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

6 months to
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 260 273 341
Rank change year-on-year +13 +68 -17
Permanent jobs citing Deployment Automation 119 153 137
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.77% 1.02% 0.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.89% 1.06% 0.70%
Number of salaries quoted 41 103 114
10th Percentile £50,000 £60,000 £55,473
25th Percentile £61,250 £80,000 £60,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £90,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -10.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £92,500 £130,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £103,750 £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 13,322 14,370 19,452
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 86.50% 95.39% 91.79%
Number of salaries quoted 8,605 7,870 15,674
10th Percentile £37,500 £43,700 £39,085
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,213 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,400 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.53% +4.00% -3.33%
75th Percentile £97,500 £98,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -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 13 February 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 13 February 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 +10 5 £87,500 +2.94% 13
West London -8 3 £80,000 +166.67%
South London +33 2 - -
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 (10.08%) Appian
2 4 (3.36%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (2.52%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.68%) BizTalk Server
4 2 (1.68%) nginx
5 1 (0.84%) Apache
5 1 (0.84%) IIS
5 1 (0.84%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (1.68%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 77 (64.71%) AWS
2 56 (47.06%) GCP
3 49 (41.18%) Amazon EKS
4 48 (40.34%) Azure
5 36 (30.25%) SaaS
6 17 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
7 15 (12.61%) GitHub
8 14 (11.76%) Azure Data Factory
9 13 (10.92%) Anthropic Claude
9 13 (10.92%) Azure AI
9 13 (10.92%) GitHub Actions
10 12 (10.08%) Power Automate
10 12 (10.08%) Serverless
11 10 (8.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 8 (6.72%) AWS Lambda
12 8 (6.72%) Power Platform
13 7 (5.88%) Azure Monitor
14 5 (4.20%) Azure Pipelines
14 5 (4.20%) Salesforce Service Cloud
15 4 (3.36%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.20%) Firewall
2 3 (2.52%) DNS
3 2 (1.68%) BGP
3 2 (1.68%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (1.68%) MQTT
3 2 (1.68%) OSPF
3 2 (1.68%) Reverse Proxy
3 2 (1.68%) RTMP
3 2 (1.68%) SSL
3 2 (1.68%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.68%) VLAN
3 2 (1.68%) VPN
3 2 (1.68%) WAN
3 2 (1.68%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (1.68%) Wireless
4 1 (0.84%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (15.13%) SQL Server
2 12 (10.08%) Pinecone
2 12 (10.08%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (5.88%) Power BI
4 6 (5.04%) MySQL
5 3 (2.52%) Amazon Aurora
5 3 (2.52%) Metadata
5 3 (2.52%) Tableau
6 2 (1.68%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.68%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.68%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (1.68%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.84%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.84%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.84%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.84%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.84%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.84%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.84%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (0.84%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 47 (39.50%) TeamCity
2 14 (11.76%) MLflow
3 13 (10.92%) Jenkins
4 10 (8.40%) Git
5 9 (7.56%) GitLab
6 6 (5.04%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 4 (3.36%) Artifactory
8 3 (2.52%) Gradle
8 3 (2.52%) Maven
9 2 (1.68%) Jaeger
9 2 (1.68%) Octopus Deploy
9 2 (1.68%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.84%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.84%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.84%) JIRA
10 1 (0.84%) JUnit
General
1 56 (47.06%) Finance
2 52 (43.70%) Banking
3 46 (38.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 46 (38.66%) Law
4 45 (37.82%) Retail
5 32 (26.89%) Financial Institution
6 31 (26.05%) Back Office
7 25 (21.01%) Social Skills
8 5 (4.20%) Analytical Skills
9 3 (2.52%) Retail Banking
10 2 (1.68%) Agriculture
10 2 (1.68%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.68%) Legal
11 1 (0.84%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.84%) Automotive
11 1 (0.84%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.84%) Private Banking
11 1 (0.84%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 40 (33.61%) Software Engineer
2 23 (19.33%) Senior
3 20 (16.81%) Lead
4 16 (13.45%) Java Engineer
4 16 (13.45%) Java Software Engineer
5 15 (12.61%) DevOps Engineer
6 13 (10.92%) Automation Engineer
6 13 (10.92%) Senior Software Engineer
7 12 (10.08%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 11 (9.24%) Lead Software Engineer
9 9 (7.56%) Azure Engineer
9 9 (7.56%) Customer Engineer
9 9 (7.56%) Customer Service Engineer
9 9 (7.56%) Platform Engineer
10 8 (6.72%) Senior Java Engineer
10 8 (6.72%) Senior Java Software Engineer
11 7 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
11 7 (5.88%) Developer
11 7 (5.88%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 6 (5.04%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (12.61%) FastAPI
2 14 (11.76%) REST
3 13 (10.92%) Flask
3 13 (10.92%) RESTful
4 12 (10.08%) .NET
4 12 (10.08%) Django
4 12 (10.08%) Faiss
4 12 (10.08%) Hugging Face
4 12 (10.08%) JWT
4 12 (10.08%) NumPy
4 12 (10.08%) OAuth
4 12 (10.08%) OpenAPI
4 12 (10.08%) Pandas
4 12 (10.08%) pytest
4 12 (10.08%) PyTorch
4 12 (10.08%) scikit-learn
4 12 (10.08%) Swagger
4 12 (10.08%) TensorFlow
4 12 (10.08%) Web Services
5 6 (5.04%) React
Miscellaneous
1 50 (42.02%) Cloud Native
2 14 (11.76%) Blog
3 13 (10.92%) Product Ownership
4 12 (10.08%) Legacy Systems
4 12 (10.08%) Low-Code
5 4 (3.36%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.52%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.52%) IoT
7 2 (1.68%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.68%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.68%) IVR
7 2 (1.68%) MPEG
7 2 (1.68%) Robotics
7 2 (1.68%) Security Operations Centre
7 2 (1.68%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.84%) AS400
8 1 (0.84%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.84%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.84%) Replication
8 1 (0.84%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 18 (15.13%) Linux
2 8 (6.72%) Windows
3 4 (3.36%) VMS
4 3 (2.52%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.68%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (84.87%) CI/CD
2 77 (64.71%) Test Automation
3 57 (47.90%) Clean Code
4 54 (45.38%) DevOps
5 45 (37.82%) Continuous Deployment
6 44 (36.97%) Software Engineering
7 35 (29.41%) Microservices
8 33 (27.73%) Infrastructure as Code
9 26 (21.85%) AI
10 25 (21.01%) Fintech
11 22 (18.49%) Mentoring
12 20 (16.81%) Disruptive Innovation
13 19 (15.97%) Containerisation
14 18 (15.13%) Data Pipeline
14 18 (15.13%) Observability
15 17 (14.29%) Agile
15 17 (14.29%) Machine Learning
15 17 (14.29%) Validation
16 16 (13.45%) Change Management
16 16 (13.45%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 47 (39.50%) Java
2 41 (34.45%) Python
3 24 (20.17%) SQL
4 16 (13.45%) PowerShell
5 15 (12.61%) Bash
6 13 (10.92%) C#
7 12 (10.08%) JavaScript
8 11 (9.24%) TypeScript
9 10 (8.40%) Bicep
10 4 (3.36%) Kusto Query Language
11 3 (2.52%) Go
12 2 (1.68%) C++
12 2 (1.68%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.84%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.84%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.84%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (10.92%) Security Cleared
2 11 (9.24%) Degree
3 9 (7.56%) SC Cleared
4 7 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (5.04%) Azure Certification
6 3 (2.52%) ISTQB
7 2 (1.68%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.68%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.84%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.84%) MCSE
8 1 (0.84%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.84%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (13.45%) Data Quality
2 6 (5.04%) QA
3 2 (1.68%) NIST
3 2 (1.68%) SLA
4 1 (0.84%) EU AI Act
4 1 (0.84%) GRC
4 1 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 30 (25.21%) Docker
2 4 (3.36%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.68%) NFS
3 2 (1.68%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 82 (68.91%) Kubernetes
2 80 (67.23%) Terraform
3 59 (49.58%) Grafana
4 13 (10.92%) Ansible
5 10 (8.40%) Prometheus
6 4 (3.36%) Argo
6 4 (3.36%) logstash
7 2 (1.68%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (1.68%) Nagios
Vendors
1 12 (10.08%) Automation Anywhere
1 12 (10.08%) OpenAI
1 12 (10.08%) UiPath
2 8 (6.72%) Microsoft
3 5 (4.20%) Salesforce
3 5 (4.20%) Splunk
4 3 (2.52%) Cisco
4 3 (2.52%) Red Hat
5 2 (1.68%) Databricks
5 2 (1.68%) Dynatrace
5 2 (1.68%) MikroTik
5 2 (1.68%) NETGEAR
5 2 (1.68%) Pega
5 2 (1.68%) Rapid7
5 2 (1.68%) Sonatype
5 2 (1.68%) Starlink
5 2 (1.68%) Ubiquiti
5 2 (1.68%) VMware
6 1 (0.84%) Google