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 8 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 462 438 363
Rank change year-on-year -24 -75 +67
Permanent jobs citing Deployment Automation 208 331 432
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.41% 0.49% 0.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.47% 0.59% 0.86%
Number of salaries quoted 88 213 334
10th Percentile £48,250 £46,250 £47,250
25th Percentile £58,438 £48,250 £55,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £67,500 £70,288
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -3.97% -6.28%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £87,875
90th Percentile £96,250 £105,000 £110,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £68,500 £58,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +17.09% -6.40% +4.17%

All Process and 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 44,303 55,889 50,206
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 86.67% 82.62% 93.88%
Number of salaries quoted 26,710 29,381 38,581
10th Percentile £28,250 £33,875 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,500 £45,000 £43,800
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,750 £54,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.43% +2.86% -

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 8 November 2025.

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 8 November 2025. 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 -53 157 £75,000 +11.11% 334
UK excluding London -2 128 £68,500 +17.09% 281
Work from Home +12 81 £77,217 +14.40% 174
London +47 74 £80,000 -11.11% 139
Scotland +36 37 £78,609 +49.73% 19
North of England -47 28 £71,750 +44.95% 54
South East +7 26 £82,500 +55.04% 142
Midlands +51 14 £68,750 +14.58% 24
North West +14 13 £76,109 +117.45% 46
Yorkshire -54 13 £68,000 +37.37% 7
Wales +25 12 £48,500 -25.38% 6
West Midlands +28 8 £62,500 +4.17% 16
South West +10 7 £80,000 +18.52% 14
East Midlands +23 6 £75,000 +118.33% 7
East of England +13 3 £42,500 -10.53% 23
North East - 2 £77,217 - 1
Northern Ireland - 1 £77,217 - 3

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 19 (9.13%) Apache Spark
2 8 (3.85%) nginx
3 3 (1.44%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.96%) BizTalk Server
4 2 (0.96%) IIS
4 2 (0.96%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.48%) Apache
5 1 (0.48%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.48%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.48%) Eikon
Cloud Services
1 89 (42.79%) Azure
2 82 (39.42%) AWS
3 45 (21.63%) GCP
4 41 (19.71%) Azure DevOps
5 39 (18.75%) GitHub
6 36 (17.31%) GitHub Actions
7 34 (16.35%) Amazon EKS
8 26 (12.50%) Amazon S3
8 26 (12.50%) SaaS
9 19 (9.13%) Amazon ELB
10 18 (8.65%) Azure Monitor
10 18 (8.65%) Serverless
11 15 (7.21%) Entra ID
12 14 (6.73%) Microsoft 365
13 11 (5.29%) PaaS
14 10 (4.81%) AWS Lambda
15 9 (4.33%) Azure Data Factory
16 8 (3.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 7 (3.37%) AWS CloudFormation
17 7 (3.37%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.85%) DNS
1 8 (3.85%) Network Security
2 6 (2.88%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 6 (2.88%) WAN
3 4 (1.92%) BGP
3 4 (1.92%) Broadband
3 4 (1.92%) SSL
4 3 (1.44%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.44%) VPN
5 2 (0.96%) Cisco IOS
5 2 (0.96%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (0.96%) Firewall
5 2 (0.96%) LAN
5 2 (0.96%) MQTT
5 2 (0.96%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (0.96%) RTMP
5 2 (0.96%) SSH
5 2 (0.96%) VLAN
5 2 (0.96%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.96%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (11.54%) DynamoDB
2 21 (10.10%) Metadata
3 19 (9.13%) Delta Lake
3 19 (9.13%) Spark SQL
4 16 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
5 14 (6.73%) Tick Data
6 6 (2.88%) SQL Server
7 5 (2.40%) Big Data
7 5 (2.40%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (1.44%) MySQL
8 3 (1.44%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.96%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (0.96%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 2 (0.96%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.96%) Power BI
9 2 (0.96%) Power Query
9 2 (0.96%) Snowflake Schema
9 2 (0.96%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 2 (0.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (0.96%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 26 (12.50%) Git
2 22 (10.58%) MLflow
3 18 (8.65%) GitLab
4 15 (7.21%) Jenkins
5 12 (5.77%) TeamCity
6 7 (3.37%) CircleCI
7 4 (1.92%) Maven
8 3 (1.44%) Artifactory
8 3 (1.44%) IntelliJ
8 3 (1.44%) Storybook
9 2 (0.96%) Gradle
9 2 (0.96%) Jaeger
9 2 (0.96%) Octopus Deploy
9 2 (0.96%) Selenium
9 2 (0.96%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.96%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 2 (0.96%) webpack
10 1 (0.48%) JIRA
10 1 (0.48%) Mockito
10 1 (0.48%) WebDriver
General
1 80 (38.46%) Finance
2 44 (21.15%) Social Skills
3 28 (13.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 23 (11.06%) Marketing
5 19 (9.13%) Law
6 18 (8.65%) Pharmaceutical
7 12 (5.77%) Banking
7 12 (5.77%) Financial Institution
7 12 (5.77%) Retail
8 11 (5.29%) Back Office
9 9 (4.33%) Organisational Skills
10 7 (3.37%) Legal
11 6 (2.88%) Public Sector
12 5 (2.40%) Telecoms
13 3 (1.44%) Advertising
13 3 (1.44%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (0.96%) Agriculture
14 2 (0.96%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.96%) Games
14 2 (0.96%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 55 (26.44%) Lead
2 31 (14.90%) Software Engineer
3 26 (12.50%) Senior
4 24 (11.54%) Developer
5 21 (10.10%) DevOps Engineer
6 20 (9.62%) Machine Learning Engineer
7 19 (9.13%) Operations Engineer
8 14 (6.73%) Data Warehouse Developer
8 14 (6.73%) ETL Developer
8 14 (6.73%) Market Data Developer
9 13 (6.25%) Architect
9 13 (6.25%) Platform Engineer
10 12 (5.77%) .NET Software Engineer
10 12 (5.77%) Cloud Engineer
10 12 (5.77%) Lead Software Engineer
10 12 (5.77%) Python Developer
11 11 (5.29%) C# Software Engineer
12 10 (4.81%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 9 (4.33%) Java Engineer
13 9 (4.33%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (12.02%) RESTful
2 23 (11.06%) YAML
3 19 (9.13%) .NET
3 19 (9.13%) Keras
3 19 (9.13%) Lambda Expressions
3 19 (9.13%) Metaflow
3 19 (9.13%) NumPy
3 19 (9.13%) Pandas
3 19 (9.13%) PySpark
3 19 (9.13%) PyTorch
3 19 (9.13%) scikit-learn
3 19 (9.13%) TensorFlow
4 18 (8.65%) React
5 14 (6.73%) .NET Core
6 13 (6.25%) AngularJS
7 11 (5.29%) JSON
8 10 (4.81%) Blazor
9 9 (4.33%) OAuth
9 9 (4.33%) OAuth2
10 6 (2.88%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 36 (17.31%) Cloud Native
2 19 (9.13%) Linux Command Line
3 18 (8.65%) Management Information System
4 17 (8.17%) Life Science
5 16 (7.69%) Product Ownership
6 13 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
7 10 (4.81%) Private Cloud
7 10 (4.81%) Public Cloud
8 9 (4.33%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (2.40%) Onboarding
10 3 (1.44%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.96%) Algorithms
11 2 (0.96%) Cyber Threat
11 2 (0.96%) Cyberattack
11 2 (0.96%) Data Centre
11 2 (0.96%) IoT
11 2 (0.96%) IVR
11 2 (0.96%) Low-Code
11 2 (0.96%) Mobile App
11 2 (0.96%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 19 (9.13%) Unix
2 11 (5.29%) Linux
2 11 (5.29%) Windows
3 7 (3.37%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.96%) CentOS
4 2 (0.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.48%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (56.25%) CI/CD
2 101 (48.56%) DevOps
3 82 (39.42%) Agile
4 69 (33.17%) AI
5 64 (30.77%) Containerisation
5 64 (30.77%) Infrastructure as Code
6 58 (27.88%) Machine Learning
7 52 (25.00%) Roadmaps
8 50 (24.04%) Test Automation
9 44 (21.15%) Analytics
10 42 (20.19%) Software Engineering
11 41 (19.71%) Continuous Improvement
11 41 (19.71%) Data Science
12 34 (16.35%) Coaching
12 34 (16.35%) Microservices
13 31 (14.90%) Problem-Solving
14 30 (14.42%) Information Security
15 27 (12.98%) Mentoring
16 26 (12.50%) Computer Science
17 24 (11.54%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 84 (40.38%) Python
2 27 (12.98%) SQL
3 23 (11.06%) C#
4 21 (10.10%) PowerShell
5 19 (9.13%) Java
6 18 (8.65%) Bash
7 14 (6.73%) Bicep
8 9 (4.33%) JavaScript
9 8 (3.85%) Go
9 8 (3.85%) Shell Script
10 6 (2.88%) TypeScript
11 3 (1.44%) C++
12 2 (0.96%) C
12 2 (0.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.96%) Groovy
12 2 (0.96%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.48%) R
Qualifications
1 28 (13.46%) Degree
2 18 (8.65%) Master's Degree
3 17 (8.17%) PhD
4 11 (5.29%) Azure Certification
5 9 (4.33%) Security Cleared
6 8 (3.85%) CCNP
6 8 (3.85%) Cisco Certification
6 8 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (3.37%) SC Cleared
8 6 (2.88%) CCNA
9 5 (2.40%) AWS Certification
10 3 (1.44%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (1.44%) DV Cleared
11 2 (0.96%) MCSE
11 2 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.48%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (8.17%) GxP
2 14 (6.73%) GDPR
3 6 (2.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (2.88%) QA
4 5 (2.40%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.92%) NIST
6 3 (1.44%) WCAG
7 2 (0.96%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.96%) GRC
7 2 (0.96%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.48%) EU AI Act
8 1 (0.48%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.48%) SLA
System Software
1 79 (37.98%) Docker
2 11 (5.29%) Virtual Machines
3 10 (4.81%) Virtual Desktop
4 9 (4.33%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.96%) NFS
5 2 (0.96%) Terminal Server
5 2 (0.96%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.48%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 103 (49.52%) Terraform
2 92 (44.23%) Kubernetes
3 24 (11.54%) Grafana
4 19 (9.13%) Kubeflow
5 17 (8.17%) Ansible
6 11 (5.29%) Prometheus
7 10 (4.81%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (2.40%) Argo
9 2 (0.96%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.96%) Puppet
9 2 (0.96%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.48%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.48%) SCCM
Vendors
1 33 (15.87%) Databricks
2 11 (5.29%) Microsoft
3 7 (3.37%) Ab Initio
4 6 (2.88%) F5
5 5 (2.40%) Cisco
5 5 (2.40%) Google
6 3 (1.44%) Citrix
6 3 (1.44%) Oracle
7 2 (0.96%) Arista
7 2 (0.96%) Dynatrace
7 2 (0.96%) ForgeRock
7 2 (0.96%) NETGEAR
7 2 (0.96%) OneLogin
7 2 (0.96%) Red Hat
7 2 (0.96%) Salesforce
7 2 (0.96%) SAP
7 2 (0.96%) ServiceNow
7 2 (0.96%) Sonatype
7 2 (0.96%) Starlink
7 2 (0.96%) VMware