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

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 408 473 459
Rank change year-on-year +65 -14 -54
Permanent jobs citing Deployment Automation 451 227 391
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.43% 0.46% 0.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.59% 0.51% 0.58%
Number of salaries quoted 264 142 298
10th Percentile £44,661 £46,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £52,188 £51,563 £48,925
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 £78,594
90th Percentile £109,250 £97,500 £92,875
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 76,965 44,351 67,835
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.55% 89.45% 81.04%
Number of salaries quoted 53,101 25,205 44,372
10th Percentile £30,750 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £48,750 £50,000
% change year-on-year +12.82% -2.50% -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 6 August 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 6 August 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 +63 389 £70,000 +3.70% 228
UK excluding London +28 246 £65,000 +4.00% 125
Work from Home +32 174 £65,000 +4.00% 124
London +11 171 £85,000 +13.33% 130
North of England +11 81 £57,500 +16.16% 40
South East +6 62 £66,250 - 31
Midlands -19 37 £49,000 -18.33% 12
North West +11 34 £53,750 +16.85% 21
South West -37 32 £70,000 -2.77% 17
North East -28 25 £47,000 - 6
Yorkshire -13 22 £82,500 +20.44% 13
West Midlands -21 20 £50,000 -16.67% 5
East Midlands -5 17 £42,500 -43.33% 7
Wales -47 17 £63,500 +30.93% 5
Scotland +20 15 £68,750 -11.50% 12
East of England -23 4 £56,000 - 7
Northern Ireland - 1 £77,500 - 5

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 (2.66%) Confluence
2 10 (2.22%) Apache
3 9 (2.00%) SharePoint
4 7 (1.55%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.55%) Apache Spark
4 7 (1.55%) IIS
4 7 (1.55%) nginx
5 5 (1.11%) Camunda
6 4 (0.89%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (0.89%) SAS
7 2 (0.44%) Cloud Foundry
7 2 (0.44%) CMS
7 2 (0.44%) Luigi
8 1 (0.22%) Documentum
8 1 (0.22%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.22%) NServiceBus
8 1 (0.22%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (0.67%) SPSS
2 2 (0.44%) Trello
3 1 (0.22%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.22%) Magento
2 1 (0.22%) Misys Equation
2 1 (0.22%) Misys Midas
2 1 (0.22%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 247 (54.77%) AWS
2 227 (50.33%) Azure
3 128 (28.38%) GCP
4 105 (23.28%) Azure DevOps
5 71 (15.74%) GitHub
6 68 (15.08%) Amazon EKS
7 58 (12.86%) Serverless
8 57 (12.64%) SaaS
9 42 (9.31%) GitHub Actions
10 30 (6.65%) Power Platform
11 28 (6.21%) Datadog
12 27 (5.99%) Firebase
13 26 (5.76%) Amazon S3
14 25 (5.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 25 (5.54%) Microsoft 365
15 23 (5.10%) AWS CloudFormation
15 23 (5.10%) Azure Monitor
16 22 (4.88%) Amazon ECS
16 22 (4.88%) PaaS
17 19 (4.21%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 19 (4.21%) Firewall
2 18 (3.99%) DNS
3 13 (2.88%) VPN
4 8 (1.77%) MQTT
4 8 (1.77%) Network Security
5 6 (1.33%) DHCP
6 5 (1.11%) BGP
6 5 (1.11%) SSL
6 5 (1.11%) TCP/IP
6 5 (1.11%) Wi-Fi
7 4 (0.89%) Broadband
7 4 (0.89%) Kerberos
7 4 (0.89%) NAS
7 4 (0.89%) SSH
7 4 (0.89%) WAN
7 4 (0.89%) Wireless
8 3 (0.67%) LAN
8 3 (0.67%) PBX
8 3 (0.67%) Unified Communications
8 3 (0.67%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (9.76%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (7.54%) SQL Server
3 24 (5.32%) MySQL
4 23 (5.10%) MongoDB
5 21 (4.66%) Elasticsearch
6 20 (4.43%) Data Warehouse
7 18 (3.99%) NoSQL
8 17 (3.77%) Power BI
9 13 (2.88%) Amazon RDS
10 11 (2.44%) Metadata
10 11 (2.44%) Spark SQL
11 10 (2.22%) Azure SQL Database
12 9 (2.00%) Data Lake
12 9 (2.00%) Relational Database
13 7 (1.55%) DynamoDB
13 7 (1.55%) Geospatial Data
14 6 (1.33%) Big Data
14 6 (1.33%) Delta Lake
15 5 (1.11%) Amazon Aurora
15 5 (1.11%) Redis
Development Applications
1 95 (21.06%) Git
2 54 (11.97%) TeamCity
3 52 (11.53%) Jenkins
4 46 (10.20%) GitLab
5 32 (7.10%) JIRA
6 20 (4.43%) Crashlytics
7 15 (3.33%) Bitbucket
8 14 (3.10%) XCTest
9 13 (2.88%) fastlane
9 13 (2.88%) SonarQube
10 11 (2.44%) Cucumber
11 10 (2.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 8 (1.77%) JUnit
12 8 (1.77%) Mockito
12 8 (1.77%) Octopus Deploy
13 7 (1.55%) Artifactory
13 7 (1.55%) Claude Code
13 7 (1.55%) MSI
13 7 (1.55%) Xcode
14 6 (1.33%) JMeter
General
1 136 (30.16%) Social Skills
2 133 (29.49%) Finance
3 94 (20.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 89 (19.73%) Banking
5 69 (15.30%) Law
6 60 (13.30%) Analytical Skills
7 58 (12.86%) Retail
8 48 (10.64%) Financial Institution
9 43 (9.53%) Public Sector
10 40 (8.87%) Back Office
11 7 (1.55%) Manufacturing
11 7 (1.55%) Marketing
11 7 (1.55%) Organisational Skills
12 6 (1.33%) Aerospace
12 6 (1.33%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.89%) Mandarin Language
14 3 (0.67%) Front Office
14 3 (0.67%) Legal
14 3 (0.67%) Retail Banking
15 2 (0.44%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 89 (19.73%) Software Engineer
2 86 (19.07%) Lead
3 67 (14.86%) DevOps Engineer
4 66 (14.63%) Senior
5 63 (13.97%) Developer
6 36 (7.98%) Azure Engineer
7 31 (6.87%) Cloud Engineer
8 23 (5.10%) Data Engineer
8 23 (5.10%) Lead Software Engineer
8 23 (5.10%) Platform Engineer
8 23 (5.10%) Senior Software Engineer
9 21 (4.66%) Site Engineer
9 21 (4.66%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 19 (4.21%) Technical Leader
11 17 (3.77%) Java Engineer
12 16 (3.55%) Administrator
12 16 (3.55%) AWS Engineer
12 16 (3.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 16 (3.55%) Senior Developer
13 15 (3.33%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (9.98%) REST
1 45 (9.98%) RESTful
2 43 (9.53%) .NET
3 31 (6.87%) React
4 26 (5.76%) Kafka
5 21 (4.66%) SwiftUI
5 21 (4.66%) UIKit
6 18 (3.99%) Spring
7 17 (3.77%) ARM Templates
7 17 (3.77%) CSS
7 17 (3.77%) Spring Boot
8 16 (3.55%) Next.js
9 15 (3.33%) .NET Core
10 14 (3.10%) AngularJS
10 14 (3.10%) Node.js
11 13 (2.88%) Elastic Stack
11 13 (2.88%) HTML
11 13 (2.88%) LangChain
11 13 (2.88%) PySpark
12 12 (2.66%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 151 (33.48%) Cloud Native
2 73 (16.19%) Product Ownership
3 43 (9.53%) Distributed Systems
4 29 (6.43%) Mobile App
5 24 (5.32%) Onboarding
6 19 (4.21%) Legacy Systems
6 19 (4.21%) Life Science
7 16 (3.55%) Self-Motivation
8 15 (3.33%) Greenfield Project
9 13 (2.88%) Blog
9 13 (2.88%) Management Information System
10 12 (2.66%) Low-Code
11 11 (2.44%) AI Agents
11 11 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
12 10 (2.22%) Hybrid Cloud
13 9 (2.00%) PKI
13 9 (2.00%) Virtual Team
14 8 (1.77%) Data Centre
14 8 (1.77%) Linux Command Line
15 7 (1.55%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 83 (18.40%) Linux
2 63 (13.97%) Windows
3 33 (7.32%) Apple iOS
4 22 (4.88%) Windows Server
5 17 (3.77%) CentOS
6 13 (2.88%) Android
7 8 (1.77%) Mac OS
8 7 (1.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (1.33%) Ubuntu
9 6 (1.33%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.67%) Unix
11 2 (0.44%) Amazon Linux
11 2 (0.44%) Embedded Linux
11 2 (0.44%) Solaris
11 2 (0.44%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 353 (78.27%) CI/CD
2 268 (59.42%) DevOps
3 193 (42.79%) Test Automation
4 177 (39.25%) Infrastructure as Code
5 151 (33.48%) Software Engineering
6 145 (32.15%) Agile
7 119 (26.39%) Observability
8 118 (26.16%) Microservices
9 108 (23.95%) Containerisation
10 106 (23.50%) Continuous Improvement
11 101 (22.39%) AI
12 97 (21.51%) Mentoring
13 93 (20.62%) Clean Code
14 90 (19.96%) Problem-Solving
15 71 (15.74%) Analytics
16 67 (14.86%) Continuous Deployment
17 54 (11.97%) Machine Learning
18 52 (11.53%) Computer Science
19 49 (10.86%) User Experience
20 48 (10.64%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 185 (41.02%) Python
2 123 (27.27%) Java
3 75 (16.63%) SQL
4 68 (15.08%) PowerShell
5 53 (11.75%) Bash
6 49 (10.86%) C#
7 47 (10.42%) TypeScript
8 42 (9.31%) JavaScript
9 22 (4.88%) Bicep
9 22 (4.88%) Kotlin
10 21 (4.66%) Swift
11 11 (2.44%) Go
11 11 (2.44%) Rust
12 8 (1.77%) Groovy
13 7 (1.55%) Scala
13 7 (1.55%) Shell Script
14 6 (1.33%) C
14 6 (1.33%) C++
15 4 (0.89%) Perl
15 4 (0.89%) PHP
Qualifications
1 76 (16.85%) Security Cleared
2 57 (12.64%) Degree
3 45 (9.98%) SC Cleared
4 33 (7.32%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (3.55%) DV Cleared
6 12 (2.66%) AWS Certification
6 12 (2.66%) Azure Certification
7 10 (2.22%) Master's Degree
8 6 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (0.89%) Postgraduate
10 3 (0.67%) CCNP
10 3 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 2 (0.44%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.44%) PMP
12 1 (0.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.22%) ISTQB
12 1 (0.22%) JNCIP
12 1 (0.22%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (14.19%) QA
2 38 (8.43%) Accessibility
3 28 (6.21%) WCAG
4 21 (4.66%) GDPR
5 16 (3.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (2.88%) Data Quality
7 12 (2.66%) SLA
8 10 (2.22%) NCSC
9 7 (1.55%) SOC 2
10 4 (0.89%) NIST
11 2 (0.44%) Def Stans
11 2 (0.44%) IEC 61508
11 2 (0.44%) IFRS
11 2 (0.44%) IFRS 17
11 2 (0.44%) ISO 26262
11 2 (0.44%) JTAG
11 2 (0.44%) PMO
11 2 (0.44%) Solvency II
12 1 (0.22%) GRC
System Software
1 115 (25.50%) Docker
2 21 (4.66%) Active Directory
3 10 (2.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.33%) Hyper-V
5 5 (1.11%) Firmware
5 5 (1.11%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.89%) vSphere
7 3 (0.67%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.22%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.22%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 199 (44.12%) Terraform
2 184 (40.80%) Kubernetes
3 113 (25.06%) Grafana
4 86 (19.07%) Ansible
5 37 (8.20%) Prometheus
6 12 (2.66%) Argo
6 12 (2.66%) Microsoft Intune
7 11 (2.44%) Nagios
8 10 (2.22%) Jamf Pro
8 10 (2.22%) Puppet
9 6 (1.33%) SCCM
10 5 (1.11%) Progress Chef
11 4 (0.89%) Packer
12 3 (0.67%) cPanel
12 3 (0.67%) Docker Swarm
12 3 (0.67%) Plesk
12 3 (0.67%) Podman
12 3 (0.67%) SCOM
12 3 (0.67%) SCOrch
12 3 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 81 (17.96%) Microsoft
2 36 (7.98%) Dynatrace
3 28 (6.21%) Google
4 22 (4.88%) Databricks
5 18 (3.99%) Splunk
6 15 (3.33%) Red Hat
6 15 (3.33%) VMware
7 14 (3.10%) Amplitude
7 14 (3.10%) Braze
7 14 (3.10%) Salesforce
8 11 (2.44%) Apple
8 11 (2.44%) OpenAI
8 11 (2.44%) Rapid7
9 7 (1.55%) AppDynamics
10 6 (1.33%) Atlassian
10 6 (1.33%) IBM
10 6 (1.33%) Oracle
11 5 (1.11%) ServiceNow
12 4 (0.89%) Cisco
12 4 (0.89%) Dell