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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 388 471 447
Rank change year-on-year +83 -24 -67
Permanent jobs citing Deployment Automation 531 199 379
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.45% 0.40% 0.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.62% 0.45% 0.61%
Number of salaries quoted 288 101 251
10th Percentile £45,319 £48,250 £44,263
25th Percentile £56,000 £57,500 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% -8.77%
75th Percentile £86,063 £82,500 £73,125
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £67,750 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.06% +23.18% -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 85,853 43,932 62,432
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.10% 88.75% 81.70%
Number of salaries quoted 59,280 24,639 34,370
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,585 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -5.11% -3.39%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
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 26 September 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 26 September 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 +88 436 £70,000 -6.67% 606
UK excluding London -22 264 £65,000 -4.06% 334
London +56 210 £80,500 +7.33% 326
Work from Home +59 189 £65,000 -14.60% 247
North of England +15 96 £65,000 -9.41% 93
South West -30 52 £73,000 -15.36% 57
South East -17 43 £65,000 -21.21% 74
North East -23 41 £60,000 -22.30% 10
North West -3 36 £56,250 -26.09% 55
Midlands -39 29 £56,250 -6.25% 37
Wales -49 28 £52,500 +8.25% 4
Yorkshire -26 25 £70,000 +2.19% 28
East Midlands -21 15 £61,250 -18.33% 15
Scotland -4 14 £75,000 -2.87% 38
West Midlands -37 14 £51,250 -14.58% 22
East of England -26 5 £56,000 - 18
Northern Ireland -85 1 £77,500 +0.37% 13

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 16 (3.01%) Confluence
2 13 (2.45%) Apache
2 13 (2.45%) SharePoint
3 12 (2.26%) Apache Spark
3 12 (2.26%) nginx
4 8 (1.51%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (1.51%) IIS
5 7 (1.32%) Microsoft Exchange
6 5 (0.94%) Camunda
7 4 (0.75%) SAS
8 2 (0.38%) Cloud Foundry
8 2 (0.38%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.38%) Luigi
9 1 (0.19%) CMS
9 1 (0.19%) Documentum
9 1 (0.19%) JBoss
9 1 (0.19%) NServiceBus
9 1 (0.19%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (0.19%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.19%) ProjectWise
1 1 (0.19%) SPSS
1 1 (0.19%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.19%) Magento
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
1 303 (57.06%) AWS
2 285 (53.67%) Azure
3 182 (34.27%) GCP
4 122 (22.98%) Azure DevOps
5 91 (17.14%) Amazon EKS
6 83 (15.63%) GitHub
7 66 (12.43%) SaaS
8 56 (10.55%) Serverless
9 42 (7.91%) GitHub Actions
10 41 (7.72%) AWS CloudFormation
11 35 (6.59%) Power Platform
12 31 (5.84%) Microsoft 365
13 28 (5.27%) Amazon ECS
13 28 (5.27%) Entra ID
14 27 (5.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 27 (5.08%) Azure Monitor
15 26 (4.90%) Amazon S3
16 24 (4.52%) Datadog
17 23 (4.33%) Azure Functions
18 21 (3.95%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 22 (4.14%) DNS
2 19 (3.58%) Firewall
3 18 (3.39%) VPN
4 9 (1.69%) Network Security
5 8 (1.51%) DHCP
6 7 (1.32%) BGP
6 7 (1.32%) SD-WAN
6 7 (1.32%) WAN
6 7 (1.32%) Wireless
7 6 (1.13%) LAN
7 6 (1.13%) OSPF
7 6 (1.13%) SSL
7 6 (1.13%) TCP/IP
7 6 (1.13%) Wi-Fi
8 5 (0.94%) MQTT
9 4 (0.75%) Broadband
9 4 (0.75%) Kerberos
9 4 (0.75%) NAS
9 4 (0.75%) SSH
9 4 (0.75%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (11.49%) PostgreSQL
2 40 (7.53%) SQL Server
3 35 (6.59%) MongoDB
4 32 (6.03%) MySQL
5 30 (5.65%) NoSQL
6 23 (4.33%) Power BI
7 20 (3.77%) Data Warehouse
7 20 (3.77%) Elasticsearch
8 17 (3.20%) Data Lake
9 16 (3.01%) Amazon RDS
9 16 (3.01%) Azure SQL Database
10 14 (2.64%) Relational Database
11 13 (2.45%) Metadata
12 8 (1.51%) Big Data
12 8 (1.51%) Spark SQL
13 7 (1.32%) Geospatial Data
13 7 (1.32%) Redis
14 5 (0.94%) Delta Lake
14 5 (0.94%) DynamoDB
14 5 (0.94%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 115 (21.66%) Git
2 68 (12.81%) TeamCity
3 67 (12.62%) Jenkins
4 62 (11.68%) GitLab
5 38 (7.16%) JIRA
6 18 (3.39%) Bitbucket
7 13 (2.45%) SonarQube
8 11 (2.07%) fastlane
9 10 (1.88%) Crashlytics
10 9 (1.69%) Artifactory
10 9 (1.69%) JUnit
11 8 (1.51%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 8 (1.51%) Claude Code
11 8 (1.51%) Mockito
11 8 (1.51%) Octopus Deploy
12 7 (1.32%) Cucumber
12 7 (1.32%) MSI
13 6 (1.13%) Xcode
14 5 (0.94%) Gradle
14 5 (0.94%) Maven
General
1 162 (30.51%) Finance
2 149 (28.06%) Social Skills
3 114 (21.47%) Banking
4 113 (21.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 85 (16.01%) Law
6 80 (15.07%) Analytical Skills
6 80 (15.07%) Public Sector
7 71 (13.37%) Retail
8 60 (11.30%) Financial Institution
9 53 (9.98%) Back Office
10 10 (1.88%) Marketing
11 7 (1.32%) Manufacturing
11 7 (1.32%) Telecoms
12 6 (1.13%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (0.75%) Aerospace
13 4 (0.75%) Legal
13 4 (0.75%) Police
13 4 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.56%) Documentation Skills
15 2 (0.38%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 116 (21.85%) Software Engineer
2 95 (17.89%) DevOps Engineer
3 93 (17.51%) Lead
4 92 (17.33%) Senior
5 81 (15.25%) Developer
6 46 (8.66%) Cloud Engineer
7 36 (6.78%) Azure Engineer
8 28 (5.27%) Data Engineer
8 28 (5.27%) Senior Software Engineer
9 27 (5.08%) Platform Engineer
10 26 (4.90%) Lead Software Engineer
11 24 (4.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 23 (4.33%) Java Engineer
13 21 (3.95%) Site Engineer
13 21 (3.95%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 21 (3.95%) Software Team Leader
13 21 (3.95%) Team Leader
14 20 (3.77%) Senior Developer
15 19 (3.58%) Automation Engineer
15 19 (3.58%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 268 (50.47%) Terraform
2 61 (11.49%) REST
2 61 (11.49%) RESTful
3 51 (9.60%) .NET
4 37 (6.97%) React
5 36 (6.78%) Kafka
6 26 (4.90%) Spring
7 24 (4.52%) LangChain
7 24 (4.52%) Spring Boot
8 20 (3.77%) AngularJS
8 20 (3.77%) Web Services
9 19 (3.58%) Node.js
10 18 (3.39%) CSS
10 18 (3.39%) Hibernate
10 18 (3.39%) JPA
10 18 (3.39%) RabbitMQ
11 16 (3.01%) PyTorch
11 16 (3.01%) scikit-learn
11 16 (3.01%) TensorFlow
12 15 (2.82%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 207 (38.98%) Cloud Native
2 108 (20.34%) Product Ownership
3 59 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
4 35 (6.59%) Onboarding
5 33 (6.21%) Enterprise Software
6 26 (4.90%) Self-Motivation
7 21 (3.95%) AI Agents
7 21 (3.95%) Management Information System
8 20 (3.77%) Legacy Systems
9 19 (3.58%) Mobile App
10 18 (3.39%) Virtual Team
11 15 (2.82%) Blog
12 12 (2.26%) Life Science
13 11 (2.07%) Hybrid Cloud
14 9 (1.69%) Data Centre
14 9 (1.69%) Replication
15 8 (1.51%) Linux Command Line
15 8 (1.51%) PKI
15 8 (1.51%) Public Cloud
16 7 (1.32%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 93 (17.51%) Linux
2 62 (11.68%) Windows
3 20 (3.77%) Windows Server
4 18 (3.39%) Apple iOS
5 13 (2.45%) CentOS
6 9 (1.69%) Android
7 7 (1.32%) Unix
7 7 (1.32%) Windows Server 2016
8 5 (0.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 4 (0.75%) Ubuntu
10 3 (0.56%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.38%) Amazon Linux
11 2 (0.38%) Embedded Linux
11 2 (0.38%) Solaris
11 2 (0.38%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 437 (82.30%) CI/CD
2 354 (66.67%) DevOps
3 242 (45.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 227 (42.75%) Test Automation
5 209 (39.36%) Software Engineering
6 184 (34.65%) Agile
7 156 (29.38%) Observability
8 147 (27.68%) Microservices
9 145 (27.31%) AI
10 144 (27.12%) Continuous Improvement
11 142 (26.74%) Mentoring
12 137 (25.80%) Containerisation
12 137 (25.80%) Problem-Solving
13 104 (19.59%) Clean Code
14 85 (16.01%) Technical Leadership
15 79 (14.88%) Continuous Deployment
16 70 (13.18%) Analytics
17 65 (12.24%) Machine Learning
18 64 (12.05%) Coaching
19 62 (11.68%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 207 (38.98%) Python
2 148 (27.87%) Java
3 95 (17.89%) SQL
4 80 (15.07%) PowerShell
5 55 (10.36%) TypeScript
6 54 (10.17%) Bash
6 54 (10.17%) C#
7 46 (8.66%) JavaScript
8 30 (5.65%) Bicep
9 13 (2.45%) Kotlin
10 12 (2.26%) Go
11 11 (2.07%) Swift
12 10 (1.88%) C++
13 9 (1.69%) Groovy
13 9 (1.69%) Scala
14 6 (1.13%) C
14 6 (1.13%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.94%) PHP
15 5 (0.94%) Rust
16 4 (0.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 106 (19.96%) Security Cleared
2 72 (13.56%) SC Cleared
3 49 (9.23%) Degree
4 37 (6.97%) Computer Science Degree
5 28 (5.27%) Azure Certification
6 22 (4.14%) AWS Certification
7 17 (3.20%) DV Cleared
8 15 (2.82%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (1.51%) Master's Degree
10 7 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (0.94%) CCNP
11 5 (0.94%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (0.75%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 4 (0.75%) TOGAF Certification
13 3 (0.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 3 (0.56%) PMI Certification
14 2 (0.38%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 2 (0.38%) PMP
14 2 (0.38%) Postgraduate
15 1 (0.19%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (12.81%) QA
2 32 (6.03%) Accessibility
3 22 (4.14%) Data Quality
3 22 (4.14%) GDPR
3 22 (4.14%) WCAG
4 16 (3.01%) NCSC
5 14 (2.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (2.45%) SLA
7 5 (0.94%) SOC 2
8 4 (0.75%) NIST
9 3 (0.56%) PMO
10 2 (0.38%) GRC
10 2 (0.38%) IFRS
10 2 (0.38%) IFRS 17
10 2 (0.38%) JTAG
10 2 (0.38%) Solvency II
System Software
1 139 (26.18%) Docker
2 25 (4.71%) Active Directory
3 10 (1.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (1.32%) Virtual Desktop
4 7 (1.32%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (1.13%) Firmware
5 6 (1.13%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.75%) 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
1 225 (42.37%) Kubernetes
2 139 (26.18%) Grafana
3 90 (16.95%) Ansible
4 45 (8.47%) Prometheus
5 13 (2.45%) Argo
5 13 (2.45%) Microsoft Intune
6 11 (2.07%) Puppet
7 9 (1.69%) Nagios
8 6 (1.13%) Progress Chef
8 6 (1.13%) SCCM
9 4 (0.75%) Jamf Pro
9 4 (0.75%) Packer
9 4 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.56%) cPanel
10 3 (0.56%) Docker Swarm
10 3 (0.56%) Istio
10 3 (0.56%) Podman
10 3 (0.56%) Rancher
10 3 (0.56%) SCOM
10 3 (0.56%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 109 (20.53%) Microsoft
2 44 (8.29%) Dynatrace
3 33 (6.21%) Google
4 26 (4.90%) Splunk
5 23 (4.33%) Databricks
6 18 (3.39%) Salesforce
7 15 (2.82%) VMware
8 14 (2.64%) Red Hat
9 12 (2.26%) OpenAI
10 10 (1.88%) Oracle
11 9 (1.69%) Rapid7
12 8 (1.51%) Apple
12 8 (1.51%) Fortinet
13 7 (1.32%) Atlassian
13 7 (1.32%) IBM
13 7 (1.32%) ServiceNow
14 6 (1.13%) AppDynamics
15 5 (0.94%) Amplitude
15 5 (0.94%) Cisco
15 5 (0.94%) Confluent