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

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 243 239 268
Rank change year-on-year -4 +29 +18
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 217 135 122
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.07% 0.99% 0.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.20% 1.08% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 101 77
10th Percentile £385 £380 £413
25th Percentile £450 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £675
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -14.81% +11.34%
75th Percentile £638 £653 £750
90th Percentile £700 £813 £780
England median daily rate £513 £550 £613
% change year-on-year -6.82% -10.20% +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 18,082 12,534 14,415
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.16% 92.32% 88.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,899 8,375 10,138
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 £660 £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 298 249 200
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £17.05
25th Percentile £19.85 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.61 £30.00 £35.25
Median % change year-on-year +18.68% -14.89% -15.06%
75th Percentile £56.81 £48.75 £54.06
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.05 £71.31
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -40.82% -

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 8 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 8 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 -13 28 £488 -32.76% 10
South London -11 5 £700 +12.90%
East London - 3 £612 -
West London -20 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 12 (5.53%) Apache Spark
2 6 (2.76%) Apache
2 6 (2.76%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.84%) SAS
4 3 (1.38%) CMS
5 2 (0.92%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.46%) Appian
6 1 (0.46%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.46%) IIS
6 1 (0.46%) nginx
6 1 (0.46%) OpenROAD
6 1 (0.46%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.46%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.46%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.46%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.92%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.46%) Misys Equation
1 1 (0.46%) Misys Midas
1 1 (0.46%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 118 (54.38%) Azure
2 83 (38.25%) AWS
3 55 (25.35%) Azure DevOps
4 48 (22.12%) GitHub
5 41 (18.89%) GitHub Actions
6 31 (14.29%) Serverless
7 24 (11.06%) AWS Lambda
7 24 (11.06%) Power Platform
8 21 (9.68%) Amazon S3
9 20 (9.22%) Amazon EKS
10 19 (8.76%) GCP
11 17 (7.83%) Amazon ECS
12 14 (6.45%) Amazon SQS
13 13 (5.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 13 (5.99%) Amazon EC2
13 13 (5.99%) AWS CloudFormation
13 13 (5.99%) Azure Monitor
13 13 (5.99%) Entra ID
14 12 (5.53%) Azure AKS
15 11 (5.07%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 17 (7.83%) Firewall
2 7 (3.23%) VPN
3 6 (2.76%) DMZ
3 6 (2.76%) TCP/IP
4 5 (2.30%) Network Security
5 4 (1.84%) DNS
5 4 (1.84%) Internet
6 3 (1.38%) Kerberos
6 3 (1.38%) NGFW
7 2 (0.92%) SSL
8 1 (0.46%) BGP
8 1 (0.46%) Cisco IOS
8 1 (0.46%) Cisco Nexus
8 1 (0.46%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.46%) IPsec
8 1 (0.46%) OpenLDAP
8 1 (0.46%) OSPF
8 1 (0.46%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (0.46%) SNMP
8 1 (0.46%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (8.76%) Power BI
2 15 (6.91%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (6.45%) Data Warehouse
3 14 (6.45%) SQL Server
4 13 (5.99%) Relational Database
5 8 (3.69%) Data Lake
5 8 (3.69%) NoSQL
6 7 (3.23%) Amazon Athena
6 7 (3.23%) Amazon RDS
6 7 (3.23%) Big Data
6 7 (3.23%) Redis
7 6 (2.76%) Metadata
7 6 (2.76%) MongoDB
8 5 (2.30%) DynamoDB
9 4 (1.84%) MySQL
10 3 (1.38%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (1.38%) Data Mart
10 3 (1.38%) SAS Data Integration Studio
10 3 (1.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (1.38%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 39 (17.97%) Git
1 39 (17.97%) GitLab
2 36 (16.59%) Jenkins
3 6 (2.76%) JIRA
3 6 (2.76%) Selenium
4 5 (2.30%) MSI
4 5 (2.30%) TeamCity
5 4 (1.84%) git-flow
5 4 (1.84%) Maven
6 3 (1.38%) Cypress.io
6 3 (1.38%) JUnit
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%) MSBuild
7 2 (0.92%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (0.92%) Visual Studio
General
1 60 (27.65%) Social Skills
2 55 (25.35%) Finance
3 34 (15.67%) Public Sector
4 26 (11.98%) Banking
5 23 (10.60%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (2.76%) Front Office
6 6 (2.76%) Retail
7 5 (2.30%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (2.30%) Investment Banking
8 4 (1.84%) 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 45 (20.74%) Senior
2 41 (18.89%) Developer
3 36 (16.59%) DevOps Engineer
4 24 (11.06%) Cloud Engineer
5 21 (9.68%) Lead
6 17 (7.83%) Azure Engineer
7 16 (7.37%) Architect
7 16 (7.37%) Software Engineer
8 14 (6.45%) AWS Engineer
8 14 (6.45%) Full-Stack Developer
9 13 (5.99%) Data Engineer
10 12 (5.53%) Platform Engineer
10 12 (5.53%) Senior Developer
11 10 (4.61%) AWS DevOps
12 8 (3.69%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 8 (3.69%) Salesforce Engineer
12 8 (3.69%) Senior DevOps
12 8 (3.69%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 8 (3.69%) Senior Software Engineer
13 7 (3.23%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (17.05%) REST
2 31 (14.29%) RESTful
3 27 (12.44%) React
4 23 (10.60%) .NET
5 22 (10.14%) Kafka
6 12 (5.53%) AngularJS
6 12 (5.53%) OAuth
6 12 (5.53%) PySpark
7 11 (5.07%) .NET Framework
8 10 (4.61%) FastAPI
8 10 (4.61%) YAML
9 9 (4.15%) .NET Core
9 9 (4.15%) OAuth2
9 9 (4.15%) OpenID
9 9 (4.15%) Spring
9 9 (4.15%) Spring Boot
10 8 (3.69%) Node.js
10 8 (3.69%) Redux
11 7 (3.23%) ASP.NET
11 7 (3.23%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 69 (31.80%) Cloud Native
2 25 (11.52%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (5.99%) Onboarding
4 10 (4.61%) Enterprise Software
4 10 (4.61%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (3.23%) Product Ownership
6 5 (2.30%) Enterprise Cloud
6 5 (2.30%) NHS
7 4 (1.84%) CMDB
7 4 (1.84%) Distributed Architecture
8 3 (1.38%) AI Agents
8 3 (1.38%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.38%) Client/Server
8 3 (1.38%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.38%) Derivative
8 3 (1.38%) Distributed Computing
8 3 (1.38%) Life Science
8 3 (1.38%) Security Posture
9 2 (0.92%) Management Information System
9 2 (0.92%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 19 (8.76%) Linux
2 12 (5.53%) Windows
3 7 (3.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (1.84%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.38%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.92%) Unix
6 2 (0.92%) VMS
6 2 (0.92%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.92%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.46%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (0.46%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 169 (77.88%) CI/CD
2 131 (60.37%) DevOps
3 97 (44.70%) Infrastructure as Code
4 88 (40.55%) Agile
5 76 (35.02%) Test Automation
6 66 (30.41%) Containerisation
7 44 (20.28%) AI
8 42 (19.35%) Analytics
8 42 (19.35%) Microservices
9 41 (18.89%) Observability
10 39 (17.97%) Continuous Improvement
10 39 (17.97%) Software Engineering
11 37 (17.05%) Problem-Solving
12 34 (15.67%) Platform Engineering
13 32 (14.75%) Event-Driven
14 30 (13.82%) Migration
15 28 (12.90%) Data Pipeline
15 28 (12.90%) Mentoring
16 27 (12.44%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 27 (12.44%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 88 (40.55%) Python
2 46 (21.20%) SQL
3 34 (15.67%) PowerShell
4 29 (13.36%) Java
5 24 (11.06%) C#
6 23 (10.60%) JavaScript
7 18 (8.29%) TypeScript
8 16 (7.37%) Bicep
9 13 (5.99%) Bash
10 6 (2.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 4 (1.84%) Korn
11 4 (1.84%) Scala
12 3 (1.38%) Apex Code
12 3 (1.38%) PL/SQL
12 3 (1.38%) SAS Macro
12 3 (1.38%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.92%) C
13 2 (0.92%) C++
13 2 (0.92%) PHP
13 2 (0.92%) R
Qualifications
1 67 (30.88%) Security Cleared
2 57 (26.27%) SC Cleared
3 20 (9.22%) DV Cleared
4 17 (7.83%) Degree
5 14 (6.45%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (4.61%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (3.23%) AWS Certification
8 6 (2.76%) Azure Certification
9 4 (1.84%) 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%) CompTIA Security+
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 (15.21%) QA
2 8 (3.69%) Accessibility
2 8 (3.69%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.84%) WCAG
4 3 (1.38%) GDPR
4 3 (1.38%) ISO 20022
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 60 (27.65%) Docker
2 8 (3.69%) Active Directory
2 8 (3.69%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (2.76%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (2.30%) 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 87 (40.09%) Terraform
2 70 (32.26%) Kubernetes
3 22 (10.14%) Ansible
4 12 (5.53%) SCCM
5 8 (3.69%) Microsoft Intune
6 7 (3.23%) Prometheus
7 6 (2.76%) Grafana
8 5 (2.30%) WSUS
9 4 (1.84%) Control-M
10 3 (1.38%) Puppet
11 2 (0.92%) Argo
11 2 (0.92%) Istio
11 2 (0.92%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.46%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.46%) Kustomize
12 1 (0.46%) Packer
12 1 (0.46%) QRadar
12 1 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.46%) systemd
Vendors
1 46 (21.20%) Microsoft
2 13 (5.99%) Google
3 11 (5.07%) Salesforce
4 10 (4.61%) Databricks
5 8 (3.69%) Oracle
6 5 (2.30%) Bloomberg
6 5 (2.30%) Citrix
6 5 (2.30%) ION Trading
6 5 (2.30%) Reuters
6 5 (2.30%) ServiceNow
6 5 (2.30%) Splunk
7 4 (1.84%) Foundry
7 4 (1.84%) Red Hat
8 3 (1.38%) Cisco
8 3 (1.38%) Dynatrace
8 3 (1.38%) IBM
8 3 (1.38%) OpenAI
8 3 (1.38%) Palo Alto
8 3 (1.38%) UiPath
9 2 (0.92%) Brio