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

6 months to
3 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 405 412 476
Rank change year-on-year +7 +64 -85
Permanent jobs citing Deployment Automation 275 322 359
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.43% 0.63% 0.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.54% 0.68% 0.55%
Number of salaries quoted 111 208 294
10th Percentile £42,500 £48,250 £42,875
25th Percentile £51,438 £60,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £75,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -15.63%
75th Percentile £85,625 £97,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £138,750 £131,039
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £63,750 £60,000
% change year-on-year +1.96% +6.25% -10.30%

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 51,366 47,163 65,121
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 80.02% 91.74% 88.57%
Number of salaries quoted 30,378 22,532 50,663
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,628 £40,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £75,900 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
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 3 February 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 3 February 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 -23 230 £68,000 -9.33% 116
UK excluding London +16 155 £65,000 +1.96% 91
Work from Home +41 130 £62,500 -7.41% 59
London +11 107 £76,109 -16.59% 44
South East +34 61 £52,500 -10.26% 42
North of England -36 33 £68,000 +36.00% 16
Scotland +13 31 £77,217 +23.55% 2
Yorkshire -46 18 £60,000 +21.21% 4
North West +16 13 £75,000 +36.36% 9
South West -5 10 £62,950 -6.74% 8
East of England +16 8 £76,250 +1.67% 7
Wales +7 6 £54,750 -15.77% 2
Midlands -7 5 £57,359 -23.52% 13
West Midlands +6 4 £77,217 +2.96% 10
North East - 2 £77,217 - 3
East Midlands -1 1 £37,500 +30.65% 3
Northern Ireland - 1 £77,217 - 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 12 (4.36%) Appian
2 4 (1.45%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (1.45%) Confluence
3 3 (1.09%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.09%) IIS
4 2 (0.73%) Apache
4 2 (0.73%) BizTalk Server
4 2 (0.73%) nginx
4 2 (0.73%) SAS
4 2 (0.73%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.36%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (1.09%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 142 (51.64%) Azure
2 115 (41.82%) AWS
3 83 (30.18%) Azure DevOps
4 59 (21.45%) GCP
5 58 (21.09%) GitHub
6 53 (19.27%) GitHub Actions
7 51 (18.55%) Amazon EKS
8 41 (14.91%) SaaS
9 38 (13.82%) Serverless
10 33 (12.00%) Azure Monitor
11 32 (11.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 32 (11.64%) Azure Logic Apps
12 28 (10.18%) Azure Data Factory
13 26 (9.45%) AWS Lambda
14 25 (9.09%) Power Platform
15 20 (7.27%) AWS CloudFormation
16 19 (6.91%) Amazon S3
17 17 (6.18%) Amazon SQS
18 16 (5.82%) Azure Service Bus
18 16 (5.82%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.27%) Firewall
2 5 (1.82%) SSL
3 4 (1.45%) DNS
4 3 (1.09%) DMZ
4 3 (1.09%) MQTT
4 3 (1.09%) VPN
5 2 (0.73%) BGP
5 2 (0.73%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (0.73%) OSPF
5 2 (0.73%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (0.73%) RTMP
5 2 (0.73%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.73%) VLAN
5 2 (0.73%) WAN
5 2 (0.73%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.73%) Wireless
6 1 (0.36%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (13.09%) SQL Server
2 24 (8.73%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (6.55%) DynamoDB
3 18 (6.55%) NoSQL
4 13 (4.73%) MySQL
5 12 (4.36%) Pinecone
6 10 (3.64%) Amazon Aurora
7 8 (2.91%) Amazon RDS
7 8 (2.91%) Power BI
8 6 (2.18%) MongoDB
8 6 (2.18%) Relational Database
9 5 (1.82%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (1.09%) CockroachDB
10 3 (1.09%) Data Lake
10 3 (1.09%) Metadata
10 3 (1.09%) Tableau
11 2 (0.73%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (0.73%) Data Warehouse
12 1 (0.36%) Redis
12 1 (0.36%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 39 (14.18%) Git
2 37 (13.45%) TeamCity
3 27 (9.82%) Jenkins
4 24 (8.73%) GitLab
5 15 (5.45%) MLflow
6 8 (2.91%) JIRA
7 6 (2.18%) Gradle
7 6 (2.18%) Maven
7 6 (2.18%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 6 (2.18%) Storybook
8 5 (1.82%) Bitbucket
9 4 (1.45%) Artifactory
9 4 (1.45%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 4 (1.45%) JUnit
10 3 (1.09%) NUnit
10 3 (1.09%) Octopus Deploy
10 3 (1.09%) TestNG
11 2 (0.73%) Checkstyle
11 2 (0.73%) Cypress.io
11 2 (0.73%) Mockito
General
1 128 (46.55%) Finance
2 62 (22.55%) Social Skills
3 44 (16.00%) Banking
4 42 (15.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 36 (13.09%) Retail
6 35 (12.73%) Law
7 31 (11.27%) Pharmaceutical
8 26 (9.45%) Financial Institution
9 25 (9.09%) Back Office
10 18 (6.55%) Analytical Skills
11 9 (3.27%) Marketing
12 4 (1.45%) Public Sector
13 3 (1.09%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (1.09%) Retail Banking
14 2 (0.73%) Advertising
14 2 (0.73%) Agriculture
14 2 (0.73%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.73%) Legal
14 2 (0.73%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.73%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 62 (22.55%) Lead
2 46 (16.73%) Developer
3 33 (12.00%) Software Engineer
4 28 (10.18%) Senior
5 24 (8.73%) DevOps Engineer
6 21 (7.64%) Cloud Engineer
7 17 (6.18%) Platform Engineer
8 14 (5.09%) AWS Engineer
8 14 (5.09%) Azure Engineer
8 14 (5.09%) Integration Engineer
8 14 (5.09%) Java Engineer
9 13 (4.73%) Java Software Engineer
10 12 (4.36%) .NET Developer
10 12 (4.36%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 12 (4.36%) Automation Engineer
10 12 (4.36%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 12 (4.36%) Power Platform Developer
11 10 (3.64%) AWS Developer
11 10 (3.64%) AWS Platform Engineer
11 10 (3.64%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (17.09%) RESTful
2 36 (13.09%) .NET
2 36 (13.09%) OAuth
3 27 (9.82%) React
4 25 (9.09%) REST
5 24 (8.73%) OAuth2
6 23 (8.36%) .NET Core
7 21 (7.64%) JSON
8 17 (6.18%) JWT
9 16 (5.82%) AWS CDK
9 16 (5.82%) FastAPI
10 15 (5.45%) ASP.NET
10 15 (5.45%) Web Services
11 14 (5.09%) Flask
11 14 (5.09%) OpenAPI
11 14 (5.09%) Swagger
12 13 (4.73%) ASP.NET Core
12 13 (4.73%) Blazor
12 13 (4.73%) Django
13 12 (4.36%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 76 (27.64%) Cloud Native
2 35 (12.73%) Life Science
3 34 (12.36%) Low-Code
4 22 (8.00%) Product Ownership
5 14 (5.09%) Legacy Systems
6 10 (3.64%) Blog
7 7 (2.55%) Distributed Systems
8 6 (2.18%) Onboarding
9 5 (1.82%) Hackathon
9 5 (1.82%) IoT
9 5 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (1.45%) Public Cloud
11 3 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (1.09%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (1.09%) Private Cloud
12 2 (0.73%) Algorithms
12 2 (0.73%) Greenfield Project
12 2 (0.73%) Mobile App
12 2 (0.73%) Robotics
12 2 (0.73%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 31 (11.27%) Linux
2 14 (5.09%) Windows
3 7 (2.55%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.45%) VMS
5 2 (0.73%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 188 (68.36%) CI/CD
2 158 (57.45%) DevOps
3 108 (39.27%) Agile
4 105 (38.18%) Test Automation
5 103 (37.45%) Infrastructure as Code
6 81 (29.45%) AI
7 80 (29.09%) Analytics
8 70 (25.45%) Machine Learning
9 60 (21.82%) Problem-Solving
10 59 (21.45%) Microservices
11 55 (20.00%) Containerisation
11 55 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
11 55 (20.00%) Roadmaps
12 52 (18.91%) Clean Code
13 46 (16.73%) Generative AI
13 46 (16.73%) Observability
13 46 (16.73%) Software Engineering
14 45 (16.36%) Disruptive Innovation
15 44 (16.00%) Computer Science
16 43 (15.64%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 92 (33.45%) Python
2 51 (18.55%) SQL
3 49 (17.82%) Java
4 36 (13.09%) C#
5 35 (12.73%) Bash
5 35 (12.73%) JavaScript
5 35 (12.73%) PowerShell
6 30 (10.91%) Bicep
7 19 (6.91%) TypeScript
8 5 (1.82%) Go
9 4 (1.45%) Kusto Query Language
10 3 (1.09%) C++
11 2 (0.73%) Delphi
11 2 (0.73%) Groovy
11 2 (0.73%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.73%) VB
11 2 (0.73%) VB6
12 1 (0.36%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.36%) R
12 1 (0.36%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 56 (20.36%) Degree
2 36 (13.09%) Master's Degree
3 30 (10.91%) PhD
4 23 (8.36%) Security Cleared
5 14 (5.09%) AWS Certification
6 13 (4.73%) SC Cleared
7 11 (4.00%) AWS Certified Developer
8 10 (3.64%) Azure Certification
9 9 (3.27%) Computer Science Degree
10 7 (2.55%) DV Cleared
11 3 (1.09%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.36%) MCSE
13 1 (0.36%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.36%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (10.91%) GxP
2 19 (6.91%) GDPR
3 16 (5.82%) Data Quality
4 15 (5.45%) QA
5 14 (5.09%) Accessibility
6 6 (2.18%) WCAG
7 4 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (1.09%) SLA
9 2 (0.73%) NIST
9 2 (0.73%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.36%) EU AI Act
10 1 (0.36%) GRC
10 1 (0.36%) HIPAA
System Software
1 71 (25.82%) Docker
2 12 (4.36%) Virtual Machines
3 10 (3.64%) Virtual Desktop
4 9 (3.27%) Active Directory
5 3 (1.09%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.73%) NFS
7 1 (0.36%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.36%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 136 (49.45%) Terraform
2 107 (38.91%) Kubernetes
3 63 (22.91%) Grafana
4 24 (8.73%) Ansible
5 21 (7.64%) Prometheus
6 12 (4.36%) Microsoft Intune
7 7 (2.55%) Argo
8 4 (1.45%) logstash
9 3 (1.09%) Rancher
10 2 (0.73%) Istio
10 2 (0.73%) Nagios
10 2 (0.73%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.73%) Puppet
10 2 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 29 (10.55%) Microsoft
2 14 (5.09%) Ab Initio
3 13 (4.73%) OpenAI
4 12 (4.36%) Automation Anywhere
4 12 (4.36%) UiPath
5 7 (2.55%) Splunk
6 6 (2.18%) Cisco
6 6 (2.18%) Salesforce
7 5 (1.82%) Oracle
8 4 (1.45%) Google
8 4 (1.45%) VMware
9 3 (1.09%) Citrix
9 3 (1.09%) Dynatrace
9 3 (1.09%) Rapid7
9 3 (1.09%) Red Hat
10 2 (0.73%) Databricks
10 2 (0.73%) MikroTik
10 2 (0.73%) Sonatype
10 2 (0.73%) Starlink
10 2 (0.73%) Ubiquiti