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 27 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 383 394 467
Rank change year-on-year +11 +73 -85
Permanent jobs citing Deployment Automation 268 329 338
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.43% 0.63% 0.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% 0.69% 0.56%
Number of salaries quoted 108 214 276
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,725 £43,750
25th Percentile £50,750 £56,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £75,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -15.63%
75th Percentile £85,000 £95,938 £90,484
90th Percentile £96,625 £138,750 £138,331
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -10.45%

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 50,453 47,821 60,729
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 80.27% 91.48% 88.85%
Number of salaries quoted 29,778 22,900 47,030
10th Percentile £28,697 £35,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £76,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +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 27 January 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 27 January 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 -36 222 £67,500 -10.00% 147
UK excluding London +20 152 £65,000 +4.00% 128
Work from Home +52 125 £61,998 -8.15% 63
London +17 103 £77,217 -16.52% 40
South East +26 57 £45,000 -23.08% 46
North of England -22 32 £68,000 +37.37% 23
Scotland +18 31 £77,217 +47.08% 3
Yorkshire -47 18 £60,000 +21.21% 10
North West +21 13 £75,000 +36.36% 8
South West -7 11 £68,400 +1.33% 17
East of England +20 8 £76,250 +1.67% 16
Wales +10 7 £48,500 -25.38% 6
Midlands -15 5 £57,359 -8.23% 17
West Midlands +6 4 £77,217 +12.32% 9
East Midlands -15 1 £37,500 +30.65% 8
North East - 1 £77,217 - 5
Northern Ireland - 1 £77,217 - 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 11 (4.10%) Appian
2 4 (1.49%) Confluence
3 3 (1.12%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.12%) IIS
4 2 (0.75%) Apache
4 2 (0.75%) BizTalk Server
4 2 (0.75%) nginx
4 2 (0.75%) SAS
4 2 (0.75%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.37%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.37%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.37%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (1.12%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 137 (51.12%) Azure
2 110 (41.04%) AWS
3 81 (30.22%) Azure DevOps
4 57 (21.27%) GCP
4 57 (21.27%) GitHub
5 52 (19.40%) GitHub Actions
6 50 (18.66%) Amazon EKS
7 39 (14.55%) SaaS
8 37 (13.81%) Serverless
9 32 (11.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 32 (11.94%) Azure Monitor
10 30 (11.19%) Azure Logic Apps
11 27 (10.07%) Azure Data Factory
12 26 (9.70%) AWS Lambda
13 23 (8.58%) Power Platform
14 20 (7.46%) AWS CloudFormation
15 19 (7.09%) Amazon S3
16 17 (6.34%) Amazon SQS
17 16 (5.97%) AWS Step Functions
17 16 (5.97%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.36%) Firewall
2 5 (1.87%) SSL
3 4 (1.49%) DNS
4 3 (1.12%) DMZ
4 3 (1.12%) VPN
5 2 (0.75%) BGP
5 2 (0.75%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (0.75%) MQTT
5 2 (0.75%) OSPF
5 2 (0.75%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (0.75%) RTMP
5 2 (0.75%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.75%) VLAN
5 2 (0.75%) WAN
5 2 (0.75%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.75%) Wireless
6 1 (0.37%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (12.69%) SQL Server
2 24 (8.96%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (6.72%) DynamoDB
4 17 (6.34%) NoSQL
5 12 (4.48%) MySQL
6 11 (4.10%) Pinecone
7 10 (3.73%) Amazon Aurora
8 8 (2.99%) Amazon RDS
9 7 (2.61%) Power BI
10 6 (2.24%) MongoDB
11 5 (1.87%) Elasticsearch
11 5 (1.87%) Relational Database
12 3 (1.12%) CockroachDB
12 3 (1.12%) Data Lake
12 3 (1.12%) Data Warehouse
12 3 (1.12%) Metadata
13 2 (0.75%) Azure SQL Database
13 2 (0.75%) Tableau
13 2 (0.75%) Tick Data
14 1 (0.37%) Redis
Development Applications
1 38 (14.18%) Git
2 36 (13.43%) TeamCity
3 25 (9.33%) Jenkins
4 21 (7.84%) GitLab
5 14 (5.22%) MLflow
6 8 (2.99%) JIRA
7 6 (2.24%) Gradle
7 6 (2.24%) Maven
7 6 (2.24%) Storybook
8 5 (1.87%) Bitbucket
8 5 (1.87%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 4 (1.49%) Artifactory
10 3 (1.12%) JUnit
10 3 (1.12%) NUnit
10 3 (1.12%) Octopus Deploy
10 3 (1.12%) TestNG
11 2 (0.75%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 2 (0.75%) Checkstyle
11 2 (0.75%) Selenium
11 2 (0.75%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 126 (47.01%) Finance
2 61 (22.76%) Social Skills
3 43 (16.04%) Banking
4 41 (15.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 35 (13.06%) Retail
6 34 (12.69%) Law
7 31 (11.57%) Pharmaceutical
8 25 (9.33%) Financial Institution
9 24 (8.96%) Back Office
10 17 (6.34%) Analytical Skills
11 10 (3.73%) Marketing
12 4 (1.49%) Public Sector
13 3 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (1.12%) Retail Banking
14 2 (0.75%) Advertising
14 2 (0.75%) Agriculture
14 2 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.75%) Legal
14 2 (0.75%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 60 (22.39%) Lead
2 45 (16.79%) Developer
3 32 (11.94%) Software Engineer
4 26 (9.70%) Senior
5 24 (8.96%) DevOps Engineer
6 21 (7.84%) Cloud Engineer
7 16 (5.97%) Platform Engineer
8 14 (5.22%) AWS Engineer
8 14 (5.22%) Azure Engineer
8 14 (5.22%) Integration Engineer
9 12 (4.48%) .NET Developer
9 12 (4.48%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 12 (4.48%) Java Engineer
9 12 (4.48%) Java Software Engineer
10 11 (4.10%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 11 (4.10%) Automation Engineer
10 11 (4.10%) Power Platform Developer
11 10 (3.73%) AWS Developer
11 10 (3.73%) AWS Platform Engineer
12 9 (3.36%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (17.16%) RESTful
2 35 (13.06%) .NET
2 35 (13.06%) OAuth
3 27 (10.07%) React
4 24 (8.96%) OAuth2
5 23 (8.58%) REST
6 22 (8.21%) .NET Core
7 21 (7.84%) JSON
8 16 (5.97%) AWS CDK
8 16 (5.97%) JWT
9 15 (5.60%) ASP.NET
9 15 (5.60%) FastAPI
10 14 (5.22%) Web Services
11 13 (4.85%) ASP.NET Core
11 13 (4.85%) Blazor
11 13 (4.85%) Flask
11 13 (4.85%) OpenAPI
11 13 (4.85%) Swagger
12 12 (4.48%) Django
13 11 (4.10%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 75 (27.99%) Cloud Native
2 35 (13.06%) Life Science
3 32 (11.94%) Low-Code
4 21 (7.84%) Product Ownership
5 13 (4.85%) Legacy Systems
6 10 (3.73%) Blog
7 6 (2.24%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (2.24%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.87%) Hackathon
8 5 (1.87%) IoT
8 5 (1.87%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.49%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.12%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (1.12%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.12%) Private Cloud
11 2 (0.75%) Algorithms
11 2 (0.75%) IVR
11 2 (0.75%) MPEG
11 2 (0.75%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 30 (11.19%) Linux
2 14 (5.22%) Windows
3 7 (2.61%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.12%) VMS
5 2 (0.75%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 181 (67.54%) CI/CD
2 154 (57.46%) DevOps
3 106 (39.55%) Agile
4 102 (38.06%) Infrastructure as Code
5 101 (37.69%) Test Automation
6 80 (29.85%) AI
7 79 (29.48%) Analytics
8 69 (25.75%) Machine Learning
9 58 (21.64%) Problem-Solving
10 55 (20.52%) Containerisation
10 55 (20.52%) Microservices
10 55 (20.52%) Roadmaps
11 51 (19.03%) Continuous Improvement
12 50 (18.66%) Clean Code
13 45 (16.79%) Disruptive Innovation
13 45 (16.79%) Generative AI
13 45 (16.79%) Observability
13 45 (16.79%) Software Engineering
14 43 (16.04%) Coaching
14 43 (16.04%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 90 (33.58%) Python
2 47 (17.54%) SQL
3 46 (17.16%) Java
4 35 (13.06%) Bash
4 35 (13.06%) C#
4 35 (13.06%) PowerShell
5 34 (12.69%) JavaScript
6 31 (11.57%) Bicep
7 19 (7.09%) TypeScript
8 5 (1.87%) Go
9 3 (1.12%) C++
9 3 (1.12%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (0.75%) Delphi
10 2 (0.75%) Groovy
10 2 (0.75%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.75%) VB
10 2 (0.75%) VB6
11 1 (0.37%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.37%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.37%) R
Qualifications
1 54 (20.15%) Degree
2 36 (13.43%) Master's Degree
3 30 (11.19%) PhD
4 19 (7.09%) Security Cleared
5 14 (5.22%) AWS Certification
6 11 (4.10%) AWS Certified Developer
6 11 (4.10%) Azure Certification
6 11 (4.10%) SC Cleared
7 8 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (1.87%) DV Cleared
9 3 (1.12%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.37%) MCSE
11 1 (0.37%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.37%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (11.19%) GxP
2 19 (7.09%) GDPR
3 15 (5.60%) Data Quality
4 14 (5.22%) Accessibility
4 14 (5.22%) QA
5 6 (2.24%) WCAG
6 4 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.75%) NIST
7 2 (0.75%) SLA
7 2 (0.75%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.37%) EU AI Act
8 1 (0.37%) GRC
8 1 (0.37%) HIPAA
System Software
1 70 (26.12%) Docker
2 12 (4.48%) Virtual Machines
3 10 (3.73%) Virtual Desktop
4 9 (3.36%) Active Directory
5 3 (1.12%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.75%) NFS
7 1 (0.37%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.37%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 134 (50.00%) Terraform
2 104 (38.81%) Kubernetes
3 61 (22.76%) Grafana
4 23 (8.58%) Ansible
5 20 (7.46%) Prometheus
6 12 (4.48%) Microsoft Intune
7 7 (2.61%) Argo
8 4 (1.49%) logstash
9 3 (1.12%) Rancher
10 2 (0.75%) Istio
10 2 (0.75%) Nagios
10 2 (0.75%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.75%) Puppet
10 2 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 28 (10.45%) Microsoft
2 14 (5.22%) Ab Initio
3 12 (4.48%) OpenAI
4 11 (4.10%) Automation Anywhere
4 11 (4.10%) UiPath
5 7 (2.61%) Splunk
6 6 (2.24%) Cisco
6 6 (2.24%) Salesforce
7 5 (1.87%) Oracle
8 4 (1.49%) Google
8 4 (1.49%) VMware
9 3 (1.12%) Citrix
9 3 (1.12%) Databricks
9 3 (1.12%) Dynatrace
9 3 (1.12%) Rapid7
10 2 (0.75%) MikroTik
10 2 (0.75%) Red Hat
10 2 (0.75%) Sonatype
10 2 (0.75%) Starlink
10 2 (0.75%) Ubiquiti