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 1 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 243 315 349
Rank change year-on-year +72 +34 -35
Permanent jobs citing Deployment Automation 216 74 116
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.83% 0.63% 0.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.03% 0.67% 0.69%
Number of salaries quoted 95 33 62
10th Percentile £57,500 £55,250 £63,875
25th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £77,217 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.84% -3.48% -11.11%
75th Percentile £108,750 £88,750 £92,500
90th Percentile £129,500 £114,250 £105,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +15.38% -7.14%

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 20,914 11,117 16,878
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 80.66% 94.12% 89.69%
Number of salaries quoted 13,933 6,996 10,030
10th Percentile £41,000 £38,000 £41,250
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 £97,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £122,500 £120,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -2.44%

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 1 October 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 1 October 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 +3.23% 23
East London -1 8 £65,000 - 5
West London - 3 - - 11
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 (2.31%) Camunda
1 5 (2.31%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.85%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (1.85%) SAS
3 3 (1.39%) nginx
4 2 (0.93%) Apache
4 2 (0.93%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.93%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.46%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.46%) Confluence
5 1 (0.46%) JBoss
5 1 (0.46%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (0.46%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.46%) ProjectWise
1 1 (0.46%) SPSS
1 1 (0.46%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.46%) Misys Equation
1 1 (0.46%) Misys Midas
1 1 (0.46%) Primavera
1 1 (0.46%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 122 (56.48%) AWS
2 110 (50.93%) Azure
3 101 (46.76%) GCP
4 39 (18.06%) Amazon EKS
4 39 (18.06%) Azure DevOps
4 39 (18.06%) GitHub
5 30 (13.89%) SaaS
6 21 (9.72%) Serverless
7 16 (7.41%) Microsoft 365
8 15 (6.94%) Datadog
8 15 (6.94%) Power Platform
9 13 (6.02%) Amazon ECS
9 13 (6.02%) Entra ID
9 13 (6.02%) GitHub Actions
10 12 (5.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 12 (5.56%) Azure Functions
11 10 (4.63%) OpenShift
12 9 (4.17%) AWS CloudFormation
12 9 (4.17%) Azure Key Vault
12 9 (4.17%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.78%) VPN
2 5 (2.31%) Firewall
3 4 (1.85%) Kerberos
3 4 (1.85%) NAS
4 3 (1.39%) Network Security
5 2 (0.93%) Broadband
5 2 (0.93%) DNS
5 2 (0.93%) OpenVPN
5 2 (0.93%) SSH
5 2 (0.93%) SSL
6 1 (0.46%) BGP
6 1 (0.46%) DHCP
6 1 (0.46%) Internet
6 1 (0.46%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.46%) LAN
6 1 (0.46%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.46%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (0.46%) WAN
6 1 (0.46%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.46%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (17.13%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (5.56%) Power BI
2 12 (5.56%) SQL Server
3 10 (4.63%) Amazon RDS
3 10 (4.63%) MySQL
4 9 (4.17%) Elasticsearch
5 8 (3.70%) Azure SQL Database
5 8 (3.70%) Metadata
6 7 (3.24%) NoSQL
7 6 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (2.78%) MongoDB
8 5 (2.31%) Redis
8 5 (2.31%) Relational Database
9 3 (1.39%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.93%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (0.93%) BigQuery
10 2 (0.93%) CockroachDB
10 2 (0.93%) Delta Lake
10 2 (0.93%) Neo4j
10 2 (0.93%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 38 (17.59%) TeamCity
2 27 (12.50%) Git
3 26 (12.04%) Jenkins
4 18 (8.33%) GitLab
5 9 (4.17%) JIRA
5 9 (4.17%) JUnit
6 8 (3.70%) Mockito
7 6 (2.78%) Bitbucket
7 6 (2.78%) Claude Code
8 3 (1.39%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 3 (1.39%) Maven
8 3 (1.39%) Spock
8 3 (1.39%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (0.93%) Snyk
10 1 (0.46%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.46%) MLflow
10 1 (0.46%) Visual Studio Team System
10 1 (0.46%) Vite
General
1 92 (42.59%) Finance
2 70 (32.41%) Banking
3 65 (30.09%) Social Skills
4 52 (24.07%) Law
5 47 (21.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 36 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
6 36 (16.67%) Retail
7 26 (12.04%) Financial Institution
8 22 (10.19%) Back Office
9 10 (4.63%) Public Sector
10 8 (3.70%) Marketing
11 4 (1.85%) Police
11 4 (1.85%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.93%) Aviation
12 2 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.93%) Legal
12 2 (0.93%) Military
13 1 (0.46%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.46%) Mandarin Language
13 1 (0.46%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 66 (30.56%) Software Engineer
2 45 (20.83%) Senior
3 36 (16.67%) Lead
4 31 (14.35%) DevOps Engineer
5 24 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
6 21 (9.72%) Senior Software Engineer
7 18 (8.33%) Developer
8 17 (7.87%) Java Engineer
9 15 (6.94%) Architect
9 15 (6.94%) Java Software Engineer
10 14 (6.48%) Automation Engineer
10 14 (6.48%) Machine Learning Engineer
11 12 (5.56%) Azure Engineer
11 12 (5.56%) Senior Java Engineer
11 12 (5.56%) Site Engineer
11 12 (5.56%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 10 (4.63%) Senior Java Software Engineer
13 9 (4.17%) Administrator
13 9 (4.17%) Lead Software Engineer
13 9 (4.17%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 113 (52.31%) Terraform
2 24 (11.11%) REST
3 16 (7.41%) .NET
3 16 (7.41%) PyTorch
3 16 (7.41%) React
3 16 (7.41%) scikit-learn
3 16 (7.41%) TensorFlow
4 15 (6.94%) LangChain
5 13 (6.02%) LangGraph
6 10 (4.63%) OAuth
6 10 (4.63%) OAuth2
6 10 (4.63%) Spring
7 9 (4.17%) OpenID
7 9 (4.17%) Spring Boot
8 8 (3.70%) JWT
8 8 (3.70%) Kafka
8 8 (3.70%) RESTful
9 6 (2.78%) AngularJS
9 6 (2.78%) AWS CDK
9 6 (2.78%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 96 (44.44%) Cloud Native
2 42 (19.44%) Product Ownership
3 27 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
4 21 (9.72%) AI Agents
5 15 (6.94%) Blog
6 12 (5.56%) Management Information System
7 11 (5.09%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (3.24%) Hybrid Cloud
8 7 (3.24%) Life Science
9 6 (2.78%) PKI
9 6 (2.78%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 5 (2.31%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (1.85%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (1.85%) Data Fabric
11 4 (1.85%) Legacy Applications
11 4 (1.85%) Onboarding
11 4 (1.85%) Security Posture
12 3 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (1.39%) Enterprise Cloud
12 3 (1.39%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 26 (12.04%) Linux
2 14 (6.48%) Windows
3 10 (4.63%) CentOS
4 5 (2.31%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.85%) Apple iOS
5 4 (1.85%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (1.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (1.39%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.93%) Amazon Linux
7 2 (0.93%) Android
7 2 (0.93%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.93%) Unix
8 1 (0.46%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 165 (76.39%) CI/CD
2 116 (53.70%) DevOps
3 102 (47.22%) Software Engineering
4 91 (42.13%) Test Automation
5 85 (39.35%) Infrastructure as Code
6 83 (38.43%) AI
7 72 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
8 61 (28.24%) Observability
9 56 (25.93%) Microservices
10 50 (23.15%) Mentoring
11 45 (20.83%) Agile
11 45 (20.83%) Clean Code
12 42 (19.44%) Technical Leadership
13 40 (18.52%) Containerisation
14 39 (18.06%) Continuous Deployment
15 38 (17.59%) Machine Learning
15 38 (17.59%) Problem-Solving
16 31 (14.35%) Data Science
17 30 (13.89%) Event-Driven
18 29 (13.43%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 82 (37.96%) Python
2 59 (27.31%) Java
3 35 (16.20%) SQL
4 27 (12.50%) PowerShell
5 20 (9.26%) Bash
6 18 (8.33%) TypeScript
7 16 (7.41%) C#
8 10 (4.63%) Bicep
9 9 (4.17%) JavaScript
10 8 (3.70%) Go
11 3 (1.39%) C++
11 3 (1.39%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.93%) C
12 2 (0.93%) Groovy
12 2 (0.93%) RPG
13 1 (0.46%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.46%) Scala
13 1 (0.46%) SOQL
13 1 (0.46%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 28 (12.96%) Security Cleared
2 22 (10.19%) Degree
3 19 (8.80%) SC Cleared
4 15 (6.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (5.09%) Azure Certification
6 5 (2.31%) DV Cleared
6 5 (2.31%) Master's Degree
7 4 (1.85%) AWS Certification
7 4 (1.85%) TOGAF Certification
8 3 (1.39%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 3 (1.39%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.93%) PMP
10 1 (0.46%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (6.94%) QA
2 8 (3.70%) GDPR
3 6 (2.78%) Data Quality
3 6 (2.78%) SLA
4 5 (2.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.39%) PMO
6 2 (0.93%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.93%) NIST
7 1 (0.46%) GRC
7 1 (0.46%) SOC 2
System Software
1 40 (18.52%) Docker
2 9 (4.17%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.78%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.46%) BitLocker
4 1 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 84 (38.89%) Kubernetes
2 65 (30.09%) Grafana
3 28 (12.96%) Ansible
4 10 (4.63%) Argo
5 9 (4.17%) Microsoft Intune
6 7 (3.24%) Nagios
6 7 (3.24%) Prometheus
7 3 (1.39%) Istio
7 3 (1.39%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (0.93%) kaniko
8 2 (0.93%) Kibana
8 2 (0.93%) SCCM
8 2 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.46%) Cilium
9 1 (0.46%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 43 (19.91%) Microsoft
2 21 (9.72%) Dynatrace
3 19 (8.80%) Google
4 10 (4.63%) OpenAI
4 10 (4.63%) Splunk
5 9 (4.17%) Salesforce
6 7 (3.24%) Oracle
6 7 (3.24%) Rapid7
6 7 (3.24%) Red Hat
7 3 (1.39%) Dell
7 3 (1.39%) Fortinet
7 3 (1.39%) IBM
7 3 (1.39%) UiPath
8 2 (0.93%) Apple
8 2 (0.93%) Automation Anywhere
8 2 (0.93%) Blue Prism
8 2 (0.93%) Cognizant
8 2 (0.93%) Mistral
8 2 (0.93%) Nexthink
8 2 (0.93%) SAP