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

6 months to
16 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 381 481 442
Rank change year-on-year +100 -39 -67
Permanent jobs citing Deployment Automation 548 191 336
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.46% 0.39% 0.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.63% 0.44% 0.58%
Number of salaries quoted 291 89 223
10th Percentile £45,000 £48,250 £44,410
25th Percentile £56,125 £57,500 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £66,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +12.78% -5.00%
75th Percentile £86,250 £85,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £96,250 £89,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £68,500 £56,750
% change year-on-year -5.11% +20.70% -9.20%

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 87,497 43,445 57,940
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.45% 88.84% 82.20%
Number of salaries quoted 59,802 24,607 31,056
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,250 £33,099
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £44,541
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £78,000 £75,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year +17.02% -11.32% -1.85%

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 16 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Deployment Automation in the UK

Deployment Automation
Top 16 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 16 October 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 +92 442 £70,000 -6.67% 437
UK excluding London -6 264 £65,000 -5.11% 242
London +59 216 £82,500 +3.13% 216
Work from Home +80 200 £65,000 -15.82% 184
North of England +2 91 £62,500 -16.67% 63
South West -20 55 £75,000 -6.25% 41
North East -29 44 £60,000 -22.30% 12
South East -43 39 £65,000 -21.21% 62
North West -10 32 £57,500 -24.45% 32
Midlands -32 31 £56,250 -10.00% 23
Wales -61 28 £52,500 +8.25% 4
Yorkshire -19 24 £70,000 +2.19% 19
East Midlands -26 17 £61,250 -18.33% 7
Scotland -10 15 £75,000 -4.59% 28
West Midlands -41 14 £51,250 -14.58% 16
East of England -43 6 £56,000 - 12

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 18 (3.28%) Confluence
2 16 (2.92%) Apache
3 14 (2.55%) nginx
4 13 (2.37%) Apache Spark
5 12 (2.19%) SharePoint
6 11 (2.01%) Apache Airflow
7 8 (1.46%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (1.09%) IIS
9 5 (0.91%) Camunda
10 4 (0.73%) SAS
11 3 (0.55%) Jupyter
12 2 (0.36%) Cloud Foundry
12 2 (0.36%) Luigi
13 1 (0.18%) CMS
13 1 (0.18%) Documentum
13 1 (0.18%) JBoss
13 1 (0.18%) NServiceBus
13 1 (0.18%) OpenStack
13 1 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (0.18%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 4 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.36%) Maximo
3 1 (0.18%) Magento
3 1 (0.18%) Misys Equation
3 1 (0.18%) Misys Midas
3 1 (0.18%) Primavera
3 1 (0.18%) Siebel CRM
3 1 (0.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 309 (56.39%) AWS
2 291 (53.10%) Azure
3 194 (35.40%) GCP
4 129 (23.54%) Azure DevOps
5 93 (16.97%) GitHub
6 92 (16.79%) Amazon EKS
7 72 (13.14%) SaaS
8 55 (10.04%) Serverless
9 46 (8.39%) GitHub Actions
10 44 (8.03%) AWS CloudFormation
11 37 (6.75%) Power Platform
12 34 (6.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 30 (5.47%) Amazon ECS
14 29 (5.29%) Entra ID
14 29 (5.29%) Microsoft 365
15 26 (4.74%) Azure Monitor
16 25 (4.56%) Amazon S3
16 25 (4.56%) Azure Functions
17 20 (3.65%) OpenShift
18 19 (3.47%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 22 (4.01%) DNS
2 19 (3.47%) VPN
3 17 (3.10%) Firewall
4 8 (1.46%) Network Security
5 7 (1.28%) DHCP
5 7 (1.28%) SD-WAN
5 7 (1.28%) TCP/IP
5 7 (1.28%) WAN
5 7 (1.28%) Wireless
6 6 (1.09%) BGP
6 6 (1.09%) LAN
6 6 (1.09%) OSPF
6 6 (1.09%) SSL
6 6 (1.09%) Wi-Fi
7 5 (0.91%) MQTT
7 5 (0.91%) SSH
8 4 (0.73%) Broadband
8 4 (0.73%) Kerberos
8 4 (0.73%) NAS
8 4 (0.73%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (11.86%) PostgreSQL
2 44 (8.03%) SQL Server
3 33 (6.02%) MongoDB
4 31 (5.66%) MySQL
5 30 (5.47%) NoSQL
6 25 (4.56%) Power BI
7 19 (3.47%) Data Lake
8 18 (3.28%) Data Warehouse
9 17 (3.10%) Amazon RDS
9 17 (3.10%) Elasticsearch
9 17 (3.10%) Relational Database
10 16 (2.92%) Azure SQL Database
11 13 (2.37%) Metadata
12 8 (1.46%) Big Data
12 8 (1.46%) Redis
13 7 (1.28%) Geospatial Data
13 7 (1.28%) Spark SQL
14 6 (1.09%) Delta Lake
15 5 (0.91%) DocumentDB
15 5 (0.91%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 107 (19.53%) Git
2 75 (13.69%) TeamCity
3 68 (12.41%) Jenkins
4 67 (12.23%) GitLab
5 33 (6.02%) JIRA
6 17 (3.10%) Bitbucket
7 11 (2.01%) fastlane
8 9 (1.64%) Claude Code
8 9 (1.64%) Crashlytics
8 9 (1.64%) JUnit
9 8 (1.46%) Mockito
9 8 (1.46%) Octopus Deploy
10 7 (1.28%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 7 (1.28%) MSI
10 7 (1.28%) SonarQube
11 6 (1.09%) Artifactory
11 6 (1.09%) Xcode
12 5 (0.91%) Android Studio
12 5 (0.91%) Maven
12 5 (0.91%) Selenium
General
1 167 (30.47%) Finance
2 153 (27.92%) Social Skills
3 121 (22.08%) Banking
4 120 (21.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 90 (16.42%) Law
6 86 (15.69%) Public Sector
7 85 (15.51%) Analytical Skills
8 76 (13.87%) Retail
9 62 (11.31%) Financial Institution
10 55 (10.04%) Back Office
11 10 (1.82%) Marketing
12 8 (1.46%) Manufacturing
13 7 (1.28%) Telecoms
14 6 (1.09%) Police
15 5 (0.91%) Organisational Skills
16 4 (0.73%) Documentation Skills
16 4 (0.73%) Legal
17 3 (0.55%) Aerospace
17 3 (0.55%) Military
17 3 (0.55%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 126 (22.99%) Software Engineer
2 113 (20.62%) Senior
3 107 (19.53%) DevOps Engineer
4 82 (14.96%) Developer
5 81 (14.78%) Lead
6 42 (7.66%) Cloud Engineer
7 38 (6.93%) Senior Software Engineer
8 35 (6.39%) Azure Engineer
9 29 (5.29%) Data Engineer
10 27 (4.93%) Platform Engineer
11 25 (4.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 25 (4.56%) Java Engineer
12 24 (4.38%) Lead Software Engineer
12 24 (4.38%) Senior Developer
13 22 (4.01%) Architect
14 21 (3.83%) AWS Engineer
14 21 (3.83%) Java Software Engineer
14 21 (3.83%) Senior Java Engineer
15 20 (3.65%) Automation Engineer
15 20 (3.65%) Software Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 277 (50.55%) Terraform
2 63 (11.50%) RESTful
3 58 (10.58%) .NET
4 54 (9.85%) REST
5 41 (7.48%) Kafka
5 41 (7.48%) React
6 25 (4.56%) LangChain
6 25 (4.56%) Spring
7 24 (4.38%) Spring Boot
8 20 (3.65%) AngularJS
8 20 (3.65%) Node.js
8 20 (3.65%) Web Services
9 18 (3.28%) CSS
9 18 (3.28%) Hibernate
9 18 (3.28%) JPA
10 16 (2.92%) PyTorch
10 16 (2.92%) scikit-learn
10 16 (2.92%) TensorFlow
11 15 (2.74%) LangGraph
11 15 (2.74%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 224 (40.88%) Cloud Native
2 110 (20.07%) Product Ownership
3 58 (10.58%) Distributed Systems
4 40 (7.30%) Onboarding
5 34 (6.20%) Enterprise Software
6 28 (5.11%) Self-Motivation
7 24 (4.38%) AI Agents
8 21 (3.83%) Legacy Systems
9 18 (3.28%) Blog
9 18 (3.28%) Management Information System
9 18 (3.28%) Virtual Team
10 17 (3.10%) Mobile App
11 12 (2.19%) Life Science
12 10 (1.82%) Data Centre
13 9 (1.64%) Hybrid Cloud
14 8 (1.46%) Private Cloud
14 8 (1.46%) Replication
15 7 (1.28%) Enterprise Cloud
15 7 (1.28%) Public Cloud
15 7 (1.28%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 85 (15.51%) Linux
2 53 (9.67%) Windows
3 15 (2.74%) Windows Server
4 13 (2.37%) Apple iOS
5 11 (2.01%) CentOS
6 8 (1.46%) Android
7 7 (1.28%) Unix
8 5 (0.91%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.55%) Windows 10
10 2 (0.36%) Amazon Linux
10 2 (0.36%) Embedded Linux
10 2 (0.36%) macOS
10 2 (0.36%) Solaris
10 2 (0.36%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 460 (83.94%) CI/CD
2 373 (68.07%) DevOps
3 244 (44.53%) Infrastructure as Code
4 236 (43.07%) Test Automation
5 223 (40.69%) Software Engineering
6 193 (35.22%) Agile
7 166 (30.29%) Observability
8 163 (29.74%) Continuous Improvement
9 154 (28.10%) AI
10 150 (27.37%) Microservices
11 149 (27.19%) Mentoring
12 144 (26.28%) Problem-Solving
13 136 (24.82%) Containerisation
14 111 (20.26%) Clean Code
15 97 (17.70%) Technical Leadership
16 80 (14.60%) Continuous Deployment
17 77 (14.05%) Analytics
18 73 (13.32%) Platform Engineering
19 67 (12.23%) Software Delivery
20 66 (12.04%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 202 (36.86%) Python
2 149 (27.19%) Java
3 92 (16.79%) SQL
4 72 (13.14%) PowerShell
5 62 (11.31%) C#
6 61 (11.13%) TypeScript
7 54 (9.85%) Bash
8 51 (9.31%) JavaScript
9 31 (5.66%) Bicep
10 14 (2.55%) Go
11 12 (2.19%) Kotlin
12 11 (2.01%) C++
13 10 (1.82%) Scala
13 10 (1.82%) Swift
14 8 (1.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 7 (1.28%) Rust
16 6 (1.09%) C
17 5 (0.91%) Apex Code
17 5 (0.91%) PHP
18 4 (0.73%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 111 (20.26%) Security Cleared
2 80 (14.60%) SC Cleared
3 46 (8.39%) Degree
4 34 (6.20%) Computer Science Degree
5 31 (5.66%) Azure Certification
6 25 (4.56%) AWS Certification
7 16 (2.92%) BPSS Clearance
8 15 (2.74%) DV Cleared
9 8 (1.46%) Master's Degree
9 8 (1.46%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (1.09%) TOGAF Certification
11 5 (0.91%) CCNP
11 5 (0.91%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (0.73%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 3 (0.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 2 (0.36%) ISTQB
14 2 (0.36%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 2 (0.36%) PMI Certification
15 1 (0.18%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 1 (0.18%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (11.50%) QA
2 32 (5.84%) Accessibility
3 27 (4.93%) Data Quality
4 22 (4.01%) WCAG
5 16 (2.92%) NCSC
6 15 (2.74%) GDPR
7 13 (2.37%) SLA
8 11 (2.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 4 (0.73%) NIST
10 3 (0.55%) GRC
11 2 (0.36%) JTAG
11 2 (0.36%) PMO
11 2 (0.36%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.18%) IFRS
12 1 (0.18%) IFRS 17
12 1 (0.18%) Solvency II
System Software
1 141 (25.73%) Docker
2 22 (4.01%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.46%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (1.28%) Virtual Desktop
5 6 (1.09%) Firmware
5 6 (1.09%) Hyper-V
5 6 (1.09%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.73%) vSphere
7 1 (0.18%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.18%) NDS
7 1 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.18%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 232 (42.34%) Kubernetes
2 146 (26.64%) Grafana
3 81 (14.78%) Ansible
4 48 (8.76%) Prometheus
5 13 (2.37%) Argo
6 11 (2.01%) Microsoft Intune
6 11 (2.01%) Puppet
7 9 (1.64%) Nagios
8 6 (1.09%) Progress Chef
9 4 (0.73%) SCCM
10 3 (0.55%) Control-M
10 3 (0.55%) cPanel
10 3 (0.55%) Docker Swarm
10 3 (0.55%) Istio
10 3 (0.55%) Plesk
10 3 (0.55%) Podman
10 3 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.36%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.36%) kaniko
11 2 (0.36%) Rancher
Vendors
1 109 (19.89%) Microsoft
2 46 (8.39%) Dynatrace
3 30 (5.47%) Google
4 28 (5.11%) Splunk
5 22 (4.01%) Databricks
6 19 (3.47%) Salesforce
7 16 (2.92%) Red Hat
8 13 (2.37%) Oracle
9 12 (2.19%) OpenAI
10 11 (2.01%) VMware
11 9 (1.64%) Rapid7
12 8 (1.46%) Atlassian
12 8 (1.46%) Fortinet
12 8 (1.46%) ServiceNow
13 7 (1.28%) Apple
14 5 (0.91%) Cisco
14 5 (0.91%) Confluent
15 4 (0.73%) Braze
15 4 (0.73%) NVIDIA
15 4 (0.73%) Tenable