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

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 253 314 344
Rank change year-on-year +61 +30 -38
Permanent jobs citing Deployment Automation 217 67 105
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.83% 0.57% 0.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.03% 0.61% 0.65%
Number of salaries quoted 92 29 57
10th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £64,500
25th Percentile £65,750 £63,750 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £80,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -5.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £107,813 £92,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £125,000 £118,000 £111,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £66,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +12.78% -5.00%

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 21,084 10,993 16,124
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 80.63% 93.80% 89.70%
Number of salaries quoted 13,784 6,980 9,737
10th Percentile £40,826 £37,500 £41,650
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £55,750
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% -1.32%

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 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 15 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 +15 17 £80,000 +3.23% 9
East London -1 8 £65,000 - 5
West London - 3 - - 4
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 (2.30%) Camunda
1 5 (2.30%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.84%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (1.84%) SAS
3 3 (1.38%) nginx
4 2 (0.92%) Apache
4 2 (0.92%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.46%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.46%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.46%) Confluence
5 1 (0.46%) JBoss
5 1 (0.46%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (0.46%) ProjectWise
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%) Siebel CRM
1 1 (0.46%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 123 (56.68%) AWS
2 111 (51.15%) Azure
3 104 (47.93%) GCP
4 42 (19.35%) Azure DevOps
4 42 (19.35%) GitHub
5 39 (17.97%) Amazon EKS
6 30 (13.82%) SaaS
7 25 (11.52%) Serverless
8 15 (6.91%) Azure Functions
8 15 (6.91%) GitHub Actions
9 14 (6.45%) Datadog
9 14 (6.45%) Power Platform
10 13 (5.99%) Amazon ECS
10 13 (5.99%) Entra ID
10 13 (5.99%) Microsoft 365
11 12 (5.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 11 (5.07%) Azure Monitor
13 10 (4.61%) Azure Key Vault
14 9 (4.15%) GitHub Copilot
15 8 (3.69%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.23%) VPN
2 5 (2.30%) Firewall
3 4 (1.84%) Kerberos
3 4 (1.84%) NAS
4 3 (1.38%) DNS
4 3 (1.38%) Network Security
5 2 (0.92%) Broadband
5 2 (0.92%) OpenVPN
5 2 (0.92%) SSH
5 2 (0.92%) SSL
6 1 (0.46%) DHCP
6 1 (0.46%) Internet
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 38 (17.51%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (6.45%) SQL Server
3 12 (5.53%) Power BI
4 10 (4.61%) Amazon RDS
4 10 (4.61%) MySQL
5 9 (4.15%) Azure SQL Database
6 8 (3.69%) Elasticsearch
6 8 (3.69%) Metadata
6 8 (3.69%) NoSQL
7 6 (2.76%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (2.30%) MongoDB
8 5 (2.30%) Redis
8 5 (2.30%) Relational Database
9 3 (1.38%) Data Lake
9 3 (1.38%) Oracle Database
9 3 (1.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (0.92%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (0.92%) CockroachDB
10 2 (0.92%) Delta Lake
10 2 (0.92%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 38 (17.51%) TeamCity
2 26 (11.98%) Git
2 26 (11.98%) Jenkins
3 18 (8.29%) GitLab
4 9 (4.15%) JIRA
4 9 (4.15%) JUnit
5 8 (3.69%) Mockito
6 6 (2.76%) Bitbucket
6 6 (2.76%) Claude Code
7 3 (1.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 3 (1.38%) Maven
7 3 (1.38%) Spock
7 3 (1.38%) Visual Studio Code
8 2 (0.92%) Snyk
9 1 (0.46%) MLflow
9 1 (0.46%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 95 (43.78%) Finance
2 72 (33.18%) Banking
3 68 (31.34%) Social Skills
4 52 (23.96%) Law
5 46 (21.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 37 (17.05%) Analytical Skills
7 36 (16.59%) Retail
8 25 (11.52%) Financial Institution
9 21 (9.68%) Back Office
10 12 (5.53%) Public Sector
11 8 (3.69%) Marketing
12 6 (2.76%) Police
13 3 (1.38%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.92%) Aviation
14 2 (0.92%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.92%) Legal
14 2 (0.92%) Military
14 2 (0.92%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 69 (31.80%) Software Engineer
2 51 (23.50%) Senior
3 34 (15.67%) Lead
4 32 (14.75%) DevOps Engineer
5 25 (11.52%) Senior Software Engineer
6 23 (10.60%) Cloud Engineer
7 18 (8.29%) Developer
7 18 (8.29%) Java Engineer
8 17 (7.83%) Architect
9 16 (7.37%) Java Software Engineer
9 16 (7.37%) Machine Learning Engineer
10 15 (6.91%) Senior Java Engineer
11 14 (6.45%) Automation Engineer
12 13 (5.99%) Senior Java Software Engineer
13 12 (5.53%) Site Engineer
13 12 (5.53%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 11 (5.07%) Azure Engineer
14 11 (5.07%) Platform Engineer
15 9 (4.15%) Administrator
15 9 (4.15%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 115 (53.00%) Terraform
2 25 (11.52%) REST
3 18 (8.29%) .NET
4 16 (7.37%) LangChain
4 16 (7.37%) PyTorch
4 16 (7.37%) React
4 16 (7.37%) scikit-learn
4 16 (7.37%) TensorFlow
5 15 (6.91%) LangGraph
6 10 (4.61%) OAuth
6 10 (4.61%) OAuth2
6 10 (4.61%) Spring
7 9 (4.15%) JWT
7 9 (4.15%) OpenID
7 9 (4.15%) RESTful
7 9 (4.15%) Spring Boot
8 8 (3.69%) Kafka
9 6 (2.76%) AngularJS
9 6 (2.76%) Middleware
9 6 (2.76%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 101 (46.54%) Cloud Native
2 42 (19.35%) Product Ownership
3 29 (13.36%) Distributed Systems
4 22 (10.14%) AI Agents
5 16 (7.37%) Blog
6 12 (5.53%) Management Information System
7 10 (4.61%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (3.23%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 6 (2.76%) Life Science
9 6 (2.76%) Security Posture
9 6 (2.76%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (2.30%) Hybrid Cloud
10 5 (2.30%) Legacy Applications
10 5 (2.30%) Onboarding
11 4 (1.84%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (1.84%) Data Fabric
11 4 (1.84%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (1.84%) PKI
12 3 (1.38%) Enterprise Cloud
12 3 (1.38%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 24 (11.06%) Linux
2 10 (4.61%) Windows
3 9 (4.15%) CentOS
4 4 (1.84%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.84%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (0.92%) Amazon Linux
5 2 (0.92%) Android
5 2 (0.92%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.92%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.92%) Unix
6 1 (0.46%) macOS
6 1 (0.46%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 172 (79.26%) CI/CD
2 119 (54.84%) DevOps
3 109 (50.23%) Software Engineering
4 97 (44.70%) Test Automation
5 87 (40.09%) Infrastructure as Code
6 86 (39.63%) AI
7 75 (34.56%) Continuous Improvement
8 65 (29.95%) Observability
9 58 (26.73%) Microservices
10 48 (22.12%) Mentoring
11 47 (21.66%) Technical Leadership
12 46 (21.20%) Agile
13 45 (20.74%) Clean Code
14 39 (17.97%) Containerisation
14 39 (17.97%) Continuous Deployment
14 39 (17.97%) Problem-Solving
15 38 (17.51%) Machine Learning
16 34 (15.67%) Stakeholder Management
17 32 (14.75%) Event-Driven
18 31 (14.29%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 82 (37.79%) Python
2 57 (26.27%) Java
3 38 (17.51%) SQL
4 25 (11.52%) PowerShell
5 20 (9.22%) Bash
6 18 (8.29%) TypeScript
7 16 (7.37%) C#
8 11 (5.07%) Bicep
9 8 (3.69%) Go
9 8 (3.69%) JavaScript
10 2 (0.92%) C++
10 2 (0.92%) Groovy
10 2 (0.92%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.92%) Ruby
11 1 (0.46%) C
11 1 (0.46%) COBOL
11 1 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.46%) RPG
11 1 (0.46%) SOQL
11 1 (0.46%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 30 (13.82%) Security Cleared
2 21 (9.68%) SC Cleared
3 19 (8.76%) Degree
4 13 (5.99%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (5.53%) Azure Certification
6 6 (2.76%) TOGAF Certification
7 5 (2.30%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.84%) DV Cleared
9 3 (1.38%) AWS Certification
9 3 (1.38%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 2 (0.92%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.46%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.99%) QA
2 8 (3.69%) GDPR
3 6 (2.76%) Data Quality
3 6 (2.76%) SLA
4 4 (1.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.92%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.92%) NIST
5 2 (0.92%) PMO
6 1 (0.46%) GRC
System Software
1 40 (18.43%) Docker
2 8 (3.69%) Active Directory
3 5 (2.30%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.46%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 85 (39.17%) Kubernetes
2 66 (30.41%) Grafana
3 27 (12.44%) Ansible
4 8 (3.69%) Argo
5 7 (3.23%) Nagios
6 6 (2.76%) Prometheus
7 5 (2.30%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (1.38%) Istio
9 2 (0.92%) kaniko
9 2 (0.92%) Kibana
10 1 (0.46%) Cilium
10 1 (0.46%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.46%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.46%) logstash
10 1 (0.46%) SCCM
10 1 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 42 (19.35%) Microsoft
2 23 (10.60%) Dynatrace
3 16 (7.37%) Google
4 10 (4.61%) Splunk
5 9 (4.15%) OpenAI
5 9 (4.15%) Salesforce
6 8 (3.69%) Oracle
7 7 (3.23%) Rapid7
7 7 (3.23%) Red Hat
8 3 (1.38%) Fortinet
8 3 (1.38%) UiPath
9 2 (0.92%) Databricks
9 2 (0.92%) Dell
9 2 (0.92%) Foundry
9 2 (0.92%) IBM
9 2 (0.92%) SAP
9 2 (0.92%) Thales
10 1 (0.46%) Anaplan
10 1 (0.46%) Aruba
10 1 (0.46%) ForgeRock