Deployment Automation Contract Job Trends in South London

Deployment Automation
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South London requiring Deployment Automation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 36 46
Rank change year-on-year -4 +10 +19
Contract jobs citing Deployment Automation 2 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in South London 0.96% 0.44% 0.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.09% 0.50% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £518 - -
25th Percentile £533 - £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £568 - £625
Median % change year-on-year - - +8.70%
75th Percentile £603 - £663
90th Percentile £619 - -
London median daily rate £550 £630 £575
% change year-on-year -12.70% +9.57% -8.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South 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 South London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 183 202 233
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 87.56% 88.99% 83.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 130 165
10th Percentile £269 £225 £191
25th Percentile £444 £400 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £538 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.97% +7.60% -9.09%
75th Percentile £581 £611 £588
90th Percentile £645 £771 £668
London median daily rate £530 £550 £568
% change year-on-year -3.64% -3.08% -3.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 5 18
10th Percentile £17.98 - £18.46
25th Percentile £45.27 £17.25 £23.81
Median hourly rate £58.94 £19.50 £46.86
Median % change year-on-year +202.23% -58.39% +6.23%
75th Percentile £66.50 £78.40 £55.00
90th Percentile - £81.28 £69.00
London median hourly rate £29.25 £37.50 £35.32
% change year-on-year -22.00% +6.19% -11.16%

Deployment Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Deployment Automation relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South London.

Deployment Automation job vacancy trend in South London

Deployment Automation
Daily Rate Trend in South London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Deployment Automation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Deployment Automation

Deployment Automation
Hourly Rate Trend in South London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Deployment Automation.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Deployment Automation

Deployment Automation
Contract Job Locations in South 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 South London region over the 6 months to 8 December 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
Croydon - 2 £568 - 1
Deployment Automation
London

Deployment Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South 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 1 (50.00%) Apache
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Step Functions
2 1 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) GitLab
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) AWS DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Specialist
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Clean Code
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Bash
2 1 (50.00%) Scala
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Ansible
2 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes