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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 234 246 273
Rank change year-on-year +12 +27 +18
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 227 123 119
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.13% 0.92% 0.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.27% 0.99% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 152 91 76
10th Percentile £389 £380 £413
25th Percentile £450 £438 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £560 £653
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% -14.18% +8.75%
75th Percentile £638 £653 £756
90th Percentile £723 £800 £780
England median daily rate £502 £550 £612
% change year-on-year -8.73% -10.13% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Median hourly rate - - £23.80
England median hourly rate £76.00 - £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 17,896 12,411 14,387
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.21% 92.39% 88.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,750 8,257 10,026
10th Percentile £362 £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 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £530
% change year-on-year +2.94% -3.77% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 287 255 196
10th Percentile £17.16 £16.50 £17.08
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.72 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.34% -15.71% -12.50%
75th Percentile £56.63 £48.13 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.56
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +4.83%

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 20 August 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 20 August 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 +3 27 £488 -36.07% 13
South London -2 5 £700 +12.90% 1
East London - 3 £612 - 1
West London -22 2 £775 +50.19% 4
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 14 (6.17%) Apache Spark
2 6 (2.64%) Apache
2 6 (2.64%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.76%) CMS
3 4 (1.76%) SAS
4 3 (1.32%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.44%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.44%) IIS
5 1 (0.44%) nginx
5 1 (0.44%) OpenROAD
5 1 (0.44%) Sitecore CMS
5 1 (0.44%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.44%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.88%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (1.32%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.44%) Misys Equation
2 1 (0.44%) Misys Midas
2 1 (0.44%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.44%) SAP CRM
2 1 (0.44%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 125 (55.07%) Azure
2 90 (39.65%) AWS
3 63 (27.75%) Azure DevOps
4 49 (21.59%) GitHub
5 40 (17.62%) GitHub Actions
6 35 (15.42%) Serverless
7 26 (11.45%) AWS Lambda
8 25 (11.01%) Power Platform
9 23 (10.13%) Amazon EKS
10 21 (9.25%) Amazon S3
10 21 (9.25%) GCP
11 19 (8.37%) Amazon ECS
12 16 (7.05%) Amazon SQS
13 15 (6.61%) Entra ID
14 14 (6.17%) Amazon EC2
14 14 (6.17%) Azure Monitor
15 13 (5.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 13 (5.73%) AWS CloudFormation
16 12 (5.29%) Azure AKS
16 12 (5.29%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 15 (6.61%) Firewall
2 6 (2.64%) DMZ
2 6 (2.64%) VPN
3 5 (2.20%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.76%) Internet
4 4 (1.76%) Network Security
5 3 (1.32%) DNS
5 3 (1.32%) Kerberos
5 3 (1.32%) NGFW
6 1 (0.44%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.44%) OpenLDAP
6 1 (0.44%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.44%) SSL
6 1 (0.44%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (8.37%) Power BI
2 15 (6.61%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (6.17%) Data Warehouse
3 14 (6.17%) SQL Server
4 13 (5.73%) Relational Database
5 9 (3.96%) Big Data
5 9 (3.96%) NoSQL
6 8 (3.52%) Data Lake
6 8 (3.52%) Redis
7 7 (3.08%) Amazon Athena
7 7 (3.08%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (3.08%) Metadata
7 7 (3.08%) MongoDB
8 4 (1.76%) DynamoDB
8 4 (1.76%) MySQL
8 4 (1.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (1.32%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (1.32%) Data Mart
9 3 (1.32%) SAS Data Integration Studio
9 3 (1.32%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 45 (19.82%) GitLab
2 43 (18.94%) Git
3 41 (18.06%) Jenkins
4 7 (3.08%) JIRA
4 7 (3.08%) Selenium
5 5 (2.20%) MSI
6 4 (1.76%) JUnit
6 4 (1.76%) Maven
6 4 (1.76%) SonarQube
6 4 (1.76%) TeamCity
7 3 (1.32%) Cypress.io
7 3 (1.32%) git-flow
7 3 (1.32%) Octopus Deploy
7 3 (1.32%) Terragrunt
7 3 (1.32%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.88%) AdminStudio
8 2 (0.88%) InstallShield
8 2 (0.88%) JMeter
8 2 (0.88%) Storybook
8 2 (0.88%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 65 (28.63%) Social Skills
2 55 (24.23%) Finance
3 34 (14.98%) Public Sector
4 26 (11.45%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (11.01%) Banking
6 6 (2.64%) Front Office
6 6 (2.64%) Marketing
6 6 (2.64%) Retail
7 5 (2.20%) Investment Banking
8 4 (1.76%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.32%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.32%) Legal
10 2 (0.88%) Back Office
10 2 (0.88%) Law
10 2 (0.88%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.44%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.44%) Prime Brokerage
11 1 (0.44%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 47 (20.70%) Senior
2 44 (19.38%) Developer
3 41 (18.06%) DevOps Engineer
4 25 (11.01%) Cloud Engineer
5 23 (10.13%) Lead
6 21 (9.25%) Azure Engineer
7 18 (7.93%) Architect
8 16 (7.05%) Software Engineer
9 15 (6.61%) AWS Engineer
10 14 (6.17%) Data Engineer
10 14 (6.17%) Full-Stack Developer
10 14 (6.17%) Platform Engineer
11 13 (5.73%) Senior Developer
12 10 (4.41%) AWS DevOps
13 9 (3.96%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 9 (3.96%) Senior Software Engineer
14 8 (3.52%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 8 (3.52%) Senior Cloud Engineer
14 8 (3.52%) Senior DevOps
14 8 (3.52%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (41.41%) Terraform
2 42 (18.50%) REST
3 32 (14.10%) RESTful
4 28 (12.33%) React
5 27 (11.89%) Kafka
6 25 (11.01%) .NET
7 13 (5.73%) AngularJS
8 12 (5.29%) .NET Core
8 12 (5.29%) .NET Framework
8 12 (5.29%) PySpark
9 10 (4.41%) FastAPI
9 10 (4.41%) OAuth
9 10 (4.41%) Spring
9 10 (4.41%) Spring Boot
9 10 (4.41%) YAML
10 8 (3.52%) Node.js
10 8 (3.52%) OAuth2
10 8 (3.52%) OpenID
10 8 (3.52%) Redux
11 7 (3.08%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 73 (32.16%) Cloud Native
2 29 (12.78%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (5.73%) Enterprise Software
4 12 (5.29%) Onboarding
5 9 (3.96%) Legacy Systems
5 9 (3.96%) Product Ownership
6 5 (2.20%) AI Agents
6 5 (2.20%) Enterprise Cloud
6 5 (2.20%) NHS
7 4 (1.76%) CMDB
7 4 (1.76%) Distributed Architecture
7 4 (1.76%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (1.76%) Life Science
8 3 (1.32%) Client/Server
8 3 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.32%) Derivative
8 3 (1.32%) Distributed Computing
8 3 (1.32%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (1.32%) Security Posture
9 2 (0.88%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 26 (11.45%) Linux
2 15 (6.61%) Windows
3 9 (3.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (3.08%) Unix
5 4 (1.76%) Windows Server
6 3 (1.32%) Ubuntu
6 3 (1.32%) VMS
7 2 (0.88%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.88%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.44%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.44%) Android
8 1 (0.44%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.44%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.44%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 178 (78.41%) CI/CD
2 141 (62.11%) DevOps
3 103 (45.37%) Infrastructure as Code
4 96 (42.29%) Agile
5 74 (32.60%) Test Automation
6 70 (30.84%) Containerisation
7 47 (20.70%) Microservices
8 45 (19.82%) AI
8 45 (19.82%) Observability
9 44 (19.38%) Continuous Improvement
10 43 (18.94%) Problem-Solving
11 42 (18.50%) Analytics
12 41 (18.06%) Software Engineering
13 38 (16.74%) Platform Engineering
14 36 (15.86%) Event-Driven
15 31 (13.66%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 31 (13.66%) Migration
16 30 (13.22%) DevSecOps
16 30 (13.22%) Mentoring
17 29 (12.78%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 89 (39.21%) Python
2 51 (22.47%) SQL
3 34 (14.98%) Java
3 34 (14.98%) PowerShell
4 28 (12.33%) C#
5 25 (11.01%) JavaScript
6 18 (7.93%) TypeScript
7 17 (7.49%) Bicep
8 16 (7.05%) Bash
9 7 (3.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 6 (2.64%) Shell Script
11 4 (1.76%) Korn
11 4 (1.76%) Scala
12 3 (1.32%) Apex Code
12 3 (1.32%) PL/SQL
12 3 (1.32%) SAS Macro
13 2 (0.88%) PHP
13 2 (0.88%) R
13 2 (0.88%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.88%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 72 (31.72%) Security Cleared
2 60 (26.43%) SC Cleared
3 21 (9.25%) DV Cleared
4 16 (7.05%) Degree
5 13 (5.73%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (4.85%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (3.08%) AWS Certification
7 7 (3.08%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (1.32%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 3 (1.32%) MCSA
8 3 (1.32%) MCSE
9 2 (0.88%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (0.88%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.44%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (0.44%) PhD
10 1 (0.44%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.44%) PMP
10 1 (0.44%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (15.42%) QA
2 8 (3.52%) Data Quality
3 7 (3.08%) Accessibility
4 5 (2.20%) GDPR
5 3 (1.32%) ISO 20022
5 3 (1.32%) WCAG
6 1 (0.44%) EU AI Act
6 1 (0.44%) ISO 15022
6 1 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.44%) NCSC
6 1 (0.44%) PMO
6 1 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.44%) SLA
6 1 (0.44%) SOC 2
System Software
1 64 (28.19%) Docker
2 11 (4.85%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.64%) Virtual Desktop
3 6 (2.64%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (2.20%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (0.44%) Varnish
5 1 (0.44%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.44%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 74 (32.60%) Kubernetes
2 24 (10.57%) Ansible
3 12 (5.29%) SCCM
4 10 (4.41%) Grafana
5 9 (3.96%) Microsoft Intune
5 9 (3.96%) Prometheus
6 5 (2.20%) WSUS
7 4 (1.76%) Control-M
7 4 (1.76%) Puppet
8 3 (1.32%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.88%) Argo
9 2 (0.88%) Istio
10 1 (0.44%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.44%) ITRS Geneos
10 1 (0.44%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.44%) Packer
10 1 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.44%) systemd
Vendors
1 50 (22.03%) Microsoft
2 13 (5.73%) Google
3 11 (4.85%) Databricks
3 11 (4.85%) Salesforce
4 10 (4.41%) Oracle
5 6 (2.64%) Red Hat
6 5 (2.20%) Bloomberg
6 5 (2.20%) Citrix
6 5 (2.20%) ION Trading
6 5 (2.20%) Reuters
6 5 (2.20%) Splunk
7 4 (1.76%) Foundry
7 4 (1.76%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.32%) Cloudera
8 3 (1.32%) Dynatrace
8 3 (1.32%) IBM
8 3 (1.32%) SaltStack
9 2 (0.88%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.88%) UiPath
9 2 (0.88%) Veracode