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

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 236 243 286
Rank change year-on-year +7 +43 +4
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 172 111 102
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.09% 0.83% 0.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.20% 0.92% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 66 69
10th Percentile £400 £425 £445
25th Percentile £447 £501 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £653 £575
Median % change year-on-year -19.54% +13.48% -10.71%
75th Percentile £626 £822 £688
90th Percentile £775 £838 £775
England median daily rate £515 £579 £575
% change year-on-year -11.02% +0.65% -9.80%
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 14,282 12,124 16,106
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.37% 90.69% 88.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,576 7,850 11,525
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% - -7.56%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £501 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.67% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 219 159 347
10th Percentile £18.06 £20.95 £16.00
25th Percentile £23.00 £25.88 £19.42
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% +23.33% -15.49%
75th Percentile £56.98 £54.50 £49.94
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.47 £72.00
England median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £34.25
% change year-on-year -21.43% +2.19% -2.14%

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 25 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 25 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 -9 15 £525 -8.70% 18
East London +2 2 £495 -21.51%
West London - 2 £375 -
South London -16 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 (4.65%) Appian
2 6 (3.49%) Camunda
3 3 (1.74%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.74%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.74%) SAS
4 1 (0.58%) Apache
4 1 (0.58%) ColdFusion
4 1 (0.58%) Confluence
4 1 (0.58%) Palantir Foundry
4 1 (0.58%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.58%) Traefik
Applications
1 2 (1.16%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.58%) Endur
1 1 (0.58%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 87 (50.58%) Azure
2 48 (27.91%) AWS
3 32 (18.60%) GitHub
4 22 (12.79%) GCP
5 20 (11.63%) Azure DevOps
5 20 (11.63%) GitHub Actions
6 18 (10.47%) Serverless
7 17 (9.88%) Power Platform
8 14 (8.14%) Azure Data Factory
9 13 (7.56%) Azure AI
10 11 (6.40%) AWS CloudFormation
11 10 (5.81%) AWS Lambda
12 9 (5.23%) Amazon S3
12 9 (5.23%) Azure Key Vault
12 9 (5.23%) Power Automate
13 8 (4.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 8 (4.65%) Anthropic Claude
13 8 (4.65%) Azure AKS
14 7 (4.07%) Azure Functions
14 7 (4.07%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 9 (5.23%) HTTPS
2 8 (4.65%) Firewall
3 6 (3.49%) SSL
4 5 (2.91%) DHCP
4 5 (2.91%) DNS
4 5 (2.91%) Software-Defined Networking
4 5 (2.91%) TCP/IP
5 4 (2.33%) Network Security
5 4 (2.33%) VPN
6 2 (1.16%) BGP
6 2 (1.16%) DMZ
7 1 (0.58%) Calico
7 1 (0.58%) Cisco IOS
7 1 (0.58%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (0.58%) Ethernet VPN
7 1 (0.58%) Internet
7 1 (0.58%) IPsec
7 1 (0.58%) OSPF
7 1 (0.58%) VSAN
7 1 (0.58%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (9.30%) SQL Server
2 11 (6.40%) Power BI
3 9 (5.23%) Relational Database
4 8 (4.65%) Azure SQL Database
4 8 (4.65%) Data Lake
4 8 (4.65%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (4.65%) Pinecone
4 8 (4.65%) Spark SQL
5 7 (4.07%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (3.49%) NoSQL
7 4 (2.33%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (2.33%) Redis
8 3 (1.74%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (1.74%) Apache Cassandra
8 3 (1.74%) Metadata
8 3 (1.74%) Star Schema
9 2 (1.16%) Base SAS
9 2 (1.16%) Big Data
9 2 (1.16%) ImageNet
9 2 (1.16%) SAS Data Integration Studio
Development Applications
1 34 (19.77%) Git
2 19 (11.05%) GitLab
3 15 (8.72%) Jenkins
4 8 (4.65%) MLflow
5 4 (2.33%) Artifactory
6 3 (1.74%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.74%) Gradle
6 3 (1.74%) JIRA
6 3 (1.74%) Maven
7 2 (1.16%) CircleCI
7 2 (1.16%) JUnit
7 2 (1.16%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.58%) Android Studio
8 1 (0.58%) git-flow
8 1 (0.58%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.58%) Selenium
8 1 (0.58%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.58%) Spinnaker
8 1 (0.58%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.58%) webpack
General
1 60 (34.88%) Social Skills
2 51 (29.65%) Finance
3 22 (12.79%) Public Sector
4 10 (5.81%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (4.65%) Banking
6 7 (4.07%) Marketing
7 4 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.74%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.16%) Back Office
9 2 (1.16%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.16%) Electronics
9 2 (1.16%) Front Office
9 2 (1.16%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.16%) Military
9 2 (1.16%) Police
9 2 (1.16%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.58%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.58%) Law
10 1 (0.58%) Retail
Job Titles
1 47 (27.33%) Developer
2 24 (13.95%) Architect
3 18 (10.47%) DevOps Engineer
3 18 (10.47%) Senior
4 15 (8.72%) Azure Engineer
4 15 (8.72%) Lead
5 12 (6.98%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 11 (6.40%) Automation Engineer
7 10 (5.81%) Technical Architect
8 8 (4.65%) Cloud Engineer
8 8 (4.65%) Python Developer
9 7 (4.07%) Data Engineer
9 7 (4.07%) Platform Engineer
10 6 (3.49%) Azure Architect
10 6 (3.49%) Full-Stack Developer
10 6 (3.49%) Lead DevOps
10 6 (3.49%) React Developer
10 6 (3.49%) Senior Developer
11 5 (2.91%) Consultant
11 5 (2.91%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (18.60%) RESTful
2 30 (17.44%) REST
3 20 (11.63%) React
4 18 (10.47%) JSON
5 15 (8.72%) OAuth
5 15 (8.72%) PySpark
6 14 (8.14%) .NET
6 14 (8.14%) FastAPI
7 13 (7.56%) pytest
7 13 (7.56%) Spring
7 13 (7.56%) Spring Boot
8 12 (6.98%) Kafka
8 12 (6.98%) XML
9 11 (6.40%) AngularJS
10 10 (5.81%) JWT
10 10 (5.81%) Swagger
10 10 (5.81%) Web Services
11 9 (5.23%) Django
11 9 (5.23%) Node.js
11 9 (5.23%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (13.37%) Cloud Native
2 11 (6.40%) Legacy Systems
3 9 (5.23%) Distributed Computing
4 8 (4.65%) Low-Code
5 6 (3.49%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (2.91%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (2.91%) Onboarding
6 5 (2.91%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.74%) AI Agents
7 3 (1.74%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.74%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (1.74%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.74%) Derivative
7 3 (1.74%) Energy Derivatives
7 3 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.16%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.16%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.16%) PACS
Operating Systems
1 21 (12.21%) Linux
2 8 (4.65%) Windows
3 4 (2.33%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.16%) Unix
4 2 (1.16%) VMS
5 1 (0.58%) Android
5 1 (0.58%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.58%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.58%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (69.19%) CI/CD
2 103 (59.88%) DevOps
3 65 (37.79%) Infrastructure as Code
4 59 (34.30%) Test Automation
5 51 (29.65%) Containerisation
6 47 (27.33%) Agile
7 33 (19.19%) Problem-Solving
8 32 (18.60%) Microservices
9 30 (17.44%) Observability
10 29 (16.86%) AI
10 29 (16.86%) Analytics
10 29 (16.86%) Data Pipeline
11 28 (16.28%) Migration
12 27 (15.70%) Data Engineering
12 27 (15.70%) ETL
13 22 (12.79%) API Development
14 21 (12.21%) Validation
15 20 (11.63%) Infrastructure Automation
15 20 (11.63%) Workflow
16 19 (11.05%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 71 (41.28%) Python
2 50 (29.07%) SQL
3 32 (18.60%) Java
4 22 (12.79%) TypeScript
5 21 (12.21%) PowerShell
6 17 (9.88%) Bicep
6 17 (9.88%) JavaScript
7 13 (7.56%) Bash
8 12 (6.98%) C#
9 3 (1.74%) Go
9 3 (1.74%) Kotlin
9 3 (1.74%) Rust
9 3 (1.74%) T-SQL
10 2 (1.16%) PHP
10 2 (1.16%) PL/SQL
10 2 (1.16%) SAS Macro
10 2 (1.16%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.58%) Groovy
11 1 (0.58%) Objective-C
11 1 (0.58%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 50 (29.07%) Security Cleared
2 41 (23.84%) SC Cleared
3 10 (5.81%) Azure Certification
4 9 (5.23%) Degree
5 7 (4.07%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (2.91%) AWS Certification
6 5 (2.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 5 (2.91%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (2.33%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.74%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 3 (1.74%) CISSP
8 3 (1.74%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.74%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 2 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.16%) CCNP
9 2 (1.16%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.58%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.58%) CISM
10 1 (0.58%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.58%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.40%) Data Quality
1 11 (6.40%) GDPR
2 10 (5.81%) QA
3 7 (4.07%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 4 (2.33%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.74%) HIPAA
6 2 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.16%) NCSC
6 2 (1.16%) NIST
6 2 (1.16%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.58%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.58%) WCAG
System Software
1 56 (32.56%) Docker
2 8 (4.65%) Active Directory
3 4 (2.33%) Hyper-V
3 4 (2.33%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (1.74%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.16%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (1.16%) Xen
6 1 (0.58%) etcd
6 1 (0.58%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.58%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 65 (37.79%) Terraform
2 61 (35.47%) Kubernetes
3 12 (6.98%) Ansible
4 8 (4.65%) Grafana
5 7 (4.07%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.74%) Istio
6 3 (1.74%) ITRS Geneos
6 3 (1.74%) vRealize
7 2 (1.16%) SCCM
8 1 (0.58%) Argo
8 1 (0.58%) Fluentd
8 1 (0.58%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.58%) QRadar
8 1 (0.58%) VxRail
8 1 (0.58%) WSUS
Vendors
1 47 (27.33%) Microsoft
2 14 (8.14%) Google
3 12 (6.98%) OpenAI
3 12 (6.98%) Salesforce
4 10 (5.81%) Databricks
5 8 (4.65%) Automation Anywhere
5 8 (4.65%) UiPath
6 7 (4.07%) VMware
7 6 (3.49%) Foundry
7 6 (3.49%) SAP
7 6 (3.49%) Splunk
8 5 (2.91%) webMethods
9 4 (2.33%) Apple
9 4 (2.33%) Axway
9 4 (2.33%) IBM
9 4 (2.33%) Palo Alto
9 4 (2.33%) Software AG
10 3 (1.74%) Adobe
10 3 (1.74%) ForgeRock
10 3 (1.74%) Oracle