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 13 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 268 250 349
Rank change year-on-year -18 +99 -10
Permanent jobs citing Deployment Automation 143 145 157
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.71% 1.17% 0.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.87% 1.22% 0.74%
Number of salaries quoted 63 111 117
10th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £62,000
25th Percentile £54,750 £60,000 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £81,500 £80,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.88% -20.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £98,750 £116,250 £112,500
90th Percentile £134,500 £140,000 £138,750
England median annual salary £70,000 £73,750 £67,500
% change year-on-year -5.08% +9.26% -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 16,461 11,906 21,297
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 81.66% 96.09% 91.13%
Number of salaries quoted 11,058 7,245 15,948
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £51,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £123,750 £115,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £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 13 May 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 13 May 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 -14 8 £86,250 +4.55% 6
West London -26 6 £85,000 +183.33%
South London +14 2 - - 1
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 11 (7.69%) Appian
2 4 (2.80%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.80%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (2.10%) Apache
3 3 (2.10%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.40%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (0.70%) IIS
5 1 (0.70%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (2.10%) SPSS
2 1 (0.70%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.70%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (2.10%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.70%) Misys Equation
2 1 (0.70%) Misys Midas
Cloud Services
1 94 (65.73%) AWS
2 61 (42.66%) Azure
3 59 (41.26%) GCP
4 52 (36.36%) Amazon EKS
5 36 (25.17%) SaaS
6 17 (11.89%) Serverless
7 16 (11.19%) Azure DevOps
8 14 (9.79%) GitHub
9 13 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 13 (9.09%) Anthropic Claude
10 12 (8.39%) Azure Data Factory
10 12 (8.39%) GitHub Actions
10 12 (8.39%) Power Automate
11 11 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
11 11 (7.69%) Azure AI
12 10 (6.99%) Microsoft 365
13 9 (6.29%) AWS CloudFormation
14 8 (5.59%) Azure Monitor
14 8 (5.59%) Power Platform
15 7 (4.90%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.50%) Firewall
2 3 (2.10%) DNS
2 3 (2.10%) Network Security
3 2 (1.40%) BGP
3 2 (1.40%) Broadband
3 2 (1.40%) Intrusion Detection
3 2 (1.40%) SSH
3 2 (1.40%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (13.99%) SQL Server
2 17 (11.89%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (9.09%) Pinecone
4 9 (6.29%) Elasticsearch
5 7 (4.90%) Amazon Aurora
6 6 (4.20%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (4.20%) MySQL
6 6 (4.20%) Power BI
7 5 (3.50%) DynamoDB
8 4 (2.80%) MongoDB
9 3 (2.10%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (2.10%) Metadata
10 2 (1.40%) Neo4j
10 2 (1.40%) NoSQL
11 1 (0.70%) Big Data
11 1 (0.70%) Hadoop
11 1 (0.70%) Redis
11 1 (0.70%) Relational Database
11 1 (0.70%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 49 (34.27%) TeamCity
2 16 (11.19%) Git
3 15 (10.49%) Jenkins
4 14 (9.79%) GitLab
5 11 (7.69%) MLflow
6 8 (5.59%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 5 (3.50%) Bitbucket
8 4 (2.80%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (1.40%) Artifactory
9 2 (1.40%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.70%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.70%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.70%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.70%) Gradle
10 1 (0.70%) JIRA
10 1 (0.70%) JMeter
10 1 (0.70%) JUnit
10 1 (0.70%) Locust
10 1 (0.70%) Maven
10 1 (0.70%) Vite
General
1 62 (43.36%) Finance
2 59 (41.26%) Banking
3 51 (35.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 50 (34.97%) Law
5 47 (32.87%) Retail
6 36 (25.17%) Social Skills
7 30 (20.98%) Financial Institution
8 29 (20.28%) Back Office
9 12 (8.39%) Analytical Skills
10 4 (2.80%) Mandarin Language
10 4 (2.80%) Public Sector
10 4 (2.80%) Retail Banking
11 3 (2.10%) Front Office
12 2 (1.40%) Aerospace
12 2 (1.40%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 41 (28.67%) Software Engineer
2 27 (18.88%) Senior
3 24 (16.78%) Lead
4 20 (13.99%) DevOps Engineer
5 14 (9.79%) Azure Engineer
5 14 (9.79%) Java Engineer
5 14 (9.79%) Java Software Engineer
5 14 (9.79%) Lead Software Engineer
6 13 (9.09%) Senior Software Engineer
7 12 (8.39%) Automation Engineer
7 12 (8.39%) Customer Engineer
7 12 (8.39%) Customer Service Engineer
7 12 (8.39%) Developer
8 11 (7.69%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 10 (6.99%) AWS Engineer
9 10 (6.99%) Software Team Leader
9 10 (6.99%) Team Leader
10 8 (5.59%) Cloud Engineer
11 7 (4.90%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 7 (4.90%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (10.49%) .NET
2 14 (9.79%) FastAPI
2 14 (9.79%) NumPy
2 14 (9.79%) Pandas
2 14 (9.79%) PyTorch
2 14 (9.79%) RESTful
2 14 (9.79%) scikit-learn
2 14 (9.79%) TensorFlow
3 13 (9.09%) Hugging Face
3 13 (9.09%) OAuth
4 12 (8.39%) REST
4 12 (8.39%) Web Services
5 11 (7.69%) Django
5 11 (7.69%) Faiss
5 11 (7.69%) Flask
5 11 (7.69%) JWT
5 11 (7.69%) OpenAPI
5 11 (7.69%) pytest
5 11 (7.69%) Swagger
6 9 (6.29%) React
Miscellaneous
1 52 (36.36%) Cloud Native
2 18 (12.59%) Blog
2 18 (12.59%) Product Ownership
3 11 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
3 11 (7.69%) Low-Code
4 6 (4.20%) Management Information System
4 6 (4.20%) PKI
5 5 (3.50%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (3.50%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.80%) Blockchain
6 4 (2.80%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (2.80%) Web3
7 3 (2.10%) AS400
7 3 (2.10%) iSeries
8 2 (1.40%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (1.40%) Cyberattack
8 2 (1.40%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.40%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 2 (1.40%) Security Operations Centre
8 2 (1.40%) SIMD
Operating Systems
1 25 (17.48%) Linux
2 14 (9.79%) Windows
3 11 (7.69%) CentOS
4 6 (4.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (4.20%) Ubuntu
4 6 (4.20%) VMS
4 6 (4.20%) Windows Server
5 5 (3.50%) Apple iOS
6 3 (2.10%) Mac OS
7 2 (1.40%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (74.83%) CI/CD
2 86 (60.14%) Test Automation
3 64 (44.76%) DevOps
4 59 (41.26%) Clean Code
5 50 (34.97%) Software Engineering
6 47 (32.87%) Continuous Deployment
7 43 (30.07%) Infrastructure as Code
8 38 (26.57%) Fintech
9 33 (23.08%) Microservices
10 31 (21.68%) Containerisation
11 28 (19.58%) Disruptive Innovation
12 26 (18.18%) Mentoring
13 25 (17.48%) Observability
14 23 (16.08%) Agile
15 21 (14.69%) Continuous Improvement
16 19 (13.29%) AI
16 19 (13.29%) Validation
17 17 (11.89%) Change Management
17 17 (11.89%) Data Pipeline
18 16 (11.19%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 54 (37.76%) Java
2 51 (35.66%) Python
3 27 (18.88%) SQL
4 24 (16.78%) PowerShell
5 23 (16.08%) Bash
6 16 (11.19%) C#
6 16 (11.19%) JavaScript
7 15 (10.49%) TypeScript
8 12 (8.39%) Bicep
9 8 (5.59%) Kusto Query Language
10 3 (2.10%) Rust
10 3 (2.10%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.40%) C++
11 2 (1.40%) Kotlin
11 2 (1.40%) RPG
12 1 (0.70%) C
12 1 (0.70%) COBOL
12 1 (0.70%) Go
12 1 (0.70%) VB
Qualifications
1 19 (13.29%) Security Cleared
2 16 (11.19%) Degree
3 12 (8.39%) SC Cleared
4 7 (4.90%) Azure Certification
4 7 (4.90%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.80%) Postgraduate
6 3 (2.10%) AWS Certification
6 3 (2.10%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.10%) ISTQB
6 3 (2.10%) PMI Certification
6 3 (2.10%) PMP
7 1 (0.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (9.79%) Data Quality
2 13 (9.09%) QA
3 5 (3.50%) SLA
4 4 (2.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.40%) NIST
5 2 (1.40%) PMO
5 2 (1.40%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.70%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.70%) WCAG
System Software
1 36 (25.17%) Docker
2 5 (3.50%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.40%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (1.40%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 90 (62.94%) Terraform
2 88 (61.54%) Kubernetes
3 59 (41.26%) Grafana
4 16 (11.19%) Ansible
5 10 (6.99%) Microsoft Intune
5 10 (6.99%) Prometheus
6 6 (4.20%) Argo
7 5 (3.50%) Jamf Pro
7 5 (3.50%) Nagios
8 4 (2.80%) logstash
9 2 (1.40%) SCCM
9 2 (1.40%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 15 (10.49%) Microsoft
2 13 (9.09%) OpenAI
3 12 (8.39%) Automation Anywhere
3 12 (8.39%) UiPath
4 9 (6.29%) Splunk
5 6 (4.20%) Google
5 6 (4.20%) Red Hat
5 6 (4.20%) Salesforce
6 5 (3.50%) Rapid7
7 3 (2.10%) Apple
7 3 (2.10%) Databricks
8 2 (1.40%) Cognizant
8 2 (1.40%) CrowdStrike
8 2 (1.40%) Dell
8 2 (1.40%) IBM
8 2 (1.40%) iManage
8 2 (1.40%) Pega
8 2 (1.40%) Thales
8 2 (1.40%) VMware
8 2 (1.40%) Zscaler