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 13 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 405 373 466
Rank change year-on-year -32 +93 -37
Permanent jobs citing Deployment Automation 298 314 409
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.40% 0.72% 0.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.52% 0.77% 0.56%
Number of salaries quoted 127 222 325
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,375 £46,250
25th Percentile £47,750 £60,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +15.38% -18.75%
75th Percentile £90,000 £97,528 £90,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £138,750 £114,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £61,000 £67,500 £61,500
% change year-on-year -9.63% +9.76% -10.18%

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 57,551 40,867 73,360
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 78.05% 93.60% 87.39%
Number of salaries quoted 34,815 22,139 55,867
10th Percentile £29,750 £32,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £39,860 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.41%
75th Percentile £76,299 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £94,006
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.90%

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 13 March 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 13 March 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 -37 259 £67,500 -10.00% 141
UK excluding London -8 163 £61,000 -9.63% 102
Work from Home +16 148 £60,000 -7.69% 81
London -25 121 £80,000 -11.11% 61
South East +7 66 £65,000 +18.18% 30
North of England -44 36 £60,000 +9.09% 33
Scotland -1 28 £58,750 -22.04% 4
Yorkshire -47 20 £57,500 +16.16% 9
North West -27 14 £73,000 +16.80% 19
Midlands -30 14 £48,000 -36.00% 14
East of England -3 8 £76,250 +1.67% 2
West Midlands -19 7 £59,039 -21.28% 10
East Midlands -27 7 £37,500 - 4
South West -31 7 £62,950 -11.33% 15
Wales -8 4 £61,248 - 4
North East - 2 £47,500 - 5

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 12 (4.03%) Appian
2 5 (1.68%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.34%) Apache
3 4 (1.34%) Confluence
4 3 (1.01%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.01%) IIS
5 2 (0.67%) BizTalk Server
5 2 (0.67%) SAS
6 1 (0.34%) CMS
6 1 (0.34%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.34%) nginx
6 1 (0.34%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.34%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.34%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.01%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.34%) Oracle SCM
2 1 (0.34%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 150 (50.34%) AWS
2 140 (46.98%) Azure
3 78 (26.17%) Azure DevOps
4 75 (25.17%) GCP
5 65 (21.81%) Amazon EKS
6 64 (21.48%) GitHub
7 58 (19.46%) GitHub Actions
8 50 (16.78%) Serverless
9 48 (16.11%) SaaS
10 36 (12.08%) Azure Logic Apps
11 35 (11.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 30 (10.07%) Power Platform
13 29 (9.73%) AWS Lambda
14 28 (9.40%) Azure Monitor
15 27 (9.06%) Azure Data Factory
16 25 (8.39%) Amazon S3
17 20 (6.71%) AWS CloudFormation
18 19 (6.38%) AWS Step Functions
19 17 (5.70%) Amazon SQS
20 15 (5.03%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.36%) Firewall
2 5 (1.68%) DNS
2 5 (1.68%) MQTT
3 4 (1.34%) SSL
3 4 (1.34%) VPN
4 3 (1.01%) DMZ
5 2 (0.67%) WAN
6 1 (0.34%) BGP
6 1 (0.34%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (0.34%) HTTP
6 1 (0.34%) NetScaler
6 1 (0.34%) Network Security
6 1 (0.34%) OSPF
6 1 (0.34%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.34%) SNMP
6 1 (0.34%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.34%) VLAN
6 1 (0.34%) VXLAN
6 1 (0.34%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.34%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (12.75%) SQL Server
2 29 (9.73%) PostgreSQL
3 21 (7.05%) DynamoDB
4 18 (6.04%) NoSQL
5 13 (4.36%) Amazon Aurora
5 13 (4.36%) MySQL
6 12 (4.03%) Pinecone
7 11 (3.69%) Power BI
8 8 (2.68%) Amazon RDS
9 7 (2.35%) Elasticsearch
10 6 (2.01%) Relational Database
11 5 (1.68%) Metadata
11 5 (1.68%) MongoDB
12 3 (1.01%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (1.01%) CockroachDB
12 3 (1.01%) Tableau
13 2 (0.67%) Azure SQL Database
13 2 (0.67%) Data Lake
13 2 (0.67%) Redis
14 1 (0.34%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 52 (17.45%) TeamCity
2 48 (16.11%) Git
3 31 (10.40%) GitLab
4 28 (9.40%) Jenkins
5 13 (4.36%) MLflow
6 10 (3.36%) JIRA
7 8 (2.68%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 7 (2.35%) Crashlytics
9 6 (2.01%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 6 (2.01%) Bitbucket
9 6 (2.01%) Gradle
9 6 (2.01%) Storybook
9 6 (2.01%) XCTest
10 5 (1.68%) JMeter
10 5 (1.68%) Maven
11 4 (1.34%) Cucumber
11 4 (1.34%) JUnit
11 4 (1.34%) Locust
12 3 (1.01%) Artifactory
12 3 (1.01%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 128 (42.95%) Finance
2 77 (25.84%) Social Skills
3 63 (21.14%) Banking
4 57 (19.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 53 (17.79%) Law
6 52 (17.45%) Retail
7 35 (11.74%) Back Office
7 35 (11.74%) Financial Institution
8 29 (9.73%) Analytical Skills
9 22 (7.38%) Pharmaceutical
10 8 (2.68%) Marketing
10 8 (2.68%) Public Sector
11 6 (2.01%) Retail Banking
12 2 (0.67%) Advertising
12 2 (0.67%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.67%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.34%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.34%) Agriculture
13 1 (0.34%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 57 (19.13%) Lead
2 50 (16.78%) Developer
3 47 (15.77%) Software Engineer
4 40 (13.42%) Senior
5 21 (7.05%) DevOps Engineer
6 20 (6.71%) AWS Engineer
6 20 (6.71%) Cloud Engineer
7 17 (5.70%) Integration Engineer
7 17 (5.70%) Java Engineer
8 16 (5.37%) Java Software Engineer
8 16 (5.37%) Platform Engineer
9 15 (5.03%) Power Platform Developer
9 15 (5.03%) Senior Software Engineer
10 14 (4.70%) Azure Engineer
11 13 (4.36%) Automation Engineer
11 13 (4.36%) Lead Software Engineer
12 12 (4.03%) .NET Developer
12 12 (4.03%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 11 (3.69%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 10 (3.36%) AWS Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (16.11%) RESTful
2 39 (13.09%) .NET
3 35 (11.74%) OAuth
4 34 (11.41%) React
5 26 (8.72%) .NET Core
6 25 (8.39%) REST
7 23 (7.72%) OAuth2
8 21 (7.05%) JSON
9 17 (5.70%) JWT
10 16 (5.37%) AWS CDK
11 15 (5.03%) ASP.NET
11 15 (5.03%) FastAPI
11 15 (5.03%) Web Services
12 14 (4.70%) Flask
12 14 (4.70%) OpenAPI
12 14 (4.70%) Swagger
13 13 (4.36%) ASP.NET Core
13 13 (4.36%) Blazor
13 13 (4.36%) Django
14 12 (4.03%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 91 (30.54%) Cloud Native
2 40 (13.42%) Low-Code
3 30 (10.07%) Life Science
4 27 (9.06%) Product Ownership
5 15 (5.03%) Blog
5 15 (5.03%) Legacy Systems
6 10 (3.36%) Mobile App
7 9 (3.02%) Hackathon
8 8 (2.68%) Distributed Systems
8 8 (2.68%) Greenfield Project
9 7 (2.35%) Onboarding
10 5 (1.68%) Public Cloud
11 4 (1.34%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (1.34%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (1.34%) IoT
11 4 (1.34%) Self-Motivation
12 3 (1.01%) Analytical Mindset
12 3 (1.01%) Private Cloud
13 2 (0.67%) Data Centre
13 2 (0.67%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 33 (11.07%) Linux
2 15 (5.03%) Windows
3 9 (3.02%) Apple iOS
4 8 (2.68%) Windows Server
5 6 (2.01%) VMS
6 4 (1.34%) CentOS
7 3 (1.01%) Android
8 2 (0.67%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.34%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 222 (74.50%) CI/CD
2 158 (53.02%) DevOps
3 128 (42.95%) Test Automation
4 104 (34.90%) Agile
5 103 (34.56%) Infrastructure as Code
6 78 (26.17%) Analytics
7 75 (25.17%) Microservices
8 73 (24.50%) Clean Code
9 67 (22.48%) AI
10 62 (20.81%) Software Engineering
11 61 (20.47%) Containerisation
12 60 (20.13%) Continuous Improvement
13 59 (19.80%) Problem-Solving
14 58 (19.46%) Machine Learning
14 58 (19.46%) Observability
15 57 (19.13%) Continuous Deployment
16 44 (14.77%) Disruptive Innovation
17 43 (14.43%) Coaching
18 41 (13.76%) Root Cause Analysis
19 40 (13.42%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 105 (35.23%) Python
2 70 (23.49%) Java
3 57 (19.13%) SQL
4 42 (14.09%) JavaScript
5 37 (12.42%) C#
6 34 (11.41%) Bash
7 32 (10.74%) PowerShell
8 27 (9.06%) Bicep
9 25 (8.39%) TypeScript
10 8 (2.68%) Kotlin
11 7 (2.35%) Rust
11 7 (2.35%) Swift
12 6 (2.01%) Go
12 6 (2.01%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.67%) Delphi
13 2 (0.67%) Groovy
13 2 (0.67%) VB
13 2 (0.67%) VB6
14 1 (0.34%) C++
14 1 (0.34%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 55 (18.46%) Degree
2 32 (10.74%) Security Cleared
3 30 (10.07%) Master's Degree
4 21 (7.05%) PhD
5 18 (6.04%) SC Cleared
6 15 (5.03%) AWS Certification
7 11 (3.69%) AWS Certified Developer
8 8 (2.68%) Azure Certification
8 8 (2.68%) Computer Science Degree
8 8 (2.68%) DV Cleared
9 3 (1.01%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.34%) JNCIP
11 1 (0.34%) LPIC
11 1 (0.34%) MCSE
11 1 (0.34%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.34%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (8.05%) Accessibility
2 21 (7.05%) GxP
2 21 (7.05%) QA
3 19 (6.38%) Data Quality
4 15 (5.03%) GDPR
5 12 (4.03%) WCAG
6 6 (2.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (1.01%) SLA
8 2 (0.67%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.34%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.34%) NCSC
9 1 (0.34%) NIST
System Software
1 72 (24.16%) Docker
2 9 (3.02%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.01%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (1.68%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (1.01%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.34%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.34%) NFS
6 1 (0.34%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 149 (50.00%) Terraform
2 125 (41.95%) Kubernetes
3 84 (28.19%) Grafana
4 29 (9.73%) Ansible
5 23 (7.72%) Prometheus
6 7 (2.35%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (1.68%) Argo
8 4 (1.34%) logstash
8 4 (1.34%) Nagios
9 3 (1.01%) Rancher
10 2 (0.67%) Istio
10 2 (0.67%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.34%) Puppet
Vendors
1 28 (9.40%) Microsoft
2 13 (4.36%) Ab Initio
2 13 (4.36%) OpenAI
3 12 (4.03%) Automation Anywhere
3 12 (4.03%) UiPath
4 9 (3.02%) Splunk
5 7 (2.35%) Dynatrace
5 7 (2.35%) Google
6 6 (2.01%) Amplitude
6 6 (2.01%) Cisco
6 6 (2.01%) Oracle
6 6 (2.01%) Salesforce
7 5 (1.68%) Red Hat
8 4 (1.34%) Databricks
8 4 (1.34%) Rapid7
8 4 (1.34%) VMware
9 3 (1.01%) Citrix
9 3 (1.01%) Pega
10 2 (0.67%) ForgeRock
11 1 (0.34%) Talend