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 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 258 264 306
Rank change year-on-year +6 +42 -30
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 123 100 94
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.86% 0.68% 0.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.94% 0.76% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 54 62
10th Percentile £402 £459 £464
25th Percentile £438 £536 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £700 £575
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +21.74% -8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £797 £667
90th Percentile £813 £838 £749
England median daily rate £520 £612 £575
% change year-on-year -15.03% +6.43% -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £22.00
England median hourly rate £22.58 £85.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -73.44% +286.36% -

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 13,132 13,242 16,347
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.39% 90.11% 89.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,660 8,491 11,705
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -4.66%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £756 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 162 243
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.11 £17.80
25th Percentile £24.73 £23.80 £20.01
Median hourly rate £31.50 £35.25 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.65% +8.46% -15.30%
75th Percentile £53.75 £55.19 £58.75
90th Percentile £68.93 £80.75 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% -22.22% +25.00%

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 December 2025.

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 December 2025. 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 -8 6 £535 -6.96% 37
West London - 2 £375 - 1
East London +1 1 £540 -14.29% 2
South London -6 1 £515 -37.20% 11
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 2 (1.63%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (1.63%) Apache Spark
1 2 (1.63%) Appian
1 2 (1.63%) nginx
2 1 (0.81%) Apache
2 1 (0.81%) Camunda
2 1 (0.81%) ColdFusion
2 1 (0.81%) Confluence
2 1 (0.81%) Traefik
Applications
1 2 (1.63%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.81%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.81%) Endur
1 1 (0.81%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 51 (41.46%) Azure
2 32 (26.02%) AWS
3 24 (19.51%) GitHub
4 17 (13.82%) Azure DevOps
4 17 (13.82%) GitHub Actions
4 17 (13.82%) Serverless
5 12 (9.76%) AWS Lambda
6 11 (8.94%) Power Platform
7 10 (8.13%) AWS CloudFormation
8 9 (7.32%) Azure Data Factory
8 9 (7.32%) GCP
9 8 (6.50%) Amazon S3
10 7 (5.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 7 (5.69%) Datadog
11 5 (4.07%) Amazon EC2
11 5 (4.07%) Amazon ECS
11 5 (4.07%) Amazon EKS
11 5 (4.07%) Entra ID
11 5 (4.07%) IaaS
11 5 (4.07%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (8.13%) HTTPS
2 6 (4.88%) SSL
3 5 (4.07%) DNS
3 5 (4.07%) Firewall
4 4 (3.25%) VPN
5 3 (2.44%) DHCP
5 3 (2.44%) Network Security
5 3 (2.44%) TCP/IP
6 2 (1.63%) HTTP
6 2 (1.63%) Internet
7 1 (0.81%) BGP
7 1 (0.81%) Calico
7 1 (0.81%) DMZ
7 1 (0.81%) Ethernet VPN
7 1 (0.81%) SMS
7 1 (0.81%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.81%) VSAN
7 1 (0.81%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (8.94%) Relational Database
2 10 (8.13%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (7.32%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (7.32%) SQL Server
4 7 (5.69%) Azure SQL Database
4 7 (5.69%) Data Lake
4 7 (5.69%) Power BI
5 6 (4.88%) NoSQL
5 6 (4.88%) Spark SQL
6 5 (4.07%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (2.44%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (2.44%) Star Schema
8 2 (1.63%) Delta Lake
8 2 (1.63%) ImageNet
8 2 (1.63%) Pinecone
8 2 (1.63%) Redis
9 1 (0.81%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (0.81%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.81%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.81%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 20 (16.26%) Git
2 13 (10.57%) GitLab
2 13 (10.57%) Jenkins
3 4 (3.25%) JIRA
4 3 (2.44%) Maven
5 2 (1.63%) Artifactory
5 2 (1.63%) CircleCI
5 2 (1.63%) Gradle
5 2 (1.63%) MLflow
6 1 (0.81%) Android Studio
6 1 (0.81%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.81%) JUnit
6 1 (0.81%) LoadRunner
6 1 (0.81%) Mockito
6 1 (0.81%) Selenium
6 1 (0.81%) Spinnaker
6 1 (0.81%) TeamCity
General
1 41 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 25 (20.33%) Finance
3 17 (13.82%) Public Sector
4 6 (4.88%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (4.88%) Marketing
5 4 (3.25%) Banking
6 3 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.63%) Back Office
7 2 (1.63%) Digital Healthcare
7 2 (1.63%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.63%) Electronics
7 2 (1.63%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.63%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.63%) Military
7 2 (1.63%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.81%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.81%) Front Office
8 1 (0.81%) Police
8 1 (0.81%) Publishing
8 1 (0.81%) Retail
Job Titles
1 41 (33.33%) Developer
2 16 (13.01%) Architect
3 14 (11.38%) DevOps Engineer
4 11 (8.94%) Lead
5 10 (8.13%) Technical Architect
6 9 (7.32%) Azure Engineer
6 9 (7.32%) Senior
7 8 (6.50%) Python Developer
8 6 (4.88%) Azure Architect
8 6 (4.88%) Cloud Engineer
8 6 (4.88%) Data Engineer
8 6 (4.88%) Lead DevOps
9 5 (4.07%) Azure Data Engineer
9 5 (4.07%) Consultant
9 5 (4.07%) Full-Stack Developer
9 5 (4.07%) Full-Stack Python Developer
10 4 (3.25%) Business Analyst
10 4 (3.25%) Engineering Manager
10 4 (3.25%) Java Developer
10 4 (3.25%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (16.26%) RESTful
2 18 (14.63%) REST
3 17 (13.82%) JSON
4 15 (12.20%) React
4 15 (12.20%) XML
5 12 (9.76%) SOAP
6 11 (8.94%) Kafka
6 11 (8.94%) OAuth
7 10 (8.13%) .NET
7 10 (8.13%) AngularJS
7 10 (8.13%) PySpark
7 10 (8.13%) Spring
8 8 (6.50%) ARM Templates
9 7 (5.69%) FastAPI
9 7 (5.69%) pytest
9 7 (5.69%) YAML
10 6 (4.88%) HTML
10 6 (4.88%) Spring Boot
11 5 (4.07%) Jest
11 5 (4.07%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 17 (13.82%) Cloud Native
2 8 (6.50%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (5.69%) Distributed Computing
4 5 (4.07%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.44%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (2.44%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.63%) Clustering
6 2 (1.63%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.63%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.63%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.63%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.63%) Low-Code
6 2 (1.63%) NHS
6 2 (1.63%) PACS
7 1 (0.81%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.81%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.81%) Ray Tracing
7 1 (0.81%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 20 (16.26%) Linux
2 4 (3.25%) Windows
3 3 (2.44%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.63%) Unix
4 2 (1.63%) VMS
5 1 (0.81%) Android
5 1 (0.81%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.81%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (67.48%) CI/CD
2 80 (65.04%) DevOps
3 44 (35.77%) Test Automation
4 42 (34.15%) Infrastructure as Code
5 40 (32.52%) Containerisation
6 36 (29.27%) Agile
7 31 (25.20%) Microservices
8 27 (21.95%) Problem-Solving
9 23 (18.70%) Observability
10 21 (17.07%) Analytics
11 18 (14.63%) Data Pipeline
11 18 (14.63%) Infrastructure Automation
12 17 (13.82%) ETL
13 16 (13.01%) Migration
14 15 (12.20%) API Development
14 15 (12.20%) Continuous Improvement
15 14 (11.38%) Data Engineering
15 14 (11.38%) TDD
16 13 (10.57%) AI
17 12 (9.76%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 46 (37.40%) Python
2 38 (30.89%) SQL
3 29 (23.58%) Java
4 18 (14.63%) TypeScript
5 14 (11.38%) JavaScript
6 10 (8.13%) Bash
7 9 (7.32%) Bicep
7 9 (7.32%) PowerShell
8 4 (3.25%) C#
9 3 (2.44%) Go
10 2 (1.63%) Kotlin
10 2 (1.63%) PHP
10 2 (1.63%) Ruby
10 2 (1.63%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.81%) CFML
11 1 (0.81%) Groovy
11 1 (0.81%) Objective-C
11 1 (0.81%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.81%) Rust
11 1 (0.81%) Swift
Qualifications
1 35 (28.46%) Security Cleared
2 30 (24.39%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.69%) Azure Certification
3 7 (5.69%) Degree
4 5 (4.07%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (3.25%) AWS Certification
5 4 (3.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 4 (3.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (3.25%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 3 (2.44%) Master's Degree
6 3 (2.44%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 2 (1.63%) CISSP
8 1 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.81%) CCNP
8 1 (0.81%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.81%) CISM
8 1 (0.81%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.88%) GDPR
2 5 (4.07%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 4 (3.25%) QA
4 3 (2.44%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.44%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.63%) NCSC
5 2 (1.63%) NIST
5 2 (1.63%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.81%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.81%) NIST 800
System Software
1 46 (37.40%) Docker
2 8 (6.50%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.44%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.63%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.63%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (1.63%) Xen
5 1 (0.81%) etcd
5 1 (0.81%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.81%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 45 (36.59%) Kubernetes
2 40 (32.52%) Terraform
3 9 (7.32%) Ansible
3 9 (7.32%) Prometheus
4 7 (5.69%) Grafana
5 5 (4.07%) ITRS Geneos
6 3 (2.44%) Progress Chef
6 3 (2.44%) vRealize
7 2 (1.63%) Istio
7 2 (1.63%) Puppet
8 1 (0.81%) Argo
8 1 (0.81%) Fluentd
8 1 (0.81%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.81%) VxRail
Vendors
1 31 (25.20%) Microsoft
2 10 (8.13%) Databricks
3 7 (5.69%) VMware
4 6 (4.88%) Google
4 6 (4.88%) SAP
5 5 (4.07%) Axway
5 5 (4.07%) Salesforce
5 5 (4.07%) Splunk
5 5 (4.07%) webMethods
6 4 (3.25%) IBM
6 4 (3.25%) Software AG
7 3 (2.44%) Adobe
7 3 (2.44%) ForgeRock
7 3 (2.44%) Oracle
8 2 (1.63%) Apple
8 2 (1.63%) Automation Anywhere
8 2 (1.63%) OpenAI
8 2 (1.63%) Refinitiv
8 2 (1.63%) Solace
8 2 (1.63%) UiPath