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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 262 283 347
Rank change year-on-year +21 +64 -19
Permanent jobs citing Deployment Automation 157 109 131
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.69% 0.89% 0.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.83% 0.94% 0.72%
Number of salaries quoted 84 63 88
10th Percentile £53,175 £25,000 £65,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £60,000 £69,844
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £83,750 £72,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.52% -14.71% -5.56%
75th Percentile £108,125 £88,125 £102,500
90th Percentile £132,500 £113,000 £112,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.70% +3.85% -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 18,808 11,569 18,180
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 82.14% 94.41% 89.35%
Number of salaries quoted 12,790 7,340 12,569
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% -3.00%
75th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £122,500 £120,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £56,185 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.79% +2.16% -11.29%

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 29 July 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 29 July 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 -5 11 £95,000 +22.58% 12
East London -7 4 £65,000 -29.73% 2
West London -27 4 £85,000 +183.33%
South London +3 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 5 (3.18%) Camunda
2 4 (2.55%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.55%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (2.55%) SAS
3 3 (1.91%) Apache
3 3 (1.91%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.27%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.64%) Appian
5 1 (0.64%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.64%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (1.91%) SPSS
2 1 (0.64%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.64%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.64%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.64%) Misys Equation
1 1 (0.64%) Misys Midas
Cloud Services
1 97 (61.78%) AWS
2 78 (49.68%) Azure
3 64 (40.76%) GCP
4 37 (23.57%) Amazon EKS
5 31 (19.75%) SaaS
6 24 (15.29%) Azure DevOps
7 14 (8.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 14 (8.92%) GitHub
7 14 (8.92%) Microsoft 365
7 14 (8.92%) Serverless
8 12 (7.64%) Amazon ECS
9 10 (6.37%) Amazon S3
9 10 (6.37%) AWS CloudFormation
9 10 (6.37%) Datadog
10 9 (5.73%) AWS Lambda
10 9 (5.73%) Power Platform
11 8 (5.10%) Amazon ECR
11 8 (5.10%) OpenShift
11 8 (5.10%) Vertex AI
12 7 (4.46%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.55%) Kerberos
1 4 (2.55%) NAS
2 3 (1.91%) Firewall
2 3 (1.91%) Network Security
3 2 (1.27%) BGP
3 2 (1.27%) Broadband
3 2 (1.27%) Intrusion Detection
3 2 (1.27%) SSH
3 2 (1.27%) SSL
4 1 (0.64%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (16.56%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (7.64%) Elasticsearch
3 9 (5.73%) MySQL
3 9 (5.73%) SQL Server
4 8 (5.10%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (4.46%) Metadata
5 7 (4.46%) Power BI
6 5 (3.18%) Amazon Aurora
6 5 (3.18%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (3.18%) DynamoDB
6 5 (3.18%) MongoDB
7 4 (2.55%) NoSQL
8 3 (1.91%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (1.91%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (1.91%) Pinecone
9 2 (1.27%) Data Lake
9 2 (1.27%) Delta Lake
9 2 (1.27%) Neo4j
9 2 (1.27%) Redis
9 2 (1.27%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 33 (21.02%) TeamCity
2 23 (14.65%) Git
3 15 (9.55%) GitLab
4 11 (7.01%) Jenkins
5 8 (5.10%) JUnit
5 8 (5.10%) Mockito
6 7 (4.46%) JIRA
7 5 (3.18%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 5 (3.18%) Bitbucket
8 3 (1.91%) Claude Code
8 3 (1.91%) Maven
8 3 (1.91%) Spock
8 3 (1.91%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 1 (0.64%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.64%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.64%) JMeter
9 1 (0.64%) Locust
9 1 (0.64%) MLflow
9 1 (0.64%) Snyk
9 1 (0.64%) Vite
General
1 71 (45.22%) Finance
2 57 (36.31%) Banking
3 44 (28.03%) Law
4 40 (25.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 38 (24.20%) Social Skills
6 33 (21.02%) Retail
7 25 (15.92%) Analytical Skills
7 25 (15.92%) Financial Institution
8 22 (14.01%) Back Office
9 5 (3.18%) Public Sector
10 4 (2.55%) Mandarin Language
11 3 (1.91%) Front Office
11 3 (1.91%) Marketing
12 2 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.64%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.64%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.64%) Legal
13 1 (0.64%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.64%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 48 (30.57%) Software Engineer
2 31 (19.75%) Senior
3 26 (16.56%) Lead
4 25 (15.92%) DevOps Engineer
5 14 (8.92%) Azure Engineer
5 14 (8.92%) Senior Software Engineer
6 11 (7.01%) Cloud Engineer
6 11 (7.01%) Developer
7 10 (6.37%) Administrator
7 10 (6.37%) Lead Software Engineer
8 9 (5.73%) Automation Engineer
8 9 (5.73%) Java Engineer
8 9 (5.73%) Java Software Engineer
8 9 (5.73%) Machine Learning Engineer
9 8 (5.10%) DevOps Administrator
9 8 (5.10%) DevOps Systems Engineer
9 8 (5.10%) Linux DevOps Administrator
9 8 (5.10%) Linux DevOps Engineer
9 8 (5.10%) Linux Systems Engineer
9 8 (5.10%) Linux/Unix DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (8.28%) PyTorch
1 13 (8.28%) scikit-learn
1 13 (8.28%) TensorFlow
2 11 (7.01%) LangChain
3 9 (5.73%) LangGraph
3 9 (5.73%) React
3 9 (5.73%) Spring
3 9 (5.73%) Spring Boot
4 8 (5.10%) .NET
4 8 (5.10%) Kafka
4 8 (5.10%) OAuth
4 8 (5.10%) REST
5 7 (4.46%) OAuth2
5 7 (4.46%) OpenID
6 6 (3.82%) JWT
6 6 (3.82%) RESTful
7 5 (3.18%) Hibernate
7 5 (3.18%) JPA
7 5 (3.18%) Node.js
7 5 (3.18%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 65 (41.40%) Cloud Native
2 27 (17.20%) Product Ownership
3 14 (8.92%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (7.01%) Blog
5 7 (4.46%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (3.82%) AI Agents
6 6 (3.82%) Life Science
6 6 (3.82%) Management Information System
6 6 (3.82%) PKI
7 5 (3.18%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (2.55%) Blockchain
8 4 (2.55%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (2.55%) Web3
9 3 (1.91%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.91%) Replication
10 2 (1.27%) AS400
10 2 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.27%) Data Structures
10 2 (1.27%) Derivative
10 2 (1.27%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 24 (15.29%) Linux
2 15 (9.55%) Windows
3 14 (8.92%) CentOS
4 8 (5.10%) Windows Server
5 7 (4.46%) Apple iOS
6 6 (3.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (3.82%) Ubuntu
7 4 (2.55%) Mac OS
7 4 (2.55%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (1.91%) VMS
9 2 (1.27%) Amazon Linux
9 2 (1.27%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (69.43%) CI/CD
2 78 (49.68%) DevOps
3 69 (43.95%) Software Engineering
3 69 (43.95%) Test Automation
4 49 (31.21%) Infrastructure as Code
5 44 (28.03%) Microservices
6 39 (24.84%) AI
7 37 (23.57%) Clean Code
7 37 (23.57%) Observability
8 36 (22.93%) Continuous Improvement
9 35 (22.29%) Mentoring
10 34 (21.66%) Agile
10 34 (21.66%) Continuous Deployment
11 31 (19.75%) Containerisation
12 29 (18.47%) Fintech
13 23 (14.65%) Low Latency
13 23 (14.65%) Problem-Solving
14 21 (13.38%) Machine Learning
15 20 (12.74%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
16 19 (12.10%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 60 (38.22%) Python
2 50 (31.85%) Java
3 25 (15.92%) SQL
4 22 (14.01%) Bash
5 21 (13.38%) PowerShell
6 11 (7.01%) TypeScript
7 8 (5.10%) C#
8 7 (4.46%) JavaScript
9 5 (3.18%) Go
9 5 (3.18%) Kusto Query Language
10 3 (1.91%) Bicep
10 3 (1.91%) Rust
10 3 (1.91%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.27%) Kotlin
11 2 (1.27%) RPG
12 1 (0.64%) C++
12 1 (0.64%) COBOL
12 1 (0.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.64%) Scala
12 1 (0.64%) VB
Qualifications
1 20 (12.74%) Security Cleared
2 18 (11.46%) Degree
3 12 (7.64%) SC Cleared
4 9 (5.73%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.55%) Azure Certification
5 4 (2.55%) Postgraduate
6 3 (1.91%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.91%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.27%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.27%) PMP
8 1 (0.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (10.19%) QA
2 6 (3.82%) Data Quality
2 6 (3.82%) GDPR
3 5 (3.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (2.55%) SLA
5 2 (1.27%) NIST
5 2 (1.27%) PMO
5 2 (1.27%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.64%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.64%) WCAG
System Software
1 31 (19.75%) Docker
2 8 (5.10%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.91%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.64%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 74 (47.13%) Terraform
2 65 (41.40%) Kubernetes
3 49 (31.21%) Grafana
4 21 (13.38%) Ansible
5 10 (6.37%) Microsoft Intune
6 8 (5.10%) Nagios
6 8 (5.10%) Prometheus
7 7 (4.46%) Argo
8 6 (3.82%) Jamf Pro
9 3 (1.91%) SCCM
10 2 (1.27%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.64%) kaniko
Vendors
1 24 (15.29%) Microsoft
2 12 (7.64%) Google
3 11 (7.01%) OpenAI
4 10 (6.37%) Splunk
5 8 (5.10%) Rapid7
5 8 (5.10%) Red Hat
6 7 (4.46%) Dynatrace
7 6 (3.82%) Salesforce
8 5 (3.18%) Databricks
9 4 (2.55%) Apple
10 3 (1.91%) Dell
10 3 (1.91%) iManage
10 3 (1.91%) Nexthink
10 3 (1.91%) Oracle
11 2 (1.27%) Automation Anywhere
11 2 (1.27%) CrowdStrike
11 2 (1.27%) Foundry
11 2 (1.27%) Thales
11 2 (1.27%) UiPath
11 2 (1.27%) Zscaler