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 2 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 273 291 345
Rank change year-on-year +18 +54 -35
Permanent jobs citing Deployment Automation 106 147 142
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.72% 0.96% 0.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.82% 1.01% 0.73%
Number of salaries quoted 37 101 116
10th Percentile £52,500 £63,000 £55,695
25th Percentile £62,500 £80,000 £61,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,217 £92,500 £99,750
Median % change year-on-year -16.52% -7.27% +14.00%
75th Percentile £92,500 £130,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £140,000 £143,750
England median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +15.38% -18.75%

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 12,866 14,542 19,542
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 86.83% 95.06% 92.00%
Number of salaries quoted 8,227 7,853 15,777
10th Percentile £36,750 £43,227 £39,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,000 £53,724
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £96,250 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £61,350 £56,000
% change year-on-year -10.35% +9.55% -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 2 February 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 2 February 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 +22 5 £87,500 +2.94% 13
West London -4 3 £80,000 +166.67%
South London +26 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 12 (11.32%) Appian
2 2 (1.89%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.89%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.89%) BizTalk Server
2 2 (1.89%) nginx
3 1 (0.94%) IIS
3 1 (0.94%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (1.89%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 64 (60.38%) AWS
2 49 (46.23%) Azure
3 45 (42.45%) GCP
4 39 (36.79%) Amazon EKS
5 30 (28.30%) SaaS
6 18 (16.98%) Azure DevOps
7 15 (14.15%) GitHub
8 14 (13.21%) Azure Data Factory
8 14 (13.21%) GitHub Actions
9 13 (12.26%) Anthropic Claude
9 13 (12.26%) Azure AI
10 12 (11.32%) Power Automate
11 11 (10.38%) Serverless
12 9 (8.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 8 (7.55%) Power Platform
14 7 (6.60%) AWS Lambda
14 7 (6.60%) Azure Monitor
15 5 (4.72%) Azure Pipelines
15 5 (4.72%) Salesforce Service Cloud
16 4 (3.77%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.72%) Firewall
2 3 (2.83%) DNS
3 2 (1.89%) BGP
3 2 (1.89%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (1.89%) MQTT
3 2 (1.89%) OSPF
3 2 (1.89%) Reverse Proxy
3 2 (1.89%) RTMP
3 2 (1.89%) SSL
3 2 (1.89%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.89%) VLAN
3 2 (1.89%) VPN
3 2 (1.89%) WAN
3 2 (1.89%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (1.89%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (16.98%) SQL Server
2 12 (11.32%) Pinecone
3 8 (7.55%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (6.60%) Power BI
5 5 (4.72%) MySQL
6 3 (2.83%) Tableau
7 2 (1.89%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (1.89%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.89%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.89%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.89%) Metadata
7 2 (1.89%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.94%) Amazon QuickSight
8 1 (0.94%) Delta Lake
8 1 (0.94%) Looker
8 1 (0.94%) Microsoft Analysis Services
8 1 (0.94%) Power Query
8 1 (0.94%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (0.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.94%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 37 (34.91%) TeamCity
2 14 (13.21%) MLflow
3 13 (12.26%) Jenkins
4 8 (7.55%) Git
5 7 (6.60%) GitLab
6 6 (5.66%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 4 (3.77%) Artifactory
8 3 (2.83%) Gradle
8 3 (2.83%) Maven
9 2 (1.89%) Jaeger
9 2 (1.89%) Octopus Deploy
9 2 (1.89%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.94%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.94%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.94%) JIRA
10 1 (0.94%) JUnit
General
1 49 (46.23%) Finance
2 41 (38.68%) Banking
3 36 (33.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 35 (33.02%) Law
4 35 (33.02%) Retail
5 26 (24.53%) Financial Institution
6 25 (23.58%) Back Office
6 25 (23.58%) Social Skills
7 4 (3.77%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (2.83%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (2.83%) Retail Banking
9 2 (1.89%) Agriculture
9 2 (1.89%) Legal
10 1 (0.94%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.94%) Automotive
10 1 (0.94%) Marketing
10 1 (0.94%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.94%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 31 (29.25%) Software Engineer
2 19 (17.92%) Senior
3 16 (15.09%) Lead
4 14 (13.21%) DevOps Engineer
5 13 (12.26%) Java Engineer
5 13 (12.26%) Java Software Engineer
6 12 (11.32%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 12 (11.32%) Automation Engineer
7 10 (9.43%) Azure Engineer
7 10 (9.43%) Senior Software Engineer
8 8 (7.55%) Developer
8 8 (7.55%) Lead Software Engineer
9 7 (6.60%) Cloud Engineer
9 7 (6.60%) Customer Engineer
9 7 (6.60%) Customer Service Engineer
9 7 (6.60%) Platform Engineer
10 6 (5.66%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 6 (5.66%) Senior Java Engineer
10 6 (5.66%) Senior Java Software Engineer
11 5 (4.72%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (14.15%) FastAPI
2 14 (13.21%) REST
3 13 (12.26%) Flask
3 13 (12.26%) RESTful
4 12 (11.32%) .NET
4 12 (11.32%) Django
4 12 (11.32%) Faiss
4 12 (11.32%) Hugging Face
4 12 (11.32%) JWT
4 12 (11.32%) NumPy
4 12 (11.32%) OAuth
4 12 (11.32%) OpenAPI
4 12 (11.32%) Pandas
4 12 (11.32%) pytest
4 12 (11.32%) PyTorch
4 12 (11.32%) scikit-learn
4 12 (11.32%) Swagger
4 12 (11.32%) TensorFlow
4 12 (11.32%) Web Services
5 5 (4.72%) React
Miscellaneous
1 41 (38.68%) Cloud Native
2 12 (11.32%) Legacy Systems
2 12 (11.32%) Low-Code
3 10 (9.43%) Blog
3 10 (9.43%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.77%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.83%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.83%) IoT
6 2 (1.89%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.89%) IVR
6 2 (1.89%) MPEG
6 2 (1.89%) Robotics
6 2 (1.89%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.94%) AS400
7 1 (0.94%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.94%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (0.94%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.94%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.94%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.94%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 16 (15.09%) Linux
2 8 (7.55%) Windows
3 4 (3.77%) VMS
4 3 (2.83%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.94%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (84.91%) CI/CD
2 65 (61.32%) Test Automation
3 50 (47.17%) DevOps
4 47 (44.34%) Clean Code
5 35 (33.02%) Continuous Deployment
5 35 (33.02%) Software Engineering
6 32 (30.19%) Infrastructure as Code
7 29 (27.36%) Microservices
8 26 (24.53%) AI
9 20 (18.87%) Containerisation
10 19 (17.92%) Fintech
11 18 (16.98%) Observability
12 17 (16.04%) Agile
12 17 (16.04%) Machine Learning
12 17 (16.04%) Mentoring
13 16 (15.09%) Change Management
13 16 (15.09%) Data Pipeline
13 16 (15.09%) MLOps
13 16 (15.09%) Stakeholder Management
14 15 (14.15%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 39 (36.79%) Python
2 37 (34.91%) Java
3 22 (20.75%) SQL
4 17 (16.04%) PowerShell
5 14 (13.21%) Bash
6 13 (12.26%) C#
7 11 (10.38%) Bicep
7 11 (10.38%) JavaScript
8 10 (9.43%) TypeScript
9 4 (3.77%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (1.89%) C++
10 2 (1.89%) Go
10 2 (1.89%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.94%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.94%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (11.32%) Security Cleared
2 8 (7.55%) Azure Certification
2 8 (7.55%) SC Cleared
3 7 (6.60%) Degree
4 4 (3.77%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.83%) ISTQB
6 2 (1.89%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.89%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.94%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.94%) MCSE
7 1 (0.94%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.94%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (14.15%) Data Quality
2 5 (4.72%) QA
3 2 (1.89%) NIST
3 2 (1.89%) SLA
4 1 (0.94%) EU AI Act
4 1 (0.94%) GRC
4 1 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 30 (28.30%) Docker
2 4 (3.77%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.89%) NFS
3 2 (1.89%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 72 (67.92%) Kubernetes
2 67 (63.21%) Terraform
3 48 (45.28%) Grafana
4 11 (10.38%) Ansible
5 10 (9.43%) Prometheus
6 4 (3.77%) Argo
6 4 (3.77%) logstash
7 2 (1.89%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.94%) Nagios
Vendors
1 12 (11.32%) Automation Anywhere
1 12 (11.32%) OpenAI
1 12 (11.32%) UiPath
2 9 (8.49%) Microsoft
3 5 (4.72%) Salesforce
4 4 (3.77%) Splunk
5 3 (2.83%) Cisco
6 2 (1.89%) Databricks
6 2 (1.89%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.89%) MikroTik
6 2 (1.89%) NETGEAR
6 2 (1.89%) Pega
6 2 (1.89%) Rapid7
6 2 (1.89%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.89%) Sonatype
6 2 (1.89%) Starlink
6 2 (1.89%) Ubiquiti
6 2 (1.89%) VMware
7 1 (0.94%) Concur
7 1 (0.94%) Google