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 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 394 385 503
Rank change year-on-year -9 +118 -76
Permanent jobs citing Deployment Automation 355 280 430
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.40% 0.66% 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% 0.71% 0.53%
Number of salaries quoted 170 223 335
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £50,313 £54,375 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,200 £75,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.73% +11.11% -12.90%
75th Percentile £87,125 £96,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £130,000 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £61,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% +1.63% -8.89%

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 67,110 39,339 81,745
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 74.81% 92.87% 85.63%
Number of salaries quoted 41,656 22,592 59,463
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -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 April 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 April 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 -4 321 £70,000 -6.67% 80
UK excluding London +10 199 £65,000 +4.00% 57
Work from Home +12 152 £61,496 -1.61% 31
London -26 141 £80,750 -6.38% 36
South East +17 75 £65,000 +18.18% 25
North of England -42 54 £71,000 +35.24% 10
Yorkshire -51 27 £82,500 +66.67% 2
Midlands -29 22 £50,250 -19.60% 7
North West -37 22 £73,000 +19.18% 5
Scotland -20 17 £55,000 -27.02% 5
South West -40 16 £64,200 -10.82% 5
East Midlands - 13 £37,500 - 4
East of England -10 9 £76,250 +1.67% 6
West Midlands -39 9 £52,500 -16.00% 3
Wales -23 8 £61,248 -
North East - 5 £58,789 - 3
Northern Ireland - 1 £77,500 - 1

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 12 (3.38%) Appian
2 8 (2.25%) Apache
3 6 (1.69%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.41%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.41%) IIS
5 4 (1.13%) Confluence
5 4 (1.13%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.85%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.56%) BizTalk Server
7 2 (0.56%) SAS
8 1 (0.28%) CMS
8 1 (0.28%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.28%) nginx
8 1 (0.28%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (0.85%) SPSS
2 2 (0.56%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.56%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.28%) Misys Equation
2 1 (0.28%) Misys Midas
2 1 (0.28%) Oracle SCM
2 1 (0.28%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 187 (52.68%) AWS
2 166 (46.76%) Azure
3 81 (22.82%) Azure DevOps
4 77 (21.69%) GCP
5 73 (20.56%) GitHub
6 69 (19.44%) Amazon EKS
7 63 (17.75%) GitHub Actions
7 63 (17.75%) Serverless
8 46 (12.96%) SaaS
9 38 (10.70%) Azure Logic Apps
10 36 (10.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 32 (9.01%) Amazon S3
12 31 (8.73%) AWS Lambda
12 31 (8.73%) Azure Data Factory
12 31 (8.73%) Power Platform
13 27 (7.61%) Azure Monitor
14 24 (6.76%) AWS CloudFormation
15 20 (5.63%) Amazon EC2
16 18 (5.07%) PaaS
17 17 (4.79%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 18 (5.07%) Firewall
2 10 (2.82%) DNS
3 8 (2.25%) SSL
4 5 (1.41%) VPN
5 4 (1.13%) Broadband
5 4 (1.13%) DHCP
5 4 (1.13%) MQTT
5 4 (1.13%) Network Security
5 4 (1.13%) SSH
6 3 (0.85%) DMZ
7 2 (0.56%) BGP
7 2 (0.56%) Intrusion Detection
7 2 (0.56%) SAN
8 1 (0.28%) Ethernet VPN
8 1 (0.28%) HTTP
8 1 (0.28%) NetScaler
8 1 (0.28%) SNMP
8 1 (0.28%) VSAN
8 1 (0.28%) VXLAN
8 1 (0.28%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (10.42%) SQL Server
2 31 (8.73%) PostgreSQL
3 21 (5.92%) NoSQL
4 19 (5.35%) DynamoDB
5 17 (4.79%) MySQL
6 15 (4.23%) Elasticsearch
7 14 (3.94%) Amazon Aurora
7 14 (3.94%) Pinecone
8 12 (3.38%) Amazon RDS
8 12 (3.38%) MongoDB
9 11 (3.10%) Power BI
10 10 (2.82%) Data Warehouse
11 8 (2.25%) Spark SQL
12 7 (1.97%) Metadata
13 6 (1.69%) Relational Database
14 5 (1.41%) Delta Lake
15 3 (0.85%) Amazon Redshift
15 3 (0.85%) Big Data
15 3 (0.85%) CockroachDB
15 3 (0.85%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 66 (18.59%) Git
2 49 (13.80%) TeamCity
3 42 (11.83%) GitLab
4 40 (11.27%) Jenkins
5 18 (5.07%) JIRA
6 14 (3.94%) MLflow
7 13 (3.66%) Crashlytics
8 12 (3.38%) XCTest
9 10 (2.82%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 10 (2.82%) Bitbucket
9 10 (2.82%) Cucumber
10 9 (2.54%) SonarQube
11 8 (2.25%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 6 (1.69%) Artifactory
12 6 (1.69%) JMeter
13 5 (1.41%) Gradle
13 5 (1.41%) Locust
14 4 (1.13%) Maven
14 4 (1.13%) NUnit
14 4 (1.13%) Storybook
General
1 118 (33.24%) Finance
2 110 (30.99%) Social Skills
3 65 (18.31%) Banking
4 59 (16.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 50 (14.08%) Law
6 49 (13.80%) Retail
7 38 (10.70%) Analytical Skills
8 31 (8.73%) Back Office
8 31 (8.73%) Financial Institution
9 15 (4.23%) Pharmaceutical
10 12 (3.38%) Public Sector
11 7 (1.97%) Aerospace
12 6 (1.69%) Retail Banking
13 4 (1.13%) Mandarin Language
13 4 (1.13%) Marketing
13 4 (1.13%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.85%) Front Office
15 2 (0.56%) Advertising
15 2 (0.56%) Manufacturing
15 2 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 77 (21.69%) Lead
2 56 (15.77%) Developer
3 47 (13.24%) Senior
4 46 (12.96%) Software Engineer
5 36 (10.14%) DevOps Engineer
6 26 (7.32%) Cloud Engineer
7 23 (6.48%) Azure Engineer
8 21 (5.92%) AWS Engineer
9 20 (5.63%) Java Engineer
9 20 (5.63%) Platform Engineer
10 18 (5.07%) Lead Software Engineer
11 16 (4.51%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 16 (4.51%) Power Platform Developer
12 15 (4.23%) Data Engineer
12 15 (4.23%) Integration Engineer
12 15 (4.23%) Java Software Engineer
13 14 (3.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 13 (3.66%) Automation Engineer
15 12 (3.38%) Mobile Engineer
15 12 (3.38%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (12.96%) RESTful
2 39 (10.99%) REST
3 38 (10.70%) .NET
4 33 (9.30%) React
5 30 (8.45%) OAuth
6 24 (6.76%) .NET Core
7 19 (5.35%) JSON
8 18 (5.07%) OAuth2
9 17 (4.79%) JWT
9 17 (4.79%) Web Services
10 16 (4.51%) FastAPI
11 15 (4.23%) NumPy
11 15 (4.23%) Pandas
11 15 (4.23%) PyTorch
11 15 (4.23%) scikit-learn
11 15 (4.23%) TensorFlow
12 14 (3.94%) Flask
12 14 (3.94%) OpenAPI
12 14 (3.94%) pytest
12 14 (3.94%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 88 (24.79%) Cloud Native
2 42 (11.83%) Low-Code
3 28 (7.89%) Life Science
4 26 (7.32%) Product Ownership
5 19 (5.35%) Distributed Systems
6 17 (4.79%) Legacy Systems
7 16 (4.51%) Blog
8 15 (4.23%) Mobile App
9 14 (3.94%) Greenfield Project
10 13 (3.66%) Onboarding
11 11 (3.10%) Hackathon
11 11 (3.10%) Management Information System
12 9 (2.54%) Hybrid Cloud
12 9 (2.54%) PKI
13 7 (1.97%) Public Cloud
14 6 (1.69%) Cyberattack
15 5 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
15 5 (1.41%) Linux Command Line
15 5 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
16 4 (1.13%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 59 (16.62%) Linux
2 32 (9.01%) Windows
3 23 (6.48%) Apple iOS
4 16 (4.51%) Windows Server
5 12 (3.38%) CentOS
6 7 (1.97%) Mac OS
7 6 (1.69%) Android
7 6 (1.69%) VMS
8 5 (1.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (1.41%) Ubuntu
9 4 (1.13%) Unix
10 2 (0.56%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.28%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 266 (74.93%) CI/CD
2 184 (51.83%) DevOps
3 161 (45.35%) Test Automation
4 135 (38.03%) Infrastructure as Code
5 113 (31.83%) Agile
6 86 (24.23%) Containerisation
7 78 (21.97%) Microservices
8 77 (21.69%) Clean Code
9 76 (21.41%) Analytics
10 75 (21.13%) Problem-Solving
11 74 (20.85%) Observability
12 68 (19.15%) Continuous Improvement
12 68 (19.15%) Software Engineering
13 65 (18.31%) AI
14 59 (16.62%) Continuous Deployment
15 53 (14.93%) Computer Science
15 53 (14.93%) Machine Learning
16 46 (12.96%) Cybersecurity
17 41 (11.55%) Disruptive Innovation
18 38 (10.70%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 147 (41.41%) Python
2 80 (22.54%) Java
3 76 (21.41%) SQL
4 50 (14.08%) PowerShell
5 48 (13.52%) Bash
6 41 (11.55%) JavaScript
7 39 (10.99%) C#
8 29 (8.17%) Bicep
9 26 (7.32%) TypeScript
10 15 (4.23%) Kotlin
11 13 (3.66%) Swift
12 8 (2.25%) Kusto Query Language
12 8 (2.25%) Rust
13 7 (1.97%) Groovy
13 7 (1.97%) Shell Script
14 6 (1.69%) Go
15 4 (1.13%) Perl
16 3 (0.85%) PHP
16 3 (0.85%) VB
17 2 (0.56%) VB6
Qualifications
1 66 (18.59%) Degree
2 47 (13.24%) Security Cleared
3 27 (7.61%) Master's Degree
4 25 (7.04%) SC Cleared
5 21 (5.92%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (4.23%) PhD
7 14 (3.94%) AWS Certification
8 13 (3.66%) DV Cleared
9 10 (2.82%) Azure Certification
10 9 (2.54%) AWS Certified Developer
11 4 (1.13%) Postgraduate
12 3 (0.85%) ISTQB
12 3 (0.85%) PMI Certification
12 3 (0.85%) PMP
13 1 (0.28%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 1 (0.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.28%) JNCIP
13 1 (0.28%) LPIC
13 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (10.70%) QA
2 25 (7.04%) Accessibility
3 21 (5.92%) GDPR
4 20 (5.63%) Data Quality
5 15 (4.23%) GxP
6 12 (3.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 11 (3.10%) WCAG
8 7 (1.97%) SLA
9 5 (1.41%) SOC 2
10 4 (1.13%) NIST
11 2 (0.56%) Def Stans
11 2 (0.56%) IEC 61508
11 2 (0.56%) IFRS
11 2 (0.56%) IFRS 17
11 2 (0.56%) ISO 26262
11 2 (0.56%) PMO
11 2 (0.56%) Solvency II
12 1 (0.28%) NCSC
System Software
1 95 (26.76%) Docker
2 16 (4.51%) Active Directory
3 8 (2.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.56%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.56%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.28%) Firmware
5 1 (0.28%) vCloud
5 1 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.28%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 170 (47.89%) Terraform
2 149 (41.97%) Kubernetes
3 86 (24.23%) Grafana
4 50 (14.08%) Ansible
5 26 (7.32%) Prometheus
6 12 (3.38%) Microsoft Intune
7 9 (2.54%) Argo
7 9 (2.54%) Jamf Pro
8 7 (1.97%) Nagios
9 5 (1.41%) SCCM
10 4 (1.13%) logstash
10 4 (1.13%) Packer
10 4 (1.13%) Rancher
11 3 (0.85%) SCOM
11 3 (0.85%) SCOrch
12 2 (0.56%) Istio
12 2 (0.56%) Puppet
12 2 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.28%) Functional Safety
13 1 (0.28%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 52 (14.65%) Microsoft
2 16 (4.51%) OpenAI
3 15 (4.23%) Databricks
4 13 (3.66%) Automation Anywhere
4 13 (3.66%) UiPath
5 12 (3.38%) Amplitude
5 12 (3.38%) Braze
5 12 (3.38%) Google
5 12 (3.38%) Splunk
6 9 (2.54%) Red Hat
6 9 (2.54%) VMware
7 8 (2.25%) Ab Initio
7 8 (2.25%) Dynatrace
8 7 (1.97%) Rapid7
9 6 (1.69%) AppDynamics
9 6 (1.69%) IBM
9 6 (1.69%) Salesforce
10 5 (1.41%) Cisco
10 5 (1.41%) Oracle
11 4 (1.13%) Apple