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 7 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 438 413 379
Rank change year-on-year -25 -34 +49
Permanent jobs citing Deployment Automation 225 362 379
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.40% 0.58% 0.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.47% 0.67% 0.80%
Number of salaries quoted 97 239 300
10th Percentile £48,250 £46,250 £46,215
25th Percentile £56,250 £48,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £68,000 £72,250
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -5.88% -6.77%
75th Percentile £85,000 £89,375 £92,076
90th Percentile £95,500 £116,250 £130,569
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £58,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +15.38% -2.50% -

All Process and 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 47,424 53,892 47,309
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.09% 86.75% 93.74%
Number of salaries quoted 28,060 28,022 36,472
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -0.83%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,750 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -1.87%

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 7 December 2025.

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 7 December 2025. 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 -48 172 £75,000 +10.29% 200
UK excluding London +25 147 £67,500 +15.38% 184
Work from Home +30 92 £77,217 +14.40% 65
London +12 72 £77,217 -14.20% 50
South East +28 39 £72,500 +25.00% 76
Scotland +33 36 £78,609 +49.73% 10
North of England -28 31 £75,000 +51.52% 42
Yorkshire -56 16 £63,750 +28.79% 22
Wales +18 14 £48,500 -25.38% 3
North West +34 13 £77,217 +120.62% 15
Midlands +19 12 £75,000 +25.00% 18
South West +12 8 £68,750 +1.85% 22
East Midlands +17 6 £75,000 +161.30% 5
West Midlands +15 6 £77,217 +28.70% 12
East of England +15 6 £55,000 +15.79% 13
North East - 2 £77,217 - 6
Northern Ireland - 1 £77,217 - 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 20 (8.89%) Apache Spark
2 4 (1.78%) Appian
3 3 (1.33%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.33%) IIS
3 3 (1.33%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.89%) BizTalk Server
4 2 (0.89%) nginx
4 2 (0.89%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.44%) Apache
5 1 (0.44%) Confluence
5 1 (0.44%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.44%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.89%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.44%) Eikon
Cloud Services
1 110 (48.89%) Azure
2 88 (39.11%) AWS
3 66 (29.33%) Azure DevOps
4 47 (20.89%) GitHub
5 45 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
6 42 (18.67%) Amazon EKS
7 37 (16.44%) GCP
8 30 (13.33%) Amazon S3
9 29 (12.89%) SaaS
10 25 (11.11%) Azure Monitor
11 24 (10.67%) Serverless
12 19 (8.44%) Amazon ELB
13 18 (8.00%) Azure Data Factory
14 16 (7.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 16 (7.11%) Azure Logic Apps
15 15 (6.67%) Entra ID
15 15 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
16 14 (6.22%) AWS Lambda
17 13 (5.78%) AWS CloudFormation
17 13 (5.78%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.78%) Firewall
1 4 (1.78%) SSL
1 4 (1.78%) VPN
1 4 (1.78%) WAN
2 3 (1.33%) DNS
2 3 (1.33%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.89%) BGP
3 2 (0.89%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (0.89%) LAN
3 2 (0.89%) MQTT
3 2 (0.89%) Network Security
3 2 (0.89%) OSPF
3 2 (0.89%) Reverse Proxy
3 2 (0.89%) RTMP
3 2 (0.89%) VLAN
3 2 (0.89%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (0.89%) Wireless
4 1 (0.44%) DHCP
4 1 (0.44%) NetScaler
4 1 (0.44%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (13.33%) DynamoDB
2 22 (9.78%) Metadata
3 20 (8.89%) Delta Lake
4 19 (8.44%) Spark SQL
4 19 (8.44%) SQL Server
5 12 (5.33%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (4.44%) Data Warehouse
7 9 (4.00%) NoSQL
7 9 (4.00%) Tick Data
8 5 (2.22%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (2.22%) MySQL
9 4 (1.78%) Pinecone
9 4 (1.78%) Power BI
10 3 (1.33%) Amazon Aurora
10 3 (1.33%) Big Data
10 3 (1.33%) Data Lake
10 3 (1.33%) MongoDB
11 2 (0.89%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (0.89%) Tableau
12 1 (0.44%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 32 (14.22%) Git
2 26 (11.56%) MLflow
3 17 (7.56%) TeamCity
4 15 (6.67%) Jenkins
5 13 (5.78%) GitLab
6 6 (2.67%) Storybook
7 5 (2.22%) CircleCI
8 4 (1.78%) Artifactory
8 4 (1.78%) JIRA
9 3 (1.33%) Maven
10 2 (0.89%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (0.89%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.89%) Gradle
10 2 (0.89%) Jaeger
10 2 (0.89%) Octopus Deploy
10 2 (0.89%) Selenium
10 2 (0.89%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.89%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 2 (0.89%) webpack
11 1 (0.44%) WebDriver
General
1 96 (42.67%) Finance
2 60 (26.67%) Social Skills
3 26 (11.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 21 (9.33%) Pharmaceutical
5 19 (8.44%) Banking
6 18 (8.00%) Law
6 18 (8.00%) Marketing
7 17 (7.56%) Financial Institution
8 16 (7.11%) Back Office
9 15 (6.67%) Retail
10 6 (2.67%) Analytical Skills
10 6 (2.67%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (2.22%) Public Sector
12 4 (1.78%) Legal
13 3 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (0.89%) Advertising
14 2 (0.89%) Agriculture
14 2 (0.89%) Manufacturing
15 1 (0.44%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 52 (23.11%) Lead
2 29 (12.89%) Developer
3 26 (11.56%) Software Engineer
4 22 (9.78%) DevOps Engineer
5 20 (8.89%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 20 (8.89%) Operations Engineer
5 20 (8.89%) Senior
6 14 (6.22%) Cloud Engineer
6 14 (6.22%) Platform Engineer
7 11 (4.89%) Integration Engineer
8 9 (4.00%) Analyst
8 9 (4.00%) Azure Engineer
8 9 (4.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 9 (4.00%) Data Warehouse Developer
8 9 (4.00%) ETL Developer
8 9 (4.00%) Market Data Developer
9 8 (3.56%) Java Engineer
9 8 (3.56%) Java Software Engineer
9 8 (3.56%) Senior Software Engineer
9 8 (3.56%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (15.56%) RESTful
2 23 (10.22%) .NET
2 23 (10.22%) NumPy
2 23 (10.22%) Pandas
2 23 (10.22%) PyTorch
2 23 (10.22%) scikit-learn
2 23 (10.22%) TensorFlow
2 23 (10.22%) YAML
3 22 (9.78%) React
4 20 (8.89%) OAuth
4 20 (8.89%) PySpark
5 19 (8.44%) JSON
5 19 (8.44%) Keras
5 19 (8.44%) Lambda Expressions
5 19 (8.44%) Metaflow
6 16 (7.11%) .NET Core
6 16 (7.11%) OAuth2
7 13 (5.78%) Blazor
8 10 (4.44%) REST
9 9 (4.00%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 51 (22.67%) Cloud Native
2 22 (9.78%) Life Science
3 19 (8.44%) Linux Command Line
4 16 (7.11%) Product Ownership
5 13 (5.78%) Low-Code
6 10 (4.44%) Distributed Systems
6 10 (4.44%) Management Information System
7 5 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.78%) IoT
8 4 (1.78%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.33%) Algorithms
9 3 (1.33%) Public Cloud
10 2 (0.89%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.89%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (0.89%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.89%) Hackathon
10 2 (0.89%) IVR
10 2 (0.89%) Mobile App
10 2 (0.89%) MPEG
10 2 (0.89%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 19 (8.44%) Unix
2 16 (7.11%) Linux
3 12 (5.33%) Windows
4 8 (3.56%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.89%) CentOS
5 2 (0.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.44%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 145 (64.44%) CI/CD
2 117 (52.00%) DevOps
3 94 (41.78%) Agile
4 82 (36.44%) AI
5 79 (35.11%) Infrastructure as Code
6 70 (31.11%) Machine Learning
7 65 (28.89%) Containerisation
8 64 (28.44%) Test Automation
9 55 (24.44%) Analytics
10 48 (21.33%) Data Science
11 46 (20.44%) Roadmaps
12 43 (19.11%) Continuous Improvement
13 42 (18.67%) Microservices
14 40 (17.78%) Problem-Solving
15 39 (17.33%) Coaching
16 37 (16.44%) Software Engineering
17 30 (13.33%) ETL
17 30 (13.33%) Information Security
17 30 (13.33%) Observability
17 30 (13.33%) OO
Programming Languages
1 88 (39.11%) Python
2 41 (18.22%) SQL
3 29 (12.89%) PowerShell
4 25 (11.11%) Bash
5 24 (10.67%) Bicep
6 23 (10.22%) C#
7 21 (9.33%) Java
8 14 (6.22%) JavaScript
9 9 (4.00%) TypeScript
10 4 (1.78%) Go
11 3 (1.33%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.89%) C++
12 2 (0.89%) Groovy
13 1 (0.44%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.44%) C
13 1 (0.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.44%) Delphi
13 1 (0.44%) R
13 1 (0.44%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.44%) VB6
Qualifications
1 35 (15.56%) Degree
2 23 (10.22%) Master's Degree
3 20 (8.89%) PhD
4 11 (4.89%) Azure Certification
4 11 (4.89%) Security Cleared
5 10 (4.44%) AWS Certification
6 8 (3.56%) AWS Certified Developer
7 7 (3.11%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (3.11%) SC Cleared
8 4 (1.78%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.44%) MCSE
9 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.44%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.44%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (8.89%) GxP
2 19 (8.44%) GDPR
3 9 (4.00%) QA
4 8 (3.56%) Accessibility
4 8 (3.56%) Data Quality
5 6 (2.67%) WCAG
6 4 (1.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.89%) GRC
7 2 (0.89%) NIST
7 2 (0.89%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.44%) EU AI Act
8 1 (0.44%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.44%) SLA
System Software
1 76 (33.78%) Docker
2 11 (4.89%) Virtual Machines
3 10 (4.44%) Virtual Desktop
4 8 (3.56%) Active Directory
5 4 (1.78%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.89%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.89%) NFS
6 2 (0.89%) Terminal Server
7 1 (0.44%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 111 (49.33%) Terraform
2 89 (39.56%) Kubernetes
3 30 (13.33%) Grafana
4 19 (8.44%) Kubeflow
5 16 (7.11%) Ansible
6 12 (5.33%) Prometheus
7 10 (4.44%) Microsoft Intune
8 6 (2.67%) Argo
9 3 (1.33%) logstash
10 2 (0.89%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.89%) Puppet
10 2 (0.89%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.44%) Istio
11 1 (0.44%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.44%) Rancher
11 1 (0.44%) SCCM
Vendors
1 29 (12.89%) Databricks
2 20 (8.89%) Microsoft
3 12 (5.33%) Ab Initio
4 4 (1.78%) Automation Anywhere
4 4 (1.78%) Cisco
4 4 (1.78%) Citrix
4 4 (1.78%) OpenAI
4 4 (1.78%) UiPath
4 4 (1.78%) VMware
5 3 (1.33%) Dynatrace
6 2 (0.89%) ForgeRock
6 2 (0.89%) Google
6 2 (0.89%) MikroTik
6 2 (0.89%) OneLogin
6 2 (0.89%) Oracle
6 2 (0.89%) Red Hat
6 2 (0.89%) Salesforce
6 2 (0.89%) Sonatype
6 2 (0.89%) Starlink
6 2 (0.89%) Ubiquiti