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 1 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 226 232 276
Rank change year-on-year +6 +44 +11
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 184 119 115
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.04% 0.95% 0.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.17% 1.03% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 91 75
10th Percentile £400 £380 £413
25th Percentile £450 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £575 £675
Median % change year-on-year -5.43% -14.81% +8.00%
75th Percentile £626 £744 £772
90th Percentile £688 £825 £780
England median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £22.36
25th Percentile £50.25 - £22.90
Median hourly rate £50.50 - £23.80
75th Percentile £50.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £62.59 - £23.80
% change year-on-year - - -66.48%

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 15,703 11,565 15,791
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.59% 92.19% 88.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,518 7,845 11,317
10th Percentile £356 £350 £338
25th Percentile £430 £440 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £760 £813 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.95% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 256 169 324
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.37 £16.00
25th Percentile £24.54 £22.75 £20.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £34.00 £29.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.41% +15.25% -22.62%
75th Percentile £57.86 £50.75 £47.56
90th Percentile £73.75 £63.75 £65.93
England median hourly rate £45.46 £30.00 £36.00
% change year-on-year +51.53% -16.67% -4.00%

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 1 May 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 1 May 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 -16 18 £625 +8.23% 11
East London -3 2 £612 -2.86%
West London -17 2 £375 -27.88% 1
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 (4.35%) Appian
2 6 (3.26%) Apache Spark
3 5 (2.72%) Camunda
4 4 (2.17%) SAS
5 2 (1.09%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.54%) Apache
6 1 (0.54%) ColdFusion
6 1 (0.54%) OpenROAD
6 1 (0.54%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.54%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.09%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.54%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 98 (53.26%) Azure
2 55 (29.89%) AWS
3 29 (15.76%) Azure DevOps
4 28 (15.22%) GitHub
5 20 (10.87%) GCP
5 20 (10.87%) Power Platform
5 20 (10.87%) Serverless
6 15 (8.15%) GitHub Actions
7 14 (7.61%) AWS CloudFormation
7 14 (7.61%) Azure Data Factory
8 13 (7.07%) Azure AI
9 11 (5.98%) AWS Lambda
10 10 (5.43%) Amazon S3
10 10 (5.43%) Azure AKS
10 10 (5.43%) Entra ID
11 9 (4.89%) Azure Key Vault
11 9 (4.89%) Power Automate
12 8 (4.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 8 (4.35%) Amazon ECS
12 8 (4.35%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.98%) Firewall
2 7 (3.80%) TCP/IP
3 5 (2.72%) VPN
4 4 (2.17%) DHCP
4 4 (2.17%) DMZ
4 4 (2.17%) DNS
4 4 (2.17%) Software-Defined Networking
5 3 (1.63%) HTTPS
5 3 (1.63%) Network Security
6 2 (1.09%) Kerberos
6 2 (1.09%) NGFW
7 1 (0.54%) BGP
7 1 (0.54%) Cisco IOS
7 1 (0.54%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (0.54%) Internet
7 1 (0.54%) IPsec
7 1 (0.54%) OSPF
7 1 (0.54%) SMS
7 1 (0.54%) SNMP
7 1 (0.54%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (8.70%) SQL Server
2 14 (7.61%) Power BI
3 13 (7.07%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (5.98%) Data Lake
4 11 (5.98%) Relational Database
5 10 (5.43%) PostgreSQL
6 9 (4.89%) Azure SQL Database
7 8 (4.35%) Pinecone
7 8 (4.35%) Spark SQL
8 6 (3.26%) NoSQL
9 5 (2.72%) Amazon Athena
9 5 (2.72%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (2.72%) Big Data
9 5 (2.72%) Metadata
10 4 (2.17%) Redis
11 3 (1.63%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (1.63%) BigQuery
11 3 (1.63%) Data Mart
11 3 (1.63%) MongoDB
11 3 (1.63%) SAS Data Integration Studio
Development Applications
1 37 (20.11%) Git
2 19 (10.33%) GitLab
3 11 (5.98%) Jenkins
4 8 (4.35%) MLflow
5 5 (2.72%) Artifactory
6 4 (2.17%) MSI
7 2 (1.09%) AdminStudio
7 2 (1.09%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.09%) git-flow
7 2 (1.09%) InstallShield
7 2 (1.09%) Maven
7 2 (1.09%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.54%) Gradle
8 1 (0.54%) Moq
8 1 (0.54%) MSBuild
8 1 (0.54%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.54%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.54%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.54%) webpack
8 1 (0.54%) WiX
General
1 57 (30.98%) Finance
2 56 (30.43%) Social Skills
3 31 (16.85%) Public Sector
4 15 (8.15%) Banking
5 10 (5.43%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (2.72%) Front Office
6 5 (2.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (2.72%) Investment Banking
7 4 (2.17%) Marketing
8 3 (1.63%) Legal
8 3 (1.63%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.09%) Electronics
9 2 (1.09%) Police
9 2 (1.09%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.54%) Law
10 1 (0.54%) Military
10 1 (0.54%) Retail
10 1 (0.54%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 38 (20.65%) Developer
2 27 (14.67%) Senior
3 23 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
4 20 (10.87%) Architect
5 18 (9.78%) Azure Engineer
6 13 (7.07%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 13 (7.07%) Data Engineer
6 13 (7.07%) Lead
6 13 (7.07%) Salesforce Engineer
7 10 (5.43%) Automation Engineer
7 10 (5.43%) Platform Engineer
7 10 (5.43%) Senior Developer
8 9 (4.89%) Cloud Engineer
9 8 (4.35%) Full-Stack Developer
10 7 (3.80%) Technical Architect
11 5 (2.72%) Software Engineer
11 5 (2.72%) Solutions Architect
12 4 (2.17%) Analyst
12 4 (2.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 4 (2.17%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (15.76%) RESTful
2 25 (13.59%) REST
3 20 (10.87%) React
4 16 (8.70%) PySpark
5 14 (7.61%) Kafka
5 14 (7.61%) Node.js
6 13 (7.07%) .NET
6 13 (7.07%) OAuth
6 13 (7.07%) YAML
7 12 (6.52%) AngularJS
7 12 (6.52%) FastAPI
8 11 (5.98%) Spring
8 11 (5.98%) Spring Boot
9 10 (5.43%) Django
9 10 (5.43%) JWT
10 9 (4.89%) Hugging Face
10 9 (4.89%) JSON
10 9 (4.89%) PyTorch
10 9 (4.89%) scikit-learn
10 9 (4.89%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 31 (16.85%) Cloud Native
2 15 (8.15%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (7.07%) Legacy Systems
4 12 (6.52%) Onboarding
5 10 (5.43%) Distributed Computing
6 8 (4.35%) Low-Code
7 7 (3.80%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (2.72%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (2.72%) Product Ownership
9 4 (2.17%) Algorithms
10 3 (1.63%) AI Agents
10 3 (1.63%) Client/Server
10 3 (1.63%) Cyber Threat
10 3 (1.63%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.63%) Derivative
10 3 (1.63%) Energy Derivatives
10 3 (1.63%) Enterprise Cloud
10 3 (1.63%) Mobile App
11 2 (1.09%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (1.09%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 16 (8.70%) Linux
2 13 (7.07%) Windows
3 4 (2.17%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.09%) Windows 10
4 2 (1.09%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (1.09%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.54%) Unix
5 1 (0.54%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (69.02%) CI/CD
2 106 (57.61%) DevOps
3 74 (40.22%) Infrastructure as Code
4 57 (30.98%) Test Automation
5 50 (27.17%) Agile
6 48 (26.09%) Containerisation
7 37 (20.11%) Observability
8 36 (19.57%) AI
9 34 (18.48%) Analytics
9 34 (18.48%) Microservices
10 33 (17.93%) Data Pipeline
11 29 (15.76%) Data Engineering
11 29 (15.76%) Problem-Solving
12 28 (15.22%) ETL
13 27 (14.67%) Migration
14 26 (14.13%) Validation
15 22 (11.96%) Continuous Improvement
15 22 (11.96%) Data Modelling
15 22 (11.96%) Machine Learning
16 21 (11.41%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 78 (42.39%) Python
2 47 (25.54%) SQL
3 33 (17.93%) Java
4 32 (17.39%) PowerShell
5 19 (10.33%) Bicep
5 19 (10.33%) TypeScript
6 15 (8.15%) JavaScript
7 14 (7.61%) Bash
7 14 (7.61%) C#
8 3 (1.63%) PHP
8 3 (1.63%) PL/SQL
8 3 (1.63%) Rust
8 3 (1.63%) SAS Macro
9 2 (1.09%) Apex Code
9 2 (1.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (1.09%) Kotlin
9 2 (1.09%) Scala
9 2 (1.09%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.09%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.54%) CFML
Qualifications
1 47 (25.54%) Security Cleared
2 38 (20.65%) SC Cleared
3 9 (4.89%) Degree
4 8 (4.35%) Azure Certification
5 7 (3.80%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (3.80%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (3.26%) AWS Certification
6 6 (3.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (1.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (1.63%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.63%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 3 (1.63%) MCSA
8 2 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.09%) MCSE
8 2 (1.09%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 1 (0.54%) CCNP
9 1 (0.54%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.54%) CISSP
9 1 (0.54%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (7.61%) QA
2 13 (7.07%) Data Quality
3 10 (5.43%) GDPR
4 7 (3.80%) Accessibility
4 7 (3.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (1.09%) HIPAA
5 2 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.54%) EU AI Act
6 1 (0.54%) NCSC
6 1 (0.54%) SLA
6 1 (0.54%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.54%) WCAG
System Software
1 54 (29.35%) Docker
2 11 (5.98%) Active Directory
3 7 (3.80%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (2.17%) Hyper-V
4 4 (2.17%) Microsoft App-V
4 4 (2.17%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (1.09%) Xen
6 1 (0.54%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.54%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 68 (36.96%) Terraform
2 58 (31.52%) Kubernetes
3 12 (6.52%) Ansible
4 11 (5.98%) SCCM
5 6 (3.26%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (2.72%) Prometheus
7 4 (2.17%) Grafana
7 4 (2.17%) WSUS
8 3 (1.63%) ITRS Geneos
9 2 (1.09%) Istio
9 2 (1.09%) vRealize
10 1 (0.54%) QRadar
Vendors
1 53 (28.80%) Microsoft
2 16 (8.70%) Salesforce
3 13 (7.07%) OpenAI
4 11 (5.98%) Google
5 8 (4.35%) Automation Anywhere
5 8 (4.35%) UiPath
6 6 (3.26%) Foundry
7 4 (2.17%) Bloomberg
7 4 (2.17%) Citrix
7 4 (2.17%) ION Trading
7 4 (2.17%) Reuters
7 4 (2.17%) SAP
7 4 (2.17%) Splunk
8 3 (1.63%) Apple
8 3 (1.63%) Databricks
8 3 (1.63%) Dynatrace
8 3 (1.63%) ForgeRock
8 3 (1.63%) IBM
8 3 (1.63%) Palo Alto
8 3 (1.63%) VMware