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

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 268 279 347
Rank change year-on-year +11 +68 -35
Permanent jobs citing Deployment Automation 171 106 126
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.73% 0.87% 0.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.88% 0.92% 0.72%
Number of salaries quoted 90 62 83
10th Percentile £54,750 £26,750 £65,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £60,000 £69,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £75,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -11.76% -5.56%
75th Percentile £111,875 £89,688 £102,500
90th Percentile £132,750 £114,625 £112,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.70% +3.85% -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 19,332 11,534 17,567
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 82.01% 94.34% 89.26%
Number of salaries quoted 13,104 7,285 11,983
10th Percentile £40,500 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £54,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £73,596
Median % change year-on-year - +1.91% -1.87%
75th Percentile £97,500 £98,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £122,500 £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 6 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 6 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 -9 12 £95,000 +22.58% 13
East London -5 6 £65,000 -29.73% 2
West London -26 4 £85,000 +183.33%
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 (2.92%) Camunda
2 4 (2.34%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.34%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (2.34%) SAS
3 3 (1.75%) Apache
4 2 (1.17%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.17%) Cloud Foundry
4 2 (1.17%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.58%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (1.75%) SPSS
2 1 (0.58%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.58%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.58%) Misys Equation
1 1 (0.58%) Misys Midas
Cloud Services
1 106 (61.99%) AWS
2 80 (46.78%) Azure
3 72 (42.11%) GCP
4 38 (22.22%) Amazon EKS
5 30 (17.54%) SaaS
6 25 (14.62%) Azure DevOps
7 20 (11.70%) GitHub
8 15 (8.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 15 (8.77%) Amazon ECS
8 15 (8.77%) Datadog
8 15 (8.77%) Microsoft 365
8 15 (8.77%) Serverless
9 11 (6.43%) Amazon S3
9 11 (6.43%) AWS CloudFormation
10 10 (5.85%) Power Platform
11 9 (5.26%) Amazon ECR
11 9 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
11 9 (5.26%) OpenShift
11 9 (5.26%) Vertex AI
12 8 (4.68%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.34%) Kerberos
1 4 (2.34%) NAS
2 3 (1.75%) Firewall
2 3 (1.75%) Network Security
3 2 (1.17%) BGP
3 2 (1.17%) Broadband
3 2 (1.17%) Intrusion Detection
3 2 (1.17%) SSH
3 2 (1.17%) SSL
4 1 (0.58%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (15.79%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (7.60%) Elasticsearch
3 12 (7.02%) MySQL
4 9 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
5 8 (4.68%) Metadata
5 8 (4.68%) Power BI
6 7 (4.09%) SQL Server
7 6 (3.51%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (3.51%) MongoDB
8 5 (2.92%) Amazon Aurora
8 5 (2.92%) DynamoDB
9 4 (2.34%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (2.34%) NoSQL
10 3 (1.75%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (1.75%) Data Lake
10 3 (1.75%) Redis
11 2 (1.17%) Apache Cassandra
11 2 (1.17%) CockroachDB
11 2 (1.17%) Delta Lake
11 2 (1.17%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 33 (19.30%) TeamCity
2 25 (14.62%) Git
3 17 (9.94%) GitLab
4 11 (6.43%) Jenkins
5 8 (4.68%) JUnit
5 8 (4.68%) Mockito
6 7 (4.09%) JIRA
7 6 (3.51%) Claude Code
8 5 (2.92%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 5 (2.92%) Bitbucket
9 3 (1.75%) Maven
9 3 (1.75%) Spock
10 2 (1.17%) Snyk
10 2 (1.17%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 1 (0.58%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.58%) JMeter
11 1 (0.58%) Locust
11 1 (0.58%) MLflow
11 1 (0.58%) Visual Studio Code
11 1 (0.58%) Vite
General
1 80 (46.78%) Finance
2 62 (36.26%) Banking
3 49 (28.65%) Law
4 47 (27.49%) Social Skills
5 44 (25.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 33 (19.30%) Retail
7 29 (16.96%) Analytical Skills
8 27 (15.79%) Financial Institution
9 22 (12.87%) Back Office
10 6 (3.51%) Marketing
11 5 (2.92%) Public Sector
12 4 (2.34%) Mandarin Language
13 3 (1.75%) Front Office
14 2 (1.17%) Presentation Skills
15 1 (0.58%) Aerospace
15 1 (0.58%) Documentation Skills
15 1 (0.58%) Legal
15 1 (0.58%) Retail Banking
15 1 (0.58%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 50 (29.24%) Software Engineer
2 31 (18.13%) Senior
3 30 (17.54%) Lead
4 27 (15.79%) DevOps Engineer
5 15 (8.77%) Senior Software Engineer
6 14 (8.19%) Azure Engineer
6 14 (8.19%) Cloud Engineer
7 11 (6.43%) Administrator
7 11 (6.43%) Automation Engineer
7 11 (6.43%) AWS Engineer
7 11 (6.43%) Developer
7 11 (6.43%) Lead Software Engineer
8 10 (5.85%) Machine Learning Engineer
8 10 (5.85%) Python Engineer
8 10 (5.85%) Site Engineer
8 10 (5.85%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 9 (5.26%) DevOps Systems Engineer
9 9 (5.26%) Linux DevOps Administrator
9 9 (5.26%) Linux Systems Engineer
9 9 (5.26%) Linux/Unix DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (7.02%) PyTorch
1 12 (7.02%) scikit-learn
1 12 (7.02%) TensorFlow
2 11 (6.43%) LangChain
3 9 (5.26%) LangGraph
3 9 (5.26%) React
3 9 (5.26%) Spring
3 9 (5.26%) Spring Boot
4 8 (4.68%) Kafka
4 8 (4.68%) REST
5 7 (4.09%) .NET
5 7 (4.09%) OAuth
5 7 (4.09%) OAuth2
5 7 (4.09%) OpenID
6 6 (3.51%) AWS CDK
7 5 (2.92%) FastAPI
7 5 (2.92%) Hibernate
7 5 (2.92%) JWT
7 5 (2.92%) Node.js
7 5 (2.92%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 69 (40.35%) Cloud Native
2 27 (15.79%) Product Ownership
3 15 (8.77%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (6.43%) Blog
5 10 (5.85%) AI Agents
6 7 (4.09%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (4.09%) Life Science
6 7 (4.09%) Management Information System
7 6 (3.51%) PKI
8 5 (2.92%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (2.34%) Blockchain
9 4 (2.34%) Data Fabric
9 4 (2.34%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (2.34%) Web3
10 3 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (1.17%) AS400
11 2 (1.17%) Derivative
11 2 (1.17%) iSeries
11 2 (1.17%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 26 (15.20%) Linux
2 15 (8.77%) CentOS
2 15 (8.77%) Windows
3 8 (4.68%) Windows Server
4 7 (4.09%) Apple iOS
5 6 (3.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (3.51%) Ubuntu
6 4 (2.34%) Mac OS
6 4 (2.34%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (1.17%) Amazon Linux
7 2 (1.17%) Android
7 2 (1.17%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (69.01%) CI/CD
2 83 (48.54%) DevOps
3 74 (43.27%) Software Engineering
4 73 (42.69%) Test Automation
5 57 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
6 49 (28.65%) AI
7 47 (27.49%) Observability
8 46 (26.90%) Continuous Improvement
9 44 (25.73%) Microservices
10 39 (22.81%) Mentoring
11 37 (21.64%) Agile
12 36 (21.05%) Clean Code
12 36 (21.05%) Continuous Deployment
13 35 (20.47%) Containerisation
14 29 (16.96%) Fintech
15 26 (15.20%) Machine Learning
16 25 (14.62%) Problem-Solving
17 24 (14.04%) Data Science
17 24 (14.04%) Low Latency
18 22 (12.87%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 70 (40.94%) Python
2 52 (30.41%) Java
3 25 (14.62%) SQL
4 24 (14.04%) PowerShell
5 23 (13.45%) Bash
6 13 (7.60%) TypeScript
7 8 (4.68%) JavaScript
8 7 (4.09%) C#
8 7 (4.09%) Go
9 4 (2.34%) Kusto Query Language
10 3 (1.75%) Bicep
10 3 (1.75%) Rust
10 3 (1.75%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.17%) Kotlin
11 2 (1.17%) RPG
12 1 (0.58%) C
12 1 (0.58%) C++
12 1 (0.58%) COBOL
12 1 (0.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.58%) VB
Qualifications
1 21 (12.28%) Degree
2 20 (11.70%) Security Cleared
3 12 (7.02%) SC Cleared
4 10 (5.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.34%) AWS Certification
5 4 (2.34%) Azure Certification
5 4 (2.34%) Postgraduate
6 3 (1.75%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.17%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.17%) PMP
8 1 (0.58%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.58%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (10.53%) QA
2 6 (3.51%) GDPR
2 6 (3.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (2.92%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.92%) SLA
4 2 (1.17%) NIST
4 2 (1.17%) PMO
4 2 (1.17%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.58%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.58%) GRC
5 1 (0.58%) WCAG
System Software
1 35 (20.47%) Docker
2 8 (4.68%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.75%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.58%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 81 (47.37%) Terraform
2 70 (40.94%) Kubernetes
3 55 (32.16%) Grafana
4 26 (15.20%) Ansible
5 10 (5.85%) Microsoft Intune
6 9 (5.26%) Nagios
7 8 (4.68%) Argo
7 8 (4.68%) Prometheus
8 6 (3.51%) Jamf Pro
9 3 (1.75%) SCCM
10 2 (1.17%) kaniko
10 2 (1.17%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.58%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 25 (14.62%) Microsoft
2 13 (7.60%) Google
3 11 (6.43%) Dynatrace
3 11 (6.43%) Splunk
4 10 (5.85%) OpenAI
5 9 (5.26%) Rapid7
5 9 (5.26%) Red Hat
6 7 (4.09%) Salesforce
7 5 (2.92%) Databricks
8 4 (2.34%) Apple
8 4 (2.34%) Oracle
9 3 (1.75%) Dell
9 3 (1.75%) iManage
9 3 (1.75%) Nexthink
10 2 (1.17%) Cognizant
10 2 (1.17%) CrowdStrike
10 2 (1.17%) Foundry
10 2 (1.17%) IBM
10 2 (1.17%) Thales
10 2 (1.17%) Zscaler