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 30 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 232 229 287
Rank change year-on-year -3 +58 +8
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 176 122 112
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.05% 0.96% 0.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.17% 1.05% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 88 74
10th Percentile £400 £404 £433
25th Percentile £450 £498 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £624 £759 £738
90th Percentile £723 £836 £780
England median daily rate £515 £565 £575
% change year-on-year -8.85% -1.74% -8.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £50.25 - -
Median hourly rate £50.50 - £22.00
75th Percentile £50.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £62.59 - £44.51
% change year-on-year - - -37.31%

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 15,060 11,622 15,941
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.56% 91.41% 88.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,095 7,890 11,411
10th Percentile £356 £350 £338
25th Percentile £428 £443 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £677 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 234 170 337
10th Percentile £18.13 £18.91 £15.98
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.66 £19.57
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.00 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% +16.05% -22.67%
75th Percentile £57.37 £51.07 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £65.25 £68.75
England median hourly rate £36.71 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +12.95% - -13.33%

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 30 March 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 30 March 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 -15 17 £575 -0.43% 16
East London +2 2 £612 -2.86% 1
West London - 2 £375 - 1
South London -18 1 £515 -37.20%
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 (4.55%) Appian
2 6 (3.41%) Camunda
3 4 (2.27%) Apache Spark
3 4 (2.27%) SAS
4 3 (1.70%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.57%) Apache
5 1 (0.57%) ColdFusion
5 1 (0.57%) OpenROAD
5 1 (0.57%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.57%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.14%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.57%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 88 (50.00%) Azure
2 54 (30.68%) AWS
3 26 (14.77%) GitHub
4 25 (14.20%) Azure DevOps
5 21 (11.93%) Serverless
6 19 (10.80%) GCP
7 18 (10.23%) Power Platform
8 15 (8.52%) AWS CloudFormation
8 15 (8.52%) GitHub Actions
9 13 (7.39%) Azure AI
9 13 (7.39%) Azure Data Factory
10 12 (6.82%) AWS Lambda
11 11 (6.25%) Amazon S3
12 10 (5.68%) Azure AKS
13 9 (5.11%) Azure Key Vault
13 9 (5.11%) Power Automate
14 8 (4.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 8 (4.55%) Amazon ECS
14 8 (4.55%) Anthropic Claude
15 7 (3.98%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (5.11%) Firewall
2 7 (3.98%) TCP/IP
3 5 (2.84%) DHCP
3 5 (2.84%) DNS
3 5 (2.84%) Network Security
3 5 (2.84%) Software-Defined Networking
3 5 (2.84%) VPN
4 4 (2.27%) DMZ
4 4 (2.27%) HTTPS
5 3 (1.70%) SSL
6 2 (1.14%) BGP
7 1 (0.57%) Cisco IOS
7 1 (0.57%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (0.57%) Ethernet VPN
7 1 (0.57%) Internet
7 1 (0.57%) IPsec
7 1 (0.57%) OSPF
7 1 (0.57%) SMS
7 1 (0.57%) SNMP
7 1 (0.57%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (8.52%) SQL Server
2 12 (6.82%) Power BI
3 10 (5.68%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (5.11%) Azure SQL Database
4 9 (5.11%) Relational Database
5 8 (4.55%) Data Lake
5 8 (4.55%) Pinecone
5 8 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (4.55%) Spark SQL
6 6 (3.41%) NoSQL
7 5 (2.84%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (2.27%) Amazon Athena
8 4 (2.27%) Metadata
8 4 (2.27%) Redis
9 3 (1.70%) Base SAS
9 3 (1.70%) Big Data
9 3 (1.70%) Data Mart
9 3 (1.70%) SAS Data Integration Studio
9 3 (1.70%) Star Schema
10 2 (1.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 35 (19.89%) Git
2 17 (9.66%) GitLab
3 13 (7.39%) Jenkins
4 8 (4.55%) MLflow
5 5 (2.84%) Artifactory
6 3 (1.70%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.14%) CircleCI
7 2 (1.14%) git-flow
7 2 (1.14%) Gradle
7 2 (1.14%) JIRA
7 2 (1.14%) JUnit
7 2 (1.14%) Maven
8 1 (0.57%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.57%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.57%) Selenium
8 1 (0.57%) Snyk
8 1 (0.57%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.57%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.57%) Tricentis qTest
8 1 (0.57%) Visual Studio
General
1 60 (34.09%) Social Skills
2 53 (30.11%) Finance
3 31 (17.61%) Public Sector
4 12 (6.82%) Banking
5 9 (5.11%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (3.98%) Marketing
7 5 (2.84%) Front Office
7 5 (2.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.27%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.70%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.14%) Electronics
10 2 (1.14%) Legal
10 2 (1.14%) Military
10 2 (1.14%) Police
10 2 (1.14%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.57%) Back Office
11 1 (0.57%) Law
11 1 (0.57%) Retail
11 1 (0.57%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 43 (24.43%) Developer
2 22 (12.50%) Architect
3 21 (11.93%) DevOps Engineer
4 19 (10.80%) Senior
5 16 (9.09%) Lead
6 15 (8.52%) Azure Engineer
7 12 (6.82%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 10 (5.68%) Automation Engineer
8 10 (5.68%) Platform Engineer
9 9 (5.11%) Data Engineer
9 9 (5.11%) Technical Architect
10 8 (4.55%) Full-Stack Developer
11 7 (3.98%) Python Developer
12 6 (3.41%) Cloud Engineer
12 6 (3.41%) React Developer
12 6 (3.41%) Senior Developer
13 5 (2.84%) Cloud Architect
13 5 (2.84%) Lead Developer
14 4 (2.27%) Consultant
14 4 (2.27%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (17.05%) RESTful
2 29 (16.48%) REST
3 21 (11.93%) React
4 14 (7.95%) AngularJS
5 13 (7.39%) FastAPI
5 13 (7.39%) PySpark
6 12 (6.82%) Kafka
6 12 (6.82%) OAuth
6 12 (6.82%) Spring
6 12 (6.82%) Spring Boot
6 12 (6.82%) YAML
7 11 (6.25%) .NET
7 11 (6.25%) JSON
7 11 (6.25%) Node.js
7 11 (6.25%) pytest
8 10 (5.68%) Django
8 10 (5.68%) JWT
8 10 (5.68%) Web Services
9 9 (5.11%) Flask
9 9 (5.11%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 27 (15.34%) Cloud Native
2 13 (7.39%) Legacy Systems
3 10 (5.68%) Distributed Computing
4 8 (4.55%) Low-Code
5 7 (3.98%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (3.98%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (3.98%) Onboarding
6 5 (2.84%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.70%) AI Agents
7 3 (1.70%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.70%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (1.70%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.70%) Derivative
7 3 (1.70%) Energy Derivatives
7 3 (1.70%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.14%) Client/Server
8 2 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.14%) Fixed Income
8 2 (1.14%) NHS
8 2 (1.14%) PACS
Operating Systems
1 18 (10.23%) Linux
2 12 (6.82%) Windows
3 4 (2.27%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.14%) Unix
4 2 (1.14%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.57%) Android
5 1 (0.57%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.57%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.57%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (70.45%) CI/CD
2 103 (58.52%) DevOps
3 70 (39.77%) Infrastructure as Code
4 60 (34.09%) Test Automation
5 47 (26.70%) Agile
6 45 (25.57%) Containerisation
7 34 (19.32%) Problem-Solving
8 31 (17.61%) Analytics
8 31 (17.61%) Observability
9 29 (16.48%) AI
10 28 (15.91%) Data Pipeline
10 28 (15.91%) Microservices
11 26 (14.77%) Data Engineering
12 25 (14.20%) ETL
12 25 (14.20%) Migration
13 21 (11.93%) Validation
14 20 (11.36%) Continuous Improvement
14 20 (11.36%) Workflow
15 19 (10.80%) Data Modelling
16 18 (10.23%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 74 (42.05%) Python
2 46 (26.14%) SQL
3 31 (17.61%) Java
4 24 (13.64%) PowerShell
5 19 (10.80%) TypeScript
6 16 (9.09%) Bicep
7 13 (7.39%) Bash
7 13 (7.39%) JavaScript
8 11 (6.25%) C#
9 3 (1.70%) Kotlin
9 3 (1.70%) PL/SQL
9 3 (1.70%) Rust
9 3 (1.70%) SAS Macro
9 3 (1.70%) T-SQL
10 2 (1.14%) PHP
10 2 (1.14%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.57%) ActionScript
11 1 (0.57%) C
11 1 (0.57%) C++
11 1 (0.57%) CFML
Qualifications
1 48 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 38 (21.59%) SC Cleared
3 7 (3.98%) Degree
4 6 (3.41%) AWS Certification
4 6 (3.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 6 (3.41%) Azure Certification
4 6 (3.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.84%) DV Cleared
5 5 (2.84%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (1.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 3 (1.70%) CISSP
7 2 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.14%) CCNP
7 2 (1.14%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.14%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 2 (1.14%) MCSA
7 2 (1.14%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 1 (0.57%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.57%) CISM
8 1 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.25%) Data Quality
1 11 (6.25%) GDPR
1 11 (6.25%) QA
2 7 (3.98%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 6 (3.41%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.70%) HIPAA
4 3 (1.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.14%) NCSC
5 2 (1.14%) NIST
5 2 (1.14%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.57%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.57%) SLA
6 1 (0.57%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.57%) WCAG
System Software
1 52 (29.55%) Docker
2 8 (4.55%) Active Directory
3 6 (3.41%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (2.27%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.14%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (1.14%) Xen
6 1 (0.57%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.57%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.57%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 66 (37.50%) Terraform
2 57 (32.39%) Kubernetes
3 11 (6.25%) Ansible
4 6 (3.41%) SCCM
5 5 (2.84%) Grafana
5 5 (2.84%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.70%) ITRS Geneos
6 3 (1.70%) WSUS
7 2 (1.14%) vRealize
8 1 (0.57%) Fluentd
8 1 (0.57%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.57%) Istio
8 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.57%) QRadar
8 1 (0.57%) VxRail
Vendors
1 46 (26.14%) Microsoft
2 18 (10.23%) Salesforce
3 12 (6.82%) Google
3 12 (6.82%) OpenAI
4 8 (4.55%) Automation Anywhere
4 8 (4.55%) UiPath
5 6 (3.41%) Foundry
5 6 (3.41%) Splunk
6 5 (2.84%) VMware
7 4 (2.27%) Apple
7 4 (2.27%) Palo Alto
7 4 (2.27%) SAP
8 3 (1.70%) Adobe
8 3 (1.70%) Bloomberg
8 3 (1.70%) Citrix
8 3 (1.70%) Databricks
8 3 (1.70%) ForgeRock
8 3 (1.70%) IBM
8 3 (1.70%) ION Trading
8 3 (1.70%) Reuters