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

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 263 281 345
Rank change year-on-year +18 +64 -20
Permanent jobs citing Deployment Automation 164 112 135
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.73% 0.91% 0.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.89% 0.96% 0.70%
Number of salaries quoted 78 66 92
10th Percentile £54,075 £25,000 £65,000
25th Percentile £63,125 £60,000 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £83,750 £73,750 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.56% -13.24% -5.56%
75th Percentile £107,500 £88,438 £102,500
90th Percentile £132,500 £118,125 £114,750
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 18,490 11,685 19,406
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 82.14% 94.59% 89.54%
Number of salaries quoted 12,691 7,352 13,738
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £52,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £122,500 £118,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -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 22 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 22 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 -6 10 £93,750 +20.97% 19
West London -19 4 £85,000 +183.33% 2
East London -6 3 £65,000 -29.73% 3
South London +10 2 - - 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 (3.05%) Camunda
2 4 (2.44%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.44%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.44%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (2.44%) SAS
3 3 (1.83%) Apache
4 2 (1.22%) Appian
4 2 (1.22%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.61%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (1.83%) SPSS
2 1 (0.61%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.61%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.61%) Misys Equation
1 1 (0.61%) Misys Midas
Cloud Services
1 107 (65.24%) AWS
2 80 (48.78%) Azure
3 75 (45.73%) GCP
4 48 (29.27%) Amazon EKS
5 39 (23.78%) SaaS
6 23 (14.02%) Azure DevOps
7 16 (9.76%) Microsoft 365
8 15 (9.15%) Serverless
9 14 (8.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 10 (6.10%) Amazon ECS
10 10 (6.10%) AWS CloudFormation
10 10 (6.10%) Power Platform
11 9 (5.49%) Amazon S3
11 9 (5.49%) AWS Lambda
11 9 (5.49%) OpenShift
12 8 (4.88%) Amazon ECR
12 8 (4.88%) Datadog
12 8 (4.88%) GitHub
12 8 (4.88%) Vertex AI
13 7 (4.27%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.44%) Kerberos
1 4 (2.44%) NAS
2 3 (1.83%) Firewall
2 3 (1.83%) Network Security
3 2 (1.22%) BGP
3 2 (1.22%) Broadband
3 2 (1.22%) Intrusion Detection
3 2 (1.22%) SSH
3 2 (1.22%) SSL
4 1 (0.61%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (17.07%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (7.32%) Elasticsearch
3 11 (6.71%) SQL Server
4 9 (5.49%) MySQL
5 8 (4.88%) Power BI
6 7 (4.27%) Amazon RDS
7 6 (3.66%) Metadata
8 5 (3.05%) Amazon Aurora
8 5 (3.05%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (3.05%) DynamoDB
9 4 (2.44%) MongoDB
9 4 (2.44%) NoSQL
9 4 (2.44%) Pinecone
10 3 (1.83%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (1.83%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (1.22%) Data Lake
11 2 (1.22%) Delta Lake
11 2 (1.22%) Neo4j
11 2 (1.22%) Relational Database
11 2 (1.22%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 45 (27.44%) TeamCity
2 22 (13.41%) Git
3 15 (9.15%) GitLab
4 12 (7.32%) Jenkins
5 9 (5.49%) JUnit
6 8 (4.88%) Mockito
7 7 (4.27%) JIRA
8 6 (3.66%) Bitbucket
9 5 (3.05%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 4 (2.44%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 3 (1.83%) Maven
11 3 (1.83%) Spock
12 2 (1.22%) MLflow
13 1 (0.61%) CircleCI
13 1 (0.61%) Cucumber
13 1 (0.61%) Cypress.io
13 1 (0.61%) JMeter
13 1 (0.61%) Locust
13 1 (0.61%) Vite
General
1 78 (47.56%) Finance
2 66 (40.24%) Banking
3 50 (30.49%) Law
4 49 (29.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 45 (27.44%) Retail
6 34 (20.73%) Social Skills
7 30 (18.29%) Financial Institution
8 29 (17.68%) Back Office
9 23 (14.02%) Analytical Skills
10 4 (2.44%) Mandarin Language
10 4 (2.44%) Public Sector
11 3 (1.83%) Front Office
12 2 (1.22%) Aerospace
12 2 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.61%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.61%) Legal
13 1 (0.61%) Marketing
13 1 (0.61%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.61%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 56 (34.15%) Software Engineer
2 35 (21.34%) Senior
3 27 (16.46%) Lead
4 25 (15.24%) DevOps Engineer
5 16 (9.76%) Senior Software Engineer
6 15 (9.15%) Azure Engineer
7 13 (7.93%) Java Engineer
7 13 (7.93%) Java Software Engineer
8 12 (7.32%) Cloud Engineer
8 12 (7.32%) Lead Software Engineer
9 11 (6.71%) Developer
10 10 (6.10%) Administrator
11 9 (5.49%) Automation Engineer
11 9 (5.49%) Machine Learning Engineer
12 8 (4.88%) DevOps Administrator
12 8 (4.88%) DevOps Systems Engineer
12 8 (4.88%) Linux DevOps Administrator
12 8 (4.88%) Linux DevOps Engineer
12 8 (4.88%) Linux/Unix DevOps
12 8 (4.88%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (8.54%) PyTorch
1 14 (8.54%) scikit-learn
1 14 (8.54%) TensorFlow
2 11 (6.71%) LangChain
2 11 (6.71%) React
3 10 (6.10%) Spring
3 10 (6.10%) Spring Boot
4 9 (5.49%) .NET
4 9 (5.49%) LangGraph
4 9 (5.49%) OAuth
4 9 (5.49%) REST
5 7 (4.27%) JWT
5 7 (4.27%) Kafka
5 7 (4.27%) OAuth2
5 7 (4.27%) OpenID
5 7 (4.27%) RESTful
6 6 (3.66%) FastAPI
7 5 (3.05%) JPA
7 5 (3.05%) NumPy
7 5 (3.05%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 74 (45.12%) Cloud Native
2 29 (17.68%) Product Ownership
3 16 (9.76%) Blog
4 13 (7.93%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (5.49%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (4.27%) PKI
7 6 (3.66%) Management Information System
8 5 (3.05%) Analytical Mindset
8 5 (3.05%) Life Science
8 5 (3.05%) Onboarding
9 4 (2.44%) Blockchain
9 4 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (2.44%) Web3
10 3 (1.83%) AI Agents
10 3 (1.83%) Replication
11 2 (1.22%) AS400
11 2 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (1.22%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 24 (14.63%) Linux
2 16 (9.76%) Windows
3 14 (8.54%) CentOS
4 8 (4.88%) Windows Server
5 7 (4.27%) Apple iOS
6 6 (3.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (3.66%) Ubuntu
7 4 (2.44%) Mac OS
7 4 (2.44%) VMS
7 4 (2.44%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (1.22%) Amazon Linux
8 2 (1.22%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (71.95%) CI/CD
2 79 (48.17%) DevOps
3 78 (47.56%) Test Automation
4 77 (46.95%) Software Engineering
5 51 (31.10%) Microservices
6 50 (30.49%) Clean Code
7 47 (28.66%) Infrastructure as Code
8 45 (27.44%) Continuous Deployment
9 37 (22.56%) Mentoring
10 36 (21.95%) Fintech
11 35 (21.34%) Agile
12 32 (19.51%) AI
13 31 (18.90%) Continuous Improvement
13 31 (18.90%) Observability
14 28 (17.07%) Containerisation
15 24 (14.63%) Disruptive Innovation
16 23 (14.02%) Low Latency
16 23 (14.02%) Problem-Solving
17 20 (12.20%) Data Pipeline
17 20 (12.20%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 62 (37.80%) Java
2 60 (36.59%) Python
3 27 (16.46%) SQL
4 23 (14.02%) Bash
4 23 (14.02%) PowerShell
5 12 (7.32%) TypeScript
6 10 (6.10%) C#
6 10 (6.10%) JavaScript
7 6 (3.66%) Kusto Query Language
8 3 (1.83%) Bicep
8 3 (1.83%) Go
8 3 (1.83%) Kotlin
8 3 (1.83%) Rust
8 3 (1.83%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.22%) C++
9 2 (1.22%) RPG
10 1 (0.61%) C
10 1 (0.61%) COBOL
10 1 (0.61%) Scala
10 1 (0.61%) VB
Qualifications
1 20 (12.20%) Security Cleared
2 14 (8.54%) Degree
3 12 (7.32%) SC Cleared
4 6 (3.66%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (3.05%) Azure Certification
6 4 (2.44%) DV Cleared
6 4 (2.44%) Postgraduate
7 3 (1.83%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.22%) PMI Certification
8 2 (1.22%) PMP
9 1 (0.61%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (9.15%) QA
2 7 (4.27%) Data Quality
3 6 (3.66%) GDPR
4 5 (3.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (3.05%) SLA
5 2 (1.22%) NIST
5 2 (1.22%) PMO
5 2 (1.22%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.61%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.61%) WCAG
System Software
1 29 (17.68%) Docker
2 8 (4.88%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.83%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.61%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 83 (50.61%) Terraform
2 74 (45.12%) Kubernetes
3 59 (35.98%) Grafana
4 20 (12.20%) Ansible
5 12 (7.32%) Microsoft Intune
6 8 (4.88%) Nagios
7 7 (4.27%) Prometheus
8 6 (3.66%) Argo
8 6 (3.66%) Jamf Pro
9 3 (1.83%) SCCM
10 2 (1.22%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 24 (14.63%) Microsoft
2 13 (7.93%) Google
3 12 (7.32%) OpenAI
4 10 (6.10%) Splunk
5 9 (5.49%) Red Hat
6 8 (4.88%) Rapid7
7 5 (3.05%) Dynatrace
7 5 (3.05%) Salesforce
8 4 (2.44%) Apple
8 4 (2.44%) Databricks
9 3 (1.83%) Automation Anywhere
9 3 (1.83%) Dell
9 3 (1.83%) iManage
9 3 (1.83%) Nexthink
9 3 (1.83%) UiPath
10 2 (1.22%) Cognizant
10 2 (1.22%) CrowdStrike
10 2 (1.22%) Foundry
10 2 (1.22%) IBM
10 2 (1.22%) Oracle