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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 211 255 261
Rank change year-on-year +44 +6 +49
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 268 118 117
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.33% 0.88% 0.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.49% 0.95% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 175 86 63
10th Percentile £393 £381 £413
25th Percentile £463 £459 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £563 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.89% -6.25% -1.03%
75th Percentile £638 £653 £746
90th Percentile £740 £813 £779
England median daily rate £513 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -6.82% -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 17,959 12,462 14,550
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.91% 92.53% 89.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,758 8,244 9,685
10th Percentile £360 £327 £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 302 252 179
10th Percentile £16.52 £17.01 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.00 £31.75 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.24% -9.29% -9.58%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.56 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £72.50
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -3.37%

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 18 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 18 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 +1 32 £523 -34.69% 27
South London 0 9 £700 +12.90% 4
West London -19 5 £663 +28.39% 15
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 16 (5.97%) Apache Spark
2 12 (4.48%) Apache
3 10 (3.73%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (2.61%) CMS
5 2 (0.75%) nginx
5 2 (0.75%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.37%) CICS
6 1 (0.37%) Confluence
6 1 (0.37%) EPiServer
6 1 (0.37%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.37%) IIS
6 1 (0.37%) SAS
6 1 (0.37%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.37%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.37%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.75%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.37%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.37%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 5 (1.87%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.12%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.75%) SAP MDG
3 2 (0.75%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.37%) Misys Equation
4 1 (0.37%) Misys Midas
4 1 (0.37%) SAP CRM
4 1 (0.37%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 148 (55.22%) Azure
2 101 (37.69%) AWS
3 74 (27.61%) Azure DevOps
4 63 (23.51%) GitHub
5 51 (19.03%) GitHub Actions
6 49 (18.28%) Serverless
7 32 (11.94%) AWS Lambda
8 28 (10.45%) GCP
9 27 (10.07%) Amazon S3
9 27 (10.07%) Entra ID
9 27 (10.07%) Power Platform
10 26 (9.70%) Amazon EKS
11 24 (8.96%) Amazon EC2
11 24 (8.96%) Amazon ECS
12 23 (8.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 23 (8.58%) Azure Monitor
13 16 (5.97%) Azure Functions
14 15 (5.60%) Amazon SQS
15 14 (5.22%) Azure AKS
16 12 (4.48%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 19 (7.09%) Firewall
2 6 (2.24%) DMZ
2 6 (2.24%) DNS
2 6 (2.24%) VPN
3 5 (1.87%) Kerberos
3 5 (1.87%) NGFW
3 5 (1.87%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.49%) Internet
5 3 (1.12%) Network Security
6 2 (0.75%) HTTPS
6 2 (0.75%) OpenLDAP
7 1 (0.37%) FTP
7 1 (0.37%) HTTP
7 1 (0.37%) IMAP
7 1 (0.37%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.37%) SMTP
7 1 (0.37%) SSH
7 1 (0.37%) SSL
7 1 (0.37%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (7.46%) Power BI
2 19 (7.09%) SQL Server
3 17 (6.34%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (6.34%) Relational Database
4 15 (5.60%) Data Lake
4 15 (5.60%) Data Warehouse
5 10 (3.73%) Amazon RDS
5 10 (3.73%) Metadata
5 10 (3.73%) NoSQL
6 8 (2.99%) Big Data
6 8 (2.99%) Redis
7 7 (2.61%) MongoDB
8 6 (2.24%) BigQuery
8 6 (2.24%) DynamoDB
8 6 (2.24%) MySQL
9 5 (1.87%) Amazon Athena
9 5 (1.87%) Amazon Redshift
9 5 (1.87%) Delta Lake
9 5 (1.87%) Spark SQL
9 5 (1.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 57 (21.27%) Git
2 56 (20.90%) GitLab
3 52 (19.40%) Jenkins
4 12 (4.48%) JIRA
5 9 (3.36%) Selenium
6 5 (1.87%) MSI
6 5 (1.87%) TeamCity
7 4 (1.49%) Cypress.io
7 4 (1.49%) JUnit
7 4 (1.49%) SonarQube
7 4 (1.49%) Terragrunt
8 3 (1.12%) Maven
8 3 (1.12%) Octopus Deploy
8 3 (1.12%) Storybook
8 3 (1.12%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.75%) AdminStudio
9 2 (0.75%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.75%) Gradle
9 2 (0.75%) InstallShield
9 2 (0.75%) JMeter
General
1 85 (31.72%) Social Skills
2 58 (21.64%) Finance
3 36 (13.43%) Analytical Skills
3 36 (13.43%) Public Sector
4 29 (10.82%) Banking
5 7 (2.61%) Retail
6 6 (2.24%) Front Office
6 6 (2.24%) Marketing
7 5 (1.87%) Investment Banking
8 4 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.49%) Law
9 3 (1.12%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.12%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.75%) Back Office
10 2 (0.75%) Billing
10 2 (0.75%) Health Technology
10 2 (0.75%) Local Government
10 2 (0.75%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (0.75%) Spanish Language
11 1 (0.37%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 56 (20.90%) DevOps Engineer
2 50 (18.66%) Senior
3 46 (17.16%) Developer
4 30 (11.19%) Azure Engineer
4 30 (11.19%) Lead
5 29 (10.82%) Cloud Engineer
6 23 (8.58%) Architect
7 20 (7.46%) AWS Engineer
8 18 (6.72%) Data Engineer
9 17 (6.34%) Software Engineer
10 15 (5.60%) AWS DevOps
10 15 (5.60%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 14 (5.22%) Platform Engineer
12 12 (4.48%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 12 (4.48%) Senior Developer
12 12 (4.48%) Senior DevOps
12 12 (4.48%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 11 (4.10%) Technical Leader
14 10 (3.73%) Full-Stack Developer
14 10 (3.73%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 112 (41.79%) Terraform
2 55 (20.52%) REST
3 36 (13.43%) .NET
4 31 (11.57%) React
4 31 (11.57%) RESTful
5 27 (10.07%) Kafka
6 18 (6.72%) OAuth
7 16 (5.97%) PySpark
8 15 (5.60%) .NET Framework
8 15 (5.60%) OAuth2
9 14 (5.22%) AngularJS
10 13 (4.85%) .NET Core
11 12 (4.48%) ASP.NET
11 12 (4.48%) FastAPI
11 12 (4.48%) HTML
11 12 (4.48%) OpenID
11 12 (4.48%) Spring
11 12 (4.48%) Spring Boot
12 11 (4.10%) CSS
13 10 (3.73%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 81 (30.22%) Cloud Native
2 29 (10.82%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (7.09%) Enterprise Software
4 18 (6.72%) Product Ownership
5 14 (5.22%) Onboarding
6 10 (3.73%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (2.99%) Enterprise Cloud
8 7 (2.61%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (2.24%) AI Agents
9 6 (2.24%) CMDB
9 6 (2.24%) Life Science
10 5 (1.87%) Distributed Architecture
10 5 (1.87%) Hybrid Cloud
10 5 (1.87%) NHS
10 5 (1.87%) Replication
11 4 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (1.49%) Low-Code
12 3 (1.12%) Client/Server
12 3 (1.12%) Legacy Applications
12 3 (1.12%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 32 (11.94%) Linux
2 16 (5.97%) Windows
3 10 (3.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (3.36%) Unix
5 5 (1.87%) Windows Server
6 4 (1.49%) Ubuntu
6 4 (1.49%) VMS
7 2 (0.75%) Amazon Linux
7 2 (0.75%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.75%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.37%) Android
8 1 (0.37%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.37%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.37%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 219 (81.72%) CI/CD
2 172 (64.18%) DevOps
3 128 (47.76%) Infrastructure as Code
4 117 (43.66%) Agile
5 81 (30.22%) Containerisation
6 77 (28.73%) Test Automation
7 64 (23.88%) Observability
8 59 (22.01%) Continuous Improvement
9 57 (21.27%) AI
10 54 (20.15%) Problem-Solving
11 53 (19.78%) Microservices
11 53 (19.78%) Software Engineering
12 50 (18.66%) Analytics
13 44 (16.42%) Platform Engineering
13 44 (16.42%) Technical Leadership
14 42 (15.67%) Stakeholder Management
15 40 (14.93%) Event-Driven
16 39 (14.55%) Mentoring
16 39 (14.55%) Migration
17 38 (14.18%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 105 (39.18%) Python
2 60 (22.39%) SQL
3 40 (14.93%) Java
4 38 (14.18%) C#
5 37 (13.81%) PowerShell
6 33 (12.31%) JavaScript
7 22 (8.21%) Bash
7 22 (8.21%) Bicep
7 22 (8.21%) TypeScript
8 9 (3.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 9 (3.36%) Shell Script
9 5 (1.87%) Korn
10 4 (1.49%) Go
10 4 (1.49%) Scala
11 3 (1.12%) Kusto Query Language
11 3 (1.12%) PHP
12 2 (0.75%) Apex Code
12 2 (0.75%) COBOL
12 2 (0.75%) Groovy
12 2 (0.75%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 83 (30.97%) Security Cleared
2 70 (26.12%) SC Cleared
3 22 (8.21%) DV Cleared
4 16 (5.97%) Degree
5 14 (5.22%) Azure Certification
5 14 (5.22%) Microsoft Certification
6 13 (4.85%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (4.48%) AWS Certification
8 5 (1.87%) MCSE
9 3 (1.12%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (1.12%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 3 (1.12%) MCSA
10 2 (0.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (0.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.75%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.37%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 1 (0.37%) PhD
11 1 (0.37%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.37%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (15.30%) QA
2 18 (6.72%) Data Quality
3 7 (2.61%) GDPR
4 6 (2.24%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.49%) WCAG
6 3 (1.12%) ISO 20022
6 3 (1.12%) NCSC
7 2 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.37%) EU AI Act
8 1 (0.37%) ISO 15022
8 1 (0.37%) NIST
8 1 (0.37%) PMO
8 1 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.37%) SLA
8 1 (0.37%) SOC 2
System Software
1 76 (28.36%) Docker
2 17 (6.34%) Active Directory
3 10 (3.73%) Virtual Desktop
4 7 (2.61%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (1.87%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (0.37%) DFS Replication
6 1 (0.37%) Dovecot
6 1 (0.37%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.37%) Postfix
6 1 (0.37%) RACF
6 1 (0.37%) Squid
6 1 (0.37%) Time Sharing Option
6 1 (0.37%) Varnish
6 1 (0.37%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.37%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 80 (29.85%) Kubernetes
2 34 (12.69%) Ansible
3 14 (5.22%) Grafana
4 13 (4.85%) Prometheus
5 12 (4.48%) Microsoft Intune
6 11 (4.10%) SCCM
7 6 (2.24%) WSUS
8 4 (1.49%) Control-M
8 4 (1.49%) Puppet
9 3 (1.12%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.75%) Argo
10 2 (0.75%) Istio
10 2 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.37%) Cilium
11 1 (0.37%) ITRS Geneos
11 1 (0.37%) Kibana
11 1 (0.37%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.37%) Packer
11 1 (0.37%) Proxmox
11 1 (0.37%) systemd
Vendors
1 67 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 20 (7.46%) Databricks
3 19 (7.09%) Google
4 15 (5.60%) Oracle
5 11 (4.10%) Splunk
6 10 (3.73%) Salesforce
7 8 (2.99%) Red Hat
8 7 (2.61%) ServiceNow
9 5 (1.87%) Bloomberg
9 5 (1.87%) Citrix
9 5 (1.87%) Foundry
9 5 (1.87%) ION Trading
9 5 (1.87%) Reuters
10 4 (1.49%) Cloudera
10 4 (1.49%) IBM
10 4 (1.49%) MuleSoft
10 4 (1.49%) UiPath
11 3 (1.12%) Dynatrace
11 3 (1.12%) OneTrust
11 3 (1.12%) SaltStack