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 17 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 254 267 300
Rank change year-on-year +13 +33 -6
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 120 108 123
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.87% 0.69% 0.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.94% 0.78% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 55 86
10th Percentile £405 £433 £413
25th Percentile £461 £522 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £688 £775 £661
90th Percentile £825 £820 £759
England median daily rate £537 £600 £581
% change year-on-year -10.50% +3.27% -3.17%
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 12,793 13,929 18,148
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.39% 89.24% 89.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,409 8,974 13,045
10th Percentile £334 £350 £355
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £570
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% -3.51% -3.39%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £507 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.43% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 259 165 251
10th Percentile £17.98 £17.35 £18.57
25th Percentile £24.77 £23.80 £21.63
Median hourly rate £29.50 £37.50 £36.84
Median % change year-on-year -21.33% +1.79% -1.76%
75th Percentile £47.25 £55.75 £61.75
90th Percentile £67.87 £80.45 £76.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £37.25 £44.50
% change year-on-year -32.48% -16.29% +27.14%

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 17 November 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 17 November 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 -4 8 £575 -8.00% 34
South London -8 2 £568 - 2
East London +6 1 £540 -14.29% 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 3 (2.50%) Confluence
2 2 (1.67%) Apache
2 2 (1.67%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.67%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.67%) nginx
3 1 (0.83%) Camunda
3 1 (0.83%) CMS
3 1 (0.83%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.83%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.83%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (0.83%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (1.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.83%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 39 (32.50%) AWS
2 38 (31.67%) Azure
3 22 (18.33%) GitHub
4 18 (15.00%) GitHub Actions
5 16 (13.33%) Serverless
6 14 (11.67%) AWS CloudFormation
7 13 (10.83%) AWS Lambda
7 13 (10.83%) Azure DevOps
8 12 (10.00%) GCP
9 11 (9.17%) Amazon S3
10 8 (6.67%) Amazon SQS
10 8 (6.67%) Azure Data Factory
11 6 (5.00%) Amazon EventBridge
11 6 (5.00%) AWS Step Functions
12 5 (4.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 5 (4.17%) Amazon Cognito
12 5 (4.17%) Amazon EC2
12 5 (4.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 5 (4.17%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 5 (4.17%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 9 (7.50%) HTTPS
2 6 (5.00%) Firewall
2 6 (5.00%) SSL
3 5 (4.17%) DNS
3 5 (4.17%) Network Security
4 4 (3.33%) VPN
5 3 (2.50%) TCP/IP
6 2 (1.67%) DHCP
6 2 (1.67%) HTTP
7 1 (0.83%) BGP
7 1 (0.83%) Calico
7 1 (0.83%) DMZ
7 1 (0.83%) Ethernet VPN
7 1 (0.83%) Internet
7 1 (0.83%) Multicast
7 1 (0.83%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.83%) VLAN
7 1 (0.83%) VSAN
7 1 (0.83%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (7.50%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (5.00%) NoSQL
3 6 (5.00%) Relational Database
4 5 (4.17%) DynamoDB
5 4 (3.33%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (3.33%) Data Lake
6 3 (2.50%) Apache Cassandra
6 3 (2.50%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (2.50%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.67%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (1.67%) Delta Lake
7 2 (1.67%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.67%) Power BI
7 2 (1.67%) Star Schema
8 1 (0.83%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.83%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.83%) Metadata
8 1 (0.83%) Redis
8 1 (0.83%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 22 (18.33%) Git
2 17 (14.17%) Jenkins
3 8 (6.67%) Maven
4 7 (5.83%) GitLab
5 6 (5.00%) JIRA
6 4 (3.33%) TeamCity
7 3 (2.50%) IntelliJ
7 3 (2.50%) SonarQube
7 3 (2.50%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (1.67%) Bitbucket
8 2 (1.67%) CircleCI
8 2 (1.67%) Cypress.io
8 2 (1.67%) Gradle
8 2 (1.67%) JUnit
9 1 (0.83%) Android Studio
9 1 (0.83%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.83%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.83%) Mockito
9 1 (0.83%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.83%) Vagrant
General
1 34 (28.33%) Social Skills
2 17 (14.17%) Finance
3 16 (13.33%) Public Sector
4 12 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (8.33%) Banking
6 7 (5.83%) Investment Banking
7 6 (5.00%) Marketing
8 4 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.50%) Electronics
9 3 (2.50%) Manufacturing
9 3 (2.50%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.67%) Back Office
10 2 (1.67%) Digital Healthcare
10 2 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.67%) Front Office
11 1 (0.83%) Aviation
11 1 (0.83%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.83%) Local Government
11 1 (0.83%) Military
11 1 (0.83%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 42 (35.00%) Developer
2 14 (11.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 12 (10.00%) Architect
3 12 (10.00%) Lead
4 10 (8.33%) Full-Stack Developer
4 10 (8.33%) Senior
5 9 (7.50%) Java Developer
6 8 (6.67%) Azure Engineer
7 7 (5.83%) Data Engineer
7 7 (5.83%) Engineering Manager
7 7 (5.83%) Python Developer
7 7 (5.83%) Technical Architect
8 6 (5.00%) Azure Data Engineer
8 6 (5.00%) Lead Developer
9 5 (4.17%) AWS Engineer
9 5 (4.17%) Cloud Engineer
9 5 (4.17%) Consultant
9 5 (4.17%) Full-Stack Python Developer
9 5 (4.17%) Security Engineer
9 5 (4.17%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (14.17%) REST
1 17 (14.17%) RESTful
2 16 (13.33%) JSON
3 14 (11.67%) XML
4 13 (10.83%) React
4 13 (10.83%) Spring
5 11 (9.17%) AngularJS
5 11 (9.17%) SOAP
6 10 (8.33%) Kafka
7 8 (6.67%) OAuth
7 8 (6.67%) Spring Boot
8 7 (5.83%) GraphQL
8 7 (5.83%) Jest
9 6 (5.00%) .NET
9 6 (5.00%) Next.js
10 5 (4.17%) ARM Templates
10 5 (4.17%) FastAPI
10 5 (4.17%) PySpark
10 5 (4.17%) pytest
10 5 (4.17%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 11 (9.17%) Cloud Native
2 6 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (3.33%) Clustering
3 4 (3.33%) Distributed Computing
3 4 (3.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 4 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.67%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.67%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.67%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.67%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.83%) Animation
6 1 (0.83%) CMDB
6 1 (0.83%) Fat Client
6 1 (0.83%) Grid Computing
6 1 (0.83%) IoT
6 1 (0.83%) PKI
6 1 (0.83%) Thin Client
6 1 (0.83%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 15 (12.50%) Linux
2 6 (5.00%) Windows
3 5 (4.17%) Unix
4 3 (2.50%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.67%) Android
5 2 (1.67%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.67%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.83%) CentOS
6 1 (0.83%) Debian
6 1 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.83%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (70.00%) CI/CD
2 76 (63.33%) DevOps
3 45 (37.50%) Test Automation
4 35 (29.17%) Infrastructure as Code
5 33 (27.50%) Agile
5 33 (27.50%) Containerisation
6 26 (21.67%) Microservices
7 24 (20.00%) Observability
7 24 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
8 19 (15.83%) Analytics
9 17 (14.17%) Continuous Improvement
9 17 (14.17%) Infrastructure Automation
10 16 (13.33%) TDD
11 15 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
11 15 (12.50%) Scrum
12 13 (10.83%) API Development
12 13 (10.83%) Data Pipeline
12 13 (10.83%) Migration
13 11 (9.17%) Technical Leadership
14 10 (8.33%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 39 (32.50%) Python
2 29 (24.17%) SQL
3 27 (22.50%) Java
4 17 (14.17%) JavaScript
4 17 (14.17%) TypeScript
5 12 (10.00%) PowerShell
6 8 (6.67%) Bash
7 7 (5.83%) C#
8 6 (5.00%) Go
9 4 (3.33%) Bicep
10 3 (2.50%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.67%) Groovy
11 2 (1.67%) PromQL
12 1 (0.83%) C++
12 1 (0.83%) Objective-C
12 1 (0.83%) Perl
12 1 (0.83%) PHP
12 1 (0.83%) Ruby
12 1 (0.83%) Scala
12 1 (0.83%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 32 (26.67%) Security Cleared
2 24 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.83%) Degree
4 5 (4.17%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (3.33%) Azure Certification
5 4 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.50%) AWS Certification
6 3 (2.50%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.50%) Master's Degree
6 3 (2.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 2 (1.67%) CISSP
8 1 (0.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.83%) CCNP
8 1 (0.83%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.83%) CISM
8 1 (0.83%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.50%) Accessibility
1 3 (2.50%) QA
2 2 (1.67%) NIST
2 2 (1.67%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.83%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.83%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (0.83%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.83%) GDPR
3 1 (0.83%) HIPAA
3 1 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.83%) NCSC
3 1 (0.83%) NIST 800
System Software
1 41 (34.17%) Docker
2 5 (4.17%) Active Directory
3 4 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.67%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.83%) etcd
5 1 (0.83%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (0.83%) VirtualBox
5 1 (0.83%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.83%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 42 (35.00%) Kubernetes
2 36 (30.00%) Terraform
3 15 (12.50%) Prometheus
4 10 (8.33%) Ansible
5 8 (6.67%) Grafana
6 4 (3.33%) Argo
6 4 (3.33%) ITRS Geneos
6 4 (3.33%) Progress Chef
6 4 (3.33%) Puppet
7 3 (2.50%) vRealize
8 2 (1.67%) Istio
8 2 (1.67%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.83%) Fluentd
9 1 (0.83%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.83%) Icinga
9 1 (0.83%) Nagios
9 1 (0.83%) Salt
9 1 (0.83%) SCCM
9 1 (0.83%) VxRail
Vendors
1 28 (23.33%) Microsoft
2 12 (10.00%) Databricks
3 9 (7.50%) Google
4 7 (5.83%) SAP
4 7 (5.83%) VMware
5 5 (4.17%) Axway
5 5 (4.17%) webMethods
6 4 (3.33%) Bloomberg
6 4 (3.33%) IBM
6 4 (3.33%) Pega
6 4 (3.33%) Refinitiv
6 4 (3.33%) Software AG
6 4 (3.33%) Solace
6 4 (3.33%) Splunk
7 3 (2.50%) ForgeRock
7 3 (2.50%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.67%) Adobe
8 2 (1.67%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.83%) Cloudera
9 1 (0.83%) Rackspace