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 19 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 400 378 459
Rank change year-on-year -22 +81 -49
Permanent jobs citing Deployment Automation 302 347 359
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.44% 0.71% 0.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.56% 0.77% 0.55%
Number of salaries quoted 122 229 294
10th Percentile £42,500 £48,250 £43,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,750 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.67% +15.38% -18.75%
75th Percentile £89,375 £97,528 £90,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £138,750 £131,039
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £60,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +11.57% -10.37%

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 54,175 45,213 65,719
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 79.32% 92.48% 88.31%
Number of salaries quoted 32,471 22,205 50,855
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,750 £29,440
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -12.00%
75th Percentile £76,000 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £96,375 £102,500 £95,000
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 19 February 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 19 February 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 -40 259 £67,750 -9.67% 126
UK excluding London -2 166 £65,000 -3.70% 98
Work from Home +37 153 £60,748 -10.00% 77
London -1 122 £77,217 -14.20% 56
South East +26 69 £62,500 +6.84% 40
North of England -47 37 £63,750 +2.00% 20
Scotland +7 31 £58,609 -22.23% 8
Yorkshire -47 20 £60,000 +21.21% 4
North West -10 15 £75,000 +11.11% 10
East of England +10 8 £76,250 +1.67% 2
South West -18 8 £62,950 -10.07% 15
Midlands -23 8 £48,000 -36.00% 11
West Midlands -6 5 £62,609 -16.52% 9
Wales -2 4 £61,248 -5.77% 3
East Midlands -21 3 £37,500 +30.65% 2
North East - 2 £77,217 - 6
Northern Ireland - 1 £77,217 -

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 (3.97%) Appian
2 5 (1.66%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.32%) Confluence
4 3 (0.99%) Apache
4 3 (0.99%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.99%) IIS
5 2 (0.66%) BizTalk Server
5 2 (0.66%) nginx
5 2 (0.66%) SAS
6 1 (0.33%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.33%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.33%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.33%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 146 (48.34%) Azure
2 138 (45.70%) AWS
3 84 (27.81%) Azure DevOps
4 76 (25.17%) GCP
5 64 (21.19%) Amazon EKS
6 61 (20.20%) GitHub
7 55 (18.21%) GitHub Actions
8 48 (15.89%) SaaS
9 43 (14.24%) Serverless
10 36 (11.92%) Azure Logic Apps
11 34 (11.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 32 (10.60%) Azure Monitor
13 29 (9.60%) Power Platform
14 28 (9.27%) Azure Data Factory
15 27 (8.94%) AWS Lambda
16 21 (6.95%) Amazon S3
17 20 (6.62%) AWS CloudFormation
18 17 (5.63%) Amazon SQS
18 17 (5.63%) AWS Step Functions
19 16 (5.30%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.64%) Firewall
2 5 (1.66%) DNS
2 5 (1.66%) MQTT
2 5 (1.66%) SSL
2 5 (1.66%) VPN
3 3 (0.99%) DMZ
3 3 (0.99%) WAN
4 2 (0.66%) BGP
4 2 (0.66%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (0.66%) OSPF
4 2 (0.66%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (0.66%) RTMP
4 2 (0.66%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.66%) VLAN
4 2 (0.66%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.66%) Wireless
5 1 (0.33%) Ethernet VPN
5 1 (0.33%) NetScaler
5 1 (0.33%) Network Security
5 1 (0.33%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (12.25%) SQL Server
2 28 (9.27%) PostgreSQL
3 19 (6.29%) DynamoDB
4 18 (5.96%) NoSQL
5 13 (4.30%) MySQL
6 12 (3.97%) Pinecone
7 11 (3.64%) Amazon Aurora
8 10 (3.31%) Power BI
9 8 (2.65%) Amazon RDS
10 6 (1.99%) Elasticsearch
10 6 (1.99%) MongoDB
11 5 (1.66%) Relational Database
12 4 (1.32%) Metadata
13 3 (0.99%) CockroachDB
13 3 (0.99%) Data Lake
13 3 (0.99%) Tableau
14 2 (0.66%) Azure SQL Database
15 1 (0.33%) Big Data
15 1 (0.33%) Delta Lake
15 1 (0.33%) Redis
Development Applications
1 50 (16.56%) TeamCity
2 44 (14.57%) Git
3 30 (9.93%) GitLab
4 28 (9.27%) Jenkins
5 15 (4.97%) MLflow
6 9 (2.98%) JIRA
7 7 (2.32%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 6 (1.99%) Bitbucket
8 6 (1.99%) Gradle
8 6 (1.99%) Maven
8 6 (1.99%) Storybook
9 5 (1.66%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 4 (1.32%) Artifactory
10 4 (1.32%) JUnit
11 3 (0.99%) NUnit
11 3 (0.99%) Octopus Deploy
11 3 (0.99%) SonarQube
11 3 (0.99%) TestNG
12 2 (0.66%) Jaeger
12 2 (0.66%) XCTest
General
1 140 (46.36%) Finance
2 70 (23.18%) Social Skills
3 59 (19.54%) Banking
4 55 (18.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 49 (16.23%) Law
5 49 (16.23%) Retail
6 34 (11.26%) Financial Institution
7 33 (10.93%) Back Office
8 30 (9.93%) Pharmaceutical
9 23 (7.62%) Analytical Skills
10 8 (2.65%) Marketing
11 5 (1.66%) Public Sector
12 4 (1.32%) Retail Banking
13 3 (0.99%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.99%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.66%) Advertising
14 2 (0.66%) Agriculture
14 2 (0.66%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.66%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (0.66%) Legal
Job Titles
1 67 (22.19%) Lead
2 47 (15.56%) Developer
3 45 (14.90%) Software Engineer
4 36 (11.92%) Senior
5 24 (7.95%) DevOps Engineer
6 21 (6.95%) Cloud Engineer
7 19 (6.29%) Platform Engineer
8 17 (5.63%) Java Engineer
9 16 (5.30%) AWS Engineer
9 16 (5.30%) Integration Engineer
9 16 (5.30%) Java Software Engineer
10 15 (4.97%) Power Platform Developer
11 14 (4.64%) Azure Engineer
11 14 (4.64%) Senior Software Engineer
12 13 (4.30%) Automation Engineer
12 13 (4.30%) Lead Software Engineer
13 12 (3.97%) .NET Developer
13 12 (3.97%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 12 (3.97%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 10 (3.31%) Customer Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (15.56%) RESTful
2 39 (12.91%) .NET
3 36 (11.92%) OAuth
4 31 (10.26%) React
5 25 (8.28%) .NET Core
5 25 (8.28%) REST
6 24 (7.95%) OAuth2
7 22 (7.28%) JSON
8 17 (5.63%) JWT
9 16 (5.30%) AWS CDK
9 16 (5.30%) FastAPI
10 15 (4.97%) ASP.NET
10 15 (4.97%) Web Services
11 14 (4.64%) Flask
11 14 (4.64%) OpenAPI
11 14 (4.64%) Swagger
12 13 (4.30%) ASP.NET Core
12 13 (4.30%) Blazor
12 13 (4.30%) Django
13 12 (3.97%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 93 (30.79%) Cloud Native
2 37 (12.25%) Low-Code
3 35 (11.59%) Life Science
4 27 (8.94%) Product Ownership
5 15 (4.97%) Blog
5 15 (4.97%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (2.32%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (2.32%) Onboarding
7 6 (1.99%) Hackathon
8 5 (1.66%) IoT
8 5 (1.66%) Public Cloud
8 5 (1.66%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (1.32%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.32%) Mobile App
10 3 (0.99%) Private Cloud
11 2 (0.66%) IVR
11 2 (0.66%) MPEG
11 2 (0.66%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 33 (10.93%) Linux
2 15 (4.97%) Windows
3 9 (2.98%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.66%) VMS
5 3 (0.99%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.99%) CentOS
6 1 (0.33%) Android
6 1 (0.33%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 212 (70.20%) CI/CD
2 166 (54.97%) DevOps
3 121 (40.07%) Test Automation
4 109 (36.09%) Agile
5 105 (34.77%) Infrastructure as Code
6 81 (26.82%) Analytics
7 78 (25.83%) AI
8 71 (23.51%) Microservices
9 68 (22.52%) Machine Learning
10 65 (21.52%) Clean Code
11 62 (20.53%) Problem-Solving
12 60 (19.87%) Continuous Improvement
13 58 (19.21%) Containerisation
13 58 (19.21%) Software Engineering
14 55 (18.21%) Continuous Deployment
15 54 (17.88%) Roadmaps
16 51 (16.89%) Disruptive Innovation
17 49 (16.23%) Observability
18 48 (15.89%) Coaching
19 45 (14.90%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 99 (32.78%) Python
2 63 (20.86%) Java
3 54 (17.88%) SQL
4 40 (13.25%) JavaScript
5 38 (12.58%) C#
6 37 (12.25%) Bash
7 34 (11.26%) PowerShell
8 29 (9.60%) Bicep
9 23 (7.62%) TypeScript
10 7 (2.32%) Go
11 5 (1.66%) Kusto Query Language
12 4 (1.32%) Rust
13 3 (0.99%) Kotlin
14 2 (0.66%) C++
14 2 (0.66%) Delphi
14 2 (0.66%) Groovy
14 2 (0.66%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.66%) Swift
14 2 (0.66%) VB
14 2 (0.66%) VB6
Qualifications
1 59 (19.54%) Degree
2 36 (11.92%) Master's Degree
3 29 (9.60%) PhD
3 29 (9.60%) Security Cleared
4 16 (5.30%) SC Cleared
5 15 (4.97%) AWS Certification
6 11 (3.64%) AWS Certified Developer
7 9 (2.98%) Computer Science Degree
8 8 (2.65%) Azure Certification
8 8 (2.65%) DV Cleared
9 3 (0.99%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.33%) JNCIP
11 1 (0.33%) LPIC
11 1 (0.33%) MCSE
11 1 (0.33%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.33%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (9.60%) GxP
2 18 (5.96%) GDPR
3 17 (5.63%) Data Quality
4 16 (5.30%) QA
5 15 (4.97%) Accessibility
6 6 (1.99%) WCAG
7 5 (1.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.99%) SLA
9 2 (0.66%) NIST
9 2 (0.66%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.33%) EU AI Act
10 1 (0.33%) GRC
10 1 (0.33%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.33%) NCSC
System Software
1 74 (24.50%) Docker
2 11 (3.64%) Virtual Machines
3 9 (2.98%) Active Directory
3 9 (2.98%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (0.99%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.66%) NFS
6 1 (0.33%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.33%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 153 (50.66%) Terraform
2 124 (41.06%) Kubernetes
3 79 (26.16%) Grafana
4 30 (9.93%) Ansible
5 23 (7.62%) Prometheus
6 11 (3.64%) Microsoft Intune
7 7 (2.32%) Argo
8 4 (1.32%) logstash
9 3 (0.99%) Nagios
9 3 (0.99%) Puppet
9 3 (0.99%) Rancher
10 2 (0.66%) Istio
10 2 (0.66%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.33%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 29 (9.60%) Microsoft
2 14 (4.64%) Ab Initio
3 13 (4.30%) OpenAI
4 12 (3.97%) Automation Anywhere
4 12 (3.97%) UiPath
5 8 (2.65%) Splunk
6 7 (2.32%) Cisco
7 6 (1.99%) Oracle
7 6 (1.99%) Salesforce
8 4 (1.32%) Google
8 4 (1.32%) Red Hat
8 4 (1.32%) VMware
9 3 (0.99%) Citrix
9 3 (0.99%) Dynatrace
9 3 (0.99%) Rapid7
10 2 (0.66%) Amplitude
10 2 (0.66%) Databricks
10 2 (0.66%) MikroTik
10 2 (0.66%) Sonatype
10 2 (0.66%) Ubiquiti