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 3 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 245 225 274
Rank change year-on-year -20 +49 +15
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 186 121 119
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.01% 1.00% 0.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.14% 1.09% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 91 78
10th Percentile £406 £363 £412
25th Percentile £450 £425 £514
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £550 £663
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -16.98% +6.00%
75th Percentile £625 £721 £775
90th Percentile £669 £825 £780
England median daily rate £518 £550 £585
% change year-on-year -5.91% -5.90% -4.57%
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 £75.34 - £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 16,273 11,140 15,474
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.73% 92.30% 88.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,862 7,463 11,094
10th Percentile £358 £350 £340
25th Percentile £435 £430 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.90% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 240 193 320
10th Percentile £18.07 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £36.75 £32.00 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.84% +14.29% -28.59%
75th Percentile £58.94 £49.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £78.88 £63.20 £68.08
England median hourly rate £47.00 £28.60 £37.50
% change year-on-year +64.34% -23.73% +0.54%

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 3 June 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 3 June 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 -24 17 £625 -13.79% 19
East London - 2 £612 - 1
West London -26 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 (4.30%) Appian
2 7 (3.76%) Apache Spark
3 5 (2.69%) Camunda
4 4 (2.15%) SAS
5 2 (1.08%) Apache
5 2 (1.08%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.08%) CMS
6 1 (0.54%) ColdFusion
6 1 (0.54%) OpenROAD
6 1 (0.54%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.54%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.08%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 100 (53.76%) Azure
2 64 (34.41%) AWS
3 37 (19.89%) GitHub
4 31 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
5 23 (12.37%) GitHub Actions
5 23 (12.37%) Power Platform
6 22 (11.83%) Serverless
7 20 (10.75%) GCP
8 14 (7.53%) Azure Data Factory
9 13 (6.99%) Azure AI
10 12 (6.45%) AWS CloudFormation
10 12 (6.45%) AWS Lambda
11 11 (5.91%) Amazon S3
11 11 (5.91%) Entra ID
12 9 (4.84%) Azure AKS
12 9 (4.84%) Azure Key Vault
12 9 (4.84%) Power Automate
13 8 (4.30%) Anthropic Claude
13 8 (4.30%) SaaS
14 7 (3.76%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.91%) Firewall
2 6 (3.23%) TCP/IP
3 5 (2.69%) VPN
4 4 (2.15%) DMZ
4 4 (2.15%) Network Security
4 4 (2.15%) Software-Defined Networking
5 3 (1.61%) DHCP
5 3 (1.61%) DNS
6 2 (1.08%) Kerberos
6 2 (1.08%) NGFW
7 1 (0.54%) BGP
7 1 (0.54%) Cisco IOS
7 1 (0.54%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (0.54%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.54%) IPsec
7 1 (0.54%) OpenLDAP
7 1 (0.54%) OSPF
7 1 (0.54%) SMS
7 1 (0.54%) SNMP
7 1 (0.54%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (8.60%) Power BI
2 15 (8.06%) SQL Server
3 12 (6.45%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (5.38%) Data Lake
4 10 (5.38%) Relational Database
5 9 (4.84%) PostgreSQL
6 8 (4.30%) Pinecone
7 7 (3.76%) Amazon Athena
8 6 (3.23%) NoSQL
8 6 (3.23%) Spark SQL
9 5 (2.69%) Azure SQL Database
9 5 (2.69%) Big Data
9 5 (2.69%) Metadata
9 5 (2.69%) MongoDB
10 4 (2.15%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (2.15%) DynamoDB
10 4 (2.15%) Redis
11 3 (1.61%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (1.61%) BigQuery
11 3 (1.61%) SAS Data Integration Studio
Development Applications
1 36 (19.35%) Git
2 22 (11.83%) GitLab
3 13 (6.99%) Jenkins
4 8 (4.30%) MLflow
5 5 (2.69%) Artifactory
5 5 (2.69%) MSI
6 4 (2.15%) git-flow
7 3 (1.61%) JIRA
7 3 (1.61%) Selenium
8 2 (1.08%) AdminStudio
8 2 (1.08%) Bitbucket
8 2 (1.08%) Cypress.io
8 2 (1.08%) InstallShield
8 2 (1.08%) JMeter
8 2 (1.08%) Maven
8 2 (1.08%) SonarQube
8 2 (1.08%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.54%) Moq
9 1 (0.54%) MSBuild
9 1 (0.54%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 54 (29.03%) Finance
1 54 (29.03%) Social Skills
2 29 (15.59%) Public Sector
3 16 (8.60%) Banking
4 10 (5.38%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (2.69%) Front Office
5 5 (2.69%) Investment Banking
6 3 (1.61%) Legal
6 3 (1.61%) Retail
7 2 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.08%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.08%) Marketing
8 1 (0.54%) Law
8 1 (0.54%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.54%) Police
8 1 (0.54%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 32 (17.20%) Developer
2 29 (15.59%) DevOps Engineer
2 29 (15.59%) Senior
3 17 (9.14%) Architect
4 16 (8.60%) Azure Engineer
5 14 (7.53%) Lead
6 13 (6.99%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 13 (6.99%) Salesforce Engineer
7 12 (6.45%) Cloud Engineer
7 12 (6.45%) Data Engineer
8 11 (5.91%) Senior Developer
9 10 (5.38%) Automation Engineer
10 9 (4.84%) Full-Stack Developer
11 8 (4.30%) Platform Engineer
12 7 (3.76%) Software Engineer
13 6 (3.23%) Solutions Architect
14 5 (2.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 5 (2.69%) Lead DevOps
14 5 (2.69%) React Developer
14 5 (2.69%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (17.20%) RESTful
2 27 (14.52%) REST
3 21 (11.29%) React
4 17 (9.14%) .NET
5 15 (8.06%) OAuth
6 14 (7.53%) Kafka
6 14 (7.53%) PySpark
7 12 (6.45%) FastAPI
7 12 (6.45%) Node.js
8 10 (5.38%) Django
8 10 (5.38%) JWT
8 10 (5.38%) pytest
9 9 (4.84%) Flask
9 9 (4.84%) Hugging Face
9 9 (4.84%) PyTorch
9 9 (4.84%) scikit-learn
9 9 (4.84%) Swagger
9 9 (4.84%) TensorFlow
9 9 (4.84%) YAML
10 8 (4.30%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 39 (20.97%) Cloud Native
2 13 (6.99%) Distributed Systems
2 13 (6.99%) Onboarding
3 12 (6.45%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (4.30%) Distributed Computing
4 8 (4.30%) Low-Code
5 6 (3.23%) Product Ownership
6 5 (2.69%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (2.69%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.61%) AI Agents
7 3 (1.61%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.61%) Client/Server
7 3 (1.61%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.61%) Derivative
7 3 (1.61%) Energy Derivatives
7 3 (1.61%) Enterprise Cloud
7 3 (1.61%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.08%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 12 (6.45%) Linux
1 12 (6.45%) Windows
2 3 (1.61%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.08%) Windows 10
3 2 (1.08%) Windows Server 2016
3 2 (1.08%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (0.54%) Unix
4 1 (0.54%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 140 (75.27%) CI/CD
2 107 (57.53%) DevOps
3 78 (41.94%) Infrastructure as Code
4 60 (32.26%) Test Automation
5 56 (30.11%) Agile
6 46 (24.73%) Containerisation
7 38 (20.43%) AI
8 37 (19.89%) Observability
9 34 (18.28%) Analytics
10 33 (17.74%) Data Pipeline
11 30 (16.13%) Microservices
11 30 (16.13%) Validation
12 29 (15.59%) Migration
13 28 (15.05%) ETL
14 27 (14.52%) Data Engineering
15 26 (13.98%) Data Modelling
15 26 (13.98%) Problem-Solving
16 23 (12.37%) Runbook
17 22 (11.83%) Continuous Improvement
18 21 (11.29%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 76 (40.86%) Python
2 42 (22.58%) SQL
3 35 (18.82%) PowerShell
4 24 (12.90%) Java
5 21 (11.29%) Bicep
6 17 (9.14%) C#
6 17 (9.14%) TypeScript
7 14 (7.53%) Bash
7 14 (7.53%) JavaScript
8 3 (1.61%) PL/SQL
8 3 (1.61%) Rust
8 3 (1.61%) SAS Macro
9 2 (1.08%) Apex Code
9 2 (1.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (1.08%) Scala
9 2 (1.08%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.54%) C
10 1 (0.54%) C++
10 1 (0.54%) CFML
10 1 (0.54%) PHP
Qualifications
1 49 (26.34%) Security Cleared
2 38 (20.43%) SC Cleared
3 10 (5.38%) Degree
4 8 (4.30%) Azure Certification
4 8 (4.30%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (4.30%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (2.69%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.61%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (1.61%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 3 (1.61%) MCSA
7 2 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.08%) MCSE
8 1 (0.54%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.54%) CCNP
8 1 (0.54%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.54%) CISSP
8 1 (0.54%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.54%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (12.37%) QA
2 14 (7.53%) Data Quality
3 9 (4.84%) GDPR
4 6 (3.23%) Accessibility
4 6 (3.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (1.08%) HIPAA
5 2 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.54%) EU AI Act
6 1 (0.54%) SLA
6 1 (0.54%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.54%) WCAG
System Software
1 54 (29.03%) Docker
2 9 (4.84%) Active Directory
3 5 (2.69%) Microsoft App-V
3 5 (2.69%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (2.15%) Hyper-V
4 4 (2.15%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.54%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 74 (39.78%) Terraform
2 58 (31.18%) Kubernetes
3 16 (8.60%) Ansible
4 12 (6.45%) SCCM
5 7 (3.76%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (3.76%) Prometheus
6 6 (3.23%) Grafana
7 4 (2.15%) WSUS
8 3 (1.61%) Istio
9 2 (1.08%) Control-M
10 1 (0.54%) Argo
10 1 (0.54%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.54%) QRadar
Vendors
1 49 (26.34%) Microsoft
2 16 (8.60%) Salesforce
3 13 (6.99%) OpenAI
4 11 (5.91%) Google
5 8 (4.30%) Automation Anywhere
5 8 (4.30%) UiPath
6 6 (3.23%) Foundry
7 4 (2.15%) Bloomberg
7 4 (2.15%) Citrix
7 4 (2.15%) Databricks
7 4 (2.15%) ION Trading
7 4 (2.15%) Reuters
8 3 (1.61%) Apple
8 3 (1.61%) Dynatrace
8 3 (1.61%) Palo Alto
9 2 (1.08%) Brio
9 2 (1.08%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 2 (1.08%) Splunk
10 1 (0.54%) MicroStrategy
10 1 (0.54%) Perforce