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

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 409 462 474
Rank change year-on-year +53 +12 -76
Permanent jobs citing Deployment Automation 451 227 384
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.43% 0.46% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.58% 0.51% 0.57%
Number of salaries quoted 263 142 291
10th Percentile £44,612 £46,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £51,875 £51,250 £48,925
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £66,250 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.66% +1.92% -13.33%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £109,500 £97,500 £92,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £61,250 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.12% +2.08% -11.11%

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 77,301 44,356 67,625
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.63% 89.43% 81.01%
Number of salaries quoted 53,282 25,229 44,135
10th Percentile £30,750 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £48,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +13.40% -3.00% -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 7 August 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 7 August 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 +62 388 £70,000 +3.70% 242
UK excluding London +41 246 £65,000 +6.12% 132
Work from Home +42 171 £65,000 +4.00% 120
London +28 171 £85,000 +13.33% 133
North of England -2 80 £57,500 +16.16% 46
South East +18 61 £67,500 +1.89% 30
Midlands -15 37 £49,000 -18.33% 13
North West +3 33 £53,750 +16.85% 25
South West -38 33 £70,000 -2.77% 18
North East -28 25 £47,000 - 7
Yorkshire -12 22 £82,500 +20.44% 14
West Midlands -24 20 £50,000 -16.67% 7
Wales -54 18 £58,000 +19.59% 3
East Midlands -16 17 £42,500 -43.33% 6
Scotland +11 15 £68,750 -11.50% 12
East of England -25 4 £56,000 - 9
Northern Ireland - 1 £77,500 - 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 13 (2.88%) Confluence
2 9 (2.00%) Apache
2 9 (2.00%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.77%) nginx
4 7 (1.55%) Apache Spark
4 7 (1.55%) IIS
5 6 (1.33%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (1.11%) Camunda
7 4 (0.89%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (0.89%) SAS
8 2 (0.44%) Cloud Foundry
8 2 (0.44%) CMS
8 2 (0.44%) Luigi
9 1 (0.22%) Documentum
9 1 (0.22%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.22%) NServiceBus
9 1 (0.22%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (0.67%) SPSS
2 2 (0.44%) Trello
3 1 (0.22%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.22%) Magento
2 1 (0.22%) Misys Equation
2 1 (0.22%) Misys Midas
2 1 (0.22%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 248 (54.99%) AWS
2 228 (50.55%) Azure
3 130 (28.82%) GCP
4 105 (23.28%) Azure DevOps
5 71 (15.74%) GitHub
6 68 (15.08%) Amazon EKS
7 58 (12.86%) Serverless
8 57 (12.64%) SaaS
9 42 (9.31%) GitHub Actions
10 29 (6.43%) Power Platform
11 28 (6.21%) Datadog
12 27 (5.99%) Firebase
13 26 (5.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 25 (5.54%) Amazon S3
14 25 (5.54%) AWS CloudFormation
14 25 (5.54%) Microsoft 365
15 24 (5.32%) Amazon ECS
16 23 (5.10%) Azure Monitor
17 21 (4.66%) PaaS
18 19 (4.21%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 19 (4.21%) Firewall
2 17 (3.77%) DNS
3 12 (2.66%) VPN
4 8 (1.77%) MQTT
4 8 (1.77%) Network Security
5 6 (1.33%) DHCP
6 5 (1.11%) BGP
6 5 (1.11%) SSL
6 5 (1.11%) TCP/IP
6 5 (1.11%) Wi-Fi
7 4 (0.89%) Broadband
7 4 (0.89%) Kerberos
7 4 (0.89%) NAS
7 4 (0.89%) SSH
7 4 (0.89%) WAN
7 4 (0.89%) Wireless
8 3 (0.67%) LAN
8 3 (0.67%) PBX
8 3 (0.67%) Unified Communications
8 3 (0.67%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (9.98%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (7.54%) SQL Server
3 25 (5.54%) MongoDB
3 25 (5.54%) MySQL
4 21 (4.66%) Elasticsearch
5 20 (4.43%) Data Warehouse
6 19 (4.21%) NoSQL
7 17 (3.77%) Power BI
8 14 (3.10%) Amazon RDS
9 11 (2.44%) Spark SQL
10 10 (2.22%) Azure SQL Database
10 10 (2.22%) Metadata
11 9 (2.00%) Data Lake
11 9 (2.00%) Relational Database
12 7 (1.55%) Geospatial Data
13 6 (1.33%) Big Data
13 6 (1.33%) Delta Lake
13 6 (1.33%) DynamoDB
13 6 (1.33%) Redis
14 4 (0.89%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 97 (21.51%) Git
2 54 (11.97%) TeamCity
3 53 (11.75%) Jenkins
4 46 (10.20%) GitLab
5 33 (7.32%) JIRA
6 20 (4.43%) Crashlytics
7 16 (3.55%) Bitbucket
8 14 (3.10%) XCTest
9 13 (2.88%) fastlane
9 13 (2.88%) SonarQube
10 11 (2.44%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 11 (2.44%) Cucumber
11 8 (1.77%) JUnit
11 8 (1.77%) Mockito
11 8 (1.77%) Octopus Deploy
12 7 (1.55%) Artifactory
12 7 (1.55%) Claude Code
12 7 (1.55%) MSI
12 7 (1.55%) Xcode
13 6 (1.33%) JMeter
General
1 137 (30.38%) Social Skills
2 132 (29.27%) Finance
3 94 (20.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 90 (19.96%) Banking
5 69 (15.30%) Law
6 59 (13.08%) Analytical Skills
7 58 (12.86%) Retail
8 48 (10.64%) Financial Institution
9 43 (9.53%) Public Sector
10 40 (8.87%) Back Office
11 7 (1.55%) Manufacturing
11 7 (1.55%) Marketing
11 7 (1.55%) Organisational Skills
12 6 (1.33%) Aerospace
12 6 (1.33%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.89%) Mandarin Language
14 3 (0.67%) Front Office
14 3 (0.67%) Legal
14 3 (0.67%) Retail Banking
15 2 (0.44%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 90 (19.96%) Software Engineer
2 86 (19.07%) Lead
3 68 (15.08%) DevOps Engineer
4 65 (14.41%) Senior
5 63 (13.97%) Developer
6 36 (7.98%) Azure Engineer
7 31 (6.87%) Cloud Engineer
8 23 (5.10%) Lead Software Engineer
8 23 (5.10%) Platform Engineer
8 23 (5.10%) Senior Software Engineer
9 22 (4.88%) Data Engineer
10 21 (4.66%) Site Engineer
10 21 (4.66%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 19 (4.21%) Technical Leader
12 17 (3.77%) Java Engineer
13 16 (3.55%) Administrator
13 16 (3.55%) AWS Engineer
13 16 (3.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 16 (3.55%) Senior Developer
14 15 (3.33%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (10.20%) RESTful
2 45 (9.98%) REST
3 43 (9.53%) .NET
4 31 (6.87%) React
5 27 (5.99%) Kafka
6 21 (4.66%) SwiftUI
6 21 (4.66%) UIKit
7 19 (4.21%) Spring
8 18 (3.99%) Spring Boot
9 17 (3.77%) ARM Templates
9 17 (3.77%) CSS
10 16 (3.55%) Next.js
11 15 (3.33%) .NET Core
12 14 (3.10%) AngularJS
12 14 (3.10%) Node.js
13 13 (2.88%) Elastic Stack
13 13 (2.88%) HTML
13 13 (2.88%) LangChain
13 13 (2.88%) PySpark
14 12 (2.66%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 152 (33.70%) Cloud Native
2 74 (16.41%) Product Ownership
3 45 (9.98%) Distributed Systems
4 29 (6.43%) Mobile App
5 24 (5.32%) Onboarding
6 19 (4.21%) Legacy Systems
6 19 (4.21%) Life Science
7 17 (3.77%) Self-Motivation
8 15 (3.33%) Greenfield Project
9 14 (3.10%) Management Information System
10 13 (2.88%) Blog
11 12 (2.66%) AI Agents
11 12 (2.66%) Enterprise Software
12 11 (2.44%) Low-Code
13 10 (2.22%) Virtual Team
14 9 (2.00%) Hybrid Cloud
14 9 (2.00%) PKI
15 8 (1.77%) Linux Command Line
16 7 (1.55%) Data Centre
16 7 (1.55%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 83 (18.40%) Linux
2 64 (14.19%) Windows
3 33 (7.32%) Apple iOS
4 22 (4.88%) Windows Server
5 17 (3.77%) CentOS
6 13 (2.88%) Android
7 8 (1.77%) Mac OS
8 7 (1.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (1.33%) Ubuntu
9 6 (1.33%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.67%) Unix
11 2 (0.44%) Amazon Linux
11 2 (0.44%) Embedded Linux
11 2 (0.44%) Solaris
11 2 (0.44%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 353 (78.27%) CI/CD
2 269 (59.65%) DevOps
3 193 (42.79%) Test Automation
4 177 (39.25%) Infrastructure as Code
5 153 (33.92%) Software Engineering
6 147 (32.59%) Agile
7 122 (27.05%) Observability
8 119 (26.39%) Microservices
9 111 (24.61%) Containerisation
10 108 (23.95%) Continuous Improvement
11 102 (22.62%) AI
12 98 (21.73%) Mentoring
13 93 (20.62%) Clean Code
14 92 (20.40%) Problem-Solving
15 71 (15.74%) Analytics
16 67 (14.86%) Continuous Deployment
17 55 (12.20%) Machine Learning
18 52 (11.53%) Computer Science
19 49 (10.86%) User Experience
20 48 (10.64%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 185 (41.02%) Python
2 126 (27.94%) Java
3 74 (16.41%) SQL
4 69 (15.30%) PowerShell
5 54 (11.97%) Bash
6 48 (10.64%) C#
6 48 (10.64%) TypeScript
7 41 (9.09%) JavaScript
8 22 (4.88%) Kotlin
9 21 (4.66%) Bicep
9 21 (4.66%) Swift
10 12 (2.66%) Go
11 11 (2.44%) Rust
12 8 (1.77%) Groovy
13 7 (1.55%) Scala
13 7 (1.55%) Shell Script
14 6 (1.33%) C
14 6 (1.33%) C++
15 4 (0.89%) Perl
15 4 (0.89%) PHP
Qualifications
1 76 (16.85%) Security Cleared
2 57 (12.64%) Degree
3 45 (9.98%) SC Cleared
4 33 (7.32%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (3.55%) DV Cleared
6 12 (2.66%) AWS Certification
7 11 (2.44%) Azure Certification
8 10 (2.22%) Master's Degree
9 7 (1.55%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (0.89%) Postgraduate
11 3 (0.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 3 (0.67%) CCNP
11 3 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.44%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 2 (0.44%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.44%) PMP
13 1 (0.22%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 1 (0.22%) JNCIP
13 1 (0.22%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (14.41%) QA
2 38 (8.43%) Accessibility
3 28 (6.21%) WCAG
4 21 (4.66%) GDPR
5 16 (3.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (2.66%) Data Quality
6 12 (2.66%) SLA
7 10 (2.22%) NCSC
8 7 (1.55%) SOC 2
9 4 (0.89%) NIST
10 2 (0.44%) Def Stans
10 2 (0.44%) IEC 61508
10 2 (0.44%) IFRS
10 2 (0.44%) IFRS 17
10 2 (0.44%) ISO 26262
10 2 (0.44%) JTAG
10 2 (0.44%) PMO
10 2 (0.44%) Solvency II
11 1 (0.22%) GRC
System Software
1 118 (26.16%) Docker
2 22 (4.88%) Active Directory
3 10 (2.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.33%) Hyper-V
5 5 (1.11%) Firmware
5 5 (1.11%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.89%) vSphere
7 3 (0.67%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.22%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.22%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 199 (44.12%) Terraform
2 186 (41.24%) Kubernetes
3 114 (25.28%) Grafana
4 87 (19.29%) Ansible
5 38 (8.43%) Prometheus
6 12 (2.66%) Argo
6 12 (2.66%) Microsoft Intune
7 11 (2.44%) Nagios
7 11 (2.44%) Puppet
8 10 (2.22%) Jamf Pro
9 6 (1.33%) SCCM
10 5 (1.11%) Progress Chef
11 4 (0.89%) Packer
11 4 (0.89%) Single Sign-On
12 3 (0.67%) cPanel
12 3 (0.67%) Docker Swarm
12 3 (0.67%) Plesk
12 3 (0.67%) Podman
12 3 (0.67%) SCOM
12 3 (0.67%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 80 (17.74%) Microsoft
2 36 (7.98%) Dynatrace
3 28 (6.21%) Google
4 21 (4.66%) Databricks
5 19 (4.21%) Splunk
6 16 (3.55%) Red Hat
7 15 (3.33%) VMware
8 14 (3.10%) Amplitude
8 14 (3.10%) Braze
8 14 (3.10%) Salesforce
9 11 (2.44%) Apple
9 11 (2.44%) OpenAI
9 11 (2.44%) Rapid7
10 7 (1.55%) AppDynamics
10 7 (1.55%) Atlassian
11 6 (1.33%) IBM
11 6 (1.33%) Oracle
12 5 (1.11%) ServiceNow
13 4 (0.89%) Cisco
13 4 (0.89%) Dell