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

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 242 265 314
Rank change year-on-year +23 +49 -27
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 123 91 89
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.87% 0.65% 0.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.95% 0.72% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 50 56
10th Percentile £400 £485 £444
25th Percentile £442 £551 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £700 £575
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +21.74% -8.91%
75th Percentile £644 £809 £650
90th Percentile £785 £838 £759
England median daily rate £519 £612 £575
% change year-on-year -15.28% +6.43% -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £22.00
England median hourly rate £22.58 £85.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -73.44% +286.36% -

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 12,887 12,677 16,143
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.35% 90.27% 88.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,501 8,101 11,545
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -5.46%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 222 155 258
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.94 £16.52
25th Percentile £24.61 £23.99 £19.99
Median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -13.33%
75th Percentile £53.59 £54.50 £54.03
90th Percentile £69.30 £80.75 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.75 £42.50
% change year-on-year -27.63% -18.24% +21.43%

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 11 January 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 11 January 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 7 £495 -17.50% 13
West London - 2 £375 - 1
East London -1 1 £540 -14.29%
South London -7 1 £515 -37.20% 3
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 4 (3.25%) Appian
2 2 (1.63%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.63%) nginx
3 1 (0.81%) Apache
3 1 (0.81%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.81%) Camunda
3 1 (0.81%) ColdFusion
3 1 (0.81%) Confluence
3 1 (0.81%) Traefik
Applications
1 2 (1.63%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.81%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.81%) Endur
1 1 (0.81%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 54 (43.90%) Azure
2 29 (23.58%) AWS
3 23 (18.70%) GitHub
4 16 (13.01%) Azure DevOps
5 15 (12.20%) GitHub Actions
5 15 (12.20%) Serverless
6 12 (9.76%) Power Platform
7 11 (8.94%) AWS Lambda
8 9 (7.32%) Azure Data Factory
9 8 (6.50%) AWS CloudFormation
10 7 (5.69%) Amazon S3
10 7 (5.69%) GCP
11 6 (4.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 6 (4.88%) Datadog
11 6 (4.88%) Power Automate
12 5 (4.07%) Amazon ECS
12 5 (4.07%) Amazon EKS
12 5 (4.07%) Azure Key Vault
12 5 (4.07%) Entra ID
12 5 (4.07%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (8.13%) HTTPS
2 6 (4.88%) SSL
3 4 (3.25%) DHCP
3 4 (3.25%) DNS
3 4 (3.25%) Firewall
4 3 (2.44%) TCP/IP
4 3 (2.44%) VPN
5 2 (1.63%) Internet
5 2 (1.63%) Network Security
6 1 (0.81%) BGP
6 1 (0.81%) Calico
6 1 (0.81%) DMZ
6 1 (0.81%) Ethernet VPN
6 1 (0.81%) HTTP
6 1 (0.81%) SMS
6 1 (0.81%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (0.81%) VSAN
6 1 (0.81%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (9.76%) Relational Database
2 11 (8.94%) SQL Server
3 8 (6.50%) Data Lake
3 8 (6.50%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (6.50%) Power BI
3 8 (6.50%) Spark SQL
4 7 (5.69%) Azure SQL Database
4 7 (5.69%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (4.07%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (4.07%) NoSQL
6 4 (3.25%) Pinecone
7 3 (2.44%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (2.44%) Redis
7 3 (2.44%) Star Schema
8 2 (1.63%) ImageNet
9 1 (0.81%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (0.81%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.81%) Delta Lake
9 1 (0.81%) Oracle ODI
9 1 (0.81%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 23 (18.70%) Git
2 15 (12.20%) GitLab
3 12 (9.76%) Jenkins
4 4 (3.25%) MLflow
5 3 (2.44%) Artifactory
5 3 (2.44%) JIRA
6 2 (1.63%) CircleCI
6 2 (1.63%) Gradle
6 2 (1.63%) Maven
7 1 (0.81%) Android Studio
7 1 (0.81%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.81%) JUnit
7 1 (0.81%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.81%) Mockito
7 1 (0.81%) Selenium
7 1 (0.81%) Spinnaker
7 1 (0.81%) TeamCity
General
1 42 (34.15%) Social Skills
2 30 (24.39%) Finance
3 17 (13.82%) Public Sector
4 7 (5.69%) Marketing
5 6 (4.88%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (3.25%) Banking
7 3 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.63%) Back Office
8 2 (1.63%) Digital Healthcare
8 2 (1.63%) Electronics
8 2 (1.63%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.63%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.63%) Military
8 2 (1.63%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.81%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.81%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.81%) Front Office
9 1 (0.81%) Police
9 1 (0.81%) Retail
Job Titles
1 41 (33.33%) Developer
2 16 (13.01%) Architect
2 16 (13.01%) DevOps Engineer
3 11 (8.94%) Lead
4 10 (8.13%) Technical Architect
5 8 (6.50%) Azure Engineer
5 8 (6.50%) Python Developer
5 8 (6.50%) Senior
6 6 (4.88%) Automation Engineer
6 6 (4.88%) Azure Architect
6 6 (4.88%) Cloud Engineer
6 6 (4.88%) Lead DevOps
7 5 (4.07%) Full-Stack Developer
7 5 (4.07%) Full-Stack Python Developer
7 5 (4.07%) Platform Engineer
7 5 (4.07%) React Developer
8 4 (3.25%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 4 (3.25%) Azure Data Engineer
8 4 (3.25%) Data Engineer
8 4 (3.25%) webMethods Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (17.89%) RESTful
2 21 (17.07%) REST
3 17 (13.82%) JSON
4 15 (12.20%) React
4 15 (12.20%) XML
5 13 (10.57%) OAuth
6 12 (9.76%) SOAP
7 11 (8.94%) PySpark
8 10 (8.13%) .NET
9 9 (7.32%) FastAPI
9 9 (7.32%) pytest
10 8 (6.50%) AngularJS
10 8 (6.50%) Kafka
10 8 (6.50%) Spring
11 7 (5.69%) ARM Templates
11 7 (5.69%) HTML
11 7 (5.69%) Spark Streaming
12 6 (4.88%) Spring Boot
12 6 (4.88%) Web Services
12 6 (4.88%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (12.20%) Cloud Native
2 8 (6.50%) Distributed Computing
3 7 (5.69%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (4.88%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (3.25%) Low-Code
6 3 (2.44%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (2.44%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.63%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (1.63%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.63%) Derivative
7 2 (1.63%) Energy Derivatives
7 2 (1.63%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.63%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.63%) NHS
7 2 (1.63%) PACS
8 1 (0.81%) Clustering
8 1 (0.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.81%) Grid Computing
8 1 (0.81%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 20 (16.26%) Linux
2 5 (4.07%) Windows
3 3 (2.44%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.63%) Unix
4 2 (1.63%) VMS
5 1 (0.81%) Android
5 1 (0.81%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.81%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (65.85%) CI/CD
2 78 (63.41%) DevOps
3 43 (34.96%) Test Automation
4 42 (34.15%) Containerisation
4 42 (34.15%) Infrastructure as Code
5 37 (30.08%) Agile
6 28 (22.76%) Microservices
7 26 (21.14%) Problem-Solving
8 22 (17.89%) Observability
9 20 (16.26%) Analytics
10 19 (15.45%) Data Pipeline
10 19 (15.45%) ETL
11 18 (14.63%) API Development
12 17 (13.82%) Infrastructure Automation
13 16 (13.01%) Migration
14 15 (12.20%) Data Engineering
15 14 (11.38%) AI
16 13 (10.57%) Continuous Improvement
16 13 (10.57%) Performance Tuning
17 12 (9.76%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 48 (39.02%) Python
2 40 (32.52%) SQL
3 28 (22.76%) Java
4 18 (14.63%) TypeScript
5 13 (10.57%) JavaScript
6 11 (8.94%) Bash
7 9 (7.32%) Bicep
7 9 (7.32%) PowerShell
8 4 (3.25%) C#
9 3 (2.44%) Go
10 2 (1.63%) Kotlin
10 2 (1.63%) PHP
10 2 (1.63%) Rust
10 2 (1.63%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.81%) CFML
11 1 (0.81%) Objective-C
11 1 (0.81%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.81%) Ruby
11 1 (0.81%) Scala
11 1 (0.81%) Swift
Qualifications
1 36 (29.27%) Security Cleared
2 31 (25.20%) SC Cleared
3 8 (6.50%) Degree
4 7 (5.69%) Azure Certification
5 5 (4.07%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (4.07%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (3.25%) DV Cleared
7 3 (2.44%) AWS Certification
7 3 (2.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (2.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (2.44%) Master's Degree
7 3 (2.44%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 2 (1.63%) CISSP
9 1 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.81%) CCNP
9 1 (0.81%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.81%) CISM
9 1 (0.81%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.50%) GDPR
2 7 (5.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 6 (4.88%) QA
4 4 (3.25%) Data Quality
5 3 (2.44%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.63%) NCSC
6 2 (1.63%) NIST
6 2 (1.63%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.81%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.81%) NIST 800
System Software
1 46 (37.40%) Docker
2 8 (6.50%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.44%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.63%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.63%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (1.63%) Xen
5 1 (0.81%) etcd
5 1 (0.81%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.81%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 45 (36.59%) Kubernetes
2 39 (31.71%) Terraform
3 8 (6.50%) Ansible
3 8 (6.50%) Grafana
3 8 (6.50%) Prometheus
4 4 (3.25%) ITRS Geneos
5 3 (2.44%) vRealize
6 2 (1.63%) Istio
6 2 (1.63%) Progress Chef
6 2 (1.63%) Puppet
7 1 (0.81%) Argo
7 1 (0.81%) Fluentd
7 1 (0.81%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.81%) VxRail
Vendors
1 33 (26.83%) Microsoft
2 8 (6.50%) Databricks
3 7 (5.69%) VMware
4 6 (4.88%) Google
4 6 (4.88%) Salesforce
4 6 (4.88%) SAP
5 5 (4.07%) Axway
5 5 (4.07%) Splunk
5 5 (4.07%) webMethods
6 4 (3.25%) Automation Anywhere
6 4 (3.25%) IBM
6 4 (3.25%) OpenAI
6 4 (3.25%) Software AG
6 4 (3.25%) UiPath
7 3 (2.44%) Adobe
7 3 (2.44%) Apple
7 3 (2.44%) ForgeRock
7 3 (2.44%) Oracle
8 2 (1.63%) Atlassian
8 2 (1.63%) Pega