Deployment Automation Job Trends in Scotland

Deployment Automation
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Deployment Automation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 111 137 182
Rank change year-on-year +26 +45 -5
Permanent jobs citing Deployment Automation 31 7 12
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 1.13% 0.27% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.42% 0.29% 0.41%
Number of salaries quoted 1 4 7
10th Percentile - £49,500 £42,550
25th Percentile £72,194 £50,625 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,217 £52,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +47.08% -34.38% +15.20%
75th Percentile £82,241 £65,938 £85,967
90th Percentile - £83,375 £91,934
UK median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £70,576
% change year-on-year -3.57% -0.82% -11.78%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,185 2,384 2,929
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 79.86% 92.87% 93.85%
Number of salaries quoted 1,071 1,001 1,817
10th Percentile £26,250 £32,250 £25,000
25th Percentile £30,904 £41,250 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -23.64% +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £88,750 £84,056
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Deployment Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Deployment Automation relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Deployment Automation job vacancy trend in Scotland

Deployment Automation
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Deployment Automation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Deployment Automation

Deployment Automation
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Deployment Automation within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 13 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
Edinburgh - 31 £77,217 -
Deployment Automation
UK

Deployment Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Cloud Services
1 30 (96.77%) Azure
2 24 (77.42%) Azure DevOps
2 24 (77.42%) Azure Monitor
3 14 (45.16%) Azure Data Factory
3 14 (45.16%) Azure Event Grid
3 14 (45.16%) Azure Logic Apps
3 14 (45.16%) Azure Service Bus
3 14 (45.16%) GitHub
3 14 (45.16%) GitHub Actions
4 10 (32.26%) Entra ID
4 10 (32.26%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (19.35%) Serverless
6 1 (3.23%) PaaS
6 1 (3.23%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 6 (19.35%) Storybook
General
1 30 (96.77%) Finance
2 6 (19.35%) Marketing
3 1 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 10 (32.26%) Integration Engineer
2 6 (19.35%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
3 1 (3.23%) Lead
3 1 (3.23%) Lead Product Manager
3 1 (3.23%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (64.52%) JSON
2 14 (45.16%) OAuth
2 14 (45.16%) OAuth2
2 14 (45.16%) RESTful
3 6 (19.35%) JSON-LD
3 6 (19.35%) Next.js
3 6 (19.35%) React
Miscellaneous
1 10 (32.26%) Product Ownership
2 7 (22.58%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (96.77%) Asset Management
1 30 (96.77%) Coaching
2 25 (80.65%) DevOps
3 24 (77.42%) Analytics
3 24 (77.42%) Infrastructure as Code
3 24 (77.42%) Log Analytics
4 21 (67.74%) Test Automation
5 20 (64.52%) CI/CD
6 14 (45.16%) API Management
6 14 (45.16%) Data Integration
6 14 (45.16%) Data Pipeline
6 14 (45.16%) ETL
6 14 (45.16%) Event-Driven
6 14 (45.16%) Identity Management
6 14 (45.16%) Incident Response
6 14 (45.16%) Integration Patterns
6 14 (45.16%) Observability
6 14 (45.16%) RBAC
6 14 (45.16%) Root Cause Analysis
7 11 (35.48%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 14 (45.16%) Bicep
2 10 (32.26%) Bash
2 10 (32.26%) PowerShell
2 10 (32.26%) Python
3 6 (19.35%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (45.16%) GDPR
2 6 (19.35%) Accessibility
2 6 (19.35%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (32.26%) Virtual Desktop
1 10 (32.26%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 24 (77.42%) Terraform
2 10 (32.26%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 14 (45.16%) Ab Initio