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

6 months to
28 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 245 266 310
Rank change year-on-year +21 +44 -13
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 145 93 91
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.98% 0.67% 0.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.08% 0.74% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 50 64
10th Percentile £400 £462 £454
25th Percentile £433 £537 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £678 £575
Median % change year-on-year -24.35% +17.83% -10.68%
75th Percentile £626 £822 £653
90th Percentile £784 £838 £763
England median daily rate £518 £612 £575
% change year-on-year -15.44% +6.43% -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £22.00
England median hourly rate £48.63 £85.00 £44.51
% change year-on-year -42.79% +90.97% -31.52%

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 13,441 12,496 16,319
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.03% 90.45% 88.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,906 7,945 11,669
10th Percentile £350 £350 £340
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £501 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.53% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 216 155 323
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.75 £16.25
25th Percentile £25.11 £24.66 £19.53
Median hourly rate £34.14 £35.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.47% +16.67% -20.00%
75th Percentile £56.13 £52.25 £52.50
90th Percentile £71.00 £79.50 £72.70
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year -26.03% -6.85% +4.29%

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 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 28 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 -6 12 £575 -4.17% 10
West London - 2 £375 -
East London +2 1 £540 -14.29%
South London -8 1 £515 -37.20% 2
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 6 (4.14%) Appian
1 6 (4.14%) Camunda
2 3 (2.07%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.38%) nginx
4 1 (0.69%) Apache
4 1 (0.69%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.69%) ColdFusion
4 1 (0.69%) Confluence
4 1 (0.69%) Traefik
Applications
1 2 (1.38%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.69%) Endur
1 1 (0.69%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 64 (44.14%) Azure
2 37 (25.52%) AWS
3 28 (19.31%) GitHub
4 18 (12.41%) GCP
4 18 (12.41%) GitHub Actions
5 16 (11.03%) Azure DevOps
6 15 (10.34%) Serverless
7 14 (9.66%) Power Platform
8 11 (7.59%) AWS Lambda
8 11 (7.59%) Azure Data Factory
9 8 (5.52%) Azure AI
9 8 (5.52%) Power Automate
10 7 (4.83%) Amazon S3
10 7 (4.83%) AWS CloudFormation
10 7 (4.83%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 6 (4.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 6 (4.14%) Anthropic Claude
11 6 (4.14%) Azure AKS
11 6 (4.14%) Datadog
12 5 (3.45%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 10 (6.90%) HTTPS
2 6 (4.14%) Firewall
2 6 (4.14%) SSL
3 5 (3.45%) DHCP
4 4 (2.76%) DNS
4 4 (2.76%) TCP/IP
4 4 (2.76%) VPN
5 3 (2.07%) Network Security
6 2 (1.38%) DMZ
7 1 (0.69%) BGP
7 1 (0.69%) Calico
7 1 (0.69%) Ethernet VPN
7 1 (0.69%) Internet
7 1 (0.69%) SMS
7 1 (0.69%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.69%) VSAN
7 1 (0.69%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (8.97%) SQL Server
2 12 (8.28%) Relational Database
3 9 (6.21%) Power BI
4 8 (5.52%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (5.52%) Spark SQL
5 7 (4.83%) Azure SQL Database
5 7 (4.83%) Data Lake
6 6 (4.14%) Pinecone
6 6 (4.14%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (3.45%) NoSQL
8 4 (2.76%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (2.07%) Apache Cassandra
9 3 (2.07%) Redis
9 3 (2.07%) Star Schema
10 2 (1.38%) ImageNet
10 2 (1.38%) Metadata
11 1 (0.69%) Amazon Athena
11 1 (0.69%) Data Vault
11 1 (0.69%) Delta Lake
11 1 (0.69%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 25 (17.24%) Git
2 15 (10.34%) GitLab
3 12 (8.28%) Jenkins
4 6 (4.14%) MLflow
5 4 (2.76%) Artifactory
6 3 (2.07%) Gradle
6 3 (2.07%) JIRA
6 3 (2.07%) Maven
7 2 (1.38%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.38%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.69%) Android Studio
8 1 (0.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.69%) JUnit
8 1 (0.69%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.69%) Mockito
8 1 (0.69%) Selenium
8 1 (0.69%) Spinnaker
8 1 (0.69%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.69%) Terragrunt
General
1 52 (35.86%) Social Skills
2 38 (26.21%) Finance
3 18 (12.41%) Public Sector
4 8 (5.52%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (4.83%) Marketing
6 5 (3.45%) Banking
7 4 (2.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.07%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.38%) Back Office
9 2 (1.38%) Digital Healthcare
9 2 (1.38%) Electronics
9 2 (1.38%) Front Office
9 2 (1.38%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.38%) Military
9 2 (1.38%) Retail
9 2 (1.38%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.69%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.69%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.69%) Police
Job Titles
1 45 (31.03%) Developer
2 21 (14.48%) Architect
3 17 (11.72%) DevOps Engineer
4 11 (7.59%) Lead
5 10 (6.90%) Senior
5 10 (6.90%) Technical Architect
6 9 (6.21%) Automation Engineer
7 8 (5.52%) Azure Engineer
7 8 (5.52%) Python Developer
8 7 (4.83%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 7 (4.83%) Platform Engineer
9 6 (4.14%) Azure Architect
9 6 (4.14%) Cloud Engineer
9 6 (4.14%) Lead DevOps
10 5 (3.45%) Cloud Architect
10 5 (3.45%) Data Engineer
10 5 (3.45%) Full-Stack Developer
10 5 (3.45%) Full-Stack Python Developer
10 5 (3.45%) GCP Engineer
10 5 (3.45%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (18.62%) REST
1 27 (18.62%) RESTful
2 18 (12.41%) JSON
2 18 (12.41%) React
3 15 (10.34%) OAuth
3 15 (10.34%) XML
4 12 (8.28%) FastAPI
4 12 (8.28%) PySpark
4 12 (8.28%) SOAP
4 12 (8.28%) Spring
5 11 (7.59%) AngularJS
5 11 (7.59%) pytest
5 11 (7.59%) Spring Boot
6 10 (6.90%) .NET
7 9 (6.21%) Kafka
8 8 (5.52%) Web Services
9 7 (4.83%) Django
9 7 (4.83%) Flask
9 7 (4.83%) HTML
9 7 (4.83%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (13.79%) Cloud Native
2 9 (6.21%) Legacy Systems
3 8 (5.52%) Distributed Computing
4 6 (4.14%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (4.14%) Low-Code
5 4 (2.76%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.07%) AI Agents
6 3 (2.07%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (2.07%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.07%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.38%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (1.38%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.38%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.38%) Derivative
7 2 (1.38%) Energy Derivatives
7 2 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.38%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.38%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.38%) NHS
7 2 (1.38%) PACS
Operating Systems
1 21 (14.48%) Linux
2 8 (5.52%) Windows
3 4 (2.76%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.38%) Unix
4 2 (1.38%) VMS
5 1 (0.69%) Android
5 1 (0.69%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.69%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.69%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (67.59%) CI/CD
2 91 (62.76%) DevOps
3 48 (33.10%) Infrastructure as Code
3 48 (33.10%) Test Automation
4 46 (31.72%) Containerisation
5 42 (28.97%) Agile
6 33 (22.76%) Problem-Solving
7 30 (20.69%) Microservices
8 29 (20.00%) Observability
9 24 (16.55%) Data Pipeline
10 22 (15.17%) API Development
11 21 (14.48%) ETL
11 21 (14.48%) Migration
12 20 (13.79%) Analytics
12 20 (13.79%) Data Engineering
13 19 (13.10%) AI
14 18 (12.41%) Infrastructure Automation
15 16 (11.03%) Workflow
16 15 (10.34%) Stakeholder Management
17 14 (9.66%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 57 (39.31%) Python
2 43 (29.66%) SQL
3 33 (22.76%) Java
4 20 (13.79%) TypeScript
5 15 (10.34%) JavaScript
6 12 (8.28%) Bash
7 11 (7.59%) PowerShell
8 9 (6.21%) Bicep
9 6 (4.14%) C#
10 3 (2.07%) Go
11 2 (1.38%) Kotlin
11 2 (1.38%) PHP
11 2 (1.38%) Rust
11 2 (1.38%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.69%) CFML
12 1 (0.69%) Objective-C
12 1 (0.69%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.69%) Ruby
12 1 (0.69%) Scala
12 1 (0.69%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 40 (27.59%) Security Cleared
2 34 (23.45%) SC Cleared
3 8 (5.52%) Degree
4 7 (4.83%) Azure Certification
5 5 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (3.45%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (2.76%) AWS Certification
6 4 (2.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (2.76%) DV Cleared
7 3 (2.07%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (2.07%) Master's Degree
7 3 (2.07%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 2 (1.38%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.38%) CISSP
9 1 (0.69%) CCNP
9 1 (0.69%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.69%) CISM
9 1 (0.69%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.59%) GDPR
2 8 (5.52%) Data Quality
3 7 (4.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 6 (4.14%) QA
5 3 (2.07%) Accessibility
5 3 (2.07%) HIPAA
6 2 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.38%) NCSC
6 2 (1.38%) NIST
6 2 (1.38%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.69%) NIST 800
System Software
1 53 (36.55%) Docker
2 9 (6.21%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.07%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.38%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.38%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (1.38%) Xen
5 1 (0.69%) etcd
5 1 (0.69%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.69%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 54 (37.24%) Kubernetes
2 46 (31.72%) Terraform
3 10 (6.90%) Ansible
4 7 (4.83%) Grafana
4 7 (4.83%) Prometheus
5 4 (2.76%) ITRS Geneos
6 3 (2.07%) Istio
6 3 (2.07%) vRealize
7 2 (1.38%) SCCM
8 1 (0.69%) Argo
8 1 (0.69%) Fluentd
8 1 (0.69%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.69%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.69%) Puppet
8 1 (0.69%) VxRail
8 1 (0.69%) WSUS
Vendors
1 36 (24.83%) Microsoft
2 12 (8.28%) Google
3 8 (5.52%) Databricks
3 8 (5.52%) Salesforce
4 7 (4.83%) OpenAI
4 7 (4.83%) VMware
5 6 (4.14%) Automation Anywhere
5 6 (4.14%) SAP
5 6 (4.14%) UiPath
6 5 (3.45%) Axway
6 5 (3.45%) Splunk
6 5 (3.45%) webMethods
7 4 (2.76%) IBM
7 4 (2.76%) Software AG
8 3 (2.07%) Adobe
8 3 (2.07%) Apple
8 3 (2.07%) ForgeRock
8 3 (2.07%) Oracle
9 2 (1.38%) Atlassian
9 2 (1.38%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud