Deployment Automation Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Deployment Automation
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Deployment Automation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 359 382 423
Rank change year-on-year +23 +41 -16
Permanent jobs citing Deployment Automation 151 188 152
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.36% 0.52% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% 0.59% 0.50%
Number of salaries quoted 62 120 120
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £43,750
25th Percentile £48,250 £48,250 £51,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.42% - -9.91%
75th Percentile £82,241 £71,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,875 £75,000 £84,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £70,576
% change year-on-year -3.57% -0.82% -11.78%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 33,283 31,985 30,588
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 78.49% 89.04% 88.64%
Number of salaries quoted 19,187 14,363 22,780
10th Percentile £27,750 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £33,500 £41,250 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +5.77% -5.45%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Deployment Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Deployment Automation job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Deployment Automation
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Deployment Automation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Deployment Automation

Deployment Automation
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Deployment Automation in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Deployment Automation in the UK excluding London

Deployment Automation
Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 14 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
South East +42 55 £60,000 +2.56% 47
Scotland +31 31 £77,217 +47.08% 6
North of England -37 31 £68,000 +37.37% 25
Yorkshire -51 18 £60,000 +21.21% 14
North West +13 12 £75,000 +62.16% 8
South West +4 12 £74,200 +9.93% 18
Wales +19 10 £48,500 -25.38% 7
East of England +19 7 £67,500 -10.00% 15
West Midlands 0 4 £77,217 +23.55% 7
Midlands -2 4 £77,217 +23.55% 20
North East - 1 £77,217 - 3
Northern Ireland - 1 £77,217 - 2
Deployment Automation
UK

Deployment Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 3 (1.99%) Confluence
2 2 (1.32%) Apache
3 1 (0.66%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.66%) IIS
3 1 (0.66%) SAS
3 1 (0.66%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.66%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 80 (52.98%) Azure
2 57 (37.75%) Azure DevOps
3 39 (25.83%) AWS
4 37 (24.50%) GitHub
5 34 (22.52%) GitHub Actions
6 25 (16.56%) Azure Monitor
7 24 (15.89%) Serverless
8 23 (15.23%) Azure Logic Apps
9 18 (11.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 16 (10.60%) AWS CloudFormation
10 16 (10.60%) AWS Lambda
11 15 (9.93%) Amazon S3
11 15 (9.93%) Azure Service Bus
12 14 (9.27%) Amazon EventBridge
12 14 (9.27%) Azure Data Factory
12 14 (9.27%) Azure Event Grid
13 13 (8.61%) Amazon SQS
13 13 (8.61%) AWS Step Functions
14 11 (7.28%) GCP
14 11 (7.28%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.99%) DMZ
1 3 (1.99%) Firewall
1 3 (1.99%) SSL
2 1 (0.66%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (11.26%) DynamoDB
2 16 (10.60%) SQL Server
3 15 (9.93%) NoSQL
3 15 (9.93%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (3.31%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (2.65%) Amazon Aurora
6 3 (1.99%) CockroachDB
7 2 (1.32%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.32%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.32%) MySQL
8 1 (0.66%) Big Data
8 1 (0.66%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.66%) Metadata
8 1 (0.66%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 26 (17.22%) Git
2 12 (7.95%) GitLab
2 12 (7.95%) Jenkins
3 6 (3.97%) Storybook
4 5 (3.31%) JIRA
5 3 (1.99%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.99%) Gradle
5 3 (1.99%) JUnit
5 3 (1.99%) Maven
5 3 (1.99%) TestNG
6 2 (1.32%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (1.32%) Checkstyle
6 2 (1.32%) Cypress.io
6 2 (1.32%) ESLint
6 2 (1.32%) Mockito
6 2 (1.32%) Selenium
6 2 (1.32%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.66%) Burp Suite
7 1 (0.66%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.66%) MLflow
General
1 71 (47.02%) Finance
2 33 (21.85%) Social Skills
3 31 (20.53%) Pharmaceutical
4 10 (6.62%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (4.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (4.64%) Marketing
6 3 (1.99%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.32%) Advertising
7 2 (1.32%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.66%) Banking
8 1 (0.66%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.66%) Electronics
8 1 (0.66%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.66%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 48 (31.79%) Lead
2 31 (20.53%) Developer
3 12 (7.95%) .NET Developer
4 11 (7.28%) Cloud Engineer
5 10 (6.62%) Integration Engineer
6 8 (5.30%) DevOps Engineer
6 8 (5.30%) Power Platform Developer
7 7 (4.64%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
7 7 (4.64%) Platform Engineer
8 6 (3.97%) Analyst
8 6 (3.97%) Applications Support
8 6 (3.97%) Applications Support Analyst
8 6 (3.97%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 6 (3.97%) Lead Product Manager
8 6 (3.97%) Product Manager
8 6 (3.97%) Support Analyst
9 5 (3.31%) Associate Director
9 5 (3.31%) AWS Developer
9 5 (3.31%) AWS Engineer
9 5 (3.31%) AWS Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (21.19%) RESTful
2 20 (13.25%) JSON
2 20 (13.25%) OAuth
2 20 (13.25%) OAuth2
3 19 (12.58%) .NET
3 19 (12.58%) React
4 14 (9.27%) .NET Core
4 14 (9.27%) ASP.NET
5 13 (8.61%) ASP.NET Core
5 13 (8.61%) AWS CDK
5 13 (8.61%) Blazor
6 6 (3.97%) JSON-LD
6 6 (3.97%) Next.js
7 5 (3.31%) REST
7 5 (3.31%) Spring
7 5 (3.31%) Spring Boot
8 4 (2.65%) Loki
9 3 (1.99%) GraphQL
9 3 (1.99%) OpenID
9 3 (1.99%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 35 (23.18%) Life Science
2 30 (19.87%) Cloud Native
3 15 (9.93%) Low-Code
4 10 (6.62%) Product Ownership
5 5 (3.31%) Hackathon
6 3 (1.99%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.32%) IoT
7 2 (1.32%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.32%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.32%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.66%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.66%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.66%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.66%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.66%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (5.30%) Linux
2 4 (2.65%) Windows
2 4 (2.65%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (58.94%) DevOps
2 86 (56.95%) Agile
3 84 (55.63%) CI/CD
4 67 (44.37%) Analytics
5 62 (41.06%) Infrastructure as Code
6 53 (35.10%) Machine Learning
7 52 (34.44%) AI
8 49 (32.45%) Roadmaps
9 38 (25.17%) Computer Science
10 37 (24.50%) Continuous Improvement
10 37 (24.50%) Data Science
11 36 (23.84%) Problem-Solving
11 36 (23.84%) Use Case
12 35 (23.18%) Hematology
12 35 (23.18%) Immunology
12 35 (23.18%) Test Automation
13 32 (21.19%) Generative AI
14 31 (20.53%) Intelligent Automation
15 30 (19.87%) Digital Twin
15 30 (19.87%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 42 (27.81%) Python
2 24 (15.89%) SQL
3 21 (13.91%) Bicep
4 19 (12.58%) Bash
5 18 (11.92%) C#
6 17 (11.26%) PowerShell
7 16 (10.60%) JavaScript
8 9 (5.96%) Java
9 6 (3.97%) TypeScript
10 2 (1.32%) Go
10 2 (1.32%) Groovy
11 1 (0.66%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.66%) Delphi
11 1 (0.66%) VB
11 1 (0.66%) VB6
Qualifications
1 43 (28.48%) Degree
2 36 (23.84%) Master's Degree
3 30 (19.87%) PhD
4 12 (7.95%) AWS Certification
5 11 (7.28%) AWS Certified Developer
6 6 (3.97%) Security Cleared
7 4 (2.65%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.99%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.99%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.99%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (19.87%) GxP
2 18 (11.92%) GDPR
3 14 (9.27%) Accessibility
4 6 (3.97%) WCAG
5 4 (2.65%) QA
6 2 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.66%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.66%) SLA
7 1 (0.66%) SOC 2
System Software
1 33 (21.85%) Docker
2 12 (7.95%) Virtual Machines
3 10 (6.62%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (3.31%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 60 (39.74%) Terraform
2 28 (18.54%) Kubernetes
3 10 (6.62%) Microsoft Intune
4 9 (5.96%) Grafana
4 9 (5.96%) Prometheus
5 8 (5.30%) Ansible
6 2 (1.32%) Argo
6 2 (1.32%) Istio
6 2 (1.32%) Progress Chef
6 2 (1.32%) Puppet
6 2 (1.32%) Rancher
6 2 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 14 (9.27%) Ab Initio
2 12 (7.95%) Microsoft
3 5 (3.31%) Oracle
4 3 (1.99%) Cisco
4 3 (1.99%) Citrix
4 3 (1.99%) Google
5 2 (1.32%) ForgeRock
5 2 (1.32%) Splunk
6 1 (0.66%) Blue Prism
6 1 (0.66%) Denodo
6 1 (0.66%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.66%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.66%) SAP
6 1 (0.66%) Talend
6 1 (0.66%) VMware