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 5 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 402 443 505
Rank change year-on-year +41 +62 -84
Permanent jobs citing Deployment Automation 372 234 444
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.40% 0.53% 0.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.55% 0.57% 0.52%
Number of salaries quoted 193 170 345
10th Percentile £42,500 £43,625 £46,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,400 £70,000 £66,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.29% +5.26% -11.33%
75th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £102,750 £113,000 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £61,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +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 68,040 40,758 85,662
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.42% 93.05% 83.05%
Number of salaries quoted 45,181 21,501 61,227
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,250 £29,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.69%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,967 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.01% +1.93% -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 5 June 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 5 June 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 +59 344 £69,200 -1.14% 164
UK excluding London +32 198 £65,000 -3.70% 95
Work from Home +47 160 £65,000 +4.00% 147
London +10 153 £80,750 +0.94% 76
South East +19 73 £65,000 +20.93% 35
North of England -21 68 £56,250 -16.67% 27
North West -1 29 £55,000 -6.38% 18
Midlands -23 25 £50,250 -19.60% 10
Yorkshire -30 24 £82,500 +21.32% 3
East Midlands - 16 £40,000 - 5
South West -43 15 £68,400 -4.99% 6
North East - 15 £47,000 - 6
West Midlands -41 9 £58,750 -6.00% 5
Scotland -2 7 £55,000 -27.02% 5
East of England -14 7 £76,250 +1.67% 10
Wales -38 5 £70,079 +30.38% 2
Northern Ireland - 1 £77,500 - 4

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 8 (2.15%) Apache
1 8 (2.15%) Appian
2 7 (1.88%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (1.61%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.34%) SharePoint
5 4 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.81%) Confluence
6 3 (0.81%) IIS
7 2 (0.54%) Luigi
8 1 (0.27%) BizTalk Server
8 1 (0.27%) CMS
8 1 (0.27%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.27%) nginx
8 1 (0.27%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (0.81%) SPSS
2 2 (0.54%) Trello
3 1 (0.27%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (0.81%) 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
1 203 (54.57%) AWS
2 177 (47.58%) Azure
3 99 (26.61%) GCP
4 82 (22.04%) Azure DevOps
5 74 (19.89%) Amazon EKS
6 64 (17.20%) GitHub
7 61 (16.40%) Serverless
8 52 (13.98%) GitHub Actions
9 51 (13.71%) SaaS
10 32 (8.60%) Azure Logic Apps
11 31 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 29 (7.80%) Power Platform
13 27 (7.26%) Amazon S3
14 25 (6.72%) Azure Data Factory
14 25 (6.72%) PaaS
15 24 (6.45%) AWS Lambda
15 24 (6.45%) Azure Monitor
15 24 (6.45%) Firebase
16 20 (5.38%) AWS CloudFormation
17 18 (4.84%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 21 (5.65%) Firewall
2 13 (3.49%) DNS
3 8 (2.15%) Network Security
4 7 (1.88%) MQTT
5 6 (1.61%) DHCP
5 6 (1.61%) SSL
6 5 (1.34%) VPN
7 4 (1.08%) Broadband
7 4 (1.08%) SSH
8 3 (0.81%) BGP
9 2 (0.54%) DKIM
9 2 (0.54%) DMARC
9 2 (0.54%) Ethernet VPN
9 2 (0.54%) Intrusion Detection
9 2 (0.54%) PBX
9 2 (0.54%) Unified Communications
9 2 (0.54%) VLAN
9 2 (0.54%) VoIP
9 2 (0.54%) WAN
9 2 (0.54%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (9.41%) SQL Server
2 31 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (4.84%) Elasticsearch
3 18 (4.84%) NoSQL
4 16 (4.30%) MySQL
5 15 (4.03%) Data Warehouse
6 13 (3.49%) DynamoDB
6 13 (3.49%) MongoDB
6 13 (3.49%) Power BI
7 12 (3.23%) Amazon Aurora
8 11 (2.96%) Amazon RDS
8 11 (2.96%) Spark SQL
9 10 (2.69%) Pinecone
9 10 (2.69%) Relational Database
10 7 (1.88%) Metadata
11 5 (1.34%) Delta Lake
12 3 (0.81%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (0.81%) CockroachDB
12 3 (0.81%) Data Lake
12 3 (0.81%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 60 (16.13%) Git
2 57 (15.32%) TeamCity
3 51 (13.71%) Jenkins
4 46 (12.37%) GitLab
5 19 (5.11%) Crashlytics
6 17 (4.57%) JIRA
7 15 (4.03%) SonarQube
8 14 (3.76%) XCTest
9 13 (3.49%) Bitbucket
10 10 (2.69%) Cucumber
10 10 (2.69%) fastlane
10 10 (2.69%) MLflow
11 9 (2.42%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 9 (2.42%) Gradle
12 7 (1.88%) Artifactory
12 7 (1.88%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 6 (1.61%) JMeter
13 6 (1.61%) JUnit
13 6 (1.61%) Maven
14 5 (1.34%) Xcode
General
1 116 (31.18%) Finance
2 103 (27.69%) Social Skills
3 74 (19.89%) Banking
3 74 (19.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 60 (16.13%) Law
5 56 (15.05%) Retail
6 39 (10.48%) Financial Institution
7 38 (10.22%) Analytical Skills
8 36 (9.68%) Back Office
9 20 (5.38%) Public Sector
10 10 (2.69%) Pharmaceutical
11 7 (1.88%) Aerospace
12 6 (1.61%) Retail Banking
13 4 (1.08%) Mandarin Language
13 4 (1.08%) Manufacturing
13 4 (1.08%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.81%) Front Office
14 3 (0.81%) Telecoms
15 2 (0.54%) Influencing Skills
15 2 (0.54%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 72 (19.35%) Lead
2 67 (18.01%) Software Engineer
3 61 (16.40%) Developer
4 53 (14.25%) Senior
5 37 (9.95%) DevOps Engineer
6 30 (8.06%) Azure Engineer
7 23 (6.18%) Cloud Engineer
8 22 (5.91%) Platform Engineer
9 21 (5.65%) Java Engineer
10 20 (5.38%) Lead Software Engineer
11 19 (5.11%) AWS Engineer
12 17 (4.57%) Data Engineer
13 16 (4.30%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 16 (4.30%) Java Software Engineer
14 15 (4.03%) Senior Software Engineer
15 14 (3.76%) Mobile Engineer
16 13 (3.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 13 (3.49%) Power Platform Developer
17 12 (3.23%) Customer Engineer
17 12 (3.23%) DevSecOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (11.02%) REST
2 39 (10.48%) .NET
3 36 (9.68%) RESTful
4 24 (6.45%) React
5 19 (5.11%) SwiftUI
5 19 (5.11%) UIKit
6 18 (4.84%) Kafka
6 18 (4.84%) OAuth
7 17 (4.57%) .NET Core
8 16 (4.30%) PyTorch
8 16 (4.30%) scikit-learn
8 16 (4.30%) TensorFlow
9 14 (3.76%) ARM Templates
9 14 (3.76%) FastAPI
10 13 (3.49%) JWT
10 13 (3.49%) Web Services
11 12 (3.23%) Spring
12 11 (2.96%) JSON
12 11 (2.96%) NumPy
12 11 (2.96%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 96 (25.81%) Cloud Native
2 45 (12.10%) Product Ownership
3 31 (8.33%) Low-Code
4 25 (6.72%) Mobile App
5 23 (6.18%) Life Science
6 22 (5.91%) Distributed Systems
7 18 (4.84%) Blog
8 15 (4.03%) Greenfield Project
9 14 (3.76%) Onboarding
10 12 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
11 11 (2.96%) Management Information System
12 10 (2.69%) PKI
13 9 (2.42%) Hackathon
13 9 (2.42%) Hybrid Cloud
14 8 (2.15%) Public Cloud
14 8 (2.15%) Self-Motivation
15 7 (1.88%) Replication
16 6 (1.61%) Cyberattack
16 6 (1.61%) Private Cloud
17 5 (1.34%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 65 (17.47%) Linux
2 35 (9.41%) Windows
3 30 (8.06%) Apple iOS
4 16 (4.30%) Windows Server
5 14 (3.76%) CentOS
6 11 (2.96%) Android
7 8 (2.15%) Mac OS
8 6 (1.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (1.61%) Ubuntu
8 6 (1.61%) VMS
9 4 (1.08%) Unix
10 2 (0.54%) Amazon Linux
10 2 (0.54%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 277 (74.46%) CI/CD
2 192 (51.61%) DevOps
3 170 (45.70%) Test Automation
4 129 (34.68%) Infrastructure as Code
5 104 (27.96%) Agile
6 98 (26.34%) Clean Code
7 90 (24.19%) Software Engineering
8 87 (23.39%) Containerisation
8 87 (23.39%) Microservices
9 79 (21.24%) Observability
10 75 (20.16%) Analytics
11 74 (19.89%) Continuous Improvement
12 64 (17.20%) Continuous Deployment
12 64 (17.20%) Problem-Solving
13 62 (16.67%) AI
14 52 (13.98%) Computer Science
15 50 (13.44%) Cybersecurity
16 46 (12.37%) Machine Learning
16 46 (12.37%) Mentoring
17 44 (11.83%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 158 (42.47%) Python
2 98 (26.34%) Java
3 72 (19.35%) SQL
4 51 (13.71%) Bash
5 49 (13.17%) C#
5 49 (13.17%) PowerShell
6 37 (9.95%) JavaScript
7 26 (6.99%) TypeScript
8 21 (5.65%) Kotlin
9 19 (5.11%) Swift
10 18 (4.84%) Bicep
11 13 (3.49%) Rust
12 8 (2.15%) Groovy
12 8 (2.15%) Kusto Query Language
13 7 (1.88%) Go
13 7 (1.88%) Shell Script
14 4 (1.08%) Perl
14 4 (1.08%) PHP
14 4 (1.08%) Scala
15 2 (0.54%) VB
Qualifications
1 61 (16.40%) Degree
2 56 (15.05%) Security Cleared
3 33 (8.87%) SC Cleared
4 24 (6.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (5.38%) Master's Degree
6 14 (3.76%) DV Cleared
7 10 (2.69%) PhD
8 9 (2.42%) AWS Certification
9 8 (2.15%) Azure Certification
10 4 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (1.08%) Postgraduate
11 3 (0.81%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (0.81%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.54%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.54%) PMP
13 1 (0.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.27%) CCNP
13 1 (0.27%) Cisco Certification
13 1 (0.27%) JNCIP
13 1 (0.27%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (10.48%) QA
2 28 (7.53%) Accessibility
3 20 (5.38%) GDPR
4 16 (4.30%) Data Quality
5 15 (4.03%) WCAG
6 13 (3.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (2.69%) GxP
8 7 (1.88%) SLA
8 7 (1.88%) SOC 2
9 4 (1.08%) NIST
10 2 (0.54%) Def Stans
10 2 (0.54%) IEC 61508
10 2 (0.54%) IFRS
10 2 (0.54%) IFRS 17
10 2 (0.54%) ISO 26262
10 2 (0.54%) PMO
10 2 (0.54%) Solvency II
11 1 (0.27%) NCSC
System Software
1 96 (25.81%) Docker
2 16 (4.30%) Active Directory
3 10 (2.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.34%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.81%) vSphere
6 2 (0.54%) 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
1 176 (47.31%) Terraform
2 156 (41.94%) Kubernetes
3 103 (27.69%) Grafana
4 59 (15.86%) Ansible
5 34 (9.14%) Prometheus
6 12 (3.23%) Microsoft Intune
7 10 (2.69%) Jamf Pro
8 9 (2.42%) Argo
9 8 (2.15%) Nagios
10 7 (1.88%) Puppet
11 5 (1.34%) SCCM
12 4 (1.08%) Packer
13 3 (0.81%) Podman
13 3 (0.81%) Rancher
13 3 (0.81%) SCOM
13 3 (0.81%) SCOrch
14 2 (0.54%) Docker Swarm
14 2 (0.54%) Plesk
14 2 (0.54%) Progress Chef
14 2 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 58 (15.59%) Microsoft
2 20 (5.38%) Databricks
3 17 (4.57%) Dynatrace
3 17 (4.57%) Google
4 15 (4.03%) Splunk
4 15 (4.03%) VMware
5 14 (3.76%) Amplitude
5 14 (3.76%) Braze
6 13 (3.49%) OpenAI
7 12 (3.23%) Salesforce
8 10 (2.69%) Red Hat
9 9 (2.42%) Apple
9 9 (2.42%) Automation Anywhere
9 9 (2.42%) UiPath
10 8 (2.15%) Rapid7
11 7 (1.88%) AppDynamics
12 6 (1.61%) IBM
12 6 (1.61%) Oracle
13 5 (1.34%) Tenable
14 4 (1.08%) NVIDIA