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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 213 246 274
Rank change year-on-year +33 +28 +26
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 265 116 115
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.31% 0.86% 0.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.48% 0.93% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 172 85 63
10th Percentile £389 £381 £413
25th Percentile £461 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -8.33% -1.03%
75th Percentile £638 £653 £746
90th Percentile £748 £808 £779
England median daily rate £509 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -7.45% -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 17,943 12,436 14,413
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.88% 92.58% 89.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,720 8,226 9,619
10th Percentile £360 £325 £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 298 251 180
10th Percentile £16.70 £17.00 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £33.92 £31.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.67% -10.00% -12.31%
75th Percentile £56.81 £48.13 £55.00
90th Percentile £82.38 £63.75 £72.19
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -1.91%

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 16 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 16 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 -6 31 £520 -35.00% 31
South London +1 9 £700 +12.90% 3
West London -19 5 £663 +28.39% 14
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 15 (5.66%) Apache Spark
2 11 (4.15%) Apache
3 10 (3.77%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (2.64%) CMS
5 2 (0.75%) nginx
5 2 (0.75%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.38%) CICS
6 1 (0.38%) Confluence
6 1 (0.38%) EPiServer
6 1 (0.38%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.38%) IIS
6 1 (0.38%) SAS
6 1 (0.38%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.38%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.38%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.75%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.38%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.38%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 5 (1.89%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.13%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.38%) Misys Equation
3 1 (0.38%) Misys Midas
3 1 (0.38%) SAP CRM
3 1 (0.38%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 145 (54.72%) Azure
2 101 (38.11%) AWS
3 72 (27.17%) Azure DevOps
4 62 (23.40%) GitHub
5 50 (18.87%) GitHub Actions
5 50 (18.87%) Serverless
6 33 (12.45%) AWS Lambda
7 27 (10.19%) GCP
7 27 (10.19%) Power Platform
8 26 (9.81%) Amazon EKS
8 26 (9.81%) Amazon S3
9 25 (9.43%) Entra ID
10 24 (9.06%) Amazon ECS
11 22 (8.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 22 (8.30%) Amazon EC2
12 20 (7.55%) Azure Monitor
13 16 (6.04%) Amazon SQS
13 16 (6.04%) Azure Functions
14 13 (4.91%) Azure AKS
14 13 (4.91%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 19 (7.17%) Firewall
2 6 (2.26%) DMZ
2 6 (2.26%) DNS
2 6 (2.26%) VPN
3 5 (1.89%) Kerberos
3 5 (1.89%) NGFW
3 5 (1.89%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.51%) Internet
5 3 (1.13%) Network Security
6 2 (0.75%) HTTPS
6 2 (0.75%) OpenLDAP
7 1 (0.38%) FTP
7 1 (0.38%) HTTP
7 1 (0.38%) IMAP
7 1 (0.38%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.38%) SMTP
7 1 (0.38%) SSH
7 1 (0.38%) SSL
7 1 (0.38%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (7.55%) Power BI
2 19 (7.17%) SQL Server
3 18 (6.79%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (6.04%) Data Warehouse
4 16 (6.04%) Relational Database
5 14 (5.28%) Data Lake
6 11 (4.15%) NoSQL
7 10 (3.77%) Amazon RDS
7 10 (3.77%) Metadata
8 8 (3.02%) Big Data
8 8 (3.02%) MongoDB
8 8 (3.02%) Redis
9 7 (2.64%) DynamoDB
10 6 (2.26%) BigQuery
10 6 (2.26%) MySQL
11 5 (1.89%) Amazon Athena
11 5 (1.89%) Amazon Redshift
11 5 (1.89%) Delta Lake
11 5 (1.89%) Spark SQL
11 5 (1.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 56 (21.13%) Git
2 53 (20.00%) GitLab
3 51 (19.25%) Jenkins
4 10 (3.77%) JIRA
5 9 (3.40%) Selenium
6 5 (1.89%) MSI
6 5 (1.89%) TeamCity
7 4 (1.51%) Cypress.io
7 4 (1.51%) JUnit
7 4 (1.51%) SonarQube
7 4 (1.51%) Terragrunt
8 3 (1.13%) Maven
8 3 (1.13%) Octopus Deploy
8 3 (1.13%) Storybook
8 3 (1.13%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.75%) AdminStudio
9 2 (0.75%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.75%) Gradle
9 2 (0.75%) InstallShield
9 2 (0.75%) JMeter
General
1 81 (30.57%) Social Skills
2 58 (21.89%) Finance
3 37 (13.96%) Public Sector
4 35 (13.21%) Analytical Skills
5 29 (10.94%) Banking
6 7 (2.64%) Retail
7 6 (2.26%) Front Office
7 6 (2.26%) Marketing
8 5 (1.89%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.51%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.51%) Law
10 3 (1.13%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.13%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.75%) Back Office
11 2 (0.75%) Billing
11 2 (0.75%) Health Technology
11 2 (0.75%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.75%) Spanish Language
12 1 (0.38%) Aviation
12 1 (0.38%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 53 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 50 (18.87%) Senior
3 48 (18.11%) Developer
4 29 (10.94%) Cloud Engineer
4 29 (10.94%) Lead
5 28 (10.57%) Azure Engineer
6 22 (8.30%) Architect
7 19 (7.17%) AWS Engineer
7 19 (7.17%) Data Engineer
8 17 (6.42%) Software Engineer
9 15 (5.66%) Platform Engineer
10 14 (5.28%) AWS DevOps
10 14 (5.28%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 12 (4.53%) Full-Stack Developer
11 12 (4.53%) Senior Developer
11 12 (4.53%) Senior DevOps
11 12 (4.53%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 11 (4.15%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 11 (4.15%) Technical Leader
13 10 (3.77%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 110 (41.51%) Terraform
2 53 (20.00%) REST
3 35 (13.21%) .NET
4 33 (12.45%) React
4 33 (12.45%) RESTful
5 27 (10.19%) Kafka
6 16 (6.04%) OAuth
7 15 (5.66%) PySpark
8 14 (5.28%) .NET Framework
8 14 (5.28%) AngularJS
9 13 (4.91%) .NET Core
9 13 (4.91%) OAuth2
10 12 (4.53%) FastAPI
10 12 (4.53%) HTML
10 12 (4.53%) OpenID
10 12 (4.53%) Spring
10 12 (4.53%) Spring Boot
11 11 (4.15%) ASP.NET
11 11 (4.15%) CSS
12 10 (3.77%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 82 (30.94%) Cloud Native
2 29 (10.94%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (7.17%) Enterprise Software
4 18 (6.79%) Product Ownership
5 14 (5.28%) Onboarding
6 9 (3.40%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (3.02%) Enterprise Cloud
8 6 (2.26%) AI Agents
8 6 (2.26%) CMDB
8 6 (2.26%) Life Science
9 5 (1.89%) Distributed Architecture
9 5 (1.89%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (1.89%) NHS
9 5 (1.89%) Replication
9 5 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (1.51%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.51%) Low-Code
11 3 (1.13%) Client/Server
11 3 (1.13%) Legacy Applications
11 3 (1.13%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 32 (12.08%) Linux
2 16 (6.04%) Windows
3 10 (3.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (3.40%) Unix
5 5 (1.89%) Windows Server
6 4 (1.51%) Ubuntu
7 3 (1.13%) VMS
8 2 (0.75%) Amazon Linux
8 2 (0.75%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.75%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.38%) Android
9 1 (0.38%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.38%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.38%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 215 (81.13%) CI/CD
2 168 (63.40%) DevOps
3 126 (47.55%) Infrastructure as Code
4 114 (43.02%) Agile
5 81 (30.57%) Containerisation
6 76 (28.68%) Test Automation
7 60 (22.64%) Observability
8 58 (21.89%) Continuous Improvement
9 56 (21.13%) AI
10 54 (20.38%) Problem-Solving
11 52 (19.62%) Microservices
11 52 (19.62%) Software Engineering
12 49 (18.49%) Analytics
13 45 (16.98%) Platform Engineering
14 42 (15.85%) Technical Leadership
15 40 (15.09%) Event-Driven
16 39 (14.72%) Stakeholder Management
17 38 (14.34%) Scrum
18 37 (13.96%) Mentoring
19 36 (13.58%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 103 (38.87%) Python
2 60 (22.64%) SQL
3 40 (15.09%) Java
4 37 (13.96%) C#
5 36 (13.58%) PowerShell
6 32 (12.08%) JavaScript
7 22 (8.30%) Bash
7 22 (8.30%) Bicep
7 22 (8.30%) TypeScript
8 9 (3.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 9 (3.40%) Shell Script
9 5 (1.89%) Korn
10 4 (1.51%) Scala
11 3 (1.13%) Go
11 3 (1.13%) Kusto Query Language
11 3 (1.13%) PHP
12 2 (0.75%) Apex Code
12 2 (0.75%) COBOL
12 2 (0.75%) R
12 2 (0.75%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 80 (30.19%) Security Cleared
2 68 (25.66%) SC Cleared
3 22 (8.30%) DV Cleared
4 16 (6.04%) Degree
5 13 (4.91%) Azure Certification
5 13 (4.91%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (4.91%) Microsoft Certification
6 12 (4.53%) AWS Certification
7 5 (1.89%) MCSE
8 3 (1.13%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 3 (1.13%) MCSA
9 2 (0.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (0.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.75%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.38%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (0.38%) PhD
10 1 (0.38%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.38%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (15.47%) QA
2 18 (6.79%) Data Quality
3 7 (2.64%) Accessibility
3 7 (2.64%) GDPR
4 4 (1.51%) WCAG
5 3 (1.13%) ISO 20022
6 2 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.75%) NCSC
7 1 (0.38%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.38%) ISO 15022
7 1 (0.38%) NIST
7 1 (0.38%) PMO
7 1 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.38%) SLA
7 1 (0.38%) SOC 2
System Software
1 76 (28.68%) Docker
2 16 (6.04%) Active Directory
3 9 (3.40%) Virtual Desktop
4 6 (2.26%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (1.89%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (0.38%) DFS Replication
6 1 (0.38%) Dovecot
6 1 (0.38%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.38%) Postfix
6 1 (0.38%) RACF
6 1 (0.38%) Squid
6 1 (0.38%) Time Sharing Option
6 1 (0.38%) Varnish
6 1 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.38%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 80 (30.19%) Kubernetes
2 34 (12.83%) Ansible
3 14 (5.28%) Grafana
4 13 (4.91%) Prometheus
5 12 (4.53%) Microsoft Intune
6 11 (4.15%) SCCM
7 6 (2.26%) WSUS
8 4 (1.51%) Control-M
8 4 (1.51%) Puppet
9 3 (1.13%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.75%) Argo
10 2 (0.75%) Istio
11 1 (0.38%) Cilium
11 1 (0.38%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.38%) ITRS Geneos
11 1 (0.38%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.38%) Packer
11 1 (0.38%) Proxmox
11 1 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.38%) systemd
Vendors
1 65 (24.53%) Microsoft
2 20 (7.55%) Databricks
3 18 (6.79%) Google
4 15 (5.66%) Oracle
5 10 (3.77%) Salesforce
6 8 (3.02%) Red Hat
6 8 (3.02%) Splunk
7 5 (1.89%) Bloomberg
7 5 (1.89%) Citrix
7 5 (1.89%) Foundry
7 5 (1.89%) ION Trading
7 5 (1.89%) Reuters
7 5 (1.89%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.51%) Cloudera
8 4 (1.51%) IBM
8 4 (1.51%) UiPath
9 3 (1.13%) Dynatrace
9 3 (1.13%) OneTrust
9 3 (1.13%) OpenAI
9 3 (1.13%) Optimizely