Deployment Automation
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Deployment Automation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Deployment Automation over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 503 435 351
Rank change year-on-year -68 -84 -67
Permanent jobs citing Deployment Automation 435 728 1,713
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.44% 0.70% 1.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.52% 0.73% 1.16%
Number of salaries quoted 335 507 808
10th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £42,425
25th Percentile £55,000 £59,254 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £77,500 £66,250
Median % change year-on-year -12.90% +16.98% +1.92%
75th Percentile £87,500 £100,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £112,500 £136,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £61,500 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.89% +12.50% +20.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Deployment Automation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,305 100,095 147,310
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.99% 95.64% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 59,591 58,745 83,129
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Deployment Automation
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Deployment Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Deployment Automation in the UK

Deployment Automation
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Deployment Automation.

Salary trend for Deployment Automation in the UK

Deployment Automation
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Deployment Automation over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Deployment Automation in the UK

Deployment Automation
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Deployment Automation within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
England -35 391 £67,500 -12.90% 97
UK excluding London -73 247 £61,500 -8.89% 72
Work from Home -23 183 £61,500 -15.17% 51
London -13 156 £100,000 +11.11% 38
South East +2 93 £61,500 -7.17% 13
North of England +5 64 £59,250 -15.36% 19
South West +20 54 £61,500 +2.50% 22
Yorkshire +55 30 £58,750 -17.66% 6
North West +5 30 £45,882 -30.37% 12
West Midlands +23 20 £57,500 +7.98% 5
Midlands -8 20 £57,500 +4.55% 5
Scotland -90 9 £24,000 -66.99% 9
East of England +5 7 £58,750 +56.67%
North East -3 4 £62,641 +13.89% 1
Northern Ireland +25 3 - - 3

Deployment Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 43 (9.89%) Umbraco
2 41 (9.43%) IIS
3 37 (8.51%) CMS
4 35 (8.05%) Headless CMS
4 35 (8.05%) Kentico
4 35 (8.05%) Sitecore CMS
5 15 (3.45%) SharePoint
6 13 (2.99%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (1.38%) Apache
8 4 (0.92%) nginx
9 3 (0.69%) CloudStack
10 2 (0.46%) Apache Airflow
10 2 (0.46%) Moodle
11 1 (0.23%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.23%) Confluence
11 1 (0.23%) Drupal
11 1 (0.23%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.23%) Mathematica
2 1 (0.23%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.23%) Notion
Business Applications
1 4 (0.92%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 223 (51.26%) Azure
2 214 (49.20%) AWS
3 102 (23.45%) Azure DevOps
4 74 (17.01%) GCP
5 70 (16.09%) Serverless
6 62 (14.25%) GitHub
7 56 (12.87%) Amazon EC2
8 54 (12.41%) Amazon S3
8 54 (12.41%) AWS Lambda
9 51 (11.72%) AWS CloudFormation
9 51 (11.72%) GitHub Actions
10 50 (11.49%) Amazon ECS
11 46 (10.57%) OpenShift
12 38 (8.74%) Amazon EKS
13 36 (8.28%) Amazon SQS
14 35 (8.05%) Kontent
15 32 (7.36%) SaaS
16 24 (5.52%) Datadog
17 23 (5.29%) PaaS
18 22 (5.06%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 19 (4.37%) Firewall
2 9 (2.07%) DNS
3 7 (1.61%) Internet
3 7 (1.61%) LAN
3 7 (1.61%) WAN
4 5 (1.15%) HTTP
5 4 (0.92%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.69%) iSCSI
6 3 (0.69%) NAS
6 3 (0.69%) VPN
7 2 (0.46%) Network Security
8 1 (0.23%) ADSL
8 1 (0.23%) Broadband
8 1 (0.23%) Cisco ASA
8 1 (0.23%) Cisco Wireless
8 1 (0.23%) FTP
8 1 (0.23%) MPLS
8 1 (0.23%) SMTP
8 1 (0.23%) SSL
8 1 (0.23%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (12.64%) Amazon RDS
2 37 (8.51%) Amazon Redshift
3 23 (5.29%) SQL Server
4 18 (4.14%) Elasticsearch
5 16 (3.68%) Metadata
6 12 (2.76%) NoSQL
7 10 (2.30%) MongoDB
7 10 (2.30%) Power BI
8 9 (2.07%) Azure SQL Database
8 9 (2.07%) Relational Database
9 8 (1.84%) Big Data
9 8 (1.84%) Data Warehouse
10 7 (1.61%) MySQL
10 7 (1.61%) Qlik Sense
10 7 (1.61%) Redis
10 7 (1.61%) Tableau
11 5 (1.15%) InfluxDB
12 4 (0.92%) InterSystems Cache
12 4 (0.92%) PostgreSQL
13 3 (0.69%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 119 (27.36%) Jenkins
2 83 (19.08%) Git
3 38 (8.74%) Artifactory
4 32 (7.36%) TeamCity
5 31 (7.13%) GitLab
6 30 (6.90%) CircleCI
7 23 (5.29%) Selenium
8 20 (4.60%) SonarQube
9 13 (2.99%) JIRA
10 10 (2.30%) Cucumber
11 9 (2.07%) Cypress.io
11 9 (2.07%) Visual Studio
12 8 (1.84%) git-flow
13 6 (1.38%) Maven
14 5 (1.15%) DTrace
14 5 (1.15%) FitNesse
14 5 (1.15%) GDB
14 5 (1.15%) MSI
14 5 (1.15%) Octopus Deploy
14 5 (1.15%) WebDriver
General
1 89 (20.46%) Finance
2 79 (18.16%) Social Skills
3 41 (9.43%) Banking
4 40 (9.20%) Public Sector
5 38 (8.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 36 (8.28%) Front Office
7 25 (5.75%) Law
7 25 (5.75%) Retail
8 19 (4.37%) Organisational Skills
9 17 (3.91%) Analytical Skills
10 10 (2.30%) Legal
11 9 (2.07%) Aerospace
12 8 (1.84%) Documentation Skills
13 6 (1.38%) Marketing
14 5 (1.15%) Investment Banking
15 4 (0.92%) Telecoms
16 2 (0.46%) Agriculture
16 2 (0.46%) Back Office
17 1 (0.23%) Presentation Skills
17 1 (0.23%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 112 (25.75%) DevOps Engineer
2 102 (23.45%) Developer
3 85 (19.54%) Senior
4 56 (12.87%) AWS Engineer
4 56 (12.87%) Lead
5 51 (11.72%) .NET Developer
6 47 (10.80%) Software Engineer
7 45 (10.34%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 44 (10.11%) Kubernetes Engineer
9 43 (9.89%) AWS DevOps
9 43 (9.89%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 43 (9.89%) Senior Developer
10 42 (9.66%) C# Developer
11 37 (8.51%) Applications Developer
12 36 (8.28%) Architect
12 36 (8.28%) C# .NET Developer
13 35 (8.05%) .NET Applications Developer
13 35 (8.05%) CMS Developer
14 34 (7.82%) Senior .NET Developer
14 34 (7.82%) Senior C# .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 123 (28.28%) .NET
2 81 (18.62%) React
3 71 (16.32%) ASP.NET
4 57 (13.10%) RESTful
5 56 (12.87%) .NET Core
6 51 (11.72%) .NET Framework
7 42 (9.66%) ASP.NET MVC
8 36 (8.28%) J2EE
9 35 (8.05%) Next.js
10 32 (7.36%) AngularJS
11 28 (6.44%) CSS
12 25 (5.75%) HTML
13 19 (4.37%) REST
14 18 (4.14%) Vue
15 17 (3.91%) Elastic Stack
16 15 (3.45%) Node.js
17 14 (3.22%) ARM Templates
17 14 (3.22%) Web Services
18 12 (2.76%) XML
19 11 (2.53%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 39 (8.97%) Self-Motivation
2 38 (8.74%) Public Cloud
3 36 (8.28%) Tandem
4 27 (6.21%) Management Information System
5 26 (5.98%) Onboarding
6 24 (5.52%) Cloud Native
6 24 (5.52%) Distributed Systems
7 21 (4.83%) Blog
8 15 (3.45%) Clustering
8 15 (3.45%) PlayStation
8 15 (3.45%) Virtual Team
9 13 (2.99%) Linux Command Line
10 11 (2.53%) Replication
11 10 (2.30%) Mobile App
12 8 (1.84%) Robotics
13 7 (1.61%) Client/Server
13 7 (1.61%) CMDB
13 7 (1.61%) Product Ownership
14 6 (1.38%) Hybrid Cloud
14 6 (1.38%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 66 (15.17%) Linux
2 61 (14.02%) Windows
3 29 (6.67%) Windows Server
4 16 (3.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 16 (3.68%) Windows Server 2019
5 14 (3.22%) Windows 10
5 14 (3.22%) Windows NT
5 14 (3.22%) Windows Server 2012
5 14 (3.22%) Windows Server 2016
6 13 (2.99%) Mac OS
7 12 (2.76%) Unix
8 11 (2.53%) Oracle Linux
9 9 (2.07%) Solaris
10 4 (0.92%) CentOS
10 4 (0.92%) VMS
11 3 (0.69%) Android
11 3 (0.69%) Apple iOS
11 3 (0.69%) SUSE
11 3 (0.69%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 1 (0.23%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 279 (64.14%) DevOps
2 206 (47.36%) CI/CD
3 145 (33.33%) Agile
4 144 (33.10%) Software Engineering
5 125 (28.74%) Containerisation
6 104 (23.91%) Continuous Integration
7 99 (22.76%) Test Automation
8 92 (21.15%) Infrastructure as Code
9 72 (16.55%) Problem-Solving
10 68 (15.63%) Microservices
11 56 (12.87%) Full Stack Development
11 56 (12.87%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 52 (11.95%) Computer Science
12 52 (11.95%) E-Commerce
12 52 (11.95%) Web Development
13 51 (11.72%) Presales
14 49 (11.26%) Mentoring
15 48 (11.03%) MVC
15 48 (11.03%) Project Delivery
16 47 (10.80%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 125 (28.74%) C#
2 115 (26.44%) Python
3 100 (22.99%) JavaScript
4 87 (20.00%) Java
5 71 (16.32%) SQL
6 70 (16.09%) PowerShell
7 55 (12.64%) Go
8 42 (9.66%) Bash
9 17 (3.91%) Shell Script
10 13 (2.99%) C
11 10 (2.30%) Ruby
11 10 (2.30%) TypeScript
12 9 (2.07%) C++
12 9 (2.07%) PHP
13 7 (1.61%) Perl
13 7 (1.61%) T-SQL
14 5 (1.15%) OCaml
14 5 (1.15%) SystemTap
14 5 (1.15%) XAML
15 4 (0.92%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 71 (16.32%) Security Cleared
2 60 (13.79%) Degree
3 41 (9.43%) Computer Science Degree
4 40 (9.20%) SC Cleared
5 34 (7.82%) AWS Certification
6 31 (7.13%) DV Cleared
7 20 (4.60%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 16 (3.68%) BPSS Clearance
9 11 (2.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 11 (2.53%) Azure Certification
10 8 (1.84%) Microsoft Certification
11 7 (1.61%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 3 (0.69%) Master's Degree
13 2 (0.46%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
14 1 (0.23%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (3.91%) QA
2 10 (2.30%) NCSC
3 8 (1.84%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (1.38%) ISO 9001
6 4 (0.92%) WAI
7 3 (0.69%) GDPR
7 3 (0.69%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.46%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.23%) WCAG
System Software
1 176 (40.46%) Docker
2 43 (9.89%) Active Directory
3 14 (3.22%) Firmware
4 9 (2.07%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (1.84%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (1.15%) Ceph
7 4 (0.92%) KVM
8 3 (0.69%) Gluster
8 3 (0.69%) oVirt
8 3 (0.69%) Virtual Servers
8 3 (0.69%) VirtualBox
8 3 (0.69%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.46%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.46%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 188 (43.22%) Kubernetes
2 162 (37.24%) Terraform
3 64 (14.71%) Ansible
4 30 (6.90%) Puppet
5 26 (5.98%) Grafana
6 23 (5.29%) SCCM
7 20 (4.60%) Prometheus
8 14 (3.22%) Consul
8 14 (3.22%) Sysprep
8 14 (3.22%) WSUS
9 11 (2.53%) Microsoft Intune
10 8 (1.84%) Progress Chef
11 7 (1.61%) Packer
12 5 (1.15%) Argo
12 5 (1.15%) Control-M
13 4 (0.92%) Proxmox
14 3 (0.69%) Graylog
14 3 (0.69%) Istio
14 3 (0.69%) Observium
14 3 (0.69%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 98 (22.53%) Microsoft
2 35 (8.05%) Optimizely
2 35 (8.05%) Sitecore
3 23 (5.29%) Google
4 17 (3.91%) IBM
4 17 (3.91%) Oracle
4 17 (3.91%) Salesforce
5 15 (3.45%) Facebook
5 15 (3.45%) Sony
6 11 (2.53%) BeyondTrust
6 11 (2.53%) CyberArk
6 11 (2.53%) Serena
6 11 (2.53%) ServiceNow
6 11 (2.53%) VMware
7 9 (2.07%) Red Hat
8 8 (1.84%) McAfee
9 7 (1.61%) Atlassian
10 6 (1.38%) BMC
11 4 (0.92%) InterSystems
11 4 (0.92%) Remedy