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 7 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 262 273 303
Rank change year-on-year +11 +30 -7
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 124 93 88
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.86% 0.65% 0.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.94% 0.72% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 50 56
10th Percentile £400 £485 £444
25th Percentile £442 £551 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £700 £575
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +21.74% -8.00%
75th Percentile £644 £809 £650
90th Percentile £785 £838 £759
England median daily rate £519 £612 £575
% change year-on-year -15.16% +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 13,159 12,860 16,045
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.43% 90.25% 89.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,703 8,233 11,465
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 £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 223 159 244
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.08 £17.00
25th Percentile £24.61 £23.80 £20.00
Median hourly rate £32.45 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.29% +7.69% -13.33%
75th Percentile £53.44 £54.50 £54.34
90th Percentile £69.24 £80.75 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +27.14%

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 7 January 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 7 January 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 -10 7 £495 -13.91% 10
West London - 2 £375 - 1
East London +3 1 £540 -14.29%
South London -6 1 £515 -37.20% 2
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 3 (2.42%) Appian
2 2 (1.61%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.61%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.61%) nginx
3 1 (0.81%) Apache
3 1 (0.81%) Camunda
3 1 (0.81%) ColdFusion
3 1 (0.81%) Confluence
3 1 (0.81%) Traefik
Applications
1 2 (1.61%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.81%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.81%) Endur
1 1 (0.81%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 54 (43.55%) Azure
2 30 (24.19%) AWS
3 23 (18.55%) GitHub
4 17 (13.71%) Azure DevOps
5 16 (12.90%) Serverless
6 15 (12.10%) GitHub Actions
7 13 (10.48%) Power Platform
8 12 (9.68%) AWS Lambda
9 9 (7.26%) AWS CloudFormation
9 9 (7.26%) Azure Data Factory
10 8 (6.45%) Amazon S3
11 7 (5.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 7 (5.65%) Datadog
11 7 (5.65%) GCP
12 5 (4.03%) Amazon EC2
12 5 (4.03%) Amazon EKS
12 5 (4.03%) Entra ID
12 5 (4.03%) IaaS
12 5 (4.03%) Power Automate
12 5 (4.03%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (8.06%) HTTPS
2 6 (4.84%) SSL
3 4 (3.23%) DHCP
3 4 (3.23%) DNS
3 4 (3.23%) Firewall
4 3 (2.42%) TCP/IP
4 3 (2.42%) VPN
5 2 (1.61%) Internet
5 2 (1.61%) Network Security
6 1 (0.81%) BGP
6 1 (0.81%) Calico
6 1 (0.81%) DMZ
6 1 (0.81%) Ethernet VPN
6 1 (0.81%) HTTP
6 1 (0.81%) SMS
6 1 (0.81%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (0.81%) VSAN
6 1 (0.81%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (9.68%) Relational Database
2 10 (8.06%) SQL Server
3 9 (7.26%) Power BI
4 8 (6.45%) Data Lake
4 8 (6.45%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (6.45%) Spark SQL
5 7 (5.65%) Azure SQL Database
5 7 (5.65%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (4.03%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (4.03%) NoSQL
7 3 (2.42%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (2.42%) Pinecone
7 3 (2.42%) Redis
7 3 (2.42%) Star Schema
8 2 (1.61%) Delta Lake
8 2 (1.61%) ImageNet
9 1 (0.81%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (0.81%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.81%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.81%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 24 (19.35%) Git
2 15 (12.10%) GitLab
3 12 (9.68%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.42%) Artifactory
4 3 (2.42%) JIRA
4 3 (2.42%) MLflow
5 2 (1.61%) CircleCI
5 2 (1.61%) Gradle
5 2 (1.61%) Maven
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 42 (33.87%) Social Skills
2 29 (23.39%) Finance
3 17 (13.71%) Public Sector
4 7 (5.65%) Marketing
5 6 (4.84%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (3.23%) Banking
7 3 (2.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.61%) Back Office
8 2 (1.61%) Digital Healthcare
8 2 (1.61%) Electronics
8 2 (1.61%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.61%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.61%) Military
8 2 (1.61%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.81%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.81%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.81%) Front Office
9 1 (0.81%) Police
9 1 (0.81%) Retail
Job Titles
1 41 (33.06%) Developer
2 16 (12.90%) Architect
2 16 (12.90%) DevOps Engineer
3 11 (8.87%) Lead
4 10 (8.06%) Technical Architect
5 9 (7.26%) Senior
6 8 (6.45%) Azure Engineer
6 8 (6.45%) Python Developer
7 6 (4.84%) Azure Architect
7 6 (4.84%) Cloud Engineer
7 6 (4.84%) Lead DevOps
8 5 (4.03%) Automation Engineer
8 5 (4.03%) Data Engineer
8 5 (4.03%) Full-Stack Developer
8 5 (4.03%) Full-Stack Python Developer
8 5 (4.03%) Platform Engineer
8 5 (4.03%) React Developer
9 4 (3.23%) Azure Data Engineer
9 4 (3.23%) Consultant
9 4 (3.23%) webMethods Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (16.94%) RESTful
2 20 (16.13%) REST
3 17 (13.71%) JSON
4 15 (12.10%) React
4 15 (12.10%) XML
5 12 (9.68%) OAuth
5 12 (9.68%) PySpark
5 12 (9.68%) SOAP
6 10 (8.06%) .NET
7 9 (7.26%) AngularJS
7 9 (7.26%) Kafka
8 8 (6.45%) FastAPI
8 8 (6.45%) pytest
8 8 (6.45%) Spring
9 7 (5.65%) ARM Templates
9 7 (5.65%) HTML
9 7 (5.65%) Spark Streaming
10 6 (4.84%) Spring Boot
10 6 (4.84%) YAML
11 5 (4.03%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 16 (12.90%) Cloud Native
2 8 (6.45%) Distributed Computing
3 6 (4.84%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (4.84%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (2.42%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (2.42%) Low-Code
4 3 (2.42%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.42%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.61%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (1.61%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.61%) Derivative
5 2 (1.61%) Energy Derivatives
5 2 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.61%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (1.61%) NHS
5 2 (1.61%) PACS
6 1 (0.81%) Animation
6 1 (0.81%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.81%) Fat Client
6 1 (0.81%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 20 (16.13%) Linux
2 5 (4.03%) Windows
3 3 (2.42%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.61%) Unix
4 2 (1.61%) VMS
5 1 (0.81%) Android
5 1 (0.81%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.81%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (66.13%) CI/CD
2 80 (64.52%) DevOps
3 43 (34.68%) Infrastructure as Code
3 43 (34.68%) Test Automation
4 41 (33.06%) Containerisation
5 38 (30.65%) Agile
6 29 (23.39%) Microservices
7 27 (21.77%) Problem-Solving
8 23 (18.55%) Observability
9 20 (16.13%) Analytics
10 19 (15.32%) Data Pipeline
10 19 (15.32%) ETL
11 17 (13.71%) API Development
11 17 (13.71%) Infrastructure Automation
12 16 (12.90%) Migration
13 15 (12.10%) Data Engineering
14 13 (10.48%) AI
14 13 (10.48%) Continuous Improvement
14 13 (10.48%) Performance Tuning
15 12 (9.68%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 49 (39.52%) Python
2 40 (32.26%) SQL
3 28 (22.58%) Java
4 18 (14.52%) TypeScript
5 13 (10.48%) JavaScript
6 11 (8.87%) Bash
7 9 (7.26%) Bicep
7 9 (7.26%) PowerShell
8 4 (3.23%) C#
9 3 (2.42%) Go
10 2 (1.61%) Kotlin
10 2 (1.61%) PHP
10 2 (1.61%) Rust
10 2 (1.61%) 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%) Ruby
11 1 (0.81%) Scala
Qualifications
1 36 (29.03%) Security Cleared
2 31 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 8 (6.45%) Degree
4 7 (5.65%) Azure Certification
5 5 (4.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (4.03%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (3.23%) DV Cleared
7 3 (2.42%) AWS Certification
7 3 (2.42%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (2.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (2.42%) Master's Degree
7 3 (2.42%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 2 (1.61%) CISSP
9 1 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.81%) CCNP
9 1 (0.81%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.81%) CISM
9 1 (0.81%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.45%) GDPR
2 7 (5.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 6 (4.84%) QA
4 4 (3.23%) Data Quality
5 3 (2.42%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.61%) NCSC
6 2 (1.61%) NIST
6 2 (1.61%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.81%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.81%) NIST 800
System Software
1 45 (36.29%) Docker
2 8 (6.45%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.61%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.61%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (1.61%) Xen
5 1 (0.81%) etcd
5 1 (0.81%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.81%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 44 (35.48%) Kubernetes
2 40 (32.26%) Terraform
3 9 (7.26%) Prometheus
4 8 (6.45%) Ansible
4 8 (6.45%) Grafana
5 4 (3.23%) ITRS Geneos
6 3 (2.42%) vRealize
7 2 (1.61%) Istio
7 2 (1.61%) Progress Chef
7 2 (1.61%) Puppet
8 1 (0.81%) Argo
8 1 (0.81%) Fluentd
8 1 (0.81%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.81%) VxRail
Vendors
1 33 (26.61%) Microsoft
2 9 (7.26%) Databricks
3 7 (5.65%) VMware
4 6 (4.84%) Google
4 6 (4.84%) Salesforce
4 6 (4.84%) SAP
5 5 (4.03%) Axway
5 5 (4.03%) Splunk
5 5 (4.03%) webMethods
6 4 (3.23%) IBM
6 4 (3.23%) Software AG
7 3 (2.42%) Adobe
7 3 (2.42%) Apple
7 3 (2.42%) Automation Anywhere
7 3 (2.42%) ForgeRock
7 3 (2.42%) OpenAI
7 3 (2.42%) Oracle
7 3 (2.42%) UiPath
8 2 (1.61%) Atlassian
8 2 (1.61%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud