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 8 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 258 321 340
Rank change year-on-year +63 +19 -30
Permanent jobs citing Deployment Automation 210 69 112
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.81% 0.59% 0.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.01% 0.62% 0.68%
Number of salaries quoted 92 29 60
10th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £63,500
25th Percentile £65,750 £63,750 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% - -11.11%
75th Percentile £107,500 £88,750 £92,813
90th Percentile £125,000 £115,500 £105,125
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +15.38% -7.14%

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 20,808 11,078 16,578
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 80.45% 93.94% 89.70%
Number of salaries quoted 13,742 6,957 9,894
10th Percentile £40,846 £37,500 £41,250
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 £97,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £122,500 £120,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -1.64%

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 8 October 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 8 October 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 +17 17 £80,000 +3.23% 23
East London +1 8 £65,000 - 4
West London - 3 - - 7
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 (2.38%) Camunda
1 5 (2.38%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.90%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (1.90%) SAS
3 3 (1.43%) nginx
4 2 (0.95%) Apache
4 2 (0.95%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.48%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.48%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.48%) Confluence
5 1 (0.48%) JBoss
5 1 (0.48%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (0.48%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 1 (0.48%) Misys Equation
1 1 (0.48%) Misys Midas
1 1 (0.48%) Primavera
1 1 (0.48%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 117 (55.71%) AWS
2 107 (50.95%) Azure
3 99 (47.14%) GCP
4 40 (19.05%) Azure DevOps
4 40 (19.05%) GitHub
5 37 (17.62%) Amazon EKS
6 30 (14.29%) SaaS
7 24 (11.43%) Serverless
8 14 (6.67%) Azure Functions
8 14 (6.67%) Datadog
8 14 (6.67%) Power Platform
9 13 (6.19%) Amazon ECS
9 13 (6.19%) Entra ID
9 13 (6.19%) GitHub Actions
9 13 (6.19%) Microsoft 365
10 12 (5.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 11 (5.24%) Azure Monitor
12 10 (4.76%) Azure Key Vault
13 9 (4.29%) GitHub Copilot
14 8 (3.81%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.33%) VPN
2 5 (2.38%) Firewall
3 4 (1.90%) Kerberos
3 4 (1.90%) NAS
4 3 (1.43%) DNS
4 3 (1.43%) Network Security
5 2 (0.95%) Broadband
5 2 (0.95%) OpenVPN
5 2 (0.95%) SSH
5 2 (0.95%) SSL
6 1 (0.48%) DHCP
6 1 (0.48%) Internet
6 1 (0.48%) LAN
6 1 (0.48%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.48%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (0.48%) WAN
6 1 (0.48%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.48%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (17.14%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (6.19%) SQL Server
3 12 (5.71%) Power BI
4 10 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
4 10 (4.76%) MySQL
5 9 (4.29%) Azure SQL Database
6 8 (3.81%) Elasticsearch
6 8 (3.81%) Metadata
6 8 (3.81%) NoSQL
7 6 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (2.38%) MongoDB
8 5 (2.38%) Redis
8 5 (2.38%) Relational Database
9 3 (1.43%) Data Lake
9 3 (1.43%) Oracle Database
10 2 (0.95%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (0.95%) BigQuery
10 2 (0.95%) CockroachDB
10 2 (0.95%) Delta Lake
10 2 (0.95%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 36 (17.14%) TeamCity
2 26 (12.38%) Git
3 25 (11.90%) Jenkins
4 17 (8.10%) GitLab
5 9 (4.29%) JIRA
5 9 (4.29%) JUnit
6 8 (3.81%) Mockito
7 6 (2.86%) Bitbucket
7 6 (2.86%) Claude Code
8 3 (1.43%) Maven
8 3 (1.43%) Spock
8 3 (1.43%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (0.95%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (0.95%) Snyk
10 1 (0.48%) MLflow
10 1 (0.48%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 93 (44.29%) Finance
2 70 (33.33%) Banking
3 66 (31.43%) Social Skills
4 50 (23.81%) Law
5 44 (20.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 37 (17.62%) Analytical Skills
7 34 (16.19%) Retail
8 25 (11.90%) Financial Institution
9 21 (10.00%) Back Office
10 12 (5.71%) Public Sector
11 8 (3.81%) Marketing
12 6 (2.86%) Police
13 4 (1.90%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.95%) Aviation
14 2 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.95%) Legal
14 2 (0.95%) Military
14 2 (0.95%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 66 (31.43%) Software Engineer
2 46 (21.90%) Senior
3 34 (16.19%) Lead
4 30 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
5 23 (10.95%) Cloud Engineer
6 22 (10.48%) Senior Software Engineer
7 17 (8.10%) Architect
7 17 (8.10%) Developer
8 16 (7.62%) Java Engineer
9 15 (7.14%) Machine Learning Engineer
10 14 (6.67%) Automation Engineer
10 14 (6.67%) Java Software Engineer
11 12 (5.71%) Azure Engineer
11 12 (5.71%) Senior Java Engineer
11 12 (5.71%) Site Engineer
11 12 (5.71%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 10 (4.76%) Senior Java Software Engineer
13 9 (4.29%) Administrator
13 9 (4.29%) Platform Engineer
13 9 (4.29%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 111 (52.86%) Terraform
2 25 (11.90%) REST
3 17 (8.10%) .NET
4 16 (7.62%) React
5 15 (7.14%) LangChain
5 15 (7.14%) PyTorch
5 15 (7.14%) scikit-learn
5 15 (7.14%) TensorFlow
6 14 (6.67%) LangGraph
7 10 (4.76%) OAuth
7 10 (4.76%) OAuth2
7 10 (4.76%) Spring
8 9 (4.29%) JWT
8 9 (4.29%) OpenID
8 9 (4.29%) RESTful
8 9 (4.29%) Spring Boot
9 8 (3.81%) Kafka
10 6 (2.86%) AngularJS
10 6 (2.86%) Middleware
10 6 (2.86%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 95 (45.24%) Cloud Native
2 42 (20.00%) Product Ownership
3 28 (13.33%) Distributed Systems
4 21 (10.00%) AI Agents
5 14 (6.67%) Blog
6 13 (6.19%) Management Information System
7 9 (4.29%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (2.86%) Life Science
8 6 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (2.86%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 5 (2.38%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (2.38%) Legacy Applications
9 5 (2.38%) Onboarding
9 5 (2.38%) Security Posture
10 4 (1.90%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (1.90%) Data Fabric
10 4 (1.90%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.90%) PKI
11 3 (1.43%) Enterprise Cloud
11 3 (1.43%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 24 (11.43%) Linux
2 11 (5.24%) Windows
3 9 (4.29%) CentOS
4 4 (1.90%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.90%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (0.95%) Amazon Linux
5 2 (0.95%) Android
5 2 (0.95%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.95%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.95%) Unix
6 1 (0.48%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.48%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 164 (78.10%) CI/CD
2 117 (55.71%) DevOps
3 103 (49.05%) Software Engineering
4 93 (44.29%) Test Automation
5 85 (40.48%) Infrastructure as Code
6 83 (39.52%) AI
7 74 (35.24%) Continuous Improvement
8 62 (29.52%) Observability
9 57 (27.14%) Microservices
10 46 (21.90%) Mentoring
11 45 (21.43%) Agile
12 43 (20.48%) Clean Code
12 43 (20.48%) Technical Leadership
13 38 (18.10%) Containerisation
14 37 (17.62%) Continuous Deployment
14 37 (17.62%) Machine Learning
14 37 (17.62%) Problem-Solving
15 33 (15.71%) Stakeholder Management
16 32 (15.24%) Event-Driven
17 30 (14.29%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 79 (37.62%) Python
2 55 (26.19%) Java
3 37 (17.62%) SQL
4 24 (11.43%) PowerShell
5 18 (8.57%) Bash
5 18 (8.57%) TypeScript
6 16 (7.62%) C#
7 11 (5.24%) Bicep
8 8 (3.81%) Go
8 8 (3.81%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.95%) C++
9 2 (0.95%) Groovy
9 2 (0.95%) Kotlin
9 2 (0.95%) RPG
10 1 (0.48%) C
10 1 (0.48%) COBOL
10 1 (0.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.48%) Ruby
10 1 (0.48%) SOQL
10 1 (0.48%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 29 (13.81%) Security Cleared
2 21 (10.00%) Degree
2 21 (10.00%) SC Cleared
3 15 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
4 12 (5.71%) Azure Certification
5 6 (2.86%) TOGAF Certification
6 5 (2.38%) Master's Degree
7 4 (1.90%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.43%) AWS Certification
8 3 (1.43%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 3 (1.43%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.95%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (7.14%) QA
2 8 (3.81%) GDPR
3 6 (2.86%) Data Quality
3 6 (2.86%) SLA
4 4 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.43%) PMO
6 2 (0.95%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.95%) NIST
7 1 (0.48%) GRC
System Software
1 39 (18.57%) Docker
2 8 (3.81%) Active Directory
3 5 (2.38%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.95%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.48%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 81 (38.57%) Kubernetes
2 65 (30.95%) Grafana
3 27 (12.86%) Ansible
4 8 (3.81%) Argo
5 7 (3.33%) Nagios
5 7 (3.33%) Prometheus
6 5 (2.38%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (1.43%) Istio
8 2 (0.95%) kaniko
8 2 (0.95%) Kibana
9 1 (0.48%) Cilium
9 1 (0.48%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.48%) Kubeflow
9 1 (0.48%) SCCM
9 1 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 43 (20.48%) Microsoft
2 23 (10.95%) Dynatrace
3 16 (7.62%) Google
4 10 (4.76%) Splunk
5 9 (4.29%) OpenAI
5 9 (4.29%) Salesforce
6 8 (3.81%) Oracle
7 7 (3.33%) Rapid7
7 7 (3.33%) Red Hat
8 3 (1.43%) Fortinet
8 3 (1.43%) IBM
8 3 (1.43%) UiPath
9 2 (0.95%) Databricks
9 2 (0.95%) Dell
9 2 (0.95%) Foundry
9 2 (0.95%) SAP
9 2 (0.95%) Thales
10 1 (0.48%) Aruba
10 1 (0.48%) ForgeRock
10 1 (0.48%) iManage