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

6 months to
8 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 403 398 473
Rank change year-on-year -5 +75 -71
Permanent jobs citing Deployment Automation 278 331 362
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.43% 0.65% 0.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% 0.71% 0.55%
Number of salaries quoted 113 214 297
10th Percentile £42,500 £48,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +15.38% -18.75%
75th Percentile £85,000 £97,528 £90,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £138,750 £124,165
UK excluding London median annual salary £63,248 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.30% +12.50% -10.30%

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 52,183 46,628 65,707
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 79.83% 91.97% 88.39%
Number of salaries quoted 30,949 22,565 51,052
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £76,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £101,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.90%

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 February 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 8 February 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 -17 234 £67,500 -10.00% 125
UK excluding London +21 157 £63,248 -6.30% 100
Work from Home +41 135 £60,000 -11.11% 73
London +13 108 £72,500 -19.44% 51
South East +23 63 £52,500 -10.26% 43
North of England -33 35 £63,750 +18.60% 19
Scotland +8 31 £77,217 +2.46% 9
Yorkshire -48 20 £60,000 +21.21% 3
North West +11 13 £75,000 +15.38% 14
South West -5 9 £57,500 -14.81% 11
East of England +18 8 £76,250 +1.67% 4
Wales +8 5 £61,000 -6.15% 3
Midlands -9 5 £57,359 -23.52% 10
West Midlands -3 4 £77,217 +2.96% 9
North East - 2 £77,217 - 2
East Midlands -17 1 £37,500 +30.65% 1
Northern Ireland - 1 £77,217 - 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 (4.32%) Appian
2 5 (1.80%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.44%) Confluence
4 3 (1.08%) Apache
4 3 (1.08%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.08%) IIS
5 2 (0.72%) BizTalk Server
5 2 (0.72%) nginx
5 2 (0.72%) SAS
5 2 (0.72%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.36%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (1.08%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.36%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 142 (51.08%) Azure
2 118 (42.45%) AWS
3 83 (29.86%) Azure DevOps
4 60 (21.58%) GCP
5 57 (20.50%) GitHub
6 52 (18.71%) GitHub Actions
7 51 (18.35%) Amazon EKS
8 40 (14.39%) Serverless
9 39 (14.03%) SaaS
10 33 (11.87%) Azure Logic Apps
10 33 (11.87%) Azure Monitor
11 32 (11.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 28 (10.07%) Azure Data Factory
13 27 (9.71%) AWS Lambda
13 27 (9.71%) Power Platform
14 20 (7.19%) Amazon S3
14 20 (7.19%) AWS CloudFormation
15 17 (6.12%) Amazon SQS
16 16 (5.76%) Azure Service Bus
16 16 (5.76%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.24%) Firewall
2 5 (1.80%) DNS
2 5 (1.80%) SSL
3 4 (1.44%) VPN
4 3 (1.08%) DMZ
4 3 (1.08%) MQTT
5 2 (0.72%) BGP
5 2 (0.72%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (0.72%) OSPF
5 2 (0.72%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (0.72%) RTMP
5 2 (0.72%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.72%) VLAN
5 2 (0.72%) WAN
5 2 (0.72%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.72%) Wireless
6 1 (0.36%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (12.95%) SQL Server
2 25 (8.99%) PostgreSQL
3 19 (6.83%) DynamoDB
4 18 (6.47%) NoSQL
5 13 (4.68%) MySQL
6 12 (4.32%) Pinecone
7 11 (3.96%) Amazon Aurora
8 9 (3.24%) Power BI
9 8 (2.88%) Amazon RDS
10 6 (2.16%) MongoDB
10 6 (2.16%) Relational Database
11 5 (1.80%) Elasticsearch
12 4 (1.44%) Metadata
13 3 (1.08%) CockroachDB
13 3 (1.08%) Data Lake
13 3 (1.08%) Tableau
14 2 (0.72%) Azure SQL Database
14 2 (0.72%) Data Warehouse
15 1 (0.36%) BusinessObjects
15 1 (0.36%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 39 (14.03%) Git
2 37 (13.31%) TeamCity
3 27 (9.71%) Jenkins
4 25 (8.99%) GitLab
5 15 (5.40%) MLflow
6 9 (3.24%) JIRA
7 6 (2.16%) Gradle
7 6 (2.16%) Maven
7 6 (2.16%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 6 (2.16%) Storybook
8 5 (1.80%) Bitbucket
9 4 (1.44%) Artifactory
9 4 (1.44%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 4 (1.44%) JUnit
10 3 (1.08%) NUnit
10 3 (1.08%) Octopus Deploy
10 3 (1.08%) SonarQube
10 3 (1.08%) TestNG
11 2 (0.72%) CircleCI
11 2 (0.72%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 127 (45.68%) Finance
2 63 (22.66%) Social Skills
3 44 (15.83%) Banking
4 42 (15.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 36 (12.95%) Law
5 36 (12.95%) Retail
6 31 (11.15%) Pharmaceutical
7 26 (9.35%) Financial Institution
8 25 (8.99%) Back Office
9 20 (7.19%) Analytical Skills
10 9 (3.24%) Marketing
11 5 (1.80%) Public Sector
12 3 (1.08%) Manufacturing
12 3 (1.08%) Retail Banking
13 2 (0.72%) Advertising
13 2 (0.72%) Agriculture
13 2 (0.72%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.72%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.72%) Legal
13 2 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 61 (21.94%) Lead
2 47 (16.91%) Developer
3 33 (11.87%) Software Engineer
4 29 (10.43%) Senior
5 24 (8.63%) DevOps Engineer
6 21 (7.55%) Cloud Engineer
7 18 (6.47%) Platform Engineer
8 15 (5.40%) AWS Engineer
9 14 (5.04%) Integration Engineer
9 14 (5.04%) Java Engineer
10 13 (4.68%) Azure Engineer
10 13 (4.68%) Java Software Engineer
10 13 (4.68%) Power Platform Developer
11 12 (4.32%) .NET Developer
11 12 (4.32%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 12 (4.32%) Automation Engineer
11 12 (4.32%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 10 (3.60%) AWS Developer
12 10 (3.60%) AWS Platform Engineer
12 10 (3.60%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (16.91%) RESTful
2 36 (12.95%) OAuth
3 35 (12.59%) .NET
4 28 (10.07%) React
5 26 (9.35%) REST
6 24 (8.63%) OAuth2
7 23 (8.27%) .NET Core
8 22 (7.91%) JSON
9 17 (6.12%) JWT
10 16 (5.76%) AWS CDK
10 16 (5.76%) FastAPI
11 15 (5.40%) ASP.NET
11 15 (5.40%) Web Services
12 14 (5.04%) Flask
12 14 (5.04%) OpenAPI
12 14 (5.04%) Swagger
13 13 (4.68%) ASP.NET Core
13 13 (4.68%) Blazor
13 13 (4.68%) Django
14 12 (4.32%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 76 (27.34%) Cloud Native
2 35 (12.59%) Life Science
2 35 (12.59%) Low-Code
3 22 (7.91%) Product Ownership
4 14 (5.04%) Legacy Systems
5 10 (3.60%) Blog
6 7 (2.52%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (2.16%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.80%) Hackathon
8 5 (1.80%) IoT
8 5 (1.80%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.44%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.44%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.08%) Private Cloud
11 2 (0.72%) Algorithms
11 2 (0.72%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (0.72%) Robotics
11 2 (0.72%) Security Operations Centre
11 2 (0.72%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 33 (11.87%) Linux
2 15 (5.40%) Windows
3 8 (2.88%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.44%) VMS
5 2 (0.72%) CentOS
6 1 (0.36%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 190 (68.35%) CI/CD
2 157 (56.47%) DevOps
3 107 (38.49%) Agile
4 106 (38.13%) Test Automation
5 103 (37.05%) Infrastructure as Code
6 81 (29.14%) AI
7 79 (28.42%) Analytics
8 69 (24.82%) Machine Learning
9 61 (21.94%) Problem-Solving
10 60 (21.58%) Microservices
11 56 (20.14%) Roadmaps
12 55 (19.78%) Containerisation
12 55 (19.78%) Continuous Improvement
13 51 (18.35%) Clean Code
14 47 (16.91%) Computer Science
15 46 (16.55%) Generative AI
15 46 (16.55%) Observability
16 45 (16.19%) Disruptive Innovation
16 45 (16.19%) Software Engineering
17 44 (15.83%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 94 (33.81%) Python
2 53 (19.06%) SQL
3 50 (17.99%) Java
4 37 (13.31%) JavaScript
5 35 (12.59%) Bash
5 35 (12.59%) C#
6 34 (12.23%) PowerShell
7 30 (10.79%) Bicep
8 20 (7.19%) TypeScript
9 5 (1.80%) Go
10 4 (1.44%) Kusto Query Language
11 3 (1.08%) C++
12 2 (0.72%) Delphi
12 2 (0.72%) Groovy
12 2 (0.72%) Rust
12 2 (0.72%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.72%) VB
12 2 (0.72%) VB6
13 1 (0.36%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.36%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 59 (21.22%) Degree
2 36 (12.95%) Master's Degree
3 30 (10.79%) PhD
4 24 (8.63%) Security Cleared
5 15 (5.40%) AWS Certification
6 14 (5.04%) SC Cleared
7 11 (3.96%) AWS Certified Developer
7 11 (3.96%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (3.24%) Azure Certification
9 7 (2.52%) DV Cleared
10 3 (1.08%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.36%) MCSE
12 1 (0.36%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.36%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (10.79%) GxP
2 19 (6.83%) GDPR
3 17 (6.12%) Data Quality
4 14 (5.04%) Accessibility
4 14 (5.04%) QA
5 6 (2.16%) WCAG
6 4 (1.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (1.08%) SLA
8 2 (0.72%) NIST
8 2 (0.72%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.36%) EU AI Act
9 1 (0.36%) GRC
9 1 (0.36%) HIPAA
System Software
1 71 (25.54%) Docker
2 12 (4.32%) Virtual Machines
3 10 (3.60%) Virtual Desktop
4 9 (3.24%) Active Directory
5 3 (1.08%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.72%) NFS
7 1 (0.36%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.36%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 137 (49.28%) Terraform
2 107 (38.49%) Kubernetes
3 64 (23.02%) Grafana
4 25 (8.99%) Ansible
5 22 (7.91%) Prometheus
6 12 (4.32%) Microsoft Intune
7 7 (2.52%) Argo
8 4 (1.44%) logstash
9 3 (1.08%) Puppet
9 3 (1.08%) Rancher
10 2 (0.72%) Istio
10 2 (0.72%) Nagios
10 2 (0.72%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 29 (10.43%) Microsoft
2 14 (5.04%) Ab Initio
3 13 (4.68%) OpenAI
4 12 (4.32%) Automation Anywhere
4 12 (4.32%) UiPath
5 7 (2.52%) Splunk
6 6 (2.16%) Cisco
6 6 (2.16%) Oracle
6 6 (2.16%) Salesforce
7 4 (1.44%) Google
7 4 (1.44%) VMware
8 3 (1.08%) Citrix
8 3 (1.08%) Databricks
8 3 (1.08%) Dynatrace
8 3 (1.08%) Red Hat
9 2 (0.72%) ForgeRock
9 2 (0.72%) MikroTik
9 2 (0.72%) Rapid7
9 2 (0.72%) Sonatype
9 2 (0.72%) Ubiquiti