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

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 259 275 360
Rank change year-on-year +16 +85 -41
Permanent jobs citing Deployment Automation 155 115 146
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.71% 0.94% 0.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.87% 0.99% 0.67%
Number of salaries quoted 69 71 105
10th Percentile £50,000 £25,000 £59,750
25th Percentile £61,250 £60,000 £68,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £81,000 £77,500 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.52% -13.89% -
75th Percentile £103,750 £95,625 £112,500
90th Percentile £133,000 £127,500 £138,750
England median annual salary £70,000 £68,250 £65,000
% change year-on-year +2.56% +5.00% -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 17,772 11,646 21,835
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 81.75% 95.64% 88.93%
Number of salaries quoted 12,171 7,045 16,016
10th Percentile £41,000 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,500 £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 £123,100 £115,000
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 24 June 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 24 June 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 -9 9 £96,250 +30.51% 3
West London -24 5 £85,000 +183.33%
South London +23 2 - -
East London -2 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 6 (3.87%) Appian
2 4 (2.58%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.58%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.58%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.94%) Apache
4 2 (1.29%) SAS
5 1 (0.65%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (0.65%) Confluence
5 1 (0.65%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.94%) SPSS
2 1 (0.65%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.65%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.29%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.65%) Misys Equation
2 1 (0.65%) Misys Midas
Cloud Services
1 102 (65.81%) AWS
2 72 (46.45%) Azure
3 70 (45.16%) GCP
4 52 (33.55%) Amazon EKS
5 40 (25.81%) SaaS
6 19 (12.26%) Azure DevOps
7 15 (9.68%) Serverless
8 14 (9.03%) Microsoft 365
9 13 (8.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 10 (6.45%) AWS CloudFormation
11 9 (5.81%) AWS Lambda
11 9 (5.81%) Azure Data Factory
12 8 (5.16%) Amazon ECS
12 8 (5.16%) Amazon S3
12 8 (5.16%) Anthropic Claude
12 8 (5.16%) GitHub
12 8 (5.16%) Power Automate
12 8 (5.16%) Power Platform
13 7 (4.52%) Azure AI
13 7 (4.52%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.58%) Firewall
2 3 (1.94%) Network Security
3 2 (1.29%) BGP
3 2 (1.29%) Broadband
3 2 (1.29%) Intrusion Detection
3 2 (1.29%) Kerberos
3 2 (1.29%) NAS
3 2 (1.29%) SSH
3 2 (1.29%) SSL
4 1 (0.65%) DNS
4 1 (0.65%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (14.19%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (9.68%) SQL Server
3 10 (6.45%) Elasticsearch
4 8 (5.16%) Pinecone
5 7 (4.52%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (4.52%) MySQL
5 7 (4.52%) Power BI
6 6 (3.87%) Amazon Aurora
7 5 (3.23%) DynamoDB
7 5 (3.23%) Metadata
8 4 (2.58%) MongoDB
8 4 (2.58%) NoSQL
9 3 (1.94%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (1.94%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.29%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (1.29%) Data Lake
10 2 (1.29%) Delta Lake
10 2 (1.29%) Neo4j
10 2 (1.29%) Relational Database
10 2 (1.29%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 48 (30.97%) TeamCity
2 20 (12.90%) Git
3 13 (8.39%) GitLab
4 12 (7.74%) Jenkins
5 6 (3.87%) MLflow
5 6 (3.87%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 5 (3.23%) Bitbucket
7 4 (2.58%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 4 (2.58%) JIRA
7 4 (2.58%) JUnit
7 4 (2.58%) Maven
8 3 (1.94%) Mockito
8 3 (1.94%) Spock
9 1 (0.65%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.65%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.65%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.65%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.65%) Gradle
9 1 (0.65%) JMeter
9 1 (0.65%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 73 (47.10%) Finance
2 64 (41.29%) Banking
3 52 (33.55%) Law
4 51 (32.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 47 (30.32%) Retail
6 35 (22.58%) Social Skills
7 31 (20.00%) Financial Institution
8 30 (19.35%) Back Office
9 16 (10.32%) Analytical Skills
10 4 (2.58%) Mandarin Language
10 4 (2.58%) Public Sector
11 3 (1.94%) Front Office
11 3 (1.94%) Retail Banking
12 2 (1.29%) Aerospace
12 2 (1.29%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.65%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.65%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 54 (34.84%) Software Engineer
2 33 (21.29%) Senior
3 22 (14.19%) DevOps Engineer
3 22 (14.19%) Lead
4 17 (10.97%) Azure Engineer
5 15 (9.68%) Senior Software Engineer
6 14 (9.03%) Java Engineer
6 14 (9.03%) Java Software Engineer
6 14 (9.03%) Lead Software Engineer
7 10 (6.45%) Cloud Engineer
7 10 (6.45%) Customer Engineer
7 10 (6.45%) Customer Service Engineer
7 10 (6.45%) Developer
7 10 (6.45%) Software Team Leader
7 10 (6.45%) Team Leader
8 9 (5.81%) AWS Engineer
9 8 (5.16%) Administrator
9 8 (5.16%) Automation Engineer
9 8 (5.16%) Python Engineer
10 7 (4.52%) Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (10.32%) PyTorch
1 16 (10.32%) scikit-learn
1 16 (10.32%) TensorFlow
2 13 (8.39%) .NET
3 11 (7.10%) RESTful
4 10 (6.45%) FastAPI
5 9 (5.81%) LangChain
5 9 (5.81%) NumPy
5 9 (5.81%) Pandas
5 9 (5.81%) React
6 8 (5.16%) Hugging Face
6 8 (5.16%) OAuth
7 7 (4.52%) Django
7 7 (4.52%) Flask
7 7 (4.52%) Kafka
7 7 (4.52%) LangGraph
7 7 (4.52%) pytest
7 7 (4.52%) REST
7 7 (4.52%) Web Services
8 6 (3.87%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 70 (45.16%) Cloud Native
2 27 (17.42%) Product Ownership
3 17 (10.97%) Blog
4 7 (4.52%) Hybrid Cloud
4 7 (4.52%) PKI
5 6 (3.87%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (3.87%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (3.87%) Low-Code
5 6 (3.87%) Management Information System
6 5 (3.23%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.58%) Blockchain
7 4 (2.58%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (2.58%) Web3
8 3 (1.94%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.94%) Life Science
8 3 (1.94%) Replication
8 3 (1.94%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.29%) AS400
9 2 (1.29%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.29%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 22 (14.19%) Linux
2 16 (10.32%) Windows
3 12 (7.74%) CentOS
4 7 (4.52%) Apple iOS
4 7 (4.52%) Windows Server
5 6 (3.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (3.87%) Ubuntu
6 5 (3.23%) VMS
7 4 (2.58%) Mac OS
8 2 (1.29%) Amazon Linux
8 2 (1.29%) Android
8 2 (1.29%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (72.26%) CI/CD
2 82 (52.90%) Test Automation
3 70 (45.16%) Software Engineering
4 67 (43.23%) DevOps
5 56 (36.13%) Clean Code
6 47 (30.32%) Continuous Deployment
7 45 (29.03%) Microservices
8 43 (27.74%) Infrastructure as Code
9 39 (25.16%) Fintech
10 28 (18.06%) Containerisation
10 28 (18.06%) Mentoring
11 27 (17.42%) Agile
11 27 (17.42%) Continuous Improvement
11 27 (17.42%) Disruptive Innovation
12 24 (15.48%) Observability
13 22 (14.19%) AI
13 22 (14.19%) Data Pipeline
14 20 (12.90%) Problem-Solving
15 19 (12.26%) Low Latency
15 19 (12.26%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 58 (37.42%) Java
2 53 (34.19%) Python
3 23 (14.84%) SQL
4 20 (12.90%) Bash
4 20 (12.90%) PowerShell
5 13 (8.39%) C#
6 11 (7.10%) TypeScript
7 9 (5.81%) JavaScript
8 7 (4.52%) Kusto Query Language
9 4 (2.58%) Bicep
10 3 (1.94%) Go
10 3 (1.94%) Kotlin
10 3 (1.94%) Rust
10 3 (1.94%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.29%) C++
11 2 (1.29%) RPG
12 1 (0.65%) C
12 1 (0.65%) COBOL
12 1 (0.65%) Scala
12 1 (0.65%) VB
Qualifications
1 20 (12.90%) Security Cleared
2 14 (9.03%) Degree
3 12 (7.74%) SC Cleared
4 6 (3.87%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.58%) Azure Certification
5 4 (2.58%) DV Cleared
5 4 (2.58%) Postgraduate
6 3 (1.94%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.29%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.29%) PMP
8 1 (0.65%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.65%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (8.39%) QA
2 11 (7.10%) Data Quality
3 5 (3.23%) GDPR
3 5 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (3.23%) SLA
4 2 (1.29%) NIST
4 2 (1.29%) PMO
4 2 (1.29%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.65%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.65%) WCAG
System Software
1 31 (20.00%) Docker
2 7 (4.52%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.94%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.65%) BitLocker
4 1 (0.65%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 83 (53.55%) Terraform
2 79 (50.97%) Kubernetes
3 58 (37.42%) Grafana
4 17 (10.97%) Ansible
5 12 (7.74%) Microsoft Intune
6 8 (5.16%) Prometheus
7 6 (3.87%) Argo
7 6 (3.87%) Jamf Pro
7 6 (3.87%) Nagios
8 3 (1.94%) SCCM
9 2 (1.29%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 22 (14.19%) Microsoft
2 10 (6.45%) OpenAI
3 9 (5.81%) Splunk
4 8 (5.16%) Google
5 7 (4.52%) Automation Anywhere
5 7 (4.52%) Red Hat
5 7 (4.52%) UiPath
6 6 (3.87%) Rapid7
7 4 (2.58%) Apple
7 4 (2.58%) Databricks
7 4 (2.58%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.94%) Dell
8 3 (1.94%) Dynatrace
8 3 (1.94%) iManage
8 3 (1.94%) Nexthink
9 2 (1.29%) Cognizant
9 2 (1.29%) CrowdStrike
9 2 (1.29%) IBM
9 2 (1.29%) Thales
9 2 (1.29%) Zscaler