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 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 412 392 392
Rank change year-on-year -20 0 +25
Permanent jobs citing Deployment Automation 246 366 345
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.42% 0.64% 0.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.51% 0.72% 0.75%
Number of salaries quoted 105 245 280
10th Percentile £46,750 £46,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £48,925 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £68,000 £74,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.74% -8.72% -6.88%
75th Percentile £82,500 £90,000 £92,076
90th Percentile £94,000 £116,250 £137,996
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £58,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% -2.50% -7.69%

All Process and 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 48,586 50,789 45,720
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.08% 89.40% 93.70%
Number of salaries quoted 28,463 25,691 35,102
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -2.60%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,720 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -11.42% +4.76% -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 18 December 2025.

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 December 2025. 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 -41 194 £72,500 +6.62% 179
UK excluding London +33 159 £65,000 +11.11% 163
Work from Home +27 101 £65,000 -3.70% 77
London +3 80 £77,217 -14.20% 46
South East +30 45 £66,250 +13.25% 57
North of England -19 38 £68,500 +38.38% 40
Scotland +35 34 £77,217 +47.08% 10
Yorkshire -50 22 £60,000 +21.21% 20
North West +24 14 £77,217 +120.62% 16
Wales +14 14 £48,500 -25.38% 2
South West +9 10 £80,000 +18.52% 23
Midlands 0 10 £77,217 +28.70% 17
East of England +21 7 £67,500 +14.89% 16
West Midlands +16 6 £77,217 +26.07% 9
East Midlands -7 4 - - 6
North East - 2 £77,217 - 5
Northern Ireland - 1 £77,217 - 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 20 (8.13%) Apache Spark
2 5 (2.03%) Appian
3 3 (1.22%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.22%) IIS
4 2 (0.81%) Apache
4 2 (0.81%) BizTalk Server
4 2 (0.81%) nginx
4 2 (0.81%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.81%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.41%) Confluence
5 1 (0.41%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.41%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.81%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 122 (49.59%) Azure
2 101 (41.06%) AWS
3 77 (31.30%) Azure DevOps
4 55 (22.36%) GitHub
5 54 (21.95%) GitHub Actions
6 45 (18.29%) Amazon EKS
7 37 (15.04%) GCP
8 35 (14.23%) Amazon S3
9 33 (13.41%) Serverless
10 30 (12.20%) SaaS
11 29 (11.79%) Azure Monitor
12 23 (9.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 23 (9.35%) AWS Lambda
13 20 (8.13%) Azure Data Factory
13 20 (8.13%) Azure Logic Apps
14 19 (7.72%) Amazon ELB
14 19 (7.72%) AWS CloudFormation
15 15 (6.10%) Amazon SQS
16 14 (5.69%) AWS Step Functions
16 14 (5.69%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.85%) Firewall
2 5 (2.03%) SSL
3 4 (1.63%) WAN
4 3 (1.22%) DMZ
4 3 (1.22%) DNS
4 3 (1.22%) VPN
5 2 (0.81%) BGP
5 2 (0.81%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (0.81%) LAN
5 2 (0.81%) MQTT
5 2 (0.81%) Network Security
5 2 (0.81%) OSPF
5 2 (0.81%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (0.81%) RTMP
5 2 (0.81%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.81%) VLAN
5 2 (0.81%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.81%) Wireless
6 1 (0.41%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (14.63%) DynamoDB
2 26 (10.57%) SQL Server
3 22 (8.94%) Metadata
4 20 (8.13%) Delta Lake
5 19 (7.72%) Spark SQL
6 18 (7.32%) PostgreSQL
7 15 (6.10%) NoSQL
8 9 (3.66%) Data Warehouse
9 8 (3.25%) MySQL
9 8 (3.25%) Tick Data
10 5 (2.03%) Pinecone
10 5 (2.03%) Power BI
11 4 (1.63%) Amazon Aurora
11 4 (1.63%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (1.63%) MongoDB
12 3 (1.22%) Data Lake
12 3 (1.22%) Elasticsearch
13 2 (0.81%) Azure SQL Database
13 2 (0.81%) Relational Database
13 2 (0.81%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 36 (14.63%) Git
2 27 (10.98%) MLflow
3 21 (8.54%) Jenkins
4 19 (7.72%) TeamCity
5 18 (7.32%) GitLab
6 6 (2.44%) Storybook
7 4 (1.63%) Artifactory
7 4 (1.63%) CircleCI
7 4 (1.63%) JIRA
8 3 (1.22%) Bitbucket
8 3 (1.22%) Gradle
8 3 (1.22%) Maven
8 3 (1.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 2 (0.81%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (0.81%) Jaeger
9 2 (0.81%) Octopus Deploy
9 2 (0.81%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.41%) Burp Suite
10 1 (0.41%) gulp
10 1 (0.41%) webpack
General
1 104 (42.28%) Finance
2 64 (26.02%) Social Skills
3 25 (10.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 25 (10.16%) Pharmaceutical
4 21 (8.54%) Banking
5 18 (7.32%) Retail
6 17 (6.91%) Law
7 16 (6.50%) Financial Institution
8 15 (6.10%) Back Office
9 14 (5.69%) Marketing
10 9 (3.66%) Analytical Skills
11 5 (2.03%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (1.63%) Public Sector
13 3 (1.22%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (1.22%) Legal
14 2 (0.81%) Advertising
14 2 (0.81%) Agriculture
14 2 (0.81%) Manufacturing
15 1 (0.41%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 55 (22.36%) Lead
2 41 (16.67%) Developer
3 23 (9.35%) DevOps Engineer
4 22 (8.94%) Software Engineer
5 20 (8.13%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 20 (8.13%) Operations Engineer
6 19 (7.72%) Senior
7 15 (6.10%) Cloud Engineer
8 13 (5.28%) Platform Engineer
9 12 (4.88%) .NET Developer
9 12 (4.88%) Integration Engineer
10 11 (4.47%) Azure Engineer
11 10 (4.07%) AWS Developer
12 9 (3.66%) Analyst
12 9 (3.66%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 8 (3.25%) Data Warehouse Developer
13 8 (3.25%) ETL Developer
13 8 (3.25%) Market Data Developer
13 8 (3.25%) Senior Software Engineer
14 7 (2.85%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (17.07%) RESTful
2 31 (12.60%) .NET
3 26 (10.57%) React
4 24 (9.76%) NumPy
4 24 (9.76%) Pandas
4 24 (9.76%) PyTorch
4 24 (9.76%) scikit-learn
4 24 (9.76%) TensorFlow
5 23 (9.35%) OAuth
5 23 (9.35%) YAML
6 22 (8.94%) .NET Core
7 20 (8.13%) PySpark
8 19 (7.72%) JSON
8 19 (7.72%) Keras
8 19 (7.72%) Lambda Expressions
8 19 (7.72%) Metaflow
9 18 (7.32%) OAuth2
10 17 (6.91%) Blazor
11 14 (5.69%) ASP.NET
11 14 (5.69%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 57 (23.17%) Cloud Native
2 26 (10.57%) Life Science
3 19 (7.72%) Linux Command Line
4 16 (6.50%) Low-Code
4 16 (6.50%) Product Ownership
5 9 (3.66%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (2.85%) Management Information System
7 6 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.63%) IoT
9 3 (1.22%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.22%) Public Cloud
10 2 (0.81%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.81%) Blog
10 2 (0.81%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (0.81%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.81%) Hackathon
10 2 (0.81%) IVR
10 2 (0.81%) Mobile App
10 2 (0.81%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.81%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 21 (8.54%) Linux
2 19 (7.72%) Unix
3 13 (5.28%) Windows
4 9 (3.66%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.22%) CentOS
6 2 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.41%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (65.85%) CI/CD
2 134 (54.47%) DevOps
3 98 (39.84%) Agile
4 91 (36.99%) Infrastructure as Code
5 86 (34.96%) AI
6 73 (29.67%) Machine Learning
7 71 (28.86%) Containerisation
8 68 (27.64%) Test Automation
9 64 (26.02%) Analytics
10 52 (21.14%) Data Science
11 49 (19.92%) Roadmaps
12 48 (19.51%) Microservices
13 46 (18.70%) Problem-Solving
14 42 (17.07%) Continuous Improvement
15 37 (15.04%) Coaching
15 37 (15.04%) Observability
16 35 (14.23%) Root Cause Analysis
17 33 (13.41%) Computer Science
17 33 (13.41%) Generative AI
17 33 (13.41%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 90 (36.59%) Python
2 54 (21.95%) SQL
3 31 (12.60%) PowerShell
4 29 (11.79%) Bash
4 29 (11.79%) Bicep
4 29 (11.79%) C#
5 24 (9.76%) Java
6 20 (8.13%) JavaScript
7 13 (5.28%) TypeScript
8 4 (1.63%) Go
9 2 (0.81%) C++
9 2 (0.81%) Groovy
9 2 (0.81%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.41%) C
10 1 (0.41%) Delphi
10 1 (0.41%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.41%) R
10 1 (0.41%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.41%) VB
10 1 (0.41%) VB6
Qualifications
1 39 (15.85%) Degree
2 27 (10.98%) Master's Degree
3 24 (9.76%) PhD
4 14 (5.69%) Security Cleared
5 13 (5.28%) AWS Certification
6 11 (4.47%) AWS Certified Developer
6 11 (4.47%) Azure Certification
7 9 (3.66%) SC Cleared
8 7 (2.85%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.63%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.41%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.41%) MCSE
10 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.41%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.41%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (9.76%) GxP
2 20 (8.13%) GDPR
3 10 (4.07%) QA
4 9 (3.66%) Data Quality
5 8 (3.25%) Accessibility
6 6 (2.44%) WCAG
7 4 (1.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.81%) GRC
8 2 (0.81%) NIST
8 2 (0.81%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.41%) EU AI Act
9 1 (0.41%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.41%) SLA
System Software
1 83 (33.74%) Docker
2 12 (4.88%) Virtual Machines
3 10 (4.07%) Virtual Desktop
4 9 (3.66%) Active Directory
5 3 (1.22%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.81%) NFS
6 2 (0.81%) Terminal Server
7 1 (0.41%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.41%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 125 (50.81%) Terraform
2 93 (37.80%) Kubernetes
3 36 (14.63%) Grafana
4 19 (7.72%) Ansible
4 19 (7.72%) Kubeflow
5 13 (5.28%) Prometheus
6 10 (4.07%) Microsoft Intune
7 7 (2.85%) Argo
8 4 (1.63%) logstash
9 2 (0.81%) Istio
9 2 (0.81%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.81%) Puppet
9 2 (0.81%) Rancher
9 2 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.41%) Nagios
Vendors
1 28 (11.38%) Databricks
2 21 (8.54%) Microsoft
3 13 (5.28%) Ab Initio
4 6 (2.44%) Cisco
4 6 (2.44%) Salesforce
5 5 (2.03%) Automation Anywhere
5 5 (2.03%) Citrix
5 5 (2.03%) OpenAI
5 5 (2.03%) UiPath
6 3 (1.22%) Dynatrace
6 3 (1.22%) Oracle
6 3 (1.22%) Red Hat
6 3 (1.22%) Splunk
6 3 (1.22%) VMware
7 2 (0.81%) ForgeRock
7 2 (0.81%) NETGEAR
7 2 (0.81%) Pega
7 2 (0.81%) Rapid7
7 2 (0.81%) Sonatype
7 2 (0.81%) Ubiquiti