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 28 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 413 436 470
Rank change year-on-year +23 +34 -59
Permanent jobs citing Deployment Automation 424 243 396
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.42% 0.49% 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.57% 0.55% 0.55%
Number of salaries quoted 254 154 302
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,563 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +3.85% -13.33%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £103,750 £97,528 £102,375
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £64,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +0.78% +7.50% -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 74,833 44,225 71,828
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.64% 89.70% 81.44%
Number of salaries quoted 51,638 25,059 48,434
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.66%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -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 28 July 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 28 July 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 +59 367 £70,000 +3.70% 160
UK excluding London +30 239 £65,000 +0.78% 95
Work from Home +27 171 £65,000 +6.12% 72
London +2 155 £82,500 +13.79% 79
North of England +6 80 £55,000 -18.52% 32
South East +34 65 £67,500 +22.73% 29
Midlands -21 34 £49,000 -20.00% 14
North West +10 33 £52,500 -10.64% 16
South West -41 27 £70,000 -2.77% 12
Yorkshire -25 24 £82,500 +20.44% 9
North East -24 23 £47,000 - 7
East Midlands -12 17 £42,500 -43.33% 4
West Midlands -12 17 £50,000 -16.67% 10
Wales -53 17 £63,500 +28.93% 2
Scotland +6 14 £62,500 -17.06% 2
East of England -13 4 £56,000 - 5
Northern Ireland - 1 £77,500 - 2

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 10 (2.36%) Confluence
2 9 (2.12%) Apache
2 9 (2.12%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.89%) Apache Spark
4 7 (1.65%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.65%) IIS
5 6 (1.42%) nginx
6 5 (1.18%) Camunda
7 4 (0.94%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (0.94%) SAS
8 2 (0.47%) CMS
8 2 (0.47%) Luigi
9 1 (0.24%) Appian
9 1 (0.24%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.24%) Documentum
9 1 (0.24%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.24%) NServiceBus
9 1 (0.24%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (0.71%) SPSS
2 2 (0.47%) Trello
3 1 (0.24%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.24%) Magento
2 1 (0.24%) Misys Equation
2 1 (0.24%) Misys Midas
2 1 (0.24%) Oracle SCM
2 1 (0.24%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 229 (54.01%) AWS
2 219 (51.65%) Azure
3 117 (27.59%) GCP
4 100 (23.58%) Azure DevOps
5 62 (14.62%) Amazon EKS
5 62 (14.62%) GitHub
6 56 (13.21%) SaaS
6 56 (13.21%) Serverless
7 40 (9.43%) GitHub Actions
8 29 (6.84%) Power Platform
9 27 (6.37%) Firebase
10 24 (5.66%) Amazon S3
11 23 (5.42%) Azure Monitor
11 23 (5.42%) Datadog
12 22 (5.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 22 (5.19%) Microsoft 365
12 22 (5.19%) PaaS
13 20 (4.72%) AWS CloudFormation
13 20 (4.72%) Azure Logic Apps
14 19 (4.48%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 19 (4.48%) Firewall
2 16 (3.77%) DNS
3 11 (2.59%) VPN
4 9 (2.12%) MQTT
5 8 (1.89%) Network Security
6 6 (1.42%) DHCP
7 5 (1.18%) SSL
7 5 (1.18%) Wi-Fi
8 4 (0.94%) BGP
8 4 (0.94%) Broadband
8 4 (0.94%) Kerberos
8 4 (0.94%) NAS
8 4 (0.94%) SSH
8 4 (0.94%) TCP/IP
9 3 (0.71%) DKIM
9 3 (0.71%) DMARC
9 3 (0.71%) PBX
9 3 (0.71%) Unified Communications
9 3 (0.71%) VoIP
9 3 (0.71%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (9.91%) PostgreSQL
2 33 (7.78%) SQL Server
3 21 (4.95%) MongoDB
3 21 (4.95%) MySQL
4 20 (4.72%) Elasticsearch
5 19 (4.48%) Data Warehouse
5 19 (4.48%) NoSQL
6 15 (3.54%) Power BI
7 11 (2.59%) Amazon RDS
7 11 (2.59%) Spark SQL
8 10 (2.36%) Metadata
9 9 (2.12%) Azure SQL Database
10 8 (1.89%) Relational Database
11 7 (1.65%) Data Lake
11 7 (1.65%) DynamoDB
12 6 (1.42%) Delta Lake
12 6 (1.42%) Geospatial Data
13 5 (1.18%) Amazon Aurora
13 5 (1.18%) Big Data
14 4 (0.94%) Redis
Development Applications
1 89 (20.99%) Git
2 51 (12.03%) TeamCity
3 50 (11.79%) Jenkins
4 45 (10.61%) GitLab
5 31 (7.31%) JIRA
6 20 (4.72%) Crashlytics
7 14 (3.30%) Bitbucket
7 14 (3.30%) SonarQube
7 14 (3.30%) XCTest
8 13 (3.07%) fastlane
9 11 (2.59%) Cucumber
10 10 (2.36%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 9 (2.12%) JUnit
12 8 (1.89%) Mockito
12 8 (1.89%) Octopus Deploy
13 7 (1.65%) Artifactory
13 7 (1.65%) Xcode
14 6 (1.42%) Gradle
14 6 (1.42%) JMeter
14 6 (1.42%) MSI
General
1 126 (29.72%) Social Skills
2 119 (28.07%) Finance
3 83 (19.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 81 (19.10%) Banking
5 61 (14.39%) Law
6 55 (12.97%) Retail
7 54 (12.74%) Analytical Skills
8 44 (10.38%) Financial Institution
9 40 (9.43%) Public Sector
10 38 (8.96%) Back Office
11 8 (1.89%) Manufacturing
12 6 (1.42%) Aerospace
12 6 (1.42%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (1.18%) Telecoms
14 4 (0.94%) Mandarin Language
14 4 (0.94%) Marketing
15 3 (0.71%) Front Office
15 3 (0.71%) Legal
15 3 (0.71%) Retail Banking
16 2 (0.47%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 83 (19.58%) Software Engineer
2 77 (18.16%) Lead
3 64 (15.09%) Developer
3 64 (15.09%) Senior
4 61 (14.39%) DevOps Engineer
5 36 (8.49%) Azure Engineer
6 28 (6.60%) Cloud Engineer
7 24 (5.66%) Platform Engineer
8 22 (5.19%) Data Engineer
9 21 (4.95%) Senior Software Engineer
10 20 (4.72%) Lead Software Engineer
11 18 (4.25%) Java Engineer
11 18 (4.25%) Technical Leader
12 17 (4.01%) Site Engineer
12 17 (4.01%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 15 (3.54%) Senior Developer
14 14 (3.30%) Administrator
14 14 (3.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 14 (3.30%) Mobile Engineer
15 13 (3.07%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (10.61%) REST
2 42 (9.91%) RESTful
3 40 (9.43%) .NET
4 29 (6.84%) React
5 27 (6.37%) Kafka
6 21 (4.95%) SwiftUI
6 21 (4.95%) UIKit
7 20 (4.72%) Spring
8 19 (4.48%) Spring Boot
9 17 (4.01%) ARM Templates
9 17 (4.01%) CSS
10 15 (3.54%) Next.js
11 14 (3.30%) Node.js
12 13 (3.07%) PySpark
12 13 (3.07%) PyTorch
12 13 (3.07%) scikit-learn
12 13 (3.07%) TensorFlow
13 12 (2.83%) .NET Core
13 12 (2.83%) Elastic Stack
13 12 (2.83%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 135 (31.84%) Cloud Native
2 70 (16.51%) Product Ownership
3 42 (9.91%) Distributed Systems
4 29 (6.84%) Mobile App
5 20 (4.72%) Onboarding
6 18 (4.25%) Life Science
7 17 (4.01%) Legacy Systems
8 16 (3.77%) Self-Motivation
9 15 (3.54%) Greenfield Project
10 14 (3.30%) Low-Code
11 12 (2.83%) Blog
12 11 (2.59%) Enterprise Software
12 11 (2.59%) Management Information System
13 10 (2.36%) Hybrid Cloud
14 9 (2.12%) PKI
14 9 (2.12%) Virtual Team
15 8 (1.89%) Replication
16 7 (1.65%) Data Centre
16 7 (1.65%) Linux Command Line
16 7 (1.65%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 81 (19.10%) Linux
2 60 (14.15%) Windows
3 33 (7.78%) Apple iOS
4 21 (4.95%) Windows Server
5 16 (3.77%) CentOS
6 13 (3.07%) Android
7 8 (1.89%) Mac OS
8 7 (1.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (1.42%) Ubuntu
9 6 (1.42%) Windows Server 2016
10 4 (0.94%) Unix
11 3 (0.71%) VMS
12 2 (0.47%) Amazon Linux
12 2 (0.47%) Embedded Linux
13 1 (0.24%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 332 (78.30%) CI/CD
2 248 (58.49%) DevOps
3 181 (42.69%) Test Automation
4 159 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
5 137 (32.31%) Software Engineering
6 135 (31.84%) Agile
7 119 (28.07%) Microservices
8 105 (24.76%) Observability
9 101 (23.82%) Containerisation
10 94 (22.17%) Continuous Improvement
11 89 (20.99%) Clean Code
12 87 (20.52%) Mentoring
13 85 (20.05%) AI
14 84 (19.81%) Problem-Solving
15 67 (15.80%) Analytics
16 63 (14.86%) Continuous Deployment
17 50 (11.79%) Computer Science
18 46 (10.85%) Machine Learning
18 46 (10.85%) User Experience
19 45 (10.61%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 171 (40.33%) Python
2 118 (27.83%) Java
3 74 (17.45%) SQL
4 62 (14.62%) PowerShell
5 50 (11.79%) Bash
6 48 (11.32%) C#
7 41 (9.67%) TypeScript
8 40 (9.43%) JavaScript
9 22 (5.19%) Kotlin
10 21 (4.95%) Bicep
10 21 (4.95%) Swift
11 13 (3.07%) Rust
12 9 (2.12%) Go
13 8 (1.89%) Groovy
14 7 (1.65%) Shell Script
15 6 (1.42%) C
15 6 (1.42%) C++
15 6 (1.42%) Scala
16 5 (1.18%) Kusto Query Language
17 4 (0.94%) Perl
Qualifications
1 73 (17.22%) Security Cleared
2 55 (12.97%) Degree
3 43 (10.14%) SC Cleared
4 32 (7.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (4.01%) DV Cleared
6 10 (2.36%) Azure Certification
7 9 (2.12%) Master's Degree
8 8 (1.89%) AWS Certification
9 4 (0.94%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (0.94%) Postgraduate
10 3 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.47%) CCNP
11 2 (0.47%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.47%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.47%) PMP
12 1 (0.24%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 1 (0.24%) ISTQB
12 1 (0.24%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 1 (0.24%) JNCIP
12 1 (0.24%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (13.92%) QA
2 35 (8.25%) Accessibility
3 27 (6.37%) WCAG
4 21 (4.95%) GDPR
5 14 (3.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (3.07%) Data Quality
7 9 (2.12%) SLA
8 8 (1.89%) NCSC
9 7 (1.65%) SOC 2
10 4 (0.94%) NIST
11 2 (0.47%) Def Stans
11 2 (0.47%) IEC 61508
11 2 (0.47%) IFRS
11 2 (0.47%) IFRS 17
11 2 (0.47%) ISO 26262
11 2 (0.47%) JTAG
11 2 (0.47%) PMO
11 2 (0.47%) Solvency II
System Software
1 107 (25.24%) Docker
2 19 (4.48%) Active Directory
3 10 (2.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.42%) Hyper-V
5 5 (1.18%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.94%) Firmware
6 4 (0.94%) vSphere
7 3 (0.71%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.24%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.24%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 182 (42.92%) Terraform
2 173 (40.80%) Kubernetes
3 106 (25.00%) Grafana
4 79 (18.63%) Ansible
5 39 (9.20%) Prometheus
6 12 (2.83%) Microsoft Intune
7 11 (2.59%) Argo
8 10 (2.36%) Jamf Pro
8 10 (2.36%) Nagios
9 9 (2.12%) Puppet
10 6 (1.42%) SCCM
11 4 (0.94%) Packer
11 4 (0.94%) Progress Chef
12 3 (0.71%) Control-M
12 3 (0.71%) cPanel
12 3 (0.71%) Docker Swarm
12 3 (0.71%) Plesk
12 3 (0.71%) Podman
12 3 (0.71%) SCOM
12 3 (0.71%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 76 (17.92%) Microsoft
2 31 (7.31%) Dynatrace
3 27 (6.37%) Google
4 21 (4.95%) Databricks
5 17 (4.01%) Splunk
6 15 (3.54%) VMware
7 14 (3.30%) Amplitude
7 14 (3.30%) Braze
8 13 (3.07%) Red Hat
9 12 (2.83%) OpenAI
9 12 (2.83%) Salesforce
10 11 (2.59%) Apple
11 10 (2.36%) Rapid7
12 7 (1.65%) AppDynamics
13 6 (1.42%) IBM
13 6 (1.42%) Oracle
14 5 (1.18%) Atlassian
14 5 (1.18%) Tenable
15 4 (0.94%) NVIDIA
15 4 (0.94%) Thales