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 2 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 401 459 477
Rank change year-on-year +58 +18 -70
Permanent jobs citing Deployment Automation 444 239 383
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.43% 0.48% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.58% 0.54% 0.56%
Number of salaries quoted 266 150 290
10th Percentile £43,508 £46,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,563 £48,925
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +3.85% -13.33%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £78,594
90th Percentile £107,500 £97,528 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £64,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +0.78% +7.50% -11.11%

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 76,271 44,428 67,881
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.70% 89.49% 81.01%
Number of salaries quoted 52,568 25,332 44,788
10th Percentile £30,750 £28,500 £31,199
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +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 2 August 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 2 August 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 +58 385 £70,000 +3.70% 228
UK excluding London +39 246 £65,000 +0.78% 122
Work from Home +43 175 £65,000 +4.00% 119
London +18 167 £85,000 +17.24% 123
North of England +6 82 £55,000 -18.52% 34
South East +19 64 £67,500 +22.73% 40
Midlands -12 36 £49,000 -18.33% 12
North West +4 34 £53,750 +7.50% 21
South West -45 30 £70,000 -2.77% 21
Yorkshire -22 24 £82,500 +20.44% 7
North East -30 24 £47,000 - 6
West Midlands -31 19 £50,000 -16.67% 10
East Midlands -18 17 £42,500 -43.33% 2
Wales -57 17 £63,500 +30.93% 4
Scotland 0 15 £68,750 -11.50% 4
East of England -21 4 £56,000 - 8
Northern Ireland - 1 £77,500 - 3

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 (2.70%) Confluence
2 10 (2.25%) Apache
3 9 (2.03%) SharePoint
4 8 (1.80%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (1.80%) Apache Spark
5 7 (1.58%) IIS
5 7 (1.58%) nginx
6 5 (1.13%) Camunda
7 4 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (0.90%) SAS
8 2 (0.45%) Cloud Foundry
8 2 (0.45%) CMS
8 2 (0.45%) Luigi
9 1 (0.23%) Documentum
9 1 (0.23%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.23%) NServiceBus
9 1 (0.23%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (0.68%) SPSS
2 2 (0.45%) Trello
3 1 (0.23%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.23%) Magento
2 1 (0.23%) Misys Equation
2 1 (0.23%) Misys Midas
2 1 (0.23%) Oracle SCM
2 1 (0.23%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 241 (54.28%) AWS
2 225 (50.68%) Azure
3 124 (27.93%) GCP
4 105 (23.65%) Azure DevOps
5 70 (15.77%) GitHub
6 65 (14.64%) Amazon EKS
7 58 (13.06%) Serverless
8 56 (12.61%) SaaS
9 42 (9.46%) GitHub Actions
10 28 (6.31%) Power Platform
11 27 (6.08%) Firebase
12 25 (5.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 25 (5.63%) Amazon S3
12 25 (5.63%) Datadog
13 23 (5.18%) Microsoft 365
14 22 (4.95%) Azure Monitor
14 22 (4.95%) PaaS
15 21 (4.73%) AWS CloudFormation
16 20 (4.50%) Amazon ECS
17 19 (4.28%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 19 (4.28%) Firewall
2 17 (3.83%) DNS
3 12 (2.70%) VPN
4 8 (1.80%) MQTT
4 8 (1.80%) Network Security
5 6 (1.35%) DHCP
6 5 (1.13%) SSL
6 5 (1.13%) TCP/IP
6 5 (1.13%) Wi-Fi
7 4 (0.90%) BGP
7 4 (0.90%) Broadband
7 4 (0.90%) Kerberos
7 4 (0.90%) NAS
7 4 (0.90%) SSH
8 3 (0.68%) DKIM
8 3 (0.68%) PBX
8 3 (0.68%) Unified Communications
8 3 (0.68%) VLAN
8 3 (0.68%) VoIP
8 3 (0.68%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (9.91%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (7.66%) SQL Server
3 23 (5.18%) MongoDB
3 23 (5.18%) MySQL
4 21 (4.73%) Elasticsearch
5 20 (4.50%) Data Warehouse
6 18 (4.05%) NoSQL
7 15 (3.38%) Power BI
8 12 (2.70%) Amazon RDS
9 11 (2.48%) Metadata
9 11 (2.48%) Spark SQL
10 10 (2.25%) Azure SQL Database
10 10 (2.25%) Relational Database
11 9 (2.03%) Data Lake
12 7 (1.58%) DynamoDB
12 7 (1.58%) Geospatial Data
13 6 (1.35%) Big Data
13 6 (1.35%) Delta Lake
14 5 (1.13%) Amazon Aurora
14 5 (1.13%) Redis
Development Applications
1 93 (20.95%) Git
2 53 (11.94%) TeamCity
3 51 (11.49%) Jenkins
4 46 (10.36%) GitLab
5 33 (7.43%) JIRA
6 20 (4.50%) Crashlytics
7 15 (3.38%) Bitbucket
8 14 (3.15%) SonarQube
8 14 (3.15%) XCTest
9 13 (2.93%) fastlane
10 11 (2.48%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 11 (2.48%) Cucumber
11 8 (1.80%) JUnit
11 8 (1.80%) Mockito
11 8 (1.80%) Octopus Deploy
12 7 (1.58%) Artifactory
12 7 (1.58%) Claude Code
12 7 (1.58%) MSI
12 7 (1.58%) Xcode
13 6 (1.35%) JMeter
General
1 133 (29.95%) Social Skills
2 127 (28.60%) Finance
3 92 (20.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 87 (19.59%) Banking
5 68 (15.32%) Law
6 57 (12.84%) Analytical Skills
6 57 (12.84%) Retail
7 47 (10.59%) Financial Institution
8 43 (9.68%) Public Sector
9 39 (8.78%) Back Office
10 8 (1.80%) Manufacturing
11 7 (1.58%) Marketing
11 7 (1.58%) Organisational Skills
12 6 (1.35%) Aerospace
13 5 (1.13%) Telecoms
14 4 (0.90%) Mandarin Language
15 3 (0.68%) Front Office
15 3 (0.68%) Legal
15 3 (0.68%) Retail Banking
16 2 (0.45%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 87 (19.59%) Software Engineer
2 84 (18.92%) Lead
3 65 (14.64%) Senior
4 64 (14.41%) Developer
5 63 (14.19%) DevOps Engineer
6 36 (8.11%) Azure Engineer
7 30 (6.76%) Cloud Engineer
8 25 (5.63%) Platform Engineer
9 24 (5.41%) Data Engineer
10 22 (4.95%) Lead Software Engineer
10 22 (4.95%) Senior Software Engineer
11 19 (4.28%) Site Engineer
11 19 (4.28%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 19 (4.28%) Technical Leader
12 17 (3.83%) Java Engineer
13 16 (3.60%) Senior Developer
14 15 (3.38%) Administrator
14 15 (3.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 14 (3.15%) Software Team Leader
15 14 (3.15%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (10.36%) REST
2 45 (10.14%) RESTful
3 42 (9.46%) .NET
4 32 (7.21%) React
5 27 (6.08%) Kafka
6 21 (4.73%) SwiftUI
6 21 (4.73%) UIKit
7 18 (4.05%) CSS
7 18 (4.05%) Spring
8 17 (3.83%) ARM Templates
8 17 (3.83%) Spring Boot
9 16 (3.60%) Next.js
10 15 (3.38%) Node.js
11 14 (3.15%) .NET Core
11 14 (3.15%) AngularJS
12 13 (2.93%) HTML
12 13 (2.93%) LangChain
12 13 (2.93%) PySpark
13 12 (2.70%) scikit-learn
13 12 (2.70%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 145 (32.66%) Cloud Native
2 72 (16.22%) Product Ownership
3 43 (9.68%) Distributed Systems
4 29 (6.53%) Mobile App
5 22 (4.95%) Onboarding
6 19 (4.28%) Legacy Systems
6 19 (4.28%) Life Science
7 16 (3.60%) Self-Motivation
8 15 (3.38%) Greenfield Project
9 13 (2.93%) Blog
10 12 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
10 12 (2.70%) Low-Code
10 12 (2.70%) Management Information System
11 11 (2.48%) AI Agents
12 10 (2.25%) Hybrid Cloud
13 9 (2.03%) PKI
13 9 (2.03%) Virtual Team
14 8 (1.80%) Replication
15 7 (1.58%) Linux Command Line
15 7 (1.58%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 84 (18.92%) Linux
2 63 (14.19%) Windows
3 33 (7.43%) Apple iOS
4 22 (4.95%) Windows Server
5 17 (3.83%) CentOS
6 13 (2.93%) Android
7 8 (1.80%) Mac OS
8 7 (1.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (1.35%) Ubuntu
9 6 (1.35%) Windows Server 2016
10 4 (0.90%) Unix
11 2 (0.45%) Amazon Linux
11 2 (0.45%) Embedded Linux
11 2 (0.45%) VMS
12 1 (0.23%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 347 (78.15%) CI/CD
2 262 (59.01%) DevOps
3 191 (43.02%) Test Automation
4 171 (38.51%) Infrastructure as Code
5 148 (33.33%) Software Engineering
6 142 (31.98%) Agile
7 118 (26.58%) Microservices
8 114 (25.68%) Observability
9 107 (24.10%) Containerisation
10 102 (22.97%) Continuous Improvement
11 95 (21.40%) AI
12 94 (21.17%) Mentoring
13 91 (20.50%) Clean Code
14 88 (19.82%) Problem-Solving
15 70 (15.77%) Analytics
16 66 (14.86%) Continuous Deployment
17 55 (12.39%) Computer Science
18 51 (11.49%) Machine Learning
19 49 (11.04%) User Experience
20 48 (10.81%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 180 (40.54%) Python
2 123 (27.70%) Java
3 75 (16.89%) SQL
4 64 (14.41%) PowerShell
5 52 (11.71%) Bash
6 49 (11.04%) C#
7 47 (10.59%) TypeScript
8 42 (9.46%) JavaScript
9 22 (4.95%) Bicep
9 22 (4.95%) Kotlin
10 21 (4.73%) Swift
11 12 (2.70%) Rust
12 11 (2.48%) Go
13 8 (1.80%) Groovy
14 7 (1.58%) Scala
14 7 (1.58%) Shell Script
15 6 (1.35%) C
15 6 (1.35%) C++
16 4 (0.90%) Perl
16 4 (0.90%) PHP
Qualifications
1 75 (16.89%) Security Cleared
2 60 (13.51%) Degree
3 44 (9.91%) SC Cleared
4 36 (8.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (3.83%) DV Cleared
6 11 (2.48%) AWS Certification
6 11 (2.48%) Azure Certification
7 10 (2.25%) Master's Degree
8 5 (1.13%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (0.90%) Postgraduate
10 2 (0.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (0.45%) CCNP
10 2 (0.45%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.45%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.45%) PMP
11 1 (0.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.23%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.23%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 1 (0.23%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (14.41%) QA
2 37 (8.33%) Accessibility
3 28 (6.31%) WCAG
4 21 (4.73%) GDPR
5 14 (3.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (2.93%) Data Quality
7 10 (2.25%) NCSC
7 10 (2.25%) SLA
8 7 (1.58%) SOC 2
9 4 (0.90%) NIST
10 2 (0.45%) Def Stans
10 2 (0.45%) IEC 61508
10 2 (0.45%) IFRS
10 2 (0.45%) IFRS 17
10 2 (0.45%) ISO 26262
10 2 (0.45%) JTAG
10 2 (0.45%) PMO
10 2 (0.45%) Solvency II
System Software
1 113 (25.45%) Docker
2 21 (4.73%) Active Directory
3 10 (2.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.35%) Hyper-V
5 5 (1.13%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.90%) Firmware
6 4 (0.90%) vSphere
7 3 (0.68%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.23%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.23%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 193 (43.47%) Terraform
2 179 (40.32%) Kubernetes
3 110 (24.77%) Grafana
4 82 (18.47%) Ansible
5 38 (8.56%) Prometheus
6 12 (2.70%) Microsoft Intune
7 11 (2.48%) Argo
7 11 (2.48%) Nagios
8 10 (2.25%) Jamf Pro
8 10 (2.25%) Puppet
9 6 (1.35%) SCCM
10 4 (0.90%) Packer
10 4 (0.90%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.68%) cPanel
11 3 (0.68%) Docker Swarm
11 3 (0.68%) Plesk
11 3 (0.68%) Podman
11 3 (0.68%) SCOM
11 3 (0.68%) SCOrch
11 3 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 78 (17.57%) Microsoft
2 34 (7.66%) Dynatrace
3 27 (6.08%) Google
4 22 (4.95%) Databricks
5 18 (4.05%) Splunk
6 15 (3.38%) VMware
7 14 (3.15%) Amplitude
7 14 (3.15%) Braze
7 14 (3.15%) Red Hat
8 13 (2.93%) Salesforce
9 11 (2.48%) Apple
9 11 (2.48%) OpenAI
9 11 (2.48%) Rapid7
10 7 (1.58%) AppDynamics
10 7 (1.58%) Oracle
11 6 (1.35%) Atlassian
11 6 (1.35%) IBM
12 5 (1.13%) Tenable
13 4 (0.90%) NVIDIA
13 4 (0.90%) Thales