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

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 275 291 336
Rank change year-on-year +16 +45 -21
Permanent jobs citing Deployment Automation 107 148 137
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.71% 0.97% 0.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.82% 1.02% 0.71%
Number of salaries quoted 38 99 113
10th Percentile £47,375 £61,000 £55,362
25th Percentile £57,813 £80,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,750 £90,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.06% -10.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £92,188 £130,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £100,250 £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 13,075 14,532 19,332
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 86.81% 95.17% 91.84%
Number of salaries quoted 8,411 7,927 15,607
10th Percentile £36,750 £43,250 £39,400
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,225 £53,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £96,688 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,000 £55,440
% change year-on-year -11.29% +11.83% -11.30%

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 5 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 5 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 +17 5 £87,500 +2.94% 16
West London -6 3 £80,000 +166.67%
South London +29 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 12 (11.21%) Appian
2 3 (2.80%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (2.80%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.87%) BizTalk Server
3 2 (1.87%) nginx
4 1 (0.93%) IIS
4 1 (0.93%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (1.87%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 65 (60.75%) AWS
2 47 (43.93%) Azure
3 45 (42.06%) GCP
4 39 (36.45%) Amazon EKS
5 30 (28.04%) SaaS
6 17 (15.89%) Azure DevOps
7 14 (13.08%) Azure Data Factory
7 14 (13.08%) GitHub
8 13 (12.15%) Anthropic Claude
8 13 (12.15%) Azure AI
8 13 (12.15%) GitHub Actions
9 12 (11.21%) Power Automate
10 11 (10.28%) Serverless
11 9 (8.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 8 (7.48%) Power Platform
13 7 (6.54%) AWS Lambda
13 7 (6.54%) Azure Monitor
14 5 (4.67%) Azure Pipelines
14 5 (4.67%) Salesforce Service Cloud
15 4 (3.74%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.67%) Firewall
2 3 (2.80%) DNS
3 2 (1.87%) BGP
3 2 (1.87%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (1.87%) MQTT
3 2 (1.87%) OSPF
3 2 (1.87%) Reverse Proxy
3 2 (1.87%) RTMP
3 2 (1.87%) SSL
3 2 (1.87%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.87%) VLAN
3 2 (1.87%) VPN
3 2 (1.87%) WAN
3 2 (1.87%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (1.87%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (16.82%) SQL Server
2 12 (11.21%) Pinecone
3 8 (7.48%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (6.54%) Power BI
5 5 (4.67%) MySQL
6 3 (2.80%) Tableau
7 2 (1.87%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (1.87%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.87%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.87%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.87%) Metadata
7 2 (1.87%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.93%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.93%) Delta Lake
8 1 (0.93%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Analysis Services
8 1 (0.93%) Power Query
8 1 (0.93%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (0.93%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 1 (0.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 37 (34.58%) TeamCity
2 14 (13.08%) MLflow
3 13 (12.15%) Jenkins
4 8 (7.48%) Git
5 7 (6.54%) GitLab
6 6 (5.61%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 4 (3.74%) Artifactory
8 3 (2.80%) Gradle
8 3 (2.80%) Maven
9 2 (1.87%) Jaeger
9 2 (1.87%) Octopus Deploy
9 2 (1.87%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.93%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.93%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.93%) JIRA
10 1 (0.93%) JUnit
General
1 47 (43.93%) Finance
2 41 (38.32%) Banking
3 36 (33.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 35 (32.71%) Law
4 35 (32.71%) Retail
5 26 (24.30%) Financial Institution
6 25 (23.36%) Back Office
7 24 (22.43%) Social Skills
8 4 (3.74%) Analytical Skills
9 3 (2.80%) Retail Banking
10 2 (1.87%) Agriculture
10 2 (1.87%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.87%) Legal
11 1 (0.93%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.93%) Automotive
11 1 (0.93%) Marketing
11 1 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.93%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 31 (28.97%) Software Engineer
2 19 (17.76%) Senior
3 16 (14.95%) Lead
4 14 (13.08%) DevOps Engineer
5 13 (12.15%) Java Engineer
5 13 (12.15%) Java Software Engineer
6 12 (11.21%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 12 (11.21%) Automation Engineer
7 10 (9.35%) Senior Software Engineer
8 9 (8.41%) Azure Engineer
9 8 (7.48%) Developer
9 8 (7.48%) Lead Software Engineer
9 8 (7.48%) Platform Engineer
10 7 (6.54%) Cloud Engineer
10 7 (6.54%) Customer Engineer
10 7 (6.54%) Customer Service Engineer
11 6 (5.61%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 6 (5.61%) Senior Java Engineer
11 6 (5.61%) Senior Java Software Engineer
12 5 (4.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (14.02%) FastAPI
2 14 (13.08%) REST
3 13 (12.15%) Flask
3 13 (12.15%) RESTful
4 12 (11.21%) .NET
4 12 (11.21%) Django
4 12 (11.21%) Faiss
4 12 (11.21%) Hugging Face
4 12 (11.21%) JWT
4 12 (11.21%) NumPy
4 12 (11.21%) OAuth
4 12 (11.21%) OpenAPI
4 12 (11.21%) Pandas
4 12 (11.21%) pytest
4 12 (11.21%) PyTorch
4 12 (11.21%) scikit-learn
4 12 (11.21%) Swagger
4 12 (11.21%) TensorFlow
4 12 (11.21%) Web Services
5 5 (4.67%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 40 (37.38%) Cloud Native
2 12 (11.21%) Legacy Systems
2 12 (11.21%) Low-Code
3 10 (9.35%) Blog
3 10 (9.35%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.74%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.80%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.80%) IoT
6 2 (1.87%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.87%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.87%) IVR
6 2 (1.87%) MPEG
6 2 (1.87%) Robotics
6 2 (1.87%) Security Operations Centre
6 2 (1.87%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.93%) AS400
7 1 (0.93%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.93%) PKI
7 1 (0.93%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.93%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 17 (15.89%) Linux
2 8 (7.48%) Windows
3 4 (3.74%) VMS
4 3 (2.80%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.93%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (83.18%) CI/CD
2 66 (61.68%) Test Automation
3 49 (45.79%) DevOps
4 47 (43.93%) Clean Code
5 35 (32.71%) Continuous Deployment
6 34 (31.78%) Software Engineering
7 30 (28.04%) Infrastructure as Code
8 29 (27.10%) Microservices
9 26 (24.30%) AI
10 19 (17.76%) Containerisation
10 19 (17.76%) Fintech
11 17 (15.89%) Agile
11 17 (15.89%) Data Pipeline
11 17 (15.89%) Machine Learning
11 17 (15.89%) Mentoring
11 17 (15.89%) Observability
12 16 (14.95%) Change Management
12 16 (14.95%) MLOps
12 16 (14.95%) Stakeholder Management
13 15 (14.02%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 39 (36.45%) Python
2 37 (34.58%) Java
3 23 (21.50%) SQL
4 16 (14.95%) PowerShell
5 14 (13.08%) Bash
6 13 (12.15%) C#
7 11 (10.28%) JavaScript
8 10 (9.35%) Bicep
8 10 (9.35%) TypeScript
9 4 (3.74%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (1.87%) C++
10 2 (1.87%) Go
10 2 (1.87%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.93%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.93%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.93%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (11.21%) Security Cleared
2 10 (9.35%) Degree
3 8 (7.48%) SC Cleared
4 7 (6.54%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (5.61%) Azure Certification
6 3 (2.80%) ISTQB
7 2 (1.87%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.87%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.93%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.93%) MCSE
8 1 (0.93%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.93%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (14.02%) Data Quality
2 5 (4.67%) QA
3 2 (1.87%) NIST
3 2 (1.87%) SLA
4 1 (0.93%) EU AI Act
4 1 (0.93%) GRC
4 1 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 30 (28.04%) Docker
2 4 (3.74%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.87%) NFS
3 2 (1.87%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 71 (66.36%) Kubernetes
2 67 (62.62%) Terraform
3 48 (44.86%) Grafana
4 11 (10.28%) Ansible
5 10 (9.35%) Prometheus
6 4 (3.74%) Argo
6 4 (3.74%) logstash
7 2 (1.87%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.93%) Nagios
Vendors
1 12 (11.21%) Automation Anywhere
1 12 (11.21%) OpenAI
1 12 (11.21%) UiPath
2 8 (7.48%) Microsoft
3 5 (4.67%) Salesforce
4 4 (3.74%) Splunk
5 3 (2.80%) Cisco
6 2 (1.87%) Databricks
6 2 (1.87%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.87%) MikroTik
6 2 (1.87%) NETGEAR
6 2 (1.87%) Pega
6 2 (1.87%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.87%) Sonatype
6 2 (1.87%) Starlink
6 2 (1.87%) Ubiquiti
6 2 (1.87%) VMware
7 1 (0.93%) Google
7 1 (0.93%) Rapid7