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

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 217 251 265
Rank change year-on-year +34 +14 +52
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 258 112 115
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.27% 0.85% 0.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.43% 0.91% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 166 81 63
10th Percentile £385 £380 £413
25th Percentile £452 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.17% -4.17% -1.03%
75th Percentile £638 £653 £746
90th Percentile £738 £813 £779
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 17,996 12,259 14,355
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.86% 92.58% 89.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,759 8,104 9,616
10th Percentile £359 £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 £663 £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 300 254 180
10th Percentile £16.70 £17.00 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £34.62 £31.75 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.02% -9.29% -12.50%
75th Percentile £56.44 £48.44 £55.00
90th Percentile £85.02 £63.75 £72.19
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -1.81%

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 15 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 15 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 30 £535 -33.13% 31
South London -2 9 £700 +12.90% 3
West London -17 3 £775 +50.19% 14
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
1 141 (54.65%) Azure
2 99 (38.37%) AWS
3 71 (27.52%) Azure DevOps
4 61 (23.64%) GitHub
5 50 (19.38%) Serverless
6 49 (18.99%) GitHub Actions
7 33 (12.79%) AWS Lambda
8 27 (10.47%) Amazon EKS
8 27 (10.47%) Power Platform
9 26 (10.08%) GCP
10 24 (9.30%) Amazon ECS
10 24 (9.30%) Amazon S3
11 21 (8.14%) Entra ID
12 20 (7.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 20 (7.75%) Amazon EC2
13 18 (6.98%) Azure Monitor
14 16 (6.20%) Amazon SQS
14 16 (6.20%) Azure Functions
15 13 (5.04%) Azure AKS
15 13 (5.04%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 18 (6.98%) 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%) NGFW
5 3 (1.16%) Network Security
6 2 (0.78%) HTTPS
6 2 (0.78%) OpenLDAP
7 1 (0.39%) FTP
7 1 (0.39%) HTTP
7 1 (0.39%) IMAP
7 1 (0.39%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.39%) SMTP
7 1 (0.39%) SSH
7 1 (0.39%) SSL
7 1 (0.39%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (7.75%) Power BI
2 18 (6.98%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (6.98%) SQL Server
3 16 (6.20%) Data Warehouse
3 16 (6.20%) Relational Database
4 12 (4.65%) Data Lake
5 11 (4.26%) NoSQL
6 10 (3.88%) Amazon RDS
6 10 (3.88%) Metadata
7 8 (3.10%) Big Data
7 8 (3.10%) MongoDB
7 8 (3.10%) Redis
8 7 (2.71%) DynamoDB
9 6 (2.33%) MySQL
10 5 (1.94%) Amazon Athena
10 5 (1.94%) Amazon Redshift
10 5 (1.94%) BigQuery
10 5 (1.94%) Spark SQL
10 5 (1.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 4 (1.55%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 53 (20.54%) 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 76 (29.46%) Social Skills
2 55 (21.32%) Finance
3 37 (14.34%) Public Sector
4 34 (13.18%) Analytical Skills
5 28 (10.85%) Banking
6 7 (2.71%) Retail
7 6 (2.33%) Marketing
8 5 (1.94%) Front Office
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%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.78%) Back Office
11 2 (0.78%) Billing
11 2 (0.78%) Health Technology
11 2 (0.78%) Legal
11 2 (0.78%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.78%) Spanish Language
12 1 (0.39%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 51 (19.77%) DevOps Engineer
2 49 (18.99%) Senior
3 46 (17.83%) Developer
4 29 (11.24%) Lead
5 27 (10.47%) Cloud Engineer
6 26 (10.08%) Azure Engineer
7 22 (8.53%) Architect
8 19 (7.36%) AWS Engineer
9 18 (6.98%) Data Engineer
10 17 (6.59%) Software Engineer
11 16 (6.20%) Platform Engineer
12 14 (5.43%) AWS DevOps
13 13 (5.04%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 12 (4.65%) Full-Stack Developer
14 12 (4.65%) Senior Developer
15 11 (4.26%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 11 (4.26%) Senior DevOps
15 11 (4.26%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 11 (4.26%) Technical Leader
16 9 (3.49%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (40.70%) Terraform
2 51 (19.77%) REST
3 34 (13.18%) .NET
4 33 (12.79%) React
4 33 (12.79%) RESTful
5 27 (10.47%) Kafka
6 14 (5.43%) .NET Framework
6 14 (5.43%) AngularJS
6 14 (5.43%) OAuth
7 13 (5.04%) .NET Core
7 13 (5.04%) PySpark
8 12 (4.65%) FastAPI
8 12 (4.65%) HTML
8 12 (4.65%) Spring
8 12 (4.65%) Spring Boot
9 11 (4.26%) ASP.NET
9 11 (4.26%) CSS
9 11 (4.26%) OAuth2
10 10 (3.88%) Node.js
10 10 (3.88%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 82 (31.78%) Cloud Native
2 29 (11.24%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (6.98%) Product Ownership
4 17 (6.59%) Enterprise Software
5 14 (5.43%) Onboarding
6 7 (2.71%) Enterprise Cloud
6 7 (2.71%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (2.33%) AI Agents
7 6 (2.33%) Life Science
8 5 (1.94%) CMDB
8 5 (1.94%) Distributed Architecture
8 5 (1.94%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (1.94%) NHS
8 5 (1.94%) Replication
9 4 (1.55%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.55%) Low-Code
9 4 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.16%) Client/Server
10 3 (1.16%) Legacy Applications
10 3 (1.16%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 30 (11.63%) 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
2 163 (63.18%) DevOps
3 120 (46.51%) Infrastructure as Code
4 110 (42.64%) Agile
5 82 (31.78%) Containerisation
6 76 (29.46%) Test Automation
7 58 (22.48%) Observability
8 55 (21.32%) AI
9 54 (20.93%) Continuous Improvement
10 53 (20.54%) Problem-Solving
11 52 (20.16%) Microservices
12 51 (19.77%) Software Engineering
13 46 (17.83%) Platform Engineering
14 45 (17.44%) Analytics
15 40 (15.50%) Event-Driven
16 39 (15.12%) Technical Leadership
17 37 (14.34%) Scrum
18 36 (13.95%) Stakeholder Management
19 35 (13.57%) DevSecOps
19 35 (13.57%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 99 (38.37%) Python
2 59 (22.87%) SQL
3 39 (15.12%) Java
4 36 (13.95%) C#
5 34 (13.18%) PowerShell
6 32 (12.40%) JavaScript
7 22 (8.53%) TypeScript
8 21 (8.14%) Bash
9 20 (7.75%) Bicep
10 9 (3.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 9 (3.49%) Shell Script
11 5 (1.94%) Korn
12 4 (1.55%) Scala
13 3 (1.16%) PHP
14 2 (0.78%) Apex Code
14 2 (0.78%) COBOL
14 2 (0.78%) Go
14 2 (0.78%) Groovy
14 2 (0.78%) R
14 2 (0.78%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 79 (30.62%) Security Cleared
2 66 (25.58%) SC Cleared
3 23 (8.91%) DV Cleared
4 16 (6.20%) Degree
5 13 (5.04%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (4.65%) AWS Certification
6 12 (4.65%) Microsoft Certification
7 11 (4.26%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.55%) MCSE
9 3 (1.16%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 3 (1.16%) MCSA
10 2 (0.78%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (0.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
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%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.39%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (15.89%) QA
2 17 (6.59%) Data Quality
3 7 (2.71%) Accessibility
3 7 (2.71%) GDPR
4 4 (1.55%) WCAG
5 3 (1.16%) ISO 20022
6 2 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.78%) NCSC
7 1 (0.39%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.39%) ISO 15022
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 76 (29.46%) 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%) Oracle RAC
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 32 (12.40%) Ansible
3 14 (5.43%) Grafana
4 13 (5.04%) Prometheus
5 12 (4.65%) SCCM
6 10 (3.88%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (2.33%) WSUS
8 4 (1.55%) Control-M
8 4 (1.55%) Puppet
9 3 (1.16%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.78%) Argo
10 2 (0.78%) Istio
11 1 (0.39%) Cilium
11 1 (0.39%) ITRS Geneos
11 1 (0.39%) Kibana
11 1 (0.39%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.39%) Packer
11 1 (0.39%) Proxmox
11 1 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.39%) systemd
Vendors
1 61 (23.64%) Microsoft
2 19 (7.36%) Databricks
3 17 (6.59%) Google
4 13 (5.04%) 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%) Optimizely
9 3 (1.16%) SaltStack
9 3 (1.16%) Talend