Deployment Automation Job Trends in London

Deployment Automation
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring Deployment Automation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 257 307 351
Rank change year-on-year +50 +44 -35
Permanent jobs citing Deployment Automation 201 87 113
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.81% 0.73% 0.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.00% 0.77% 0.66%
Number of salaries quoted 93 46 67
10th Percentile £54,800 £51,250 £63,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £60,000 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £110,000 £88,438 £92,500
90th Percentile £131,000 £113,125 £105,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +15.38% -9.72%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 20,107 11,233 17,147
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 80.80% 94.14% 89.41%
Number of salaries quoted 13,640 7,113 10,472
10th Percentile £41,000 £38,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
75th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £96,250
90th Percentile £106,250 £122,500 £120,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -7.26%

Deployment Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Deployment Automation job vacancy trend in London

Deployment Automation
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Deployment Automation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Deployment Automation

Deployment Automation
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Deployment Automation in London over the 6 months to 16 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Deployment Automation in London

Deployment Automation
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Deployment Automation within the London region over the 6 months to 16 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London +2 14 £80,000 +14.29% 31
East London 0 8 £65,000 - 7
West London -14 2 - - 15
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 5 (2.49%) Camunda
1 5 (2.49%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.99%) SAS
3 3 (1.49%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.00%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.00%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.50%) Apache
5 1 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.50%) Confluence
5 1 (0.50%) JBoss
5 1 (0.50%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 2 (1.00%) SPSS
2 1 (0.50%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.50%) ProjectWise
2 1 (0.50%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.50%) Misys Equation
1 1 (0.50%) Misys Midas
1 1 (0.50%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 119 (59.20%) AWS
2 101 (50.25%) Azure
3 95 (47.26%) GCP
4 38 (18.91%) Amazon EKS
5 30 (14.93%) Azure DevOps
5 30 (14.93%) GitHub
6 27 (13.43%) SaaS
7 17 (8.46%) Datadog
7 17 (8.46%) Microsoft 365
8 15 (7.46%) Amazon ECS
9 14 (6.97%) Serverless
10 13 (6.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 13 (6.47%) Power Platform
11 11 (5.47%) AWS CloudFormation
12 10 (4.98%) OpenShift
13 9 (4.48%) GitHub Copilot
13 9 (4.48%) Vertex AI
14 8 (3.98%) Amazon ECR
14 8 (3.98%) Anthropic Claude
14 8 (3.98%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.99%) Kerberos
1 4 (1.99%) NAS
2 3 (1.49%) Firewall
3 2 (1.00%) Broadband
3 2 (1.00%) SSH
3 2 (1.00%) SSL
3 2 (1.00%) VPN
4 1 (0.50%) BGP
4 1 (0.50%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (0.50%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (15.42%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (5.97%) Elasticsearch
3 11 (5.47%) MySQL
3 11 (5.47%) Power BI
4 9 (4.48%) SQL Server
5 8 (3.98%) Amazon RDS
6 7 (3.48%) MongoDB
7 6 (2.99%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (2.99%) Metadata
7 6 (2.99%) NoSQL
8 5 (2.49%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (1.99%) Redis
10 3 (1.49%) Data Lake
10 3 (1.49%) Relational Database
11 2 (1.00%) Apache Cassandra
11 2 (1.00%) BigQuery
11 2 (1.00%) CockroachDB
11 2 (1.00%) Delta Lake
11 2 (1.00%) Neo4j
11 2 (1.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 34 (16.92%) TeamCity
2 27 (13.43%) Git
3 21 (10.45%) Jenkins
4 18 (8.96%) GitLab
5 9 (4.48%) JUnit
6 8 (3.98%) JIRA
6 8 (3.98%) Mockito
7 6 (2.99%) Claude Code
8 5 (2.49%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 5 (2.49%) Bitbucket
9 3 (1.49%) Maven
9 3 (1.49%) Spock
9 3 (1.49%) Visual Studio Code
10 2 (1.00%) Snyk
11 1 (0.50%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.50%) MLflow
11 1 (0.50%) Vite
General
1 87 (43.28%) Finance
2 68 (33.83%) Banking
3 57 (28.36%) Social Skills
4 50 (24.88%) Law
5 45 (22.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 34 (16.92%) Retail
7 29 (14.43%) Analytical Skills
8 26 (12.94%) Financial Institution
9 22 (10.95%) Back Office
10 8 (3.98%) Marketing
11 4 (1.99%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.99%) Public Sector
12 3 (1.49%) Mandarin Language
13 2 (1.00%) Aviation
13 2 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (1.00%) Legal
13 2 (1.00%) Military
14 1 (0.50%) Aerospace
14 1 (0.50%) Front Office
14 1 (0.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 61 (30.35%) Software Engineer
2 38 (18.91%) Senior
3 36 (17.91%) Lead
4 30 (14.93%) DevOps Engineer
5 23 (11.44%) Cloud Engineer
6 17 (8.46%) Developer
6 17 (8.46%) Senior Software Engineer
7 15 (7.46%) Java Engineer
8 14 (6.97%) Automation Engineer
8 14 (6.97%) Machine Learning Engineer
9 13 (6.47%) Java Software Engineer
10 12 (5.97%) Azure Engineer
10 12 (5.97%) Site Engineer
10 12 (5.97%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 10 (4.98%) Administrator
11 10 (4.98%) Senior Java Engineer
12 9 (4.48%) Architect
12 9 (4.48%) AWS Engineer
12 9 (4.48%) Lead Software Engineer
13 8 (3.98%) Linux Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (48.76%) Terraform
2 17 (8.46%) REST
3 16 (7.96%) PyTorch
3 16 (7.96%) scikit-learn
3 16 (7.96%) TensorFlow
4 15 (7.46%) LangChain
5 13 (6.47%) LangGraph
6 11 (5.47%) .NET
7 10 (4.98%) React
7 10 (4.98%) Spring
8 9 (4.48%) Kafka
8 9 (4.48%) Spring Boot
9 7 (3.48%) OAuth
9 7 (3.48%) OAuth2
10 6 (2.99%) AWS CDK
10 6 (2.99%) JWT
10 6 (2.99%) OpenID
10 6 (2.99%) RESTful
11 5 (2.49%) FastAPI
11 5 (2.49%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 88 (43.78%) Cloud Native
2 40 (19.90%) Product Ownership
3 22 (10.95%) Distributed Systems
4 18 (8.96%) AI Agents
5 13 (6.47%) Blog
6 8 (3.98%) Management Information System
7 7 (3.48%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (3.48%) Life Science
8 6 (2.99%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (2.49%) PKI
9 5 (2.49%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 4 (1.99%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (1.99%) Data Fabric
10 4 (1.99%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (1.49%) Blockchain
11 3 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (1.49%) Enterprise Cloud
11 3 (1.49%) Legacy Applications
11 3 (1.49%) Onboarding
11 3 (1.49%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 27 (13.43%) Linux
2 14 (6.97%) Windows
3 13 (6.47%) CentOS
4 7 (3.48%) Windows Server
5 6 (2.99%) Apple iOS
6 5 (2.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (2.49%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.99%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (1.49%) Mac OS
9 2 (1.00%) Amazon Linux
9 2 (1.00%) Android
9 2 (1.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 148 (73.63%) CI/CD
2 103 (51.24%) DevOps
3 91 (45.27%) Software Engineering
4 83 (41.29%) Test Automation
5 76 (37.81%) AI
6 73 (36.32%) Infrastructure as Code
7 58 (28.86%) Continuous Improvement
8 54 (26.87%) Observability
9 49 (24.38%) Microservices
10 46 (22.89%) Mentoring
11 42 (20.90%) Agile
12 40 (19.90%) Clean Code
12 40 (19.90%) Containerisation
13 38 (18.91%) Technical Leadership
14 37 (18.41%) Continuous Deployment
14 37 (18.41%) Machine Learning
15 33 (16.42%) Problem-Solving
16 31 (15.42%) Data Science
17 27 (13.43%) Fintech
17 27 (13.43%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 80 (39.80%) Python
2 56 (27.86%) Java
3 29 (14.43%) SQL
4 27 (13.43%) PowerShell
5 22 (10.95%) Bash
6 13 (6.47%) TypeScript
7 11 (5.47%) C#
8 8 (3.98%) Go
9 6 (2.99%) JavaScript
10 3 (1.49%) Bicep
10 3 (1.49%) C++
11 2 (1.00%) Kotlin
11 2 (1.00%) RPG
11 2 (1.00%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.50%) C
12 1 (0.50%) COBOL
12 1 (0.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.50%) Rust
12 1 (0.50%) SOQL
12 1 (0.50%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 24 (11.94%) Degree
2 20 (9.95%) Security Cleared
3 15 (7.46%) Computer Science Degree
4 12 (5.97%) SC Cleared
5 6 (2.99%) Azure Certification
6 5 (2.49%) Master's Degree
7 4 (1.99%) AWS Certification
7 4 (1.99%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.49%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 3 (1.49%) PMI Certification
8 3 (1.49%) Postgraduate
9 2 (1.00%) PMP
10 1 (0.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (7.96%) QA
2 7 (3.48%) GDPR
3 6 (2.99%) SLA
4 5 (2.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.99%) Data Quality
6 3 (1.49%) PMO
7 2 (1.00%) NIST
8 1 (0.50%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.50%) GRC
8 1 (0.50%) SOC 2
System Software
1 38 (18.91%) Docker
2 8 (3.98%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.49%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.50%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 79 (39.30%) Kubernetes
2 58 (28.86%) Grafana
3 28 (13.93%) Ansible
4 9 (4.48%) Argo
4 9 (4.48%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (3.98%) Nagios
5 8 (3.98%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.99%) Jamf Pro
7 3 (1.49%) Istio
7 3 (1.49%) SCCM
8 2 (1.00%) kaniko
9 1 (0.50%) Cilium
9 1 (0.50%) Kubeflow
9 1 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 36 (17.91%) Microsoft
2 18 (8.96%) Google
3 15 (7.46%) Dynatrace
4 11 (5.47%) Splunk
5 10 (4.98%) OpenAI
6 9 (4.48%) Salesforce
7 8 (3.98%) Rapid7
7 8 (3.98%) Red Hat
8 5 (2.49%) Oracle
9 4 (1.99%) Dell
10 3 (1.49%) Apple
10 3 (1.49%) iManage
10 3 (1.49%) Nexthink
11 2 (1.00%) Cognizant
11 2 (1.00%) Databricks
11 2 (1.00%) Foundry
11 2 (1.00%) IBM
11 2 (1.00%) Mistral
11 2 (1.00%) SAP
11 2 (1.00%) Thales