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 26 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 406 452 473
Rank change year-on-year +46 +21 -61
Permanent jobs citing Deployment Automation 422 244 401
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.42% 0.49% 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.57% 0.55% 0.55%
Number of salaries quoted 255 155 307
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,875 £52,500
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 £80,000
90th Percentile £103,750 £97,528 £101,750
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 74,528 44,262 72,639
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.71% 89.78% 81.61%
Number of salaries quoted 51,427 25,101 49,118
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £40,000
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 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £93,750
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 26 July 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 26 July 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 +42 367 £70,000 +3.70% 160
UK excluding London +21 237 £65,000 +0.78% 96
Work from Home +27 171 £65,000 +4.00% 74
London +17 156 £82,500 +13.79% 82
North of England +6 80 £55,000 -18.52% 29
South East +15 65 £68,750 +25.00% 30
Midlands -21 34 £49,000 -20.00% 12
North West +7 33 £52,500 -10.64% 16
South West -49 26 £70,000 -2.77% 15
Yorkshire -24 24 £82,500 +20.44% 7
North East -27 23 £47,000 - 6
West Midlands -17 17 £50,000 -16.67% 7
East Midlands -21 17 £42,500 -43.33% 5
Wales -50 16 £66,750 +35.53% 3
Scotland +10 14 £62,500 -17.06% 3
East of England -15 4 £56,000 - 5
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 10 (2.37%) Confluence
2 9 (2.13%) Apache
2 9 (2.13%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.90%) Apache Spark
4 7 (1.66%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.66%) IIS
5 6 (1.42%) nginx
6 5 (1.18%) Camunda
7 4 (0.95%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (0.95%) SAS
8 2 (0.47%) CMS
8 2 (0.47%) Luigi
9 1 (0.24%) Appian
9 1 (0.24%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.24%) Documentum
9 1 (0.24%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.24%) NServiceBus
9 1 (0.24%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (0.71%) SPSS
2 2 (0.47%) Trello
3 1 (0.24%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.24%) Magento
2 1 (0.24%) Misys Equation
2 1 (0.24%) Misys Midas
2 1 (0.24%) Oracle SCM
2 1 (0.24%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 230 (54.50%) AWS
2 218 (51.66%) Azure
3 117 (27.73%) GCP
4 99 (23.46%) Azure DevOps
5 63 (14.93%) Amazon EKS
6 62 (14.69%) GitHub
7 56 (13.27%) Serverless
8 55 (13.03%) SaaS
9 41 (9.72%) GitHub Actions
10 29 (6.87%) Power Platform
11 27 (6.40%) Firebase
12 24 (5.69%) Amazon S3
13 23 (5.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 23 (5.45%) Azure Monitor
13 23 (5.45%) Datadog
13 23 (5.45%) Microsoft 365
14 22 (5.21%) PaaS
15 20 (4.74%) AWS CloudFormation
15 20 (4.74%) Azure Logic Apps
16 19 (4.50%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 19 (4.50%) Firewall
2 16 (3.79%) DNS
3 11 (2.61%) VPN
4 9 (2.13%) MQTT
5 8 (1.90%) Network Security
6 6 (1.42%) DHCP
7 5 (1.18%) SSL
7 5 (1.18%) Wi-Fi
8 4 (0.95%) BGP
8 4 (0.95%) Broadband
8 4 (0.95%) Kerberos
8 4 (0.95%) NAS
8 4 (0.95%) SSH
8 4 (0.95%) TCP/IP
9 3 (0.71%) DKIM
9 3 (0.71%) DMARC
9 3 (0.71%) PBX
9 3 (0.71%) Unified Communications
9 3 (0.71%) VLAN
9 3 (0.71%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (9.95%) PostgreSQL
2 33 (7.82%) SQL Server
3 21 (4.98%) MongoDB
3 21 (4.98%) MySQL
4 20 (4.74%) Elasticsearch
5 19 (4.50%) Data Warehouse
6 18 (4.27%) NoSQL
7 15 (3.55%) Power BI
8 12 (2.84%) Amazon RDS
9 11 (2.61%) Spark SQL
10 10 (2.37%) Metadata
11 9 (2.13%) Azure SQL Database
12 8 (1.90%) Relational Database
13 7 (1.66%) Data Lake
13 7 (1.66%) DynamoDB
14 6 (1.42%) Amazon Aurora
14 6 (1.42%) Delta Lake
14 6 (1.42%) Geospatial Data
15 5 (1.18%) Big Data
16 4 (0.95%) Redis
Development Applications
1 88 (20.85%) Git
2 52 (12.32%) Jenkins
3 51 (12.09%) TeamCity
4 47 (11.14%) GitLab
5 31 (7.35%) JIRA
6 20 (4.74%) Crashlytics
7 15 (3.55%) Bitbucket
8 14 (3.32%) SonarQube
8 14 (3.32%) XCTest
9 13 (3.08%) fastlane
10 11 (2.61%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 11 (2.61%) Cucumber
11 9 (2.13%) JUnit
12 8 (1.90%) Mockito
12 8 (1.90%) Octopus Deploy
13 7 (1.66%) Artifactory
13 7 (1.66%) Xcode
14 6 (1.42%) Gradle
14 6 (1.42%) JMeter
14 6 (1.42%) MSI
General
1 123 (29.15%) Social Skills
2 118 (27.96%) Finance
3 82 (19.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 80 (18.96%) Banking
5 60 (14.22%) Law
6 54 (12.80%) Analytical Skills
6 54 (12.80%) Retail
7 43 (10.19%) Financial Institution
8 40 (9.48%) Public Sector
9 38 (9.00%) Back Office
10 7 (1.66%) Manufacturing
11 6 (1.42%) Aerospace
11 6 (1.42%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (1.18%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.95%) Mandarin Language
13 4 (0.95%) Marketing
14 3 (0.71%) Front Office
14 3 (0.71%) Legal
14 3 (0.71%) Retail Banking
15 2 (0.47%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 82 (19.43%) Software Engineer
2 78 (18.48%) Lead
3 64 (15.17%) Developer
4 63 (14.93%) Senior
5 62 (14.69%) DevOps Engineer
6 36 (8.53%) Azure Engineer
7 29 (6.87%) Cloud Engineer
8 25 (5.92%) Platform Engineer
9 22 (5.21%) Data Engineer
10 20 (4.74%) Lead Software Engineer
10 20 (4.74%) Senior Software Engineer
11 18 (4.27%) Java Engineer
11 18 (4.27%) Technical Leader
12 17 (4.03%) Site Engineer
12 17 (4.03%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 15 (3.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 15 (3.55%) Senior Developer
14 14 (3.32%) Administrator
14 14 (3.32%) Mobile Engineer
15 13 (3.08%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (10.66%) REST
2 41 (9.72%) RESTful
3 39 (9.24%) .NET
4 28 (6.64%) React
5 27 (6.40%) Kafka
6 21 (4.98%) SwiftUI
6 21 (4.98%) UIKit
7 20 (4.74%) Spring
8 19 (4.50%) Spring Boot
9 17 (4.03%) ARM Templates
9 17 (4.03%) CSS
10 15 (3.55%) Next.js
11 14 (3.32%) Node.js
12 13 (3.08%) PySpark
12 13 (3.08%) PyTorch
12 13 (3.08%) scikit-learn
12 13 (3.08%) TensorFlow
13 12 (2.84%) .NET Core
13 12 (2.84%) Elastic Stack
13 12 (2.84%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 134 (31.75%) Cloud Native
2 70 (16.59%) Product Ownership
3 41 (9.72%) Distributed Systems
4 29 (6.87%) Mobile App
5 22 (5.21%) Onboarding
6 18 (4.27%) Life Science
7 16 (3.79%) Legacy Systems
7 16 (3.79%) Self-Motivation
8 15 (3.55%) Greenfield Project
9 14 (3.32%) Low-Code
10 12 (2.84%) Blog
11 11 (2.61%) Enterprise Software
11 11 (2.61%) Hybrid Cloud
11 11 (2.61%) Management Information System
12 9 (2.13%) PKI
12 9 (2.13%) Virtual Team
13 8 (1.90%) Replication
14 7 (1.66%) Data Centre
14 7 (1.66%) Linux Command Line
14 7 (1.66%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 81 (19.19%) Linux
2 58 (13.74%) Windows
3 33 (7.82%) Apple iOS
4 21 (4.98%) Windows Server
5 16 (3.79%) CentOS
6 13 (3.08%) Android
7 8 (1.90%) Mac OS
8 6 (1.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (1.42%) Ubuntu
8 6 (1.42%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (0.95%) Unix
10 3 (0.71%) VMS
11 2 (0.47%) Amazon Linux
11 2 (0.47%) Embedded Linux
12 1 (0.24%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 330 (78.20%) CI/CD
2 249 (59.00%) DevOps
3 179 (42.42%) Test Automation
4 162 (38.39%) Infrastructure as Code
5 136 (32.23%) Agile
6 134 (31.75%) Software Engineering
7 118 (27.96%) Microservices
8 105 (24.88%) Observability
9 101 (23.93%) Containerisation
10 93 (22.04%) Continuous Improvement
11 89 (21.09%) Clean Code
12 85 (20.14%) Mentoring
13 83 (19.67%) Problem-Solving
14 81 (19.19%) AI
15 67 (15.88%) Analytics
16 64 (15.17%) Continuous Deployment
17 49 (11.61%) Computer Science
18 46 (10.90%) Platform Engineering
19 45 (10.66%) Machine Learning
19 45 (10.66%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 171 (40.52%) Python
2 118 (27.96%) Java
3 73 (17.30%) SQL
4 61 (14.45%) PowerShell
5 51 (12.09%) Bash
6 47 (11.14%) C#
7 40 (9.48%) TypeScript
8 39 (9.24%) JavaScript
9 22 (5.21%) Kotlin
10 21 (4.98%) Bicep
10 21 (4.98%) Swift
11 13 (3.08%) Rust
12 9 (2.13%) Go
13 8 (1.90%) Groovy
14 7 (1.66%) Shell Script
15 6 (1.42%) C
15 6 (1.42%) C++
15 6 (1.42%) Scala
16 5 (1.18%) Kusto Query Language
17 4 (0.95%) Perl
Qualifications
1 74 (17.54%) Security Cleared
2 55 (13.03%) Degree
3 43 (10.19%) SC Cleared
4 31 (7.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (4.27%) DV Cleared
6 10 (2.37%) Azure Certification
7 9 (2.13%) Master's Degree
8 8 (1.90%) AWS Certification
9 5 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (0.95%) Postgraduate
11 2 (0.47%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.47%) CCNP
11 2 (0.47%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.47%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.47%) PMP
12 1 (0.24%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 1 (0.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.24%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 1 (0.24%) JNCIP
12 1 (0.24%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (13.98%) QA
2 35 (8.29%) Accessibility
3 27 (6.40%) WCAG
4 21 (4.98%) GDPR
5 14 (3.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (3.08%) Data Quality
7 9 (2.13%) SLA
8 8 (1.90%) NCSC
9 7 (1.66%) SOC 2
10 4 (0.95%) NIST
11 2 (0.47%) Def Stans
11 2 (0.47%) IEC 61508
11 2 (0.47%) IFRS
11 2 (0.47%) IFRS 17
11 2 (0.47%) ISO 26262
11 2 (0.47%) JTAG
11 2 (0.47%) PMO
11 2 (0.47%) Solvency II
System Software
1 106 (25.12%) Docker
2 20 (4.74%) Active Directory
3 10 (2.37%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.42%) Hyper-V
5 5 (1.18%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.95%) Firmware
6 4 (0.95%) vSphere
7 3 (0.71%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.24%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.24%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 183 (43.36%) Terraform
2 172 (40.76%) Kubernetes
3 107 (25.36%) Grafana
4 78 (18.48%) Ansible
5 40 (9.48%) Prometheus
6 13 (3.08%) Microsoft Intune
7 11 (2.61%) Argo
8 10 (2.37%) Jamf Pro
8 10 (2.37%) Nagios
9 9 (2.13%) Puppet
10 6 (1.42%) SCCM
11 4 (0.95%) Packer
11 4 (0.95%) Progress Chef
12 3 (0.71%) Control-M
12 3 (0.71%) cPanel
12 3 (0.71%) Docker Swarm
12 3 (0.71%) Plesk
12 3 (0.71%) Podman
12 3 (0.71%) SCOM
12 3 (0.71%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 77 (18.25%) Microsoft
2 31 (7.35%) Dynatrace
3 26 (6.16%) Google
4 21 (4.98%) Databricks
5 17 (4.03%) Splunk
6 15 (3.55%) VMware
7 14 (3.32%) Amplitude
7 14 (3.32%) Braze
8 13 (3.08%) Red Hat
9 12 (2.84%) OpenAI
10 11 (2.61%) Apple
10 11 (2.61%) Salesforce
11 10 (2.37%) Rapid7
12 7 (1.66%) AppDynamics
13 6 (1.42%) IBM
14 5 (1.18%) Atlassian
14 5 (1.18%) Oracle
14 5 (1.18%) Tenable
15 4 (0.95%) NVIDIA
15 4 (0.95%) Thales