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 24 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 243 303 337
Rank change year-on-year +60 +34 -24
Permanent jobs citing Deployment Automation 213 81 114
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.83% 0.68% 0.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.03% 0.72% 0.67%
Number of salaries quoted 99 40 66
10th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £64,375
25th Percentile £65,000 £61,875 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £81,000 £76,109 £81,250
Median % change year-on-year +6.43% -6.33% -9.72%
75th Percentile £107,500 £89,063 £92,406
90th Percentile £126,500 £115,250 £105,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +15.38% -7.90%

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 20,655 11,202 17,009
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 80.76% 94.17% 89.42%
Number of salaries quoted 13,909 7,095 10,252
10th Percentile £41,100 £38,500 £40,007
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
75th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £97,125
90th Percentile £106,050 £122,500 £120,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £58,298
% change year-on-year +9.09% -5.66% -6.72%

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 24 September 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 24 September 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 +11 17 £80,000 +14.29% 22
East London +1 8 £65,000 - 6
West London - 3 - - 13
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 (2.35%) Camunda
1 5 (2.35%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (2.35%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.88%) SAS
3 2 (0.94%) Apache
3 2 (0.94%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.94%) Cloud Foundry
3 2 (0.94%) nginx
4 1 (0.47%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.47%) Confluence
4 1 (0.47%) JBoss
4 1 (0.47%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (0.47%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.47%) ProjectWise
1 1 (0.47%) SPSS
1 1 (0.47%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.47%) Misys Equation
1 1 (0.47%) Misys Midas
1 1 (0.47%) Primavera
1 1 (0.47%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 121 (56.81%) AWS
2 112 (52.58%) Azure
3 96 (45.07%) GCP
4 39 (18.31%) Azure DevOps
5 37 (17.37%) Amazon EKS
6 36 (16.90%) GitHub
7 30 (14.08%) SaaS
8 19 (8.92%) Serverless
9 17 (7.98%) Microsoft 365
10 16 (7.51%) Datadog
11 15 (7.04%) Power Platform
12 14 (6.57%) Entra ID
13 13 (6.10%) Amazon ECS
14 12 (5.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 11 (5.16%) Azure Functions
16 10 (4.69%) AWS CloudFormation
16 10 (4.69%) GitHub Actions
16 10 (4.69%) OpenShift
17 9 (4.23%) Azure Monitor
17 9 (4.23%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.35%) Firewall
1 5 (2.35%) VPN
2 4 (1.88%) Kerberos
2 4 (1.88%) NAS
3 3 (1.41%) Network Security
4 2 (0.94%) Broadband
4 2 (0.94%) DNS
4 2 (0.94%) SSH
4 2 (0.94%) SSL
5 1 (0.47%) BGP
5 1 (0.47%) DHCP
5 1 (0.47%) Internet
5 1 (0.47%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.47%) LAN
5 1 (0.47%) OpenVPN
5 1 (0.47%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.47%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (0.47%) WAN
5 1 (0.47%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.47%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (15.96%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (5.63%) Power BI
2 12 (5.63%) SQL Server
3 10 (4.69%) Elasticsearch
3 10 (4.69%) MySQL
4 9 (4.23%) Amazon RDS
5 8 (3.76%) Azure SQL Database
5 8 (3.76%) Metadata
6 7 (3.29%) MongoDB
6 7 (3.29%) NoSQL
7 6 (2.82%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (2.35%) Redis
9 4 (1.88%) Relational Database
10 3 (1.41%) Data Lake
11 2 (0.94%) Apache Cassandra
11 2 (0.94%) BigQuery
11 2 (0.94%) CockroachDB
11 2 (0.94%) Neo4j
11 2 (0.94%) Oracle Database
11 2 (0.94%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 34 (15.96%) TeamCity
2 28 (13.15%) Git
3 23 (10.80%) Jenkins
4 17 (7.98%) GitLab
5 9 (4.23%) JIRA
5 9 (4.23%) JUnit
6 8 (3.76%) Mockito
7 6 (2.82%) Bitbucket
7 6 (2.82%) Claude Code
8 4 (1.88%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 3 (1.41%) Maven
9 3 (1.41%) Spock
9 3 (1.41%) Visual Studio Code
10 2 (0.94%) Snyk
11 1 (0.47%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.47%) MLflow
11 1 (0.47%) Visual Studio Team System
11 1 (0.47%) Vite
General
1 92 (43.19%) Finance
2 68 (31.92%) Banking
3 66 (30.99%) Social Skills
4 50 (23.47%) Law
5 45 (21.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 34 (15.96%) Analytical Skills
6 34 (15.96%) Retail
7 26 (12.21%) Financial Institution
8 22 (10.33%) Back Office
9 10 (4.69%) Public Sector
10 8 (3.76%) Marketing
11 4 (1.88%) Police
11 4 (1.88%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.94%) Aviation
12 2 (0.94%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.94%) Legal
12 2 (0.94%) Mandarin Language
12 2 (0.94%) Military
13 1 (0.47%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.47%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 63 (29.58%) Software Engineer
2 43 (20.19%) Senior
3 36 (16.90%) Lead
4 29 (13.62%) DevOps Engineer
5 24 (11.27%) Cloud Engineer
6 19 (8.92%) Developer
7 18 (8.45%) Senior Software Engineer
8 15 (7.04%) Architect
8 15 (7.04%) Java Engineer
9 14 (6.57%) Automation Engineer
9 14 (6.57%) Machine Learning Engineer
10 13 (6.10%) Azure Engineer
10 13 (6.10%) Java Software Engineer
11 12 (5.63%) Site Engineer
11 12 (5.63%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 10 (4.69%) Senior Java Engineer
13 9 (4.23%) Administrator
13 9 (4.23%) Lead Software Engineer
14 8 (3.76%) Senior Developer
14 8 (3.76%) Senior Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 107 (50.23%) Terraform
2 23 (10.80%) REST
3 16 (7.51%) PyTorch
3 16 (7.51%) scikit-learn
3 16 (7.51%) TensorFlow
4 15 (7.04%) LangChain
5 14 (6.57%) .NET
5 14 (6.57%) React
6 13 (6.10%) LangGraph
7 10 (4.69%) OAuth
7 10 (4.69%) OAuth2
7 10 (4.69%) Spring
8 9 (4.23%) Kafka
8 9 (4.23%) OpenID
8 9 (4.23%) Spring Boot
9 8 (3.76%) JWT
10 7 (3.29%) RESTful
11 6 (2.82%) AngularJS
11 6 (2.82%) AWS CDK
11 6 (2.82%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 90 (42.25%) Cloud Native
2 42 (19.72%) Product Ownership
3 24 (11.27%) Distributed Systems
4 19 (8.92%) AI Agents
5 13 (6.10%) Blog
5 13 (6.10%) Management Information System
6 11 (5.16%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (3.29%) Hybrid Cloud
7 7 (3.29%) Life Science
8 6 (2.82%) PKI
9 5 (2.35%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (2.35%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 4 (1.88%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (1.88%) Data Fabric
10 4 (1.88%) Legacy Applications
10 4 (1.88%) Onboarding
11 3 (1.41%) Data Structures
11 3 (1.41%) Enterprise Cloud
11 3 (1.41%) Replication
11 3 (1.41%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 26 (12.21%) Linux
2 15 (7.04%) Windows
3 11 (5.16%) CentOS
4 6 (2.82%) Windows Server
5 5 (2.35%) Apple iOS
6 4 (1.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (1.88%) Ubuntu
6 4 (1.88%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.94%) Amazon Linux
7 2 (0.94%) Android
7 2 (0.94%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.94%) Unix
8 1 (0.47%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 159 (74.65%) CI/CD
2 113 (53.05%) DevOps
3 99 (46.48%) Software Engineering
4 88 (41.31%) Test Automation
5 82 (38.50%) Infrastructure as Code
6 80 (37.56%) AI
7 67 (31.46%) Continuous Improvement
8 60 (28.17%) Observability
9 53 (24.88%) Microservices
10 48 (22.54%) Mentoring
11 45 (21.13%) Agile
12 42 (19.72%) Clean Code
13 41 (19.25%) Containerisation
14 39 (18.31%) Technical Leadership
15 38 (17.84%) Machine Learning
16 37 (17.37%) Continuous Deployment
16 37 (17.37%) Problem-Solving
17 31 (14.55%) Data Science
18 29 (13.62%) Event-Driven
18 29 (13.62%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 80 (37.56%) Python
2 56 (26.29%) Java
3 34 (15.96%) SQL
4 28 (13.15%) PowerShell
5 20 (9.39%) Bash
6 15 (7.04%) TypeScript
7 14 (6.57%) C#
8 10 (4.69%) Bicep
9 8 (3.76%) Go
9 8 (3.76%) JavaScript
10 3 (1.41%) C++
10 3 (1.41%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.94%) RPG
12 1 (0.47%) C
12 1 (0.47%) COBOL
12 1 (0.47%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.47%) Rust
12 1 (0.47%) SOQL
12 1 (0.47%) SOSL
12 1 (0.47%) VB
Qualifications
1 27 (12.68%) Security Cleared
2 23 (10.80%) Degree
3 18 (8.45%) SC Cleared
4 15 (7.04%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (5.16%) Azure Certification
6 5 (2.35%) DV Cleared
6 5 (2.35%) Master's Degree
7 4 (1.88%) AWS Certification
7 4 (1.88%) TOGAF Certification
8 3 (1.41%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 3 (1.41%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.94%) PMP
9 2 (0.94%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (7.04%) QA
2 8 (3.76%) GDPR
3 6 (2.82%) SLA
4 5 (2.35%) Data Quality
4 5 (2.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.41%) PMO
6 2 (0.94%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.94%) NIST
7 1 (0.47%) GRC
7 1 (0.47%) SOC 2
System Software
1 39 (18.31%) Docker
2 10 (4.69%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.82%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.47%) BitLocker
4 1 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 80 (37.56%) Kubernetes
2 63 (29.58%) Grafana
3 27 (12.68%) Ansible
4 10 (4.69%) Microsoft Intune
5 9 (4.23%) Argo
6 8 (3.76%) Prometheus
7 7 (3.29%) Nagios
8 3 (1.41%) Istio
8 3 (1.41%) Jamf Pro
8 3 (1.41%) SCCM
9 2 (0.94%) kaniko
9 2 (0.94%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.47%) Cilium
10 1 (0.47%) Kibana
10 1 (0.47%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 43 (20.19%) Microsoft
2 21 (9.86%) Dynatrace
3 19 (8.92%) Google
4 10 (4.69%) OpenAI
4 10 (4.69%) Splunk
5 9 (4.23%) Salesforce
6 7 (3.29%) Oracle
6 7 (3.29%) Rapid7
6 7 (3.29%) Red Hat
7 4 (1.88%) Dell
8 3 (1.41%) Fortinet
8 3 (1.41%) IBM
8 3 (1.41%) iManage
8 3 (1.41%) Nexthink
8 3 (1.41%) UiPath
9 2 (0.94%) Automation Anywhere
9 2 (0.94%) Blue Prism
9 2 (0.94%) Databricks
9 2 (0.94%) Mistral
9 2 (0.94%) Thales