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

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 261 303 350
Rank change year-on-year +42 +47 -29
Permanent jobs citing Deployment Automation 184 87 118
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.76% 0.72% 0.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.94% 0.77% 0.68%
Number of salaries quoted 97 50 70
10th Percentile £54,750 £42,500 £64,750
25th Percentile £62,500 £60,000 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £81,000 £72,500 £83,750
Median % change year-on-year +11.72% -13.43% -6.94%
75th Percentile £112,500 £87,500 £99,688
90th Percentile £137,500 £101,125 £105,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £68,500 £62,783
% change year-on-year +2.19% +9.11% -14.70%

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 19,640 11,372 17,429
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 81.45% 94.15% 89.10%
Number of salaries quoted 13,299 7,183 11,434
10th Percentile £40,822 £39,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,750 £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 £122,500 £120,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £56,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -1.79% -10.40%

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 27 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 27 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 +6 11 £87,500 +25.00% 15
East London +3 8 £65,000 - 1
West London -25 2 - - 10
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 (2.72%) Camunda
2 4 (2.17%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (2.17%) SAS
2 4 (2.17%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.09%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.09%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.09%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.54%) Apache
4 1 (0.54%) Confluence
4 1 (0.54%) JBoss
Applications
1 3 (1.63%) SPSS
2 1 (0.54%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.54%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.54%) Misys Equation
1 1 (0.54%) Misys Midas
Cloud Services
1 112 (60.87%) AWS
2 89 (48.37%) Azure
3 77 (41.85%) GCP
4 31 (16.85%) Amazon EKS
5 26 (14.13%) Azure DevOps
6 25 (13.59%) SaaS
7 23 (12.50%) GitHub
8 19 (10.33%) Datadog
9 18 (9.78%) Microsoft 365
10 16 (8.70%) Amazon ECS
11 14 (7.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 12 (6.52%) Power Platform
13 11 (5.98%) AWS CloudFormation
13 11 (5.98%) Serverless
14 10 (5.43%) OpenShift
15 9 (4.89%) Amazon ECR
15 9 (4.89%) GitHub Copilot
15 9 (4.89%) Vertex AI
16 8 (4.35%) Amazon S3
16 8 (4.35%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.17%) Firewall
1 4 (2.17%) Kerberos
1 4 (2.17%) NAS
2 2 (1.09%) BGP
2 2 (1.09%) Broadband
2 2 (1.09%) Intrusion Detection
2 2 (1.09%) Network Security
2 2 (1.09%) SSH
2 2 (1.09%) SSL
2 2 (1.09%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (14.67%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (7.07%) Elasticsearch
3 12 (6.52%) MySQL
4 10 (5.43%) Power BI
5 9 (4.89%) Amazon RDS
6 8 (4.35%) SQL Server
7 7 (3.80%) Metadata
7 7 (3.80%) MongoDB
8 6 (3.26%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (2.17%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (2.17%) NoSQL
10 3 (1.63%) Amazon Aurora
10 3 (1.63%) Data Lake
10 3 (1.63%) DynamoDB
10 3 (1.63%) Redis
11 2 (1.09%) Apache Cassandra
11 2 (1.09%) CockroachDB
11 2 (1.09%) Delta Lake
11 2 (1.09%) Neo4j
11 2 (1.09%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 29 (15.76%) Git
2 26 (14.13%) TeamCity
3 19 (10.33%) GitLab
4 18 (9.78%) Jenkins
5 9 (4.89%) JUnit
6 8 (4.35%) JIRA
6 8 (4.35%) Mockito
7 6 (3.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 6 (3.26%) Bitbucket
7 6 (3.26%) Claude Code
8 3 (1.63%) Maven
8 3 (1.63%) Spock
8 3 (1.63%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (1.09%) Snyk
10 1 (0.54%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.54%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.54%) JMeter
10 1 (0.54%) Locust
10 1 (0.54%) MLflow
10 1 (0.54%) Vite
General
1 82 (44.57%) Finance
2 57 (30.98%) Banking
3 52 (28.26%) Social Skills
4 43 (23.37%) Law
5 39 (21.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 29 (15.76%) Analytical Skills
7 26 (14.13%) Retail
8 24 (13.04%) Financial Institution
9 19 (10.33%) Back Office
10 8 (4.35%) Marketing
11 4 (2.17%) Mandarin Language
12 3 (1.63%) Front Office
12 3 (1.63%) Public Sector
13 2 (1.09%) Aviation
13 2 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (1.09%) Legal
13 2 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
14 1 (0.54%) Aerospace
14 1 (0.54%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 48 (26.09%) Software Engineer
2 34 (18.48%) Lead
3 31 (16.85%) Senior
4 29 (15.76%) DevOps Engineer
5 19 (10.33%) Cloud Engineer
6 17 (9.24%) Developer
7 14 (7.61%) Automation Engineer
8 13 (7.07%) Senior Software Engineer
9 12 (6.52%) Azure Engineer
9 12 (6.52%) Site Engineer
9 12 (6.52%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 11 (5.98%) Administrator
10 11 (5.98%) AWS Engineer
10 11 (5.98%) Machine Learning Engineer
11 10 (5.43%) Java Engineer
12 9 (4.89%) DevOps Administrator
12 9 (4.89%) DevOps Systems Engineer
12 9 (4.89%) Linux DevOps Administrator
12 9 (4.89%) Linux DevOps Engineer
12 9 (4.89%) Linux Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (45.11%) Terraform
2 17 (9.24%) REST
3 13 (7.07%) PyTorch
3 13 (7.07%) scikit-learn
3 13 (7.07%) TensorFlow
4 12 (6.52%) LangChain
5 10 (5.43%) Kafka
5 10 (5.43%) LangGraph
5 10 (5.43%) Spring
6 9 (4.89%) Spring Boot
7 8 (4.35%) .NET
7 8 (4.35%) OAuth
7 8 (4.35%) OAuth2
8 7 (3.80%) OpenID
8 7 (3.80%) React
9 6 (3.26%) AWS CDK
9 6 (3.26%) JWT
10 5 (2.72%) FastAPI
10 5 (2.72%) JPA
10 5 (2.72%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 69 (37.50%) Cloud Native
2 33 (17.93%) Product Ownership
3 18 (9.78%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (7.61%) AI Agents
5 9 (4.89%) Management Information System
6 7 (3.80%) Blog
6 7 (3.80%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (3.80%) Life Science
7 6 (3.26%) PKI
8 5 (2.72%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (2.17%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (2.17%) Blockchain
9 4 (2.17%) Data Fabric
9 4 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (2.17%) Web3
10 3 (1.63%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (1.09%) Cyber Threat
11 2 (1.09%) Cyberattack
11 2 (1.09%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 2 (1.09%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 29 (15.76%) Linux
2 15 (8.15%) CentOS
2 15 (8.15%) Windows
3 8 (4.35%) Windows Server
4 7 (3.80%) Apple iOS
5 6 (3.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (3.26%) Ubuntu
6 4 (2.17%) Mac OS
6 4 (2.17%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (1.09%) Amazon Linux
7 2 (1.09%) Android
7 2 (1.09%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 129 (70.11%) CI/CD
2 90 (48.91%) DevOps
3 78 (42.39%) Software Engineering
4 72 (39.13%) Test Automation
5 67 (36.41%) Infrastructure as Code
6 64 (34.78%) AI
7 55 (29.89%) Continuous Improvement
8 54 (29.35%) Observability
9 42 (22.83%) Mentoring
9 42 (22.83%) Microservices
10 40 (21.74%) Agile
10 40 (21.74%) Containerisation
11 33 (17.93%) Machine Learning
12 31 (16.85%) Clean Code
12 31 (16.85%) Problem-Solving
13 29 (15.76%) Continuous Deployment
13 29 (15.76%) Technical Leadership
14 28 (15.22%) Data Science
15 24 (13.04%) Capacity Planning
16 23 (12.50%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 78 (42.39%) Python
2 49 (26.63%) Java
3 29 (15.76%) SQL
4 27 (14.67%) PowerShell
5 25 (13.59%) Bash
6 11 (5.98%) TypeScript
7 8 (4.35%) C#
7 8 (4.35%) Go
8 5 (2.72%) JavaScript
9 3 (1.63%) Bicep
9 3 (1.63%) C++
9 3 (1.63%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.09%) Kotlin
10 2 (1.09%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (1.09%) RPG
10 2 (1.09%) Rust
11 1 (0.54%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.54%) Ruby
11 1 (0.54%) Scala
11 1 (0.54%) VB
Qualifications
1 24 (13.04%) Degree
2 19 (10.33%) Security Cleared
3 14 (7.61%) Computer Science Degree
4 12 (6.52%) SC Cleared
5 6 (3.26%) Azure Certification
6 5 (2.72%) Master's Degree
7 4 (2.17%) AWS Certification
7 4 (2.17%) Postgraduate
8 3 (1.63%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.63%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 2 (1.09%) PMI Certification
9 2 (1.09%) PMP
10 1 (0.54%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (9.78%) QA
2 7 (3.80%) GDPR
2 7 (3.80%) SLA
3 6 (3.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (2.72%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.09%) NIST
5 2 (1.09%) PMO
5 2 (1.09%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.54%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.54%) GRC
6 1 (0.54%) WCAG
System Software
1 40 (21.74%) Docker
2 8 (4.35%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.63%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.54%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 69 (37.50%) Kubernetes
2 52 (28.26%) Grafana
3 30 (16.30%) Ansible
4 11 (5.98%) Microsoft Intune
5 10 (5.43%) Argo
6 9 (4.89%) Nagios
7 8 (4.35%) Prometheus
8 6 (3.26%) Jamf Pro
9 3 (1.63%) SCCM
10 2 (1.09%) kaniko
10 2 (1.09%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.54%) Cilium
11 1 (0.54%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 30 (16.30%) Microsoft
2 15 (8.15%) Dynatrace
3 14 (7.61%) Google
4 11 (5.98%) Splunk
5 10 (5.43%) OpenAI
6 9 (4.89%) Rapid7
6 9 (4.89%) Red Hat
6 9 (4.89%) Salesforce
7 4 (2.17%) Apple
7 4 (2.17%) Dell
7 4 (2.17%) Oracle
8 3 (1.63%) Databricks
8 3 (1.63%) iManage
8 3 (1.63%) Nexthink
9 2 (1.09%) Fortinet
9 2 (1.09%) Foundry
9 2 (1.09%) IBM
9 2 (1.09%) SAP
9 2 (1.09%) Thales
9 2 (1.09%) Zscaler