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

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 407 482 452
Rank change year-on-year +75 -30 -45
Permanent jobs citing Deployment Automation 451 211 377
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.42% 0.42% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.57% 0.47% 0.56%
Number of salaries quoted 263 129 283
10th Percentile £45,615 £46,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £62,783
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +3.53% -16.29%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £112,000 £96,500 £91,950
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% - -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 78,793 44,552 66,983
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.35% 89.17% 80.87%
Number of salaries quoted 54,339 25,245 43,003
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,750 £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 £96,650 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -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 18 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 18 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 +79 383 £70,000 +2.19% 125
UK excluding London +34 246 £65,000 +8.33% 101
London +30 169 £85,000 +13.33% 43
Work from Home +50 161 £65,000 +4.00% 70
North of England +15 82 £61,250 +28.27% 32
South East +11 54 £65,000 -18.75% 26
South West -35 38 £70,000 -9.68% 18
Midlands -15 35 £51,250 -14.58% 13
North West +13 32 £55,000 +19.57% 18
North East -33 28 £47,500 - 6
Yorkshire -18 22 £82,500 +20.44% 8
Wales -54 20 £58,000 +19.59% 3
West Midlands -16 19 £51,250 -14.58% 11
East Midlands -13 16 £52,500 -30.00% 2
Scotland -6 15 £75,000 -6.25% 4
East of England -27 4 £56,000 - 9
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 13 (2.88%) Confluence
2 11 (2.44%) Apache
3 10 (2.22%) SharePoint
4 9 (2.00%) Apache Spark
5 8 (1.77%) nginx
6 7 (1.55%) IIS
7 6 (1.33%) Apache Airflow
8 5 (1.11%) Camunda
9 4 (0.89%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.89%) SAS
10 2 (0.44%) Cloud Foundry
10 2 (0.44%) CMS
10 2 (0.44%) Luigi
11 1 (0.22%) Documentum
11 1 (0.22%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.22%) NServiceBus
11 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
1 251 (55.65%) AWS
2 231 (51.22%) Azure
3 130 (28.82%) GCP
4 103 (22.84%) Azure DevOps
5 70 (15.52%) GitHub
6 63 (13.97%) Amazon EKS
7 55 (12.20%) Serverless
8 53 (11.75%) SaaS
9 41 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
10 30 (6.65%) Datadog
11 28 (6.21%) Power Platform
12 27 (5.99%) AWS CloudFormation
12 27 (5.99%) Microsoft 365
13 25 (5.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 25 (5.54%) Amazon ECS
13 25 (5.54%) Firebase
14 24 (5.32%) Amazon S3
15 23 (5.10%) Azure Monitor
15 23 (5.10%) PaaS
16 19 (4.21%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 18 (3.99%) Firewall
2 17 (3.77%) DNS
3 12 (2.66%) VPN
4 7 (1.55%) Network Security
5 6 (1.33%) DHCP
5 6 (1.33%) MQTT
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%) Wireless
8 3 (0.67%) LAN
8 3 (0.67%) PBX
8 3 (0.67%) Unified Communications
8 3 (0.67%) VoIP
8 3 (0.67%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (9.76%) PostgreSQL
2 33 (7.32%) SQL Server
3 27 (5.99%) MySQL
4 26 (5.76%) MongoDB
5 21 (4.66%) Elasticsearch
6 20 (4.43%) Data Warehouse
6 20 (4.43%) NoSQL
7 18 (3.99%) Power BI
8 15 (3.33%) Amazon RDS
9 12 (2.66%) Data Lake
10 11 (2.44%) Spark SQL
11 10 (2.22%) Azure SQL Database
11 10 (2.22%) Metadata
12 9 (2.00%) Relational Database
13 8 (1.77%) Big Data
14 7 (1.55%) DynamoDB
14 7 (1.55%) Geospatial Data
15 6 (1.33%) Delta Lake
15 6 (1.33%) Redis
16 5 (1.11%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 95 (21.06%) Git
2 54 (11.97%) Jenkins
3 47 (10.42%) TeamCity
4 45 (9.98%) GitLab
5 33 (7.32%) JIRA
6 18 (3.99%) Crashlytics
7 15 (3.33%) Bitbucket
8 13 (2.88%) fastlane
8 13 (2.88%) SonarQube
9 12 (2.66%) XCTest
10 11 (2.44%) Cucumber
11 10 (2.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 8 (1.77%) JUnit
12 8 (1.77%) Mockito
12 8 (1.77%) Octopus Deploy
13 7 (1.55%) Artifactory
13 7 (1.55%) Claude Code
13 7 (1.55%) MSI
13 7 (1.55%) Xcode
14 6 (1.33%) JMeter
General
1 133 (29.49%) Social Skills
2 132 (29.27%) Finance
3 92 (20.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 84 (18.63%) Banking
5 65 (14.41%) Law
6 61 (13.53%) Analytical Skills
7 51 (11.31%) Retail
8 47 (10.42%) Public Sector
9 45 (9.98%) Financial Institution
10 37 (8.20%) Back Office
11 10 (2.22%) Marketing
12 7 (1.55%) Manufacturing
13 6 (1.33%) Aerospace
13 6 (1.33%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (1.33%) Telecoms
14 4 (0.89%) Mandarin Language
15 3 (0.67%) Front Office
15 3 (0.67%) Legal
16 2 (0.44%) Electronics
16 2 (0.44%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 87 (19.29%) Lead
2 85 (18.85%) Software Engineer
3 75 (16.63%) DevOps Engineer
4 66 (14.63%) Senior
5 62 (13.75%) Developer
6 36 (7.98%) Azure Engineer
6 36 (7.98%) Cloud Engineer
7 26 (5.76%) Data Engineer
8 22 (4.88%) Platform Engineer
8 22 (4.88%) Senior Software Engineer
8 22 (4.88%) Site Engineer
8 22 (4.88%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 20 (4.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 19 (4.21%) Lead Software Engineer
10 19 (4.21%) Technical Leader
11 17 (3.77%) AWS Engineer
12 16 (3.55%) Administrator
12 16 (3.55%) Automation Engineer
12 16 (3.55%) Java Engineer
13 15 (3.33%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (10.42%) RESTful
2 45 (9.98%) REST
3 40 (8.87%) .NET
4 28 (6.21%) React
5 27 (5.99%) Kafka
6 20 (4.43%) Spring
7 19 (4.21%) Spring Boot
7 19 (4.21%) SwiftUI
7 19 (4.21%) UIKit
8 17 (3.77%) ARM Templates
8 17 (3.77%) CSS
9 16 (3.55%) Next.js
10 15 (3.33%) LangChain
11 14 (3.10%) .NET Core
11 14 (3.10%) Node.js
11 14 (3.10%) PySpark
12 13 (2.88%) AngularJS
12 13 (2.88%) Elastic Stack
12 13 (2.88%) HTML
13 12 (2.66%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 148 (32.82%) Cloud Native
2 75 (16.63%) Product Ownership
3 47 (10.42%) Distributed Systems
4 27 (5.99%) Mobile App
4 27 (5.99%) Onboarding
5 18 (3.99%) Legacy Systems
5 18 (3.99%) Life Science
5 18 (3.99%) Self-Motivation
6 14 (3.10%) AI Agents
6 14 (3.10%) Management Information System
7 13 (2.88%) Enterprise Software
7 13 (2.88%) Greenfield Project
8 12 (2.66%) Virtual Team
9 9 (2.00%) Blog
9 9 (2.00%) Hybrid Cloud
10 8 (1.77%) Linux Command Line
10 8 (1.77%) Low-Code
10 8 (1.77%) PKI
11 7 (1.55%) Public Cloud
11 7 (1.55%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 83 (18.40%) Linux
2 62 (13.75%) Windows
3 30 (6.65%) Apple iOS
4 21 (4.66%) Windows Server
5 17 (3.77%) CentOS
6 12 (2.66%) Android
7 7 (1.55%) Mac OS
7 7 (1.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (1.33%) Ubuntu
8 6 (1.33%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.67%) Unix
10 2 (0.44%) Amazon Linux
10 2 (0.44%) Embedded Linux
10 2 (0.44%) Solaris
11 1 (0.22%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 353 (78.27%) CI/CD
2 277 (61.42%) DevOps
3 191 (42.35%) Infrastructure as Code
4 188 (41.69%) Test Automation
5 154 (34.15%) Software Engineering
6 151 (33.48%) Agile
7 132 (29.27%) Observability
8 118 (26.16%) AI
9 114 (25.28%) Containerisation
9 114 (25.28%) Microservices
10 110 (24.39%) Continuous Improvement
11 102 (22.62%) Mentoring
12 95 (21.06%) Problem-Solving
13 85 (18.85%) Clean Code
14 72 (15.96%) Analytics
15 61 (13.53%) Machine Learning
16 59 (13.08%) Continuous Deployment
17 56 (12.42%) Technical Leadership
18 53 (11.75%) Computer Science
19 48 (10.64%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 190 (42.13%) Python
2 122 (27.05%) Java
3 79 (17.52%) SQL
4 71 (15.74%) PowerShell
5 54 (11.97%) Bash
6 45 (9.98%) TypeScript
7 43 (9.53%) C#
8 36 (7.98%) JavaScript
9 21 (4.66%) Bicep
10 20 (4.43%) Kotlin
11 19 (4.21%) Swift
12 11 (2.44%) Go
13 9 (2.00%) Rust
13 9 (2.00%) Scala
14 8 (1.77%) Groovy
15 7 (1.55%) Shell Script
16 6 (1.33%) C
16 6 (1.33%) C++
17 4 (0.89%) Perl
17 4 (0.89%) PHP
Qualifications
1 77 (17.07%) Security Cleared
2 56 (12.42%) Degree
3 46 (10.20%) SC Cleared
4 35 (7.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (3.33%) Azure Certification
5 15 (3.33%) DV Cleared
6 14 (3.10%) AWS Certification
7 11 (2.44%) Master's Degree
8 9 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (1.11%) 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
11 3 (0.67%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 2 (0.44%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 2 (0.44%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.44%) PMP
13 1 (0.22%) ISTQB
13 1 (0.22%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (14.19%) QA
2 40 (8.87%) Accessibility
3 28 (6.21%) WCAG
4 21 (4.66%) GDPR
5 16 (3.55%) Data Quality
6 15 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 13 (2.88%) SLA
8 11 (2.44%) NCSC
9 7 (1.55%) SOC 2
10 4 (0.89%) NIST
11 2 (0.44%) Def Stans
11 2 (0.44%) IEC 61508
11 2 (0.44%) IFRS
11 2 (0.44%) IFRS 17
11 2 (0.44%) ISO 26262
11 2 (0.44%) JTAG
11 2 (0.44%) PMO
11 2 (0.44%) Solvency II
12 1 (0.22%) GRC
System Software
1 120 (26.61%) 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
1 202 (44.79%) Terraform
2 183 (40.58%) Kubernetes
3 109 (24.17%) Grafana
4 87 (19.29%) Ansible
5 38 (8.43%) Prometheus
6 13 (2.88%) Microsoft Intune
7 12 (2.66%) Argo
8 11 (2.44%) Nagios
8 11 (2.44%) Puppet
9 9 (2.00%) Jamf Pro
10 6 (1.33%) Progress Chef
10 6 (1.33%) SCCM
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 82 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 38 (8.43%) Dynatrace
3 31 (6.87%) Google
4 22 (4.88%) Databricks
5 20 (4.43%) Splunk
6 17 (3.77%) Red Hat
7 15 (3.33%) Salesforce
7 15 (3.33%) VMware
8 12 (2.66%) Amplitude
8 12 (2.66%) Braze
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%) Dell
13 4 (0.89%) Fortinet