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

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 261 270 356
Rank change year-on-year +9 +86 -32
Permanent jobs citing Deployment Automation 157 114 144
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.72% 0.93% 0.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.87% 0.97% 0.67%
Number of salaries quoted 71 69 103
10th Percentile £52,500 £25,000 £61,250
25th Percentile £61,875 £60,000 £68,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £81,500 £75,000 £89,750
Median % change year-on-year +8.67% -16.43% -0.28%
75th Percentile £104,375 £95,000 £110,000
90th Percentile £132,500 £120,000 £138,750
England median annual salary £70,000 £68,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +2.19% +5.38% -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 17,995 11,708 21,543
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 81.98% 95.39% 89.27%
Number of salaries quoted 12,331 7,174 15,745
10th Percentile £40,750 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £98,750 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £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 1 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 1 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 10 £85,000 +9.68% 18
West London -18 5 £85,000 +183.33% 1
South London +13 2 - -
East London -3 1 £85,000 -8.11% 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 (3.18%) Appian
2 4 (2.55%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.55%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.55%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.91%) Apache
3 3 (1.91%) SAS
4 1 (0.64%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (0.64%) Camunda
4 1 (0.64%) Confluence
4 1 (0.64%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.91%) SPSS
2 1 (0.64%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.64%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.27%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.64%) Misys Equation
2 1 (0.64%) Misys Midas
Cloud Services
1 103 (65.61%) AWS
2 73 (46.50%) Azure
3 69 (43.95%) GCP
4 52 (33.12%) Amazon EKS
5 41 (26.11%) SaaS
6 20 (12.74%) Azure DevOps
7 17 (10.83%) Serverless
8 14 (8.92%) Microsoft 365
9 13 (8.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 10 (6.37%) AWS CloudFormation
10 10 (6.37%) AWS Lambda
11 9 (5.73%) Amazon S3
11 9 (5.73%) Azure Data Factory
11 9 (5.73%) Power Platform
12 8 (5.10%) Amazon ECS
12 8 (5.10%) GitHub
13 7 (4.46%) Azure Functions
13 7 (4.46%) Entra ID
13 7 (4.46%) OpenShift
13 7 (4.46%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.91%) Firewall
1 3 (1.91%) Kerberos
1 3 (1.91%) NAS
1 3 (1.91%) Network Security
2 2 (1.27%) BGP
2 2 (1.27%) Broadband
2 2 (1.27%) Intrusion Detection
2 2 (1.27%) SSH
2 2 (1.27%) SSL
3 1 (0.64%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (15.29%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (9.55%) SQL Server
3 10 (6.37%) Elasticsearch
4 8 (5.10%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (4.46%) MySQL
5 7 (4.46%) Pinecone
5 7 (4.46%) Power BI
6 6 (3.82%) Amazon Aurora
7 5 (3.18%) DynamoDB
7 5 (3.18%) Metadata
8 4 (2.55%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (2.55%) MongoDB
8 4 (2.55%) NoSQL
9 3 (1.91%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (1.91%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (1.27%) Data Lake
10 2 (1.27%) Delta Lake
10 2 (1.27%) Neo4j
10 2 (1.27%) Relational Database
10 2 (1.27%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 48 (30.57%) TeamCity
2 21 (13.38%) Git
3 12 (7.64%) GitLab
4 11 (7.01%) Jenkins
5 6 (3.82%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 5 (3.18%) Bitbucket
6 5 (3.18%) JIRA
6 5 (3.18%) JUnit
6 5 (3.18%) MLflow
7 4 (2.55%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 4 (2.55%) Maven
7 4 (2.55%) Mockito
8 3 (1.91%) Spock
9 1 (0.64%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.64%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.64%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.64%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.64%) Gradle
9 1 (0.64%) JMeter
9 1 (0.64%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 73 (46.50%) Finance
2 63 (40.13%) Banking
3 52 (33.12%) Law
4 51 (32.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 47 (29.94%) Retail
6 34 (21.66%) Social Skills
7 31 (19.75%) Financial Institution
8 30 (19.11%) Back Office
9 17 (10.83%) Analytical Skills
10 4 (2.55%) Mandarin Language
10 4 (2.55%) Public Sector
11 3 (1.91%) Front Office
12 2 (1.27%) Aerospace
12 2 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (1.27%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.64%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.64%) Legal
13 1 (0.64%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 54 (34.39%) Software Engineer
2 34 (21.66%) Senior
3 23 (14.65%) DevOps Engineer
3 23 (14.65%) Lead
4 17 (10.83%) Azure Engineer
5 15 (9.55%) Senior Software Engineer
6 14 (8.92%) Java Engineer
6 14 (8.92%) Java Software Engineer
6 14 (8.92%) Lead Software Engineer
7 10 (6.37%) Cloud Engineer
7 10 (6.37%) Customer Engineer
7 10 (6.37%) Customer Service Engineer
7 10 (6.37%) Developer
7 10 (6.37%) Software Team Leader
7 10 (6.37%) Team Leader
8 9 (5.73%) AWS Engineer
9 8 (5.10%) Administrator
9 8 (5.10%) Automation Engineer
9 8 (5.10%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 8 (5.10%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (9.55%) PyTorch
1 15 (9.55%) scikit-learn
1 15 (9.55%) TensorFlow
2 12 (7.64%) .NET
3 10 (6.37%) React
3 10 (6.37%) RESTful
4 9 (5.73%) FastAPI
4 9 (5.73%) LangChain
5 8 (5.10%) NumPy
5 8 (5.10%) OAuth
5 8 (5.10%) Pandas
5 8 (5.10%) REST
6 7 (4.46%) Hugging Face
6 7 (4.46%) Kafka
6 7 (4.46%) LangGraph
7 6 (3.82%) Django
7 6 (3.82%) Flask
7 6 (3.82%) JWT
7 6 (3.82%) pytest
7 6 (3.82%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 72 (45.86%) Cloud Native
2 27 (17.20%) Product Ownership
3 17 (10.83%) Blog
4 8 (5.10%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (5.10%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (4.46%) PKI
6 6 (3.82%) Management Information System
7 5 (3.18%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (3.18%) Low-Code
7 5 (3.18%) Onboarding
8 4 (2.55%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (2.55%) Blockchain
8 4 (2.55%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (2.55%) Life Science
8 4 (2.55%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (2.55%) Web3
9 3 (1.91%) AI Agents
9 3 (1.91%) Replication
10 2 (1.27%) AS400
10 2 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 22 (14.01%) Linux
2 16 (10.19%) Windows
3 12 (7.64%) CentOS
4 8 (5.10%) Windows Server
5 7 (4.46%) Apple iOS
6 6 (3.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (3.82%) Ubuntu
7 5 (3.18%) VMS
8 4 (2.55%) Mac OS
9 3 (1.91%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (1.27%) Amazon Linux
10 2 (1.27%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (72.61%) CI/CD
2 80 (50.96%) Test Automation
3 72 (45.86%) Software Engineering
4 70 (44.59%) DevOps
5 55 (35.03%) Clean Code
6 47 (29.94%) Continuous Deployment
6 47 (29.94%) Microservices
7 44 (28.03%) Infrastructure as Code
8 39 (24.84%) Fintech
9 31 (19.75%) Mentoring
10 29 (18.47%) Agile
11 28 (17.83%) Containerisation
11 28 (17.83%) Continuous Improvement
12 27 (17.20%) Disruptive Innovation
13 25 (15.92%) Observability
14 24 (15.29%) AI
15 21 (13.38%) Data Pipeline
16 20 (12.74%) Problem-Solving
17 19 (12.10%) Low Latency
17 19 (12.10%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 59 (37.58%) Java
2 53 (33.76%) Python
3 24 (15.29%) SQL
4 21 (13.38%) PowerShell
5 20 (12.74%) Bash
6 12 (7.64%) C#
6 12 (7.64%) TypeScript
7 9 (5.73%) JavaScript
8 7 (4.46%) Kusto Query Language
9 3 (1.91%) Bicep
9 3 (1.91%) Go
9 3 (1.91%) Kotlin
9 3 (1.91%) Rust
9 3 (1.91%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.27%) C++
10 2 (1.27%) RPG
11 1 (0.64%) C
11 1 (0.64%) COBOL
11 1 (0.64%) Scala
11 1 (0.64%) VB
Qualifications
1 21 (13.38%) Security Cleared
2 14 (8.92%) Degree
3 13 (8.28%) SC Cleared
4 6 (3.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.55%) Azure Certification
5 4 (2.55%) DV Cleared
5 4 (2.55%) Postgraduate
6 3 (1.91%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.27%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.27%) PMP
8 1 (0.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (8.28%) QA
2 10 (6.37%) Data Quality
3 6 (3.82%) GDPR
4 5 (3.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (3.18%) SLA
5 2 (1.27%) NIST
5 2 (1.27%) PMO
5 2 (1.27%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.64%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.64%) WCAG
System Software
1 30 (19.11%) Docker
2 8 (5.10%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.91%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.64%) BitLocker
4 1 (0.64%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 84 (53.50%) Terraform
2 78 (49.68%) Kubernetes
3 58 (36.94%) Grafana
4 17 (10.83%) Ansible
5 12 (7.64%) Microsoft Intune
6 7 (4.46%) Prometheus
7 6 (3.82%) Argo
7 6 (3.82%) Jamf Pro
7 6 (3.82%) Nagios
8 3 (1.91%) SCCM
9 2 (1.27%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 22 (14.01%) Microsoft
2 11 (7.01%) OpenAI
3 9 (5.73%) Google
4 8 (5.10%) Splunk
5 7 (4.46%) Red Hat
6 6 (3.82%) Automation Anywhere
6 6 (3.82%) Rapid7
6 6 (3.82%) UiPath
7 4 (2.55%) Apple
7 4 (2.55%) Databricks
7 4 (2.55%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.91%) Dell
8 3 (1.91%) Dynatrace
8 3 (1.91%) iManage
8 3 (1.91%) Nexthink
9 2 (1.27%) Cognizant
9 2 (1.27%) CrowdStrike
9 2 (1.27%) IBM
9 2 (1.27%) Thales
9 2 (1.27%) Zscaler