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

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 410 437 506
Rank change year-on-year +27 +69 -94
Permanent jobs citing Deployment Automation 414 249 440
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.42% 0.51% 0.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.57% 0.56% 0.52%
Number of salaries quoted 240 163 339
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,750 £44,853
25th Percentile £49,572 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,450 £68,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.53% +5.38% -13.33%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,625
90th Percentile £98,125 £97,528 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £61,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +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 72,161 44,144 84,574
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.86% 90.58% 82.41%
Number of salaries quoted 49,802 24,628 59,539
10th Percentile £30,250 £28,822 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +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 July 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 9 July 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 +53 369 £70,000 +2.19% 132
UK excluding London +26 226 £65,000 -3.70% 103
Work from Home +52 184 £65,000 +8.33% 49
London +24 161 £81,500 +8.67% 61
North of England -1 77 £55,000 -18.52% 13
South East +15 71 £65,000 +23.81% 29
North West +2 34 £52,500 -22.22% 9
Midlands -19 32 £49,000 -21.60% 12
Yorkshire -23 23 £82,500 +20.44% 1
South West -47 21 £70,000 -2.77% 23
North East -25 20 £47,000 - 3
East Midlands -17 17 £40,000 -46.67% 3
West Midlands -24 15 £51,250 -16.33% 9
Wales -43 12 £66,750 +24.19% 4
Scotland -4 11 £58,750 -22.04% 16
East of England -14 4 £56,000 - 8
Northern Ireland - 1 £77,500 - 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 9 (2.17%) Confluence
2 8 (1.93%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.69%) Apache
3 7 (1.69%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (1.69%) IIS
4 6 (1.45%) Apache Spark
5 5 (1.21%) nginx
5 5 (1.21%) SAS
6 4 (0.97%) Appian
6 4 (0.97%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.72%) Camunda
8 2 (0.48%) CMS
8 2 (0.48%) Luigi
9 1 (0.24%) BizTalk Server
9 1 (0.24%) Documentum
9 1 (0.24%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.24%) NServiceBus
9 1 (0.24%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (0.72%) SPSS
2 2 (0.48%) Trello
3 1 (0.24%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.24%) Magento
2 1 (0.24%) Misys Equation
2 1 (0.24%) Misys Midas
2 1 (0.24%) Oracle SCM
2 1 (0.24%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 227 (54.83%) AWS
2 209 (50.48%) Azure
3 117 (28.26%) GCP
4 97 (23.43%) Azure DevOps
5 76 (18.36%) Amazon EKS
6 61 (14.73%) Serverless
7 60 (14.49%) GitHub
7 60 (14.49%) SaaS
8 43 (10.39%) GitHub Actions
9 33 (7.97%) Power Platform
10 27 (6.52%) Azure Logic Apps
10 27 (6.52%) Firebase
11 25 (6.04%) Amazon S3
12 24 (5.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 23 (5.56%) Azure Monitor
13 23 (5.56%) PaaS
14 21 (5.07%) Azure Data Factory
14 21 (5.07%) Azure Functions
15 20 (4.83%) Datadog
15 20 (4.83%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 18 (4.35%) Firewall
2 14 (3.38%) DNS
3 9 (2.17%) VPN
4 8 (1.93%) MQTT
4 8 (1.93%) Network Security
5 6 (1.45%) DHCP
6 5 (1.21%) SSL
7 4 (0.97%) Broadband
7 4 (0.97%) Kerberos
7 4 (0.97%) NAS
7 4 (0.97%) SSH
7 4 (0.97%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (0.72%) BGP
8 3 (0.72%) DKIM
8 3 (0.72%) DMARC
8 3 (0.72%) PBX
8 3 (0.72%) TCP/IP
8 3 (0.72%) Unified Communications
8 3 (0.72%) VLAN
8 3 (0.72%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (10.39%) PostgreSQL
2 37 (8.94%) SQL Server
3 20 (4.83%) Elasticsearch
4 19 (4.59%) Data Warehouse
4 19 (4.59%) MongoDB
4 19 (4.59%) MySQL
5 18 (4.35%) NoSQL
6 13 (3.14%) Power BI
7 12 (2.90%) Amazon RDS
8 11 (2.66%) Relational Database
8 11 (2.66%) Spark SQL
9 9 (2.17%) Amazon Aurora
10 8 (1.93%) Azure SQL Database
10 8 (1.93%) DynamoDB
10 8 (1.93%) Metadata
11 6 (1.45%) Delta Lake
11 6 (1.45%) Pinecone
12 5 (1.21%) Data Lake
13 4 (0.97%) Geospatial Data
13 4 (0.97%) Redis
Development Applications
1 79 (19.08%) Git
2 63 (15.22%) TeamCity
3 49 (11.84%) Jenkins
4 43 (10.39%) GitLab
5 29 (7.00%) JIRA
6 20 (4.83%) Crashlytics
7 15 (3.62%) Bitbucket
8 14 (3.38%) SonarQube
8 14 (3.38%) XCTest
9 13 (3.14%) fastlane
10 11 (2.66%) Cucumber
11 10 (2.42%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 8 (1.93%) Artifactory
12 8 (1.93%) Octopus Deploy
13 7 (1.69%) Gradle
13 7 (1.69%) JUnit
13 7 (1.69%) Xcode
14 6 (1.45%) Android Studio
14 6 (1.45%) JMeter
14 6 (1.45%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 120 (28.99%) Finance
2 116 (28.02%) Social Skills
3 86 (20.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 84 (20.29%) Banking
5 66 (15.94%) Law
6 63 (15.22%) Retail
7 48 (11.59%) Analytical Skills
8 45 (10.87%) Financial Institution
9 41 (9.90%) Back Office
10 34 (8.21%) Public Sector
11 7 (1.69%) Aerospace
12 6 (1.45%) Manufacturing
13 5 (1.21%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (0.97%) Mandarin Language
14 4 (0.97%) Telecoms
15 3 (0.72%) Front Office
15 3 (0.72%) Legal
15 3 (0.72%) Retail Banking
16 2 (0.48%) Documentation Skills
16 2 (0.48%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 84 (20.29%) Software Engineer
2 73 (17.63%) Lead
3 66 (15.94%) Developer
4 64 (15.46%) Senior
5 58 (14.01%) DevOps Engineer
6 37 (8.94%) Azure Engineer
7 28 (6.76%) Cloud Engineer
8 25 (6.04%) Platform Engineer
9 22 (5.31%) Java Engineer
9 22 (5.31%) Lead Software Engineer
10 20 (4.83%) Data Engineer
11 19 (4.59%) Senior Software Engineer
12 16 (3.86%) AWS Engineer
12 16 (3.86%) Java Software Engineer
12 16 (3.86%) Site Engineer
12 16 (3.86%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 14 (3.38%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 14 (3.38%) Mobile Engineer
13 14 (3.38%) Software Team Leader
13 14 (3.38%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (11.11%) REST
2 41 (9.90%) .NET
3 40 (9.66%) RESTful
4 30 (7.25%) React
5 23 (5.56%) Kafka
6 21 (5.07%) SwiftUI
6 21 (5.07%) UIKit
7 17 (4.11%) Spring
8 16 (3.86%) ARM Templates
8 16 (3.86%) Spring Boot
9 15 (3.62%) CSS
10 14 (3.38%) .NET Core
10 14 (3.38%) OAuth
10 14 (3.38%) PyTorch
10 14 (3.38%) scikit-learn
10 14 (3.38%) TensorFlow
11 13 (3.14%) Node.js
11 13 (3.14%) PySpark
12 12 (2.90%) FastAPI
12 12 (2.90%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 129 (31.16%) Cloud Native
2 63 (15.22%) Product Ownership
3 37 (8.94%) Distributed Systems
4 29 (7.00%) Mobile App
5 24 (5.80%) Low-Code
6 20 (4.83%) Blog
7 18 (4.35%) Life Science
7 18 (4.35%) Onboarding
8 16 (3.86%) Self-Motivation
9 15 (3.62%) Greenfield Project
9 15 (3.62%) Legacy Systems
10 12 (2.90%) Hybrid Cloud
11 11 (2.66%) Management Information System
12 10 (2.42%) PKI
13 9 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
14 8 (1.93%) Public Cloud
14 8 (1.93%) Replication
15 7 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
15 7 (1.69%) Hackathon
16 6 (1.45%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 77 (18.60%) Linux
2 52 (12.56%) Windows
3 33 (7.97%) Apple iOS
4 20 (4.83%) Windows Server
5 15 (3.62%) CentOS
6 13 (3.14%) Android
7 8 (1.93%) Mac OS
8 6 (1.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (1.45%) Ubuntu
8 6 (1.45%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (1.21%) VMS
10 4 (0.97%) Unix
11 2 (0.48%) Amazon Linux
12 1 (0.24%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 324 (78.26%) CI/CD
2 232 (56.04%) DevOps
3 183 (44.20%) Test Automation
4 144 (34.78%) Infrastructure as Code
5 129 (31.16%) Agile
6 128 (30.92%) Software Engineering
7 116 (28.02%) Microservices
8 103 (24.88%) Clean Code
9 95 (22.95%) Containerisation
10 92 (22.22%) Observability
11 90 (21.74%) Continuous Improvement
12 82 (19.81%) Problem-Solving
13 74 (17.87%) Mentoring
14 73 (17.63%) Continuous Deployment
15 71 (17.15%) AI
16 70 (16.91%) Analytics
17 47 (11.35%) Computer Science
17 47 (11.35%) Cybersecurity
17 47 (11.35%) Fintech
18 43 (10.39%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 167 (40.34%) Python
2 120 (28.99%) Java
3 72 (17.39%) SQL
4 60 (14.49%) PowerShell
5 54 (13.04%) C#
6 49 (11.84%) Bash
7 45 (10.87%) JavaScript
8 38 (9.18%) TypeScript
9 23 (5.56%) Kotlin
10 21 (5.07%) Swift
11 18 (4.35%) Bicep
12 13 (3.14%) Rust
13 8 (1.93%) Go
13 8 (1.93%) Groovy
14 7 (1.69%) Kusto Query Language
14 7 (1.69%) Shell Script
15 5 (1.21%) C++
16 4 (0.97%) C
16 4 (0.97%) Perl
16 4 (0.97%) PHP
Qualifications
1 69 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 54 (13.04%) Degree
3 40 (9.66%) SC Cleared
4 28 (6.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (4.11%) DV Cleared
6 11 (2.66%) Master's Degree
7 7 (1.69%) Azure Certification
8 6 (1.45%) AWS Certification
9 4 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (0.97%) Postgraduate
10 2 (0.48%) PhD
10 2 (0.48%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.48%) PMP
11 1 (0.24%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.24%) CCNP
11 1 (0.24%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.24%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.24%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.24%) JNCIP
11 1 (0.24%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (12.56%) QA
2 34 (8.21%) Accessibility
3 25 (6.04%) WCAG
4 21 (5.07%) GDPR
5 14 (3.38%) Data Quality
6 13 (3.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (1.93%) SLA
8 7 (1.69%) SOC 2
9 5 (1.21%) NCSC
10 4 (0.97%) NIST
11 2 (0.48%) Def Stans
11 2 (0.48%) GxP
11 2 (0.48%) IEC 61508
11 2 (0.48%) IFRS
11 2 (0.48%) IFRS 17
11 2 (0.48%) ISO 26262
11 2 (0.48%) PMO
11 2 (0.48%) Solvency II
12 1 (0.24%) JTAG
System Software
1 103 (24.88%) Docker
2 21 (5.07%) Active Directory
3 11 (2.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.45%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.97%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.97%) vSphere
6 3 (0.72%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.48%) Firmware
8 1 (0.24%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.24%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 183 (44.20%) Terraform
2 175 (42.27%) Kubernetes
3 114 (27.54%) Grafana
4 71 (17.15%) Ansible
5 37 (8.94%) Prometheus
6 14 (3.38%) Microsoft Intune
7 10 (2.42%) Argo
7 10 (2.42%) Jamf Pro
8 9 (2.17%) Nagios
9 7 (1.69%) Puppet
10 6 (1.45%) SCCM
11 4 (0.97%) Packer
12 3 (0.72%) Control-M
12 3 (0.72%) cPanel
12 3 (0.72%) Docker Swarm
12 3 (0.72%) Plesk
12 3 (0.72%) Podman
12 3 (0.72%) Rancher
12 3 (0.72%) SCOM
12 3 (0.72%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 74 (17.87%) Microsoft
2 27 (6.52%) Dynatrace
3 23 (5.56%) Google
4 21 (5.07%) Databricks
5 16 (3.86%) VMware
6 14 (3.38%) Amplitude
6 14 (3.38%) Braze
6 14 (3.38%) OpenAI
6 14 (3.38%) Splunk
7 11 (2.66%) Apple
7 11 (2.66%) Red Hat
8 9 (2.17%) Rapid7
8 9 (2.17%) Salesforce
9 7 (1.69%) AppDynamics
10 6 (1.45%) IBM
11 5 (1.21%) Atlassian
11 5 (1.21%) Automation Anywhere
11 5 (1.21%) Tenable
11 5 (1.21%) UiPath
12 4 (0.97%) NVIDIA