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 15 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 394 469 460
Rank change year-on-year +75 -9 -64
Permanent jobs citing Deployment Automation 496 207 357
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.44% 0.42% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.60% 0.48% 0.57%
Number of salaries quoted 271 112 257
10th Percentile £45,456 £48,250 £44,058
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £69,250 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.08% +6.54% -9.72%
75th Percentile £86,000 £82,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £111,250 £92,250 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £68,000 £58,500
% change year-on-year -4.41% +16.24% -10.00%

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 82,954 43,576 62,762
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.83% 88.69% 80.93%
Number of salaries quoted 57,665 24,452 36,140
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,000 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £76,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

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 15 September 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 15 September 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 +65 409 £70,000 -6.67% 695
UK excluding London +16 247 £65,000 -4.41% 366
London +50 198 £81,000 +8.00% 411
Work from Home +44 173 £65,000 -8.77% 283
North of England +2 83 £67,500 -1.46% 109
South East -18 48 £65,000 -21.21% 72
South West -43 44 £70,000 -12.50% 68
North East -32 31 £67,500 -12.58% 25
Midlands -37 30 £52,500 -12.50% 30
North West -4 29 £53,750 -28.33% 61
Wales -60 25 £52,500 +8.25% 9
Yorkshire -31 23 £82,500 +20.44% 24
East Midlands -19 15 £61,250 -18.33% 15
West Midlands -36 15 £50,000 -16.67% 15
Scotland -7 14 £75,000 -2.87% 53
East of England -25 5 £56,000 - 13
Northern Ireland -77 1 £77,500 +0.37% 12

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 13 (2.62%) Confluence
2 12 (2.42%) SharePoint
3 9 (1.81%) Apache Spark
4 8 (1.61%) Apache
4 8 (1.61%) IIS
4 8 (1.61%) nginx
5 5 (1.01%) Camunda
6 4 (0.81%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.81%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (0.81%) SAS
7 2 (0.40%) Cloud Foundry
7 2 (0.40%) Luigi
8 1 (0.20%) CMS
8 1 (0.20%) Documentum
8 1 (0.20%) JBoss
8 1 (0.20%) NServiceBus
8 1 (0.20%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 3 (0.60%) SPSS
2 1 (0.20%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.20%) ProjectWise
2 1 (0.20%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.20%) Magento
2 1 (0.20%) Misys Equation
2 1 (0.20%) Misys Midas
2 1 (0.20%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 283 (57.06%) AWS
2 263 (53.02%) Azure
3 170 (34.27%) GCP
4 107 (21.57%) Azure DevOps
5 85 (17.14%) Amazon EKS
6 70 (14.11%) GitHub
7 59 (11.90%) SaaS
8 50 (10.08%) Serverless
9 39 (7.86%) GitHub Actions
10 31 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
10 31 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
10 31 (6.25%) Power Platform
11 25 (5.04%) Amazon ECS
11 25 (5.04%) Datadog
12 23 (4.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 23 (4.64%) Azure Monitor
13 21 (4.23%) Amazon S3
13 21 (4.23%) Entra ID
14 20 (4.03%) Azure Data Factory
15 19 (3.83%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 21 (4.23%) DNS
2 19 (3.83%) Firewall
3 15 (3.02%) VPN
4 8 (1.61%) BGP
4 8 (1.61%) DHCP
4 8 (1.61%) Network Security
5 6 (1.21%) OSPF
5 6 (1.21%) SD-WAN
5 6 (1.21%) SSL
5 6 (1.21%) TCP/IP
5 6 (1.21%) WAN
5 6 (1.21%) Wireless
6 5 (1.01%) LAN
6 5 (1.01%) MQTT
6 5 (1.01%) Wi-Fi
7 4 (0.81%) Broadband
7 4 (0.81%) Kerberos
7 4 (0.81%) NAS
7 4 (0.81%) SSH
7 4 (0.81%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (11.29%) PostgreSQL
2 36 (7.26%) SQL Server
3 32 (6.45%) MongoDB
4 31 (6.25%) MySQL
5 28 (5.65%) NoSQL
6 21 (4.23%) Power BI
7 20 (4.03%) Data Warehouse
7 20 (4.03%) Elasticsearch
8 15 (3.02%) Data Lake
9 14 (2.82%) Amazon RDS
10 12 (2.42%) Azure SQL Database
11 10 (2.02%) Metadata
11 10 (2.02%) Spark SQL
12 9 (1.81%) Relational Database
13 8 (1.61%) Big Data
14 7 (1.41%) Geospatial Data
15 5 (1.01%) Delta Lake
15 5 (1.01%) DynamoDB
15 5 (1.01%) Hadoop
15 5 (1.01%) Redis
Development Applications
1 106 (21.37%) Git
2 64 (12.90%) TeamCity
3 63 (12.70%) Jenkins
4 48 (9.68%) GitLab
5 34 (6.85%) JIRA
6 17 (3.43%) Bitbucket
7 13 (2.62%) SonarQube
8 12 (2.42%) Crashlytics
9 11 (2.22%) fastlane
10 9 (1.81%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 9 (1.81%) JUnit
11 8 (1.61%) Claude Code
11 8 (1.61%) Mockito
11 8 (1.61%) Octopus Deploy
12 7 (1.41%) Artifactory
12 7 (1.41%) Cucumber
12 7 (1.41%) MSI
12 7 (1.41%) XCTest
13 6 (1.21%) Xcode
14 5 (1.01%) Maven
General
1 154 (31.05%) Finance
2 136 (27.42%) Social Skills
3 107 (21.57%) Banking
4 106 (21.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 80 (16.13%) Law
6 67 (13.51%) Retail
7 66 (13.31%) Analytical Skills
8 57 (11.49%) Public Sector
9 56 (11.29%) Financial Institution
10 48 (9.68%) Back Office
11 10 (2.02%) Marketing
12 8 (1.61%) Manufacturing
12 8 (1.61%) Telecoms
13 6 (1.21%) Aerospace
13 6 (1.21%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (0.81%) Legal
15 3 (0.60%) Documentation Skills
15 3 (0.60%) Mandarin Language
15 3 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
16 2 (0.40%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 108 (21.77%) Software Engineer
2 91 (18.35%) Lead
3 83 (16.73%) DevOps Engineer
4 82 (16.53%) Senior
5 70 (14.11%) Developer
6 40 (8.06%) Cloud Engineer
7 36 (7.26%) Azure Engineer
8 27 (5.44%) Data Engineer
8 27 (5.44%) Senior Software Engineer
9 26 (5.24%) Platform Engineer
10 24 (4.84%) Java Engineer
11 23 (4.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 23 (4.64%) Lead Software Engineer
12 21 (4.23%) Site Engineer
12 21 (4.23%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 18 (3.63%) Automation Engineer
13 18 (3.63%) Java Developer
13 18 (3.63%) Software Team Leader
13 18 (3.63%) Team Leader
13 18 (3.63%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 236 (47.58%) Terraform
2 56 (11.29%) REST
3 53 (10.69%) RESTful
4 46 (9.27%) .NET
5 32 (6.45%) React
6 31 (6.25%) Kafka
7 25 (5.04%) Spring
8 23 (4.64%) Spring Boot
9 22 (4.44%) LangChain
10 18 (3.63%) AngularJS
11 17 (3.43%) ARM Templates
12 16 (3.23%) CSS
12 16 (3.23%) Hibernate
12 16 (3.23%) JPA
12 16 (3.23%) PySpark
12 16 (3.23%) PyTorch
12 16 (3.23%) RabbitMQ
12 16 (3.23%) scikit-learn
12 16 (3.23%) TensorFlow
12 16 (3.23%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 190 (38.31%) Cloud Native
2 99 (19.96%) Product Ownership
3 54 (10.89%) Distributed Systems
4 32 (6.45%) Onboarding
5 23 (4.64%) Enterprise Software
6 22 (4.44%) Self-Motivation
7 20 (4.03%) Mobile App
8 19 (3.83%) AI Agents
9 18 (3.63%) Legacy Systems
10 17 (3.43%) Virtual Team
11 16 (3.23%) Management Information System
12 15 (3.02%) Blog
12 15 (3.02%) Life Science
13 11 (2.22%) Hybrid Cloud
14 9 (1.81%) Public Cloud
15 8 (1.61%) Data Centre
15 8 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
15 8 (1.61%) Linux Command Line
15 8 (1.61%) PKI
15 8 (1.61%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 89 (17.94%) Linux
2 62 (12.50%) Windows
3 23 (4.64%) Apple iOS
4 21 (4.23%) Windows Server
5 15 (3.02%) CentOS
6 10 (2.02%) Android
7 7 (1.41%) Windows Server 2016
8 6 (1.21%) Mac OS
8 6 (1.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 5 (1.01%) Ubuntu
9 5 (1.01%) Unix
10 2 (0.40%) Amazon Linux
10 2 (0.40%) Embedded Linux
10 2 (0.40%) Solaris
11 1 (0.20%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 402 (81.05%) CI/CD
2 316 (63.71%) DevOps
3 216 (43.55%) Infrastructure as Code
4 212 (42.74%) Test Automation
5 191 (38.51%) Software Engineering
6 159 (32.06%) Agile
7 143 (28.83%) Observability
8 138 (27.82%) AI
9 133 (26.81%) Microservices
10 127 (25.60%) Mentoring
11 123 (24.80%) Containerisation
12 121 (24.40%) Continuous Improvement
13 116 (23.39%) Problem-Solving
14 98 (19.76%) Clean Code
15 75 (15.12%) Continuous Deployment
16 74 (14.92%) Technical Leadership
17 66 (13.31%) Machine Learning
18 64 (12.90%) Analytics
19 59 (11.90%) Coaching
20 53 (10.69%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 200 (40.32%) Python
2 143 (28.83%) Java
3 87 (17.54%) SQL
4 77 (15.52%) PowerShell
5 55 (11.09%) Bash
6 49 (9.88%) C#
6 49 (9.88%) TypeScript
7 37 (7.46%) JavaScript
8 21 (4.23%) Bicep
9 14 (2.82%) Kotlin
10 13 (2.62%) Swift
11 12 (2.42%) Go
12 9 (1.81%) C++
12 9 (1.81%) Scala
13 8 (1.61%) Groovy
13 8 (1.61%) Shell Script
14 6 (1.21%) C
14 6 (1.21%) Rust
15 4 (0.81%) Apex Code
15 4 (0.81%) Perl
Qualifications
1 86 (17.34%) Security Cleared
2 54 (10.89%) Degree
2 54 (10.89%) SC Cleared
3 39 (7.86%) Computer Science Degree
4 20 (4.03%) Azure Certification
5 16 (3.23%) AWS Certification
6 14 (2.82%) DV Cleared
7 13 (2.62%) BPSS Clearance
8 10 (2.02%) Master's Degree
9 7 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (1.01%) CCNP
10 5 (1.01%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (0.81%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 3 (0.60%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 3 (0.60%) PMI Certification
12 3 (0.60%) Postgraduate
13 2 (0.40%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 2 (0.40%) PMP
14 1 (0.20%) ISTQB
14 1 (0.20%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (13.31%) QA
2 33 (6.65%) Accessibility
3 22 (4.44%) GDPR
3 22 (4.44%) WCAG
4 18 (3.63%) Data Quality
5 16 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 14 (2.82%) NCSC
6 14 (2.82%) SLA
7 7 (1.41%) SOC 2
8 4 (0.81%) NIST
9 3 (0.60%) PMO
10 2 (0.40%) Def Stans
10 2 (0.40%) GRC
10 2 (0.40%) IEC 61508
10 2 (0.40%) IFRS
10 2 (0.40%) IFRS 17
10 2 (0.40%) ISO 26262
10 2 (0.40%) JTAG
10 2 (0.40%) Solvency II
System Software
1 128 (25.81%) Docker
2 24 (4.84%) Active Directory
3 11 (2.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (1.41%) Firmware
4 7 (1.41%) Hyper-V
5 6 (1.21%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.81%) vSphere
7 3 (0.60%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.20%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.20%) NDS
8 1 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.20%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 212 (42.74%) Kubernetes
2 124 (25.00%) Grafana
3 90 (18.15%) Ansible
4 40 (8.06%) Prometheus
5 14 (2.82%) Microsoft Intune
6 13 (2.62%) Argo
7 11 (2.22%) Puppet
8 10 (2.02%) Nagios
9 8 (1.61%) Jamf Pro
10 6 (1.21%) Progress Chef
10 6 (1.21%) SCCM
11 4 (0.81%) Packer
11 4 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
12 3 (0.60%) cPanel
12 3 (0.60%) Docker Swarm
12 3 (0.60%) Istio
12 3 (0.60%) Podman
12 3 (0.60%) Rancher
12 3 (0.60%) SCOM
12 3 (0.60%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 99 (19.96%) Microsoft
2 36 (7.26%) Dynatrace
3 31 (6.25%) Google
4 23 (4.64%) Splunk
5 22 (4.44%) Databricks
6 18 (3.63%) Salesforce
7 16 (3.23%) Red Hat
7 16 (3.23%) VMware
8 12 (2.42%) OpenAI
9 10 (2.02%) Apple
9 10 (2.02%) Rapid7
10 8 (1.61%) Oracle
11 7 (1.41%) Amplitude
11 7 (1.41%) Atlassian
11 7 (1.41%) Braze
11 7 (1.41%) Fortinet
11 7 (1.41%) ServiceNow
12 6 (1.21%) AppDynamics
12 6 (1.21%) IBM
13 5 (1.01%) Cisco