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

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 219 255 275
Rank change year-on-year +36 +20 +26
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 258 118 116
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.27% 0.87% 0.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.43% 0.94% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 165 84 67
10th Percentile £385 £354 £413
25th Percentile £450 £413 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £638 £651 £749
90th Percentile £740 £809 £780
England median daily rate £509 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -7.45% -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 18,096 12,500 14,495
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.98% 92.57% 89.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,817 8,259 9,770
10th Percentile £358 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 305 257 182
10th Percentile £16.70 £17.00 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.00 £23.29
Median hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.38% -8.57% -12.50%
75th Percentile £57.00 £49.50 £55.00
90th Percentile £85.84 £63.75 £71.88
England median hourly rate £42.30 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.19% -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 11 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 11 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 -1 31 £535 -33.13% 14
South London +3 9 £700 +12.90% 3
West London -19 3 £775 +50.19% 15
East London +3 2 £775 +43.52% 5
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 (5.04%) Apache Spark
2 10 (3.88%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (3.49%) Apache
4 7 (2.71%) CMS
5 2 (0.78%) nginx
5 2 (0.78%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.39%) CICS
6 1 (0.39%) Confluence
6 1 (0.39%) EPiServer
6 1 (0.39%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.39%) IIS
6 1 (0.39%) SAS
6 1 (0.39%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.39%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.39%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.78%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.39%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.39%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 5 (1.94%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.16%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.39%) Misys Equation
3 1 (0.39%) Misys Midas
3 1 (0.39%) SAP CRM
3 1 (0.39%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 143 (55.43%) Azure
2 99 (38.37%) AWS
3 73 (28.29%) Azure DevOps
4 63 (24.42%) GitHub
5 51 (19.77%) GitHub Actions
5 51 (19.77%) Serverless
6 34 (13.18%) AWS Lambda
7 27 (10.47%) Amazon EKS
7 27 (10.47%) Power Platform
8 25 (9.69%) Amazon S3
9 24 (9.30%) Amazon ECS
9 24 (9.30%) GCP
10 21 (8.14%) Entra ID
11 20 (7.75%) Amazon EC2
12 19 (7.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 19 (7.36%) Azure Monitor
13 16 (6.20%) Amazon SQS
13 16 (6.20%) Azure Functions
14 13 (5.04%) Azure AKS
14 13 (5.04%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 17 (6.59%) Firewall
2 6 (2.33%) DMZ
2 6 (2.33%) VPN
3 5 (1.94%) DNS
3 5 (1.94%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.55%) Internet
4 4 (1.55%) Kerberos
4 4 (1.55%) Network Security
4 4 (1.55%) NGFW
5 2 (0.78%) HTTPS
5 2 (0.78%) OpenLDAP
6 1 (0.39%) FTP
6 1 (0.39%) HTTP
6 1 (0.39%) IMAP
6 1 (0.39%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.39%) SMTP
6 1 (0.39%) SSH
6 1 (0.39%) SSL
6 1 (0.39%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (7.75%) Power BI
2 19 (7.36%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (6.98%) SQL Server
4 16 (6.20%) Data Warehouse
5 15 (5.81%) Relational Database
6 12 (4.65%) Data Lake
6 12 (4.65%) NoSQL
7 11 (4.26%) Amazon RDS
8 10 (3.88%) Metadata
9 9 (3.49%) MongoDB
10 8 (3.10%) Big Data
10 8 (3.10%) Redis
11 7 (2.71%) DynamoDB
12 6 (2.33%) MySQL
13 5 (1.94%) Amazon Athena
13 5 (1.94%) Amazon Redshift
13 5 (1.94%) Spark SQL
13 5 (1.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 4 (1.55%) BigQuery
14 4 (1.55%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 54 (20.93%) Git
2 50 (19.38%) GitLab
3 49 (18.99%) Jenkins
4 9 (3.49%) JIRA
4 9 (3.49%) Selenium
5 5 (1.94%) MSI
5 5 (1.94%) TeamCity
6 4 (1.55%) Cypress.io
6 4 (1.55%) JUnit
6 4 (1.55%) SonarQube
6 4 (1.55%) Terragrunt
7 3 (1.16%) Maven
7 3 (1.16%) Octopus Deploy
7 3 (1.16%) Storybook
7 3 (1.16%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.78%) AdminStudio
8 2 (0.78%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.78%) Gradle
8 2 (0.78%) InstallShield
8 2 (0.78%) JMeter
General
1 77 (29.84%) Social Skills
2 55 (21.32%) Finance
3 38 (14.73%) Public Sector
4 33 (12.79%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (10.47%) Banking
6 7 (2.71%) Retail
7 6 (2.33%) Front Office
7 6 (2.33%) Marketing
8 5 (1.94%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.55%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.55%) Law
10 3 (1.16%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.16%) Legal
10 3 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.78%) Back Office
11 2 (0.78%) Billing
11 2 (0.78%) Health Technology
11 2 (0.78%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.78%) Spanish Language
12 1 (0.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 51 (19.77%) DevOps Engineer
2 49 (18.99%) Senior
3 48 (18.60%) Developer
4 26 (10.08%) Azure Engineer
4 26 (10.08%) Lead
5 25 (9.69%) Cloud Engineer
6 22 (8.53%) Architect
7 19 (7.36%) AWS Engineer
8 18 (6.98%) Data Engineer
9 17 (6.59%) Software Engineer
10 16 (6.20%) Platform Engineer
11 14 (5.43%) AWS DevOps
11 14 (5.43%) Full-Stack Developer
12 13 (5.04%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 12 (4.65%) Senior Developer
14 11 (4.26%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 11 (4.26%) Senior DevOps
14 11 (4.26%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 11 (4.26%) Technical Leader
15 9 (3.49%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (40.70%) Terraform
2 52 (20.16%) REST
3 35 (13.57%) React
4 34 (13.18%) .NET
4 34 (13.18%) RESTful
5 27 (10.47%) Kafka
6 16 (6.20%) AngularJS
7 14 (5.43%) .NET Framework
8 13 (5.04%) .NET Core
8 13 (5.04%) FastAPI
8 13 (5.04%) OAuth
8 13 (5.04%) PySpark
9 12 (4.65%) HTML
9 12 (4.65%) Spring
9 12 (4.65%) Spring Boot
10 11 (4.26%) ASP.NET
10 11 (4.26%) CSS
10 11 (4.26%) Node.js
10 11 (4.26%) OAuth2
11 10 (3.88%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 83 (32.17%) Cloud Native
2 30 (11.63%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (7.36%) Product Ownership
4 17 (6.59%) Enterprise Software
5 14 (5.43%) Onboarding
6 8 (3.10%) Enterprise Cloud
7 7 (2.71%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (2.33%) AI Agents
8 6 (2.33%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (2.33%) Life Science
9 5 (1.94%) CMDB
9 5 (1.94%) Distributed Architecture
9 5 (1.94%) NHS
9 5 (1.94%) Replication
10 4 (1.55%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.55%) Low-Code
10 4 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (1.16%) Client/Server
11 3 (1.16%) Data Structures
11 3 (1.16%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 29 (11.24%) Linux
2 17 (6.59%) Windows
3 10 (3.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (3.10%) Unix
5 5 (1.94%) Windows Server
6 4 (1.55%) Ubuntu
7 3 (1.16%) VMS
8 2 (0.78%) Amazon Linux
8 2 (0.78%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.78%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.39%) Android
9 1 (0.39%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.39%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.39%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.39%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 210 (81.40%) CI/CD
2 165 (63.95%) DevOps
3 121 (46.90%) Infrastructure as Code
4 111 (43.02%) Agile
5 81 (31.40%) Containerisation
6 78 (30.23%) Test Automation
7 59 (22.87%) Observability
8 55 (21.32%) AI
8 55 (21.32%) Continuous Improvement
9 53 (20.54%) Problem-Solving
10 51 (19.77%) Microservices
10 51 (19.77%) Software Engineering
11 46 (17.83%) Analytics
12 45 (17.44%) Platform Engineering
13 41 (15.89%) Event-Driven
14 37 (14.34%) DevSecOps
14 37 (14.34%) Scrum
14 37 (14.34%) Technical Leadership
15 35 (13.57%) Stakeholder Management
16 34 (13.18%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 99 (38.37%) Python
2 58 (22.48%) SQL
3 39 (15.12%) Java
4 36 (13.95%) C#
5 35 (13.57%) PowerShell
6 32 (12.40%) JavaScript
7 23 (8.91%) TypeScript
8 20 (7.75%) Bash
8 20 (7.75%) Bicep
9 9 (3.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 9 (3.49%) Shell Script
10 4 (1.55%) Korn
10 4 (1.55%) Scala
11 3 (1.16%) PHP
12 2 (0.78%) Apex Code
12 2 (0.78%) COBOL
12 2 (0.78%) Go
12 2 (0.78%) Groovy
12 2 (0.78%) R
12 2 (0.78%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 80 (31.01%) Security Cleared
2 66 (25.58%) SC Cleared
3 23 (8.91%) DV Cleared
4 16 (6.20%) Degree
5 13 (5.04%) AWS Certification
5 13 (5.04%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (4.65%) Microsoft Certification
7 11 (4.26%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.55%) MCSE
9 3 (1.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (1.16%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 3 (1.16%) MCSA
10 2 (0.78%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.78%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.39%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 1 (0.39%) PhD
11 1 (0.39%) PMP
11 1 (0.39%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (15.89%) QA
2 17 (6.59%) Data Quality
3 8 (3.10%) Accessibility
4 6 (2.33%) GDPR
5 4 (1.55%) WCAG
6 3 (1.16%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.39%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.39%) ISO 15022
7 1 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.39%) NCSC
7 1 (0.39%) NIST
7 1 (0.39%) PMO
7 1 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.39%) SLA
7 1 (0.39%) SOC 2
System Software
1 78 (30.23%) Docker
2 14 (5.43%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.71%) Virtual Desktop
4 6 (2.33%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (1.94%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (0.39%) DFS Replication
6 1 (0.39%) Dovecot
6 1 (0.39%) Postfix
6 1 (0.39%) RACF
6 1 (0.39%) Squid
6 1 (0.39%) Time Sharing Option
6 1 (0.39%) Varnish
6 1 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.39%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 80 (31.01%) Kubernetes
2 30 (11.63%) Ansible
3 13 (5.04%) Grafana
4 12 (4.65%) Prometheus
4 12 (4.65%) SCCM
5 10 (3.88%) Microsoft Intune
6 6 (2.33%) WSUS
7 4 (1.55%) Control-M
7 4 (1.55%) Puppet
8 3 (1.16%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.78%) Argo
9 2 (0.78%) Istio
10 1 (0.39%) Cilium
10 1 (0.39%) ITRS Geneos
10 1 (0.39%) Kibana
10 1 (0.39%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.39%) Packer
10 1 (0.39%) Proxmox
10 1 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.39%) systemd
Vendors
1 62 (24.03%) Microsoft
2 19 (7.36%) Databricks
3 16 (6.20%) Google
4 12 (4.65%) Oracle
5 10 (3.88%) Salesforce
6 8 (3.10%) Red Hat
6 8 (3.10%) Splunk
7 5 (1.94%) Bloomberg
7 5 (1.94%) Citrix
7 5 (1.94%) Foundry
7 5 (1.94%) ION Trading
7 5 (1.94%) Reuters
7 5 (1.94%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.55%) Cloudera
9 3 (1.16%) Aprimo
9 3 (1.16%) IBM
9 3 (1.16%) Informatica
9 3 (1.16%) OneTrust
9 3 (1.16%) SaltStack
9 3 (1.16%) Talend