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

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 413 482 461
Rank change year-on-year +69 -21 -61
Permanent jobs citing Deployment Automation 461 204 378
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.42% 0.41% 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.58% 0.46% 0.56%
Number of salaries quoted 263 123 275
10th Percentile £46,250 £46,000 £45,629
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,750 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +8.00% -16.11%
75th Percentile £85,500 £83,750 £76,250
90th Percentile £112,250 £96,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%

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 79,636 44,374 67,391
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.20% 88.88% 80.70%
Number of salaries quoted 55,106 25,202 42,338
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,650 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -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 25 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 25 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 +78 387 £70,000 +2.19% 131
UK excluding London +26 246 £65,000 +4.00% 109
London +30 175 £85,000 +15.25% 56
Work from Home +37 166 £65,000 +1.96% 74
North of England +2 82 £65,000 -4.41% 26
South East -3 53 £65,000 -21.21% 25
South West -37 38 £70,000 -9.68% 29
Midlands -14 34 £51,250 -14.58% 8
North West -4 30 £52,500 +14.13% 15
North East -26 29 £49,815 - 3
Yorkshire -30 23 £82,500 +20.44% 8
Wales -58 20 £58,000 +19.59% 5
West Midlands -28 19 £51,250 -14.58% 7
Scotland 0 17 £68,750 -14.06% 11
East Midlands -15 15 £52,500 -30.00% 1
East of England -20 4 £56,000 - 8
Northern Ireland - 1 £77,500 -

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 (2.82%) Confluence
2 10 (2.17%) Apache
2 10 (2.17%) SharePoint
3 9 (1.95%) Apache Spark
4 8 (1.74%) nginx
5 7 (1.52%) IIS
6 6 (1.30%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (1.08%) Camunda
8 4 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
8 4 (0.87%) SAS
9 2 (0.43%) Cloud Foundry
9 2 (0.43%) CMS
9 2 (0.43%) Luigi
10 1 (0.22%) Documentum
10 1 (0.22%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.22%) NServiceBus
10 1 (0.22%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (0.65%) SPSS
2 1 (0.22%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.22%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.22%) Magento
2 1 (0.22%) Misys Equation
2 1 (0.22%) Misys Midas
Cloud Services
1 260 (56.40%) AWS
2 236 (51.19%) Azure
3 143 (31.02%) GCP
4 104 (22.56%) Azure DevOps
5 68 (14.75%) Amazon EKS
5 68 (14.75%) GitHub
6 57 (12.36%) SaaS
7 52 (11.28%) Serverless
8 39 (8.46%) GitHub Actions
9 32 (6.94%) Datadog
10 28 (6.07%) Power Platform
11 27 (5.86%) AWS CloudFormation
11 27 (5.86%) Microsoft 365
12 25 (5.42%) Amazon ECS
13 24 (5.21%) Firebase
14 23 (4.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 23 (4.99%) PaaS
15 22 (4.77%) Azure Monitor
16 21 (4.56%) Amazon S3
17 19 (4.12%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 19 (4.12%) Firewall
2 18 (3.90%) DNS
3 13 (2.82%) VPN
4 8 (1.74%) Network Security
5 7 (1.52%) DHCP
6 6 (1.30%) BGP
6 6 (1.30%) MQTT
6 6 (1.30%) SSL
6 6 (1.30%) TCP/IP
7 5 (1.08%) Wi-Fi
8 4 (0.87%) Broadband
8 4 (0.87%) Kerberos
8 4 (0.87%) NAS
8 4 (0.87%) OSPF
8 4 (0.87%) SD-WAN
8 4 (0.87%) SSH
8 4 (0.87%) WAN
8 4 (0.87%) Wireless
9 3 (0.65%) LAN
9 3 (0.65%) PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (9.33%) PostgreSQL
2 32 (6.94%) SQL Server
3 27 (5.86%) MySQL
4 26 (5.64%) MongoDB
5 21 (4.56%) Data Warehouse
5 21 (4.56%) Elasticsearch
6 20 (4.34%) NoSQL
7 18 (3.90%) Power BI
8 15 (3.25%) Amazon RDS
9 13 (2.82%) Data Lake
10 11 (2.39%) Azure SQL Database
10 11 (2.39%) Spark SQL
11 9 (1.95%) Metadata
11 9 (1.95%) Relational Database
12 8 (1.74%) Big Data
13 7 (1.52%) Geospatial Data
14 6 (1.30%) Delta Lake
14 6 (1.30%) DynamoDB
15 5 (1.08%) Hadoop
15 5 (1.08%) Redis
Development Applications
1 96 (20.82%) Git
2 56 (12.15%) Jenkins
3 52 (11.28%) TeamCity
4 45 (9.76%) GitLab
5 33 (7.16%) JIRA
6 17 (3.69%) Crashlytics
7 16 (3.47%) Bitbucket
8 13 (2.82%) fastlane
8 13 (2.82%) SonarQube
9 11 (2.39%) Cucumber
9 11 (2.39%) XCTest
10 10 (2.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 8 (1.74%) JUnit
11 8 (1.74%) Mockito
11 8 (1.74%) Octopus Deploy
12 7 (1.52%) Artifactory
12 7 (1.52%) Claude Code
12 7 (1.52%) MSI
12 7 (1.52%) Xcode
13 6 (1.30%) Gradle
General
1 141 (30.59%) Finance
2 136 (29.50%) Social Skills
3 98 (21.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 89 (19.31%) Banking
5 69 (14.97%) Law
6 61 (13.23%) Analytical Skills
7 55 (11.93%) Retail
8 50 (10.85%) Financial Institution
9 47 (10.20%) Public Sector
10 42 (9.11%) Back Office
11 10 (2.17%) Marketing
12 7 (1.52%) Manufacturing
13 6 (1.30%) Aerospace
13 6 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (1.30%) Telecoms
14 4 (0.87%) Legal
14 4 (0.87%) Mandarin Language
15 3 (0.65%) Front Office
16 2 (0.43%) Electronics
16 2 (0.43%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 91 (19.74%) Software Engineer
2 89 (19.31%) Lead
3 76 (16.49%) DevOps Engineer
4 66 (14.32%) Senior
5 62 (13.45%) Developer
6 37 (8.03%) Cloud Engineer
7 35 (7.59%) Azure Engineer
8 26 (5.64%) Data Engineer
9 23 (4.99%) Platform Engineer
9 23 (4.99%) Senior Software Engineer
9 23 (4.99%) Site Engineer
9 23 (4.99%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 22 (4.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 20 (4.34%) Lead Software Engineer
12 19 (4.12%) Technical Leader
13 18 (3.90%) Java Engineer
14 17 (3.69%) Automation Engineer
15 16 (3.47%) Administrator
16 15 (3.25%) Senior Developer
16 15 (3.25%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 209 (45.34%) Terraform
2 48 (10.41%) REST
3 47 (10.20%) RESTful
4 41 (8.89%) .NET
5 28 (6.07%) React
6 27 (5.86%) Kafka
7 20 (4.34%) Spring
8 19 (4.12%) Spring Boot
9 18 (3.90%) SwiftUI
9 18 (3.90%) UIKit
10 17 (3.69%) ARM Templates
10 17 (3.69%) LangChain
11 16 (3.47%) CSS
12 15 (3.25%) Next.js
12 15 (3.25%) PySpark
13 14 (3.04%) AngularJS
13 14 (3.04%) Node.js
14 13 (2.82%) PyTorch
14 13 (2.82%) scikit-learn
14 13 (2.82%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 157 (34.06%) Cloud Native
2 83 (18.00%) Product Ownership
3 48 (10.41%) Distributed Systems
4 28 (6.07%) Onboarding
5 26 (5.64%) Mobile App
6 18 (3.90%) Legacy Systems
6 18 (3.90%) Life Science
6 18 (3.90%) Self-Motivation
7 15 (3.25%) Management Information System
8 14 (3.04%) AI Agents
9 13 (2.82%) Enterprise Software
10 12 (2.60%) Greenfield Project
10 12 (2.60%) Virtual Team
11 10 (2.17%) Hybrid Cloud
12 9 (1.95%) Blog
13 8 (1.74%) Linux Command Line
13 8 (1.74%) Low-Code
13 8 (1.74%) PKI
14 7 (1.52%) Public Cloud
14 7 (1.52%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 84 (18.22%) Linux
2 62 (13.45%) Windows
3 29 (6.29%) Apple iOS
4 21 (4.56%) Windows Server
5 17 (3.69%) CentOS
6 12 (2.60%) Android
7 7 (1.52%) Mac OS
7 7 (1.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (1.30%) Ubuntu
8 6 (1.30%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (0.87%) Unix
10 2 (0.43%) Amazon Linux
10 2 (0.43%) Embedded Linux
10 2 (0.43%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 365 (79.18%) CI/CD
2 284 (61.61%) DevOps
3 197 (42.73%) Test Automation
4 196 (42.52%) Infrastructure as Code
5 164 (35.57%) Software Engineering
6 152 (32.97%) Agile
7 139 (30.15%) Observability
8 123 (26.68%) AI
9 119 (25.81%) Microservices
10 118 (25.60%) Containerisation
11 115 (24.95%) Continuous Improvement
12 109 (23.64%) Mentoring
13 100 (21.69%) Problem-Solving
14 90 (19.52%) Clean Code
15 73 (15.84%) Analytics
16 65 (14.10%) Machine Learning
17 63 (13.67%) Continuous Deployment
18 60 (13.02%) Technical Leadership
19 53 (11.50%) Computer Science
20 52 (11.28%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 194 (42.08%) Python
2 128 (27.77%) Java
3 79 (17.14%) SQL
4 73 (15.84%) PowerShell
5 55 (11.93%) Bash
6 46 (9.98%) TypeScript
7 44 (9.54%) C#
8 34 (7.38%) JavaScript
9 21 (4.56%) Bicep
10 19 (4.12%) Kotlin
11 18 (3.90%) Swift
12 11 (2.39%) Go
13 9 (1.95%) Scala
14 8 (1.74%) Groovy
14 8 (1.74%) Rust
14 8 (1.74%) Shell Script
15 7 (1.52%) C++
16 6 (1.30%) C
17 4 (0.87%) Perl
18 3 (0.65%) PHP
Qualifications
1 75 (16.27%) Security Cleared
2 56 (12.15%) Degree
3 45 (9.76%) SC Cleared
4 36 (7.81%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (3.47%) Azure Certification
6 15 (3.25%) AWS Certification
7 14 (3.04%) DV Cleared
8 12 (2.60%) Master's Degree
9 10 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (0.87%) Postgraduate
12 3 (0.65%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 3 (0.65%) CCNP
12 3 (0.65%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (0.65%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 2 (0.43%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 2 (0.43%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.43%) PMP
14 1 (0.22%) ISTQB
14 1 (0.22%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (14.10%) QA
2 41 (8.89%) Accessibility
3 28 (6.07%) WCAG
4 21 (4.56%) GDPR
5 16 (3.47%) Data Quality
6 15 (3.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 14 (3.04%) SLA
8 12 (2.60%) NCSC
9 7 (1.52%) SOC 2
10 4 (0.87%) NIST
11 2 (0.43%) Def Stans
11 2 (0.43%) GRC
11 2 (0.43%) IEC 61508
11 2 (0.43%) IFRS
11 2 (0.43%) IFRS 17
11 2 (0.43%) ISO 26262
11 2 (0.43%) JTAG
11 2 (0.43%) PMO
11 2 (0.43%) Solvency II
System Software
1 122 (26.46%) Docker
2 22 (4.77%) Active Directory
3 10 (2.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.30%) Hyper-V
5 5 (1.08%) Firmware
5 5 (1.08%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.87%) vSphere
7 3 (0.65%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.22%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.22%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 191 (41.43%) Kubernetes
2 115 (24.95%) Grafana
3 90 (19.52%) Ansible
4 37 (8.03%) Prometheus
5 13 (2.82%) Argo
5 13 (2.82%) Microsoft Intune
6 11 (2.39%) Nagios
6 11 (2.39%) Puppet
7 9 (1.95%) Jamf Pro
8 6 (1.30%) Progress Chef
8 6 (1.30%) SCCM
9 4 (0.87%) Packer
9 4 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.65%) Control-M
10 3 (0.65%) cPanel
10 3 (0.65%) Docker Swarm
10 3 (0.65%) Plesk
10 3 (0.65%) Podman
10 3 (0.65%) SCOM
10 3 (0.65%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 85 (18.44%) Microsoft
2 40 (8.68%) Dynatrace
3 30 (6.51%) Google
4 22 (4.77%) Databricks
5 20 (4.34%) Splunk
6 17 (3.69%) Red Hat
7 15 (3.25%) Salesforce
7 15 (3.25%) VMware
8 11 (2.39%) Amplitude
8 11 (2.39%) Apple
8 11 (2.39%) Braze
8 11 (2.39%) OpenAI
8 11 (2.39%) Rapid7
9 7 (1.52%) AppDynamics
9 7 (1.52%) Atlassian
10 6 (1.30%) IBM
10 6 (1.30%) Oracle
11 5 (1.08%) Fortinet
11 5 (1.08%) ServiceNow
12 4 (0.87%) Dell