Deployment Automation Contracts in London

Deployment Automation
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Deployment Automation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Deployment Automation over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 230 279 278
Rank change year-on-year +49 -1 +26
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 121 118 210
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.99% 0.67% 0.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.08% 0.76% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 78 134
10th Percentile £364 £412 £413
25th Percentile £425 £514 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £663 £625
Median % change year-on-year -16.98% +6.00% +6.84%
75th Percentile £714 £775 £722
90th Percentile £824 £780 £825
England median daily rate £550 £594 £600
% change year-on-year -7.41% -1.00% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
10th Percentile - - £66.80
25th Percentile - - £69.50
Median hourly rate - £23.80 £74.00
Median % change year-on-year - -67.84% -
75th Percentile - - £78.50
90th Percentile - - £81.20
England median hourly rate - £45.41 £71.00
% change year-on-year - -36.04% +18.33%

All Process and 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 11,225 15,457 23,121
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.24% 88.42% 90.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,536 11,093 16,726
10th Percentile £350 £340 £375
25th Percentile £431 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 189 316 265
10th Percentile £16.50 £15.50 £18.20
25th Percentile £23.80 £20.00 £22.50
Median hourly rate £31.35 £28.00 £39.42
Median % change year-on-year +11.95% -28.97% +12.39%
75th Percentile £49.75 £48.75 £64.50
90th Percentile £63.05 £66.88 £82.50
England median hourly rate £28.17 £37.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -24.89% - +50.00%

Deployment Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Deployment Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Deployment Automation in London

Deployment Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Deployment Automation in London.

Daily rate trend for Deployment Automation in London

Deployment Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Deployment Automation in London over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Deployment Automation in London

Deployment Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Deployment Automation in London.

Hourly rate trend for Deployment Automation in London

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 30 May 2025. 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 +25 22 £725 +2.98% 9
West London +15 3 £516 - 26
South London +4 2 £820 +26.15% 2
Deployment Automation
England

Deployment Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 10 (8.26%) Confluence
2 9 (7.44%) Apache
3 7 (5.79%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.65%) ArcGIS
4 2 (1.65%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.83%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.83%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 50 (41.32%) AWS
2 33 (27.27%) Azure
3 19 (15.70%) AWS CloudFormation
4 15 (12.40%) Azure DevOps
5 14 (11.57%) Amazon EC2
6 13 (10.74%) GCP
6 13 (10.74%) Serverless
7 12 (9.92%) Amazon S3
7 12 (9.92%) GitHub
8 11 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
9 8 (6.61%) OpenShift
10 7 (5.79%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (4.96%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (4.96%) Route 53
11 6 (4.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 5 (4.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 5 (4.13%) Amazon Cognito
12 5 (4.13%) Amazon SQS
13 4 (3.31%) Datadog
13 4 (3.31%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 13 (10.74%) DNS
2 11 (9.09%) TCP/IP
3 9 (7.44%) Internet
4 8 (6.61%) HTTP
5 5 (4.13%) Firewall
5 5 (4.13%) VPN
6 4 (3.31%) NAS
6 4 (3.31%) SAN
7 3 (2.48%) Multicast
8 2 (1.65%) BGP
8 2 (1.65%) OSPF
8 2 (1.65%) SSL
9 1 (0.83%) DHCP
9 1 (0.83%) EIGRP
9 1 (0.83%) IGMP
9 1 (0.83%) Kerberos
9 1 (0.83%) MPLS
9 1 (0.83%) VLAN
9 1 (0.83%) VPLS
9 1 (0.83%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (10.74%) Amazon RDS
2 12 (9.92%) MongoDB
2 12 (9.92%) SQL Server
3 10 (8.26%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (6.61%) Amazon Aurora
4 8 (6.61%) NoSQL
5 7 (5.79%) Relational Database
6 6 (4.96%) Big Data
6 6 (4.96%) DynamoDB
7 5 (4.13%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (3.31%) Amazon Athena
8 4 (3.31%) Data Lake
8 4 (3.31%) DB2
8 4 (3.31%) Hadoop
9 3 (2.48%) Apache Iceberg
9 3 (2.48%) MySQL
9 3 (2.48%) Tableau
10 2 (1.65%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.65%) Delta Lake
10 2 (1.65%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 33 (27.27%) Jenkins
2 17 (14.05%) Git
3 13 (10.74%) JIRA
4 11 (9.09%) GitLab
4 11 (9.09%) TeamCity
5 7 (5.79%) Cypress.io
6 6 (4.96%) Maven
6 6 (4.96%) REST Assured
7 4 (3.31%) IntelliJ
7 4 (3.31%) SonarQube
7 4 (3.31%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (2.48%) Ant
8 3 (2.48%) Babel
8 3 (2.48%) SoapUI
8 3 (2.48%) webpack
9 2 (1.65%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.83%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.83%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.83%) Travis CI
10 1 (0.83%) Zephyr
General
1 38 (31.40%) Social Skills
2 25 (20.66%) Finance
3 17 (14.05%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (12.40%) Public Sector
5 13 (10.74%) Banking
6 4 (3.31%) Investment Banking
6 4 (3.31%) Marketing
7 3 (2.48%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.48%) Electronics
7 3 (2.48%) Manufacturing
7 3 (2.48%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.65%) Legal
8 2 (1.65%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.83%) Aviation
9 1 (0.83%) Front Office
9 1 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.83%) Military
Job Titles
1 33 (27.27%) Developer
2 28 (23.14%) DevOps Engineer
3 26 (21.49%) Senior
4 11 (9.09%) Java Developer
5 10 (8.26%) Architect
6 9 (7.44%) AWS Engineer
6 9 (7.44%) Senior DevOps
6 9 (7.44%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 7 (5.79%) Senior Developer
8 6 (4.96%) Automation Engineer
8 6 (4.96%) Full-Stack Developer
8 6 (4.96%) Lead
8 6 (4.96%) React Developer
9 5 (4.13%) .NET Developer
9 5 (4.13%) Data Engineer
9 5 (4.13%) Senior .NET Developer
9 5 (4.13%) Solutions Architect
10 4 (3.31%) Java Engineer
10 4 (3.31%) Linux Engineer
10 4 (3.31%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (14.05%) RESTful
2 12 (9.92%) React
3 11 (9.09%) .NET
3 11 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
4 10 (8.26%) AngularJS
4 10 (8.26%) Kafka
4 10 (8.26%) Spring
5 8 (6.61%) GraphQL
6 7 (5.79%) .NET Core
6 7 (5.79%) Web Services
7 6 (4.96%) HTML
7 6 (4.96%) OpenTelemetry
7 6 (4.96%) Playwright
7 6 (4.96%) REST
7 6 (4.96%) Spring Boot
8 5 (4.13%) CSS
8 5 (4.13%) Jest
8 5 (4.13%) PySpark
8 5 (4.13%) WebSockets
9 4 (3.31%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.44%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (6.61%) Cloud Native
3 7 (5.79%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.31%) Clustering
5 3 (2.48%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (2.48%) EMC VMAX
5 3 (2.48%) Enterprise Storage
5 3 (2.48%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.65%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (1.65%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.65%) Replication
6 2 (1.65%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.83%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.83%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.83%) Insider Threat
7 1 (0.83%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.83%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.83%) PKI
7 1 (0.83%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 33 (27.27%) Linux
2 14 (11.57%) Windows
3 13 (10.74%) Unix
4 4 (3.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (2.48%) VMS
5 3 (2.48%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.83%) CentOS
6 1 (0.83%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.83%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (0.83%) Solaris
6 1 (0.83%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (65.29%) CI/CD
2 68 (56.20%) DevOps
3 34 (28.10%) Agile
4 33 (27.27%) Continuous Integration
5 32 (26.45%) Containerisation
5 32 (26.45%) Infrastructure as Code
6 30 (24.79%) Microservices
6 30 (24.79%) Problem-Solving
7 29 (23.97%) Test Automation
8 20 (16.53%) Continuous Delivery
9 19 (15.70%) Configuration Management
9 19 (15.70%) Observability
10 15 (12.40%) Mentoring
10 15 (12.40%) Scrum
10 15 (12.40%) User Experience
11 14 (11.57%) Software Engineering
12 13 (10.74%) Migration
13 12 (9.92%) Analytics
13 12 (9.92%) TDD
14 11 (9.09%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 37 (30.58%) Python
2 29 (23.97%) Java
3 26 (21.49%) JavaScript
4 23 (19.01%) SQL
5 19 (15.70%) PowerShell
6 18 (14.88%) C#
7 15 (12.40%) TypeScript
8 12 (9.92%) Bash
9 10 (8.26%) Shell Script
10 6 (4.96%) Scala
11 4 (3.31%) Go
11 4 (3.31%) Perl
12 2 (1.65%) C++
13 1 (0.83%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.83%) C
13 1 (0.83%) Groovy
13 1 (0.83%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.83%) Ruby
13 1 (0.83%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 28 (23.14%) Security Cleared
2 22 (18.18%) SC Cleared
3 5 (4.13%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (4.13%) Degree
4 3 (2.48%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (2.48%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (1.65%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.83%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.83%) CCIE
6 1 (0.83%) CCNP
6 1 (0.83%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.83%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.83%) OCP
6 1 (0.83%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (0.83%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (10.74%) QA
2 6 (4.96%) GDPR
3 3 (2.48%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.65%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.83%) NCSC
5 1 (0.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 36 (29.75%) Docker
2 6 (4.96%) Active Directory
3 5 (4.13%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (2.48%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 3 (2.48%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.83%) BitLocker
5 1 (0.83%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (0.83%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.83%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 42 (34.71%) Kubernetes
2 41 (33.88%) Terraform
3 33 (27.27%) Ansible
4 21 (17.36%) Prometheus
5 20 (16.53%) Puppet
6 16 (13.22%) Progress Chef
7 15 (12.40%) Grafana
8 3 (2.48%) SCCM
9 2 (1.65%) Argo
9 2 (1.65%) ITRS Geneos
9 2 (1.65%) Kibana
9 2 (1.65%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.83%) HAProxy
10 1 (0.83%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.83%) Nagios
10 1 (0.83%) Netcool
10 1 (0.83%) Rancher
10 1 (0.83%) Tivoli
10 1 (0.83%) Tivoli Storage Manager
10 1 (0.83%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 17 (14.05%) Microsoft
2 13 (10.74%) Red Hat
3 10 (8.26%) Oracle
4 7 (5.79%) Google
5 6 (4.96%) VMware
6 5 (4.13%) ServiceNow
6 5 (4.13%) Splunk
6 5 (4.13%) Sybase
7 4 (3.31%) EMC
8 3 (2.48%) AppDynamics
8 3 (2.48%) Databricks
8 3 (2.48%) NetApp
8 3 (2.48%) SAP
8 3 (2.48%) Veritas
9 2 (1.65%) Bloomberg
9 2 (1.65%) Citrix
9 2 (1.65%) CyberArk
9 2 (1.65%) Dataiku
9 2 (1.65%) Solace
9 2 (1.65%) TIBCO