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 23 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 238 225 283
Rank change year-on-year -13 +58 +6
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 179 118 115
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.98% 0.97% 0.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.11% 1.05% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 91 75
10th Percentile £400 £380 £413
25th Percentile £450 £438 £518
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £550 £675
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -18.52% +8.00%
75th Percentile £625 £736 £775
90th Percentile £660 £825 £780
England median daily rate £520 £550 £585
% change year-on-year -5.45% -5.90% -6.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £50.25 - -
Median hourly rate £50.50 - £23.80
75th Percentile £50.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £75.34 - £45.41
% change year-on-year - - -36.04%

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 16,108 11,188 15,414
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.41% 92.25% 88.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,765 7,537 11,061
10th Percentile £356 £350 £343
25th Percentile £431 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.17%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £760 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 237 180 306
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.50 £15.72
25th Percentile £25.25 £23.79 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.00 £32.25 £27.83
Median % change year-on-year +14.73% +15.90% -28.65%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £63.30 £66.88
England median hourly rate £45.59 £28.55 £36.50
% change year-on-year +59.67% -21.78% -2.67%

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 23 May 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 23 May 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 -17 17 £625 -13.79% 18
East London - 2 £612 - 1
West London -30 1 £375 -27.33% 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 (4.47%) Appian
2 6 (3.35%) Apache Spark
3 5 (2.79%) Camunda
4 4 (2.23%) SAS
5 2 (1.12%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.56%) Apache
6 1 (0.56%) CMS
6 1 (0.56%) ColdFusion
6 1 (0.56%) OpenROAD
6 1 (0.56%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.12%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 99 (55.31%) Azure
2 58 (32.40%) AWS
3 35 (19.55%) GitHub
4 28 (15.64%) Azure DevOps
5 22 (12.29%) Power Platform
6 21 (11.73%) GCP
6 21 (11.73%) GitHub Actions
6 21 (11.73%) Serverless
7 14 (7.82%) Azure Data Factory
8 13 (7.26%) AWS CloudFormation
8 13 (7.26%) Azure AI
9 12 (6.70%) AWS Lambda
10 11 (6.15%) Entra ID
11 9 (5.03%) Amazon S3
11 9 (5.03%) Azure AKS
11 9 (5.03%) Azure Key Vault
11 9 (5.03%) Power Automate
12 8 (4.47%) Anthropic Claude
13 7 (3.91%) Azure Monitor
13 7 (3.91%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (6.15%) Firewall
2 6 (3.35%) TCP/IP
3 5 (2.79%) VPN
4 4 (2.23%) DMZ
4 4 (2.23%) Software-Defined Networking
5 3 (1.68%) DHCP
5 3 (1.68%) DNS
5 3 (1.68%) Network Security
6 2 (1.12%) Kerberos
6 2 (1.12%) NGFW
7 1 (0.56%) BGP
7 1 (0.56%) Cisco IOS
7 1 (0.56%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (0.56%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.56%) Internet
7 1 (0.56%) IPsec
7 1 (0.56%) OSPF
7 1 (0.56%) SMS
7 1 (0.56%) SNMP
7 1 (0.56%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (8.94%) SQL Server
2 15 (8.38%) Power BI
3 12 (6.70%) Relational Database
4 11 (6.15%) Data Lake
5 10 (5.59%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (5.03%) PostgreSQL
7 8 (4.47%) Pinecone
8 7 (3.91%) Spark SQL
9 6 (3.35%) Amazon Athena
9 6 (3.35%) Azure SQL Database
9 6 (3.35%) NoSQL
10 5 (2.79%) Big Data
10 5 (2.79%) Metadata
10 5 (2.79%) MongoDB
11 4 (2.23%) Redis
12 3 (1.68%) Amazon RDS
12 3 (1.68%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (1.68%) BigQuery
12 3 (1.68%) DynamoDB
12 3 (1.68%) SAS Data Integration Studio
Development Applications
1 37 (20.67%) Git
2 20 (11.17%) GitLab
3 9 (5.03%) Jenkins
4 8 (4.47%) MLflow
5 5 (2.79%) Artifactory
5 5 (2.79%) MSI
6 4 (2.23%) git-flow
6 4 (2.23%) Selenium
7 2 (1.12%) AdminStudio
7 2 (1.12%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.12%) Cypress.io
7 2 (1.12%) InstallShield
7 2 (1.12%) JMeter
7 2 (1.12%) Maven
7 2 (1.12%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.56%) JUnit
8 1 (0.56%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.56%) NUnit
8 1 (0.56%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.56%) Visual Studio
General
1 53 (29.61%) Social Skills
2 52 (29.05%) Finance
3 27 (15.08%) Public Sector
4 16 (8.94%) Banking
5 10 (5.59%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (2.79%) Front Office
6 5 (2.79%) Investment Banking
7 3 (1.68%) Legal
7 3 (1.68%) Retail
8 2 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.12%) Marketing
8 2 (1.12%) Police
9 1 (0.56%) Law
9 1 (0.56%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.56%) Military
9 1 (0.56%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 33 (18.44%) Developer
2 29 (16.20%) Senior
3 25 (13.97%) DevOps Engineer
4 17 (9.50%) Architect
5 16 (8.94%) Azure Engineer
6 13 (7.26%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 13 (7.26%) Salesforce Engineer
7 12 (6.70%) Lead
8 11 (6.15%) Cloud Engineer
8 11 (6.15%) Data Engineer
8 11 (6.15%) Senior Developer
9 10 (5.59%) Automation Engineer
10 9 (5.03%) Full-Stack Developer
11 8 (4.47%) Platform Engineer
12 7 (3.91%) Software Engineer
13 5 (2.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 5 (2.79%) React Developer
13 5 (2.79%) Solutions Architect
13 5 (2.79%) Test Engineer
14 4 (2.23%) Senior React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (17.88%) RESTful
2 27 (15.08%) REST
3 20 (11.17%) React
4 16 (8.94%) .NET
4 16 (8.94%) PySpark
5 15 (8.38%) OAuth
6 14 (7.82%) Kafka
7 13 (7.26%) Node.js
8 12 (6.70%) FastAPI
9 10 (5.59%) Django
9 10 (5.59%) JWT
9 10 (5.59%) pytest
10 9 (5.03%) Flask
10 9 (5.03%) Hugging Face
10 9 (5.03%) PyTorch
10 9 (5.03%) scikit-learn
10 9 (5.03%) Swagger
10 9 (5.03%) TensorFlow
10 9 (5.03%) YAML
11 8 (4.47%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 37 (20.67%) Cloud Native
2 14 (7.82%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (6.70%) Onboarding
4 11 (6.15%) Legacy Systems
5 10 (5.59%) Distributed Computing
6 8 (4.47%) Low-Code
7 6 (3.35%) Product Ownership
8 5 (2.79%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (2.79%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (2.23%) Algorithms
10 3 (1.68%) AI Agents
10 3 (1.68%) Client/Server
10 3 (1.68%) Cyber Threat
10 3 (1.68%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.68%) Derivative
10 3 (1.68%) Energy Derivatives
10 3 (1.68%) Enterprise Cloud
10 3 (1.68%) Mobile App
11 2 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (1.12%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 12 (6.70%) Linux
1 12 (6.70%) Windows
2 3 (1.68%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.12%) Windows 10
3 2 (1.12%) Windows Server 2016
3 2 (1.12%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (0.56%) Unix
4 1 (0.56%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 132 (73.74%) CI/CD
2 102 (56.98%) DevOps
3 74 (41.34%) Infrastructure as Code
4 57 (31.84%) Test Automation
5 54 (30.17%) Agile
6 44 (24.58%) Containerisation
7 39 (21.79%) AI
8 37 (20.67%) Observability
9 33 (18.44%) Data Pipeline
10 32 (17.88%) Analytics
11 30 (16.76%) Microservices
12 29 (16.20%) Validation
13 28 (15.64%) Data Engineering
13 28 (15.64%) ETL
13 28 (15.64%) Migration
14 25 (13.97%) Problem-Solving
15 23 (12.85%) Data Modelling
16 22 (12.29%) Machine Learning
17 21 (11.73%) Runbook
18 19 (10.61%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 71 (39.66%) Python
2 40 (22.35%) SQL
3 33 (18.44%) PowerShell
4 27 (15.08%) Java
5 21 (11.73%) Bicep
6 18 (10.06%) TypeScript
7 16 (8.94%) C#
8 14 (7.82%) JavaScript
9 11 (6.15%) Bash
10 3 (1.68%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.68%) Rust
10 3 (1.68%) SAS Macro
11 2 (1.12%) Apex Code
11 2 (1.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (1.12%) Kotlin
11 2 (1.12%) Scala
11 2 (1.12%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.56%) C
12 1 (0.56%) C++
12 1 (0.56%) PHP
Qualifications
1 47 (26.26%) Security Cleared
2 36 (20.11%) SC Cleared
3 9 (5.03%) Degree
4 8 (4.47%) Azure Certification
4 8 (4.47%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (3.91%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (2.79%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.68%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (1.68%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 3 (1.68%) MCSA
8 2 (1.12%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.12%) MCSE
9 1 (0.56%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.56%) CCNP
9 1 (0.56%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.56%) CISSP
9 1 (0.56%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.56%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (11.17%) QA
2 13 (7.26%) Data Quality
3 10 (5.59%) GDPR
4 7 (3.91%) Accessibility
4 7 (3.91%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (1.12%) HIPAA
5 2 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.56%) EU AI Act
6 1 (0.56%) NCSC
6 1 (0.56%) SLA
6 1 (0.56%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.56%) WCAG
System Software
1 53 (29.61%) Docker
2 9 (5.03%) Active Directory
3 5 (2.79%) Microsoft App-V
3 5 (2.79%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (2.23%) Hyper-V
4 4 (2.23%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.56%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 70 (39.11%) Terraform
2 57 (31.84%) Kubernetes
3 13 (7.26%) Ansible
4 12 (6.70%) SCCM
5 7 (3.91%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (2.79%) Prometheus
7 4 (2.23%) Grafana
7 4 (2.23%) WSUS
8 2 (1.12%) Istio
9 1 (0.56%) QRadar
Vendors
1 50 (27.93%) Microsoft
2 16 (8.94%) Salesforce
3 13 (7.26%) OpenAI
4 12 (6.70%) Google
5 8 (4.47%) Automation Anywhere
5 8 (4.47%) UiPath
6 6 (3.35%) Foundry
7 4 (2.23%) Bloomberg
7 4 (2.23%) Citrix
7 4 (2.23%) ION Trading
7 4 (2.23%) Reuters
8 3 (1.68%) Apple
8 3 (1.68%) Databricks
8 3 (1.68%) Dynatrace
8 3 (1.68%) Palo Alto
8 3 (1.68%) Splunk
9 2 (1.12%) Brio
9 2 (1.12%) Oracle
9 2 (1.12%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 1 (0.56%) Perforce