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

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 267 283 347
Rank change year-on-year +16 +64 -19
Permanent jobs citing Deployment Automation 162 109 131
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.70% 0.89% 0.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.86% 0.94% 0.72%
Number of salaries quoted 87 63 88
10th Percentile £53,850 £25,000 £65,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £60,000 £69,844
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £72,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.79% -14.71% -5.56%
75th Percentile £108,750 £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 18,944 11,569 18,180
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 82.19% 94.41% 89.35%
Number of salaries quoted 12,880 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 30 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 30 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 -4 11 £95,000 +22.58% 12
East London -4 5 £65,000 -29.73% 2
West London -24 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 (3.09%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (3.09%) Camunda
2 4 (2.47%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (2.47%) SAS
3 3 (1.85%) Apache
3 3 (1.85%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.23%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.62%) Appian
5 1 (0.62%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.62%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (1.85%) SPSS
2 1 (0.62%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.62%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.62%) Misys Equation
1 1 (0.62%) Misys Midas
Cloud Services
1 99 (61.11%) AWS
2 79 (48.77%) Azure
3 66 (40.74%) GCP
4 37 (22.84%) Amazon EKS
5 31 (19.14%) SaaS
6 25 (15.43%) Azure DevOps
7 15 (9.26%) GitHub
7 15 (9.26%) Serverless
8 14 (8.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 14 (8.64%) Microsoft 365
9 12 (7.41%) Amazon ECS
9 12 (7.41%) Datadog
10 10 (6.17%) Amazon S3
10 10 (6.17%) AWS CloudFormation
10 10 (6.17%) Power Platform
11 9 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
12 8 (4.94%) Amazon ECR
12 8 (4.94%) OpenShift
12 8 (4.94%) Vertex AI
13 7 (4.32%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.47%) Kerberos
1 4 (2.47%) NAS
2 3 (1.85%) Firewall
2 3 (1.85%) Network Security
3 2 (1.23%) BGP
3 2 (1.23%) Broadband
3 2 (1.23%) Intrusion Detection
3 2 (1.23%) SSH
3 2 (1.23%) SSL
4 1 (0.62%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (16.05%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (7.41%) Elasticsearch
3 10 (6.17%) MySQL
4 9 (5.56%) SQL Server
5 8 (4.94%) Amazon RDS
5 8 (4.94%) Power BI
6 7 (4.32%) Metadata
7 6 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (3.09%) Amazon Aurora
8 5 (3.09%) DynamoDB
8 5 (3.09%) MongoDB
9 4 (2.47%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (2.47%) NoSQL
10 3 (1.85%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (1.85%) Data Lake
10 3 (1.85%) Pinecone
11 2 (1.23%) Delta Lake
11 2 (1.23%) Neo4j
11 2 (1.23%) Redis
11 2 (1.23%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 33 (20.37%) TeamCity
2 23 (14.20%) Git
3 15 (9.26%) GitLab
4 11 (6.79%) Jenkins
5 8 (4.94%) JUnit
5 8 (4.94%) Mockito
6 7 (4.32%) JIRA
7 5 (3.09%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 5 (3.09%) Bitbucket
8 4 (2.47%) Claude Code
9 3 (1.85%) Maven
9 3 (1.85%) Spock
9 3 (1.85%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 2 (1.23%) MLflow
11 1 (0.62%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.62%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.62%) JMeter
11 1 (0.62%) Locust
11 1 (0.62%) Snyk
11 1 (0.62%) Vite
General
1 74 (45.68%) Finance
2 59 (36.42%) Banking
3 45 (27.78%) Law
4 41 (25.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 40 (24.69%) Social Skills
6 33 (20.37%) Retail
7 26 (16.05%) Analytical Skills
7 26 (16.05%) Financial Institution
8 22 (13.58%) Back Office
9 5 (3.09%) Public Sector
10 4 (2.47%) Mandarin Language
11 3 (1.85%) Front Office
11 3 (1.85%) Marketing
12 2 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.62%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.62%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.62%) Legal
13 1 (0.62%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.62%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 48 (29.63%) Software Engineer
2 31 (19.14%) Senior
3 26 (16.05%) Lead
4 25 (15.43%) DevOps Engineer
5 15 (9.26%) Azure Engineer
6 14 (8.64%) Senior Software Engineer
7 12 (7.41%) Cloud Engineer
8 11 (6.79%) Developer
9 10 (6.17%) Administrator
9 10 (6.17%) Automation Engineer
9 10 (6.17%) Lead Software Engineer
9 10 (6.17%) Machine Learning Engineer
10 9 (5.56%) AWS Engineer
10 9 (5.56%) Java Engineer
10 9 (5.56%) Java Software Engineer
10 9 (5.56%) Python Engineer
11 8 (4.94%) Linux Administrator
11 8 (4.94%) Linux Systems Administrator
11 8 (4.94%) Site Engineer
11 8 (4.94%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (8.02%) PyTorch
1 13 (8.02%) scikit-learn
1 13 (8.02%) TensorFlow
2 11 (6.79%) LangChain
3 9 (5.56%) LangGraph
3 9 (5.56%) React
3 9 (5.56%) REST
3 9 (5.56%) Spring
3 9 (5.56%) Spring Boot
4 8 (4.94%) .NET
4 8 (4.94%) Kafka
4 8 (4.94%) OAuth
5 7 (4.32%) OAuth2
5 7 (4.32%) OpenID
6 6 (3.70%) FastAPI
6 6 (3.70%) JWT
6 6 (3.70%) RESTful
7 5 (3.09%) AWS CDK
7 5 (3.09%) Node.js
7 5 (3.09%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 65 (40.12%) Cloud Native
2 27 (16.67%) Product Ownership
3 14 (8.64%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (6.79%) Blog
5 7 (4.32%) AI Agents
5 7 (4.32%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (3.70%) Life Science
6 6 (3.70%) Management Information System
6 6 (3.70%) PKI
7 5 (3.09%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (2.47%) Blockchain
8 4 (2.47%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (2.47%) Web3
9 3 (1.85%) Data Fabric
9 3 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.85%) Replication
10 2 (1.23%) AS400
10 2 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.23%) Derivative
10 2 (1.23%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 25 (15.43%) Linux
2 15 (9.26%) Windows
3 14 (8.64%) CentOS
4 8 (4.94%) Windows Server
5 7 (4.32%) Apple iOS
6 6 (3.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (3.70%) Ubuntu
7 4 (2.47%) Mac OS
7 4 (2.47%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (1.85%) VMS
9 2 (1.23%) Amazon Linux
9 2 (1.23%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (69.14%) CI/CD
2 79 (48.77%) DevOps
3 71 (43.83%) Test Automation
4 70 (43.21%) Software Engineering
5 51 (31.48%) Infrastructure as Code
6 44 (27.16%) Microservices
7 41 (25.31%) AI
7 41 (25.31%) Observability
8 39 (24.07%) Continuous Improvement
9 37 (22.84%) Clean Code
10 35 (21.60%) Continuous Deployment
10 35 (21.60%) Mentoring
11 34 (20.99%) Agile
12 32 (19.75%) Containerisation
13 29 (17.90%) Fintech
14 23 (14.20%) Low Latency
14 23 (14.20%) Problem-Solving
15 22 (13.58%) Machine Learning
16 20 (12.35%) Capacity Planning
16 20 (12.35%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 64 (39.51%) Python
2 50 (30.86%) Java
3 26 (16.05%) SQL
4 23 (14.20%) PowerShell
5 22 (13.58%) Bash
6 11 (6.79%) TypeScript
7 8 (4.94%) C#
8 7 (4.32%) JavaScript
9 5 (3.09%) Go
9 5 (3.09%) Kusto Query Language
10 3 (1.85%) Bicep
10 3 (1.85%) Rust
10 3 (1.85%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.23%) Kotlin
11 2 (1.23%) RPG
12 1 (0.62%) C
12 1 (0.62%) C++
12 1 (0.62%) COBOL
12 1 (0.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.62%) VB
Qualifications
1 20 (12.35%) Security Cleared
2 19 (11.73%) Degree
3 12 (7.41%) SC Cleared
4 10 (6.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.47%) Azure Certification
5 4 (2.47%) Postgraduate
6 3 (1.85%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.85%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.23%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.23%) PMP
8 1 (0.62%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (9.88%) QA
2 6 (3.70%) Data Quality
2 6 (3.70%) GDPR
3 5 (3.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (3.09%) SLA
4 2 (1.23%) NIST
4 2 (1.23%) PMO
4 2 (1.23%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.62%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.62%) WCAG
System Software
1 32 (19.75%) Docker
2 8 (4.94%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.85%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.62%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 76 (46.91%) Terraform
2 66 (40.74%) Kubernetes
3 51 (31.48%) Grafana
4 23 (14.20%) Ansible
5 10 (6.17%) Microsoft Intune
6 8 (4.94%) Nagios
6 8 (4.94%) Prometheus
7 7 (4.32%) Argo
8 6 (3.70%) Jamf Pro
9 3 (1.85%) SCCM
10 2 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.62%) kaniko
11 1 (0.62%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 24 (14.81%) Microsoft
2 12 (7.41%) Google
3 11 (6.79%) OpenAI
4 10 (6.17%) Splunk
5 9 (5.56%) Dynatrace
6 8 (4.94%) Rapid7
6 8 (4.94%) Red Hat
7 6 (3.70%) Salesforce
8 5 (3.09%) Databricks
9 4 (2.47%) Apple
10 3 (1.85%) Dell
10 3 (1.85%) iManage
10 3 (1.85%) Nexthink
10 3 (1.85%) Oracle
11 2 (1.23%) Automation Anywhere
11 2 (1.23%) CrowdStrike
11 2 (1.23%) IBM
11 2 (1.23%) Thales
11 2 (1.23%) UiPath
11 2 (1.23%) Zscaler