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 19 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 240 243 298
Rank change year-on-year +3 +55 -8
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 163 109 97
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.05% 0.80% 0.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.16% 0.89% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 64 65
10th Percentile £400 £425 £435
25th Percentile £442 £502 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £653 £575
Median % change year-on-year -19.54% +13.48% -9.80%
75th Percentile £624 £825 £688
90th Percentile £760 £838 £775
England median daily rate £515 £594 £575
% change year-on-year -13.26% +3.26% -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 £50.50 £85.00 £44.51
% change year-on-year -40.59% +90.97% -31.52%

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 14,107 12,276 16,138
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.50% 90.65% 88.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,418 7,891 11,536
10th Percentile £350 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 221 153 342
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.05 £16.02
25th Percentile £25.15 £26.00 £19.57
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £30.08
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +24.67% -16.44%
75th Percentile £56.50 £55.25 £52.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.68 £72.50
England median hourly rate £26.78 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -23.49% - -

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 19 February 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 19 February 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 -14 15 £550 -4.35% 19
West London - 2 £375 -
East London -1 1 £540 -14.29% 1
South London -14 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 (4.91%) Appian
2 6 (3.68%) Camunda
3 3 (1.84%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.61%) Apache
4 1 (0.61%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.61%) ColdFusion
4 1 (0.61%) Confluence
4 1 (0.61%) Palantir Foundry
4 1 (0.61%) Traefik
Applications
1 2 (1.23%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.61%) Endur
1 1 (0.61%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 83 (50.92%) Azure
2 41 (25.15%) AWS
3 30 (18.40%) GitHub
4 21 (12.88%) GCP
5 19 (11.66%) Azure DevOps
5 19 (11.66%) GitHub Actions
6 17 (10.43%) Serverless
7 16 (9.82%) Power Platform
8 13 (7.98%) Azure AI
8 13 (7.98%) Azure Data Factory
9 9 (5.52%) AWS Lambda
9 9 (5.52%) Azure Key Vault
9 9 (5.52%) Power Automate
10 8 (4.91%) Anthropic Claude
10 8 (4.91%) Azure AKS
11 7 (4.29%) AWS CloudFormation
11 7 (4.29%) Azure Functions
11 7 (4.29%) Azure Logic Apps
11 7 (4.29%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 6 (3.68%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 10 (6.13%) HTTPS
2 7 (4.29%) Firewall
2 7 (4.29%) SSL
3 5 (3.07%) DHCP
3 5 (3.07%) Software-Defined Networking
3 5 (3.07%) TCP/IP
4 4 (2.45%) DNS
4 4 (2.45%) Network Security
4 4 (2.45%) VPN
5 2 (1.23%) BGP
5 2 (1.23%) DMZ
6 1 (0.61%) Cisco IOS
6 1 (0.61%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (0.61%) Internet
6 1 (0.61%) IPsec
6 1 (0.61%) OSPF
6 1 (0.61%) SMS
6 1 (0.61%) SNMP
6 1 (0.61%) VSAN
6 1 (0.61%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (9.20%) SQL Server
2 10 (6.13%) Power BI
3 9 (5.52%) Relational Database
4 8 (4.91%) Pinecone
4 8 (4.91%) Spark SQL
5 7 (4.29%) Azure SQL Database
5 7 (4.29%) Data Lake
5 7 (4.29%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (3.68%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (3.07%) NoSQL
8 3 (1.84%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (1.84%) Apache Cassandra
8 3 (1.84%) Redis
8 3 (1.84%) Star Schema
9 2 (1.23%) ImageNet
9 2 (1.23%) Metadata
10 1 (0.61%) Amazon Athena
10 1 (0.61%) Data Vault
10 1 (0.61%) Delta Lake
10 1 (0.61%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 30 (18.40%) Git
2 19 (11.66%) GitLab
3 12 (7.36%) Jenkins
4 8 (4.91%) MLflow
5 4 (2.45%) Artifactory
6 3 (1.84%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.84%) Gradle
6 3 (1.84%) JIRA
7 2 (1.23%) CircleCI
7 2 (1.23%) Maven
7 2 (1.23%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.61%) Android Studio
8 1 (0.61%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.61%) git-flow
8 1 (0.61%) Mockito
8 1 (0.61%) MSBuild
8 1 (0.61%) Selenium
8 1 (0.61%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.61%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.61%) webpack
General
1 58 (35.58%) Social Skills
2 46 (28.22%) Finance
3 22 (13.50%) Public Sector
4 10 (6.13%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (4.29%) Marketing
6 5 (3.07%) Banking
7 4 (2.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.84%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.23%) Back Office
9 2 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.23%) Electronics
9 2 (1.23%) Front Office
9 2 (1.23%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.23%) Military
9 2 (1.23%) Police
9 2 (1.23%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.61%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.61%) Law
10 1 (0.61%) Retail
Job Titles
1 46 (28.22%) Developer
2 23 (14.11%) Architect
3 18 (11.04%) DevOps Engineer
4 15 (9.20%) Azure Engineer
5 14 (8.59%) Senior
6 12 (7.36%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 12 (7.36%) Lead
7 11 (6.75%) Automation Engineer
8 10 (6.13%) Technical Architect
9 8 (4.91%) Cloud Engineer
9 8 (4.91%) Python Developer
10 6 (3.68%) Azure Architect
10 6 (3.68%) Data Engineer
10 6 (3.68%) Full-Stack Developer
10 6 (3.68%) Lead DevOps
10 6 (3.68%) Platform Engineer
10 6 (3.68%) React Developer
11 5 (3.07%) Cloud Architect
11 5 (3.07%) Full-Stack Python Developer
11 5 (3.07%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (18.40%) REST
2 29 (17.79%) RESTful
3 19 (11.66%) JSON
3 19 (11.66%) React
4 16 (9.82%) OAuth
5 14 (8.59%) .NET
5 14 (8.59%) FastAPI
6 13 (7.98%) PySpark
6 13 (7.98%) pytest
6 13 (7.98%) XML
7 11 (6.75%) AngularJS
7 11 (6.75%) Spring
7 11 (6.75%) Spring Boot
8 10 (6.13%) JWT
8 10 (6.13%) SOAP
8 10 (6.13%) Swagger
8 10 (6.13%) Web Services
9 9 (5.52%) Flask
9 9 (5.52%) Kafka
9 9 (5.52%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 20 (12.27%) Cloud Native
2 11 (6.75%) Legacy Systems
3 8 (4.91%) Low-Code
4 7 (4.29%) Distributed Computing
5 6 (3.68%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (3.07%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (3.07%) Onboarding
6 5 (3.07%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.84%) AI Agents
7 3 (1.84%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.84%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.84%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.23%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.23%) Derivative
8 2 (1.23%) Energy Derivatives
8 2 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.23%) Fixed Income
8 2 (1.23%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.23%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 21 (12.88%) Linux
2 8 (4.91%) Windows
3 4 (2.45%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.23%) Unix
4 2 (1.23%) VMS
5 1 (0.61%) Android
5 1 (0.61%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.61%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.61%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (68.71%) CI/CD
2 97 (59.51%) DevOps
3 60 (36.81%) Infrastructure as Code
4 57 (34.97%) Test Automation
5 48 (29.45%) Containerisation
6 42 (25.77%) Agile
7 32 (19.63%) Problem-Solving
8 29 (17.79%) AI
8 29 (17.79%) Microservices
8 29 (17.79%) Observability
9 27 (16.56%) Data Pipeline
10 25 (15.34%) Analytics
11 24 (14.72%) Data Engineering
11 24 (14.72%) Migration
12 23 (14.11%) API Development
12 23 (14.11%) ETL
13 20 (12.27%) Infrastructure Automation
14 19 (11.66%) Stakeholder Management
14 19 (11.66%) Workflow
15 18 (11.04%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 67 (41.10%) Python
2 46 (28.22%) SQL
3 30 (18.40%) Java
4 21 (12.88%) TypeScript
5 20 (12.27%) PowerShell
6 17 (10.43%) Bicep
7 16 (9.82%) JavaScript
8 13 (7.98%) Bash
9 12 (7.36%) C#
10 3 (1.84%) Go
10 3 (1.84%) Kotlin
11 2 (1.23%) PHP
11 2 (1.23%) Rust
11 2 (1.23%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.23%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.61%) ActionScript
12 1 (0.61%) C
12 1 (0.61%) C++
12 1 (0.61%) Objective-C
12 1 (0.61%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 48 (29.45%) Security Cleared
2 39 (23.93%) SC Cleared
3 10 (6.13%) Azure Certification
4 8 (4.91%) Degree
5 7 (4.29%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (2.45%) AWS Certification
6 4 (2.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (2.45%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.45%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.84%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (1.84%) CISSP
7 3 (1.84%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.84%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 2 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.23%) CCNP
8 2 (1.23%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.61%) CISM
9 1 (0.61%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.61%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.75%) GDPR
2 10 (6.13%) Data Quality
3 7 (4.29%) QA
3 7 (4.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 4 (2.45%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.84%) HIPAA
6 2 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.23%) NCSC
6 2 (1.23%) NIST
6 2 (1.23%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.61%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.61%) WCAG
System Software
1 55 (33.74%) Docker
2 8 (4.91%) Active Directory
3 4 (2.45%) Hyper-V
3 4 (2.45%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (1.84%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.23%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (1.23%) Xen
6 1 (0.61%) etcd
6 1 (0.61%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.61%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 59 (36.20%) Terraform
2 58 (35.58%) Kubernetes
3 11 (6.75%) Ansible
4 6 (3.68%) Grafana
5 5 (3.07%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.84%) Istio
6 3 (1.84%) ITRS Geneos
6 3 (1.84%) vRealize
7 2 (1.23%) SCCM
8 1 (0.61%) Argo
8 1 (0.61%) Fluentd
8 1 (0.61%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.61%) QRadar
8 1 (0.61%) VxRail
8 1 (0.61%) WSUS
Vendors
1 45 (27.61%) Microsoft
2 13 (7.98%) Google
3 12 (7.36%) OpenAI
4 11 (6.75%) Salesforce
5 9 (5.52%) Databricks
6 8 (4.91%) Automation Anywhere
6 8 (4.91%) UiPath
7 7 (4.29%) VMware
8 6 (3.68%) Foundry
8 6 (3.68%) SAP
8 6 (3.68%) Splunk
9 5 (3.07%) Axway
9 5 (3.07%) webMethods
10 4 (2.45%) IBM
10 4 (2.45%) Software AG
11 3 (1.84%) Adobe
11 3 (1.84%) Apple
11 3 (1.84%) ForgeRock
11 3 (1.84%) Oracle
11 3 (1.84%) Palo Alto