Deployment Automation Job Trends

Deployment Automation
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Deployment Automation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 406 448 470
Rank change year-on-year +42 +22 -58
Permanent jobs citing Deployment Automation 428 242 401
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.42% 0.49% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.57% 0.55% 0.57%
Number of salaries quoted 257 154 306
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £51,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +3.85% -13.33%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £104,250 £97,528 £100,625
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -11.11%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 74,889 44,229 70,800
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.63% 89.64% 81.30%
Number of salaries quoted 51,640 25,065 47,390
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%

Deployment Automation
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Deployment Automation job vacancy trend in the UK

Deployment Automation
Salary Trend

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Deployment Automation

Deployment Automation
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Deployment Automation over the 6 months to 29 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Deployment Automation in the UK

Deployment Automation
Top 17 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 29 July 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
England +43 371 £70,000 +3.70% 178
UK excluding London +26 241 £65,000 +4.00% 101
Work from Home +26 172 £65,000 +8.33% 82
London +21 157 £83,750 +15.52% 93
North of England +5 79 £55,000 -18.52% 32
South East +12 66 £67,500 +22.73% 30
Midlands -20 35 £48,000 -20.00% 16
North West -8 33 £52,500 -10.64% 18
South West -41 28 £70,000 -2.77% 13
Yorkshire -16 24 £82,500 +20.44% 7
North East -30 22 £47,000 - 7
West Midlands -24 18 £49,000 -18.33% 11
East Midlands -16 17 £42,500 -43.33% 5
Wales -50 17 £63,500 +30.93% 2
Scotland +4 14 £62,500 -17.06% 4
East of England -22 4 £56,000 - 5
Northern Ireland - 1 £77,500 - 2

Deployment Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 11 (2.57%) Confluence
2 9 (2.10%) Apache
2 9 (2.10%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.64%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (1.64%) Apache Spark
3 7 (1.64%) IIS
3 7 (1.64%) nginx
4 5 (1.17%) Camunda
5 4 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.93%) SAS
6 2 (0.47%) CMS
6 2 (0.47%) Luigi
7 1 (0.23%) Appian
7 1 (0.23%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.23%) Documentum
7 1 (0.23%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.23%) NServiceBus
7 1 (0.23%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (0.70%) SPSS
2 2 (0.47%) Trello
3 1 (0.23%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.23%) Magento
2 1 (0.23%) Misys Equation
2 1 (0.23%) Misys Midas
2 1 (0.23%) Oracle SCM
2 1 (0.23%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 229 (53.50%) AWS
2 222 (51.87%) Azure
3 118 (27.57%) GCP
4 102 (23.83%) Azure DevOps
5 63 (14.72%) Amazon EKS
5 63 (14.72%) GitHub
6 57 (13.32%) Serverless
7 56 (13.08%) SaaS
8 40 (9.35%) GitHub Actions
9 29 (6.78%) Power Platform
10 27 (6.31%) Firebase
11 24 (5.61%) Amazon S3
12 23 (5.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 23 (5.37%) Azure Monitor
12 23 (5.37%) Datadog
12 23 (5.37%) Microsoft 365
13 22 (5.14%) PaaS
14 21 (4.91%) AWS CloudFormation
15 20 (4.67%) Azure Logic Apps
16 19 (4.44%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 19 (4.44%) Firewall
2 17 (3.97%) DNS
3 12 (2.80%) VPN
4 9 (2.10%) MQTT
5 8 (1.87%) Network Security
6 6 (1.40%) DHCP
7 5 (1.17%) SSL
7 5 (1.17%) TCP/IP
7 5 (1.17%) Wi-Fi
8 4 (0.93%) BGP
8 4 (0.93%) Broadband
8 4 (0.93%) Kerberos
8 4 (0.93%) NAS
8 4 (0.93%) SSH
9 3 (0.70%) DKIM
9 3 (0.70%) DMARC
9 3 (0.70%) PBX
9 3 (0.70%) Unified Communications
9 3 (0.70%) VoIP
9 3 (0.70%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (10.05%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (7.94%) SQL Server
3 21 (4.91%) MongoDB
4 20 (4.67%) Elasticsearch
4 20 (4.67%) MySQL
5 19 (4.44%) Data Warehouse
6 18 (4.21%) NoSQL
7 15 (3.50%) Power BI
8 12 (2.80%) Amazon RDS
9 11 (2.57%) Spark SQL
10 10 (2.34%) Metadata
11 9 (2.10%) Azure SQL Database
12 8 (1.87%) Relational Database
13 7 (1.64%) Data Lake
13 7 (1.64%) DynamoDB
14 6 (1.40%) Delta Lake
14 6 (1.40%) Geospatial Data
15 5 (1.17%) Amazon Aurora
15 5 (1.17%) Big Data
16 4 (0.93%) Redis
Development Applications
1 91 (21.26%) Git
2 52 (12.15%) TeamCity
3 51 (11.92%) Jenkins
4 45 (10.51%) GitLab
5 32 (7.48%) JIRA
6 20 (4.67%) Crashlytics
7 15 (3.50%) Bitbucket
8 14 (3.27%) SonarQube
8 14 (3.27%) XCTest
9 13 (3.04%) fastlane
10 11 (2.57%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 11 (2.57%) Cucumber
11 8 (1.87%) JUnit
11 8 (1.87%) Mockito
11 8 (1.87%) Octopus Deploy
12 7 (1.64%) Artifactory
12 7 (1.64%) Xcode
13 6 (1.40%) Gradle
13 6 (1.40%) JMeter
13 6 (1.40%) MSI
General
1 127 (29.67%) Social Skills
2 119 (27.80%) Finance
3 84 (19.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 82 (19.16%) Banking
5 62 (14.49%) Law
6 56 (13.08%) Retail
7 55 (12.85%) Analytical Skills
8 44 (10.28%) Financial Institution
9 40 (9.35%) Public Sector
10 38 (8.88%) Back Office
11 8 (1.87%) Manufacturing
12 7 (1.64%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (1.40%) Aerospace
14 5 (1.17%) Telecoms
15 4 (0.93%) Mandarin Language
15 4 (0.93%) Marketing
16 3 (0.70%) Front Office
16 3 (0.70%) Legal
16 3 (0.70%) Retail Banking
17 2 (0.47%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 84 (19.63%) Software Engineer
2 78 (18.22%) Lead
3 64 (14.95%) Senior
4 63 (14.72%) Developer
5 62 (14.49%) DevOps Engineer
6 36 (8.41%) Azure Engineer
7 28 (6.54%) Cloud Engineer
8 25 (5.84%) Platform Engineer
9 22 (5.14%) Data Engineer
10 21 (4.91%) Lead Software Engineer
10 21 (4.91%) Senior Software Engineer
11 18 (4.21%) Technical Leader
12 17 (3.97%) Java Engineer
12 17 (3.97%) Site Engineer
12 17 (3.97%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 15 (3.50%) Senior Developer
14 14 (3.27%) Administrator
14 14 (3.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 14 (3.27%) Software Team Leader
14 14 (3.27%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (10.28%) REST
2 42 (9.81%) RESTful
3 40 (9.35%) .NET
4 29 (6.78%) React
5 26 (6.07%) Kafka
6 21 (4.91%) SwiftUI
6 21 (4.91%) UIKit
7 18 (4.21%) Spring
8 17 (3.97%) ARM Templates
8 17 (3.97%) CSS
8 17 (3.97%) Spring Boot
9 15 (3.50%) Next.js
10 14 (3.27%) Node.js
11 13 (3.04%) PySpark
11 13 (3.04%) PyTorch
11 13 (3.04%) scikit-learn
11 13 (3.04%) TensorFlow
12 12 (2.80%) .NET Core
12 12 (2.80%) Elastic Stack
12 12 (2.80%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 138 (32.24%) Cloud Native
2 71 (16.59%) Product Ownership
3 42 (9.81%) Distributed Systems
4 29 (6.78%) Mobile App
5 20 (4.67%) Onboarding
6 18 (4.21%) Life Science
7 17 (3.97%) Legacy Systems
8 16 (3.74%) Self-Motivation
9 15 (3.50%) Greenfield Project
10 14 (3.27%) Low-Code
11 13 (3.04%) Blog
12 12 (2.80%) Management Information System
13 11 (2.57%) Enterprise Software
14 10 (2.34%) Hybrid Cloud
15 9 (2.10%) PKI
15 9 (2.10%) Virtual Team
16 8 (1.87%) Replication
17 7 (1.64%) Data Centre
17 7 (1.64%) Linux Command Line
17 7 (1.64%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 82 (19.16%) Linux
2 62 (14.49%) Windows
3 33 (7.71%) Apple iOS
4 22 (5.14%) Windows Server
5 16 (3.74%) CentOS
6 13 (3.04%) Android
7 8 (1.87%) Mac OS
8 7 (1.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (1.40%) Ubuntu
9 6 (1.40%) Windows Server 2016
10 4 (0.93%) Unix
11 3 (0.70%) VMS
12 2 (0.47%) Amazon Linux
12 2 (0.47%) Embedded Linux
13 1 (0.23%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 335 (78.27%) CI/CD
2 252 (58.88%) DevOps
3 183 (42.76%) Test Automation
4 162 (37.85%) Infrastructure as Code
5 138 (32.24%) Software Engineering
6 136 (31.78%) Agile
7 117 (27.34%) Microservices
8 107 (25.00%) Observability
9 102 (23.83%) Containerisation
10 97 (22.66%) Continuous Improvement
11 90 (21.03%) Clean Code
12 88 (20.56%) Mentoring
13 87 (20.33%) AI
13 87 (20.33%) Problem-Solving
14 68 (15.89%) Analytics
15 64 (14.95%) Continuous Deployment
16 50 (11.68%) Computer Science
17 47 (10.98%) Machine Learning
17 47 (10.98%) Platform Engineering
18 46 (10.75%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 172 (40.19%) Python
2 118 (27.57%) Java
3 73 (17.06%) SQL
4 63 (14.72%) PowerShell
5 51 (11.92%) Bash
6 48 (11.21%) C#
7 41 (9.58%) TypeScript
8 40 (9.35%) JavaScript
9 22 (5.14%) Kotlin
10 21 (4.91%) Bicep
10 21 (4.91%) Swift
11 13 (3.04%) Rust
12 9 (2.10%) Go
13 8 (1.87%) Groovy
14 7 (1.64%) Shell Script
15 6 (1.40%) C
15 6 (1.40%) C++
15 6 (1.40%) Scala
16 5 (1.17%) Kusto Query Language
17 4 (0.93%) Perl
Qualifications
1 73 (17.06%) Security Cleared
2 55 (12.85%) Degree
3 43 (10.05%) SC Cleared
4 32 (7.48%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (3.97%) DV Cleared
6 10 (2.34%) Azure Certification
7 9 (2.10%) AWS Certification
7 9 (2.10%) Master's Degree
8 4 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (0.93%) Postgraduate
9 2 (0.47%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (0.47%) CCNP
9 2 (0.47%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.47%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.47%) PMP
10 1 (0.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.23%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.23%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.23%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (13.79%) QA
2 35 (8.18%) Accessibility
3 27 (6.31%) WCAG
4 21 (4.91%) GDPR
5 14 (3.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (3.04%) Data Quality
7 10 (2.34%) SLA
8 8 (1.87%) NCSC
9 7 (1.64%) SOC 2
10 4 (0.93%) NIST
11 2 (0.47%) Def Stans
11 2 (0.47%) IEC 61508
11 2 (0.47%) IFRS
11 2 (0.47%) IFRS 17
11 2 (0.47%) ISO 26262
11 2 (0.47%) JTAG
11 2 (0.47%) PMO
11 2 (0.47%) Solvency II
System Software
1 108 (25.23%) Docker
2 21 (4.91%) Active Directory
3 10 (2.34%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.40%) Hyper-V
5 5 (1.17%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.93%) Firmware
6 4 (0.93%) vSphere
7 3 (0.70%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.23%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.23%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 186 (43.46%) Terraform
2 173 (40.42%) Kubernetes
3 107 (25.00%) Grafana
4 80 (18.69%) Ansible
5 39 (9.11%) Prometheus
6 12 (2.80%) Microsoft Intune
7 11 (2.57%) Argo
8 10 (2.34%) Jamf Pro
8 10 (2.34%) Nagios
8 10 (2.34%) Puppet
9 6 (1.40%) SCCM
10 4 (0.93%) Packer
10 4 (0.93%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.70%) cPanel
11 3 (0.70%) Docker Swarm
11 3 (0.70%) Plesk
11 3 (0.70%) Podman
11 3 (0.70%) SCOM
11 3 (0.70%) SCOrch
11 3 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 78 (18.22%) Microsoft
2 31 (7.24%) Dynatrace
3 27 (6.31%) Google
4 22 (5.14%) Databricks
5 17 (3.97%) Splunk
6 15 (3.50%) VMware
7 14 (3.27%) Amplitude
7 14 (3.27%) Braze
8 13 (3.04%) Red Hat
9 12 (2.80%) OpenAI
9 12 (2.80%) Salesforce
10 11 (2.57%) Apple
11 10 (2.34%) Rapid7
12 7 (1.64%) AppDynamics
13 6 (1.40%) Atlassian
13 6 (1.40%) IBM
13 6 (1.40%) Oracle
14 5 (1.17%) Tenable
15 4 (0.93%) NVIDIA
15 4 (0.93%) Thales