775
90th Percentile £723 £813 £780
England median daily rate £515 £550 £612
% change year-on-year -6.36% -10.13% -2.08%
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 17,727 12,515 14,665
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.96% 92.25% 88.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,711 8,371 10,405
10th Percentile £363 £326 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% -0.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £653 £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 283 241 219
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.19
25th Percentile £20.26 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.71 £30.00 £34.25
Median % change year-on-year +19.03% -12.41% -17.47%
75th Percentile £57.25 £49.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.25 £71.38
England median hourly rate £46.90 £25.15 £40.33
% change year-on-year +86.48% -37.63% -5.12%

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 28 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 28 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 -4 21 £575 -20.69% 11
South London -15 3 £650 +4.84%
East London - 3 £612 - 2
West London -18 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 10 (4.95%) Apache Spark
2 4 (1.98%) Apache
2 4 (1.98%) SAS
3 3 (1.49%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.49%) CMS
4 2 (0.99%) Appian
4 2 (0.99%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.50%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.50%) IIS
5 1 (0.50%) OpenROAD
5 1 (0.50%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.50%) Sitecore CMS
5 1 (0.50%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.50%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.50%) Misys Equation
1 1 (0.50%) Misys Midas
1 1 (0.50%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 110 (54.46%) Azure
2 74 (36.63%) AWS
3 49 (24.26%) Azure DevOps
4 43 (21.29%) GitHub
5 36 (17.82%) GitHub Actions
6 30 (14.85%) Serverless
7 22 (10.89%) AWS Lambda
7 22 (10.89%) Power Platform
8 18 (8.91%) Amazon S3
9 17 (8.42%) Amazon EKS
10 16 (7.92%) Amazon ECS
10 16 (7.92%) GCP
11 14 (6.93%) Amazon SQS
12 12 (5.94%) AWS CloudFormation
13 11 (5.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 11 (5.45%) Azure AKS
14 10 (4.95%) Azure Key Vault
15 9 (4.46%) Amazon EC2
15 9 (4.46%) Entra ID
16 8 (3.96%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (7.92%) Firewall
2 7 (3.47%) VPN
3 6 (2.97%) DMZ
3 6 (2.97%) TCP/IP
4 5 (2.48%) Network Security
5 4 (1.98%) Software-Defined Networking
6 3 (1.49%) DNS
7 2 (0.99%) Internet
7 2 (0.99%) Kerberos
7 2 (0.99%) 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 16 (7.92%) Power BI
2 14 (6.93%) SQL Server
3 13 (6.44%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (5.45%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (5.45%) Relational Database
5 7 (3.47%) Amazon Athena
5 7 (3.47%) NoSQL
6 6 (2.97%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (2.97%) Big Data
6 6 (2.97%) Data Lake
6 6 (2.97%) MongoDB
6 6 (2.97%) Redis
7 5 (2.48%) DynamoDB
7 5 (2.48%) Metadata
8 4 (1.98%) MySQL
9 3 (1.49%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (1.49%) Base SAS
9 3 (1.49%) BigQuery
9 3 (1.49%) Data Mart
9 3 (1.49%) SAS Data Integration Studio
Development Applications
1 34 (16.83%) Git
2 33 (16.34%) GitLab
3 28 (13.86%) Jenkins
4 5 (2.48%) MSI
5 4 (1.98%) git-flow
5 4 (1.98%) JIRA
5 4 (1.98%) TeamCity
6 3 (1.49%) Cypress.io
6 3 (1.49%) Selenium
6 3 (1.49%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.99%) AdminStudio
7 2 (0.99%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.99%) InstallShield
7 2 (0.99%) JMeter
7 2 (0.99%) JUnit
7 2 (0.99%) Maven
7 2 (0.99%) MLflow
7 2 (0.99%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (0.99%) Storybook
7 2 (0.99%) webpack
General
1 53 (26.24%) Social Skills
2 48 (23.76%) Finance
3 36 (17.82%) Public Sector
4 20 (9.90%) Banking
5 18 (8.91%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (2.97%) Front Office
7 5 (2.48%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (2.48%) Investment Banking
7 5 (2.48%) Retail
8 3 (1.49%) Financial Institution
8 3 (1.49%) Law
8 3 (1.49%) Legal
9 2 (0.99%) Back Office
9 2 (0.99%) Marketing
9 2 (0.99%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.50%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.50%) Police
10 1 (0.50%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 38 (18.81%) Senior
2 37 (18.32%) DevOps Engineer
3 33 (16.34%) Developer
4 22 (10.89%) Cloud Engineer
5 19 (9.41%) Azure Engineer
6 18 (8.91%) Architect
7 17 (8.42%) Lead
8 14 (6.93%) Software Engineer
9 13 (6.44%) AWS Engineer
10 12 (5.94%) Data Engineer
11 11 (5.45%) Full-Stack Developer
11 11 (5.45%) Senior Developer
12 10 (4.95%) Platform Engineer
12 10 (4.95%) Salesforce Engineer
13 9 (4.46%) AWS DevOps
14 8 (3.96%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 8 (3.96%) Senior DevOps
14 8 (3.96%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 7 (3.47%) Python Engineer
15 7 (3.47%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (15.84%) REST
2 28 (13.86%) RESTful
3 23 (11.39%) React
4 21 (10.40%) .NET
5 17 (8.42%) Kafka
6 11 (5.45%) FastAPI
6 11 (5.45%) OAuth
7 10 (4.95%) PySpark
8 9 (4.46%) .NET Framework
8 9 (4.46%) Node.js
8 9 (4.46%) YAML
9 8 (3.96%) .NET Core
9 8 (3.96%) AngularJS
9 8 (3.96%) OpenID
10 7 (3.47%) ASP.NET
10 7 (3.47%) Flask
10 7 (3.47%) OAuth2
10 7 (3.47%) Redux
11 6 (2.97%) Spring
11 6 (2.97%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 59 (29.21%) Cloud Native
2 24 (11.88%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (5.94%) Onboarding
4 11 (5.45%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (3.96%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (3.96%) Product Ownership
6 5 (2.48%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (2.48%) NHS
7 4 (1.98%) Algorithms
7 4 (1.98%) Enterprise Cloud
8 3 (1.49%) Client/Server
8 3 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.49%) Distributed Architecture
8 3 (1.49%) Distributed Computing
8 3 (1.49%) Security Posture
9 2 (0.99%) CMDB
9 2 (0.99%) Life Science
9 2 (0.99%) Management Information System
9 2 (0.99%) Mobile App
9 2 (0.99%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 12 (5.94%) Linux
2 11 (5.45%) Windows
3 3 (1.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (1.49%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.99%) Ubuntu
4 2 (0.99%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (0.99%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.50%) Unix
5 1 (0.50%) VMS
5 1 (0.50%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 155 (76.73%) CI/CD
2 120 (59.41%) DevOps
3 90 (44.55%) Infrastructure as Code
4 73 (36.14%) Agile
5 65 (32.18%) Test Automation
6 60 (29.70%) Containerisation
7 41 (20.30%) AI
8 39 (19.31%) Analytics
9 38 (18.81%) Microservices
10 36 (17.82%) Software Engineering
11 33 (16.34%) Observability
12 32 (15.84%) Continuous Improvement
13 31 (15.35%) Problem-Solving
14 30 (14.85%) Platform Engineering
15 29 (14.36%) Validation
16 28 (13.86%) Event-Driven
17 26 (12.87%) Migration
18 25 (12.38%) Data Pipeline
19 24 (11.88%) DevSecOps
19 24 (11.88%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 78 (38.61%) Python
2 36 (17.82%) SQL
3 35 (17.33%) PowerShell
4 23 (11.39%) C#
5 20 (9.90%) Bicep
6 19 (9.41%) Java
7 16 (7.92%) JavaScript
7 16 (7.92%) TypeScript
8 14 (6.93%) Bash
9 4 (1.98%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (1.49%) Apex Code
10 3 (1.49%) SAS Macro
10 3 (1.49%) Scala
11 2 (0.99%) C
11 2 (0.99%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.99%) PHP
11 2 (0.99%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.99%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.50%) C++
12 1 (0.50%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 64 (31.68%) Security Cleared
2 56 (27.72%) SC Cleared
3 18 (8.91%) DV Cleared
4 16 (7.92%) Degree
5 14 (6.93%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (4.46%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (3.47%) Azure Certification
8 6 (2.97%) AWS Certification
9 4 (1.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (1.49%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 3 (1.49%) MCSA
11 2 (0.99%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 2 (0.99%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.99%) MCSE
12 1 (0.50%) AWS Certified Developer
12 1 (0.50%) CCNP
12 1 (0.50%) CISSP
12 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 1 (0.50%) PhD
12 1 (0.50%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (13.86%) QA
2 8 (3.96%) Accessibility
3 7 (3.47%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.98%) WCAG
5 3 (1.49%) GDPR
6 1 (0.50%) EU AI Act
6 1 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.50%) NCSC
6 1 (0.50%) PMO
6 1 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.50%) SLA
6 1 (0.50%) SOC 2
System Software
1 56 (27.72%) Docker
2 7 (3.47%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (2.97%) Active Directory
4 5 (2.48%) Microsoft App-V
5 4 (1.98%) Hyper-V
5 4 (1.98%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.50%) Varnish
6 1 (0.50%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.50%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 85 (42.08%) Terraform
2 65 (32.18%) Kubernetes
3 20 (9.90%) Ansible
4 12 (5.94%) SCCM
5 7 (3.47%) Microsoft Intune
6 6 (2.97%) Prometheus
7 5 (2.48%) Grafana
7 5 (2.48%) WSUS
8 2 (0.99%) Argo
8 2 (0.99%) Control-M
8 2 (0.99%) Istio
9 1 (0.50%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.50%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.50%) Packer
9 1 (0.50%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.50%) Puppet
9 1 (0.50%) QRadar
9 1 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 47 (23.27%) Microsoft
2 13 (6.44%) Salesforce
3 10 (4.95%) Google
4 7 (3.47%) Foundry
4 7 (3.47%) OpenAI
5 6 (2.97%) Databricks
6 5 (2.48%) Bloomberg
6 5 (2.48%) Citrix
6 5 (2.48%) ION Trading
6 5 (2.48%) Oracle
6 5 (2.48%) Reuters
7 4 (1.98%) UiPath
8 3 (1.49%) Cisco
8 3 (1.49%) Dynatrace
8 3 (1.49%) Palo Alto
8 3 (1.49%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.49%) Splunk
9 2 (0.99%) Brio
9 2 (0.99%) IBM
9 2 (0.99%) Red Hat