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

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 229 236 274
Rank change year-on-year +7 +38 +15
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 181 119 117
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.02% 0.95% 0.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.15% 1.03% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 91 76
10th Percentile £400 £380 £413
25th Percentile £450 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £575 £663
Median % change year-on-year -5.43% -13.21% +6.00%
75th Percentile £626 £750 £770
90th Percentile £688 £825 £780
England median daily rate £523 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.35% -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £22.36
25th Percentile £50.25 - £22.90
Median hourly rate £50.50 - £23.80
75th Percentile £50.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £62.59 - £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 15,684 11,567 15,790
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.64% 92.16% 88.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,506 7,851 11,317
10th Percentile £356 £350 £338
25th Percentile £430 £440 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £760 £813 £800
England median daily rate £508 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.33% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 257 172 325
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.50 £16.00
25th Percentile £25.00 £22.75 £20.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £34.25 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.65% +20.18% -25.25%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.75 £46.86
90th Percentile £73.75 £63.70 £66.30
England median hourly rate £45.00 £30.00 £35.68
% change year-on-year +50.00% -15.92% -4.85%

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 30 April 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 30 April 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 -15 16 £575 -0.43% 8
East London -2 2 £612 -2.86%
West London - 2 £375 - 1
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 8 (4.42%) Appian
2 6 (3.31%) Apache Spark
3 5 (2.76%) Camunda
4 4 (2.21%) SAS
5 2 (1.10%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.55%) Apache
6 1 (0.55%) ColdFusion
6 1 (0.55%) OpenROAD
6 1 (0.55%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.55%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.10%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.55%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 96 (53.04%) Azure
2 53 (29.28%) AWS
3 27 (14.92%) Azure DevOps
4 25 (13.81%) GitHub
5 21 (11.60%) GCP
6 19 (10.50%) Serverless
7 17 (9.39%) Power Platform
8 14 (7.73%) AWS CloudFormation
8 14 (7.73%) Azure Data Factory
9 13 (7.18%) Azure AI
9 13 (7.18%) GitHub Actions
10 11 (6.08%) AWS Lambda
11 10 (5.52%) Amazon S3
11 10 (5.52%) Azure AKS
12 9 (4.97%) Azure Key Vault
12 9 (4.97%) Entra ID
12 9 (4.97%) Power Automate
13 8 (4.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 8 (4.42%) Amazon ECS
13 8 (4.42%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 11 (6.08%) Firewall
2 7 (3.87%) TCP/IP
3 6 (3.31%) VPN
4 4 (2.21%) DHCP
4 4 (2.21%) DMZ
4 4 (2.21%) DNS
4 4 (2.21%) Network Security
4 4 (2.21%) Software-Defined Networking
5 3 (1.66%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.55%) BGP
6 1 (0.55%) Cisco IOS
6 1 (0.55%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (0.55%) Internet
6 1 (0.55%) IPsec
6 1 (0.55%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.55%) NGFW
6 1 (0.55%) OSPF
6 1 (0.55%) SMS
6 1 (0.55%) SNMP
6 1 (0.55%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (8.29%) SQL Server
2 13 (7.18%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (6.63%) Power BI
4 11 (6.08%) Data Lake
4 11 (6.08%) Relational Database
5 9 (4.97%) Azure SQL Database
5 9 (4.97%) PostgreSQL
6 8 (4.42%) Pinecone
6 8 (4.42%) Spark SQL
7 6 (3.31%) NoSQL
8 5 (2.76%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (2.76%) Big Data
8 5 (2.76%) Metadata
9 4 (2.21%) Amazon Athena
9 4 (2.21%) Redis
10 3 (1.66%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (1.66%) Base SAS
10 3 (1.66%) BigQuery
10 3 (1.66%) Data Mart
10 3 (1.66%) SAS Data Integration Studio
Development Applications
1 37 (20.44%) Git
2 18 (9.94%) GitLab
3 11 (6.08%) Jenkins
4 8 (4.42%) MLflow
5 5 (2.76%) Artifactory
6 4 (2.21%) MSI
7 2 (1.10%) AdminStudio
7 2 (1.10%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.10%) git-flow
7 2 (1.10%) InstallShield
7 2 (1.10%) Maven
7 2 (1.10%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.55%) Gradle
8 1 (0.55%) Moq
8 1 (0.55%) MSBuild
8 1 (0.55%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.55%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.55%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.55%) webpack
8 1 (0.55%) WiX
General
1 57 (31.49%) Social Skills
2 55 (30.39%) Finance
3 30 (16.57%) Public Sector
4 13 (7.18%) Banking
5 8 (4.42%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (2.76%) Front Office
6 5 (2.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (2.76%) Investment Banking
7 4 (2.21%) Marketing
8 3 (1.66%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.10%) Electronics
9 2 (1.10%) Legal
9 2 (1.10%) Police
9 2 (1.10%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.55%) Law
10 1 (0.55%) Military
10 1 (0.55%) Retail
10 1 (0.55%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 36 (19.89%) Developer
2 25 (13.81%) Senior
3 22 (12.15%) DevOps Engineer
4 20 (11.05%) Architect
5 18 (9.94%) Azure Engineer
6 13 (7.18%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 13 (7.18%) Data Engineer
6 13 (7.18%) Salesforce Engineer
7 12 (6.63%) Lead
8 10 (5.52%) Automation Engineer
8 10 (5.52%) Platform Engineer
9 8 (4.42%) Cloud Engineer
9 8 (4.42%) Senior Developer
10 7 (3.87%) Technical Architect
11 6 (3.31%) Full-Stack Developer
12 5 (2.76%) Software Engineer
12 5 (2.76%) Solutions Architect
13 4 (2.21%) Analyst
13 4 (2.21%) Deployment Engineer
13 4 (2.21%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (14.92%) RESTful
2 23 (12.71%) REST
3 17 (9.39%) React
4 14 (7.73%) PySpark
5 13 (7.18%) Node.js
5 13 (7.18%) YAML
6 12 (6.63%) FastAPI
6 12 (6.63%) Kafka
6 12 (6.63%) OAuth
7 11 (6.08%) .NET
7 11 (6.08%) AngularJS
7 11 (6.08%) Spring
7 11 (6.08%) Spring Boot
8 10 (5.52%) Django
8 10 (5.52%) JWT
9 9 (4.97%) Hugging Face
9 9 (4.97%) JSON
9 9 (4.97%) PyTorch
9 9 (4.97%) scikit-learn
9 9 (4.97%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 28 (15.47%) Cloud Native
2 13 (7.18%) Distributed Systems
2 13 (7.18%) Legacy Systems
3 12 (6.63%) Onboarding
4 10 (5.52%) Distributed Computing
5 8 (4.42%) Low-Code
6 7 (3.87%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (2.76%) Product Ownership
8 4 (2.21%) Algorithms
8 4 (2.21%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.66%) AI Agents
9 3 (1.66%) Client/Server
9 3 (1.66%) Cyber Threat
9 3 (1.66%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.66%) Derivative
9 3 (1.66%) Energy Derivatives
9 3 (1.66%) Mobile App
10 2 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (1.10%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (1.10%) PACS
Operating Systems
1 16 (8.84%) Linux
2 13 (7.18%) Windows
3 4 (2.21%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.10%) Windows 10
4 2 (1.10%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (1.10%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.55%) Unix
5 1 (0.55%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (69.61%) CI/CD
2 104 (57.46%) DevOps
3 73 (40.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 55 (30.39%) Test Automation
5 49 (27.07%) Agile
6 48 (26.52%) Containerisation
7 35 (19.34%) AI
7 35 (19.34%) Observability
8 34 (18.78%) Analytics
9 32 (17.68%) Microservices
10 31 (17.13%) Data Pipeline
11 30 (16.57%) Problem-Solving
12 29 (16.02%) Data Engineering
13 28 (15.47%) ETL
14 26 (14.36%) Validation
15 25 (13.81%) Migration
16 22 (12.15%) Continuous Improvement
16 22 (12.15%) Machine Learning
17 20 (11.05%) Data Modelling
17 20 (11.05%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 75 (41.44%) Python
2 47 (25.97%) SQL
3 32 (17.68%) Java
4 31 (17.13%) PowerShell
5 18 (9.94%) Bicep
6 16 (8.84%) TypeScript
7 14 (7.73%) Bash
8 12 (6.63%) JavaScript
9 11 (6.08%) C#
10 3 (1.66%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.66%) Rust
10 3 (1.66%) SAS Macro
11 2 (1.10%) Apex Code
11 2 (1.10%) Kotlin
11 2 (1.10%) PHP
11 2 (1.10%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.10%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.55%) ActionScript
12 1 (0.55%) C
12 1 (0.55%) C++
Qualifications
1 46 (25.41%) Security Cleared
2 37 (20.44%) SC Cleared
3 9 (4.97%) Degree
4 7 (3.87%) Azure Certification
4 7 (3.87%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (3.31%) AWS Certification
5 6 (3.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 6 (3.31%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (1.66%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 3 (1.66%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.66%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 3 (1.66%) MCSA
7 2 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.10%) CISSP
7 2 (1.10%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 1 (0.55%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.55%) CISM
8 1 (0.55%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.55%) MCSE
8 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (7.73%) QA
2 13 (7.18%) Data Quality
3 10 (5.52%) GDPR
4 7 (3.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 6 (3.31%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (1.10%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.55%) EU AI Act
8 1 (0.55%) NCSC
8 1 (0.55%) NIST
8 1 (0.55%) SLA
8 1 (0.55%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.55%) WCAG
System Software
1 53 (29.28%) Docker
2 10 (5.52%) Active Directory
3 7 (3.87%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (2.21%) Hyper-V
4 4 (2.21%) Microsoft App-V
5 3 (1.66%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (1.10%) Xen
7 1 (0.55%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.55%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 66 (36.46%) Terraform
2 58 (32.04%) Kubernetes
3 11 (6.08%) Ansible
3 11 (6.08%) SCCM
4 5 (2.76%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (2.76%) Prometheus
5 4 (2.21%) Grafana
5 4 (2.21%) WSUS
6 3 (1.66%) ITRS Geneos
7 2 (1.10%) Istio
7 2 (1.10%) vRealize
8 1 (0.55%) Fluentd
8 1 (0.55%) QRadar
Vendors
1 51 (28.18%) Microsoft
2 16 (8.84%) Salesforce
3 12 (6.63%) OpenAI
4 11 (6.08%) Google
5 8 (4.42%) Automation Anywhere
5 8 (4.42%) UiPath
6 6 (3.31%) Foundry
7 5 (2.76%) Splunk
8 4 (2.21%) Bloomberg
8 4 (2.21%) Citrix
8 4 (2.21%) ION Trading
8 4 (2.21%) Reuters
8 4 (2.21%) SAP
9 3 (1.66%) Apple
9 3 (1.66%) Databricks
9 3 (1.66%) ForgeRock
9 3 (1.66%) IBM
9 3 (1.66%) Palo Alto
9 3 (1.66%) VMware
10 2 (1.10%) Dynatrace