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

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 233 239 287
Rank change year-on-year +6 +48 +1
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 169 114 106
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.04% 0.88% 0.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.16% 0.97% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 77 71
10th Percentile £400 £420 £450
25th Percentile £449 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £635 £594
Median % change year-on-year -17.32% +6.90% -6.90%
75th Percentile £625 £800 £710
90th Percentile £723 £838 £780
England median daily rate £515 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -10.43% - -9.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £50.25 - -
Median hourly rate £50.50 - £22.00
75th Percentile £50.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £50.50 £85.00 £44.51
% change year-on-year -40.59% +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 14,548 11,757 16,125
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.83% 91.07% 88.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,771 7,824 11,523
10th Percentile £350 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £680 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 221 159 352
10th Percentile £18.07 £20.36 £16.00
25th Percentile £21.46 £24.66 £19.54
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year - +18.33% -16.67%
75th Percentile £56.96 £53.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.68 £69.95
England median hourly rate £30.00 £34.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -13.04% +6.15% -9.72%

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 12 March 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 12 March 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 -23 16 £550 -4.76% 17
West London - 2 £375 - 1
East London +1 1 £449 -28.73%
South London -13 1 £515 -37.20% 1
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 8 (4.73%) Appian
2 6 (3.55%) Camunda
3 3 (1.78%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.78%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.78%) SAS
4 1 (0.59%) Apache
4 1 (0.59%) ColdFusion
4 1 (0.59%) OpenROAD
4 1 (0.59%) Palantir Foundry
4 1 (0.59%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.18%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.59%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.59%) Endur
1 1 (0.59%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 88 (52.07%) Azure
2 49 (28.99%) AWS
3 28 (16.57%) GitHub
4 23 (13.61%) Azure DevOps
5 20 (11.83%) GCP
6 18 (10.65%) Power Platform
6 18 (10.65%) Serverless
7 17 (10.06%) GitHub Actions
8 15 (8.88%) Azure Data Factory
9 13 (7.69%) Azure AI
10 12 (7.10%) AWS CloudFormation
11 10 (5.92%) AWS Lambda
11 10 (5.92%) Azure Key Vault
12 9 (5.33%) Amazon S3
12 9 (5.33%) Azure AKS
12 9 (5.33%) Power Automate
13 8 (4.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 8 (4.73%) Anthropic Claude
13 8 (4.73%) SaaS
14 7 (4.14%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.14%) Firewall
2 6 (3.55%) HTTPS
3 5 (2.96%) DHCP
3 5 (2.96%) DNS
3 5 (2.96%) Software-Defined Networking
3 5 (2.96%) SSL
3 5 (2.96%) TCP/IP
4 4 (2.37%) Network Security
5 3 (1.78%) VPN
6 2 (1.18%) BGP
6 2 (1.18%) DMZ
7 1 (0.59%) Cisco IOS
7 1 (0.59%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (0.59%) Ethernet VPN
7 1 (0.59%) Internet
7 1 (0.59%) IPsec
7 1 (0.59%) OSPF
7 1 (0.59%) SNMP
7 1 (0.59%) VSAN
7 1 (0.59%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (8.88%) SQL Server
2 12 (7.10%) Power BI
3 9 (5.33%) Azure SQL Database
3 9 (5.33%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (5.33%) Relational Database
4 8 (4.73%) Data Lake
4 8 (4.73%) Pinecone
4 8 (4.73%) Spark SQL
5 7 (4.14%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (3.55%) NoSQL
7 4 (2.37%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (2.37%) Redis
8 3 (1.78%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (1.78%) Metadata
8 3 (1.78%) Star Schema
9 2 (1.18%) Big Data
9 2 (1.18%) Data Mart
9 2 (1.18%) ImageNet
9 2 (1.18%) SAS Data Integration Studio
9 2 (1.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 33 (19.53%) Git
2 16 (9.47%) GitLab
3 12 (7.10%) Jenkins
4 8 (4.73%) MLflow
5 4 (2.37%) Artifactory
6 3 (1.78%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.18%) CircleCI
7 2 (1.18%) git-flow
7 2 (1.18%) Gradle
7 2 (1.18%) JIRA
7 2 (1.18%) JUnit
7 2 (1.18%) Maven
8 1 (0.59%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.59%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.59%) Selenium
8 1 (0.59%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.59%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.59%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.59%) Tricentis qTest
8 1 (0.59%) webpack
General
1 58 (34.32%) Social Skills
2 51 (30.18%) Finance
3 24 (14.20%) Public Sector
4 11 (6.51%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (5.33%) Banking
6 7 (4.14%) Marketing
7 4 (2.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.78%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.18%) Back Office
9 2 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.18%) Electronics
9 2 (1.18%) Front Office
9 2 (1.18%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.18%) Military
9 2 (1.18%) Police
9 2 (1.18%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.59%) Law
10 1 (0.59%) Retail
Job Titles
1 43 (25.44%) Developer
2 25 (14.79%) Architect
3 18 (10.65%) Senior
4 17 (10.06%) Lead
5 15 (8.88%) DevOps Engineer
6 14 (8.28%) Azure Engineer
7 12 (7.10%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 10 (5.92%) Automation Engineer
8 10 (5.92%) Technical Architect
9 8 (4.73%) Data Engineer
9 8 (4.73%) Platform Engineer
10 7 (4.14%) Python Developer
11 6 (3.55%) Azure Architect
11 6 (3.55%) Cloud Engineer
11 6 (3.55%) Full-Stack Developer
11 6 (3.55%) React Developer
11 6 (3.55%) Senior Developer
12 5 (2.96%) Cloud Architect
12 5 (2.96%) Lead Developer
12 5 (2.96%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (18.93%) RESTful
2 30 (17.75%) REST
3 20 (11.83%) React
4 15 (8.88%) PySpark
5 14 (8.28%) .NET
5 14 (8.28%) JSON
5 14 (8.28%) OAuth
6 13 (7.69%) FastAPI
7 12 (7.10%) AngularJS
7 12 (7.10%) Kafka
7 12 (7.10%) pytest
7 12 (7.10%) Spring
7 12 (7.10%) Spring Boot
8 11 (6.51%) YAML
9 10 (5.92%) JWT
9 10 (5.92%) Node.js
9 10 (5.92%) Swagger
9 10 (5.92%) Web Services
10 9 (5.33%) Django
10 9 (5.33%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 25 (14.79%) Cloud Native
2 13 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
3 9 (5.33%) Distributed Computing
4 8 (4.73%) Low-Code
5 6 (3.55%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (2.96%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (2.96%) Onboarding
6 5 (2.96%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.78%) AI Agents
7 3 (1.78%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.78%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (1.78%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.78%) Derivative
7 3 (1.78%) Energy Derivatives
7 3 (1.78%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.18%) Fixed Income
8 2 (1.18%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.18%) NHS
8 2 (1.18%) PACS
8 2 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 20 (11.83%) Linux
2 8 (4.73%) Windows
3 4 (2.37%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.18%) Unix
5 1 (0.59%) Android
5 1 (0.59%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.59%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.59%) VMS
5 1 (0.59%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (69.82%) CI/CD
2 100 (59.17%) DevOps
3 65 (38.46%) Infrastructure as Code
4 58 (34.32%) Test Automation
5 48 (28.40%) Containerisation
6 44 (26.04%) Agile
7 33 (19.53%) Problem-Solving
8 32 (18.93%) Analytics
9 31 (18.34%) Microservices
9 31 (18.34%) Observability
10 29 (17.16%) Data Pipeline
11 28 (16.57%) AI
11 28 (16.57%) Migration
12 27 (15.98%) ETL
13 26 (15.38%) Data Engineering
14 21 (12.43%) Validation
15 20 (11.83%) API Development
15 20 (11.83%) Stakeholder Management
15 20 (11.83%) Workflow
16 19 (11.24%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 70 (41.42%) Python
2 50 (29.59%) SQL
3 32 (18.93%) Java
4 21 (12.43%) TypeScript
5 20 (11.83%) PowerShell
6 18 (10.65%) Bicep
7 16 (9.47%) JavaScript
8 12 (7.10%) Bash
8 12 (7.10%) C#
9 3 (1.78%) Kotlin
9 3 (1.78%) PL/SQL
9 3 (1.78%) Rust
9 3 (1.78%) T-SQL
10 2 (1.18%) PHP
10 2 (1.18%) SAS Macro
10 2 (1.18%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.59%) ActionScript
11 1 (0.59%) C
11 1 (0.59%) C++
11 1 (0.59%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 46 (27.22%) Security Cleared
2 38 (22.49%) SC Cleared
3 9 (5.33%) Azure Certification
3 9 (5.33%) Degree
4 6 (3.55%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (2.96%) AWS Certification
5 5 (2.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 5 (2.96%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.37%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.78%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (1.78%) CISSP
7 3 (1.78%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.18%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.18%) CCNP
8 2 (1.18%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.18%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 1 (0.59%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.59%) CISM
9 1 (0.59%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.59%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.51%) Data Quality
1 11 (6.51%) GDPR
1 11 (6.51%) QA
2 7 (4.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 5 (2.96%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.78%) HIPAA
4 3 (1.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.18%) NCSC
5 2 (1.18%) NIST
5 2 (1.18%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.59%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.59%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.59%) WCAG
System Software
1 54 (31.95%) Docker
2 8 (4.73%) Active Directory
3 5 (2.96%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (2.37%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.18%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (1.18%) Xen
6 1 (0.59%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.59%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.59%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 64 (37.87%) Terraform
2 57 (33.73%) Kubernetes
3 13 (7.69%) Ansible
4 6 (3.55%) Grafana
4 6 (3.55%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.78%) ITRS Geneos
6 2 (1.18%) SCCM
6 2 (1.18%) vRealize
7 1 (0.59%) Fluentd
7 1 (0.59%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.59%) Istio
7 1 (0.59%) QRadar
7 1 (0.59%) VxRail
7 1 (0.59%) WSUS
Vendors
1 46 (27.22%) Microsoft
2 14 (8.28%) Salesforce
3 12 (7.10%) Google
3 12 (7.10%) OpenAI
4 8 (4.73%) Automation Anywhere
4 8 (4.73%) Databricks
4 8 (4.73%) UiPath
5 6 (3.55%) Foundry
5 6 (3.55%) Splunk
6 5 (2.96%) VMware
7 4 (2.37%) Apple
7 4 (2.37%) Palo Alto
7 4 (2.37%) SAP
8 3 (1.78%) Adobe
8 3 (1.78%) Axway
8 3 (1.78%) ForgeRock
8 3 (1.78%) IBM
8 3 (1.78%) webMethods
9 2 (1.18%) Atlassian
9 2 (1.18%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud