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

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 259 297 351
Rank change year-on-year +38 +54 -31
Permanent jobs citing Deployment Automation 186 87 115
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.77% 0.73% 0.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.95% 0.77% 0.66%
Number of salaries quoted 96 49 69
10th Percentile £54,750 £46,500 £64,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £60,000 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,000 £75,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.33% -9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £113,125 £87,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £138,750 £112,000 £105,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +12.00% -13.19%

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 19,607 11,253 17,294
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 81.24% 94.05% 89.29%
Number of salaries quoted 13,305 7,134 11,121
10th Percentile £40,825 £38,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £53,046
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £74,375 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.84% -0.83% -
75th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £122,500 £120,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -8.00%

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 2 September 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 September 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 +4 11 £87,500 +25.00% 14
East London +3 8 £65,000 - 1
West London -22 2 - - 11
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 (2.69%) Camunda
2 4 (2.15%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (2.15%) SAS
2 4 (2.15%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.08%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.08%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.54%) Confluence
4 1 (0.54%) JBoss
Applications
1 3 (1.61%) 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 (60.22%) AWS
2 92 (49.46%) Azure
3 81 (43.55%) GCP
4 32 (17.20%) Amazon EKS
5 26 (13.98%) Azure DevOps
6 25 (13.44%) GitHub
7 24 (12.90%) SaaS
8 18 (9.68%) Datadog
8 18 (9.68%) Microsoft 365
9 16 (8.60%) Amazon ECS
10 14 (7.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 12 (6.45%) Power Platform
12 11 (5.91%) AWS CloudFormation
13 10 (5.38%) OpenShift
13 10 (5.38%) Serverless
14 9 (4.84%) Amazon ECR
14 9 (4.84%) GitHub Copilot
14 9 (4.84%) Vertex AI
15 8 (4.30%) Anthropic Claude
16 7 (3.76%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.15%) Firewall
1 4 (2.15%) Kerberos
1 4 (2.15%) NAS
2 2 (1.08%) BGP
2 2 (1.08%) Broadband
2 2 (1.08%) Intrusion Detection
2 2 (1.08%) Network Security
2 2 (1.08%) SSH
2 2 (1.08%) SSL
2 2 (1.08%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (14.52%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (6.99%) Elasticsearch
3 12 (6.45%) MySQL
4 10 (5.38%) Power BI
5 9 (4.84%) Amazon RDS
6 8 (4.30%) SQL Server
7 7 (3.76%) MongoDB
8 6 (3.23%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (3.23%) Metadata
9 4 (2.15%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (2.15%) NoSQL
10 3 (1.61%) Data Lake
10 3 (1.61%) Redis
11 2 (1.08%) Amazon Aurora
11 2 (1.08%) BigQuery
11 2 (1.08%) CockroachDB
11 2 (1.08%) Delta Lake
11 2 (1.08%) DynamoDB
11 2 (1.08%) Neo4j
11 2 (1.08%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 29 (15.59%) Git
2 27 (14.52%) TeamCity
3 20 (10.75%) Jenkins
4 19 (10.22%) GitLab
5 9 (4.84%) JUnit
6 8 (4.30%) JIRA
6 8 (4.30%) Mockito
7 6 (3.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 6 (3.23%) Bitbucket
7 6 (3.23%) Claude Code
8 3 (1.61%) Maven
8 3 (1.61%) Spock
8 3 (1.61%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (1.08%) Snyk
10 1 (0.54%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.54%) MLflow
10 1 (0.54%) Vite
General
1 83 (44.62%) Finance
2 59 (31.72%) Banking
3 54 (29.03%) Social Skills
4 43 (23.12%) Law
5 39 (20.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 28 (15.05%) Analytical Skills
7 27 (14.52%) Retail
8 24 (12.90%) Financial Institution
9 19 (10.22%) Back Office
10 8 (4.30%) Marketing
11 4 (2.15%) Mandarin Language
12 3 (1.61%) Front Office
13 2 (1.08%) Aviation
13 2 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (1.08%) Legal
13 2 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (1.08%) Public Sector
14 1 (0.54%) Aerospace
14 1 (0.54%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 50 (26.88%) Software Engineer
2 33 (17.74%) Lead
2 33 (17.74%) Senior
3 29 (15.59%) DevOps Engineer
4 19 (10.22%) Cloud Engineer
5 17 (9.14%) Developer
6 14 (7.53%) Automation Engineer
6 14 (7.53%) Senior Software Engineer
7 12 (6.45%) Azure Engineer
7 12 (6.45%) Machine Learning Engineer
7 12 (6.45%) Site Engineer
7 12 (6.45%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 11 (5.91%) Administrator
8 11 (5.91%) Java Engineer
9 10 (5.38%) AWS Engineer
10 9 (4.84%) DevOps Administrator
10 9 (4.84%) Linux DevOps Administrator
10 9 (4.84%) Linux DevOps Engineer
10 9 (4.84%) Linux Systems Engineer
10 9 (4.84%) Linux/Unix DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (45.16%) Terraform
2 17 (9.14%) REST
3 14 (7.53%) PyTorch
3 14 (7.53%) scikit-learn
3 14 (7.53%) TensorFlow
4 13 (6.99%) LangChain
5 11 (5.91%) LangGraph
6 10 (5.38%) Kafka
6 10 (5.38%) Spring
7 9 (4.84%) Spring Boot
8 8 (4.30%) .NET
8 8 (4.30%) OAuth
8 8 (4.30%) OAuth2
9 7 (3.76%) OpenID
9 7 (3.76%) React
10 6 (3.23%) AWS CDK
10 6 (3.23%) JWT
11 5 (2.69%) FastAPI
11 5 (2.69%) Hibernate
11 5 (2.69%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 73 (39.25%) Cloud Native
2 34 (18.28%) Product Ownership
3 18 (9.68%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (7.53%) AI Agents
5 9 (4.84%) Management Information System
6 8 (4.30%) Blog
7 7 (3.76%) Hybrid Cloud
7 7 (3.76%) Life Science
8 6 (3.23%) PKI
9 5 (2.69%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (2.15%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (2.15%) Blockchain
10 4 (2.15%) Data Fabric
10 4 (2.15%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (2.15%) Web3
11 3 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (1.61%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 2 (1.08%) AS400
12 2 (1.08%) iSeries
12 2 (1.08%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 29 (15.59%) Linux
2 15 (8.06%) CentOS
2 15 (8.06%) Windows
3 8 (4.30%) Windows Server
4 7 (3.76%) Apple iOS
5 6 (3.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (3.23%) Ubuntu
6 4 (2.15%) Mac OS
6 4 (2.15%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (1.08%) Amazon Linux
7 2 (1.08%) Android
7 2 (1.08%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 132 (70.97%) CI/CD
2 91 (48.92%) DevOps
3 80 (43.01%) Software Engineering
4 72 (38.71%) Test Automation
5 67 (36.02%) Infrastructure as Code
6 65 (34.95%) AI
7 54 (29.03%) Continuous Improvement
8 53 (28.49%) Observability
9 42 (22.58%) Mentoring
9 42 (22.58%) Microservices
10 41 (22.04%) Containerisation
11 38 (20.43%) Agile
12 34 (18.28%) Machine Learning
13 32 (17.20%) Clean Code
14 31 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
14 31 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
15 30 (16.13%) Continuous Deployment
16 28 (15.05%) Data Science
17 24 (12.90%) Capacity Planning
17 24 (12.90%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 79 (42.47%) Python
2 49 (26.34%) Java
3 28 (15.05%) SQL
4 27 (14.52%) PowerShell
5 25 (13.44%) Bash
6 11 (5.91%) TypeScript
7 8 (4.30%) C#
7 8 (4.30%) Go
8 5 (2.69%) JavaScript
9 3 (1.61%) Bicep
9 3 (1.61%) C++
9 3 (1.61%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.08%) Kotlin
10 2 (1.08%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (1.08%) RPG
10 2 (1.08%) Rust
11 1 (0.54%) COBOL
11 1 (0.54%) Ruby
11 1 (0.54%) SOQL
11 1 (0.54%) VB
Qualifications
1 23 (12.37%) Degree
2 18 (9.68%) Security Cleared
3 14 (7.53%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (5.91%) SC Cleared
5 6 (3.23%) Azure Certification
6 5 (2.69%) Master's Degree
7 4 (2.15%) AWS Certification
7 4 (2.15%) Postgraduate
8 3 (1.61%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.61%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 2 (1.08%) PMI Certification
9 2 (1.08%) PMP
10 1 (0.54%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (9.14%) QA
2 7 (3.76%) GDPR
2 7 (3.76%) SLA
3 6 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (2.15%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.08%) NIST
5 2 (1.08%) PMO
5 2 (1.08%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.54%) GRC
System Software
1 39 (20.97%) Docker
2 8 (4.30%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.61%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.54%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 71 (38.17%) Kubernetes
2 52 (27.96%) Grafana
3 30 (16.13%) Ansible
4 11 (5.91%) Microsoft Intune
5 10 (5.38%) Argo
6 9 (4.84%) Nagios
7 8 (4.30%) Prometheus
8 6 (3.23%) Jamf Pro
9 3 (1.61%) SCCM
10 2 (1.08%) Istio
10 2 (1.08%) kaniko
10 2 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.54%) Cilium
11 1 (0.54%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 32 (17.20%) Microsoft
2 16 (8.60%) Google
3 15 (8.06%) Dynatrace
4 11 (5.91%) Splunk
5 10 (5.38%) OpenAI
6 9 (4.84%) Rapid7
6 9 (4.84%) Red Hat
6 9 (4.84%) Salesforce
7 4 (2.15%) Apple
7 4 (2.15%) Dell
7 4 (2.15%) Oracle
8 3 (1.61%) iManage
8 3 (1.61%) Nexthink
9 2 (1.08%) Databricks
9 2 (1.08%) Fortinet
9 2 (1.08%) Foundry
9 2 (1.08%) Mistral
9 2 (1.08%) SAP
9 2 (1.08%) Thales
9 2 (1.08%) Zscaler