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

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 399 383 490
Rank change year-on-year -16 +107 -59
Permanent jobs citing Deployment Automation 354 285 432
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.40% 0.68% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% 0.73% 0.53%
Number of salaries quoted 165 229 333
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,000 £45,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £57,500 £55,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £75,000 £68,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +10.29% -12.26%
75th Percentile £85,000 £97,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £98,250 £131,750 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £63,750 £62,500 £61,500
% change year-on-year +2.00% +1.63% -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 66,205 38,927 81,426
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 75.18% 92.83% 85.82%
Number of salaries quoted 40,871 22,769 59,504
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -8.90%

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 23 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 23 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 -3 318 £70,000 -6.67% 130
UK excluding London +12 198 £63,750 +2.00% 103
Work from Home +35 155 £60,000 -4.00% 82
London -22 142 £80,000 -11.11% 60
South East +13 73 £67,500 +22.73% 43
North of England -49 57 £68,789 +31.03% 8
Yorkshire -39 30 £63,750 +28.79% 1
North West -31 22 £73,000 +19.18% 4
Scotland -15 20 £55,000 -27.02% 10
Midlands -35 19 £48,000 -23.20% 8
South West -44 15 £60,000 -16.66% 14
East Midlands - 12 £37,500 - 4
Wales -15 8 £61,248 -
East of England -30 8 £76,250 +1.67% 22
West Midlands -36 7 £48,000 -23.20% 4
North East - 5 £58,789 - 3
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 12 (3.39%) Appian
2 7 (1.98%) Apache
3 5 (1.41%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (1.41%) Apache Spark
3 5 (1.41%) IIS
4 4 (1.13%) Confluence
4 4 (1.13%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.85%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.56%) BizTalk Server
6 2 (0.56%) SAS
7 1 (0.28%) CMS
7 1 (0.28%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.28%) nginx
7 1 (0.28%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (0.85%) SPSS
2 2 (0.56%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.56%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.28%) Misys Equation
2 1 (0.28%) Misys Midas
2 1 (0.28%) Oracle SCM
2 1 (0.28%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 189 (53.39%) AWS
2 167 (47.18%) Azure
3 82 (23.16%) Azure DevOps
4 76 (21.47%) GCP
5 73 (20.62%) GitHub
6 70 (19.77%) Amazon EKS
7 67 (18.93%) Serverless
8 63 (17.80%) GitHub Actions
9 46 (12.99%) SaaS
10 38 (10.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 38 (10.73%) Azure Logic Apps
11 36 (10.17%) Amazon S3
11 36 (10.17%) AWS Lambda
12 32 (9.04%) Power Platform
13 31 (8.76%) Azure Data Factory
14 27 (7.63%) Azure Monitor
15 26 (7.34%) AWS CloudFormation
16 20 (5.65%) Amazon EC2
17 19 (5.37%) Amazon SQS
17 19 (5.37%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 18 (5.08%) Firewall
2 9 (2.54%) DNS
3 8 (2.26%) SSL
4 5 (1.41%) VPN
5 4 (1.13%) Broadband
5 4 (1.13%) MQTT
5 4 (1.13%) Network Security
5 4 (1.13%) SSH
6 3 (0.85%) DHCP
6 3 (0.85%) DMZ
7 2 (0.56%) BGP
7 2 (0.56%) Intrusion Detection
7 2 (0.56%) SAN
8 1 (0.28%) Ethernet VPN
8 1 (0.28%) HTTP
8 1 (0.28%) NetScaler
8 1 (0.28%) SNMP
8 1 (0.28%) VXLAN
8 1 (0.28%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (11.02%) SQL Server
2 33 (9.32%) PostgreSQL
3 23 (6.50%) DynamoDB
3 23 (6.50%) NoSQL
4 15 (4.24%) MySQL
5 14 (3.95%) Amazon Aurora
5 14 (3.95%) Pinecone
6 13 (3.67%) Amazon RDS
6 13 (3.67%) Elasticsearch
7 12 (3.39%) MongoDB
7 12 (3.39%) Power BI
8 9 (2.54%) Data Warehouse
9 7 (1.98%) Spark SQL
10 6 (1.69%) Metadata
10 6 (1.69%) Relational Database
11 3 (0.85%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (0.85%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (0.85%) CockroachDB
11 3 (0.85%) Neo4j
11 3 (0.85%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 67 (18.93%) Git
2 49 (13.84%) TeamCity
3 40 (11.30%) GitLab
3 40 (11.30%) Jenkins
4 18 (5.08%) JIRA
5 13 (3.67%) MLflow
6 12 (3.39%) Crashlytics
7 11 (3.11%) XCTest
8 10 (2.82%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 10 (2.82%) Bitbucket
8 10 (2.82%) Cucumber
9 9 (2.54%) SonarQube
10 8 (2.26%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 6 (1.69%) Artifactory
11 6 (1.69%) JMeter
12 5 (1.41%) Gradle
12 5 (1.41%) Locust
12 5 (1.41%) Storybook
13 4 (1.13%) JUnit
13 4 (1.13%) NUnit
General
1 117 (33.05%) Finance
2 106 (29.94%) Social Skills
3 63 (17.80%) Banking
4 59 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 50 (14.12%) Law
6 49 (13.84%) Retail
7 37 (10.45%) Analytical Skills
8 31 (8.76%) Back Office
8 31 (8.76%) Financial Institution
9 15 (4.24%) Pharmaceutical
10 12 (3.39%) Public Sector
11 7 (1.98%) Aerospace
12 6 (1.69%) Retail Banking
13 5 (1.41%) Marketing
14 4 (1.13%) Mandarin Language
14 4 (1.13%) Organisational Skills
15 3 (0.85%) Front Office
16 2 (0.56%) Advertising
16 2 (0.56%) Automotive
16 2 (0.56%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 74 (20.90%) Lead
2 58 (16.38%) Developer
3 47 (13.28%) Software Engineer
4 46 (12.99%) Senior
5 33 (9.32%) DevOps Engineer
6 24 (6.78%) Cloud Engineer
7 23 (6.50%) AWS Engineer
8 22 (6.21%) Azure Engineer
9 21 (5.93%) Platform Engineer
10 20 (5.65%) Java Engineer
11 18 (5.08%) Lead Software Engineer
12 17 (4.80%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 16 (4.52%) Power Platform Developer
14 15 (4.24%) Integration Engineer
14 15 (4.24%) Java Software Engineer
15 14 (3.95%) Data Engineer
16 13 (3.67%) Automation Engineer
16 13 (3.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 12 (3.39%) .NET Developer
17 12 (3.39%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (13.84%) RESTful
2 41 (11.58%) .NET
3 39 (11.02%) REST
4 36 (10.17%) React
5 31 (8.76%) OAuth
6 26 (7.34%) .NET Core
7 21 (5.93%) JSON
8 19 (5.37%) OAuth2
9 17 (4.80%) JWT
9 17 (4.80%) Web Services
10 16 (4.52%) ASP.NET
10 16 (4.52%) AWS CDK
10 16 (4.52%) FastAPI
11 15 (4.24%) NumPy
11 15 (4.24%) Pandas
11 15 (4.24%) PyTorch
11 15 (4.24%) scikit-learn
11 15 (4.24%) TensorFlow
12 14 (3.95%) Flask
12 14 (3.95%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 92 (25.99%) Cloud Native
2 42 (11.86%) Low-Code
3 28 (7.91%) Life Science
4 27 (7.63%) Product Ownership
5 18 (5.08%) Distributed Systems
6 17 (4.80%) Legacy Systems
7 16 (4.52%) Blog
8 14 (3.95%) Mobile App
9 13 (3.67%) Greenfield Project
10 12 (3.39%) Onboarding
11 11 (3.11%) Hackathon
11 11 (3.11%) Management Information System
12 9 (2.54%) Hybrid Cloud
12 9 (2.54%) PKI
13 7 (1.98%) Public Cloud
14 6 (1.69%) Cyberattack
15 5 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
15 5 (1.41%) Linux Command Line
15 5 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
16 4 (1.13%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 56 (15.82%) Linux
2 30 (8.47%) Windows
3 21 (5.93%) Apple iOS
4 16 (4.52%) Windows Server
5 10 (2.82%) CentOS
6 6 (1.69%) Mac OS
6 6 (1.69%) VMS
7 5 (1.41%) Android
7 5 (1.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (1.41%) Ubuntu
8 4 (1.13%) Unix
9 2 (0.56%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.28%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 266 (75.14%) CI/CD
2 187 (52.82%) DevOps
3 160 (45.20%) Test Automation
4 135 (38.14%) Infrastructure as Code
5 116 (32.77%) Agile
6 86 (24.29%) Containerisation
7 80 (22.60%) Microservices
8 77 (21.75%) Analytics
9 76 (21.47%) Clean Code
9 76 (21.47%) Problem-Solving
10 75 (21.19%) Observability
11 70 (19.77%) Continuous Improvement
12 68 (19.21%) Software Engineering
13 64 (18.08%) AI
14 59 (16.67%) Continuous Deployment
15 53 (14.97%) Machine Learning
16 52 (14.69%) Computer Science
17 47 (13.28%) Cybersecurity
18 42 (11.86%) Root Cause Analysis
19 41 (11.58%) Disruptive Innovation
Programming Languages
1 147 (41.53%) Python
2 81 (22.88%) Java
3 79 (22.32%) SQL
4 49 (13.84%) PowerShell
5 46 (12.99%) Bash
6 42 (11.86%) JavaScript
7 40 (11.30%) C#
8 29 (8.19%) Bicep
9 27 (7.63%) TypeScript
10 14 (3.95%) Kotlin
11 12 (3.39%) Swift
12 8 (2.26%) Kusto Query Language
12 8 (2.26%) Rust
13 7 (1.98%) Groovy
13 7 (1.98%) Shell Script
14 6 (1.69%) Go
15 4 (1.13%) Perl
16 3 (0.85%) PHP
16 3 (0.85%) VB
17 2 (0.56%) RPG
Qualifications
1 65 (18.36%) Degree
2 46 (12.99%) Security Cleared
3 26 (7.34%) Master's Degree
4 25 (7.06%) SC Cleared
5 20 (5.65%) Computer Science Degree
6 17 (4.80%) AWS Certification
7 15 (4.24%) PhD
8 12 (3.39%) DV Cleared
9 11 (3.11%) AWS Certified Developer
10 9 (2.54%) Azure Certification
11 4 (1.13%) Postgraduate
12 3 (0.85%) ISTQB
12 3 (0.85%) PMI Certification
12 3 (0.85%) PMP
13 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
14 1 (0.28%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 1 (0.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 1 (0.28%) JNCIP
14 1 (0.28%) LPIC
14 1 (0.28%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (10.45%) QA
2 26 (7.34%) Accessibility
3 20 (5.65%) Data Quality
4 19 (5.37%) GDPR
5 15 (4.24%) GxP
6 12 (3.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (3.39%) WCAG
7 7 (1.98%) SLA
8 5 (1.41%) SOC 2
9 4 (1.13%) NIST
10 2 (0.56%) Def Stans
10 2 (0.56%) IEC 61508
10 2 (0.56%) ISO 26262
10 2 (0.56%) PMO
11 1 (0.28%) IFRS
11 1 (0.28%) IFRS 17
11 1 (0.28%) NCSC
11 1 (0.28%) Solvency II
System Software
1 95 (26.84%) Docker
2 15 (4.24%) Active Directory
3 8 (2.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.85%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.56%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.28%) Firmware
6 1 (0.28%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 169 (47.74%) Terraform
2 147 (41.53%) Kubernetes
3 85 (24.01%) Grafana
4 47 (13.28%) Ansible
5 26 (7.34%) Prometheus
6 12 (3.39%) Microsoft Intune
7 8 (2.26%) Argo
7 8 (2.26%) Jamf Pro
8 5 (1.41%) Nagios
8 5 (1.41%) SCCM
9 4 (1.13%) logstash
9 4 (1.13%) Packer
9 4 (1.13%) Rancher
10 3 (0.85%) SCOM
10 3 (0.85%) SCOrch
11 2 (0.56%) Istio
11 2 (0.56%) Puppet
11 2 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.28%) Functional Safety
12 1 (0.28%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 50 (14.12%) Microsoft
2 16 (4.52%) OpenAI
3 13 (3.67%) Automation Anywhere
3 13 (3.67%) UiPath
4 12 (3.39%) Databricks
4 12 (3.39%) Google
5 11 (3.11%) Amplitude
5 11 (3.11%) Braze
6 10 (2.82%) Splunk
7 9 (2.54%) Ab Initio
7 9 (2.54%) VMware
8 8 (2.26%) Dynatrace
9 7 (1.98%) Red Hat
10 6 (1.69%) AppDynamics
10 6 (1.69%) Cisco
10 6 (1.69%) IBM
10 6 (1.69%) Salesforce
11 5 (1.41%) Oracle
11 5 (1.41%) Rapid7
12 4 (1.13%) Apple