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 1 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 257 276 310
Rank change year-on-year +19 +34 -16
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 116 110 115
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.83% 0.70% 0.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.90% 0.78% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 57 77
10th Percentile £402 £476 £425
25th Percentile £447 £531 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £630 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.73% +9.57% -8.00%
75th Percentile £653 £788 £656
90th Percentile £813 £838 £758
England median daily rate £525 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% -6.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
Median hourly rate - £23.80 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year - +8.18% -
England median hourly rate £22.58 £54.40 £22.00
% change year-on-year -58.50% +147.27% -

All Process and 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 12,904 14,060 17,647
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.94% 89.70% 89.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,504 9,083 12,650
10th Percentile £335 £350 £353
25th Percentile £425 £450 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £567
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.96% -3.72%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £764 £800 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £548
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.11% -0.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 242 169 237
10th Percentile £18.25 £17.25 £18.54
25th Percentile £24.50 £23.80 £21.50
Median hourly rate £29.25 £37.00 £35.63
Median % change year-on-year -20.95% +3.85% -9.80%
75th Percentile £47.38 £53.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £66.50 £80.75 £76.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.14%

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 1 December 2025.

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 1 December 2025. 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 0 8 £575 -2.13% 4
South London -2 2 £568 -
East London +4 1 £540 -14.29% 2
West London -11 1 £375 -
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 2 (1.72%) Apache
1 2 (1.72%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (1.72%) Apache Spark
1 2 (1.72%) Confluence
1 2 (1.72%) nginx
2 1 (0.86%) Camunda
2 1 (0.86%) CMS
2 1 (0.86%) Headless CMS
2 1 (0.86%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.86%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (0.86%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (1.72%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.86%) Endur
2 1 (0.86%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 38 (32.76%) Azure
2 36 (31.03%) AWS
3 20 (17.24%) GitHub
4 18 (15.52%) Serverless
5 16 (13.79%) GitHub Actions
6 15 (12.93%) AWS Lambda
7 14 (12.07%) AWS CloudFormation
8 13 (11.21%) Azure DevOps
9 12 (10.34%) Amazon S3
10 10 (8.62%) GCP
11 8 (6.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 8 (6.90%) Amazon EC2
11 8 (6.90%) Azure Data Factory
12 6 (5.17%) Datadog
12 6 (5.17%) Power Platform
13 5 (4.31%) Amazon ECS
13 5 (4.31%) Amazon EKS
13 5 (4.31%) Amazon SQS
13 5 (4.31%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 5 (4.31%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (7.76%) HTTPS
2 6 (5.17%) DNS
2 6 (5.17%) Firewall
2 6 (5.17%) SSL
3 5 (4.31%) Network Security
4 4 (3.45%) VPN
5 3 (2.59%) DHCP
5 3 (2.59%) TCP/IP
6 2 (1.72%) HTTP
6 2 (1.72%) Internet
7 1 (0.86%) BGP
7 1 (0.86%) Calico
7 1 (0.86%) DMZ
7 1 (0.86%) Ethernet VPN
7 1 (0.86%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.86%) VLAN
7 1 (0.86%) VSAN
7 1 (0.86%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (8.62%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (7.76%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (6.03%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (5.17%) NoSQL
4 6 (5.17%) Relational Database
5 5 (4.31%) Data Lake
6 4 (3.45%) SQL Server
7 3 (2.59%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (2.59%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (2.59%) Power BI
7 3 (2.59%) Star Schema
8 2 (1.72%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (1.72%) Delta Lake
8 2 (1.72%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.72%) ImageNet
8 2 (1.72%) MongoDB
8 2 (1.72%) Spark SQL
9 1 (0.86%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.86%) Metadata
9 1 (0.86%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 20 (17.24%) Git
2 17 (14.66%) Jenkins
3 10 (8.62%) GitLab
4 5 (4.31%) JIRA
5 3 (2.59%) Maven
6 2 (1.72%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.72%) CircleCI
6 2 (1.72%) Gradle
7 1 (0.86%) Android Studio
7 1 (0.86%) JUnit
7 1 (0.86%) Mockito
7 1 (0.86%) Spinnaker
7 1 (0.86%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.86%) Vagrant
General
1 32 (27.59%) Social Skills
2 17 (14.66%) Public Sector
3 15 (12.93%) Finance
4 8 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (4.31%) Marketing
6 4 (3.45%) Banking
6 4 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.59%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.72%) Back Office
8 2 (1.72%) Digital Healthcare
8 2 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.72%) Electronics
8 2 (1.72%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.72%) Military
8 2 (1.72%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.86%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.86%) Front Office
9 1 (0.86%) Police
9 1 (0.86%) Publishing
9 1 (0.86%) Retail
Job Titles
1 38 (32.76%) Developer
2 14 (12.07%) Architect
3 13 (11.21%) Lead
4 11 (9.48%) DevOps Engineer
5 9 (7.76%) Azure Engineer
6 8 (6.90%) Data Engineer
6 8 (6.90%) Senior
7 7 (6.03%) Azure Data Engineer
7 7 (6.03%) Python Developer
7 7 (6.03%) Technical Architect
8 6 (5.17%) Full-Stack Developer
9 5 (4.31%) AWS Engineer
9 5 (4.31%) Cloud Engineer
9 5 (4.31%) Consultant
9 5 (4.31%) Engineering Manager
9 5 (4.31%) Full-Stack Python Developer
9 5 (4.31%) Java Developer
9 5 (4.31%) Lead Developer
9 5 (4.31%) Lead DevOps
9 5 (4.31%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (13.79%) JSON
1 16 (13.79%) REST
2 15 (12.93%) RESTful
3 14 (12.07%) React
3 14 (12.07%) XML
4 12 (10.34%) SOAP
5 11 (9.48%) AngularJS
5 11 (9.48%) Spring
6 9 (7.76%) Kafka
7 8 (6.90%) OAuth
8 7 (6.03%) YAML
9 6 (5.17%) .NET
9 6 (5.17%) Next.js
9 6 (5.17%) PySpark
9 6 (5.17%) Spring Boot
10 5 (4.31%) ARM Templates
10 5 (4.31%) FastAPI
10 5 (4.31%) Jest
10 5 (4.31%) Node.js
10 5 (4.31%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 13 (11.21%) Cloud Native
2 8 (6.90%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (4.31%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (2.59%) Distributed Computing
4 3 (2.59%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (2.59%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.72%) Clustering
5 2 (1.72%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.72%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (1.72%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.72%) NHS
5 2 (1.72%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.72%) PACS
6 1 (0.86%) CMDB
6 1 (0.86%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.86%) Ray Tracing
Operating Systems
1 18 (15.52%) Linux
2 6 (5.17%) Windows
3 4 (3.45%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.72%) Android
4 2 (1.72%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.72%) Ubuntu
4 2 (1.72%) Unix
4 2 (1.72%) VMS
5 1 (0.86%) CentOS
5 1 (0.86%) Debian
5 1 (0.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (68.10%) CI/CD
2 76 (65.52%) DevOps
3 45 (38.79%) Test Automation
4 37 (31.90%) Containerisation
4 37 (31.90%) Infrastructure as Code
5 33 (28.45%) Agile
6 29 (25.00%) Microservices
6 29 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
7 23 (19.83%) Observability
8 20 (17.24%) Analytics
9 18 (15.52%) Continuous Improvement
10 16 (13.79%) Infrastructure Automation
11 15 (12.93%) TDD
12 14 (12.07%) Data Pipeline
13 13 (11.21%) API Development
14 12 (10.34%) Full-Stack Development
14 12 (10.34%) Scrum
15 11 (9.48%) Data Engineering
15 11 (9.48%) ETL
15 11 (9.48%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 41 (35.34%) Python
2 30 (25.86%) SQL
3 26 (22.41%) Java
4 17 (14.66%) TypeScript
5 13 (11.21%) Bash
6 12 (10.34%) JavaScript
7 8 (6.90%) PowerShell
8 6 (5.17%) C#
9 5 (4.31%) Bicep
9 5 (4.31%) Go
10 3 (2.59%) PHP
11 2 (1.72%) Kotlin
11 2 (1.72%) PromQL
11 2 (1.72%) Ruby
11 2 (1.72%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.86%) Groovy
12 1 (0.86%) Objective-C
12 1 (0.86%) Perl
12 1 (0.86%) Scala
12 1 (0.86%) Swift
Qualifications
1 34 (29.31%) Security Cleared
2 28 (24.14%) SC Cleared
3 6 (5.17%) AWS Certification
3 6 (5.17%) Degree
4 5 (4.31%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (3.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 4 (3.45%) Azure Certification
5 4 (3.45%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.59%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 3 (2.59%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.59%) Master's Degree
6 3 (2.59%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 2 (1.72%) CISSP
8 1 (0.86%) CCNP
8 1 (0.86%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.86%) CISM
8 1 (0.86%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.72%) Accessibility
1 2 (1.72%) GDPR
1 2 (1.72%) NCSC
1 2 (1.72%) NIST
1 2 (1.72%) PCI DSS
2 1 (0.86%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (0.86%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (0.86%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.86%) HIPAA
2 1 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.86%) NIST 800
2 1 (0.86%) QA
2 1 (0.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 41 (35.34%) Docker
2 8 (6.90%) Active Directory
3 4 (3.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.72%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (1.72%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.72%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (1.72%) Xen
5 1 (0.86%) etcd
5 1 (0.86%) VirtualBox
5 1 (0.86%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 43 (37.07%) Kubernetes
2 39 (33.62%) Terraform
3 11 (9.48%) Ansible
3 11 (9.48%) Prometheus
4 8 (6.90%) Grafana
5 5 (4.31%) ITRS Geneos
6 4 (3.45%) Progress Chef
7 3 (2.59%) Puppet
7 3 (2.59%) vRealize
8 2 (1.72%) Argo
8 2 (1.72%) Istio
9 1 (0.86%) Fluentd
9 1 (0.86%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.86%) Icinga
9 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.86%) Nagios
9 1 (0.86%) Salt
9 1 (0.86%) SCCM
9 1 (0.86%) VxRail
Vendors
1 28 (24.14%) Microsoft
2 12 (10.34%) Databricks
3 8 (6.90%) Google
3 8 (6.90%) VMware
4 6 (5.17%) SAP
5 5 (4.31%) Axway
5 5 (4.31%) Splunk
5 5 (4.31%) webMethods
6 4 (3.45%) IBM
6 4 (3.45%) Pega
6 4 (3.45%) Software AG
7 3 (2.59%) ForgeRock
7 3 (2.59%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.72%) Adobe
8 2 (1.72%) Atlassian
8 2 (1.72%) Bloomberg
8 2 (1.72%) Refinitiv
8 2 (1.72%) Solace
9 1 (0.86%) Cribl.io
9 1 (0.86%) Zend