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

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 373 477 432
Rank change year-on-year +104 -45 -53
Permanent jobs citing Deployment Automation 537 194 348
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.45% 0.39% 0.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.62% 0.44% 0.58%
Number of salaries quoted 286 92 230
10th Percentile £44,758 £48,250 £44,263
25th Percentile £56,063 £57,500 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £73,750 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.08% +13.46% -7.90%
75th Percentile £86,250 £85,000 £74,688
90th Percentile £107,500 £94,750 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £68,250 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +24.09% -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 86,418 43,977 59,769
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.19% 88.96% 82.26%
Number of salaries quoted 59,113 24,503 32,039
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £43,750
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 £77,500
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 10 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 10 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 +98 437 £70,000 -6.67% 578
UK excluding London -3 257 £65,000 -4.76% 286
London +78 215 £82,500 +3.13% 317
Work from Home +63 200 £65,000 -15.82% 230
North of England +8 89 £62,500 -16.67% 75
South West -27 54 £76,500 -4.38% 48
North East -30 43 £60,000 -22.30% 15
South East -39 40 £65,000 -21.21% 66
North West -2 32 £57,500 -24.45% 35
Midlands -31 30 £56,250 -6.25% 29
Wales -64 26 £52,500 +8.25% 5
Yorkshire -15 23 £70,000 +2.19% 25
East Midlands -25 16 £61,250 -18.33% 9
Scotland -5 14 £75,000 -4.59% 38
West Midlands -46 14 £51,250 -14.58% 20
East of England -33 5 £56,000 - 16

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 (3.35%) Confluence
2 17 (3.17%) Apache
3 14 (2.61%) Apache Spark
3 14 (2.61%) nginx
4 12 (2.23%) SharePoint
5 11 (2.05%) Apache Airflow
6 7 (1.30%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (1.12%) IIS
8 5 (0.93%) Camunda
9 4 (0.74%) SAS
10 3 (0.56%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.37%) Cloud Foundry
11 2 (0.37%) Luigi
12 1 (0.19%) CMS
12 1 (0.19%) Documentum
12 1 (0.19%) JBoss
12 1 (0.19%) NServiceBus
12 1 (0.19%) OpenStack
12 1 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (0.19%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 2 (0.37%) 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 (56.80%) AWS
2 287 (53.45%) Azure
3 193 (35.94%) GCP
4 127 (23.65%) Azure DevOps
5 93 (17.32%) GitHub
6 91 (16.95%) Amazon EKS
7 71 (13.22%) SaaS
8 56 (10.43%) Serverless
9 46 (8.57%) GitHub Actions
10 43 (8.01%) AWS CloudFormation
11 37 (6.89%) Power Platform
12 31 (5.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 30 (5.59%) Amazon ECS
14 28 (5.21%) Entra ID
14 28 (5.21%) Microsoft 365
15 27 (5.03%) Azure Monitor
16 26 (4.84%) Azure Functions
17 23 (4.28%) Amazon S3
18 19 (3.54%) Azure Data Factory
18 19 (3.54%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 22 (4.10%) DNS
2 19 (3.54%) VPN
3 17 (3.17%) Firewall
4 9 (1.68%) Network Security
5 7 (1.30%) DHCP
5 7 (1.30%) SD-WAN
5 7 (1.30%) TCP/IP
5 7 (1.30%) WAN
5 7 (1.30%) Wireless
6 6 (1.12%) BGP
6 6 (1.12%) LAN
6 6 (1.12%) OSPF
6 6 (1.12%) SSL
6 6 (1.12%) Wi-Fi
7 5 (0.93%) MQTT
7 5 (0.93%) SSH
8 4 (0.74%) Broadband
8 4 (0.74%) Kerberos
8 4 (0.74%) NAS
8 4 (0.74%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (12.10%) PostgreSQL
2 41 (7.64%) SQL Server
3 32 (5.96%) MongoDB
4 31 (5.77%) MySQL
5 30 (5.59%) NoSQL
6 25 (4.66%) Power BI
7 20 (3.72%) Data Warehouse
8 19 (3.54%) Data Lake
9 17 (3.17%) Amazon RDS
9 17 (3.17%) Elasticsearch
10 16 (2.98%) Azure SQL Database
11 15 (2.79%) Relational Database
12 14 (2.61%) Metadata
13 9 (1.68%) Big Data
14 8 (1.49%) Redis
15 7 (1.30%) Geospatial Data
15 7 (1.30%) Spark SQL
16 6 (1.12%) Delta Lake
17 5 (0.93%) DocumentDB
17 5 (0.93%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 108 (20.11%) Git
2 76 (14.15%) TeamCity
3 66 (12.29%) GitLab
4 65 (12.10%) Jenkins
5 33 (6.15%) JIRA
6 17 (3.17%) Bitbucket
7 11 (2.05%) fastlane
8 9 (1.68%) Claude Code
8 9 (1.68%) Crashlytics
8 9 (1.68%) JUnit
9 8 (1.49%) Mockito
9 8 (1.49%) Octopus Deploy
10 7 (1.30%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 7 (1.30%) MSI
10 7 (1.30%) SonarQube
11 6 (1.12%) Artifactory
11 6 (1.12%) Xcode
12 5 (0.93%) Android Studio
12 5 (0.93%) Gradle
12 5 (0.93%) Maven
General
1 169 (31.47%) Finance
2 148 (27.56%) Social Skills
3 122 (22.72%) Banking
4 119 (22.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 91 (16.95%) Law
6 85 (15.83%) Public Sector
7 83 (15.46%) Analytical Skills
8 77 (14.34%) Retail
9 63 (11.73%) Financial Institution
10 56 (10.43%) Back Office
11 10 (1.86%) Marketing
12 7 (1.30%) Manufacturing
12 7 (1.30%) Telecoms
13 6 (1.12%) Police
14 5 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
15 4 (0.74%) Documentation Skills
15 4 (0.74%) Legal
16 3 (0.56%) Military
16 3 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
17 2 (0.37%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 126 (23.46%) Software Engineer
2 103 (19.18%) DevOps Engineer
2 103 (19.18%) Senior
3 84 (15.64%) Lead
4 78 (14.53%) Developer
5 43 (8.01%) Cloud Engineer
6 36 (6.70%) Senior Software Engineer
7 35 (6.52%) Azure Engineer
8 29 (5.40%) Data Engineer
9 27 (5.03%) Platform Engineer
10 25 (4.66%) Java Engineer
10 25 (4.66%) Lead Software Engineer
11 24 (4.47%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 22 (4.10%) Architect
12 22 (4.10%) Java Software Engineer
13 21 (3.91%) AWS Engineer
13 21 (3.91%) Senior Developer
13 21 (3.91%) Software Team Leader
13 21 (3.91%) Team Leader
14 19 (3.54%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 278 (51.77%) Terraform
2 62 (11.55%) RESTful
3 54 (10.06%) .NET
3 54 (10.06%) REST
4 40 (7.45%) Kafka
5 39 (7.26%) React
6 25 (4.66%) LangChain
7 24 (4.47%) Spring
8 23 (4.28%) Spring Boot
9 20 (3.72%) Web Services
10 19 (3.54%) AngularJS
10 19 (3.54%) Node.js
11 18 (3.35%) Hibernate
11 18 (3.35%) JPA
12 17 (3.17%) CSS
13 16 (2.98%) PyTorch
13 16 (2.98%) scikit-learn
13 16 (2.98%) TensorFlow
14 15 (2.79%) LangGraph
14 15 (2.79%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 223 (41.53%) Cloud Native
2 110 (20.48%) Product Ownership
3 58 (10.80%) Distributed Systems
4 38 (7.08%) Onboarding
5 32 (5.96%) Enterprise Software
6 28 (5.21%) Self-Motivation
7 23 (4.28%) AI Agents
8 21 (3.91%) Legacy Systems
9 18 (3.35%) Blog
9 18 (3.35%) Management Information System
9 18 (3.35%) Virtual Team
10 17 (3.17%) Mobile App
11 12 (2.23%) Life Science
12 10 (1.86%) Data Centre
13 9 (1.68%) Hybrid Cloud
14 8 (1.49%) Private Cloud
14 8 (1.49%) Replication
15 7 (1.30%) Linux Command Line
15 7 (1.30%) Public Cloud
15 7 (1.30%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 85 (15.83%) Linux
2 52 (9.68%) Windows
3 15 (2.79%) Windows Server
4 13 (2.42%) Apple iOS
5 11 (2.05%) CentOS
6 8 (1.49%) Android
7 7 (1.30%) Unix
8 5 (0.93%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
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%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.37%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 453 (84.36%) CI/CD
2 366 (68.16%) DevOps
3 245 (45.62%) Infrastructure as Code
4 233 (43.39%) Test Automation
5 221 (41.15%) Software Engineering
6 187 (34.82%) Agile
7 160 (29.80%) Continuous Improvement
7 160 (29.80%) Observability
8 153 (28.49%) AI
9 151 (28.12%) Microservices
10 146 (27.19%) Mentoring
11 142 (26.44%) Problem-Solving
12 134 (24.95%) Containerisation
13 111 (20.67%) Clean Code
14 92 (17.13%) Technical Leadership
15 82 (15.27%) Continuous Deployment
16 76 (14.15%) Analytics
17 72 (13.41%) Platform Engineering
18 66 (12.29%) Coaching
19 65 (12.10%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 197 (36.69%) Python
2 147 (27.37%) Java
3 90 (16.76%) SQL
4 71 (13.22%) PowerShell
5 58 (10.80%) TypeScript
6 56 (10.43%) C#
7 54 (10.06%) Bash
8 49 (9.12%) JavaScript
9 31 (5.77%) Bicep
10 12 (2.23%) Go
10 12 (2.23%) Kotlin
11 10 (1.86%) C++
11 10 (1.86%) Scala
11 10 (1.86%) Swift
12 7 (1.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 6 (1.12%) C
14 5 (0.93%) Apex Code
14 5 (0.93%) PHP
14 5 (0.93%) Rust
15 4 (0.74%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 110 (20.48%) Security Cleared
2 78 (14.53%) SC Cleared
3 45 (8.38%) Degree
4 34 (6.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 31 (5.77%) Azure Certification
6 25 (4.66%) AWS Certification
7 16 (2.98%) DV Cleared
8 15 (2.79%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (1.49%) Master's Degree
9 8 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (1.12%) TOGAF Certification
11 5 (0.93%) CCNP
11 5 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (0.74%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 3 (0.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 2 (0.37%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 2 (0.37%) PMI Certification
15 1 (0.19%) ISTQB
15 1 (0.19%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 1 (0.19%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (11.17%) QA
2 31 (5.77%) Accessibility
3 26 (4.84%) Data Quality
4 21 (3.91%) WCAG
5 17 (3.17%) GDPR
6 16 (2.98%) NCSC
7 13 (2.42%) SLA
8 11 (2.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 4 (0.74%) 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
1 141 (26.26%) Docker
2 21 (3.91%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.49%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (1.30%) Virtual Desktop
5 6 (1.12%) Firmware
5 6 (1.12%) Hyper-V
5 6 (1.12%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.74%) vSphere
7 1 (0.19%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.19%) NDS
7 1 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.19%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 231 (43.02%) Kubernetes
2 147 (27.37%) Grafana
3 82 (15.27%) Ansible
4 46 (8.57%) Prometheus
5 13 (2.42%) Argo
6 11 (2.05%) Puppet
7 10 (1.86%) Microsoft Intune
8 9 (1.68%) Nagios
9 6 (1.12%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.56%) Control-M
10 3 (0.56%) cPanel
10 3 (0.56%) Docker Swarm
10 3 (0.56%) Istio
10 3 (0.56%) Plesk
10 3 (0.56%) Podman
10 3 (0.56%) SCCM
10 3 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.37%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.37%) kaniko
11 2 (0.37%) Rancher
Vendors
1 105 (19.55%) Microsoft
2 46 (8.57%) Dynatrace
3 30 (5.59%) Google
4 27 (5.03%) Splunk
5 24 (4.47%) Databricks
6 19 (3.54%) Salesforce
7 15 (2.79%) Red Hat
8 12 (2.23%) OpenAI
8 12 (2.23%) Oracle
9 11 (2.05%) VMware
10 9 (1.68%) Rapid7
11 8 (1.49%) Atlassian
11 8 (1.49%) Fortinet
12 7 (1.30%) Apple
12 7 (1.30%) ServiceNow
13 5 (0.93%) Cisco
13 5 (0.93%) Confluent
14 4 (0.74%) Braze
14 4 (0.74%) Netskope
14 4 (0.74%) Tenable