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

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 204 255 261
Rank change year-on-year +51 +6 +49
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 272 118 117
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.34% 0.88% 0.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.50% 0.95% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 178 86 63
10th Percentile £396 £381 £413
25th Percentile £463 £459 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £532 £563 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.51% -6.25% -1.03%
75th Percentile £634 £653 £746
90th Percentile £733 £813 £779
England median daily rate £513 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -6.82% -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Median hourly rate - - £23.80
England median hourly rate £75.34 - £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 18,107 12,462 14,550
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.93% 92.53% 89.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,868 8,244 9,685
10th Percentile £360 £327 £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 £663 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 306 252 179
10th Percentile £16.50 £17.01 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.00 £31.75 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.24% -9.29% -9.58%
75th Percentile £57.38 £49.56 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £72.50
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -3.37%

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 19 September 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 19 September 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 -2 32 £523 -34.69% 24
South London 0 9 £700 +12.90% 3
West London -20 5 £663 +28.39% 15
East London +3 2 £775 +43.52% 6
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 16 (5.88%) Apache Spark
2 12 (4.41%) Apache
3 10 (3.68%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (2.57%) CMS
5 2 (0.74%) CICS
5 2 (0.74%) Confluence
5 2 (0.74%) nginx
5 2 (0.74%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.37%) EPiServer
6 1 (0.37%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.37%) IIS
6 1 (0.37%) SAS
6 1 (0.37%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.37%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.37%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.74%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.37%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.37%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 5 (1.84%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.10%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.74%) SAP MDG
3 2 (0.74%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.37%) Misys Equation
4 1 (0.37%) Misys Midas
4 1 (0.37%) SAP CRM
4 1 (0.37%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 149 (54.78%) Azure
2 104 (38.24%) AWS
3 74 (27.21%) Azure DevOps
4 63 (23.16%) GitHub
5 51 (18.75%) GitHub Actions
6 49 (18.01%) Serverless
7 32 (11.76%) AWS Lambda
8 30 (11.03%) GCP
9 27 (9.93%) Amazon S3
9 27 (9.93%) Entra ID
9 27 (9.93%) Power Platform
10 26 (9.56%) Amazon EKS
11 24 (8.82%) Amazon EC2
11 24 (8.82%) Amazon ECS
12 23 (8.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 23 (8.46%) Azure Monitor
13 16 (5.88%) Azure Functions
14 15 (5.51%) Amazon SQS
15 14 (5.15%) Azure AKS
16 12 (4.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 19 (6.99%) Firewall
2 6 (2.21%) DMZ
2 6 (2.21%) DNS
2 6 (2.21%) VPN
3 5 (1.84%) Kerberos
3 5 (1.84%) NGFW
3 5 (1.84%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.47%) Internet
5 3 (1.10%) Network Security
6 2 (0.74%) HTTPS
6 2 (0.74%) OpenLDAP
7 1 (0.37%) FTP
7 1 (0.37%) HTTP
7 1 (0.37%) IMAP
7 1 (0.37%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.37%) SMTP
7 1 (0.37%) SSH
7 1 (0.37%) SSL
7 1 (0.37%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (7.35%) Power BI
2 19 (6.99%) SQL Server
3 18 (6.62%) Relational Database
4 17 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
5 15 (5.51%) Data Lake
5 15 (5.51%) Data Warehouse
6 10 (3.68%) Amazon RDS
6 10 (3.68%) Metadata
6 10 (3.68%) NoSQL
7 8 (2.94%) Big Data
7 8 (2.94%) Redis
8 7 (2.57%) MongoDB
9 6 (2.21%) BigQuery
9 6 (2.21%) DynamoDB
9 6 (2.21%) MySQL
10 5 (1.84%) Amazon Athena
10 5 (1.84%) Amazon Redshift
10 5 (1.84%) Delta Lake
10 5 (1.84%) Spark SQL
10 5 (1.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 59 (21.69%) Git
2 57 (20.96%) GitLab
3 54 (19.85%) Jenkins
4 13 (4.78%) JIRA
5 9 (3.31%) Selenium
6 5 (1.84%) JUnit
6 5 (1.84%) MSI
6 5 (1.84%) TeamCity
7 4 (1.47%) Cypress.io
7 4 (1.47%) SonarQube
7 4 (1.47%) Terragrunt
8 3 (1.10%) Bitbucket
8 3 (1.10%) Maven
8 3 (1.10%) Octopus Deploy
8 3 (1.10%) Storybook
8 3 (1.10%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.74%) AdminStudio
9 2 (0.74%) InstallShield
9 2 (0.74%) JMeter
9 2 (0.74%) rollup.js
General
1 88 (32.35%) Social Skills
2 60 (22.06%) Finance
3 37 (13.60%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (13.24%) Public Sector
5 31 (11.40%) Banking
6 7 (2.57%) Retail
7 6 (2.21%) Front Office
7 6 (2.21%) Marketing
8 5 (1.84%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.47%) Law
10 3 (1.10%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.10%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.10%) Spanish Language
11 2 (0.74%) Back Office
11 2 (0.74%) Billing
11 2 (0.74%) Health Technology
11 2 (0.74%) Local Government
11 2 (0.74%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.37%) Legal
Job Titles
1 57 (20.96%) DevOps Engineer
2 50 (18.38%) Senior
3 46 (16.91%) Developer
4 30 (11.03%) Azure Engineer
4 30 (11.03%) Lead
5 29 (10.66%) Cloud Engineer
6 23 (8.46%) Architect
7 21 (7.72%) AWS Engineer
8 18 (6.62%) Data Engineer
9 17 (6.25%) Software Engineer
10 16 (5.88%) AWS DevOps
11 15 (5.51%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 15 (5.51%) Platform Engineer
12 13 (4.78%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 12 (4.41%) Senior Developer
13 12 (4.41%) Senior DevOps
13 12 (4.41%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 11 (4.04%) Technical Leader
15 10 (3.68%) Full-Stack Developer
15 10 (3.68%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 115 (42.28%) Terraform
2 56 (20.59%) REST
3 36 (13.24%) .NET
4 31 (11.40%) React
4 31 (11.40%) RESTful
5 27 (9.93%) Kafka
6 18 (6.62%) OAuth
7 16 (5.88%) PySpark
8 15 (5.51%) .NET Framework
8 15 (5.51%) OAuth2
9 14 (5.15%) AngularJS
10 13 (4.78%) .NET Core
11 12 (4.41%) ASP.NET
11 12 (4.41%) FastAPI
11 12 (4.41%) HTML
11 12 (4.41%) OpenID
11 12 (4.41%) Spring
11 12 (4.41%) Spring Boot
12 11 (4.04%) CSS
13 10 (3.68%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 82 (30.15%) Cloud Native
2 29 (10.66%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (6.99%) Enterprise Software
4 18 (6.62%) Product Ownership
5 15 (5.51%) Onboarding
6 10 (3.68%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (2.94%) Enterprise Cloud
8 7 (2.57%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (2.21%) AI Agents
9 6 (2.21%) CMDB
9 6 (2.21%) Hybrid Cloud
9 6 (2.21%) Life Science
10 5 (1.84%) Distributed Architecture
10 5 (1.84%) NHS
10 5 (1.84%) Replication
11 4 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (1.47%) Low-Code
12 3 (1.10%) Data Structures
12 3 (1.10%) Reference Data
12 3 (1.10%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 33 (12.13%) Linux
2 17 (6.25%) Windows
3 11 (4.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (3.31%) Unix
5 5 (1.84%) Windows Server
6 4 (1.47%) Ubuntu
6 4 (1.47%) VMS
7 2 (0.74%) Amazon Linux
7 2 (0.74%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.74%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.74%) zOS
8 1 (0.37%) Android
8 1 (0.37%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.37%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 223 (81.99%) CI/CD
2 175 (64.34%) DevOps
3 131 (48.16%) Infrastructure as Code
4 120 (44.12%) Agile
5 82 (30.15%) Containerisation
6 79 (29.04%) Test Automation
7 66 (24.26%) Observability
8 61 (22.43%) Continuous Improvement
9 58 (21.32%) AI
10 56 (20.59%) Problem-Solving
11 53 (19.49%) Microservices
11 53 (19.49%) Software Engineering
12 50 (18.38%) Analytics
13 46 (16.91%) Platform Engineering
14 44 (16.18%) Stakeholder Management
14 44 (16.18%) Technical Leadership
15 40 (14.71%) Event-Driven
16 39 (14.34%) Mentoring
16 39 (14.34%) Migration
17 38 (13.97%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 108 (39.71%) Python
2 60 (22.06%) SQL
3 42 (15.44%) Java
4 38 (13.97%) C#
4 38 (13.97%) PowerShell
5 33 (12.13%) JavaScript
6 23 (8.46%) Bash
7 22 (8.09%) Bicep
7 22 (8.09%) TypeScript
8 9 (3.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 9 (3.31%) Shell Script
9 6 (2.21%) Go
10 5 (1.84%) Korn
11 4 (1.47%) Scala
12 3 (1.10%) COBOL
12 3 (1.10%) Groovy
12 3 (1.10%) Kusto Query Language
12 3 (1.10%) PHP
13 2 (0.74%) JCL
13 2 (0.74%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 84 (30.88%) Security Cleared
2 71 (26.10%) SC Cleared
3 22 (8.09%) DV Cleared
4 17 (6.25%) Degree
5 14 (5.15%) Azure Certification
5 14 (5.15%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (5.15%) Microsoft Certification
6 13 (4.78%) AWS Certification
7 5 (1.84%) MCSE
8 3 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.10%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 3 (1.10%) MCSA
9 2 (0.74%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (0.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.74%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.37%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.37%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (0.37%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.37%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (15.44%) QA
2 18 (6.62%) Data Quality
3 7 (2.57%) GDPR
4 6 (2.21%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.47%) WCAG
6 3 (1.10%) ISO 20022
6 3 (1.10%) NCSC
7 2 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.37%) EU AI Act
8 1 (0.37%) ISO 15022
8 1 (0.37%) NIST
8 1 (0.37%) PMO
8 1 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.37%) SLA
8 1 (0.37%) SOC 2
System Software
1 77 (28.31%) Docker
2 17 (6.25%) Active Directory
3 10 (3.68%) Virtual Desktop
4 7 (2.57%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (1.84%) Microsoft App-V
6 2 (0.74%) RACF
6 2 (0.74%) Time Sharing Option
7 1 (0.37%) DFS Replication
7 1 (0.37%) Dovecot
7 1 (0.37%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.37%) Postfix
7 1 (0.37%) Squid
7 1 (0.37%) Varnish
7 1 (0.37%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.37%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 82 (30.15%) Kubernetes
2 37 (13.60%) Ansible
3 15 (5.51%) Grafana
4 14 (5.15%) Prometheus
5 12 (4.41%) Microsoft Intune
6 11 (4.04%) SCCM
7 6 (2.21%) WSUS
8 4 (1.47%) Control-M
8 4 (1.47%) Puppet
9 3 (1.10%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.74%) Argo
10 2 (0.74%) Istio
10 2 (0.74%) Packer
10 2 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.37%) Cilium
11 1 (0.37%) ITRS Geneos
11 1 (0.37%) Kibana
11 1 (0.37%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.37%) Proxmox
11 1 (0.37%) systemd
Vendors
1 67 (24.63%) Microsoft
2 21 (7.72%) Google
3 20 (7.35%) Databricks
4 15 (5.51%) Oracle
5 12 (4.41%) Splunk
6 10 (3.68%) Salesforce
7 8 (2.94%) Red Hat
8 7 (2.57%) ServiceNow
9 5 (1.84%) Bloomberg
9 5 (1.84%) Citrix
9 5 (1.84%) Foundry
9 5 (1.84%) IBM
9 5 (1.84%) ION Trading
9 5 (1.84%) Reuters
10 4 (1.47%) Cloudera
10 4 (1.47%) Dynatrace
10 4 (1.47%) MuleSoft
10 4 (1.47%) UiPath
11 3 (1.10%) Optimizely
11 3 (1.10%) SaltStack