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

6 months to
27 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 278 295 330
Rank change year-on-year +17 +35 -24
Permanent jobs citing Deployment Automation 103 146 135
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.70% 0.95% 0.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.80% 1.00% 0.72%
Number of salaries quoted 37 99 110
10th Percentile £52,500 £63,600 £54,876
25th Percentile £62,500 £80,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,217 £92,500 £98,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.52% -6.09% +12.57%
75th Percentile £92,500 £130,000 £132,813
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 12,804 14,627 18,824
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 87.11% 94.97% 92.02%
Number of salaries quoted 8,167 7,897 15,185
10th Percentile £36,750 £43,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,000 £54,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,600 £75,000 £74,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.53% +1.35% -1.33%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,500 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,743 £57,500
% change year-on-year -9.45% +5.64% -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 27 January 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 27 January 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 +21 5 £87,500 +2.94% 9
West London +2 3 £80,000 +166.67%
South London +33 1 - - 3
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 (10.68%) Appian
2 2 (1.94%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.94%) BizTalk Server
2 2 (1.94%) nginx
3 1 (0.97%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.97%) IIS
3 1 (0.97%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (1.94%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 62 (60.19%) AWS
2 47 (45.63%) Azure
3 44 (42.72%) GCP
4 38 (36.89%) Amazon EKS
5 28 (27.18%) SaaS
6 18 (17.48%) Azure DevOps
7 15 (14.56%) GitHub
8 14 (13.59%) GitHub Actions
9 13 (12.62%) Azure Data Factory
10 12 (11.65%) Anthropic Claude
10 12 (11.65%) Azure AI
11 11 (10.68%) Power Automate
12 10 (9.71%) Serverless
13 9 (8.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 7 (6.80%) AWS Lambda
14 7 (6.80%) Power Platform
15 6 (5.83%) Azure Monitor
16 5 (4.85%) Azure Pipelines
16 5 (4.85%) Salesforce Service Cloud
17 4 (3.88%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.85%) Firewall
2 3 (2.91%) DNS
3 2 (1.94%) BGP
3 2 (1.94%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (1.94%) MQTT
3 2 (1.94%) OSPF
3 2 (1.94%) Reverse Proxy
3 2 (1.94%) RTMP
3 2 (1.94%) SSL
3 2 (1.94%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.94%) VLAN
3 2 (1.94%) VPN
3 2 (1.94%) WAN
3 2 (1.94%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (1.94%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (15.53%) SQL Server
2 11 (10.68%) Pinecone
3 8 (7.77%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (5.83%) Power BI
5 4 (3.88%) MySQL
6 3 (2.91%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.94%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (1.94%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.94%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.94%) Metadata
7 2 (1.94%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.94%) Tableau
7 2 (1.94%) Tick Data
8 1 (0.97%) Amazon QuickSight
8 1 (0.97%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.97%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.97%) Delta Lake
8 1 (0.97%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.97%) Looker
8 1 (0.97%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 36 (34.95%) TeamCity
2 13 (12.62%) Jenkins
2 13 (12.62%) MLflow
3 8 (7.77%) Git
4 7 (6.80%) GitLab
5 5 (4.85%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 4 (3.88%) Artifactory
7 3 (2.91%) Gradle
7 3 (2.91%) Maven
8 2 (1.94%) Jaeger
8 2 (1.94%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (1.94%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.97%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.97%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.97%) JIRA
General
1 47 (45.63%) Finance
2 40 (38.83%) Banking
3 35 (33.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 34 (33.01%) Law
4 34 (33.01%) Retail
5 25 (24.27%) Financial Institution
6 24 (23.30%) Back Office
6 24 (23.30%) Social Skills
7 4 (3.88%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (2.91%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (2.91%) Retail Banking
9 2 (1.94%) Agriculture
9 2 (1.94%) Legal
9 2 (1.94%) Marketing
10 1 (0.97%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.97%) Automotive
10 1 (0.97%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.97%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 30 (29.13%) Software Engineer
2 17 (16.50%) Senior
3 16 (15.53%) Lead
4 14 (13.59%) DevOps Engineer
5 12 (11.65%) Java Engineer
5 12 (11.65%) Java Software Engineer
6 11 (10.68%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 11 (10.68%) Automation Engineer
7 9 (8.74%) Azure Engineer
7 9 (8.74%) Senior Software Engineer
8 8 (7.77%) Developer
8 8 (7.77%) Lead Software Engineer
9 7 (6.80%) Cloud Engineer
9 7 (6.80%) Customer Engineer
9 7 (6.80%) Customer Service Engineer
9 7 (6.80%) Platform Engineer
10 6 (5.83%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 5 (4.85%) AWS Developer
11 5 (4.85%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 5 (4.85%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (13.59%) FastAPI
2 13 (12.62%) REST
3 12 (11.65%) Flask
3 12 (11.65%) RESTful
4 11 (10.68%) .NET
4 11 (10.68%) Django
4 11 (10.68%) Faiss
4 11 (10.68%) Hugging Face
4 11 (10.68%) JWT
4 11 (10.68%) NumPy
4 11 (10.68%) OAuth
4 11 (10.68%) OpenAPI
4 11 (10.68%) Pandas
4 11 (10.68%) pytest
4 11 (10.68%) PyTorch
4 11 (10.68%) scikit-learn
4 11 (10.68%) Swagger
4 11 (10.68%) TensorFlow
4 11 (10.68%) Web Services
5 5 (4.85%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 40 (38.83%) Cloud Native
2 11 (10.68%) Legacy Systems
2 11 (10.68%) Low-Code
3 10 (9.71%) Blog
3 10 (9.71%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.88%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.91%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.91%) IoT
6 2 (1.94%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.94%) IVR
6 2 (1.94%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.94%) MPEG
6 2 (1.94%) Robotics
6 2 (1.94%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.97%) AS400
7 1 (0.97%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (0.97%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.97%) PKI
7 1 (0.97%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 16 (15.53%) Linux
2 8 (7.77%) Windows
3 3 (2.91%) VMS
3 3 (2.91%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.97%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (84.47%) CI/CD
2 63 (61.17%) Test Automation
3 49 (47.57%) DevOps
4 45 (43.69%) Clean Code
5 34 (33.01%) Continuous Deployment
5 34 (33.01%) Software Engineering
6 32 (31.07%) Infrastructure as Code
7 27 (26.21%) Microservices
8 25 (24.27%) AI
9 20 (19.42%) Containerisation
10 19 (18.45%) Fintech
11 18 (17.48%) Observability
12 17 (16.50%) Agile
12 17 (16.50%) Mentoring
13 16 (15.53%) Machine Learning
14 15 (14.56%) Data Pipeline
14 15 (14.56%) Disruptive Innovation
14 15 (14.56%) ETL
14 15 (14.56%) MLOps
14 15 (14.56%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 39 (37.86%) Python
2 35 (33.98%) Java
3 20 (19.42%) SQL
4 16 (15.53%) PowerShell
5 14 (13.59%) Bash
6 12 (11.65%) C#
7 11 (10.68%) Bicep
7 11 (10.68%) JavaScript
8 10 (9.71%) TypeScript
9 3 (2.91%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (1.94%) C++
10 2 (1.94%) Go
10 2 (1.94%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.97%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.97%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.97%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (10.68%) Security Cleared
2 8 (7.77%) Azure Certification
3 7 (6.80%) Degree
3 7 (6.80%) SC Cleared
4 4 (3.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.91%) ISTQB
6 2 (1.94%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.94%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.97%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.97%) MCSE
7 1 (0.97%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.97%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (13.59%) Data Quality
2 5 (4.85%) QA
3 2 (1.94%) NIST
4 1 (0.97%) EU AI Act
4 1 (0.97%) GRC
4 1 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.97%) SLA
System Software
1 30 (29.13%) Docker
2 4 (3.88%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.94%) NFS
3 2 (1.94%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 70 (67.96%) Kubernetes
2 66 (64.08%) Terraform
3 47 (45.63%) Grafana
4 11 (10.68%) Ansible
5 10 (9.71%) Prometheus
6 4 (3.88%) Argo
6 4 (3.88%) logstash
7 2 (1.94%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.97%) Nagios
Vendors
1 11 (10.68%) Automation Anywhere
1 11 (10.68%) OpenAI
1 11 (10.68%) UiPath
2 9 (8.74%) Microsoft
3 5 (4.85%) Salesforce
4 4 (3.88%) Splunk
5 3 (2.91%) Cisco
5 3 (2.91%) Databricks
6 2 (1.94%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.94%) MikroTik
6 2 (1.94%) NETGEAR
6 2 (1.94%) Pega
6 2 (1.94%) Rapid7
6 2 (1.94%) Sonatype
6 2 (1.94%) Starlink
6 2 (1.94%) Ubiquiti
6 2 (1.94%) VMware
7 1 (0.97%) Google
7 1 (0.97%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.97%) Sage