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

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 398 368 484
Rank change year-on-year -30 +116 -50
Permanent jobs citing Deployment Automation 327 292 427
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.41% 0.71% 0.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.54% 0.77% 0.55%
Number of salaries quoted 153 236 339
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £60,000 £55,070
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +15.38% -18.75%
75th Percentile £85,000 £97,528 £87,500
90th Percentile £98,500 £138,750 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £68,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year -8.09% +10.57% -11.44%

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 60,831 38,033 77,482
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 76.64% 93.07% 86.50%
Number of salaries quoted 37,418 22,319 57,741
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.26%

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 1 April 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 1 April 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 -29 292 £69,200 -7.73% 125
UK excluding London -13 179 £62,500 -8.09% 88
Work from Home +12 151 £60,000 -7.69% 57
London -30 136 £80,000 -11.11% 49
South East +11 75 £67,500 +17.39% 21
North of England -53 45 £63,750 +18.60% 24
Yorkshire -42 26 £60,000 +21.21% 5
Scotland -9 23 £55,000 -27.02% 2
Midlands -27 18 £48,000 -36.00% 21
North West -34 15 £75,000 +20.00% 14
East Midlands - 10 £37,500 - 2
East of England -20 8 £76,250 -12.86% 2
West Midlands -21 8 £48,000 -36.00% 19
South West -44 8 £62,950 -12.56% 12
Wales -21 4 £61,248 - 3
North East - 4 £58,789 - 5
Northern Ireland - 1 £77,500 - 4

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 (3.67%) Appian
2 5 (1.53%) Apache
2 5 (1.53%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.22%) Confluence
4 3 (0.92%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.92%) IIS
4 3 (0.92%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.61%) BizTalk Server
5 2 (0.61%) SAS
6 1 (0.31%) CMS
6 1 (0.31%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.31%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.31%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (0.92%) SPSS
2 1 (0.31%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.31%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.31%) Oracle SCM
2 1 (0.31%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 175 (53.52%) AWS
2 148 (45.26%) Azure
3 77 (23.55%) GCP
4 76 (23.24%) Azure DevOps
5 72 (22.02%) Amazon EKS
6 64 (19.57%) GitHub
7 62 (18.96%) Serverless
8 57 (17.43%) GitHub Actions
9 49 (14.98%) SaaS
10 37 (11.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 36 (11.01%) Azure Logic Apps
12 35 (10.70%) AWS Lambda
13 30 (9.17%) Amazon S3
13 30 (9.17%) Power Platform
14 27 (8.26%) Azure Data Factory
15 26 (7.95%) Azure Monitor
16 24 (7.34%) AWS CloudFormation
17 19 (5.81%) AWS Step Functions
18 18 (5.50%) Amazon EC2
18 18 (5.50%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.36%) Firewall
2 6 (1.83%) DNS
3 4 (1.22%) MQTT
3 4 (1.22%) SSL
4 3 (0.92%) DMZ
4 3 (0.92%) VPN
5 2 (0.61%) Network Security
6 1 (0.31%) BGP
6 1 (0.31%) DHCP
6 1 (0.31%) Ethernet VPN
6 1 (0.31%) HTTP
6 1 (0.31%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.31%) NetScaler
6 1 (0.31%) SNMP
6 1 (0.31%) VXLAN
6 1 (0.31%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (11.62%) SQL Server
2 29 (8.87%) PostgreSQL
3 22 (6.73%) DynamoDB
4 21 (6.42%) NoSQL
5 14 (4.28%) Amazon Aurora
6 13 (3.98%) MySQL
6 13 (3.98%) Pinecone
7 12 (3.67%) Power BI
8 11 (3.36%) Elasticsearch
9 9 (2.75%) Amazon RDS
10 6 (1.83%) MongoDB
10 6 (1.83%) Relational Database
11 5 (1.53%) Data Warehouse
12 4 (1.22%) Metadata
12 4 (1.22%) Spark SQL
13 3 (0.92%) Amazon Redshift
13 3 (0.92%) Azure SQL Database
13 3 (0.92%) CockroachDB
13 3 (0.92%) Tableau
14 2 (0.61%) Redis
Development Applications
1 59 (18.04%) Git
2 53 (16.21%) TeamCity
3 38 (11.62%) GitLab
4 35 (10.70%) Jenkins
5 15 (4.59%) JIRA
6 12 (3.67%) MLflow
7 10 (3.06%) Crashlytics
7 10 (3.06%) Cucumber
8 9 (2.75%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 9 (2.75%) XCTest
9 8 (2.45%) Bitbucket
9 8 (2.45%) SonarQube
9 8 (2.45%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 7 (2.14%) Artifactory
11 6 (1.83%) Gradle
11 6 (1.83%) JMeter
11 6 (1.83%) Storybook
12 5 (1.53%) Locust
12 5 (1.53%) Maven
13 4 (1.22%) NUnit
General
1 125 (38.23%) Finance
2 90 (27.52%) Social Skills
3 65 (19.88%) Banking
4 63 (19.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 54 (16.51%) Law
6 53 (16.21%) Retail
7 36 (11.01%) Back Office
7 36 (11.01%) Financial Institution
8 31 (9.48%) Analytical Skills
9 20 (6.12%) Pharmaceutical
10 9 (2.75%) Public Sector
11 7 (2.14%) Marketing
12 6 (1.83%) Retail Banking
13 3 (0.92%) Aerospace
13 3 (0.92%) Front Office
13 3 (0.92%) Mandarin Language
13 3 (0.92%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.61%) Advertising
14 2 (0.61%) Automotive
14 2 (0.61%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 65 (19.88%) Lead
2 55 (16.82%) Developer
3 48 (14.68%) Software Engineer
4 47 (14.37%) Senior
5 32 (9.79%) DevOps Engineer
6 23 (7.03%) AWS Engineer
7 20 (6.12%) Cloud Engineer
7 20 (6.12%) Java Engineer
8 18 (5.50%) Azure Engineer
8 18 (5.50%) Integration Engineer
8 18 (5.50%) Platform Engineer
9 16 (4.89%) Java Software Engineer
9 16 (4.89%) Senior Software Engineer
10 15 (4.59%) Power Platform Developer
11 14 (4.28%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 13 (3.98%) Automation Engineer
12 13 (3.98%) Lead Software Engineer
13 12 (3.67%) .NET Developer
13 12 (3.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 11 (3.36%) Associate Director
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (13.76%) RESTful
2 40 (12.23%) .NET
3 34 (10.40%) React
3 34 (10.40%) REST
4 32 (9.79%) OAuth
5 26 (7.95%) .NET Core
6 23 (7.03%) JSON
7 20 (6.12%) OAuth2
8 17 (5.20%) JWT
9 16 (4.89%) ASP.NET
9 16 (4.89%) AWS CDK
10 15 (4.59%) FastAPI
10 15 (4.59%) Web Services
11 14 (4.28%) ASP.NET Core
11 14 (4.28%) Flask
11 14 (4.28%) OpenAPI
11 14 (4.28%) pytest
11 14 (4.28%) Swagger
12 13 (3.98%) Pandas
12 13 (3.98%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 94 (28.75%) Cloud Native
2 41 (12.54%) Low-Code
3 31 (9.48%) Life Science
4 27 (8.26%) Product Ownership
5 15 (4.59%) Blog
5 15 (4.59%) Distributed Systems
5 15 (4.59%) Legacy Systems
6 13 (3.98%) Mobile App
7 11 (3.36%) Greenfield Project
7 11 (3.36%) Hackathon
8 8 (2.45%) Onboarding
9 6 (1.83%) Public Cloud
10 5 (1.53%) Hybrid Cloud
10 5 (1.53%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (1.22%) Private Cloud
12 3 (0.92%) Data Structures
12 3 (0.92%) IoT
12 3 (0.92%) PKI
12 3 (0.92%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 43 (13.15%) Linux
2 20 (6.12%) Windows
3 18 (5.50%) Apple iOS
4 11 (3.36%) Windows Server
5 8 (2.45%) CentOS
6 6 (1.83%) Mac OS
6 6 (1.83%) VMS
7 5 (1.53%) Android
8 3 (0.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.92%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.31%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 247 (75.54%) CI/CD
2 169 (51.68%) DevOps
3 147 (44.95%) Test Automation
4 116 (35.47%) Infrastructure as Code
5 111 (33.94%) Agile
6 82 (25.08%) Microservices
7 78 (23.85%) Analytics
7 78 (23.85%) Clean Code
8 73 (22.32%) Containerisation
9 67 (20.49%) Observability
10 66 (20.18%) Software Engineering
11 65 (19.88%) AI
12 64 (19.57%) Continuous Improvement
13 63 (19.27%) Problem-Solving
14 60 (18.35%) Continuous Deployment
15 58 (17.74%) Machine Learning
16 49 (14.98%) Computer Science
17 42 (12.84%) Disruptive Innovation
18 40 (12.23%) Data Science
19 39 (11.93%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 122 (37.31%) Python
2 78 (23.85%) Java
3 64 (19.57%) SQL
4 41 (12.54%) Bash
4 41 (12.54%) JavaScript
5 37 (11.31%) C#
6 34 (10.40%) PowerShell
7 26 (7.95%) Bicep
7 26 (7.95%) TypeScript
8 11 (3.36%) Kotlin
9 10 (3.06%) Swift
10 8 (2.45%) Rust
11 7 (2.14%) Kusto Query Language
12 6 (1.83%) Go
12 6 (1.83%) Groovy
13 5 (1.53%) Shell Script
14 3 (0.92%) Perl
15 2 (0.61%) Delphi
15 2 (0.61%) VB
15 2 (0.61%) VB6
Qualifications
1 63 (19.27%) Degree
2 37 (11.31%) Security Cleared
3 30 (9.17%) Master's Degree
4 21 (6.42%) SC Cleared
5 19 (5.81%) PhD
6 17 (5.20%) AWS Certification
7 14 (4.28%) Computer Science Degree
8 11 (3.36%) AWS Certified Developer
9 8 (2.45%) Azure Certification
9 8 (2.45%) DV Cleared
10 3 (0.92%) ISTQB
10 3 (0.92%) Postgraduate
11 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.31%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 1 (0.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.31%) JNCIP
12 1 (0.31%) LPIC
12 1 (0.31%) MCSE
12 1 (0.31%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.31%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (10.09%) QA
2 27 (8.26%) Accessibility
3 19 (5.81%) Data Quality
3 19 (5.81%) GxP
4 15 (4.59%) GDPR
5 13 (3.98%) WCAG
6 7 (2.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (1.22%) SLA
8 3 (0.92%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.61%) Def Stans
9 2 (0.61%) IEC 61508
9 2 (0.61%) ISO 26262
10 1 (0.31%) NCSC
10 1 (0.31%) NIST
System Software
1 83 (25.38%) Docker
2 11 (3.36%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.92%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.61%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.31%) Firmware
6 1 (0.31%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 159 (48.62%) Terraform
2 141 (43.12%) Kubernetes
3 86 (26.30%) Grafana
4 39 (11.93%) Ansible
5 23 (7.03%) Prometheus
6 10 (3.06%) Microsoft Intune
7 7 (2.14%) Argo
7 7 (2.14%) Jamf Pro
8 5 (1.53%) Nagios
9 4 (1.22%) logstash
9 4 (1.22%) Packer
10 3 (0.92%) Rancher
11 2 (0.61%) Istio
11 2 (0.61%) Puppet
11 2 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.31%) Functional Safety
12 1 (0.31%) SCCM
Vendors
1 33 (10.09%) Microsoft
2 14 (4.28%) OpenAI
3 12 (3.67%) Automation Anywhere
3 12 (3.67%) UiPath
4 10 (3.06%) Ab Initio
4 10 (3.06%) Splunk
5 9 (2.75%) Amplitude
5 9 (2.75%) Google
6 8 (2.45%) Databricks
6 8 (2.45%) Dynatrace
7 7 (2.14%) Red Hat
8 6 (1.83%) Cisco
8 6 (1.83%) Oracle
8 6 (1.83%) Salesforce
9 5 (1.53%) AppDynamics
9 5 (1.53%) Rapid7
9 5 (1.53%) VMware
10 4 (1.22%) Apple
10 4 (1.22%) IBM
10 4 (1.22%) Pega