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

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 241 229 283
Rank change year-on-year -12 +54 +9
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 180 121 117
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.98% 1.00% 0.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.11% 1.09% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 93 77
10th Percentile £400 £366 £412
25th Percentile £450 £425 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £650
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% -15.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £625 £738 £775
90th Percentile £666 £825 £780
England median daily rate £520 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -5.45% -4.35% -4.17%
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 16,241 11,146 15,435
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.51% 92.25% 88.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,846 7,494 11,093
10th Percentile £358 £350 £340
25th Percentile £434 £431 £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 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.25% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 243 187 312
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.50 £15.95
25th Percentile £25.25 £23.60 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £30.81 £27.92
Median % change year-on-year +21.73% +10.33% -29.54%
75th Percentile £58.84 £48.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £76.73 £63.10 £66.98
England median hourly rate £46.43 £28.18 £36.50
% change year-on-year +64.76% -22.79% -2.46%

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 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 28 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 -21 16 £625 -13.79% 9
East London - 2 £612 -
West London -27 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 (4.44%) Appian
2 7 (3.89%) Apache Spark
3 5 (2.78%) Camunda
4 4 (2.22%) SAS
5 2 (1.11%) Apache
5 2 (1.11%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.11%) CMS
6 1 (0.56%) ColdFusion
6 1 (0.56%) OpenROAD
6 1 (0.56%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.11%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 99 (55.00%) Azure
2 60 (33.33%) AWS
3 36 (20.00%) GitHub
4 29 (16.11%) Azure DevOps
5 22 (12.22%) GitHub Actions
5 22 (12.22%) Power Platform
6 20 (11.11%) GCP
7 19 (10.56%) Serverless
8 14 (7.78%) Azure Data Factory
9 13 (7.22%) Azure AI
10 12 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
11 11 (6.11%) Entra ID
12 10 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
13 9 (5.00%) Amazon S3
13 9 (5.00%) Azure AKS
13 9 (5.00%) Azure Key Vault
13 9 (5.00%) Power Automate
14 8 (4.44%) Anthropic Claude
15 7 (3.89%) Azure Monitor
15 7 (3.89%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (6.11%) Firewall
2 6 (3.33%) TCP/IP
3 5 (2.78%) VPN
4 4 (2.22%) DMZ
4 4 (2.22%) Software-Defined Networking
5 3 (1.67%) DHCP
5 3 (1.67%) DNS
5 3 (1.67%) Network Security
6 2 (1.11%) Kerberos
6 2 (1.11%) NGFW
7 1 (0.56%) BGP
7 1 (0.56%) Cisco IOS
7 1 (0.56%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (0.56%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.56%) IPsec
7 1 (0.56%) OpenLDAP
7 1 (0.56%) OSPF
7 1 (0.56%) SMS
7 1 (0.56%) SNMP
7 1 (0.56%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (8.89%) SQL Server
2 15 (8.33%) Power BI
3 11 (6.11%) Data Lake
3 11 (6.11%) Relational Database
4 10 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
6 8 (4.44%) Pinecone
7 7 (3.89%) Spark SQL
8 6 (3.33%) Amazon Athena
8 6 (3.33%) Azure SQL Database
8 6 (3.33%) NoSQL
9 5 (2.78%) Big Data
9 5 (2.78%) Metadata
9 5 (2.78%) MongoDB
10 4 (2.22%) Redis
11 3 (1.67%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (1.67%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (1.67%) Base SAS
11 3 (1.67%) Data Mart
11 3 (1.67%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 36 (20.00%) Git
2 22 (12.22%) GitLab
3 12 (6.67%) Jenkins
4 8 (4.44%) MLflow
5 5 (2.78%) Artifactory
5 5 (2.78%) MSI
6 4 (2.22%) git-flow
6 4 (2.22%) Selenium
7 2 (1.11%) AdminStudio
7 2 (1.11%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.11%) Cypress.io
7 2 (1.11%) InstallShield
7 2 (1.11%) JMeter
7 2 (1.11%) Maven
7 2 (1.11%) SonarQube
7 2 (1.11%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.56%) JIRA
8 1 (0.56%) JUnit
8 1 (0.56%) NUnit
8 1 (0.56%) Visual Studio
General
1 54 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 52 (28.89%) Finance
3 29 (16.11%) Public Sector
4 16 (8.89%) Banking
5 9 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (2.78%) Front Office
6 5 (2.78%) Investment Banking
7 3 (1.67%) Legal
7 3 (1.67%) Retail
8 2 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.11%) Marketing
9 1 (0.56%) Law
9 1 (0.56%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.56%) Police
9 1 (0.56%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 31 (17.22%) Developer
2 29 (16.11%) Senior
3 28 (15.56%) DevOps Engineer
4 16 (8.89%) Architect
4 16 (8.89%) Azure Engineer
5 14 (7.78%) Lead
6 13 (7.22%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 13 (7.22%) Salesforce Engineer
7 12 (6.67%) Data Engineer
8 11 (6.11%) Cloud Engineer
8 11 (6.11%) Senior Developer
9 10 (5.56%) Automation Engineer
10 9 (5.00%) Full-Stack Developer
11 8 (4.44%) Platform Engineer
12 6 (3.33%) Software Engineer
13 5 (2.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 5 (2.78%) Lead DevOps
13 5 (2.78%) React Developer
13 5 (2.78%) Solutions Architect
13 5 (2.78%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (17.78%) RESTful
2 27 (15.00%) REST
3 20 (11.11%) React
4 16 (8.89%) .NET
4 16 (8.89%) Kafka
5 15 (8.33%) OAuth
5 15 (8.33%) PySpark
6 12 (6.67%) FastAPI
6 12 (6.67%) Node.js
7 10 (5.56%) Django
7 10 (5.56%) JWT
7 10 (5.56%) pytest
8 9 (5.00%) Flask
8 9 (5.00%) Hugging Face
8 9 (5.00%) PyTorch
8 9 (5.00%) scikit-learn
8 9 (5.00%) Swagger
8 9 (5.00%) TensorFlow
8 9 (5.00%) YAML
9 8 (4.44%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 38 (21.11%) Cloud Native
2 13 (7.22%) Distributed Systems
2 13 (7.22%) Onboarding
3 11 (6.11%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (5.00%) Distributed Computing
5 8 (4.44%) Low-Code
6 6 (3.33%) Product Ownership
7 5 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (2.78%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.67%) AI Agents
8 3 (1.67%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.67%) Client/Server
8 3 (1.67%) Cyber Threat
8 3 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.67%) Derivative
8 3 (1.67%) Energy Derivatives
8 3 (1.67%) Enterprise Cloud
8 3 (1.67%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.11%) CMDB
9 2 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 13 (7.22%) Linux
2 12 (6.67%) Windows
3 3 (1.67%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.11%) Windows 10
4 2 (1.11%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (1.11%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.56%) Unix
5 1 (0.56%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 133 (73.89%) CI/CD
2 104 (57.78%) DevOps
3 76 (42.22%) Infrastructure as Code
4 57 (31.67%) Test Automation
5 53 (29.44%) Agile
6 45 (25.00%) Containerisation
7 38 (21.11%) AI
7 38 (21.11%) Observability
8 33 (18.33%) Data Pipeline
9 32 (17.78%) Analytics
10 30 (16.67%) Microservices
10 30 (16.67%) Validation
11 28 (15.56%) Data Engineering
11 28 (15.56%) ETL
11 28 (15.56%) Migration
12 24 (13.33%) Data Modelling
13 23 (12.78%) Problem-Solving
14 21 (11.67%) Machine Learning
14 21 (11.67%) Platform Engineering
14 21 (11.67%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 73 (40.56%) Python
2 40 (22.22%) SQL
3 33 (18.33%) PowerShell
4 26 (14.44%) Java
5 21 (11.67%) Bicep
6 17 (9.44%) TypeScript
7 16 (8.89%) C#
8 14 (7.78%) JavaScript
9 13 (7.22%) Bash
10 3 (1.67%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.67%) Rust
10 3 (1.67%) SAS Macro
11 2 (1.11%) Apex Code
11 2 (1.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (1.11%) Scala
11 2 (1.11%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.56%) CFML
12 1 (0.56%) Groovy
12 1 (0.56%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 47 (26.11%) Security Cleared
2 36 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 9 (5.00%) Degree
4 8 (4.44%) Azure Certification
4 8 (4.44%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (3.89%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (2.78%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.67%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (1.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 3 (1.67%) MCSA
8 2 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.11%) MCSE
9 1 (0.56%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.56%) CCNP
9 1 (0.56%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.56%) CISSP
9 1 (0.56%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.56%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (11.11%) QA
2 14 (7.78%) Data Quality
3 10 (5.56%) GDPR
4 7 (3.89%) Accessibility
4 7 (3.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (1.11%) HIPAA
5 2 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.56%) EU AI Act
6 1 (0.56%) SLA
6 1 (0.56%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.56%) WCAG
System Software
1 54 (30.00%) Docker
2 9 (5.00%) Active Directory
3 5 (2.78%) Microsoft App-V
3 5 (2.78%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (2.22%) Hyper-V
4 4 (2.22%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.56%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 72 (40.00%) Terraform
2 58 (32.22%) Kubernetes
3 14 (7.78%) Ansible
4 12 (6.67%) SCCM
5 7 (3.89%) Microsoft Intune
6 6 (3.33%) Prometheus
7 5 (2.78%) Grafana
8 4 (2.22%) WSUS
9 3 (1.67%) Istio
10 1 (0.56%) Argo
10 1 (0.56%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.56%) QRadar
Vendors
1 50 (27.78%) Microsoft
2 16 (8.89%) Salesforce
3 13 (7.22%) OpenAI
4 11 (6.11%) Google
5 8 (4.44%) Automation Anywhere
5 8 (4.44%) UiPath
6 6 (3.33%) Foundry
7 4 (2.22%) Bloomberg
7 4 (2.22%) Citrix
7 4 (2.22%) ION Trading
7 4 (2.22%) Reuters
8 3 (1.67%) Apple
8 3 (1.67%) Databricks
8 3 (1.67%) Dynatrace
8 3 (1.67%) Palo Alto
8 3 (1.67%) Splunk
9 2 (1.11%) Brio
9 2 (1.11%) Oracle
9 2 (1.11%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 1 (0.56%) Sybase