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 29 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 411 423 501
Rank change year-on-year +12 +78 -68
Permanent jobs citing Deployment Automation 374 238 441
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.40% 0.56% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.54% 0.60% 0.53%
Number of salaries quoted 196 178 344
10th Percentile £42,500 £45,325 £46,250
25th Percentile £49,500 £55,625 £55,973
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,750 £71,991 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.67% +6.65% -10.00%
75th Percentile £86,375 £90,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £119,125 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £63,750 £67,500 £61,500
% change year-on-year -5.56% +9.76% -8.89%

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 68,838 39,983 83,789
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.88% 93.25% 83.85%
Number of salaries quoted 44,890 21,039 60,407
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,750 £29,250
25th Percentile £41,000 £40,903 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +5.45% -9.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £51,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.94% +2.00% -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 29 May 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 29 May 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 +20 345 £67,000 -6.93% 111
UK excluding London +34 202 £63,750 -5.56% 66
Work from Home +57 164 £65,000 +4.00% 55
London -3 151 £80,750 +0.94% 55
South East +26 75 £65,000 +18.18% 20
North of England -17 68 £56,250 -8.16% 22
North West 0 29 £53,750 -2.27% 13
Midlands -21 24 £50,250 -19.60% 6
Yorkshire -43 24 £82,500 +21.32% 5
South West -49 15 £68,400 -4.99% 7
East Midlands - 15 £40,000 - 2
North East - 15 £47,000 - 4
East of England -12 9 £76,250 +1.67% 3
West Midlands -40 9 £58,750 -6.00% 4
Scotland -8 8 £55,000 -27.02% 5
Wales -32 5 £70,079 +40.16% 1
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 9 (2.41%) Appian
2 8 (2.14%) Apache
3 7 (1.87%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.60%) Apache Spark
5 5 (1.34%) SharePoint
6 4 (1.07%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.80%) Confluence
7 3 (0.80%) IIS
8 2 (0.53%) Luigi
9 1 (0.27%) BizTalk Server
9 1 (0.27%) CMS
9 1 (0.27%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.27%) nginx
9 1 (0.27%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (0.80%) SPSS
2 2 (0.53%) Trello
3 1 (0.27%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (0.80%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.27%) Magento
2 1 (0.27%) Misys Equation
2 1 (0.27%) Misys Midas
2 1 (0.27%) Oracle SCM
2 1 (0.27%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 202 (54.01%) AWS
2 177 (47.33%) Azure
3 94 (25.13%) GCP
4 86 (22.99%) Azure DevOps
5 78 (20.86%) Amazon EKS
6 65 (17.38%) GitHub
7 62 (16.58%) Serverless
8 54 (14.44%) GitHub Actions
9 52 (13.90%) SaaS
10 36 (9.63%) Azure Logic Apps
11 34 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 32 (8.56%) Power Platform
13 28 (7.49%) Amazon S3
14 27 (7.22%) Azure Data Factory
15 26 (6.95%) AWS Lambda
16 25 (6.68%) Azure Monitor
16 25 (6.68%) PaaS
17 23 (6.15%) Firebase
18 20 (5.35%) Amazon EC2
19 19 (5.08%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 22 (5.88%) Firewall
2 13 (3.48%) DNS
3 8 (2.14%) Network Security
4 7 (1.87%) MQTT
5 6 (1.60%) DHCP
5 6 (1.60%) SSL
6 5 (1.34%) VPN
7 4 (1.07%) Broadband
7 4 (1.07%) SSH
8 3 (0.80%) BGP
8 3 (0.80%) DMZ
9 2 (0.53%) DKIM
9 2 (0.53%) Intrusion Detection
9 2 (0.53%) PBX
9 2 (0.53%) SAN
9 2 (0.53%) Unified Communications
9 2 (0.53%) VLAN
9 2 (0.53%) VoIP
9 2 (0.53%) WAN
9 2 (0.53%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (9.89%) SQL Server
2 32 (8.56%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (4.81%) NoSQL
4 17 (4.55%) Elasticsearch
5 15 (4.01%) Amazon Aurora
5 15 (4.01%) Data Warehouse
5 15 (4.01%) MySQL
6 14 (3.74%) Amazon RDS
6 14 (3.74%) DynamoDB
7 13 (3.48%) MongoDB
7 13 (3.48%) Power BI
8 11 (2.94%) Pinecone
8 11 (2.94%) Spark SQL
9 9 (2.41%) Relational Database
10 7 (1.87%) Metadata
11 5 (1.34%) Delta Lake
12 3 (0.80%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (0.80%) Big Data
12 3 (0.80%) CockroachDB
12 3 (0.80%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 59 (15.78%) Git
2 58 (15.51%) TeamCity
3 50 (13.37%) Jenkins
4 45 (12.03%) GitLab
5 18 (4.81%) Crashlytics
6 17 (4.55%) JIRA
7 15 (4.01%) SonarQube
8 13 (3.48%) Bitbucket
8 13 (3.48%) XCTest
9 11 (2.94%) MLflow
10 10 (2.67%) Cucumber
10 10 (2.67%) fastlane
11 9 (2.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 9 (2.41%) Gradle
12 7 (1.87%) Artifactory
12 7 (1.87%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 6 (1.60%) JMeter
14 5 (1.34%) JUnit
14 5 (1.34%) Maven
14 5 (1.34%) Xcode
General
1 118 (31.55%) Finance
2 104 (27.81%) Social Skills
3 75 (20.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 72 (19.25%) Banking
5 61 (16.31%) Law
6 57 (15.24%) Retail
7 40 (10.70%) Analytical Skills
7 40 (10.70%) Financial Institution
8 37 (9.89%) Back Office
9 20 (5.35%) Public Sector
10 10 (2.67%) Pharmaceutical
11 7 (1.87%) Aerospace
12 6 (1.60%) Retail Banking
13 4 (1.07%) Mandarin Language
13 4 (1.07%) Manufacturing
13 4 (1.07%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.80%) Front Office
14 3 (0.80%) Telecoms
15 2 (0.53%) Influencing Skills
15 2 (0.53%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 73 (19.52%) Lead
2 65 (17.38%) Software Engineer
3 63 (16.84%) Developer
4 51 (13.64%) Senior
5 36 (9.63%) DevOps Engineer
6 30 (8.02%) Azure Engineer
7 25 (6.68%) Cloud Engineer
8 24 (6.42%) Platform Engineer
9 22 (5.88%) AWS Engineer
10 21 (5.61%) Java Engineer
10 21 (5.61%) Lead Software Engineer
11 18 (4.81%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 17 (4.55%) Data Engineer
13 16 (4.28%) Java Software Engineer
13 16 (4.28%) Power Platform Developer
14 15 (4.01%) Senior Software Engineer
15 14 (3.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 13 (3.48%) Mobile Engineer
16 13 (3.48%) Software Team Leader
16 13 (3.48%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (11.23%) REST
2 39 (10.43%) .NET
2 39 (10.43%) RESTful
3 24 (6.42%) React
4 20 (5.35%) OAuth
5 18 (4.81%) .NET Core
5 18 (4.81%) Kafka
5 18 (4.81%) SwiftUI
5 18 (4.81%) UIKit
6 15 (4.01%) PyTorch
6 15 (4.01%) scikit-learn
6 15 (4.01%) TensorFlow
7 14 (3.74%) ARM Templates
7 14 (3.74%) FastAPI
7 14 (3.74%) JWT
8 13 (3.48%) Web Services
9 12 (3.21%) JSON
9 12 (3.21%) Node.js
9 12 (3.21%) NumPy
9 12 (3.21%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 91 (24.33%) Cloud Native
2 44 (11.76%) Product Ownership
3 35 (9.36%) Low-Code
4 24 (6.42%) Mobile App
5 23 (6.15%) Life Science
6 21 (5.61%) Distributed Systems
7 18 (4.81%) Blog
8 14 (3.74%) Greenfield Project
8 14 (3.74%) Onboarding
9 13 (3.48%) Legacy Systems
10 11 (2.94%) Management Information System
11 10 (2.67%) PKI
12 9 (2.41%) Hackathon
12 9 (2.41%) Hybrid Cloud
13 8 (2.14%) Public Cloud
13 8 (2.14%) Self-Motivation
14 7 (1.87%) Replication
15 6 (1.60%) Cyberattack
15 6 (1.60%) Private Cloud
16 5 (1.34%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 67 (17.91%) Linux
2 36 (9.63%) Windows
3 29 (7.75%) Apple iOS
4 17 (4.55%) Windows Server
5 13 (3.48%) CentOS
6 11 (2.94%) Android
7 8 (2.14%) Mac OS
8 6 (1.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (1.60%) Ubuntu
8 6 (1.60%) VMS
9 4 (1.07%) Unix
10 2 (0.53%) Amazon Linux
10 2 (0.53%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 279 (74.60%) CI/CD
2 198 (52.94%) DevOps
3 170 (45.45%) Test Automation
4 132 (35.29%) Infrastructure as Code
5 104 (27.81%) Agile
6 99 (26.47%) Clean Code
7 87 (23.26%) Microservices
8 86 (22.99%) Containerisation
8 86 (22.99%) Software Engineering
9 81 (21.66%) Observability
10 75 (20.05%) Analytics
11 74 (19.79%) Continuous Improvement
12 67 (17.91%) Problem-Solving
13 65 (17.38%) Continuous Deployment
14 60 (16.04%) AI
15 54 (14.44%) Cybersecurity
16 52 (13.90%) Computer Science
17 47 (12.57%) Mentoring
18 45 (12.03%) Fintech
18 45 (12.03%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 159 (42.51%) Python
2 98 (26.20%) Java
3 74 (19.79%) SQL
4 53 (14.17%) Bash
5 51 (13.64%) C#
5 51 (13.64%) PowerShell
6 41 (10.96%) JavaScript
7 25 (6.68%) TypeScript
8 20 (5.35%) Bicep
8 20 (5.35%) Kotlin
9 18 (4.81%) Swift
10 13 (3.48%) Rust
11 8 (2.14%) Kusto Query Language
12 7 (1.87%) Groovy
12 7 (1.87%) Shell Script
13 5 (1.34%) Go
14 4 (1.07%) Perl
14 4 (1.07%) PHP
14 4 (1.07%) Scala
15 2 (0.53%) C++
Qualifications
1 64 (17.11%) Degree
2 55 (14.71%) Security Cleared
3 33 (8.82%) SC Cleared
4 24 (6.42%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (5.35%) Master's Degree
6 13 (3.48%) DV Cleared
7 10 (2.67%) AWS Certification
7 10 (2.67%) Azure Certification
7 10 (2.67%) PhD
8 4 (1.07%) AWS Certified Developer
8 4 (1.07%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.07%) Postgraduate
9 3 (0.80%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.53%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.53%) PMP
11 1 (0.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.27%) CCNP
11 1 (0.27%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.27%) JNCIP
11 1 (0.27%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (10.16%) QA
2 28 (7.49%) Accessibility
3 21 (5.61%) GDPR
4 17 (4.55%) Data Quality
5 15 (4.01%) WCAG
6 13 (3.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (2.67%) GxP
8 7 (1.87%) SLA
8 7 (1.87%) SOC 2
9 4 (1.07%) NIST
10 2 (0.53%) Def Stans
10 2 (0.53%) IEC 61508
10 2 (0.53%) IFRS
10 2 (0.53%) IFRS 17
10 2 (0.53%) ISO 26262
10 2 (0.53%) PMO
10 2 (0.53%) Solvency II
11 1 (0.27%) NCSC
System Software
1 96 (25.67%) Docker
2 17 (4.55%) Active Directory
3 10 (2.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.34%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.80%) vSphere
6 2 (0.53%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.27%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.27%) Firmware
7 1 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.27%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 180 (48.13%) Terraform
2 160 (42.78%) Kubernetes
3 106 (28.34%) Grafana
4 58 (15.51%) Ansible
5 37 (9.89%) Prometheus
6 12 (3.21%) Microsoft Intune
7 10 (2.67%) Jamf Pro
8 9 (2.41%) Argo
9 7 (1.87%) Nagios
9 7 (1.87%) Puppet
10 5 (1.34%) SCCM
11 4 (1.07%) Packer
12 3 (0.80%) Podman
12 3 (0.80%) Rancher
12 3 (0.80%) SCOM
12 3 (0.80%) SCOrch
13 2 (0.53%) Control-M
13 2 (0.53%) Docker Swarm
13 2 (0.53%) Plesk
13 2 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 61 (16.31%) Microsoft
2 20 (5.35%) Databricks
3 17 (4.55%) Dynatrace
4 16 (4.28%) Google
5 15 (4.01%) VMware
6 14 (3.74%) Splunk
7 13 (3.48%) Amplitude
7 13 (3.48%) Braze
7 13 (3.48%) OpenAI
7 13 (3.48%) Salesforce
8 10 (2.67%) Automation Anywhere
8 10 (2.67%) UiPath
9 9 (2.41%) Apple
9 9 (2.41%) Red Hat
10 7 (1.87%) AppDynamics
10 7 (1.87%) Rapid7
11 6 (1.60%) IBM
12 5 (1.34%) Cisco
12 5 (1.34%) Oracle
12 5 (1.34%) Tenable