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 19 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 263 291 345
Rank change year-on-year +28 +54 -23
Permanent jobs citing Deployment Automation 171 96 120
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.71% 0.79% 0.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.87% 0.84% 0.69%
Number of salaries quoted 92 55 75
10th Percentile £54,750 £42,500 £65,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £60,000 £68,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £75,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -11.76% -5.56%
75th Percentile £116,250 £88,125 £102,500
90th Percentile £144,000 £113,500 £108,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £68,000 £63,891
% change year-on-year +2.94% +6.43% -14.81%

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 19,550 11,435 17,400
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 81.68% 94.29% 89.13%
Number of salaries quoted 13,195 7,208 11,608
10th Percentile £40,770 £39,450 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
75th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £120,000 £120,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -12.00%

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 19 August 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 19 August 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 -4 12 £95,000 +22.58% 11
East London -4 7 £65,000 -29.73% 1
West London -22 3 £85,000 +183.33% 4
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 (2.92%) Camunda
2 4 (2.34%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (2.34%) SAS
3 3 (1.75%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.75%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.17%) Apache
4 2 (1.17%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.17%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.58%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (1.75%) SPSS
2 1 (0.58%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.58%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.58%) Misys Equation
1 1 (0.58%) Misys Midas
Cloud Services
1 102 (59.65%) AWS
2 83 (48.54%) Azure
3 69 (40.35%) GCP
4 30 (17.54%) Amazon EKS
5 25 (14.62%) Azure DevOps
5 25 (14.62%) SaaS
6 22 (12.87%) GitHub
7 17 (9.94%) Datadog
7 17 (9.94%) Microsoft 365
8 16 (9.36%) Amazon ECS
9 14 (8.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 13 (7.60%) Serverless
11 11 (6.43%) AWS CloudFormation
11 11 (6.43%) Power Platform
12 10 (5.85%) OpenShift
13 9 (5.26%) Amazon ECR
13 9 (5.26%) Amazon S3
13 9 (5.26%) GitHub Copilot
13 9 (5.26%) Vertex AI
14 8 (4.68%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.34%) Firewall
1 4 (2.34%) Kerberos
1 4 (2.34%) NAS
2 2 (1.17%) BGP
2 2 (1.17%) Broadband
2 2 (1.17%) Intrusion Detection
2 2 (1.17%) Network Security
2 2 (1.17%) SSH
2 2 (1.17%) SSL
2 2 (1.17%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (14.62%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (7.60%) Elasticsearch
3 12 (7.02%) MySQL
4 9 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
4 9 (5.26%) Power BI
5 7 (4.09%) Metadata
5 7 (4.09%) MongoDB
6 6 (3.51%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (3.51%) SQL Server
7 4 (2.34%) Amazon Aurora
7 4 (2.34%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (2.34%) DynamoDB
7 4 (2.34%) NoSQL
7 4 (2.34%) Redis
8 3 (1.75%) Data Lake
9 2 (1.17%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (1.17%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (1.17%) BigQuery
9 2 (1.17%) CockroachDB
9 2 (1.17%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 25 (14.62%) TeamCity
2 24 (14.04%) Git
3 18 (10.53%) GitLab
4 13 (7.60%) Jenkins
5 8 (4.68%) JUnit
5 8 (4.68%) Mockito
6 7 (4.09%) JIRA
7 6 (3.51%) Claude Code
8 5 (2.92%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 5 (2.92%) Bitbucket
9 3 (1.75%) Maven
9 3 (1.75%) Spock
9 3 (1.75%) Visual Studio Code
10 2 (1.17%) Snyk
11 1 (0.58%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.58%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.58%) JMeter
11 1 (0.58%) Locust
11 1 (0.58%) MLflow
11 1 (0.58%) Vite
General
1 78 (45.61%) Finance
2 54 (31.58%) Banking
3 49 (28.65%) Social Skills
4 43 (25.15%) Law
5 38 (22.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 29 (16.96%) Analytical Skills
7 25 (14.62%) Retail
8 23 (13.45%) Financial Institution
9 18 (10.53%) Back Office
10 8 (4.68%) Marketing
11 4 (2.34%) Mandarin Language
11 4 (2.34%) Public Sector
12 3 (1.75%) Front Office
13 2 (1.17%) Presentation Skills
14 1 (0.58%) Aerospace
14 1 (0.58%) Aviation
14 1 (0.58%) Documentation Skills
14 1 (0.58%) Legal
14 1 (0.58%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 45 (26.32%) Software Engineer
2 32 (18.71%) Lead
3 29 (16.96%) Senior
4 27 (15.79%) DevOps Engineer
5 18 (10.53%) Cloud Engineer
6 13 (7.60%) Azure Engineer
6 13 (7.60%) Senior Software Engineer
7 12 (7.02%) Automation Engineer
7 12 (7.02%) Developer
8 11 (6.43%) Administrator
8 11 (6.43%) Site Engineer
8 11 (6.43%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 10 (5.85%) AWS Engineer
9 10 (5.85%) Machine Learning Engineer
10 9 (5.26%) DevOps Administrator
10 9 (5.26%) DevOps Systems Engineer
10 9 (5.26%) Linux DevOps Administrator
10 9 (5.26%) Linux DevOps Engineer
10 9 (5.26%) Linux Systems Engineer
10 9 (5.26%) Linux/Unix DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (7.02%) PyTorch
1 12 (7.02%) scikit-learn
1 12 (7.02%) TensorFlow
2 11 (6.43%) LangChain
3 10 (5.85%) Kafka
4 9 (5.26%) LangGraph
4 9 (5.26%) REST
4 9 (5.26%) Spring
4 9 (5.26%) Spring Boot
5 7 (4.09%) OAuth
5 7 (4.09%) OAuth2
5 7 (4.09%) OpenID
5 7 (4.09%) React
6 6 (3.51%) .NET
6 6 (3.51%) AWS CDK
7 5 (2.92%) FastAPI
7 5 (2.92%) Hibernate
7 5 (2.92%) JPA
7 5 (2.92%) JWT
7 5 (2.92%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 62 (36.26%) Cloud Native
2 27 (15.79%) Product Ownership
3 17 (9.94%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (7.60%) AI Agents
5 7 (4.09%) Blog
5 7 (4.09%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (4.09%) Life Science
5 7 (4.09%) Management Information System
6 6 (3.51%) PKI
7 4 (2.34%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (2.34%) Blockchain
7 4 (2.34%) Data Fabric
7 4 (2.34%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (2.34%) Web3
8 3 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.17%) AS400
9 2 (1.17%) Derivative
9 2 (1.17%) iSeries
9 2 (1.17%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 27 (15.79%) Linux
2 15 (8.77%) CentOS
2 15 (8.77%) Windows
3 8 (4.68%) Windows Server
4 7 (4.09%) Apple iOS
5 6 (3.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (3.51%) Ubuntu
6 4 (2.34%) Mac OS
6 4 (2.34%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (1.17%) Amazon Linux
7 2 (1.17%) Android
8 1 (0.58%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (67.25%) CI/CD
2 82 (47.95%) DevOps
3 71 (41.52%) Software Engineering
4 65 (38.01%) Test Automation
5 61 (35.67%) Infrastructure as Code
6 59 (34.50%) AI
7 51 (29.82%) Continuous Improvement
8 50 (29.24%) Observability
9 40 (23.39%) Microservices
10 39 (22.81%) Mentoring
11 36 (21.05%) Agile
11 36 (21.05%) Containerisation
12 31 (18.13%) Machine Learning
13 29 (16.96%) Clean Code
14 28 (16.37%) Continuous Deployment
14 28 (16.37%) Data Science
15 26 (15.20%) Problem-Solving
15 26 (15.20%) Technical Leadership
16 23 (13.45%) Capacity Planning
16 23 (13.45%) Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 74 (43.27%) Python
2 46 (26.90%) Java
3 25 (14.62%) PowerShell
3 25 (14.62%) SQL
4 24 (14.04%) Bash
5 12 (7.02%) TypeScript
6 8 (4.68%) Go
7 6 (3.51%) C#
7 6 (3.51%) JavaScript
8 3 (1.75%) Bicep
8 3 (1.75%) Kusto Query Language
8 3 (1.75%) Rust
8 3 (1.75%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.17%) Kotlin
9 2 (1.17%) RPG
10 1 (0.58%) C
10 1 (0.58%) C++
10 1 (0.58%) COBOL
10 1 (0.58%) Scala
10 1 (0.58%) VB
Qualifications
1 23 (13.45%) Degree
2 19 (11.11%) Security Cleared
3 12 (7.02%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (7.02%) SC Cleared
4 5 (2.92%) Azure Certification
5 4 (2.34%) AWS Certification
5 4 (2.34%) Postgraduate
6 3 (1.75%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.75%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.75%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 2 (1.17%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.17%) PMP
8 1 (0.58%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (10.53%) QA
2 6 (3.51%) GDPR
2 6 (3.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (3.51%) SLA
3 5 (2.92%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.17%) NIST
4 2 (1.17%) PMO
4 2 (1.17%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.58%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.58%) GRC
5 1 (0.58%) WCAG
System Software
1 37 (21.64%) Docker
2 8 (4.68%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.75%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.58%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 77 (45.03%) Terraform
2 64 (37.43%) Kubernetes
3 50 (29.24%) Grafana
4 27 (15.79%) Ansible
5 11 (6.43%) Microsoft Intune
6 9 (5.26%) Argo
6 9 (5.26%) Nagios
6 9 (5.26%) Prometheus
7 6 (3.51%) Jamf Pro
8 3 (1.75%) SCCM
9 2 (1.17%) kaniko
9 2 (1.17%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.58%) Cilium
10 1 (0.58%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 28 (16.37%) Microsoft
2 15 (8.77%) Google
3 13 (7.60%) Dynatrace
4 11 (6.43%) Splunk
5 10 (5.85%) OpenAI
6 9 (5.26%) Rapid7
6 9 (5.26%) Red Hat
7 7 (4.09%) Salesforce
8 4 (2.34%) Apple
8 4 (2.34%) Databricks
8 4 (2.34%) Oracle
9 3 (1.75%) Dell
9 3 (1.75%) iManage
9 3 (1.75%) Nexthink
10 2 (1.17%) Cognizant
10 2 (1.17%) CrowdStrike
10 2 (1.17%) Fortinet
10 2 (1.17%) Foundry
10 2 (1.17%) IBM
10 2 (1.17%) Thales