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

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 407 365 482
Rank change year-on-year -42 +117 -50
Permanent jobs citing Deployment Automation 316 292 414
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.41% 0.71% 0.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% 0.76% 0.54%
Number of salaries quoted 143 234 331
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,075 £46,250
25th Percentile £48,000 £60,000 £55,070
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +15.38% -18.75%
75th Percentile £88,750 £97,528 £87,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £138,750 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,500 £68,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year -11.03% +10.57% -10.18%

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 59,772 38,266 76,279
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 77.27% 93.41% 86.72%
Number of salaries quoted 36,377 22,223 57,143
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.29%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £101,250 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.42%

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 26 March 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 26 March 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 -38 280 £67,500 -10.00% 125
UK excluding London -16 172 £60,500 -11.03% 88
Work from Home +13 149 £60,000 -8.40% 57
London -17 132 £80,000 -11.11% 49
South East +13 70 £65,000 +15.56% 21
North of England -61 39 £60,000 +9.09% 24
Scotland -14 25 £55,000 -27.02% 2
Yorkshire -40 22 £60,000 +21.21% 5
Midlands -38 18 £48,000 -36.00% 21
North West -41 14 £73,000 +24.26% 14
East Midlands - 10 £37,500 - 2
East of England -14 8 £76,250 -12.86% 2
West Midlands -15 8 £48,000 -36.00% 19
South West -37 8 £62,950 -12.56% 12
Wales -19 4 £61,248 - 3
North East - 3 £47,500 - 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 (3.80%) Appian
2 5 (1.58%) Apache
2 5 (1.58%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.27%) Confluence
4 3 (0.95%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.95%) IIS
5 2 (0.63%) BizTalk Server
5 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.63%) SAS
6 1 (0.32%) CMS
6 1 (0.32%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.32%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.32%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (0.63%) SPSS
2 1 (0.32%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.32%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.32%) Oracle SCM
2 1 (0.32%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 167 (52.85%) AWS
2 145 (45.89%) Azure
3 77 (24.37%) GCP
4 76 (24.05%) Azure DevOps
5 67 (21.20%) Amazon EKS
6 65 (20.57%) GitHub
7 58 (18.35%) GitHub Actions
8 56 (17.72%) Serverless
9 48 (15.19%) SaaS
10 37 (11.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 36 (11.39%) Azure Logic Apps
12 30 (9.49%) AWS Lambda
12 30 (9.49%) Power Platform
13 27 (8.54%) Azure Data Factory
14 26 (8.23%) Azure Monitor
15 25 (7.91%) Amazon S3
16 23 (7.28%) AWS CloudFormation
17 19 (6.01%) AWS Step Functions
18 18 (5.70%) Amazon SQS
19 14 (4.43%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.48%) Firewall
2 6 (1.90%) DNS
3 4 (1.27%) MQTT
3 4 (1.27%) SSL
4 3 (0.95%) DMZ
4 3 (0.95%) VPN
5 2 (0.63%) Network Security
6 1 (0.32%) BGP
6 1 (0.32%) DHCP
6 1 (0.32%) Ethernet VPN
6 1 (0.32%) HTTP
6 1 (0.32%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.32%) NetScaler
6 1 (0.32%) SNMP
6 1 (0.32%) VXLAN
6 1 (0.32%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (12.03%) SQL Server
2 29 (9.18%) PostgreSQL
3 22 (6.96%) DynamoDB
4 20 (6.33%) NoSQL
5 14 (4.43%) Amazon Aurora
6 13 (4.11%) MySQL
7 12 (3.80%) Pinecone
7 12 (3.80%) Power BI
8 10 (3.16%) Elasticsearch
9 9 (2.85%) Amazon RDS
10 6 (1.90%) Relational Database
11 5 (1.58%) MongoDB
12 4 (1.27%) Data Warehouse
12 4 (1.27%) Metadata
13 3 (0.95%) Amazon Redshift
13 3 (0.95%) CockroachDB
13 3 (0.95%) Spark SQL
13 3 (0.95%) Tableau
14 2 (0.63%) Azure SQL Database
14 2 (0.63%) Redis
Development Applications
1 53 (16.77%) Git
1 53 (16.77%) TeamCity
2 32 (10.13%) GitLab
3 29 (9.18%) Jenkins
4 12 (3.80%) MLflow
5 10 (3.16%) Crashlytics
5 10 (3.16%) JIRA
6 9 (2.85%) XCTest
7 8 (2.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 8 (2.53%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 7 (2.22%) Bitbucket
9 6 (1.90%) Gradle
9 6 (1.90%) Storybook
10 5 (1.58%) JMeter
10 5 (1.58%) Maven
11 4 (1.27%) Cucumber
11 4 (1.27%) JUnit
11 4 (1.27%) Locust
12 3 (0.95%) NUnit
12 3 (0.95%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 126 (39.87%) Finance
2 85 (26.90%) Social Skills
3 65 (20.57%) Banking
4 61 (19.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 54 (17.09%) Law
6 53 (16.77%) Retail
7 36 (11.39%) Back Office
7 36 (11.39%) Financial Institution
8 31 (9.81%) Analytical Skills
9 20 (6.33%) Pharmaceutical
10 9 (2.85%) Public Sector
11 7 (2.22%) Marketing
12 6 (1.90%) Retail Banking
13 3 (0.95%) Aerospace
13 3 (0.95%) Front Office
13 3 (0.95%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.63%) Advertising
14 2 (0.63%) Automotive
14 2 (0.63%) Mandarin Language
14 2 (0.63%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 60 (18.99%) Lead
2 51 (16.14%) Developer
3 48 (15.19%) Software Engineer
4 45 (14.24%) Senior
5 26 (8.23%) DevOps Engineer
6 22 (6.96%) AWS Engineer
7 20 (6.33%) Cloud Engineer
8 18 (5.70%) Integration Engineer
8 18 (5.70%) Java Engineer
9 17 (5.38%) Azure Engineer
9 17 (5.38%) Platform Engineer
10 16 (5.06%) Java Software Engineer
10 16 (5.06%) Senior Software Engineer
11 15 (4.75%) Power Platform Developer
12 13 (4.11%) Automation Engineer
12 13 (4.11%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 13 (4.11%) Lead Software Engineer
13 12 (3.80%) .NET Developer
13 12 (3.80%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 11 (3.48%) Associate Director
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (14.24%) RESTful
2 39 (12.34%) .NET
3 34 (10.76%) React
4 33 (10.44%) OAuth
5 27 (8.54%) REST
6 26 (8.23%) .NET Core
7 21 (6.65%) OAuth2
8 19 (6.01%) JSON
9 17 (5.38%) JWT
10 16 (5.06%) AWS CDK
11 15 (4.75%) ASP.NET
11 15 (4.75%) Web Services
12 14 (4.43%) FastAPI
12 14 (4.43%) Flask
12 14 (4.43%) OpenAPI
12 14 (4.43%) pytest
12 14 (4.43%) Swagger
13 13 (4.11%) ASP.NET Core
13 13 (4.11%) Blazor
13 13 (4.11%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 93 (29.43%) Cloud Native
2 41 (12.97%) Low-Code
3 31 (9.81%) Life Science
4 26 (8.23%) Product Ownership
5 15 (4.75%) Blog
5 15 (4.75%) Legacy Systems
6 12 (3.80%) Mobile App
7 11 (3.48%) Greenfield Project
7 11 (3.48%) Hackathon
8 10 (3.16%) Distributed Systems
9 8 (2.53%) Onboarding
10 6 (1.90%) Public Cloud
11 5 (1.58%) Hybrid Cloud
11 5 (1.58%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (1.27%) Private Cloud
13 3 (0.95%) Analytical Mindset
13 3 (0.95%) Data Structures
13 3 (0.95%) Enterprise Software
13 3 (0.95%) IoT
13 3 (0.95%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 37 (11.71%) Linux
2 18 (5.70%) Windows
3 15 (4.75%) Apple iOS
4 10 (3.16%) Windows Server
5 7 (2.22%) CentOS
6 6 (1.90%) VMS
7 5 (1.58%) Mac OS
8 4 (1.27%) Android
9 2 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.63%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.32%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 237 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 161 (50.95%) DevOps
3 138 (43.67%) Test Automation
4 109 (34.49%) Infrastructure as Code
5 105 (33.23%) Agile
6 80 (25.32%) Analytics
7 78 (24.68%) Clean Code
8 77 (24.37%) Microservices
9 68 (21.52%) Containerisation
10 66 (20.89%) Software Engineering
11 65 (20.57%) AI
12 64 (20.25%) Observability
13 63 (19.94%) Continuous Improvement
14 61 (19.30%) Problem-Solving
15 58 (18.35%) Continuous Deployment
15 58 (18.35%) Machine Learning
16 47 (14.87%) Computer Science
17 42 (13.29%) Disruptive Innovation
18 40 (12.66%) Coaching
18 40 (12.66%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 115 (36.39%) Python
2 71 (22.47%) Java
3 62 (19.62%) SQL
4 41 (12.97%) Bash
4 41 (12.97%) JavaScript
5 37 (11.71%) C#
6 34 (10.76%) PowerShell
7 26 (8.23%) Bicep
8 25 (7.91%) TypeScript
9 11 (3.48%) Kotlin
10 10 (3.16%) Swift
11 8 (2.53%) Rust
12 7 (2.22%) Kusto Query Language
13 6 (1.90%) Go
14 3 (0.95%) Shell Script
15 2 (0.63%) Delphi
15 2 (0.63%) VB
15 2 (0.63%) VB6
16 1 (0.32%) PHP
16 1 (0.32%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 61 (19.30%) Degree
2 33 (10.44%) Security Cleared
3 30 (9.49%) Master's Degree
4 19 (6.01%) PhD
5 18 (5.70%) SC Cleared
6 17 (5.38%) AWS Certification
7 13 (4.11%) Computer Science Degree
8 11 (3.48%) AWS Certified Developer
9 8 (2.53%) Azure Certification
9 8 (2.53%) DV Cleared
10 3 (0.95%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.63%) Postgraduate
12 1 (0.32%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 1 (0.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.32%) JNCIP
12 1 (0.32%) LPIC
12 1 (0.32%) MCSE
12 1 (0.32%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.32%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (8.23%) Accessibility
2 25 (7.91%) QA
3 19 (6.01%) Data Quality
3 19 (6.01%) GxP
4 14 (4.43%) GDPR
5 12 (3.80%) WCAG
6 7 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (1.27%) SLA
8 3 (0.95%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.63%) Def Stans
9 2 (0.63%) IEC 61508
9 2 (0.63%) ISO 26262
10 1 (0.32%) NCSC
10 1 (0.32%) NIST
System Software
1 79 (25.00%) Docker
2 10 (3.16%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.27%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (1.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.95%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.63%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.32%) Firmware
6 1 (0.32%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 153 (48.42%) Terraform
2 133 (42.09%) Kubernetes
3 85 (26.90%) Grafana
4 33 (10.44%) Ansible
5 23 (7.28%) Prometheus
6 9 (2.85%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (1.90%) Jamf Pro
8 5 (1.58%) Argo
8 5 (1.58%) Nagios
9 4 (1.27%) logstash
10 3 (0.95%) Rancher
11 2 (0.63%) Istio
11 2 (0.63%) Puppet
11 2 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.32%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 30 (9.49%) Microsoft
2 13 (4.11%) OpenAI
3 12 (3.80%) Automation Anywhere
3 12 (3.80%) UiPath
4 11 (3.48%) Ab Initio
5 10 (3.16%) Splunk
6 9 (2.85%) Amplitude
7 8 (2.53%) Dynatrace
7 8 (2.53%) Google
8 7 (2.22%) Databricks
8 7 (2.22%) Red Hat
9 6 (1.90%) Cisco
9 6 (1.90%) Oracle
9 6 (1.90%) Salesforce
10 5 (1.58%) Rapid7
10 5 (1.58%) VMware
11 4 (1.27%) Pega
12 3 (0.95%) Apple
12 3 (0.95%) Citrix
13 1 (0.32%) Juniper