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

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 375 479 439
Rank change year-on-year +104 -40 -60
Permanent jobs citing Deployment Automation 539 193 363
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.46% 0.39% 0.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.62% 0.44% 0.59%
Number of salaries quoted 287 95 239
10th Percentile £44,806 £48,250 £44,160
25th Percentile £56,125 £57,500 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +11.54% -7.52%
75th Percentile £86,250 £83,750 £73,125
90th Percentile £107,500 £94,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £66,250 £55,000
% change year-on-year -1.89% +20.45% -12.00%

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 86,399 44,171 61,013
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.12% 89.11% 81.89%
Number of salaries quoted 59,417 24,443 33,150
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £58,700
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -6.30% -2.17%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

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 3 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Deployment Automation in the UK

Deployment Automation
Top 16 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 3 October 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 +115 441 £70,000 -6.67% 695
UK excluding London -7 263 £65,000 -1.89% 468
London +69 214 £82,500 +4.95% 341
Work from Home +65 193 £65,000 -15.82% 377
North of England +11 93 £62,500 -16.67% 108
South West -26 55 £74,000 -14.20% 70
North East -21 43 £60,000 -22.30% 18
South East -32 39 £65,000 -21.21% 91
North West -8 36 £57,500 -25.53% 58
Midlands -36 31 £56,250 -6.25% 47
Wales -59 27 £52,500 +8.25% 24
Yorkshire -25 23 £70,000 +2.19% 33
East Midlands -27 17 £61,250 -18.33% 18
Scotland -13 14 £75,000 -2.87% 76
West Midlands -39 14 £51,250 -14.58% 29
East of England -37 5 £56,000 - 31

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 18 (3.34%) Confluence
2 15 (2.78%) Apache
3 14 (2.60%) Apache Spark
3 14 (2.60%) nginx
3 14 (2.60%) SharePoint
4 10 (1.86%) Apache Airflow
5 8 (1.48%) IIS
6 7 (1.30%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (0.93%) Camunda
8 4 (0.74%) SAS
9 3 (0.56%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.37%) Cloud Foundry
10 2 (0.37%) Luigi
11 1 (0.19%) CMS
11 1 (0.19%) Documentum
11 1 (0.19%) JBoss
11 1 (0.19%) NServiceBus
11 1 (0.19%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (0.19%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.19%) ProjectWise
1 1 (0.19%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.19%) Magento
2 1 (0.19%) Maximo
2 1 (0.19%) Misys Equation
2 1 (0.19%) Misys Midas
2 1 (0.19%) Primavera
2 1 (0.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 305 (56.59%) AWS
2 290 (53.80%) Azure
3 187 (34.69%) GCP
4 124 (23.01%) Azure DevOps
5 89 (16.51%) GitHub
6 86 (15.96%) Amazon EKS
7 68 (12.62%) SaaS
8 53 (9.83%) Serverless
9 44 (8.16%) GitHub Actions
10 43 (7.98%) AWS CloudFormation
11 36 (6.68%) Power Platform
12 29 (5.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 29 (5.38%) Amazon ECS
12 29 (5.38%) Microsoft 365
13 26 (4.82%) Entra ID
14 25 (4.64%) Azure Monitor
15 23 (4.27%) Azure Functions
16 22 (4.08%) Amazon S3
17 21 (3.90%) Azure Data Factory
17 21 (3.90%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 22 (4.08%) DNS
2 19 (3.53%) Firewall
2 19 (3.53%) VPN
3 9 (1.67%) Network Security
4 8 (1.48%) DHCP
5 7 (1.30%) BGP
5 7 (1.30%) SD-WAN
5 7 (1.30%) WAN
5 7 (1.30%) Wireless
6 6 (1.11%) LAN
6 6 (1.11%) OSPF
6 6 (1.11%) SSL
6 6 (1.11%) TCP/IP
6 6 (1.11%) Wi-Fi
7 5 (0.93%) MQTT
8 4 (0.74%) Broadband
8 4 (0.74%) Kerberos
8 4 (0.74%) NAS
8 4 (0.74%) SSH
8 4 (0.74%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (11.69%) PostgreSQL
2 41 (7.61%) SQL Server
3 34 (6.31%) MongoDB
4 32 (5.94%) MySQL
4 32 (5.94%) NoSQL
5 24 (4.45%) Power BI
6 20 (3.71%) Data Warehouse
7 19 (3.53%) Elasticsearch
8 18 (3.34%) Amazon RDS
8 18 (3.34%) Data Lake
9 15 (2.78%) Azure SQL Database
9 15 (2.78%) Relational Database
10 14 (2.60%) Metadata
11 9 (1.67%) Big Data
12 7 (1.30%) Geospatial Data
12 7 (1.30%) Redis
12 7 (1.30%) Spark SQL
13 5 (0.93%) DynamoDB
13 5 (0.93%) Hadoop
13 5 (0.93%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 111 (20.59%) Git
2 71 (13.17%) TeamCity
3 64 (11.87%) Jenkins
4 62 (11.50%) GitLab
5 36 (6.68%) JIRA
6 18 (3.34%) Bitbucket
7 11 (2.04%) fastlane
8 10 (1.86%) Crashlytics
9 9 (1.67%) Claude Code
9 9 (1.67%) JUnit
10 8 (1.48%) Mockito
10 8 (1.48%) Octopus Deploy
11 7 (1.30%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 7 (1.30%) MSI
11 7 (1.30%) SonarQube
12 6 (1.11%) Artifactory
12 6 (1.11%) Xcode
13 5 (0.93%) Android Studio
13 5 (0.93%) Maven
13 5 (0.93%) XCTest
General
1 164 (30.43%) Finance
2 150 (27.83%) Social Skills
3 117 (21.71%) Banking
4 113 (20.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 87 (16.14%) Analytical Skills
6 86 (15.96%) Law
7 84 (15.58%) Public Sector
8 72 (13.36%) Retail
9 60 (11.13%) Financial Institution
10 53 (9.83%) Back Office
11 10 (1.86%) Marketing
12 7 (1.30%) Manufacturing
12 7 (1.30%) Telecoms
13 6 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (0.74%) Aerospace
14 4 (0.74%) Legal
14 4 (0.74%) Police
14 4 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
15 3 (0.56%) Documentation Skills
16 2 (0.37%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 120 (22.26%) Software Engineer
2 99 (18.37%) DevOps Engineer
3 98 (18.18%) Senior
4 88 (16.33%) Lead
5 80 (14.84%) Developer
6 45 (8.35%) Cloud Engineer
7 37 (6.86%) Azure Engineer
8 32 (5.94%) Senior Software Engineer
9 28 (5.19%) Data Engineer
10 27 (5.01%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 27 (5.01%) Platform Engineer
11 26 (4.82%) Lead Software Engineer
12 22 (4.08%) Java Engineer
13 21 (3.90%) Senior Developer
13 21 (3.90%) Software Team Leader
13 21 (3.90%) Team Leader
14 20 (3.71%) AWS Engineer
14 20 (3.71%) Site Engineer
14 20 (3.71%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 19 (3.53%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 272 (50.46%) Terraform
2 63 (11.69%) RESTful
3 56 (10.39%) REST
4 55 (10.20%) .NET
5 39 (7.24%) React
6 38 (7.05%) Kafka
7 25 (4.64%) Spring
8 24 (4.45%) LangChain
8 24 (4.45%) Spring Boot
9 21 (3.90%) Web Services
10 19 (3.53%) Node.js
11 18 (3.34%) AngularJS
11 18 (3.34%) CSS
11 18 (3.34%) Hibernate
11 18 (3.34%) JPA
12 16 (2.97%) PyTorch
12 16 (2.97%) scikit-learn
12 16 (2.97%) TensorFlow
13 15 (2.78%) .NET Framework
13 15 (2.78%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 212 (39.33%) Cloud Native
2 110 (20.41%) Product Ownership
3 57 (10.58%) Distributed Systems
4 36 (6.68%) Onboarding
5 32 (5.94%) Enterprise Software
6 28 (5.19%) Self-Motivation
7 23 (4.27%) AI Agents
8 20 (3.71%) Legacy Systems
8 20 (3.71%) Management Information System
9 18 (3.34%) Mobile App
9 18 (3.34%) Virtual Team
10 16 (2.97%) Blog
11 13 (2.41%) Life Science
12 10 (1.86%) Hybrid Cloud
13 9 (1.67%) Data Centre
13 9 (1.67%) Replication
14 8 (1.48%) Linux Command Line
14 8 (1.48%) Public Cloud
15 7 (1.30%) PKI
15 7 (1.30%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 88 (16.33%) Linux
2 60 (11.13%) Windows
3 19 (3.53%) Windows Server
4 15 (2.78%) Apple iOS
5 12 (2.23%) CentOS
6 8 (1.48%) Android
6 8 (1.48%) Unix
7 7 (1.30%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (0.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.56%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.37%) Amazon Linux
10 2 (0.37%) Embedded Linux
10 2 (0.37%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.37%) Solaris
10 2 (0.37%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 447 (82.93%) CI/CD
2 362 (67.16%) DevOps
3 245 (45.45%) Infrastructure as Code
4 228 (42.30%) Test Automation
5 213 (39.52%) Software Engineering
6 187 (34.69%) Agile
7 157 (29.13%) Observability
8 155 (28.76%) Continuous Improvement
9 149 (27.64%) AI
10 147 (27.27%) Mentoring
10 147 (27.27%) Microservices
11 145 (26.90%) Problem-Solving
12 133 (24.68%) Containerisation
13 106 (19.67%) Clean Code
14 87 (16.14%) Technical Leadership
15 77 (14.29%) Continuous Deployment
16 74 (13.73%) Analytics
17 66 (12.24%) Platform Engineering
18 65 (12.06%) Coaching
18 65 (12.06%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 204 (37.85%) Python
2 144 (26.72%) Java
3 96 (17.81%) SQL
4 79 (14.66%) PowerShell
5 58 (10.76%) TypeScript
6 57 (10.58%) C#
7 53 (9.83%) Bash
8 48 (8.91%) JavaScript
9 30 (5.57%) Bicep
10 12 (2.23%) Go
10 12 (2.23%) Kotlin
11 11 (2.04%) Swift
12 10 (1.86%) C++
13 9 (1.67%) Scala
14 7 (1.30%) C
15 5 (0.93%) Apex Code
15 5 (0.93%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 5 (0.93%) PHP
15 5 (0.93%) Rust
16 4 (0.74%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 107 (19.85%) Security Cleared
2 75 (13.91%) SC Cleared
3 48 (8.91%) Degree
4 37 (6.86%) Computer Science Degree
5 28 (5.19%) Azure Certification
6 23 (4.27%) AWS Certification
7 16 (2.97%) DV Cleared
8 15 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (1.48%) Master's Degree
10 7 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (0.93%) CCNP
11 5 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (0.74%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 4 (0.74%) TOGAF Certification
13 3 (0.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 3 (0.56%) PMI Certification
14 2 (0.37%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 2 (0.37%) PMP
15 1 (0.19%) ISTQB
15 1 (0.19%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (11.32%) QA
2 31 (5.75%) Accessibility
3 24 (4.45%) Data Quality
4 21 (3.90%) WCAG
5 20 (3.71%) GDPR
6 16 (2.97%) NCSC
7 14 (2.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 13 (2.41%) SLA
9 5 (0.93%) SOC 2
10 4 (0.74%) NIST
11 3 (0.56%) PMO
12 2 (0.37%) GRC
12 2 (0.37%) IFRS
12 2 (0.37%) IFRS 17
12 2 (0.37%) JTAG
12 2 (0.37%) Solvency II
System Software
1 139 (25.79%) Docker
2 25 (4.64%) Active Directory
3 10 (1.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.48%) Virtual Desktop
5 7 (1.30%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (1.11%) Firmware
6 6 (1.11%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.74%) vSphere
8 1 (0.19%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.19%) NDS
8 1 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.19%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 223 (41.37%) Kubernetes
2 140 (25.97%) Grafana
3 86 (15.96%) Ansible
4 46 (8.53%) Prometheus
5 13 (2.41%) Argo
6 11 (2.04%) Microsoft Intune
6 11 (2.04%) Puppet
7 9 (1.67%) Nagios
8 6 (1.11%) Progress Chef
9 5 (0.93%) SCCM
10 4 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (0.56%) cPanel
11 3 (0.56%) Docker Swarm
11 3 (0.56%) Istio
11 3 (0.56%) Jamf Pro
11 3 (0.56%) Plesk
11 3 (0.56%) Podman
11 3 (0.56%) Rancher
11 3 (0.56%) SCOM
11 3 (0.56%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 112 (20.78%) Microsoft
2 44 (8.16%) Dynatrace
3 31 (5.75%) Google
4 26 (4.82%) Splunk
5 24 (4.45%) Databricks
6 19 (3.53%) Salesforce
7 15 (2.78%) Red Hat
7 15 (2.78%) VMware
8 12 (2.23%) Oracle
9 11 (2.04%) OpenAI
10 9 (1.67%) Rapid7
11 8 (1.48%) Fortinet
12 7 (1.30%) Apple
12 7 (1.30%) ServiceNow
13 6 (1.11%) Atlassian
14 5 (0.93%) Amplitude
14 5 (0.93%) Braze
14 5 (0.93%) Cisco
14 5 (0.93%) Confluent
15 4 (0.74%) UiPath