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

6 months to
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 287 285 315
Rank change year-on-year -2 +30 -16
Permanent jobs citing Deployment Automation 82 145 134
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.59% 0.93% 0.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.67% 0.98% 0.81%
Number of salaries quoted 37 97 108
10th Percentile £52,500 £65,750 £58,875
25th Percentile £62,500 £80,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £92,500 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.51% -2.63% +11.76%
75th Percentile £98,750 £116,250 £138,750
90th Percentile £113,750 £140,000 £143,750
England median annual salary £73,750 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +5.36% -6.67% -6.25%

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 12,224 14,732 16,531
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 87.82% 94.47% 92.43%
Number of salaries quoted 7,825 8,124 13,256
10th Percentile £36,250 £43,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £56,250 £56,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.33% - -
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £120,000 £116,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 8 January 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 8 January 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 +30 5 £87,500 +2.94% 11
West London +2 2 £75,000 - 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 8 (9.76%) Appian
2 2 (2.44%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.44%) nginx
3 1 (1.22%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.22%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (1.22%) IIS
3 1 (1.22%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (1.22%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 42 (51.22%) Azure
2 41 (50.00%) AWS
3 26 (31.71%) GCP
4 20 (24.39%) Amazon EKS
5 18 (21.95%) Azure DevOps
6 17 (20.73%) SaaS
7 14 (17.07%) GitHub
8 13 (15.85%) GitHub Actions
9 10 (12.20%) Azure Data Factory
10 9 (10.98%) Anthropic Claude
10 9 (10.98%) Azure AI
11 8 (9.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 8 (9.76%) Power Automate
12 7 (8.54%) Serverless
13 6 (7.32%) AWS Lambda
14 5 (6.10%) Azure Pipelines
14 5 (6.10%) Power Platform
14 5 (6.10%) Salesforce Service Cloud
15 4 (4.88%) Azure AKS
15 4 (4.88%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.10%) Firewall
2 3 (3.66%) DNS
3 2 (2.44%) BGP
3 2 (2.44%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (2.44%) MQTT
3 2 (2.44%) OSPF
3 2 (2.44%) Reverse Proxy
3 2 (2.44%) RTMP
3 2 (2.44%) SSL
3 2 (2.44%) TCP/IP
3 2 (2.44%) VLAN
3 2 (2.44%) VPN
3 2 (2.44%) WAN
3 2 (2.44%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (2.44%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (12.20%) SQL Server
2 8 (9.76%) Pinecone
3 7 (8.54%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (7.32%) Tick Data
5 4 (4.88%) MySQL
5 4 (4.88%) Power BI
6 3 (3.66%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (2.44%) Data Lake
7 2 (2.44%) Metadata
7 2 (2.44%) MongoDB
7 2 (2.44%) Tableau
8 1 (1.22%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (1.22%) Amazon QuickSight
8 1 (1.22%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (1.22%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.22%) BigQuery
8 1 (1.22%) Delta Lake
8 1 (1.22%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (1.22%) Looker
8 1 (1.22%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 18 (21.95%) TeamCity
2 11 (13.41%) Jenkins
3 10 (12.20%) MLflow
4 7 (8.54%) Git
4 7 (8.54%) GitLab
5 3 (3.66%) Artifactory
6 2 (2.44%) Gradle
6 2 (2.44%) Jaeger
6 2 (2.44%) Maven
6 2 (2.44%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (2.44%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (1.22%) JIRA
7 1 (1.22%) LoadRunner
7 1 (1.22%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (1.22%) Selenium
General
1 35 (42.68%) Finance
2 23 (28.05%) Banking
3 20 (24.39%) Social Skills
4 18 (21.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 17 (20.73%) Law
5 17 (20.73%) Retail
6 16 (19.51%) Financial Institution
7 15 (18.29%) Back Office
8 4 (4.88%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (4.88%) Marketing
9 3 (3.66%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (3.66%) Legal
9 3 (3.66%) Retail Banking
10 2 (2.44%) Agriculture
11 1 (1.22%) Automotive
11 1 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (1.22%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 16 (19.51%) Software Engineer
2 12 (14.63%) Developer
2 12 (14.63%) DevOps Engineer
2 12 (14.63%) Lead
2 12 (14.63%) Senior
3 8 (9.76%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 8 (9.76%) Automation Engineer
4 7 (8.54%) Java Engineer
4 7 (8.54%) Java Software Engineer
5 6 (7.32%) Azure Engineer
5 6 (7.32%) Data Warehouse Developer
5 6 (7.32%) ETL Developer
5 6 (7.32%) Market Data Developer
5 6 (7.32%) Platform Engineer
5 6 (7.32%) Senior Software Engineer
6 5 (6.10%) AWS Developer
6 5 (6.10%) Python Developer
7 4 (4.88%) Analyst
7 4 (4.88%) Cloud Engineer
7 4 (4.88%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (13.41%) FastAPI
2 10 (12.20%) REST
3 9 (10.98%) Flask
3 9 (10.98%) RESTful
4 8 (9.76%) .NET
4 8 (9.76%) Django
4 8 (9.76%) Faiss
4 8 (9.76%) Hugging Face
4 8 (9.76%) JWT
4 8 (9.76%) NumPy
4 8 (9.76%) OAuth
4 8 (9.76%) OpenAPI
4 8 (9.76%) Pandas
4 8 (9.76%) pytest
4 8 (9.76%) PyTorch
4 8 (9.76%) scikit-learn
4 8 (9.76%) Swagger
4 8 (9.76%) TensorFlow
4 8 (9.76%) Web Services
5 5 (6.10%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 23 (28.05%) Cloud Native
2 8 (9.76%) Legacy Systems
2 8 (9.76%) Low-Code
3 6 (7.32%) Product Ownership
4 4 (4.88%) Management Information System
5 3 (3.66%) IoT
6 2 (2.44%) Blog
6 2 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.44%) IVR
6 2 (2.44%) MPEG
6 2 (2.44%) Robotics
6 2 (2.44%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.22%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.22%) AS400
7 1 (1.22%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.22%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (1.22%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.22%) iSeries
7 1 (1.22%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 14 (17.07%) Linux
2 7 (8.54%) Windows
3 3 (3.66%) Windows Server
4 2 (2.44%) CentOS
5 1 (1.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.22%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (76.83%) CI/CD
2 45 (54.88%) Test Automation
3 42 (51.22%) DevOps
4 26 (31.71%) Infrastructure as Code
5 25 (30.49%) Clean Code
6 23 (28.05%) AI
7 19 (23.17%) Agile
7 19 (23.17%) Software Engineering
8 18 (21.95%) Containerisation
8 18 (21.95%) Microservices
9 17 (20.73%) Continuous Deployment
9 17 (20.73%) Observability
10 16 (19.51%) ETL
11 13 (15.85%) Machine Learning
12 12 (14.63%) Data Pipeline
12 12 (14.63%) MLOps
12 12 (14.63%) Requirements Gathering
13 11 (13.41%) Data Engineering
13 11 (13.41%) Incident Response
13 11 (13.41%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 38 (46.34%) Python
2 17 (20.73%) Java
3 14 (17.07%) SQL
4 13 (15.85%) Bash
5 12 (14.63%) PowerShell
6 11 (13.41%) Bicep
7 9 (10.98%) C#
8 7 (8.54%) JavaScript
8 7 (8.54%) TypeScript
9 2 (2.44%) Go
9 2 (2.44%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.22%) C++
10 1 (1.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (1.22%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (1.22%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (8.54%) Azure Certification
1 7 (8.54%) Security Cleared
2 6 (7.32%) Degree
3 5 (6.10%) SC Cleared
4 4 (4.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.66%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.22%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.22%) MCSE
6 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.22%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.22%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (13.41%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.88%) QA
3 2 (2.44%) GRC
3 2 (2.44%) NIST
4 1 (1.22%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.22%) EU AI Act
4 1 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 28 (34.15%) Docker
2 2 (2.44%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.44%) NFS
3 1 (1.22%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 46 (56.10%) Kubernetes
2 44 (53.66%) Terraform
3 29 (35.37%) Grafana
4 10 (12.20%) Ansible
5 9 (10.98%) Prometheus
6 4 (4.88%) Argo
6 4 (4.88%) logstash
7 1 (1.22%) Nagios
Vendors
1 9 (10.98%) Microsoft
2 8 (9.76%) Automation Anywhere
2 8 (9.76%) OpenAI
2 8 (9.76%) UiPath
3 7 (8.54%) Databricks
4 5 (6.10%) Salesforce
4 5 (6.10%) Splunk
5 3 (3.66%) Cisco
6 2 (2.44%) Dynatrace
6 2 (2.44%) MikroTik
6 2 (2.44%) NETGEAR
6 2 (2.44%) Rapid7
6 2 (2.44%) Red Hat
6 2 (2.44%) Sonatype
6 2 (2.44%) Starlink
6 2 (2.44%) Ubiquiti
7 1 (1.22%) Concur
7 1 (1.22%) Pega
7 1 (1.22%) Sage
7 1 (1.22%) VMware