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 17 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 256 307 351
Rank change year-on-year +51 +44 -35
Permanent jobs citing Deployment Automation 207 87 113
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.82% 0.73% 0.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.02% 0.77% 0.66%
Number of salaries quoted 94 46 67
10th Percentile £54,825 £51,250 £63,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £60,000 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £109,375 £88,438 £92,500
90th Percentile £130,250 £113,125 £105,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +15.38% -9.72%

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 20,301 11,233 17,147
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 80.87% 94.14% 89.41%
Number of salaries quoted 13,734 7,113 10,472
10th Percentile £41,038 £38,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
75th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £96,250
90th Percentile £106,250 £122,500 £120,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -7.26%

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 17 September 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 17 September 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 +8 16 £80,000 +14.29% 28
East London +2 8 £65,000 - 6
West London -16 3 - - 15
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 (2.42%) Camunda
1 5 (2.42%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.93%) SAS
3 3 (1.45%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.97%) Apache
4 2 (0.97%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.97%) Cloud Foundry
4 2 (0.97%) nginx
5 1 (0.48%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.48%) Confluence
5 1 (0.48%) JBoss
5 1 (0.48%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 2 (0.97%) SPSS
2 1 (0.48%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.48%) ProjectWise
2 1 (0.48%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.48%) Misys Equation
1 1 (0.48%) Misys Midas
1 1 (0.48%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 124 (59.90%) AWS
2 105 (50.72%) Azure
3 96 (46.38%) GCP
4 38 (18.36%) Amazon EKS
5 31 (14.98%) Azure DevOps
5 31 (14.98%) GitHub
6 27 (13.04%) SaaS
7 17 (8.21%) Datadog
7 17 (8.21%) Microsoft 365
8 15 (7.25%) Amazon ECS
8 15 (7.25%) Serverless
9 13 (6.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 13 (6.28%) Power Platform
10 11 (5.31%) AWS CloudFormation
11 10 (4.83%) OpenShift
12 9 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
12 9 (4.35%) GitHub Copilot
12 9 (4.35%) Vertex AI
13 8 (3.86%) Amazon ECR
13 8 (3.86%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.93%) Kerberos
1 4 (1.93%) NAS
2 3 (1.45%) Firewall
2 3 (1.45%) VPN
3 2 (0.97%) Broadband
3 2 (0.97%) SSH
3 2 (0.97%) SSL
4 1 (0.48%) BGP
4 1 (0.48%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (0.48%) Network Security
4 1 (0.48%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (15.94%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (5.80%) Elasticsearch
3 11 (5.31%) MySQL
3 11 (5.31%) Power BI
4 9 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
4 9 (4.35%) SQL Server
5 7 (3.38%) MongoDB
5 7 (3.38%) NoSQL
6 6 (2.90%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (2.90%) Metadata
7 5 (2.42%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (1.93%) Redis
9 3 (1.45%) Data Lake
9 3 (1.45%) Relational Database
10 2 (0.97%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (0.97%) BigQuery
10 2 (0.97%) CockroachDB
10 2 (0.97%) Delta Lake
10 2 (0.97%) Neo4j
10 2 (0.97%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 34 (16.43%) TeamCity
2 29 (14.01%) Git
3 23 (11.11%) Jenkins
4 19 (9.18%) GitLab
5 9 (4.35%) JUnit
6 8 (3.86%) JIRA
6 8 (3.86%) Mockito
7 6 (2.90%) Bitbucket
7 6 (2.90%) Claude Code
8 5 (2.42%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 3 (1.45%) Maven
9 3 (1.45%) Spock
9 3 (1.45%) Visual Studio Code
10 2 (0.97%) Snyk
11 1 (0.48%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.48%) MLflow
11 1 (0.48%) Visual Studio Team System
11 1 (0.48%) Vite
General
1 87 (42.03%) Finance
2 68 (32.85%) Banking
3 60 (28.99%) Social Skills
4 50 (24.15%) Law
5 46 (22.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 34 (16.43%) Retail
7 31 (14.98%) Analytical Skills
8 26 (12.56%) Financial Institution
9 22 (10.63%) Back Office
10 8 (3.86%) Marketing
11 5 (2.42%) Public Sector
12 4 (1.93%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (1.45%) Mandarin Language
14 2 (0.97%) Aviation
14 2 (0.97%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.97%) Legal
14 2 (0.97%) Military
15 1 (0.48%) Aerospace
15 1 (0.48%) Front Office
15 1 (0.48%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 62 (29.95%) Software Engineer
2 40 (19.32%) Senior
3 36 (17.39%) Lead
4 31 (14.98%) DevOps Engineer
5 24 (11.59%) Cloud Engineer
6 18 (8.70%) Developer
6 18 (8.70%) Senior Software Engineer
7 15 (7.25%) Java Engineer
8 14 (6.76%) Automation Engineer
8 14 (6.76%) Machine Learning Engineer
9 13 (6.28%) Azure Engineer
9 13 (6.28%) Java Software Engineer
10 12 (5.80%) Site Engineer
10 12 (5.80%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 10 (4.83%) Administrator
11 10 (4.83%) Senior Java Engineer
12 9 (4.35%) Architect
12 9 (4.35%) AWS Engineer
12 9 (4.35%) Lead Software Engineer
13 8 (3.86%) Cloud Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 102 (49.28%) Terraform
2 19 (9.18%) REST
3 16 (7.73%) PyTorch
3 16 (7.73%) scikit-learn
3 16 (7.73%) TensorFlow
4 15 (7.25%) LangChain
5 13 (6.28%) .NET
5 13 (6.28%) LangGraph
5 13 (6.28%) React
6 10 (4.83%) Spring
7 9 (4.35%) Kafka
7 9 (4.35%) Spring Boot
8 8 (3.86%) OAuth
8 8 (3.86%) OAuth2
9 7 (3.38%) OpenID
9 7 (3.38%) RESTful
10 6 (2.90%) AngularJS
10 6 (2.90%) AWS CDK
10 6 (2.90%) JWT
11 5 (2.42%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 89 (43.00%) Cloud Native
2 41 (19.81%) Product Ownership
3 23 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
4 19 (9.18%) AI Agents
5 13 (6.28%) Blog
6 8 (3.86%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (3.86%) Management Information System
7 7 (3.38%) Life Science
8 6 (2.90%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (2.42%) PKI
9 5 (2.42%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 4 (1.93%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (1.93%) Data Fabric
10 4 (1.93%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (1.45%) Blockchain
11 3 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (1.45%) Enterprise Cloud
11 3 (1.45%) Legacy Applications
11 3 (1.45%) Onboarding
11 3 (1.45%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 28 (13.53%) Linux
2 15 (7.25%) Windows
3 13 (6.28%) CentOS
4 7 (3.38%) Windows Server
5 6 (2.90%) Apple iOS
6 5 (2.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (2.42%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.93%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (1.45%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.97%) Amazon Linux
9 2 (0.97%) Android
9 2 (0.97%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 153 (73.91%) CI/CD
2 106 (51.21%) DevOps
3 93 (44.93%) Software Engineering
4 84 (40.58%) Test Automation
5 78 (37.68%) AI
5 78 (37.68%) Infrastructure as Code
6 61 (29.47%) Continuous Improvement
7 56 (27.05%) Observability
8 51 (24.64%) Microservices
9 47 (22.71%) Mentoring
10 43 (20.77%) Agile
10 43 (20.77%) Containerisation
11 42 (20.29%) Clean Code
12 38 (18.36%) Technical Leadership
13 37 (17.87%) Continuous Deployment
13 37 (17.87%) Machine Learning
14 36 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
15 31 (14.98%) Data Science
16 27 (13.04%) Fintech
16 27 (13.04%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 82 (39.61%) Python
2 56 (27.05%) Java
3 30 (14.49%) SQL
4 28 (13.53%) PowerShell
5 23 (11.11%) Bash
6 14 (6.76%) TypeScript
7 13 (6.28%) C#
8 8 (3.86%) Go
8 8 (3.86%) JavaScript
9 4 (1.93%) Bicep
10 3 (1.45%) C++
11 2 (0.97%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.97%) RPG
11 2 (0.97%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.48%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.48%) Rust
12 1 (0.48%) Scala
12 1 (0.48%) SOQL
12 1 (0.48%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 24 (11.59%) Degree
2 22 (10.63%) Security Cleared
3 15 (7.25%) Computer Science Degree
4 13 (6.28%) SC Cleared
5 6 (2.90%) Azure Certification
6 5 (2.42%) AWS Certification
6 5 (2.42%) DV Cleared
6 5 (2.42%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.45%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 3 (1.45%) PMI Certification
7 3 (1.45%) Postgraduate
8 2 (0.97%) PMP
9 1 (0.48%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (7.73%) QA
2 8 (3.86%) GDPR
3 6 (2.90%) SLA
4 5 (2.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.93%) Data Quality
6 3 (1.45%) PMO
7 2 (0.97%) NIST
8 1 (0.48%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.48%) GRC
8 1 (0.48%) SOC 2
System Software
1 41 (19.81%) Docker
2 9 (4.35%) Active Directory
3 5 (2.42%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.48%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 82 (39.61%) Kubernetes
2 58 (28.02%) Grafana
3 29 (14.01%) Ansible
4 10 (4.83%) Argo
4 10 (4.83%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (3.86%) Nagios
5 8 (3.86%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.93%) Jamf Pro
7 3 (1.45%) Istio
7 3 (1.45%) SCCM
8 2 (0.97%) kaniko
9 1 (0.48%) Cilium
9 1 (0.48%) Kibana
9 1 (0.48%) Kubeflow
9 1 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 38 (18.36%) Microsoft
2 18 (8.70%) Google
3 15 (7.25%) Dynatrace
4 11 (5.31%) Splunk
5 10 (4.83%) OpenAI
6 9 (4.35%) Salesforce
7 8 (3.86%) Rapid7
7 8 (3.86%) Red Hat
8 5 (2.42%) Oracle
9 4 (1.93%) Dell
10 3 (1.45%) Apple
10 3 (1.45%) IBM
10 3 (1.45%) iManage
10 3 (1.45%) Nexthink
11 2 (0.97%) Cognizant
11 2 (0.97%) Databricks
11 2 (0.97%) Foundry
11 2 (0.97%) Mistral
11 2 (0.97%) SAP
11 2 (0.97%) Thales