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

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 261 245 341
Rank change year-on-year -16 +96 +10
Permanent jobs citing Deployment Automation 149 159 155
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.77% 1.23% 0.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.92% 1.28% 0.73%
Number of salaries quoted 60 125 114
10th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £60,750
25th Percentile £54,750 £60,000 £71,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £90,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.89% -10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £98,750 £117,500 £114,375
90th Percentile £136,000 £140,000 £138,750
England median annual salary £69,200 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -7.73% +11.11% -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 16,216 12,411 21,133
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 83.31% 96.05% 91.52%
Number of salaries quoted 10,634 7,555 15,969
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,500
Median % change year-on-year - +6.38% -6.00%
75th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +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 21 April 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 21 April 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 -13 7 £87,500 +2.94% 6
West London -29 7 £85,000 +183.33% 10
South London +17 2 - - 7
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 (8.05%) Appian
2 4 (2.68%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.68%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.68%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (2.01%) Apache
4 2 (1.34%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (0.67%) IIS
5 1 (0.67%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (2.01%) SPSS
2 1 (0.67%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.67%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (2.01%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.67%) Misys Equation
2 1 (0.67%) Misys Midas
Cloud Services
1 99 (66.44%) AWS
2 66 (44.30%) GCP
3 60 (40.27%) Azure
4 58 (38.93%) Amazon EKS
5 45 (30.20%) SaaS
6 17 (11.41%) Serverless
7 16 (10.74%) Azure DevOps
8 15 (10.07%) Azure Data Factory
8 15 (10.07%) GitHub
9 14 (9.40%) Anthropic Claude
10 13 (8.72%) GitHub Actions
10 13 (8.72%) Power Automate
11 12 (8.05%) Azure AI
12 11 (7.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 11 (7.38%) AWS Lambda
12 11 (7.38%) Power Platform
13 9 (6.04%) AWS CloudFormation
14 8 (5.37%) Azure Monitor
14 8 (5.37%) Microsoft 365
15 6 (4.03%) Azure Pipelines
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.36%) Firewall
2 3 (2.01%) DNS
2 3 (2.01%) Network Security
3 2 (1.34%) BGP
3 2 (1.34%) Broadband
3 2 (1.34%) Intrusion Detection
3 2 (1.34%) SSH
3 2 (1.34%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (13.42%) SQL Server
2 14 (9.40%) Pinecone
2 14 (9.40%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (6.04%) Power BI
4 8 (5.37%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (4.03%) Amazon Aurora
5 6 (4.03%) MySQL
6 4 (2.68%) DynamoDB
7 3 (2.01%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (2.01%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (2.01%) Metadata
7 3 (2.01%) MongoDB
7 3 (2.01%) Tableau
8 2 (1.34%) Neo4j
9 1 (0.67%) Amazon QuickSight
9 1 (0.67%) Big Data
9 1 (0.67%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.67%) Looker
9 1 (0.67%) Redis
9 1 (0.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 56 (37.58%) TeamCity
2 15 (10.07%) Git
3 13 (8.72%) Jenkins
4 12 (8.05%) GitLab
4 12 (8.05%) MLflow
5 8 (5.37%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 4 (2.68%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (1.34%) Artifactory
7 2 (1.34%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.34%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.67%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.67%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.67%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.67%) Gradle
8 1 (0.67%) JIRA
8 1 (0.67%) JMeter
8 1 (0.67%) JUnit
8 1 (0.67%) Locust
8 1 (0.67%) Maven
8 1 (0.67%) Vite
General
1 68 (45.64%) Finance
2 65 (43.62%) Banking
3 58 (38.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 57 (38.26%) Law
5 54 (36.24%) Retail
6 38 (25.50%) Back Office
6 38 (25.50%) Financial Institution
7 33 (22.15%) Social Skills
8 11 (7.38%) Analytical Skills
9 4 (2.68%) Mandarin Language
9 4 (2.68%) Public Sector
9 4 (2.68%) Retail Banking
10 3 (2.01%) Front Office
11 2 (1.34%) Aerospace
11 2 (1.34%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.67%) Automotive
12 1 (0.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 47 (31.54%) Software Engineer
2 29 (19.46%) Senior
3 24 (16.11%) Lead
4 19 (12.75%) DevOps Engineer
5 18 (12.08%) Java Engineer
5 18 (12.08%) Java Software Engineer
6 15 (10.07%) Senior Software Engineer
7 14 (9.40%) Lead Software Engineer
8 13 (8.72%) Automation Engineer
8 13 (8.72%) Azure Engineer
9 12 (8.05%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 11 (7.38%) AWS Engineer
10 11 (7.38%) Customer Engineer
10 11 (7.38%) Customer Service Engineer
10 11 (7.38%) Developer
11 10 (6.71%) Software Team Leader
11 10 (6.71%) Team Leader
12 8 (5.37%) Integration Engineer
12 8 (5.37%) Senior Integration Engineer
12 8 (5.37%) Software Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (10.07%) FastAPI
1 15 (10.07%) NumPy
1 15 (10.07%) Pandas
1 15 (10.07%) PyTorch
1 15 (10.07%) RESTful
1 15 (10.07%) scikit-learn
1 15 (10.07%) TensorFlow
2 14 (9.40%) .NET
2 14 (9.40%) Hugging Face
2 14 (9.40%) OAuth
2 14 (9.40%) REST
3 13 (8.72%) Flask
3 13 (8.72%) Web Services
4 12 (8.05%) Django
4 12 (8.05%) Faiss
4 12 (8.05%) JWT
4 12 (8.05%) OpenAPI
4 12 (8.05%) pytest
4 12 (8.05%) Swagger
5 9 (6.04%) React
Miscellaneous
1 60 (40.27%) Cloud Native
2 19 (12.75%) Product Ownership
3 16 (10.74%) Blog
4 12 (8.05%) Legacy Systems
4 12 (8.05%) Low-Code
5 6 (4.03%) Management Information System
5 6 (4.03%) PKI
6 5 (3.36%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (3.36%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.68%) Blockchain
7 4 (2.68%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (2.68%) Web3
8 3 (2.01%) AS400
8 3 (2.01%) Data Structures
8 3 (2.01%) iSeries
9 2 (1.34%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (1.34%) Cyberattack
9 2 (1.34%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 2 (1.34%) Security Operations Centre
9 2 (1.34%) SIMD
Operating Systems
1 22 (14.77%) Linux
2 14 (9.40%) Windows
3 8 (5.37%) CentOS
4 6 (4.03%) VMS
4 6 (4.03%) Windows Server
5 5 (3.36%) Apple iOS
6 4 (2.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (2.68%) Ubuntu
7 3 (2.01%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (77.18%) CI/CD
2 94 (63.09%) Test Automation
3 66 (44.30%) Clean Code
4 63 (42.28%) DevOps
5 55 (36.91%) Software Engineering
6 54 (36.24%) Continuous Deployment
7 42 (28.19%) Infrastructure as Code
8 40 (26.85%) Microservices
9 38 (25.50%) Fintech
10 29 (19.46%) Containerisation
11 27 (18.12%) Mentoring
12 26 (17.45%) Disruptive Innovation
13 25 (16.78%) Observability
14 23 (15.44%) Agile
15 21 (14.09%) Continuous Improvement
16 20 (13.42%) AI
16 20 (13.42%) Data Pipeline
16 20 (13.42%) Validation
17 18 (12.08%) Change Management
17 18 (12.08%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 60 (40.27%) Java
2 51 (34.23%) Python
3 30 (20.13%) SQL
4 24 (16.11%) PowerShell
5 21 (14.09%) Bash
6 15 (10.07%) C#
6 15 (10.07%) JavaScript
7 14 (9.40%) TypeScript
8 12 (8.05%) Bicep
9 8 (5.37%) Kusto Query Language
10 3 (2.01%) Rust
10 3 (2.01%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.34%) C++
11 2 (1.34%) Kotlin
11 2 (1.34%) RPG
12 1 (0.67%) COBOL
12 1 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.67%) Go
12 1 (0.67%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.67%) VB
Qualifications
1 18 (12.08%) Security Cleared
2 17 (11.41%) Degree
3 12 (8.05%) SC Cleared
4 8 (5.37%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (4.70%) Azure Certification
6 4 (2.68%) AWS Certification
6 4 (2.68%) Postgraduate
7 3 (2.01%) ISTQB
7 3 (2.01%) PMI Certification
7 3 (2.01%) PMP
8 2 (1.34%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.34%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.67%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (12.08%) Data Quality
2 12 (8.05%) QA
3 5 (3.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (3.36%) SLA
4 3 (2.01%) NIST
5 2 (1.34%) PMO
5 2 (1.34%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.67%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.67%) WCAG
System Software
1 34 (22.82%) Docker
2 6 (4.03%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.34%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (1.34%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 95 (63.76%) Terraform
2 94 (63.09%) Kubernetes
3 66 (44.30%) Grafana
4 15 (10.07%) Ansible
5 10 (6.71%) Microsoft Intune
6 9 (6.04%) Prometheus
7 6 (4.03%) Argo
8 5 (3.36%) Jamf Pro
9 4 (2.68%) logstash
9 4 (2.68%) Nagios
10 2 (1.34%) SCCM
10 2 (1.34%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 14 (9.40%) Microsoft
1 14 (9.40%) OpenAI
2 13 (8.72%) Automation Anywhere
2 13 (8.72%) UiPath
3 7 (4.70%) Splunk
4 6 (4.03%) Google
5 5 (3.36%) Red Hat
5 5 (3.36%) Salesforce
6 4 (2.68%) Databricks
6 4 (2.68%) Rapid7
7 3 (2.01%) Apple
8 2 (1.34%) Cognizant
8 2 (1.34%) CrowdStrike
8 2 (1.34%) Dell
8 2 (1.34%) iManage
8 2 (1.34%) Nexthink
8 2 (1.34%) Pega
8 2 (1.34%) Thales
8 2 (1.34%) VMware
8 2 (1.34%) Zscaler