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

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 281 284 333
Rank change year-on-year +3 +49 -14
Permanent jobs citing Deployment Automation 166 106 126
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.71% 0.87% 0.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.86% 0.92% 0.72%
Number of salaries quoted 87 62 83
10th Percentile £54,750 £26,750 £65,000
25th Percentile £63,750 £60,000 £69,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £75,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -11.76% -5.56%
75th Percentile £113,750 £89,688 £102,500
90th Percentile £133,500 £114,625 £112,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £68,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +2.19% +5.38% -13.33%

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 19,283 11,543 17,577
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 82.04% 94.35% 89.26%
Number of salaries quoted 13,074 7,307 11,977
10th Percentile £40,500 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £73,441
Median % change year-on-year - +2.12% -2.08%
75th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £122,500 £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 5 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 5 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 0 12 £95,000 +22.58% 13
East London -6 5 £65,000 -29.73% 2
West London -29 4 £85,000 +183.33%
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 (3.01%) Camunda
2 4 (2.41%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.41%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (2.41%) SAS
3 3 (1.81%) Apache
4 2 (1.20%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.20%) Cloud Foundry
4 2 (1.20%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.60%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (1.81%) SPSS
2 1 (0.60%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.60%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.60%) Misys Equation
1 1 (0.60%) Misys Midas
Cloud Services
1 103 (62.05%) AWS
2 79 (47.59%) Azure
3 69 (41.57%) GCP
4 37 (22.29%) Amazon EKS
5 30 (18.07%) SaaS
6 25 (15.06%) Azure DevOps
7 19 (11.45%) GitHub
8 15 (9.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 15 (9.04%) Serverless
9 14 (8.43%) Amazon ECS
9 14 (8.43%) Microsoft 365
10 12 (7.23%) Datadog
11 10 (6.02%) Amazon S3
11 10 (6.02%) AWS CloudFormation
12 9 (5.42%) Amazon ECR
12 9 (5.42%) AWS Lambda
12 9 (5.42%) OpenShift
12 9 (5.42%) Power Platform
13 8 (4.82%) Anthropic Claude
13 8 (4.82%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.41%) Kerberos
1 4 (2.41%) NAS
2 3 (1.81%) Firewall
2 3 (1.81%) Network Security
3 2 (1.20%) BGP
3 2 (1.20%) Broadband
3 2 (1.20%) Intrusion Detection
3 2 (1.20%) SSH
3 2 (1.20%) SSL
4 1 (0.60%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (16.27%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (7.83%) Elasticsearch
3 12 (7.23%) MySQL
4 8 (4.82%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (4.82%) Metadata
5 7 (4.22%) Power BI
5 7 (4.22%) SQL Server
6 6 (3.61%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (3.61%) MongoDB
7 5 (3.01%) Amazon Aurora
7 5 (3.01%) DynamoDB
8 4 (2.41%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (2.41%) NoSQL
9 3 (1.81%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (1.81%) Data Lake
9 3 (1.81%) Redis
10 2 (1.20%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (1.20%) CockroachDB
10 2 (1.20%) Delta Lake
10 2 (1.20%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 33 (19.88%) TeamCity
2 24 (14.46%) Git
3 16 (9.64%) GitLab
4 11 (6.63%) Jenkins
5 8 (4.82%) JUnit
5 8 (4.82%) Mockito
6 7 (4.22%) JIRA
7 6 (3.61%) Claude Code
8 5 (3.01%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 5 (3.01%) Bitbucket
9 3 (1.81%) Maven
9 3 (1.81%) Spock
10 2 (1.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 1 (0.60%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.60%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.60%) JMeter
11 1 (0.60%) Locust
11 1 (0.60%) Snyk
11 1 (0.60%) Visual Studio Code
11 1 (0.60%) Vite
General
1 78 (46.99%) Finance
2 61 (36.75%) Banking
3 49 (29.52%) Law
4 44 (26.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 44 (26.51%) Social Skills
5 33 (19.88%) Retail
6 27 (16.27%) Analytical Skills
6 27 (16.27%) Financial Institution
7 22 (13.25%) Back Office
8 6 (3.61%) Marketing
9 5 (3.01%) Public Sector
10 4 (2.41%) Mandarin Language
11 3 (1.81%) Front Office
12 2 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.60%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.60%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.60%) Legal
13 1 (0.60%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.60%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 50 (30.12%) Software Engineer
2 31 (18.67%) Senior
3 29 (17.47%) Lead
4 26 (15.66%) DevOps Engineer
5 15 (9.04%) Senior Software Engineer
6 14 (8.43%) Azure Engineer
7 13 (7.83%) Cloud Engineer
8 11 (6.63%) Administrator
8 11 (6.63%) Developer
8 11 (6.63%) Lead Software Engineer
9 10 (6.02%) Machine Learning Engineer
10 9 (5.42%) Automation Engineer
10 9 (5.42%) AWS Engineer
10 9 (5.42%) DevOps Administrator
10 9 (5.42%) DevOps Systems Engineer
10 9 (5.42%) Linux DevOps Administrator
10 9 (5.42%) Linux DevOps Engineer
10 9 (5.42%) Linux Systems Engineer
10 9 (5.42%) Linux/Unix DevOps
10 9 (5.42%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (7.23%) PyTorch
1 12 (7.23%) scikit-learn
1 12 (7.23%) TensorFlow
2 11 (6.63%) LangChain
3 9 (5.42%) LangGraph
3 9 (5.42%) React
3 9 (5.42%) Spring
3 9 (5.42%) Spring Boot
4 8 (4.82%) Kafka
4 8 (4.82%) REST
5 7 (4.22%) .NET
5 7 (4.22%) OAuth
5 7 (4.22%) OAuth2
5 7 (4.22%) OpenID
6 5 (3.01%) AWS CDK
6 5 (3.01%) Hibernate
6 5 (3.01%) JPA
6 5 (3.01%) Node.js
6 5 (3.01%) RESTful
6 5 (3.01%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 67 (40.36%) Cloud Native
2 27 (16.27%) Product Ownership
3 15 (9.04%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (6.63%) Blog
5 10 (6.02%) AI Agents
6 7 (4.22%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (4.22%) Life Science
6 7 (4.22%) Management Information System
7 6 (3.61%) PKI
8 5 (3.01%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (2.41%) Blockchain
9 4 (2.41%) Data Fabric
9 4 (2.41%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (2.41%) Web3
10 3 (1.81%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (1.20%) Cyber Threat
11 2 (1.20%) Cyberattack
11 2 (1.20%) Data Structures
11 2 (1.20%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 2 (1.20%) SIMD
Operating Systems
1 25 (15.06%) Linux
2 15 (9.04%) CentOS
2 15 (9.04%) Windows
3 8 (4.82%) Windows Server
4 7 (4.22%) Apple iOS
5 6 (3.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (3.61%) Ubuntu
6 4 (2.41%) Mac OS
6 4 (2.41%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (1.20%) Amazon Linux
7 2 (1.20%) Android
7 2 (1.20%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (69.28%) CI/CD
2 81 (48.80%) DevOps
3 74 (44.58%) Software Engineering
4 72 (43.37%) Test Automation
5 54 (32.53%) Infrastructure as Code
6 47 (28.31%) AI
7 44 (26.51%) Microservices
7 44 (26.51%) Observability
8 43 (25.90%) Continuous Improvement
9 38 (22.89%) Mentoring
10 37 (22.29%) Agile
11 36 (21.69%) Clean Code
12 35 (21.08%) Continuous Deployment
13 34 (20.48%) Containerisation
14 29 (17.47%) Fintech
15 25 (15.06%) Machine Learning
16 24 (14.46%) Low Latency
17 23 (13.86%) Data Science
17 23 (13.86%) Problem-Solving
18 22 (13.25%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 67 (40.36%) Python
2 52 (31.33%) Java
3 23 (13.86%) Bash
3 23 (13.86%) SQL
4 22 (13.25%) PowerShell
5 13 (7.83%) TypeScript
6 8 (4.82%) JavaScript
7 7 (4.22%) C#
7 7 (4.22%) Go
8 4 (2.41%) Kusto Query Language
9 3 (1.81%) Bicep
9 3 (1.81%) Rust
9 3 (1.81%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.20%) Kotlin
10 2 (1.20%) RPG
11 1 (0.60%) C
11 1 (0.60%) C++
11 1 (0.60%) COBOL
11 1 (0.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.60%) VB
Qualifications
1 21 (12.65%) Degree
2 20 (12.05%) Security Cleared
3 12 (7.23%) SC Cleared
4 10 (6.02%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.41%) AWS Certification
5 4 (2.41%) Azure Certification
5 4 (2.41%) Postgraduate
6 3 (1.81%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.20%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.20%) PMP
8 1 (0.60%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.60%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (10.84%) QA
2 6 (3.61%) GDPR
2 6 (3.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (3.01%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.41%) SLA
5 2 (1.20%) NIST
5 2 (1.20%) PMO
5 2 (1.20%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.60%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.60%) GRC
6 1 (0.60%) WCAG
System Software
1 33 (19.88%) Docker
2 8 (4.82%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.81%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.60%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 78 (46.99%) Terraform
2 68 (40.96%) Kubernetes
3 52 (31.33%) Grafana
4 24 (14.46%) Ansible
5 10 (6.02%) Microsoft Intune
6 9 (5.42%) Nagios
7 8 (4.82%) Prometheus
8 7 (4.22%) Argo
9 6 (3.61%) Jamf Pro
10 3 (1.81%) SCCM
11 2 (1.20%) kaniko
11 2 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.60%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 24 (14.46%) Microsoft
2 12 (7.23%) Google
3 11 (6.63%) Splunk
4 10 (6.02%) OpenAI
5 9 (5.42%) Dynatrace
5 9 (5.42%) Rapid7
5 9 (5.42%) Red Hat
6 7 (4.22%) Salesforce
7 5 (3.01%) Databricks
8 4 (2.41%) Apple
8 4 (2.41%) Oracle
9 3 (1.81%) Dell
9 3 (1.81%) iManage
9 3 (1.81%) Nexthink
10 2 (1.20%) Cognizant
10 2 (1.20%) CrowdStrike
10 2 (1.20%) Foundry
10 2 (1.20%) IBM
10 2 (1.20%) Thales
10 2 (1.20%) Zscaler