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 8 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 208 254 276
Rank change year-on-year +46 +22 +25
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 252 117 114
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.25% 0.88% 0.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.40% 0.95% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 161 83 68
10th Percentile £388 £353 £413
25th Percentile £456 £431 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £613
Median % change year-on-year - -10.20% +2.08%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £750
90th Percentile £750 £800 £780
England median daily rate £513 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -6.82% -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Median hourly rate - - £23.80
England median hourly rate £75.34 - £23.80
% change year-on-year - - -68.48%

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 17,974 12,284 14,328
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.05% 92.47% 89.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,755 8,122 9,734
10th Percentile £359 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.24% -2.19% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £681
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 289 253 181
10th Percentile £17.21 £17.02 £17.25
25th Percentile £20.02 £25.01 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £32.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.94% -8.57% -12.50%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £86.40 £63.75 £71.88
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +1.18%

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 8 September 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 8 September 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 -2 29 £550 -31.25% 17
South London -2 7 £700 +12.90% 4
West London -15 3 £775 +50.19% 14
East London +3 2 £775 +43.52% 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 13 (5.16%) Apache Spark
2 9 (3.57%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (3.17%) Apache
4 7 (2.78%) CMS
5 2 (0.79%) nginx
5 2 (0.79%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.40%) CICS
6 1 (0.40%) Confluence
6 1 (0.40%) EPiServer
6 1 (0.40%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.40%) IIS
6 1 (0.40%) OpenROAD
6 1 (0.40%) SAS
6 1 (0.40%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.40%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.40%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.79%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.40%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.40%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 5 (1.98%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.19%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.40%) Misys Equation
3 1 (0.40%) Misys Midas
3 1 (0.40%) SAP CRM
3 1 (0.40%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 141 (55.95%) Azure
2 98 (38.89%) AWS
3 73 (28.97%) Azure DevOps
4 61 (24.21%) GitHub
5 49 (19.44%) GitHub Actions
5 49 (19.44%) Serverless
6 32 (12.70%) AWS Lambda
7 27 (10.71%) Power Platform
8 25 (9.92%) Amazon EKS
9 24 (9.52%) Amazon S3
10 23 (9.13%) GCP
11 22 (8.73%) Amazon ECS
12 20 (7.94%) Entra ID
13 19 (7.54%) Azure Monitor
14 18 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
15 17 (6.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 16 (6.35%) Amazon SQS
16 16 (6.35%) Azure Functions
17 14 (5.56%) Azure AKS
18 13 (5.16%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 16 (6.35%) Firewall
2 6 (2.38%) DMZ
2 6 (2.38%) VPN
3 5 (1.98%) DNS
3 5 (1.98%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.59%) Internet
4 4 (1.59%) Network Security
5 3 (1.19%) Kerberos
5 3 (1.19%) NGFW
6 2 (0.79%) HTTPS
6 2 (0.79%) OpenLDAP
7 1 (0.40%) FTP
7 1 (0.40%) HTTP
7 1 (0.40%) IMAP
7 1 (0.40%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.40%) SMTP
7 1 (0.40%) SSH
7 1 (0.40%) SSL
7 1 (0.40%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (8.33%) Power BI
2 19 (7.54%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (6.75%) SQL Server
4 16 (6.35%) Data Warehouse
5 15 (5.95%) Relational Database
6 12 (4.76%) NoSQL
7 11 (4.37%) Amazon RDS
8 10 (3.97%) Data Lake
8 10 (3.97%) Metadata
9 9 (3.57%) MongoDB
10 8 (3.17%) Big Data
10 8 (3.17%) Redis
11 7 (2.78%) DynamoDB
12 6 (2.38%) MySQL
13 5 (1.98%) Amazon Athena
13 5 (1.98%) Amazon Redshift
13 5 (1.98%) Spark SQL
13 5 (1.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 4 (1.59%) Apache Hive
14 4 (1.59%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 51 (20.24%) Git
2 49 (19.44%) GitLab
3 47 (18.65%) Jenkins
4 9 (3.57%) Selenium
5 8 (3.17%) JIRA
6 5 (1.98%) MSI
6 5 (1.98%) TeamCity
7 4 (1.59%) JUnit
7 4 (1.59%) SonarQube
7 4 (1.59%) Terragrunt
8 3 (1.19%) Cypress.io
8 3 (1.19%) Maven
8 3 (1.19%) Octopus Deploy
8 3 (1.19%) Storybook
8 3 (1.19%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.79%) AdminStudio
9 2 (0.79%) InstallShield
9 2 (0.79%) JMeter
9 2 (0.79%) rollup.js
9 2 (0.79%) webpack
General
1 75 (29.76%) Social Skills
2 53 (21.03%) Finance
3 37 (14.68%) Public Sector
4 30 (11.90%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (9.92%) Banking
6 7 (2.78%) Retail
7 6 (2.38%) Front Office
7 6 (2.38%) Marketing
8 5 (1.98%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.59%) Law
10 3 (1.19%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.19%) Legal
10 3 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.79%) Back Office
11 2 (0.79%) Billing
11 2 (0.79%) Health Technology
11 2 (0.79%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.79%) Spanish Language
12 1 (0.40%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 50 (19.84%) DevOps Engineer
2 49 (19.44%) Senior
3 46 (18.25%) Developer
4 26 (10.32%) Azure Engineer
5 25 (9.92%) Cloud Engineer
5 25 (9.92%) Lead
6 23 (9.13%) Architect
7 19 (7.54%) AWS Engineer
8 17 (6.75%) Data Engineer
8 17 (6.75%) Software Engineer
9 16 (6.35%) Platform Engineer
10 14 (5.56%) AWS DevOps
10 14 (5.56%) Full-Stack Developer
11 12 (4.76%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 12 (4.76%) Senior Developer
12 11 (4.37%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 11 (4.37%) Senior DevOps
12 11 (4.37%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 9 (3.57%) Python Engineer
13 9 (3.57%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (40.87%) Terraform
2 50 (19.84%) REST
3 35 (13.89%) React
4 32 (12.70%) .NET
4 32 (12.70%) RESTful
5 26 (10.32%) Kafka
6 15 (5.95%) AngularJS
7 14 (5.56%) .NET Framework
8 13 (5.16%) .NET Core
8 13 (5.16%) FastAPI
9 12 (4.76%) OAuth
9 12 (4.76%) PySpark
10 11 (4.37%) HTML
10 11 (4.37%) Node.js
10 11 (4.37%) YAML
11 10 (3.97%) ASP.NET
11 10 (3.97%) CSS
11 10 (3.97%) OAuth2
11 10 (3.97%) Spring
11 10 (3.97%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 78 (30.95%) Cloud Native
2 30 (11.90%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (6.75%) Product Ownership
4 16 (6.35%) Enterprise Software
5 14 (5.56%) Onboarding
6 8 (3.17%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (2.78%) Enterprise Cloud
8 6 (2.38%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (2.38%) Life Science
9 5 (1.98%) AI Agents
9 5 (1.98%) Distributed Architecture
9 5 (1.98%) NHS
9 5 (1.98%) Replication
10 4 (1.59%) CMDB
10 4 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.59%) Low-Code
11 3 (1.19%) Client/Server
11 3 (1.19%) Data Structures
11 3 (1.19%) Reference Data
11 3 (1.19%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 28 (11.11%) Linux
2 16 (6.35%) Windows
3 10 (3.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (2.78%) Unix
5 5 (1.98%) Windows Server
6 4 (1.59%) Ubuntu
7 3 (1.19%) VMS
8 2 (0.79%) Amazon Linux
8 2 (0.79%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.79%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.40%) Android
9 1 (0.40%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.40%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.40%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.40%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 204 (80.95%) CI/CD
2 161 (63.89%) DevOps
3 118 (46.83%) Infrastructure as Code
4 106 (42.06%) Agile
5 78 (30.95%) Containerisation
6 73 (28.97%) Test Automation
7 56 (22.22%) Observability
8 52 (20.63%) AI
9 51 (20.24%) Continuous Improvement
10 50 (19.84%) Problem-Solving
11 49 (19.44%) Microservices
12 47 (18.65%) Software Engineering
13 45 (17.86%) Analytics
14 43 (17.06%) Platform Engineering
15 41 (16.27%) Event-Driven
16 36 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
17 35 (13.89%) DevSecOps
18 34 (13.49%) Scrum
19 33 (13.10%) Event-Driven Architecture
19 33 (13.10%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 100 (39.68%) Python
2 57 (22.62%) SQL
3 38 (15.08%) Java
4 35 (13.89%) C#
4 35 (13.89%) PowerShell
5 31 (12.30%) JavaScript
6 22 (8.73%) TypeScript
7 21 (8.33%) Bash
8 18 (7.14%) Bicep
9 9 (3.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 9 (3.57%) Shell Script
10 4 (1.59%) Korn
10 4 (1.59%) Scala
11 3 (1.19%) PHP
12 2 (0.79%) Apex Code
12 2 (0.79%) COBOL
12 2 (0.79%) Go
12 2 (0.79%) Groovy
12 2 (0.79%) R
12 2 (0.79%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 78 (30.95%) Security Cleared
2 64 (25.40%) SC Cleared
3 23 (9.13%) DV Cleared
4 16 (6.35%) Degree
5 13 (5.16%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (4.37%) AWS Certification
6 11 (4.37%) Microsoft Certification
7 10 (3.97%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (1.19%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 3 (1.19%) MCSA
8 3 (1.19%) MCSE
9 2 (0.79%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.79%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.40%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.40%) PhD
10 1 (0.40%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.40%) PMP
10 1 (0.40%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (15.48%) QA
2 16 (6.35%) Data Quality
3 8 (3.17%) Accessibility
4 6 (2.38%) GDPR
5 4 (1.59%) WCAG
6 3 (1.19%) ISO 20022
7 2 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.79%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.40%) EU AI Act
8 1 (0.40%) ISO 15022
8 1 (0.40%) NCSC
8 1 (0.40%) NIST
8 1 (0.40%) PMO
8 1 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.40%) SLA
System Software
1 76 (30.16%) Docker
2 13 (5.16%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.78%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (2.38%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (1.98%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (0.40%) DFS Replication
6 1 (0.40%) Dovecot
6 1 (0.40%) Postfix
6 1 (0.40%) RACF
6 1 (0.40%) Squid
6 1 (0.40%) Time Sharing Option
6 1 (0.40%) Varnish
6 1 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.40%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 80 (31.75%) Kubernetes
2 30 (11.90%) Ansible
3 12 (4.76%) Grafana
3 12 (4.76%) SCCM
4 11 (4.37%) Prometheus
5 9 (3.57%) Microsoft Intune
6 6 (2.38%) WSUS
7 4 (1.59%) Control-M
7 4 (1.59%) Puppet
8 3 (1.19%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.79%) Argo
9 2 (0.79%) Istio
10 1 (0.40%) Cilium
10 1 (0.40%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.40%) ITRS Geneos
10 1 (0.40%) Kibana
10 1 (0.40%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.40%) Proxmox
10 1 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.40%) systemd
Vendors
1 59 (23.41%) Microsoft
2 17 (6.75%) Databricks
3 15 (5.95%) Google
4 11 (4.37%) Oracle
5 10 (3.97%) Salesforce
6 8 (3.17%) Red Hat
6 8 (3.17%) Splunk
7 5 (1.98%) Bloomberg
7 5 (1.98%) Citrix
7 5 (1.98%) Foundry
7 5 (1.98%) ION Trading
7 5 (1.98%) Reuters
7 5 (1.98%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.59%) Cloudera
9 3 (1.19%) Aprimo
9 3 (1.19%) IBM
9 3 (1.19%) Informatica
9 3 (1.19%) Optimizely
9 3 (1.19%) SaltStack
9 3 (1.19%) Talend