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

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 372 480 432
Rank change year-on-year +108 -48 -54
Permanent jobs citing Deployment Automation 546 192 341
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.46% 0.39% 0.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.63% 0.44% 0.58%
Number of salaries quoted 289 90 224
10th Percentile £44,903 £48,250 £44,263
25th Percentile £56,250 £57,500 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £65,750
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +14.07% -6.07%
75th Percentile £86,250 £85,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £107,750 £95,125 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £68,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.11% +24.55% -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 87,115 43,732 58,410
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.39% 88.90% 82.19%
Number of salaries quoted 59,537 24,546 31,188
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,250 £32,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £43,997
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £97,500
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 14 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 14 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 +103 443 £70,000 -6.67% 483
UK excluding London -9 262 £65,000 -5.11% 247
London +72 217 £82,500 +3.13% 262
Work from Home +83 203 £65,000 -15.82% 207
North of England +6 89 £62,500 -16.67% 64
South West -17 56 £75,000 -6.25% 41
North East -29 44 £60,000 -22.30% 11
South East -25 40 £65,000 -21.21% 62
North West -10 31 £57,500 -24.45% 32
Midlands -38 31 £56,250 -8.16% 22
Wales -58 26 £52,500 +8.25% 3
Yorkshire -19 23 £70,000 +2.19% 21
East Midlands -27 17 £61,250 -18.33% 6
Scotland -4 15 £75,000 -4.59% 34
West Midlands -34 14 £51,250 -14.58% 16
East of England -26 6 £56,000 - 12

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 (3.30%) Confluence
2 17 (3.11%) Apache
3 14 (2.56%) Apache Spark
3 14 (2.56%) nginx
4 12 (2.20%) SharePoint
5 11 (2.01%) Apache Airflow
6 8 (1.47%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (1.10%) IIS
8 5 (0.92%) Camunda
9 4 (0.73%) SAS
10 3 (0.55%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.37%) Cloud Foundry
11 2 (0.37%) Luigi
12 1 (0.18%) CMS
12 1 (0.18%) Documentum
12 1 (0.18%) JBoss
12 1 (0.18%) NServiceBus
12 1 (0.18%) OpenStack
12 1 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (0.18%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 3 (0.55%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.37%) Maximo
3 1 (0.18%) Magento
3 1 (0.18%) Misys Equation
3 1 (0.18%) Misys Midas
3 1 (0.18%) Primavera
3 1 (0.18%) Siebel CRM
3 1 (0.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 310 (56.78%) AWS
2 291 (53.30%) Azure
3 197 (36.08%) GCP
4 129 (23.63%) Azure DevOps
5 93 (17.03%) GitHub
6 92 (16.85%) Amazon EKS
7 72 (13.19%) SaaS
8 56 (10.26%) Serverless
9 46 (8.42%) GitHub Actions
10 44 (8.06%) AWS CloudFormation
11 37 (6.78%) Power Platform
12 32 (5.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 30 (5.49%) Amazon ECS
14 29 (5.31%) Entra ID
14 29 (5.31%) Microsoft 365
15 27 (4.95%) Azure Monitor
16 26 (4.76%) Azure Functions
17 23 (4.21%) Amazon S3
18 20 (3.66%) OpenShift
19 19 (3.48%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 22 (4.03%) DNS
2 19 (3.48%) VPN
3 17 (3.11%) Firewall
4 9 (1.65%) Network Security
5 7 (1.28%) DHCP
5 7 (1.28%) SD-WAN
5 7 (1.28%) TCP/IP
5 7 (1.28%) WAN
5 7 (1.28%) Wireless
6 6 (1.10%) BGP
6 6 (1.10%) LAN
6 6 (1.10%) OSPF
6 6 (1.10%) SSL
6 6 (1.10%) Wi-Fi
7 5 (0.92%) MQTT
7 5 (0.92%) SSH
8 4 (0.73%) Broadband
8 4 (0.73%) Kerberos
8 4 (0.73%) NAS
8 4 (0.73%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (11.90%) PostgreSQL
2 42 (7.69%) SQL Server
3 32 (5.86%) MongoDB
4 31 (5.68%) MySQL
5 30 (5.49%) NoSQL
6 25 (4.58%) Power BI
7 20 (3.66%) Data Warehouse
8 19 (3.48%) Data Lake
9 17 (3.11%) Amazon RDS
9 17 (3.11%) Elasticsearch
10 16 (2.93%) Azure SQL Database
10 16 (2.93%) Relational Database
11 14 (2.56%) Metadata
12 9 (1.65%) Big Data
13 8 (1.47%) Redis
14 7 (1.28%) Geospatial Data
14 7 (1.28%) Spark SQL
15 6 (1.10%) Delta Lake
16 5 (0.92%) DocumentDB
16 5 (0.92%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 108 (19.78%) Git
2 77 (14.10%) TeamCity
3 67 (12.27%) GitLab
4 65 (11.90%) Jenkins
5 33 (6.04%) JIRA
6 17 (3.11%) Bitbucket
7 11 (2.01%) fastlane
8 9 (1.65%) Claude Code
8 9 (1.65%) Crashlytics
8 9 (1.65%) JUnit
9 8 (1.47%) Mockito
9 8 (1.47%) Octopus Deploy
10 7 (1.28%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 7 (1.28%) MSI
10 7 (1.28%) SonarQube
11 6 (1.10%) Artifactory
11 6 (1.10%) Xcode
12 5 (0.92%) Android Studio
12 5 (0.92%) Gradle
12 5 (0.92%) Maven
General
1 170 (31.14%) Finance
2 152 (27.84%) Social Skills
3 123 (22.53%) Banking
4 122 (22.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 92 (16.85%) Law
6 86 (15.75%) Public Sector
7 84 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
8 78 (14.29%) Retail
9 64 (11.72%) Financial Institution
10 57 (10.44%) Back Office
11 10 (1.83%) Marketing
12 7 (1.28%) Manufacturing
12 7 (1.28%) Telecoms
13 6 (1.10%) Police
14 5 (0.92%) Organisational Skills
15 4 (0.73%) Documentation Skills
15 4 (0.73%) Legal
16 3 (0.55%) Aerospace
16 3 (0.55%) Military
16 3 (0.55%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 127 (23.26%) Software Engineer
2 109 (19.96%) Senior
3 105 (19.23%) DevOps Engineer
4 83 (15.20%) Lead
5 80 (14.65%) Developer
6 42 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
7 37 (6.78%) Senior Software Engineer
8 36 (6.59%) Azure Engineer
9 29 (5.31%) Data Engineer
10 28 (5.13%) Platform Engineer
11 26 (4.76%) Java Engineer
12 25 (4.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 25 (4.58%) Lead Software Engineer
13 23 (4.21%) Architect
14 22 (4.03%) Java Software Engineer
14 22 (4.03%) Senior Developer
15 21 (3.85%) AWS Engineer
15 21 (3.85%) Senior Java Engineer
15 21 (3.85%) Software Team Leader
15 21 (3.85%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 279 (51.10%) Terraform
2 62 (11.36%) RESTful
3 55 (10.07%) .NET
3 55 (10.07%) REST
4 41 (7.51%) Kafka
5 40 (7.33%) React
6 25 (4.58%) LangChain
6 25 (4.58%) Spring
7 24 (4.40%) Spring Boot
8 20 (3.66%) AngularJS
8 20 (3.66%) Node.js
8 20 (3.66%) Web Services
9 18 (3.30%) CSS
9 18 (3.30%) Hibernate
9 18 (3.30%) JPA
10 16 (2.93%) PyTorch
10 16 (2.93%) scikit-learn
10 16 (2.93%) TensorFlow
11 15 (2.75%) LangGraph
11 15 (2.75%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 225 (41.21%) Cloud Native
2 111 (20.33%) Product Ownership
3 58 (10.62%) Distributed Systems
4 38 (6.96%) Onboarding
5 33 (6.04%) Enterprise Software
6 28 (5.13%) Self-Motivation
7 23 (4.21%) AI Agents
8 21 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
9 18 (3.30%) Blog
9 18 (3.30%) Management Information System
9 18 (3.30%) Virtual Team
10 17 (3.11%) Mobile App
11 12 (2.20%) Life Science
12 10 (1.83%) Data Centre
13 9 (1.65%) Hybrid Cloud
14 8 (1.47%) Private Cloud
14 8 (1.47%) Replication
15 7 (1.28%) Enterprise Cloud
15 7 (1.28%) Linux Command Line
15 7 (1.28%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 85 (15.57%) Linux
2 53 (9.71%) Windows
3 15 (2.75%) Windows Server
4 13 (2.38%) Apple iOS
5 11 (2.01%) CentOS
6 8 (1.47%) Android
7 7 (1.28%) Unix
8 5 (0.92%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.55%) Windows 10
10 2 (0.37%) Amazon Linux
10 2 (0.37%) Embedded Linux
10 2 (0.37%) macOS
10 2 (0.37%) Solaris
10 2 (0.37%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 459 (84.07%) CI/CD
2 371 (67.95%) DevOps
3 245 (44.87%) Infrastructure as Code
4 237 (43.41%) Test Automation
5 222 (40.66%) Software Engineering
6 191 (34.98%) Agile
7 163 (29.85%) Observability
8 162 (29.67%) Continuous Improvement
9 153 (28.02%) AI
9 153 (28.02%) Microservices
10 149 (27.29%) Mentoring
11 144 (26.37%) Problem-Solving
12 137 (25.09%) Containerisation
13 113 (20.70%) Clean Code
14 96 (17.58%) Technical Leadership
15 82 (15.02%) Continuous Deployment
16 77 (14.10%) Analytics
17 74 (13.55%) Platform Engineering
18 67 (12.27%) Coaching
19 66 (12.09%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 197 (36.08%) Python
2 149 (27.29%) Java
3 91 (16.67%) SQL
4 71 (13.00%) PowerShell
5 60 (10.99%) TypeScript
6 56 (10.26%) C#
7 53 (9.71%) Bash
8 50 (9.16%) JavaScript
9 32 (5.86%) Bicep
10 12 (2.20%) Go
10 12 (2.20%) Kotlin
11 10 (1.83%) C++
11 10 (1.83%) Scala
11 10 (1.83%) Swift
12 7 (1.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 6 (1.10%) C
14 5 (0.92%) Apex Code
14 5 (0.92%) PHP
14 5 (0.92%) Rust
15 4 (0.73%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 112 (20.51%) Security Cleared
2 80 (14.65%) SC Cleared
3 45 (8.24%) Degree
4 34 (6.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 31 (5.68%) Azure Certification
6 25 (4.58%) AWS Certification
7 16 (2.93%) BPSS Clearance
7 16 (2.93%) DV Cleared
8 8 (1.47%) Master's Degree
8 8 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (1.10%) TOGAF Certification
10 5 (0.92%) CCNP
10 5 (0.92%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (0.73%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 3 (0.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 2 (0.37%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 2 (0.37%) PMI Certification
14 1 (0.18%) ISTQB
14 1 (0.18%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 1 (0.18%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (11.17%) QA
2 32 (5.86%) Accessibility
3 26 (4.76%) Data Quality
4 22 (4.03%) WCAG
5 17 (3.11%) GDPR
6 16 (2.93%) NCSC
7 13 (2.38%) SLA
8 11 (2.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 4 (0.73%) NIST
10 2 (0.37%) GRC
10 2 (0.37%) IFRS
10 2 (0.37%) IFRS 17
10 2 (0.37%) JTAG
10 2 (0.37%) PMO
10 2 (0.37%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.37%) Solvency II
System Software
1 142 (26.01%) Docker
2 22 (4.03%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.47%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (1.28%) Virtual Desktop
5 6 (1.10%) Firmware
5 6 (1.10%) Hyper-V
5 6 (1.10%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.73%) vSphere
7 1 (0.18%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.18%) NDS
7 1 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.18%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 235 (43.04%) Kubernetes
2 148 (27.11%) Grafana
3 81 (14.84%) Ansible
4 46 (8.42%) Prometheus
5 13 (2.38%) Argo
6 11 (2.01%) Microsoft Intune
6 11 (2.01%) Puppet
7 9 (1.65%) Nagios
8 6 (1.10%) Progress Chef
9 4 (0.73%) SCCM
10 3 (0.55%) Control-M
10 3 (0.55%) cPanel
10 3 (0.55%) Docker Swarm
10 3 (0.55%) Istio
10 3 (0.55%) Plesk
10 3 (0.55%) Podman
10 3 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.37%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.37%) kaniko
Vendors
1 107 (19.60%) Microsoft
2 46 (8.42%) Dynatrace
3 30 (5.49%) Google
4 28 (5.13%) Splunk
5 24 (4.40%) Databricks
6 19 (3.48%) Salesforce
7 16 (2.93%) Red Hat
8 13 (2.38%) Oracle
9 12 (2.20%) OpenAI
10 11 (2.01%) VMware
11 9 (1.65%) Rapid7
12 8 (1.47%) Atlassian
12 8 (1.47%) Fortinet
12 8 (1.47%) ServiceNow
13 7 (1.28%) Apple
14 5 (0.92%) Cisco
14 5 (0.92%) Confluent
15 4 (0.73%) Braze
15 4 (0.73%) NVIDIA
15 4 (0.73%) Tenable