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

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 270 277 347
Rank change year-on-year +7 +70 -25
Permanent jobs citing Deployment Automation 158 113 135
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.70% 0.92% 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.85% 0.97% 0.70%
Number of salaries quoted 79 66 92
10th Percentile £54,300 £25,000 £65,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £60,000 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £73,750 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.86% -13.24% -5.56%
75th Percentile £107,500 £88,438 £102,500
90th Percentile £132,500 £118,125 £114,750
England median annual salary £70,000 £68,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +2.94% +4.62% -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 18,571 11,661 19,221
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 82.20% 94.57% 89.56%
Number of salaries quoted 12,710 7,357 13,578
10th Percentile £40,500 £40,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £52,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £122,500 £118,750
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 23 July 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 23 July 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 10 £93,750 +20.97% 18
East London -6 4 £65,000 -29.73% 3
West London -22 4 £85,000 +183.33% 2
South London +12 2 - - 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 5 (3.16%) Camunda
2 4 (2.53%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.53%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.53%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (2.53%) SAS
3 3 (1.90%) Apache
4 2 (1.27%) Appian
4 2 (1.27%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.63%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (1.90%) SPSS
2 1 (0.63%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.63%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.63%) Misys Equation
1 1 (0.63%) Misys Midas
Cloud Services
1 101 (63.92%) AWS
2 81 (51.27%) Azure
3 69 (43.67%) GCP
4 40 (25.32%) Amazon EKS
5 34 (21.52%) SaaS
6 23 (14.56%) Azure DevOps
7 16 (10.13%) Microsoft 365
8 15 (9.49%) Serverless
9 14 (8.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 11 (6.96%) Amazon ECS
11 10 (6.33%) AWS CloudFormation
11 10 (6.33%) Power Platform
12 9 (5.70%) Amazon S3
12 9 (5.70%) AWS Lambda
12 9 (5.70%) Datadog
12 9 (5.70%) OpenShift
13 8 (5.06%) Amazon ECR
13 8 (5.06%) GitHub
13 8 (5.06%) Vertex AI
14 7 (4.43%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.53%) Kerberos
1 4 (2.53%) NAS
2 3 (1.90%) Firewall
2 3 (1.90%) Network Security
3 2 (1.27%) BGP
3 2 (1.27%) Broadband
3 2 (1.27%) Intrusion Detection
3 2 (1.27%) SSH
3 2 (1.27%) SSL
4 1 (0.63%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (17.09%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (7.59%) Elasticsearch
3 11 (6.96%) SQL Server
4 9 (5.70%) MySQL
5 8 (5.06%) Power BI
6 7 (4.43%) Amazon RDS
7 6 (3.80%) Metadata
8 5 (3.16%) Amazon Aurora
8 5 (3.16%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (3.16%) DynamoDB
8 5 (3.16%) MongoDB
9 4 (2.53%) NoSQL
9 4 (2.53%) Pinecone
10 3 (1.90%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (1.90%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (1.27%) Delta Lake
11 2 (1.27%) Neo4j
11 2 (1.27%) Redis
11 2 (1.27%) Relational Database
11 2 (1.27%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 37 (23.42%) TeamCity
2 22 (13.92%) Git
3 15 (9.49%) GitLab
4 12 (7.59%) Jenkins
5 9 (5.70%) JUnit
6 8 (5.06%) Mockito
7 7 (4.43%) JIRA
8 6 (3.80%) Bitbucket
9 5 (3.16%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 4 (2.53%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 3 (1.90%) Maven
11 3 (1.90%) Spock
12 2 (1.27%) MLflow
13 1 (0.63%) CircleCI
13 1 (0.63%) Cucumber
13 1 (0.63%) Cypress.io
13 1 (0.63%) JMeter
13 1 (0.63%) Locust
13 1 (0.63%) Vite
General
1 73 (46.20%) Finance
2 59 (37.34%) Banking
3 43 (27.22%) Law
4 41 (25.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 37 (23.42%) Retail
6 36 (22.78%) Social Skills
7 25 (15.82%) Financial Institution
8 24 (15.19%) Analytical Skills
8 24 (15.19%) Back Office
9 4 (2.53%) Mandarin Language
9 4 (2.53%) Public Sector
10 3 (1.90%) Front Office
11 2 (1.27%) Aerospace
11 2 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.63%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.63%) Legal
12 1 (0.63%) Marketing
12 1 (0.63%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.63%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 50 (31.65%) Software Engineer
2 33 (20.89%) Senior
3 25 (15.82%) DevOps Engineer
3 25 (15.82%) Lead
4 15 (9.49%) Azure Engineer
5 14 (8.86%) Senior Software Engineer
6 13 (8.23%) Cloud Engineer
7 11 (6.96%) Developer
8 10 (6.33%) Administrator
8 10 (6.33%) Automation Engineer
8 10 (6.33%) Java Engineer
8 10 (6.33%) Java Software Engineer
8 10 (6.33%) Lead Software Engineer
9 9 (5.70%) Machine Learning Engineer
10 8 (5.06%) DevOps Administrator
10 8 (5.06%) DevOps Systems Engineer
10 8 (5.06%) Linux DevOps Engineer
10 8 (5.06%) Linux Engineer
10 8 (5.06%) Linux Systems Engineer
10 8 (5.06%) Linux/Unix DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (8.86%) PyTorch
1 14 (8.86%) scikit-learn
1 14 (8.86%) TensorFlow
2 11 (6.96%) LangChain
3 10 (6.33%) React
3 10 (6.33%) Spring
3 10 (6.33%) Spring Boot
4 9 (5.70%) .NET
4 9 (5.70%) LangGraph
4 9 (5.70%) OAuth
4 9 (5.70%) REST
5 7 (4.43%) JWT
5 7 (4.43%) Kafka
5 7 (4.43%) OAuth2
5 7 (4.43%) OpenID
5 7 (4.43%) RESTful
6 6 (3.80%) FastAPI
7 5 (3.16%) JPA
7 5 (3.16%) NumPy
7 5 (3.16%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 66 (41.77%) Cloud Native
2 27 (17.09%) Product Ownership
3 14 (8.86%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (8.23%) Blog
5 9 (5.70%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (4.43%) PKI
7 6 (3.80%) Management Information System
8 5 (3.16%) Analytical Mindset
8 5 (3.16%) Life Science
8 5 (3.16%) Onboarding
9 4 (2.53%) AI Agents
9 4 (2.53%) Blockchain
9 4 (2.53%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (2.53%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (2.53%) Web3
10 3 (1.90%) Replication
11 2 (1.27%) AS400
11 2 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (1.27%) Data Structures
11 2 (1.27%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 24 (15.19%) Linux
2 16 (10.13%) Windows
3 14 (8.86%) CentOS
4 8 (5.06%) Windows Server
5 7 (4.43%) Apple iOS
6 6 (3.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (3.80%) Ubuntu
7 4 (2.53%) Mac OS
7 4 (2.53%) VMS
7 4 (2.53%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (1.27%) Amazon Linux
8 2 (1.27%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (69.62%) CI/CD
2 77 (48.73%) DevOps
3 71 (44.94%) Software Engineering
4 70 (44.30%) Test Automation
5 48 (30.38%) Infrastructure as Code
6 46 (29.11%) Microservices
7 42 (26.58%) Clean Code
8 37 (23.42%) Continuous Deployment
9 36 (22.78%) Agile
10 34 (21.52%) Mentoring
11 33 (20.89%) AI
11 33 (20.89%) Observability
12 31 (19.62%) Continuous Improvement
12 31 (19.62%) Fintech
13 29 (18.35%) Containerisation
14 24 (15.19%) Problem-Solving
15 23 (14.56%) Low Latency
16 21 (13.29%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
17 20 (12.66%) Data Pipeline
17 20 (12.66%) Disruptive Innovation
Programming Languages
1 62 (39.24%) Python
2 55 (34.81%) Java
3 27 (17.09%) SQL
4 24 (15.19%) PowerShell
5 23 (14.56%) Bash
6 12 (7.59%) TypeScript
7 10 (6.33%) C#
8 9 (5.70%) JavaScript
9 6 (3.80%) Kusto Query Language
10 4 (2.53%) Go
11 3 (1.90%) Bicep
11 3 (1.90%) Kotlin
11 3 (1.90%) Rust
11 3 (1.90%) Shell Script
12 2 (1.27%) C++
12 2 (1.27%) RPG
13 1 (0.63%) C
13 1 (0.63%) COBOL
13 1 (0.63%) Scala
13 1 (0.63%) VB
Qualifications
1 20 (12.66%) Security Cleared
2 15 (9.49%) Degree
3 12 (7.59%) SC Cleared
4 6 (3.80%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (3.16%) Azure Certification
6 4 (2.53%) DV Cleared
6 4 (2.53%) Postgraduate
7 3 (1.90%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.27%) PMI Certification
8 2 (1.27%) PMP
9 1 (0.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (9.49%) QA
2 7 (4.43%) Data Quality
3 6 (3.80%) GDPR
4 5 (3.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (3.16%) SLA
5 2 (1.27%) NIST
5 2 (1.27%) PMO
5 2 (1.27%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.63%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.63%) WCAG
System Software
1 30 (18.99%) Docker
2 8 (5.06%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.90%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.63%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 76 (48.10%) Terraform
2 67 (42.41%) Kubernetes
3 52 (32.91%) Grafana
4 21 (13.29%) Ansible
5 12 (7.59%) Microsoft Intune
6 8 (5.06%) Nagios
7 7 (4.43%) Prometheus
8 6 (3.80%) Argo
8 6 (3.80%) Jamf Pro
9 3 (1.90%) SCCM
10 2 (1.27%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 24 (15.19%) Microsoft
2 13 (8.23%) Google
3 12 (7.59%) OpenAI
4 10 (6.33%) Splunk
5 9 (5.70%) Red Hat
6 8 (5.06%) Rapid7
7 6 (3.80%) Dynatrace
8 5 (3.16%) Salesforce
9 4 (2.53%) Apple
9 4 (2.53%) Databricks
10 3 (1.90%) Automation Anywhere
10 3 (1.90%) Dell
10 3 (1.90%) iManage
10 3 (1.90%) Nexthink
10 3 (1.90%) UiPath
11 2 (1.27%) Cognizant
11 2 (1.27%) CrowdStrike
11 2 (1.27%) Foundry
11 2 (1.27%) Thales
11 2 (1.27%) Zscaler