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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 271 272 353
Rank change year-on-year +1 +81 -21
Permanent jobs citing Deployment Automation 160 116 143
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.72% 0.93% 0.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.87% 0.98% 0.69%
Number of salaries quoted 73 70 98
10th Percentile £52,950 £25,000 £62,125
25th Percentile £62,500 £60,000 £67,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £75,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -11.76% -5.56%
75th Percentile £105,000 £89,688 £103,750
90th Percentile £131,000 £118,875 £138,750
England median annual salary £70,000 £68,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +2.94% +4.62% -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 18,299 11,828 20,755
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 82.23% 94.76% 89.49%
Number of salaries quoted 12,511 7,391 14,957
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,903 £38,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £71,495
Median % change year-on-year - +4.90% -4.67%
75th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £108,750 £122,500 £117,500
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 15 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 15 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 -5 9 £93,750 +20.97% 6
West London -14 5 £85,000 +183.33% 2
South London +12 2 - -
East London -6 2 £75,000 -18.92% 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 4 (2.50%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (2.50%) Apache Spark
1 4 (2.50%) Camunda
1 4 (2.50%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (2.50%) SAS
2 3 (1.88%) Apache
2 3 (1.88%) Appian
3 1 (0.63%) Confluence
3 1 (0.63%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.88%) SPSS
2 1 (0.63%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.63%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.63%) Misys Equation
1 1 (0.63%) Misys Midas
Cloud Services
1 105 (65.63%) AWS
2 75 (46.88%) Azure
3 72 (45.00%) GCP
4 50 (31.25%) Amazon EKS
5 41 (25.63%) SaaS
6 22 (13.75%) Azure DevOps
7 17 (10.63%) Serverless
8 14 (8.75%) Microsoft 365
9 12 (7.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 10 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
10 10 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
11 9 (5.63%) Amazon S3
11 9 (5.63%) Power Platform
12 8 (5.00%) Amazon ECS
12 8 (5.00%) GitHub
13 7 (4.38%) Azure Functions
13 7 (4.38%) Azure Monitor
13 7 (4.38%) Datadog
13 7 (4.38%) Entra ID
13 7 (4.38%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.50%) Kerberos
1 4 (2.50%) NAS
2 3 (1.88%) Firewall
2 3 (1.88%) Network Security
3 2 (1.25%) BGP
3 2 (1.25%) Broadband
3 2 (1.25%) Intrusion Detection
3 2 (1.25%) SSH
3 2 (1.25%) SSL
4 1 (0.63%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (17.50%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (7.50%) SQL Server
3 10 (6.25%) Elasticsearch
4 7 (4.38%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (4.38%) MySQL
4 7 (4.38%) Power BI
5 6 (3.75%) Metadata
6 5 (3.13%) Amazon Aurora
6 5 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (3.13%) DynamoDB
6 5 (3.13%) Pinecone
7 4 (2.50%) MongoDB
7 4 (2.50%) NoSQL
8 3 (1.88%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (1.88%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (1.25%) Data Lake
9 2 (1.25%) Delta Lake
9 2 (1.25%) Neo4j
9 2 (1.25%) Relational Database
9 2 (1.25%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 47 (29.38%) TeamCity
2 21 (13.13%) Git
3 13 (8.13%) GitLab
4 12 (7.50%) Jenkins
5 8 (5.00%) JUnit
6 7 (4.38%) Mockito
7 6 (3.75%) JIRA
8 5 (3.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 5 (3.13%) Bitbucket
8 5 (3.13%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 4 (2.50%) Maven
10 3 (1.88%) MLflow
10 3 (1.88%) Spock
11 1 (0.63%) CircleCI
11 1 (0.63%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.63%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.63%) Gradle
11 1 (0.63%) JMeter
11 1 (0.63%) Locust
11 1 (0.63%) Vite
General
1 74 (46.25%) Finance
2 64 (40.00%) Banking
3 52 (32.50%) Law
4 51 (31.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 47 (29.38%) Retail
6 32 (20.00%) Social Skills
7 31 (19.38%) Financial Institution
8 30 (18.75%) Back Office
9 19 (11.88%) Analytical Skills
10 4 (2.50%) Mandarin Language
10 4 (2.50%) Public Sector
11 3 (1.88%) Front Office
12 2 (1.25%) Aerospace
12 2 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.63%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.63%) Legal
13 1 (0.63%) Marketing
13 1 (0.63%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.63%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 56 (35.00%) Software Engineer
2 34 (21.25%) Senior
3 24 (15.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 24 (15.00%) Lead
4 16 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
5 15 (9.38%) Senior Software Engineer
6 14 (8.75%) Java Engineer
6 14 (8.75%) Java Software Engineer
7 13 (8.13%) Lead Software Engineer
8 10 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
8 10 (6.25%) Developer
9 9 (5.63%) Customer Engineer
9 9 (5.63%) Customer Service Engineer
9 9 (5.63%) Software Team Leader
9 9 (5.63%) Team Leader
10 8 (5.00%) Administrator
10 8 (5.00%) AWS Engineer
10 8 (5.00%) Machine Learning Engineer
10 8 (5.00%) Python Engineer
11 7 (4.38%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (8.75%) PyTorch
1 14 (8.75%) scikit-learn
1 14 (8.75%) TensorFlow
2 10 (6.25%) .NET
2 10 (6.25%) LangChain
2 10 (6.25%) React
3 9 (5.63%) OAuth
3 9 (5.63%) REST
3 9 (5.63%) Spring
3 9 (5.63%) Spring Boot
4 8 (5.00%) LangGraph
4 8 (5.00%) RESTful
5 7 (4.38%) FastAPI
5 7 (4.38%) JWT
5 7 (4.38%) Kafka
6 6 (3.75%) NumPy
6 6 (3.75%) OAuth2
6 6 (3.75%) OpenID
6 6 (3.75%) Pandas
7 5 (3.13%) Hugging Face
Miscellaneous
1 75 (46.88%) Cloud Native
2 28 (17.50%) Product Ownership
3 17 (10.63%) Blog
4 11 (6.88%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (5.63%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (4.38%) PKI
7 6 (3.75%) Management Information System
8 5 (3.13%) Analytical Mindset
8 5 (3.13%) Life Science
8 5 (3.13%) Onboarding
8 5 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (2.50%) Blockchain
9 4 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (2.50%) Web3
10 3 (1.88%) AI Agents
10 3 (1.88%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.88%) Low-Code
10 3 (1.88%) Replication
11 2 (1.25%) AS400
11 2 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 22 (13.75%) Linux
2 16 (10.00%) Windows
3 12 (7.50%) CentOS
4 8 (5.00%) Windows Server
5 7 (4.38%) Apple iOS
6 6 (3.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (3.75%) Ubuntu
7 5 (3.13%) VMS
8 4 (2.50%) Mac OS
8 4 (2.50%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (1.25%) Amazon Linux
9 2 (1.25%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (71.88%) CI/CD
2 79 (49.38%) Test Automation
3 75 (46.88%) Software Engineering
4 74 (46.25%) DevOps
5 53 (33.13%) Clean Code
6 50 (31.25%) Microservices
7 47 (29.38%) Continuous Deployment
8 45 (28.13%) Infrastructure as Code
9 38 (23.75%) Fintech
10 36 (22.50%) Mentoring
11 33 (20.63%) Agile
12 29 (18.13%) AI
12 29 (18.13%) Continuous Improvement
13 28 (17.50%) Observability
14 27 (16.88%) Containerisation
15 26 (16.25%) Disruptive Innovation
16 22 (13.75%) Problem-Solving
17 20 (12.50%) Data Pipeline
17 20 (12.50%) Low Latency
18 19 (11.88%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 62 (38.75%) Java
2 57 (35.63%) Python
3 25 (15.63%) SQL
4 23 (14.38%) PowerShell
5 21 (13.13%) Bash
6 11 (6.88%) C#
6 11 (6.88%) TypeScript
7 9 (5.63%) JavaScript
8 7 (4.38%) Kusto Query Language
9 3 (1.88%) Bicep
9 3 (1.88%) Go
9 3 (1.88%) Kotlin
9 3 (1.88%) Rust
9 3 (1.88%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.25%) C++
10 2 (1.25%) RPG
11 1 (0.63%) C
11 1 (0.63%) COBOL
11 1 (0.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.63%) VB
Qualifications
1 23 (14.38%) Security Cleared
2 14 (8.75%) SC Cleared
3 13 (8.13%) Degree
4 6 (3.75%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.50%) Azure Certification
5 4 (2.50%) DV Cleared
5 4 (2.50%) Postgraduate
6 3 (1.88%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.25%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.25%) PMP
8 1 (0.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (8.13%) QA
2 8 (5.00%) Data Quality
3 6 (3.75%) GDPR
4 5 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (3.13%) SLA
5 2 (1.25%) NIST
5 2 (1.25%) PMO
5 2 (1.25%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.63%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.63%) WCAG
System Software
1 28 (17.50%) Docker
2 8 (5.00%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.88%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.63%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 83 (51.88%) Terraform
2 74 (46.25%) Kubernetes
3 58 (36.25%) Grafana
4 18 (11.25%) Ansible
5 12 (7.50%) Microsoft Intune
6 7 (4.38%) Prometheus
7 6 (3.75%) Argo
7 6 (3.75%) Jamf Pro
7 6 (3.75%) Nagios
8 3 (1.88%) SCCM
9 2 (1.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 22 (13.75%) Microsoft
2 12 (7.50%) Google
2 12 (7.50%) OpenAI
3 8 (5.00%) Splunk
4 7 (4.38%) Red Hat
5 6 (3.75%) Rapid7
6 5 (3.13%) Salesforce
7 4 (2.50%) Apple
7 4 (2.50%) Automation Anywhere
7 4 (2.50%) Databricks
7 4 (2.50%) Dynatrace
7 4 (2.50%) UiPath
8 3 (1.88%) Dell
8 3 (1.88%) iManage
8 3 (1.88%) Nexthink
9 2 (1.25%) Cognizant
9 2 (1.25%) CrowdStrike
9 2 (1.25%) Foundry
9 2 (1.25%) Thales
9 2 (1.25%) Zscaler