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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 503 446 344
Rank change year-on-year -57 -102 -54
Permanent jobs citing Deployment Automation 444 684 1,727
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.45% 0.67% 1.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.52% 0.71% 1.15%
Number of salaries quoted 346 472 763
10th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,500 £57,500 £52,383
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £77,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.90% +19.23% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £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 84,809 96,894 150,102
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.57% 95.61% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 59,843 56,945 82,179
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,550
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 9 May 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 9 May 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 -16 402 £67,500 -12.90% 97
UK excluding London -68 256 £61,500 -8.89% 69
Work from Home -21 186 £61,500 -15.17% 48
London -21 158 £100,000 +11.11% 32
South East -29 93 £61,500 -7.17% 13
North of England +21 71 £61,000 -12.86% 19
South West +9 57 £61,500 +1.65% 18
Yorkshire +63 36 £68,000 -2.86% 4
North West +10 32 £45,882 -34.46% 15
West Midlands +11 20 £57,500 +7.98% 10
Midlands -20 20 £57,500 +4.55% 12
Scotland -92 9 £24,000 -66.99% 5
East of England +11 6 £58,750 +56.67% 2
Northern Ireland +21 3 - -
North East -6 3 £62,783 +14.15%

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 44 (9.91%) Umbraco
2 41 (9.23%) IIS
3 38 (8.56%) CMS
4 36 (8.11%) Headless CMS
4 36 (8.11%) Kentico
4 36 (8.11%) Sitecore CMS
5 15 (3.38%) SharePoint
6 11 (2.48%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (1.35%) Apache
8 4 (0.90%) nginx
9 3 (0.68%) CloudStack
10 2 (0.45%) Apache Airflow
10 2 (0.45%) Moodle
11 1 (0.23%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.23%) Confluence
11 1 (0.23%) Drupal
11 1 (0.23%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (1.58%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.23%) Mathematica
2 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.23%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.23%) Notion
Business Applications
1 6 (1.35%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 235 (52.93%) Azure
2 216 (48.65%) AWS
3 104 (23.42%) Azure DevOps
4 79 (17.79%) GCP
5 67 (15.09%) GitHub
6 62 (13.96%) Serverless
7 56 (12.61%) GitHub Actions
8 51 (11.49%) Amazon EC2
9 48 (10.81%) Amazon ECS
9 48 (10.81%) Amazon S3
9 48 (10.81%) AWS CloudFormation
10 46 (10.36%) AWS Lambda
11 42 (9.46%) OpenShift
12 36 (8.11%) Kontent
13 35 (7.88%) Amazon EKS
14 32 (7.21%) Amazon SQS
14 32 (7.21%) SaaS
15 27 (6.08%) Datadog
16 24 (5.41%) Entra ID
16 24 (5.41%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (4.28%) Firewall
2 11 (2.48%) DNS
3 7 (1.58%) LAN
3 7 (1.58%) WAN
4 6 (1.35%) Internet
5 5 (1.13%) HTTP
6 4 (0.90%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.68%) iSCSI
7 3 (0.68%) NAS
7 3 (0.68%) VPN
8 2 (0.45%) Network Security
9 1 (0.23%) ADSL
9 1 (0.23%) Broadband
9 1 (0.23%) Cisco ASA
9 1 (0.23%) Cisco Wireless
9 1 (0.23%) FTP
9 1 (0.23%) MPLS
9 1 (0.23%) SMTP
9 1 (0.23%) SSL
9 1 (0.23%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (11.49%) Amazon RDS
2 32 (7.21%) Amazon Redshift
3 22 (4.95%) SQL Server
4 18 (4.05%) Elasticsearch
5 15 (3.38%) Metadata
6 10 (2.25%) MongoDB
6 10 (2.25%) NoSQL
6 10 (2.25%) Power BI
7 9 (2.03%) Relational Database
8 8 (1.80%) Azure SQL Database
8 8 (1.80%) Big Data
9 7 (1.58%) Data Warehouse
9 7 (1.58%) MySQL
9 7 (1.58%) Qlik Sense
9 7 (1.58%) Tableau
10 6 (1.35%) InfluxDB
10 6 (1.35%) Redis
11 4 (0.90%) InterSystems Cache
11 4 (0.90%) PostgreSQL
12 3 (0.68%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 116 (26.13%) Jenkins
2 83 (18.69%) Git
3 35 (7.88%) CircleCI
4 33 (7.43%) Artifactory
5 32 (7.21%) TeamCity
6 30 (6.76%) GitLab
7 22 (4.95%) Selenium
8 18 (4.05%) SonarQube
9 12 (2.70%) JIRA
10 10 (2.25%) Visual Studio
11 9 (2.03%) Cucumber
11 9 (2.03%) Cypress.io
12 6 (1.35%) git-flow
12 6 (1.35%) Maven
13 5 (1.13%) AdminStudio
13 5 (1.13%) DTrace
13 5 (1.13%) GDB
13 5 (1.13%) MSI
14 4 (0.90%) Octopus Deploy
14 4 (0.90%) WebDriver
General
1 86 (19.37%) Finance
2 85 (19.14%) Social Skills
3 42 (9.46%) Public Sector
4 39 (8.78%) Banking
5 36 (8.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 32 (7.21%) Front Office
7 25 (5.63%) Organisational Skills
7 25 (5.63%) Retail
8 24 (5.41%) Law
9 18 (4.05%) Analytical Skills
10 10 (2.25%) Aerospace
11 8 (1.80%) Documentation Skills
12 7 (1.58%) Legal
13 5 (1.13%) Marketing
14 4 (0.90%) Investment Banking
14 4 (0.90%) Telecoms
15 2 (0.45%) Agriculture
15 2 (0.45%) Back Office
16 1 (0.23%) Fire and Rescue
16 1 (0.23%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 112 (25.23%) DevOps Engineer
2 103 (23.20%) Developer
3 88 (19.82%) Senior
4 60 (13.51%) Lead
5 51 (11.49%) .NET Developer
5 51 (11.49%) AWS Engineer
6 50 (11.26%) Software Engineer
7 44 (9.91%) C# Developer
7 44 (9.91%) Senior Developer
7 44 (9.91%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 41 (9.23%) Kubernetes Engineer
9 39 (8.78%) AWS DevOps
9 39 (8.78%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 38 (8.56%) Applications Developer
10 38 (8.56%) Architect
11 37 (8.33%) C# .NET Developer
12 36 (8.11%) .NET Applications Developer
12 36 (8.11%) CMS Developer
13 35 (7.88%) Senior .NET Developer
13 35 (7.88%) Senior C# .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 135 (30.41%) .NET
2 83 (18.69%) React
3 72 (16.22%) ASP.NET
4 60 (13.51%) .NET Core
4 60 (13.51%) RESTful
5 51 (11.49%) .NET Framework
6 42 (9.46%) ASP.NET MVC
7 36 (8.11%) Next.js
8 33 (7.43%) AngularJS
9 32 (7.21%) J2EE
10 27 (6.08%) CSS
11 25 (5.63%) HTML
12 18 (4.05%) REST
12 18 (4.05%) Vue
13 15 (3.38%) Elastic Stack
14 14 (3.15%) Node.js
15 13 (2.93%) ARM Templates
15 13 (2.93%) Web Services
16 11 (2.48%) SailPoint
16 11 (2.48%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 46 (10.36%) Public Cloud
2 40 (9.01%) Self-Motivation
3 32 (7.21%) Tandem
4 29 (6.53%) Distributed Systems
5 25 (5.63%) Onboarding
6 24 (5.41%) Cloud Native
7 23 (5.18%) Management Information System
8 21 (4.73%) Blog
9 16 (3.60%) Clustering
10 15 (3.38%) Linux Command Line
10 15 (3.38%) PlayStation
11 13 (2.93%) Virtual Team
12 12 (2.70%) Replication
13 10 (2.25%) Mobile App
14 8 (1.80%) Product Ownership
14 8 (1.80%) Robotics
15 7 (1.58%) Client/Server
15 7 (1.58%) CMDB
16 6 (1.35%) Hybrid Cloud
16 6 (1.35%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 66 (14.86%) Linux
2 60 (13.51%) Windows
3 26 (5.86%) Windows Server
4 17 (3.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 14 (3.15%) Mac OS
5 14 (3.15%) Windows Server 2019
6 12 (2.70%) Oracle Linux
6 12 (2.70%) Unix
6 12 (2.70%) Windows 10
6 12 (2.70%) Windows NT
6 12 (2.70%) Windows Server 2012
6 12 (2.70%) Windows Server 2016
7 10 (2.25%) Solaris
8 6 (1.35%) VMS
9 4 (0.90%) CentOS
10 3 (0.68%) Android
10 3 (0.68%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.68%) SUSE
10 3 (0.68%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 2 (0.45%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 284 (63.96%) DevOps
2 214 (48.20%) CI/CD
3 141 (31.76%) Agile
3 141 (31.76%) Software Engineering
4 132 (29.73%) Containerisation
5 102 (22.97%) Continuous Integration
6 100 (22.52%) Test Automation
7 97 (21.85%) Infrastructure as Code
8 79 (17.79%) Problem-Solving
9 71 (15.99%) Microservices
10 56 (12.61%) Full Stack Development
11 55 (12.39%) E-Commerce
11 55 (12.39%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 52 (11.71%) Presales
12 52 (11.71%) Web Development
13 51 (11.49%) Computer Science
13 51 (11.49%) Mentoring
14 50 (11.26%) Project Delivery
15 49 (11.04%) Continuous Improvement
16 48 (10.81%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 133 (29.95%) C#
2 110 (24.77%) Python
3 100 (22.52%) JavaScript
4 82 (18.47%) Java
5 72 (16.22%) PowerShell
6 68 (15.32%) SQL
7 51 (11.49%) Go
8 46 (10.36%) Bash
9 14 (3.15%) C
9 14 (3.15%) Shell Script
10 10 (2.25%) C++
10 10 (2.25%) Ruby
11 9 (2.03%) PHP
11 9 (2.03%) TypeScript
12 7 (1.58%) T-SQL
13 6 (1.35%) Perl
14 5 (1.13%) OCaml
14 5 (1.13%) SystemTap
15 4 (0.90%) XAML
16 3 (0.68%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 70 (15.77%) Security Cleared
2 59 (13.29%) Degree
3 40 (9.01%) Computer Science Degree
4 39 (8.78%) SC Cleared
5 38 (8.56%) AWS Certification
6 29 (6.53%) DV Cleared
7 23 (5.18%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 14 (3.15%) BPSS Clearance
9 13 (2.93%) Azure Certification
10 11 (2.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 8 (1.80%) Microsoft Certification
12 7 (1.58%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 3 (0.68%) Master's Degree
14 2 (0.45%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
15 1 (0.23%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (3.60%) QA
2 11 (2.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (2.25%) NCSC
4 9 (2.03%) ISO 9001
5 7 (1.58%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.68%) GDPR
6 3 (0.68%) HIPAA
6 3 (0.68%) WAI
7 1 (0.23%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.23%) SLA
7 1 (0.23%) WCAG
System Software
1 180 (40.54%) Docker
2 39 (8.78%) Active Directory
3 12 (2.70%) Firmware
4 9 (2.03%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (1.58%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (1.13%) Ceph
7 4 (0.90%) KVM
8 3 (0.68%) Gluster
8 3 (0.68%) oVirt
8 3 (0.68%) Virtual Servers
8 3 (0.68%) VirtualBox
8 3 (0.68%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.45%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 193 (43.47%) Kubernetes
2 166 (37.39%) Terraform
3 63 (14.19%) Ansible
4 32 (7.21%) Puppet
5 28 (6.31%) Grafana
6 22 (4.95%) Prometheus
6 22 (4.95%) SCCM
7 16 (3.60%) Consul
8 12 (2.70%) Sysprep
8 12 (2.70%) WSUS
9 11 (2.48%) Microsoft Intune
10 8 (1.80%) Progress Chef
11 6 (1.35%) Packer
12 5 (1.13%) Argo
13 4 (0.90%) Control-M
13 4 (0.90%) Istio
13 4 (0.90%) Proxmox
14 3 (0.68%) Graylog
14 3 (0.68%) Observium
14 3 (0.68%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 100 (22.52%) Microsoft
2 36 (8.11%) Optimizely
2 36 (8.11%) Sitecore
3 24 (5.41%) Google
4 19 (4.28%) Oracle
5 17 (3.83%) Salesforce
6 16 (3.60%) IBM
7 15 (3.38%) Facebook
7 15 (3.38%) Sony
8 12 (2.70%) Serena
9 11 (2.48%) BeyondTrust
9 11 (2.48%) CyberArk
9 11 (2.48%) ServiceNow
9 11 (2.48%) VMware
10 9 (2.03%) Red Hat
11 8 (1.80%) BMC
12 6 (1.35%) Atlassian
12 6 (1.35%) McAfee
12 6 (1.35%) Remedy
13 4 (0.90%) InterSystems