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 25 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 381 486 454
Rank change year-on-year +105 -32 -61
Permanent jobs citing Deployment Automation 531 200 359
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.45% 0.40% 0.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.62% 0.46% 0.57%
Number of salaries quoted 290 102 251
10th Percentile £45,410 £48,250 £43,750
25th Percentile £55,250 £57,500 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% -8.77%
75th Percentile £86,188 £82,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £98,500 £92,250 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £67,750 £54,000
% change year-on-year -4.06% +25.46% -13.60%

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 85,591 43,838 62,686
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.02% 88.74% 81.52%
Number of salaries quoted 59,105 24,621 34,654
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,750 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,560
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.45% -4.07%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

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 25 September 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 25 September 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 +96 437 £70,000 -6.67% 607
UK excluding London -1 262 £65,000 -4.06% 329
London +71 213 £81,000 +8.00% 329
Work from Home +57 188 £65,000 -14.60% 243
North of England +5 94 £65,000 -9.41% 90
South West -32 50 £73,000 -15.36% 57
South East -32 44 £65,000 -21.21% 73
North East -31 41 £60,000 -22.30% 8
North West -6 34 £55,000 -27.73% 54
Midlands -33 29 £56,250 -6.25% 36
Wales -54 28 £52,500 +8.25% 5
Yorkshire -18 25 £70,000 +2.19% 28
East Midlands -23 15 £61,250 -18.33% 15
Scotland -5 14 £75,000 -2.87% 36
West Midlands -44 14 £51,250 -14.58% 21
East of England -18 5 £56,000 - 19
Northern Ireland -89 1 £77,500 +0.37% 13

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 16 (3.01%) Confluence
2 13 (2.45%) SharePoint
3 12 (2.26%) Apache
3 12 (2.26%) nginx
4 11 (2.07%) Apache Spark
5 8 (1.51%) IIS
6 7 (1.32%) Apache Airflow
6 7 (1.32%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (0.94%) Camunda
8 4 (0.75%) SAS
9 2 (0.38%) Cloud Foundry
9 2 (0.38%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.38%) Luigi
10 1 (0.19%) CMS
10 1 (0.19%) Documentum
10 1 (0.19%) JBoss
10 1 (0.19%) NServiceBus
10 1 (0.19%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (0.19%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.19%) ProjectWise
1 1 (0.19%) SPSS
1 1 (0.19%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.19%) Magento
2 1 (0.19%) Misys Equation
2 1 (0.19%) Misys Midas
2 1 (0.19%) Primavera
2 1 (0.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 302 (56.87%) AWS
2 287 (54.05%) Azure
3 182 (34.27%) GCP
4 123 (23.16%) Azure DevOps
5 90 (16.95%) Amazon EKS
6 81 (15.25%) GitHub
7 66 (12.43%) SaaS
8 55 (10.36%) Serverless
9 42 (7.91%) GitHub Actions
10 39 (7.34%) AWS CloudFormation
11 34 (6.40%) Power Platform
12 31 (5.84%) Microsoft 365
13 28 (5.27%) Entra ID
14 27 (5.08%) Amazon ECS
14 27 (5.08%) Azure Monitor
15 26 (4.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 25 (4.71%) Amazon S3
17 23 (4.33%) Azure Functions
17 23 (4.33%) Datadog
18 21 (3.95%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 22 (4.14%) DNS
2 19 (3.58%) Firewall
3 18 (3.39%) VPN
4 9 (1.69%) Network Security
5 8 (1.51%) DHCP
6 7 (1.32%) BGP
6 7 (1.32%) SD-WAN
6 7 (1.32%) WAN
6 7 (1.32%) Wireless
7 6 (1.13%) LAN
7 6 (1.13%) OSPF
7 6 (1.13%) SSL
7 6 (1.13%) TCP/IP
7 6 (1.13%) Wi-Fi
8 5 (0.94%) MQTT
9 4 (0.75%) Broadband
9 4 (0.75%) Kerberos
9 4 (0.75%) NAS
9 4 (0.75%) SSH
9 4 (0.75%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (11.49%) PostgreSQL
2 40 (7.53%) SQL Server
3 36 (6.78%) MongoDB
4 32 (6.03%) MySQL
5 31 (5.84%) NoSQL
6 22 (4.14%) Power BI
7 20 (3.77%) Elasticsearch
8 19 (3.58%) Data Warehouse
9 17 (3.20%) Data Lake
10 16 (3.01%) Azure SQL Database
11 15 (2.82%) Amazon RDS
12 13 (2.45%) Metadata
12 13 (2.45%) Relational Database
13 8 (1.51%) Big Data
13 8 (1.51%) Spark SQL
14 7 (1.32%) Geospatial Data
14 7 (1.32%) Redis
15 5 (0.94%) Delta Lake
15 5 (0.94%) DynamoDB
15 5 (0.94%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 117 (22.03%) Git
2 69 (12.99%) Jenkins
3 68 (12.81%) TeamCity
4 60 (11.30%) GitLab
5 38 (7.16%) JIRA
6 18 (3.39%) Bitbucket
7 13 (2.45%) SonarQube
8 11 (2.07%) fastlane
9 10 (1.88%) Crashlytics
10 9 (1.69%) Artifactory
10 9 (1.69%) JUnit
11 8 (1.51%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 8 (1.51%) Claude Code
11 8 (1.51%) Mockito
11 8 (1.51%) Octopus Deploy
12 7 (1.32%) Cucumber
12 7 (1.32%) MSI
13 6 (1.13%) Xcode
14 5 (0.94%) Gradle
14 5 (0.94%) Maven
General
1 163 (30.70%) Finance
2 146 (27.50%) Social Skills
3 114 (21.47%) Banking
4 112 (21.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 85 (16.01%) Law
6 79 (14.88%) Analytical Skills
7 77 (14.50%) Public Sector
8 71 (13.37%) Retail
9 60 (11.30%) Financial Institution
10 53 (9.98%) Back Office
11 10 (1.88%) Marketing
12 8 (1.51%) Telecoms
13 7 (1.32%) Manufacturing
14 6 (1.13%) Aerospace
14 6 (1.13%) Organisational Skills
15 4 (0.75%) Legal
15 4 (0.75%) Police
15 4 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
16 3 (0.56%) Documentation Skills
17 2 (0.38%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 115 (21.66%) Software Engineer
2 94 (17.70%) DevOps Engineer
3 93 (17.51%) Lead
4 92 (17.33%) Senior
5 82 (15.44%) Developer
6 46 (8.66%) Cloud Engineer
7 37 (6.97%) Azure Engineer
8 28 (5.27%) Senior Software Engineer
9 27 (5.08%) Data Engineer
9 27 (5.08%) Platform Engineer
10 26 (4.90%) Lead Software Engineer
11 24 (4.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 23 (4.33%) Java Engineer
13 21 (3.95%) Senior Developer
13 21 (3.95%) Software Team Leader
13 21 (3.95%) Team Leader
14 20 (3.77%) Java Developer
14 20 (3.77%) Site Engineer
14 20 (3.77%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 19 (3.58%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 265 (49.91%) Terraform
2 61 (11.49%) REST
2 61 (11.49%) RESTful
3 51 (9.60%) .NET
4 37 (6.97%) React
5 36 (6.78%) Kafka
6 26 (4.90%) Spring
7 24 (4.52%) LangChain
7 24 (4.52%) Spring Boot
8 21 (3.95%) AngularJS
9 20 (3.77%) Web Services
10 19 (3.58%) Node.js
11 18 (3.39%) CSS
11 18 (3.39%) Hibernate
11 18 (3.39%) JPA
11 18 (3.39%) RabbitMQ
12 16 (3.01%) PyTorch
12 16 (3.01%) scikit-learn
12 16 (3.01%) TensorFlow
13 15 (2.82%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 206 (38.79%) Cloud Native
2 109 (20.53%) Product Ownership
3 58 (10.92%) Distributed Systems
4 35 (6.59%) Onboarding
5 33 (6.21%) Enterprise Software
6 26 (4.90%) Self-Motivation
7 21 (3.95%) AI Agents
7 21 (3.95%) Management Information System
8 20 (3.77%) Legacy Systems
9 19 (3.58%) Mobile App
10 18 (3.39%) Virtual Team
11 15 (2.82%) Blog
12 12 (2.26%) Life Science
13 11 (2.07%) Hybrid Cloud
14 9 (1.69%) Data Centre
14 9 (1.69%) Replication
15 8 (1.51%) Linux Command Line
15 8 (1.51%) PKI
15 8 (1.51%) Public Cloud
16 7 (1.32%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 92 (17.33%) Linux
2 62 (11.68%) Windows
3 20 (3.77%) Windows Server
4 18 (3.39%) Apple iOS
5 13 (2.45%) CentOS
6 9 (1.69%) Android
7 7 (1.32%) Unix
7 7 (1.32%) Windows Server 2016
8 5 (0.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 4 (0.75%) Ubuntu
10 3 (0.56%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.38%) Amazon Linux
11 2 (0.38%) Embedded Linux
11 2 (0.38%) Solaris
11 2 (0.38%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 435 (81.92%) CI/CD
2 351 (66.10%) DevOps
3 240 (45.20%) Infrastructure as Code
4 227 (42.75%) Test Automation
5 209 (39.36%) Software Engineering
6 182 (34.27%) Agile
7 155 (29.19%) Observability
8 146 (27.50%) Microservices
9 145 (27.31%) AI
10 140 (26.37%) Mentoring
11 139 (26.18%) Continuous Improvement
12 134 (25.24%) Containerisation
13 133 (25.05%) Problem-Solving
14 104 (19.59%) Clean Code
15 84 (15.82%) Technical Leadership
16 79 (14.88%) Continuous Deployment
17 68 (12.81%) Analytics
18 66 (12.43%) Machine Learning
19 65 (12.24%) Coaching
20 60 (11.30%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 206 (38.79%) Python
2 149 (28.06%) Java
3 93 (17.51%) SQL
4 79 (14.88%) PowerShell
5 55 (10.36%) Bash
5 55 (10.36%) TypeScript
6 54 (10.17%) C#
7 45 (8.47%) JavaScript
8 30 (5.65%) Bicep
9 13 (2.45%) Kotlin
10 12 (2.26%) Go
11 11 (2.07%) Swift
12 10 (1.88%) C++
13 9 (1.69%) Groovy
13 9 (1.69%) Scala
14 6 (1.13%) C
14 6 (1.13%) Rust
14 6 (1.13%) Shell Script
15 4 (0.75%) Perl
15 4 (0.75%) PHP
Qualifications
1 104 (19.59%) Security Cleared
2 70 (13.18%) SC Cleared
3 51 (9.60%) Degree
4 39 (7.34%) Computer Science Degree
5 28 (5.27%) Azure Certification
6 20 (3.77%) AWS Certification
7 17 (3.20%) DV Cleared
8 15 (2.82%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (1.51%) Master's Degree
10 7 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (0.94%) CCNP
11 5 (0.94%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (0.75%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 4 (0.75%) TOGAF Certification
13 3 (0.56%) PMI Certification
14 2 (0.38%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 2 (0.38%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 2 (0.38%) PMP
14 2 (0.38%) Postgraduate
15 1 (0.19%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (13.18%) QA
2 32 (6.03%) Accessibility
3 22 (4.14%) GDPR
3 22 (4.14%) WCAG
4 21 (3.95%) Data Quality
5 16 (3.01%) NCSC
6 14 (2.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 13 (2.45%) SLA
8 5 (0.94%) SOC 2
9 4 (0.75%) NIST
10 3 (0.56%) PMO
11 2 (0.38%) Def Stans
11 2 (0.38%) GRC
11 2 (0.38%) IEC 61508
11 2 (0.38%) IFRS
11 2 (0.38%) IFRS 17
11 2 (0.38%) ISO 26262
11 2 (0.38%) JTAG
11 2 (0.38%) Solvency II
System Software
1 137 (25.80%) Docker
2 25 (4.71%) Active Directory
3 10 (1.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (1.32%) Virtual Desktop
4 7 (1.32%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (1.13%) Firmware
5 6 (1.13%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.75%) vSphere
7 1 (0.19%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.19%) NDS
7 1 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.19%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 221 (41.62%) Kubernetes
2 139 (26.18%) Grafana
3 89 (16.76%) Ansible
4 46 (8.66%) Prometheus
5 13 (2.45%) Argo
5 13 (2.45%) Microsoft Intune
6 11 (2.07%) Puppet
7 9 (1.69%) Nagios
8 6 (1.13%) Progress Chef
8 6 (1.13%) SCCM
9 4 (0.75%) Jamf Pro
9 4 (0.75%) Packer
9 4 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.56%) cPanel
10 3 (0.56%) Docker Swarm
10 3 (0.56%) Istio
10 3 (0.56%) Podman
10 3 (0.56%) Rancher
10 3 (0.56%) SCOM
10 3 (0.56%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 109 (20.53%) Microsoft
2 43 (8.10%) Dynatrace
3 33 (6.21%) Google
4 26 (4.90%) Splunk
5 22 (4.14%) Databricks
6 18 (3.39%) Salesforce
7 15 (2.82%) VMware
8 14 (2.64%) Red Hat
9 12 (2.26%) OpenAI
10 10 (1.88%) Oracle
11 9 (1.69%) Rapid7
12 8 (1.51%) Apple
12 8 (1.51%) Fortinet
13 7 (1.32%) Atlassian
13 7 (1.32%) IBM
13 7 (1.32%) ServiceNow
14 6 (1.13%) AppDynamics
15 5 (0.94%) Amplitude
15 5 (0.94%) Cisco
15 5 (0.94%) Confluent