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

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 408 376 477
Rank change year-on-year -32 +101 -47
Permanent jobs citing Deployment Automation 293 315 410
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.41% 0.71% 0.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.52% 0.76% 0.56%
Number of salaries quoted 122 222 329
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,375 £45,000
25th Percentile £47,625 £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 £89,375 £97,528 £90,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £138,750 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,500 £67,500 £61,500
% change year-on-year -10.37% +9.76% -8.89%

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 56,331 41,289 73,115
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 78.05% 93.69% 87.56%
Number of salaries quoted 33,961 22,320 55,807
10th Percentile £29,750 £32,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £39,750 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.78%
75th Percentile £76,299 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £94,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -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 9 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 9 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 -41 255 £67,500 -10.00% 107
UK excluding London +7 159 £60,500 -10.37% 93
Work from Home +21 147 £60,000 -8.40% 63
London -23 120 £75,000 -16.67% 41
South East +10 67 £65,000 +18.18% 31
North of England -28 35 £60,000 +9.09% 26
Scotland +5 27 £40,000 -46.92% 6
Yorkshire -33 20 £57,500 +16.16% 6
North West -21 13 £75,000 +15.38% 15
Midlands -27 11 £48,000 -36.00% 12
East of England +2 8 £76,250 +1.67% 4
South West -32 7 £62,950 -11.33% 11
West Midlands -11 6 £48,000 -36.00% 9
East Midlands -22 5 £37,500 +30.65% 3
Wales -4 4 £61,248 - 4
North East - 2 £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 (4.10%) Appian
2 6 (2.05%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.37%) Apache
3 4 (1.37%) Confluence
4 3 (1.02%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.02%) IIS
5 2 (0.68%) BizTalk Server
5 2 (0.68%) SAS
6 1 (0.34%) nginx
6 1 (0.34%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.34%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.34%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.02%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.34%) Oracle SCM
2 1 (0.34%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 146 (49.83%) AWS
2 139 (47.44%) Azure
3 79 (26.96%) Azure DevOps
4 72 (24.57%) GCP
5 64 (21.84%) Amazon EKS
6 62 (21.16%) GitHub
7 56 (19.11%) GitHub Actions
8 48 (16.38%) Serverless
9 44 (15.02%) SaaS
10 37 (12.63%) Azure Logic Apps
11 36 (12.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 30 (10.24%) Azure Monitor
12 30 (10.24%) Power Platform
13 29 (9.90%) AWS Lambda
14 28 (9.56%) Azure Data Factory
15 25 (8.53%) Amazon S3
16 20 (6.83%) AWS CloudFormation
17 19 (6.48%) AWS Step Functions
18 17 (5.80%) Amazon SQS
19 16 (5.46%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.41%) Firewall
2 5 (1.71%) DNS
2 5 (1.71%) MQTT
2 5 (1.71%) SSL
3 4 (1.37%) VPN
4 3 (1.02%) DMZ
5 2 (0.68%) WAN
6 1 (0.34%) BGP
6 1 (0.34%) Ethernet VPN
6 1 (0.34%) HTTP
6 1 (0.34%) Network Security
6 1 (0.34%) OSPF
6 1 (0.34%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.34%) RTMP
6 1 (0.34%) SNMP
6 1 (0.34%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.34%) VLAN
6 1 (0.34%) VXLAN
6 1 (0.34%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.34%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (12.97%) SQL Server
2 29 (9.90%) PostgreSQL
3 21 (7.17%) DynamoDB
4 18 (6.14%) NoSQL
5 13 (4.44%) Amazon Aurora
6 12 (4.10%) MySQL
6 12 (4.10%) Pinecone
7 11 (3.75%) Power BI
8 8 (2.73%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (2.05%) Elasticsearch
10 5 (1.71%) Metadata
10 5 (1.71%) MongoDB
10 5 (1.71%) Relational Database
11 3 (1.02%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (1.02%) CockroachDB
11 3 (1.02%) Tableau
12 2 (0.68%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (0.68%) Data Lake
12 2 (0.68%) Redis
13 1 (0.34%) Looker
Development Applications
1 50 (17.06%) TeamCity
2 48 (16.38%) Git
3 30 (10.24%) GitLab
4 26 (8.87%) Jenkins
5 14 (4.78%) MLflow
6 10 (3.41%) JIRA
7 8 (2.73%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 6 (2.05%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 6 (2.05%) Bitbucket
8 6 (2.05%) Gradle
8 6 (2.05%) Maven
8 6 (2.05%) Storybook
9 4 (1.37%) Artifactory
9 4 (1.37%) Crashlytics
9 4 (1.37%) JMeter
9 4 (1.37%) JUnit
9 4 (1.37%) XCTest
10 3 (1.02%) Cucumber
10 3 (1.02%) Octopus Deploy
10 3 (1.02%) SonarQube
General
1 127 (43.34%) Finance
2 75 (25.60%) Social Skills
3 60 (20.48%) Banking
4 51 (17.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 51 (17.41%) Law
5 50 (17.06%) Retail
6 33 (11.26%) Back Office
6 33 (11.26%) Financial Institution
7 29 (9.90%) Analytical Skills
8 22 (7.51%) Pharmaceutical
9 8 (2.73%) Marketing
10 6 (2.05%) Public Sector
10 6 (2.05%) Retail Banking
11 3 (1.02%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.68%) Advertising
12 2 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.34%) German Language
13 1 (0.34%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.34%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 54 (18.43%) Lead
2 47 (16.04%) Developer
3 44 (15.02%) Software Engineer
4 40 (13.65%) Senior
5 23 (7.85%) DevOps Engineer
6 20 (6.83%) AWS Engineer
6 20 (6.83%) Cloud Engineer
7 17 (5.80%) Java Engineer
8 16 (5.46%) Integration Engineer
8 16 (5.46%) Java Software Engineer
8 16 (5.46%) Platform Engineer
9 15 (5.12%) Power Platform Developer
10 14 (4.78%) Azure Engineer
10 14 (4.78%) Senior Software Engineer
11 13 (4.44%) Automation Engineer
12 12 (4.10%) .NET Developer
12 12 (4.10%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 12 (4.10%) Lead Software Engineer
13 11 (3.75%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 10 (3.41%) AWS Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (16.04%) RESTful
2 38 (12.97%) .NET
3 36 (12.29%) OAuth
4 33 (11.26%) React
5 25 (8.53%) .NET Core
5 25 (8.53%) REST
6 24 (8.19%) OAuth2
7 22 (7.51%) JSON
8 17 (5.80%) JWT
9 16 (5.46%) AWS CDK
10 15 (5.12%) ASP.NET
10 15 (5.12%) FastAPI
10 15 (5.12%) Web Services
11 14 (4.78%) Flask
11 14 (4.78%) OpenAPI
11 14 (4.78%) Swagger
12 13 (4.44%) ASP.NET Core
12 13 (4.44%) Blazor
12 13 (4.44%) Django
13 12 (4.10%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 89 (30.38%) Cloud Native
2 40 (13.65%) Low-Code
3 30 (10.24%) Life Science
4 25 (8.53%) Product Ownership
5 15 (5.12%) Blog
5 15 (5.12%) Legacy Systems
6 9 (3.07%) Hackathon
7 8 (2.73%) Distributed Systems
8 7 (2.39%) Onboarding
9 6 (2.05%) Greenfield Project
9 6 (2.05%) Mobile App
10 5 (1.71%) Public Cloud
10 5 (1.71%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (1.37%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (1.37%) IoT
12 3 (1.02%) Analytical Mindset
12 3 (1.02%) Private Cloud
13 2 (0.68%) Data Centre
13 2 (0.68%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 33 (11.26%) Linux
2 15 (5.12%) Windows
3 8 (2.73%) Windows Server
4 6 (2.05%) Apple iOS
4 6 (2.05%) VMS
5 3 (1.02%) CentOS
6 2 (0.68%) Android
6 2 (0.68%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.34%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 215 (73.38%) CI/CD
2 156 (53.24%) DevOps
3 122 (41.64%) Test Automation
4 105 (35.84%) Infrastructure as Code
5 102 (34.81%) Agile
6 76 (25.94%) Analytics
7 73 (24.91%) Microservices
8 68 (23.21%) AI
9 67 (22.87%) Clean Code
10 62 (21.16%) Problem-Solving
11 60 (20.48%) Containerisation
11 60 (20.48%) Machine Learning
12 58 (19.80%) Continuous Improvement
13 57 (19.45%) Observability
13 57 (19.45%) Software Engineering
14 55 (18.77%) Continuous Deployment
15 45 (15.36%) Coaching
16 43 (14.68%) Disruptive Innovation
17 42 (14.33%) Root Cause Analysis
18 41 (13.99%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 106 (36.18%) Python
2 66 (22.53%) Java
3 57 (19.45%) SQL
4 42 (14.33%) JavaScript
5 36 (12.29%) C#
6 35 (11.95%) Bash
7 33 (11.26%) PowerShell
8 28 (9.56%) Bicep
9 24 (8.19%) TypeScript
10 7 (2.39%) Go
11 6 (2.05%) Kusto Query Language
11 6 (2.05%) Rust
12 5 (1.71%) Kotlin
13 4 (1.37%) Swift
14 2 (0.68%) Delphi
14 2 (0.68%) Groovy
14 2 (0.68%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.68%) VB
14 2 (0.68%) VB6
15 1 (0.34%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 56 (19.11%) Degree
2 33 (11.26%) Security Cleared
3 31 (10.58%) Master's Degree
4 21 (7.17%) PhD
5 18 (6.14%) SC Cleared
6 15 (5.12%) AWS Certification
7 11 (3.75%) AWS Certified Developer
8 8 (2.73%) Azure Certification
8 8 (2.73%) Computer Science Degree
8 8 (2.73%) DV Cleared
9 3 (1.02%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.34%) JNCIP
11 1 (0.34%) LPIC
11 1 (0.34%) MCSE
11 1 (0.34%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.34%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (7.17%) Accessibility
1 21 (7.17%) GxP
2 19 (6.48%) Data Quality
2 19 (6.48%) QA
3 16 (5.46%) GDPR
4 9 (3.07%) WCAG
5 6 (2.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.02%) SLA
7 2 (0.68%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.34%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.34%) NCSC
8 1 (0.34%) NIST
System Software
1 74 (25.26%) Docker
2 9 (3.07%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.39%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (2.05%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (1.02%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.34%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.34%) NFS
6 1 (0.34%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 149 (50.85%) Terraform
2 123 (41.98%) Kubernetes
3 83 (28.33%) Grafana
4 29 (9.90%) Ansible
5 23 (7.85%) Prometheus
6 8 (2.73%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (2.05%) Argo
8 4 (1.37%) logstash
9 3 (1.02%) Nagios
9 3 (1.02%) Rancher
10 2 (0.68%) Istio
10 2 (0.68%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.34%) Puppet
Vendors
1 28 (9.56%) Microsoft
2 14 (4.78%) Ab Initio
3 13 (4.44%) OpenAI
4 12 (4.10%) Automation Anywhere
4 12 (4.10%) UiPath
5 8 (2.73%) Splunk
6 6 (2.05%) Cisco
6 6 (2.05%) Dynatrace
6 6 (2.05%) Oracle
6 6 (2.05%) Salesforce
7 5 (1.71%) Google
8 4 (1.37%) Amplitude
8 4 (1.37%) Databricks
8 4 (1.37%) Red Hat
8 4 (1.37%) VMware
9 3 (1.02%) Citrix
9 3 (1.02%) Rapid7
10 2 (0.68%) ForgeRock
10 2 (0.68%) Pega
11 1 (0.34%) AppDynamics