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

6 months to
19 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 288 290 335
Rank change year-on-year +2 +45 -33
Permanent jobs citing Deployment Automation 86 140 133
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.60% 0.91% 0.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.69% 0.96% 0.76%
Number of salaries quoted 37 94 110
10th Percentile £52,500 £64,825 £56,139
25th Percentile £62,500 £80,000 £62,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,217 £95,000 £98,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.72% -3.55% +12.57%
75th Percentile £98,750 £130,000 £126,250
90th Percentile £113,750 £140,000 £143,750
England median annual salary £67,750 £70,000 £70,576
% change year-on-year -3.21% -0.82% -11.78%

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 12,430 14,629 17,538
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 87.36% 94.69% 92.19%
Number of salaries quoted 7,910 7,999 14,056
10th Percentile £36,250 £43,245 £40,726
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,357 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
75th Percentile £96,250 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £121,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £59,556
% change year-on-year -8.33% +0.75% -4.71%

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 19 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 19 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 +28 5 £87,500 +2.94% 13
West London +2 2 £75,000 +150.00% 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 10 (11.63%) Appian
2 2 (2.33%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.33%) BizTalk Server
2 2 (2.33%) nginx
3 1 (1.16%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.16%) IIS
3 1 (1.16%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (2.33%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 46 (53.49%) AWS
2 44 (51.16%) Azure
3 29 (33.72%) GCP
4 25 (29.07%) Amazon EKS
5 19 (22.09%) Azure DevOps
5 19 (22.09%) SaaS
6 15 (17.44%) GitHub
7 14 (16.28%) GitHub Actions
8 12 (13.95%) Azure Data Factory
9 11 (12.79%) Anthropic Claude
9 11 (12.79%) Azure AI
10 10 (11.63%) Power Automate
11 9 (10.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 7 (8.14%) Serverless
13 6 (6.98%) AWS Lambda
14 5 (5.81%) Azure Pipelines
14 5 (5.81%) Power Platform
14 5 (5.81%) Salesforce Service Cloud
15 4 (4.65%) Azure AKS
15 4 (4.65%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.81%) Firewall
2 3 (3.49%) DNS
3 2 (2.33%) BGP
3 2 (2.33%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (2.33%) MQTT
3 2 (2.33%) OSPF
3 2 (2.33%) Reverse Proxy
3 2 (2.33%) RTMP
3 2 (2.33%) SSL
3 2 (2.33%) TCP/IP
3 2 (2.33%) VLAN
3 2 (2.33%) VPN
3 2 (2.33%) WAN
3 2 (2.33%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (2.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (15.12%) SQL Server
2 10 (11.63%) Pinecone
3 4 (4.65%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (4.65%) MySQL
3 4 (4.65%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (4.65%) Power BI
4 3 (3.49%) Tick Data
5 2 (2.33%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (2.33%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (2.33%) Data Lake
5 2 (2.33%) Metadata
5 2 (2.33%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.33%) Tableau
6 1 (1.16%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.16%) BigQuery
6 1 (1.16%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 1 (1.16%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (1.16%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (1.16%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 23 (26.74%) TeamCity
2 12 (13.95%) MLflow
3 11 (12.79%) Jenkins
4 7 (8.14%) Git
5 6 (6.98%) GitLab
6 4 (4.65%) Artifactory
7 3 (3.49%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 2 (2.33%) Gradle
8 2 (2.33%) Jaeger
8 2 (2.33%) Maven
8 2 (2.33%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (2.33%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (1.16%) JIRA
General
1 37 (43.02%) Finance
2 27 (31.40%) Banking
3 22 (25.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 22 (25.58%) Social Skills
4 21 (24.42%) Law
4 21 (24.42%) Retail
5 18 (20.93%) Financial Institution
6 17 (19.77%) Back Office
7 4 (4.65%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (3.49%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (3.49%) Legal
8 3 (3.49%) Retail Banking
9 2 (2.33%) Agriculture
9 2 (2.33%) Marketing
10 1 (1.16%) Automotive
10 1 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.16%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 19 (22.09%) Software Engineer
2 13 (15.12%) Lead
3 12 (13.95%) DevOps Engineer
3 12 (13.95%) Senior
4 10 (11.63%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 10 (11.63%) Automation Engineer
5 9 (10.47%) Developer
6 8 (9.30%) Java Engineer
6 8 (9.30%) Java Software Engineer
7 7 (8.14%) Azure Engineer
7 7 (8.14%) Platform Engineer
8 6 (6.98%) Senior Software Engineer
9 5 (5.81%) AWS Developer
9 5 (5.81%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 5 (5.81%) Cloud Engineer
9 5 (5.81%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 4 (4.65%) AWS Engineer
10 4 (4.65%) AWS Platform Engineer
10 4 (4.65%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 4 (4.65%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (15.12%) FastAPI
2 12 (13.95%) REST
3 11 (12.79%) Flask
3 11 (12.79%) RESTful
4 10 (11.63%) Django
4 10 (11.63%) Faiss
4 10 (11.63%) Hugging Face
4 10 (11.63%) JWT
4 10 (11.63%) NumPy
4 10 (11.63%) OAuth
4 10 (11.63%) OpenAPI
4 10 (11.63%) Pandas
4 10 (11.63%) pytest
4 10 (11.63%) PyTorch
4 10 (11.63%) scikit-learn
4 10 (11.63%) Swagger
4 10 (11.63%) TensorFlow
4 10 (11.63%) Web Services
5 9 (10.47%) .NET
6 5 (5.81%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 27 (31.40%) Cloud Native
2 10 (11.63%) Legacy Systems
2 10 (11.63%) Low-Code
3 8 (9.30%) Product Ownership
4 4 (4.65%) Blog
5 3 (3.49%) IoT
6 2 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.33%) IVR
6 2 (2.33%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.33%) MPEG
6 2 (2.33%) Robotics
6 2 (2.33%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.16%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.16%) AS400
7 1 (1.16%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.16%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (1.16%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.16%) iSeries
7 1 (1.16%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.16%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 14 (16.28%) Linux
2 8 (9.30%) Windows
3 4 (4.65%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.16%) CentOS
4 1 (1.16%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (82.56%) CI/CD
2 50 (58.14%) Test Automation
3 44 (51.16%) DevOps
4 31 (36.05%) Clean Code
5 28 (32.56%) Infrastructure as Code
6 25 (29.07%) AI
7 22 (25.58%) Software Engineering
8 21 (24.42%) Continuous Deployment
9 20 (23.26%) Microservices
10 18 (20.93%) Containerisation
10 18 (20.93%) Observability
11 15 (17.44%) Agile
11 15 (17.44%) ETL
11 15 (17.44%) Machine Learning
12 14 (16.28%) Data Pipeline
12 14 (16.28%) MLOps
12 14 (16.28%) Stakeholder Management
13 13 (15.12%) Data Engineering
13 13 (15.12%) LLM
13 13 (15.12%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 37 (43.02%) Python
2 21 (24.42%) Java
3 17 (19.77%) SQL
4 13 (15.12%) Bash
4 13 (15.12%) PowerShell
5 11 (12.79%) Bicep
6 9 (10.47%) C#
7 8 (9.30%) JavaScript
7 8 (9.30%) TypeScript
8 2 (2.33%) Go
8 2 (2.33%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.16%) C++
9 1 (1.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (1.16%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (1.16%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (9.30%) Security Cleared
2 7 (8.14%) Azure Certification
2 7 (8.14%) Degree
3 6 (6.98%) SC Cleared
4 4 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.49%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.16%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.16%) MCSE
6 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.16%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.16%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (15.12%) Data Quality
2 5 (5.81%) QA
3 2 (2.33%) GRC
3 2 (2.33%) NIST
4 1 (1.16%) EU AI Act
4 1 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 29 (33.72%) Docker
2 3 (3.49%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.33%) NFS
3 2 (2.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 55 (63.95%) Kubernetes
2 50 (58.14%) Terraform
3 34 (39.53%) Grafana
4 10 (11.63%) Ansible
4 10 (11.63%) Prometheus
5 4 (4.65%) Argo
5 4 (4.65%) logstash
6 1 (1.16%) Nagios
Vendors
1 10 (11.63%) Automation Anywhere
1 10 (11.63%) OpenAI
1 10 (11.63%) UiPath
2 9 (10.47%) Microsoft
3 5 (5.81%) Salesforce
4 4 (4.65%) Databricks
4 4 (4.65%) Splunk
5 3 (3.49%) Cisco
6 2 (2.33%) Dynatrace
6 2 (2.33%) MikroTik
6 2 (2.33%) NETGEAR
6 2 (2.33%) Pega
6 2 (2.33%) Rapid7
6 2 (2.33%) Sonatype
6 2 (2.33%) Starlink
6 2 (2.33%) Ubiquiti
6 2 (2.33%) VMware
7 1 (1.16%) Concur
7 1 (1.16%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.16%) Sage