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 28 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 268 250 347
Rank change year-on-year -18 +97 -10
Permanent jobs citing Deployment Automation 141 157 154
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.71% 1.22% 0.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.86% 1.28% 0.72%
Number of salaries quoted 60 122 114
10th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £63,250
25th Percentile £54,750 £60,000 £71,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,750 £88,750 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.01% -11.25% +11.11%
75th Percentile £98,750 £117,188 £112,500
90th Percentile £136,000 £140,000 £138,750
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +11.11% -12.90%

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 16,439 12,308 21,242
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 82.79% 96.01% 91.36%
Number of salaries quoted 10,826 7,520 16,010
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £52,070
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £99,142 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £111,250 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £59,450 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.92% +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 28 April 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 28 April 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 -3 7 £87,500 +2.94% 12
West London -26 7 £85,000 +183.33% 1
South London +13 2 - -
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 12 (8.51%) Appian
2 4 (2.84%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.84%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.84%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (2.13%) Apache
4 2 (1.42%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (0.71%) IIS
5 1 (0.71%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (2.13%) SPSS
2 1 (0.71%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.71%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (2.13%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.71%) Misys Equation
2 1 (0.71%) Misys Midas
Cloud Services
1 92 (65.25%) AWS
2 61 (43.26%) Azure
3 60 (42.55%) GCP
4 51 (36.17%) Amazon EKS
5 38 (26.95%) SaaS
6 16 (11.35%) Azure DevOps
6 16 (11.35%) Serverless
7 14 (9.93%) Anthropic Claude
7 14 (9.93%) Azure Data Factory
7 14 (9.93%) GitHub
8 13 (9.22%) Power Automate
9 12 (8.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 12 (8.51%) Azure AI
9 12 (8.51%) GitHub Actions
10 10 (7.09%) AWS Lambda
10 10 (7.09%) Power Platform
11 9 (6.38%) Microsoft 365
12 8 (5.67%) AWS CloudFormation
12 8 (5.67%) Azure Monitor
13 6 (4.26%) Azure Pipelines
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.55%) Firewall
2 3 (2.13%) DNS
2 3 (2.13%) Network Security
3 2 (1.42%) BGP
3 2 (1.42%) Broadband
3 2 (1.42%) Intrusion Detection
3 2 (1.42%) SSH
3 2 (1.42%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (14.18%) SQL Server
2 14 (9.93%) Pinecone
2 14 (9.93%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (6.38%) Elasticsearch
4 8 (5.67%) Power BI
5 7 (4.96%) MySQL
6 6 (4.26%) Amazon Aurora
7 4 (2.84%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (2.84%) DynamoDB
8 3 (2.13%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (2.13%) Metadata
8 3 (2.13%) MongoDB
9 2 (1.42%) Neo4j
9 2 (1.42%) Tableau
10 1 (0.71%) Big Data
10 1 (0.71%) Delta Lake
10 1 (0.71%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.71%) Looker
10 1 (0.71%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.71%) Redis
Development Applications
1 49 (34.75%) TeamCity
2 16 (11.35%) Git
3 13 (9.22%) GitLab
3 13 (9.22%) Jenkins
4 12 (8.51%) MLflow
5 8 (5.67%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 4 (2.84%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 3 (2.13%) Bitbucket
8 2 (1.42%) Artifactory
8 2 (1.42%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.71%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.71%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.71%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.71%) Gradle
9 1 (0.71%) JIRA
9 1 (0.71%) JMeter
9 1 (0.71%) JUnit
9 1 (0.71%) Locust
9 1 (0.71%) Maven
9 1 (0.71%) Vite
General
1 62 (43.97%) Finance
2 59 (41.84%) Banking
3 51 (36.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 50 (35.46%) Law
5 47 (33.33%) Retail
6 35 (24.82%) Social Skills
7 31 (21.99%) Back Office
7 31 (21.99%) Financial Institution
8 11 (7.80%) Analytical Skills
9 4 (2.84%) Mandarin Language
9 4 (2.84%) Public Sector
9 4 (2.84%) Retail Banking
10 3 (2.13%) Front Office
11 2 (1.42%) Aerospace
11 2 (1.42%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.71%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 40 (28.37%) Software Engineer
2 26 (18.44%) Senior
3 24 (17.02%) Lead
4 20 (14.18%) DevOps Engineer
5 15 (10.64%) Java Engineer
5 15 (10.64%) Java Software Engineer
6 14 (9.93%) Lead Software Engineer
7 13 (9.22%) Automation Engineer
7 13 (9.22%) Azure Engineer
8 12 (8.51%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 12 (8.51%) Senior Software Engineer
9 11 (7.80%) Customer Engineer
9 11 (7.80%) Customer Service Engineer
9 11 (7.80%) Developer
10 10 (7.09%) Software Team Leader
10 10 (7.09%) Team Leader
11 9 (6.38%) AWS Engineer
12 8 (5.67%) Cloud Engineer
13 7 (4.96%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 7 (4.96%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (10.64%) FastAPI
1 15 (10.64%) NumPy
1 15 (10.64%) Pandas
1 15 (10.64%) PyTorch
1 15 (10.64%) RESTful
1 15 (10.64%) scikit-learn
1 15 (10.64%) TensorFlow
2 14 (9.93%) .NET
2 14 (9.93%) Hugging Face
2 14 (9.93%) OAuth
3 13 (9.22%) Flask
3 13 (9.22%) REST
3 13 (9.22%) Web Services
4 12 (8.51%) Django
4 12 (8.51%) Faiss
4 12 (8.51%) JWT
4 12 (8.51%) OpenAPI
4 12 (8.51%) pytest
4 12 (8.51%) Swagger
5 9 (6.38%) React
Miscellaneous
1 52 (36.88%) Cloud Native
2 17 (12.06%) Product Ownership
3 16 (11.35%) Blog
4 12 (8.51%) Legacy Systems
4 12 (8.51%) Low-Code
5 6 (4.26%) Management Information System
5 6 (4.26%) PKI
6 5 (3.55%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (3.55%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.84%) Blockchain
7 4 (2.84%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (2.84%) Web3
8 3 (2.13%) AS400
8 3 (2.13%) Data Structures
8 3 (2.13%) iSeries
9 2 (1.42%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (1.42%) Cyberattack
9 2 (1.42%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 2 (1.42%) Security Operations Centre
9 2 (1.42%) SIMD
Operating Systems
1 24 (17.02%) Linux
2 14 (9.93%) Windows
3 10 (7.09%) CentOS
4 6 (4.26%) VMS
4 6 (4.26%) Windows Server
5 5 (3.55%) Apple iOS
5 5 (3.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (3.55%) Ubuntu
6 3 (2.13%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.71%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (76.60%) CI/CD
2 86 (60.99%) Test Automation
3 61 (43.26%) DevOps
4 59 (41.84%) Clean Code
5 49 (34.75%) Software Engineering
6 47 (33.33%) Continuous Deployment
7 42 (29.79%) Infrastructure as Code
8 36 (25.53%) Fintech
9 33 (23.40%) Microservices
10 30 (21.28%) Containerisation
11 26 (18.44%) Disruptive Innovation
12 25 (17.73%) Mentoring
13 23 (16.31%) Agile
13 23 (16.31%) Observability
14 20 (14.18%) AI
14 20 (14.18%) Continuous Improvement
14 20 (14.18%) Data Pipeline
14 20 (14.18%) Validation
15 18 (12.77%) Change Management
16 17 (12.06%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 53 (37.59%) Java
2 51 (36.17%) Python
3 29 (20.57%) SQL
4 24 (17.02%) PowerShell
5 22 (15.60%) Bash
6 15 (10.64%) C#
6 15 (10.64%) JavaScript
7 14 (9.93%) TypeScript
8 12 (8.51%) Bicep
9 8 (5.67%) Kusto Query Language
10 3 (2.13%) Rust
10 3 (2.13%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.42%) C++
11 2 (1.42%) Kotlin
11 2 (1.42%) RPG
12 1 (0.71%) C
12 1 (0.71%) COBOL
12 1 (0.71%) Go
12 1 (0.71%) VB
Qualifications
1 18 (12.77%) Security Cleared
2 16 (11.35%) Degree
3 12 (8.51%) SC Cleared
4 7 (4.96%) Azure Certification
4 7 (4.96%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.84%) Postgraduate
6 3 (2.13%) AWS Certification
6 3 (2.13%) ISTQB
6 3 (2.13%) PMI Certification
6 3 (2.13%) PMP
7 2 (1.42%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.71%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (12.06%) Data Quality
2 13 (9.22%) QA
3 5 (3.55%) SLA
4 4 (2.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.42%) NIST
5 2 (1.42%) PMO
5 2 (1.42%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.71%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.71%) WCAG
System Software
1 36 (25.53%) Docker
2 5 (3.55%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.42%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (1.42%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 89 (63.12%) Terraform
2 88 (62.41%) Kubernetes
3 59 (41.84%) Grafana
4 16 (11.35%) Ansible
5 10 (7.09%) Microsoft Intune
6 9 (6.38%) Prometheus
7 6 (4.26%) Argo
8 5 (3.55%) Jamf Pro
8 5 (3.55%) Nagios
9 4 (2.84%) logstash
10 2 (1.42%) SCCM
10 2 (1.42%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 14 (9.93%) Microsoft
1 14 (9.93%) OpenAI
2 13 (9.22%) Automation Anywhere
2 13 (9.22%) UiPath
3 8 (5.67%) Splunk
4 6 (4.26%) Google
4 6 (4.26%) Red Hat
5 5 (3.55%) Rapid7
5 5 (3.55%) Salesforce
6 4 (2.84%) Databricks
7 3 (2.13%) Apple
8 2 (1.42%) Cognizant
8 2 (1.42%) CrowdStrike
8 2 (1.42%) Dell
8 2 (1.42%) IBM
8 2 (1.42%) iManage
8 2 (1.42%) Pega
8 2 (1.42%) Thales
8 2 (1.42%) VMware
8 2 (1.42%) Zscaler