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

6 months to
31 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 236 222 276
Rank change year-on-year -14 +54 +4
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 186 123 118
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.01% 1.00% 0.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.14% 1.09% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 93 78
10th Percentile £405 £366 £412
25th Percentile £450 £425 £514
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £550 £663
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -16.98% +6.00%
75th Percentile £625 £735 £775
90th Percentile £670 £823 £780
England median daily rate £518 £550 £594
% change year-on-year -5.91% -7.41% -1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £50.25 - -
Median hourly rate £50.50 - £23.80
75th Percentile £50.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £75.34 - £45.41
% change year-on-year - - -36.04%

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 16,377 11,309 15,428
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.67% 92.27% 88.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,935 7,582 11,066
10th Percentile £358 £350 £340
25th Percentile £434 £431 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £514 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.05% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 244 194 315
10th Percentile £18.28 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.25 £24.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.25 £32.25 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.50% +15.18% -29.34%
75th Percentile £58.94 £49.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £78.23 £63.60 £66.90
England median hourly rate £47.00 £28.75 £37.50
% change year-on-year +63.48% -23.33% -

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 May 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 May 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 -20 17 £625 -13.79% 5
East London - 2 £612 -
West London -28 1 £375 -27.33%
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 (4.30%) Appian
2 7 (3.76%) Apache Spark
3 5 (2.69%) Camunda
4 4 (2.15%) SAS
5 2 (1.08%) Apache
5 2 (1.08%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.08%) CMS
6 1 (0.54%) ColdFusion
6 1 (0.54%) OpenROAD
6 1 (0.54%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.54%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.08%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 102 (54.84%) Azure
2 63 (33.87%) AWS
3 37 (19.89%) GitHub
4 31 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
5 23 (12.37%) GitHub Actions
6 22 (11.83%) Power Platform
7 21 (11.29%) Serverless
8 20 (10.75%) GCP
9 14 (7.53%) Azure Data Factory
10 13 (6.99%) Azure AI
11 12 (6.45%) AWS CloudFormation
12 11 (5.91%) AWS Lambda
12 11 (5.91%) Entra ID
13 10 (5.38%) Amazon S3
14 9 (4.84%) Azure AKS
14 9 (4.84%) Azure Key Vault
14 9 (4.84%) Power Automate
15 8 (4.30%) Anthropic Claude
15 8 (4.30%) SaaS
16 7 (3.76%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.91%) Firewall
2 6 (3.23%) TCP/IP
3 5 (2.69%) VPN
4 4 (2.15%) DMZ
4 4 (2.15%) Software-Defined Networking
5 3 (1.61%) DHCP
5 3 (1.61%) DNS
5 3 (1.61%) Network Security
6 2 (1.08%) Kerberos
6 2 (1.08%) NGFW
7 1 (0.54%) BGP
7 1 (0.54%) Cisco IOS
7 1 (0.54%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (0.54%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.54%) IPsec
7 1 (0.54%) OpenLDAP
7 1 (0.54%) OSPF
7 1 (0.54%) SMS
7 1 (0.54%) SNMP
7 1 (0.54%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (8.60%) SQL Server
2 15 (8.06%) Power BI
3 11 (5.91%) Data Lake
3 11 (5.91%) Relational Database
4 10 (5.38%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (4.84%) PostgreSQL
6 8 (4.30%) Pinecone
7 7 (3.76%) Amazon Athena
7 7 (3.76%) Spark SQL
8 6 (3.23%) Azure SQL Database
8 6 (3.23%) NoSQL
9 5 (2.69%) Big Data
9 5 (2.69%) Metadata
9 5 (2.69%) MongoDB
10 4 (2.15%) DynamoDB
10 4 (2.15%) Redis
11 3 (1.61%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (1.61%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (1.61%) BigQuery
11 3 (1.61%) SAS Data Integration Studio
Development Applications
1 36 (19.35%) Git
2 22 (11.83%) GitLab
3 12 (6.45%) Jenkins
4 8 (4.30%) MLflow
5 5 (2.69%) Artifactory
5 5 (2.69%) MSI
6 4 (2.15%) git-flow
6 4 (2.15%) Selenium
7 3 (1.61%) JIRA
8 2 (1.08%) AdminStudio
8 2 (1.08%) Bitbucket
8 2 (1.08%) Cypress.io
8 2 (1.08%) InstallShield
8 2 (1.08%) JMeter
8 2 (1.08%) Maven
8 2 (1.08%) SonarQube
8 2 (1.08%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.54%) Gradle
9 1 (0.54%) Moq
9 1 (0.54%) MSBuild
General
1 55 (29.57%) Social Skills
2 54 (29.03%) Finance
3 29 (15.59%) Public Sector
4 16 (8.60%) Banking
5 10 (5.38%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (2.69%) Front Office
6 5 (2.69%) Investment Banking
7 3 (1.61%) Legal
7 3 (1.61%) Retail
8 2 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.08%) Marketing
9 1 (0.54%) Law
9 1 (0.54%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.54%) Police
9 1 (0.54%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 31 (16.67%) Developer
2 29 (15.59%) Senior
3 28 (15.05%) DevOps Engineer
4 17 (9.14%) Architect
5 16 (8.60%) Azure Engineer
6 14 (7.53%) Lead
7 13 (6.99%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 13 (6.99%) Salesforce Engineer
8 12 (6.45%) Cloud Engineer
8 12 (6.45%) Data Engineer
9 11 (5.91%) Senior Developer
10 10 (5.38%) Automation Engineer
11 9 (4.84%) Full-Stack Developer
12 8 (4.30%) Platform Engineer
13 7 (3.76%) Software Engineer
14 6 (3.23%) Solutions Architect
15 5 (2.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 5 (2.69%) Lead DevOps
15 5 (2.69%) React Developer
15 5 (2.69%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (17.20%) RESTful
2 27 (14.52%) REST
3 21 (11.29%) React
4 17 (9.14%) .NET
5 16 (8.60%) Kafka
6 15 (8.06%) OAuth
6 15 (8.06%) PySpark
7 12 (6.45%) FastAPI
7 12 (6.45%) Node.js
8 10 (5.38%) Django
8 10 (5.38%) JWT
8 10 (5.38%) pytest
9 9 (4.84%) Flask
9 9 (4.84%) Hugging Face
9 9 (4.84%) PyTorch
9 9 (4.84%) scikit-learn
9 9 (4.84%) Swagger
9 9 (4.84%) TensorFlow
9 9 (4.84%) YAML
10 8 (4.30%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 39 (20.97%) Cloud Native
2 13 (6.99%) Distributed Systems
2 13 (6.99%) Onboarding
3 12 (6.45%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (4.84%) Distributed Computing
5 8 (4.30%) Low-Code
6 6 (3.23%) Product Ownership
7 5 (2.69%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (2.69%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.61%) AI Agents
8 3 (1.61%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.61%) Client/Server
8 3 (1.61%) Cyber Threat
8 3 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.61%) Derivative
8 3 (1.61%) Energy Derivatives
8 3 (1.61%) Enterprise Cloud
8 3 (1.61%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.08%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 13 (6.99%) Linux
2 12 (6.45%) Windows
3 3 (1.61%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.08%) Windows 10
4 2 (1.08%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (1.08%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.54%) Unix
5 1 (0.54%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (74.19%) CI/CD
2 106 (56.99%) DevOps
3 77 (41.40%) Infrastructure as Code
4 59 (31.72%) Test Automation
5 56 (30.11%) Agile
6 45 (24.19%) Containerisation
7 38 (20.43%) AI
7 38 (20.43%) Observability
8 34 (18.28%) Analytics
9 33 (17.74%) Data Pipeline
10 30 (16.13%) Microservices
10 30 (16.13%) Migration
10 30 (16.13%) Validation
11 28 (15.05%) Data Engineering
11 28 (15.05%) ETL
12 26 (13.98%) Problem-Solving
13 24 (12.90%) Data Modelling
14 23 (12.37%) Runbook
15 22 (11.83%) RBAC
16 21 (11.29%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 74 (39.78%) Python
2 42 (22.58%) SQL
3 33 (17.74%) PowerShell
4 26 (13.98%) Java
5 21 (11.29%) Bicep
6 17 (9.14%) C#
6 17 (9.14%) TypeScript
7 14 (7.53%) JavaScript
8 13 (6.99%) Bash
9 3 (1.61%) PL/SQL
9 3 (1.61%) Rust
9 3 (1.61%) SAS Macro
10 2 (1.08%) Apex Code
10 2 (1.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (1.08%) Scala
10 2 (1.08%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.54%) C
11 1 (0.54%) C++
11 1 (0.54%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.54%) PHP
Qualifications
1 48 (25.81%) Security Cleared
2 37 (19.89%) SC Cleared
3 10 (5.38%) Degree
4 8 (4.30%) Azure Certification
4 8 (4.30%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (4.30%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (2.69%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.61%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (1.61%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 3 (1.61%) MCSA
7 2 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.08%) MCSE
8 1 (0.54%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.54%) CCNP
8 1 (0.54%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.54%) CISSP
8 1 (0.54%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.54%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (12.37%) QA
2 14 (7.53%) Data Quality
3 10 (5.38%) GDPR
4 7 (3.76%) Accessibility
4 7 (3.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (1.08%) HIPAA
5 2 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.54%) EU AI Act
6 1 (0.54%) SLA
6 1 (0.54%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.54%) WCAG
System Software
1 54 (29.03%) Docker
2 9 (4.84%) Active Directory
3 5 (2.69%) Microsoft App-V
3 5 (2.69%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (2.15%) Hyper-V
4 4 (2.15%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.54%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 73 (39.25%) Terraform
2 58 (31.18%) Kubernetes
3 15 (8.06%) Ansible
4 12 (6.45%) SCCM
5 7 (3.76%) Microsoft Intune
6 6 (3.23%) Prometheus
7 5 (2.69%) Grafana
8 4 (2.15%) WSUS
9 3 (1.61%) Istio
10 1 (0.54%) Argo
10 1 (0.54%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.54%) QRadar
Vendors
1 50 (26.88%) Microsoft
2 16 (8.60%) Salesforce
3 13 (6.99%) OpenAI
4 11 (5.91%) Google
5 8 (4.30%) Automation Anywhere
5 8 (4.30%) UiPath
6 6 (3.23%) Foundry
7 4 (2.15%) Bloomberg
7 4 (2.15%) Citrix
7 4 (2.15%) Databricks
7 4 (2.15%) ION Trading
7 4 (2.15%) Reuters
8 3 (1.61%) Apple
8 3 (1.61%) Dynatrace
8 3 (1.61%) Palo Alto
8 3 (1.61%) Splunk
9 2 (1.08%) Brio
9 2 (1.08%) Oracle
9 2 (1.08%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 1 (0.54%) Perforce