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 24 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 248 228 268
Rank change year-on-year -20 +40 +19
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 201 139 126
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.01% 1.02% 0.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.14% 1.11% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 102 80
10th Percentile £385 £380 £413
25th Percentile £463 £453 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £555 £675
Median % change year-on-year -0.90% -17.78% +8.00%
75th Percentile £638 £664 £775
90th Percentile £728 £811 £780
England median daily rate £520 £550 £612
% change year-on-year -5.45% -10.17% -1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £50.25 - -
Median hourly rate £50.50 - £23.80
75th Percentile £50.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £76.00 - £23.80
% change year-on-year - - -66.48%

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 17,688 12,531 14,870
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.00% 92.21% 88.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,675 8,382 10,562
10th Percentile £363 £329 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £651 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 279 239 238
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.00
25th Percentile £21.00 £24.66 £21.13
Median hourly rate £35.71 £30.00 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.03% -11.76% -20.93%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.75 £53.25
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.35 £71.25
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +86.88% -37.13% -8.32%

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 24 July 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 24 July 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 -19 20 £575 -20.69% 13
South London -12 3 £650 +4.84%
East London - 3 £612 - 3
West London -15 2 £775 +50.19% 3
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 10 (4.98%) Apache Spark
2 4 (1.99%) Apache
2 4 (1.99%) SAS
3 3 (1.49%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.49%) Appian
4 2 (1.00%) CMS
4 2 (1.00%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.50%) OpenROAD
5 1 (0.50%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.50%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.50%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.50%) Misys Equation
1 1 (0.50%) Misys Midas
1 1 (0.50%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 107 (53.23%) Azure
2 74 (36.82%) AWS
3 47 (23.38%) Azure DevOps
4 43 (21.39%) GitHub
5 37 (18.41%) GitHub Actions
6 30 (14.93%) Serverless
7 22 (10.95%) AWS Lambda
8 21 (10.45%) Power Platform
9 18 (8.96%) Amazon EKS
9 18 (8.96%) Amazon S3
9 18 (8.96%) GCP
10 16 (7.96%) Amazon ECS
11 14 (6.97%) Amazon SQS
12 12 (5.97%) AWS CloudFormation
13 11 (5.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 11 (5.47%) Azure AKS
14 10 (4.98%) Azure Key Vault
15 9 (4.48%) Amazon EC2
15 9 (4.48%) Azure Data Factory
15 9 (4.48%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 16 (7.96%) Firewall
2 7 (3.48%) VPN
3 6 (2.99%) DMZ
3 6 (2.99%) TCP/IP
4 5 (2.49%) Network Security
5 4 (1.99%) Software-Defined Networking
6 3 (1.49%) DNS
7 2 (1.00%) Internet
7 2 (1.00%) Kerberos
7 2 (1.00%) NGFW
8 1 (0.50%) BGP
8 1 (0.50%) Cisco IOS
8 1 (0.50%) Cisco Nexus
8 1 (0.50%) IPsec
8 1 (0.50%) OpenLDAP
8 1 (0.50%) OSPF
8 1 (0.50%) SNMP
8 1 (0.50%) SSL
8 1 (0.50%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (7.46%) Power BI
2 13 (6.47%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (6.47%) SQL Server
3 11 (5.47%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (5.47%) Relational Database
4 7 (3.48%) Amazon Athena
4 7 (3.48%) NoSQL
5 6 (2.99%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (2.99%) Big Data
5 6 (2.99%) Data Lake
5 6 (2.99%) MongoDB
5 6 (2.99%) Redis
6 5 (2.49%) DynamoDB
6 5 (2.49%) Metadata
7 4 (1.99%) MySQL
8 3 (1.49%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (1.49%) Base SAS
8 3 (1.49%) BigQuery
8 3 (1.49%) Data Mart
8 3 (1.49%) SAS Data Integration Studio
Development Applications
1 33 (16.42%) Git
1 33 (16.42%) GitLab
2 27 (13.43%) Jenkins
3 5 (2.49%) MSI
4 4 (1.99%) git-flow
5 3 (1.49%) Cypress.io
5 3 (1.49%) JIRA
5 3 (1.49%) MLflow
5 3 (1.49%) Selenium
5 3 (1.49%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.00%) AdminStudio
6 2 (1.00%) InstallShield
6 2 (1.00%) JMeter
6 2 (1.00%) JUnit
6 2 (1.00%) Maven
6 2 (1.00%) Storybook
6 2 (1.00%) TeamCity
6 2 (1.00%) webpack
7 1 (0.50%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.50%) Gradle
General
1 52 (25.87%) Social Skills
2 47 (23.38%) Finance
3 36 (17.91%) Public Sector
4 20 (9.95%) Banking
5 18 (8.96%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (2.99%) Front Office
7 5 (2.49%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (2.49%) Investment Banking
7 5 (2.49%) Retail
8 3 (1.49%) Financial Institution
8 3 (1.49%) Law
8 3 (1.49%) Legal
9 2 (1.00%) Back Office
9 2 (1.00%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.50%) Local Government
10 1 (0.50%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.50%) Marketing
10 1 (0.50%) Police
Job Titles
1 39 (19.40%) Senior
2 37 (18.41%) DevOps Engineer
3 31 (15.42%) Developer
4 22 (10.95%) Cloud Engineer
5 18 (8.96%) Architect
5 18 (8.96%) Azure Engineer
6 17 (8.46%) Lead
7 14 (6.97%) AWS Engineer
7 14 (6.97%) Software Engineer
8 12 (5.97%) Data Engineer
9 11 (5.47%) Full-Stack Developer
9 11 (5.47%) Senior Developer
10 10 (4.98%) Platform Engineer
10 10 (4.98%) Salesforce Engineer
11 9 (4.48%) AWS DevOps
12 8 (3.98%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 8 (3.98%) Senior DevOps
12 8 (3.98%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 7 (3.48%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 7 (3.48%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (15.92%) REST
2 29 (14.43%) RESTful
3 23 (11.44%) React
4 19 (9.45%) .NET
5 17 (8.46%) Kafka
6 12 (5.97%) FastAPI
6 12 (5.97%) OAuth
7 10 (4.98%) PySpark
8 9 (4.48%) Node.js
8 9 (4.48%) YAML
9 8 (3.98%) Flask
9 8 (3.98%) OpenID
10 7 (3.48%) .NET Core
10 7 (3.48%) .NET Framework
10 7 (3.48%) AngularJS
10 7 (3.48%) OAuth2
10 7 (3.48%) Redux
11 6 (2.99%) Django
11 6 (2.99%) JWT
11 6 (2.99%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 61 (30.35%) Cloud Native
2 24 (11.94%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (5.97%) Legacy Systems
3 12 (5.97%) Onboarding
4 8 (3.98%) Product Ownership
5 7 (3.48%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (2.49%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (2.49%) NHS
7 4 (1.99%) Algorithms
7 4 (1.99%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.49%) Client/Server
8 3 (1.49%) Distributed Architecture
8 3 (1.49%) Distributed Computing
8 3 (1.49%) Enterprise Cloud
8 3 (1.49%) Low-Code
8 3 (1.49%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.00%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.00%) CMDB
9 2 (1.00%) Life Science
9 2 (1.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 11 (5.47%) Linux
2 10 (4.98%) Windows
3 3 (1.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.00%) Ubuntu
4 2 (1.00%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.00%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (1.00%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.50%) Unix
5 1 (0.50%) VMS
5 1 (0.50%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 154 (76.62%) CI/CD
2 120 (59.70%) DevOps
3 91 (45.27%) Infrastructure as Code
4 72 (35.82%) Agile
5 65 (32.34%) Test Automation
6 62 (30.85%) Containerisation
7 42 (20.90%) AI
8 39 (19.40%) Analytics
9 38 (18.91%) Microservices
10 36 (17.91%) Software Engineering
11 35 (17.41%) Observability
12 31 (15.42%) Continuous Improvement
12 31 (15.42%) Platform Engineering
12 31 (15.42%) Problem-Solving
13 30 (14.93%) Validation
14 28 (13.93%) Event-Driven
15 27 (13.43%) Migration
16 26 (12.94%) Data Pipeline
17 24 (11.94%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 23 (11.44%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 78 (38.81%) Python
2 35 (17.41%) SQL
3 34 (16.92%) PowerShell
4 21 (10.45%) C#
5 20 (9.95%) Bicep
6 19 (9.45%) Java
7 16 (7.96%) TypeScript
8 14 (6.97%) Bash
8 14 (6.97%) JavaScript
9 3 (1.49%) Apex Code
9 3 (1.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (1.49%) SAS Macro
9 3 (1.49%) Scala
10 2 (1.00%) C
10 2 (1.00%) Kotlin
10 2 (1.00%) PHP
10 2 (1.00%) PL/SQL
10 2 (1.00%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.50%) ActionScript
11 1 (0.50%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 64 (31.84%) Security Cleared
2 56 (27.86%) SC Cleared
3 18 (8.96%) DV Cleared
4 16 (7.96%) Degree
5 14 (6.97%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (4.48%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (3.48%) AWS Certification
7 7 (3.48%) Azure Certification
8 5 (2.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (1.49%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 3 (1.49%) MCSA
10 2 (1.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (1.00%) Master's Degree
10 2 (1.00%) MCSE
11 1 (0.50%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.50%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 1 (0.50%) PhD
11 1 (0.50%) PMP
11 1 (0.50%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (13.93%) QA
2 8 (3.98%) Accessibility
2 8 (3.98%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.99%) WCAG
4 3 (1.49%) GDPR
5 1 (0.50%) EU AI Act
5 1 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.50%) NCSC
5 1 (0.50%) PMO
5 1 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.50%) SLA
5 1 (0.50%) SOC 2
System Software
1 57 (28.36%) Docker
2 7 (3.48%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (2.99%) Active Directory
4 5 (2.49%) Microsoft App-V
5 4 (1.99%) Hyper-V
5 4 (1.99%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.50%) Varnish
6 1 (0.50%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.50%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 85 (42.29%) Terraform
2 66 (32.84%) Kubernetes
3 21 (10.45%) Ansible
4 12 (5.97%) SCCM
5 7 (3.48%) Microsoft Intune
6 6 (2.99%) Prometheus
7 5 (2.49%) Grafana
7 5 (2.49%) WSUS
8 2 (1.00%) Argo
8 2 (1.00%) Control-M
8 2 (1.00%) Istio
9 1 (0.50%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.50%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.50%) Packer
9 1 (0.50%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.50%) Puppet
9 1 (0.50%) QRadar
9 1 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 46 (22.89%) Microsoft
2 13 (6.47%) Salesforce
3 12 (5.97%) Google
4 8 (3.98%) OpenAI
5 7 (3.48%) Foundry
6 6 (2.99%) Databricks
7 5 (2.49%) Bloomberg
7 5 (2.49%) Citrix
7 5 (2.49%) ION Trading
7 5 (2.49%) Oracle
7 5 (2.49%) Reuters
7 5 (2.49%) UiPath
8 4 (1.99%) Dynatrace
9 3 (1.49%) Automation Anywhere
9 3 (1.49%) Cisco
9 3 (1.49%) Palo Alto
9 3 (1.49%) Splunk
10 2 (1.00%) Brio
10 2 (1.00%) IBM
10 2 (1.00%) Red Hat