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

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 275 287 345
Rank change year-on-year +12 +58 -29
Permanent jobs citing Deployment Automation 170 100 122
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.71% 0.82% 0.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.87% 0.87% 0.70%
Number of salaries quoted 91 58 77
10th Percentile £54,750 £42,500 £65,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £60,000 £69,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £75,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -11.76% -5.56%
75th Percentile £113,750 £89,688 £102,500
90th Percentile £135,000 £115,750 £111,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £68,500 £62,783
% change year-on-year +2.19% +9.11% -16.29%

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 19,505 11,484 17,462
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 81.89% 94.28% 89.25%
Number of salaries quoted 13,151 7,251 11,771
10th Percentile £40,800 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
75th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £121,250 £120,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -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 13 August 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 13 August 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 -8 12 £95,000 +22.58% 8
East London -5 7 £65,000 -29.73%
West London -23 4 £85,000 +183.33% 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 (2.94%) Camunda
2 4 (2.35%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (2.35%) SAS
3 3 (1.76%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.76%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.18%) Apache
4 2 (1.18%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.18%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.59%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (1.76%) SPSS
2 1 (0.59%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.59%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.59%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.59%) Misys Equation
1 1 (0.59%) Misys Midas
Cloud Services
1 102 (60.00%) AWS
2 81 (47.65%) Azure
3 69 (40.59%) GCP
4 31 (18.24%) Amazon EKS
5 26 (15.29%) SaaS
6 25 (14.71%) Azure DevOps
7 22 (12.94%) GitHub
8 17 (10.00%) Datadog
9 16 (9.41%) Microsoft 365
10 15 (8.82%) Amazon ECS
11 14 (8.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 14 (8.24%) Serverless
12 11 (6.47%) AWS CloudFormation
12 11 (6.47%) Power Platform
13 10 (5.88%) Amazon S3
14 9 (5.29%) GitHub Copilot
14 9 (5.29%) OpenShift
14 9 (5.29%) Vertex AI
15 8 (4.71%) Amazon ECR
15 8 (4.71%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.35%) Kerberos
1 4 (2.35%) NAS
2 3 (1.76%) Firewall
3 2 (1.18%) BGP
3 2 (1.18%) Broadband
3 2 (1.18%) Intrusion Detection
3 2 (1.18%) Network Security
3 2 (1.18%) SSH
3 2 (1.18%) SSL
4 1 (0.59%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (14.71%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (7.06%) Elasticsearch
3 11 (6.47%) MySQL
4 9 (5.29%) Amazon RDS
4 9 (5.29%) Power BI
5 7 (4.12%) Metadata
5 7 (4.12%) MongoDB
5 7 (4.12%) SQL Server
6 6 (3.53%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (2.35%) Amazon Aurora
7 4 (2.35%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (2.35%) DynamoDB
7 4 (2.35%) NoSQL
7 4 (2.35%) Redis
8 3 (1.76%) Data Lake
9 2 (1.18%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (1.18%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (1.18%) BigQuery
9 2 (1.18%) CockroachDB
9 2 (1.18%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 26 (15.29%) TeamCity
2 23 (13.53%) Git
3 17 (10.00%) GitLab
4 12 (7.06%) Jenkins
5 8 (4.71%) JUnit
5 8 (4.71%) Mockito
6 7 (4.12%) JIRA
7 6 (3.53%) Claude Code
8 5 (2.94%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 5 (2.94%) Bitbucket
9 3 (1.76%) Maven
9 3 (1.76%) Spock
9 3 (1.76%) Visual Studio Code
10 2 (1.18%) Snyk
10 2 (1.18%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 1 (0.59%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.59%) JMeter
11 1 (0.59%) Locust
11 1 (0.59%) MLflow
11 1 (0.59%) Vite
General
1 77 (45.29%) Finance
2 55 (32.35%) Banking
3 48 (28.24%) Social Skills
4 44 (25.88%) Law
5 39 (22.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 30 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
7 26 (15.29%) Retail
8 23 (13.53%) Financial Institution
9 18 (10.59%) Back Office
10 8 (4.71%) Marketing
11 4 (2.35%) Mandarin Language
11 4 (2.35%) Public Sector
12 3 (1.76%) Front Office
13 2 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
14 1 (0.59%) Aerospace
14 1 (0.59%) Documentation Skills
14 1 (0.59%) Legal
14 1 (0.59%) Retail Banking
14 1 (0.59%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 45 (26.47%) Software Engineer
2 31 (18.24%) Lead
3 29 (17.06%) Senior
4 26 (15.29%) DevOps Engineer
5 16 (9.41%) Cloud Engineer
6 14 (8.24%) Azure Engineer
6 14 (8.24%) Senior Software Engineer
7 12 (7.06%) Automation Engineer
7 12 (7.06%) Developer
7 12 (7.06%) Site Engineer
7 12 (7.06%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 11 (6.47%) AWS Engineer
9 10 (5.88%) Administrator
9 10 (5.88%) Machine Learning Engineer
10 9 (5.29%) Python Engineer
11 8 (4.71%) DevOps Administrator
11 8 (4.71%) DevOps Systems Engineer
11 8 (4.71%) Linux DevOps Administrator
11 8 (4.71%) Linux Systems Engineer
11 8 (4.71%) Linux/Unix DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (7.06%) PyTorch
1 12 (7.06%) scikit-learn
1 12 (7.06%) TensorFlow
2 11 (6.47%) LangChain
3 9 (5.29%) Kafka
3 9 (5.29%) LangGraph
3 9 (5.29%) Spring
3 9 (5.29%) Spring Boot
4 8 (4.71%) React
4 8 (4.71%) REST
5 7 (4.12%) .NET
5 7 (4.12%) OAuth
5 7 (4.12%) OAuth2
5 7 (4.12%) OpenID
6 6 (3.53%) AWS CDK
7 5 (2.94%) FastAPI
7 5 (2.94%) Hibernate
7 5 (2.94%) JPA
7 5 (2.94%) JWT
7 5 (2.94%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 63 (37.06%) Cloud Native
2 26 (15.29%) Product Ownership
3 16 (9.41%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (7.65%) AI Agents
5 8 (4.71%) Blog
6 7 (4.12%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (4.12%) Life Science
6 7 (4.12%) Management Information System
7 6 (3.53%) PKI
8 5 (2.94%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (2.35%) Blockchain
9 4 (2.35%) Data Fabric
9 4 (2.35%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (2.35%) Web3
10 3 (1.76%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.76%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (1.18%) AS400
11 2 (1.18%) Derivative
11 2 (1.18%) iSeries
11 2 (1.18%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 26 (15.29%) Linux
2 15 (8.82%) Windows
3 14 (8.24%) CentOS
4 8 (4.71%) Windows Server
5 7 (4.12%) Apple iOS
6 6 (3.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (3.53%) Ubuntu
7 4 (2.35%) Mac OS
7 4 (2.35%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (1.18%) Amazon Linux
8 2 (1.18%) Android
8 2 (1.18%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (67.06%) CI/CD
2 80 (47.06%) DevOps
3 70 (41.18%) Software Engineering
4 66 (38.82%) Test Automation
5 60 (35.29%) Infrastructure as Code
6 55 (32.35%) AI
7 50 (29.41%) Continuous Improvement
7 50 (29.41%) Observability
8 40 (23.53%) Microservices
9 38 (22.35%) Mentoring
10 37 (21.76%) Agile
11 35 (20.59%) Containerisation
12 30 (17.65%) Machine Learning
13 29 (17.06%) Clean Code
13 29 (17.06%) Continuous Deployment
14 27 (15.88%) Data Science
15 26 (15.29%) Problem-Solving
16 25 (14.71%) Technical Leadership
17 24 (14.12%) Fintech
18 23 (13.53%) Capacity Planning
Programming Languages
1 74 (43.53%) Python
2 46 (27.06%) Java
3 26 (15.29%) PowerShell
3 26 (15.29%) SQL
4 23 (13.53%) Bash
5 13 (7.65%) TypeScript
6 8 (4.71%) Go
7 7 (4.12%) C#
7 7 (4.12%) JavaScript
8 4 (2.35%) Kusto Query Language
9 3 (1.76%) Bicep
9 3 (1.76%) Rust
9 3 (1.76%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.18%) Kotlin
10 2 (1.18%) RPG
11 1 (0.59%) C
11 1 (0.59%) C++
11 1 (0.59%) COBOL
11 1 (0.59%) Scala
11 1 (0.59%) VB
Qualifications
1 23 (13.53%) Degree
2 20 (11.76%) Security Cleared
3 12 (7.06%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (7.06%) SC Cleared
4 5 (2.94%) Azure Certification
5 4 (2.35%) AWS Certification
5 4 (2.35%) Postgraduate
6 3 (1.76%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.76%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.76%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 2 (1.18%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.18%) PMP
8 1 (0.59%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (10.00%) QA
2 6 (3.53%) GDPR
2 6 (3.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (3.53%) SLA
3 5 (2.94%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.18%) NIST
4 2 (1.18%) PMO
4 2 (1.18%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.59%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.59%) GRC
5 1 (0.59%) WCAG
System Software
1 36 (21.18%) Docker
2 8 (4.71%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.76%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.59%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 77 (45.29%) Terraform
2 64 (37.65%) Kubernetes
3 50 (29.41%) Grafana
4 26 (15.29%) Ansible
5 10 (5.88%) Microsoft Intune
6 9 (5.29%) Prometheus
7 8 (4.71%) Argo
7 8 (4.71%) Nagios
8 6 (3.53%) Jamf Pro
9 3 (1.76%) SCCM
10 2 (1.18%) kaniko
10 2 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.59%) Cilium
11 1 (0.59%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 26 (15.29%) Microsoft
2 15 (8.82%) Google
3 13 (7.65%) Dynatrace
4 10 (5.88%) OpenAI
4 10 (5.88%) Splunk
5 8 (4.71%) Rapid7
5 8 (4.71%) Red Hat
6 7 (4.12%) Salesforce
7 4 (2.35%) Apple
7 4 (2.35%) Databricks
7 4 (2.35%) Oracle
8 3 (1.76%) Dell
8 3 (1.76%) iManage
8 3 (1.76%) Nexthink
9 2 (1.18%) Cognizant
9 2 (1.18%) CrowdStrike
9 2 (1.18%) Foundry
9 2 (1.18%) IBM
9 2 (1.18%) Thales
9 2 (1.18%) Zscaler