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

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 411 444 498
Rank change year-on-year +33 +54 -86
Permanent jobs citing Deployment Automation 369 239 447
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.40% 0.54% 0.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.55% 0.58% 0.51%
Number of salaries quoted 194 169 346
10th Percentile £42,500 £43,500 £45,625
25th Percentile £50,000 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,450 £70,000 £65,750
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% +6.46% -12.33%
75th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £103,750 £113,500 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £63,750 £67,500 £61,500
% change year-on-year -5.56% +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 66,949 41,023 87,141
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.83% 92.72% 82.59%
Number of salaries quoted 45,661 21,815 61,905
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £29,500
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% -9.54%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,055 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.89% +0.11% -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 9 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 9 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 +38 340 £69,200 -1.14% 122
UK excluding London +14 196 £63,750 -5.56% 77
Work from Home +45 159 £65,000 +4.00% 77
London -17 152 £81,500 +1.88% 51
South East +35 70 £65,000 +20.93% 32
North of England -5 70 £55,000 -18.52% 21
North West +11 29 £55,000 -6.38% 14
Midlands -12 25 £50,250 -19.60% 10
Yorkshire -29 24 £82,500 +21.32% 2
North East - 17 £47,000 - 5
East Midlands - 16 £40,000 - 4
South West -37 14 £64,200 -10.82% 6
West Midlands -27 9 £58,750 -6.00% 6
Scotland -3 8 £55,000 -27.02% 3
East of England -2 6 £85,000 +13.33% 7
Wales -37 5 £70,079 +30.38% 2
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 8 (2.17%) Apache
1 8 (2.17%) Appian
2 7 (1.90%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (1.63%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.36%) 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
1 201 (54.47%) AWS
2 180 (48.78%) Azure
3 100 (27.10%) GCP
4 84 (22.76%) Azure DevOps
5 74 (20.05%) Amazon EKS
6 64 (17.34%) GitHub
7 59 (15.99%) Serverless
8 51 (13.82%) GitHub Actions
8 51 (13.82%) SaaS
9 31 (8.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 31 (8.40%) Azure Logic Apps
10 28 (7.59%) Power Platform
11 27 (7.32%) Amazon S3
12 26 (7.05%) Firebase
13 25 (6.78%) Azure Data Factory
13 25 (6.78%) PaaS
14 24 (6.50%) Azure Monitor
15 22 (5.96%) AWS Lambda
16 20 (5.42%) AWS CloudFormation
17 17 (4.61%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 21 (5.69%) Firewall
2 13 (3.52%) DNS
3 8 (2.17%) Network Security
4 7 (1.90%) MQTT
5 6 (1.63%) DHCP
6 5 (1.36%) SSL
6 5 (1.36%) 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%) DMZ
9 2 (0.54%) Ethernet VPN
9 2 (0.54%) Intrusion Detection
9 2 (0.54%) PBX
9 2 (0.54%) SAN
9 2 (0.54%) Unified Communications
9 2 (0.54%) VLAN
9 2 (0.54%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (9.49%) SQL Server
2 31 (8.40%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (4.88%) Elasticsearch
3 18 (4.88%) NoSQL
4 16 (4.34%) MySQL
5 15 (4.07%) Data Warehouse
6 13 (3.52%) DynamoDB
6 13 (3.52%) MongoDB
6 13 (3.52%) Power BI
7 12 (3.25%) Amazon Aurora
8 11 (2.98%) Amazon RDS
8 11 (2.98%) Spark SQL
9 10 (2.71%) Pinecone
9 10 (2.71%) Relational Database
10 7 (1.90%) Metadata
11 5 (1.36%) Delta Lake
12 3 (0.81%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (0.81%) Big Data
12 3 (0.81%) Data Lake
12 3 (0.81%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 62 (16.80%) Git
2 57 (15.45%) TeamCity
3 51 (13.82%) Jenkins
4 44 (11.92%) GitLab
5 20 (5.42%) Crashlytics
6 18 (4.88%) JIRA
7 15 (4.07%) SonarQube
8 14 (3.79%) XCTest
9 13 (3.52%) Bitbucket
10 12 (3.25%) fastlane
11 11 (2.98%) Cucumber
12 10 (2.71%) MLflow
13 9 (2.44%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 9 (2.44%) Gradle
14 7 (1.90%) Artifactory
14 7 (1.90%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
15 6 (1.63%) Android Studio
15 6 (1.63%) JMeter
15 6 (1.63%) Maven
15 6 (1.63%) Xcode
General
1 113 (30.62%) Finance
2 103 (27.91%) Social Skills
3 76 (20.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 74 (20.05%) Banking
5 60 (16.26%) Law
6 56 (15.18%) Retail
7 39 (10.57%) Financial Institution
8 38 (10.30%) Analytical Skills
9 36 (9.76%) Back Office
10 22 (5.96%) Public Sector
11 8 (2.17%) Pharmaceutical
12 7 (1.90%) Aerospace
13 6 (1.63%) Retail Banking
14 4 (1.08%) Mandarin Language
14 4 (1.08%) Manufacturing
14 4 (1.08%) Organisational Skills
15 3 (0.81%) Front Office
15 3 (0.81%) Telecoms
16 2 (0.54%) Influencing Skills
16 2 (0.54%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 70 (18.97%) Lead
2 67 (18.16%) Software Engineer
3 60 (16.26%) Developer
4 54 (14.63%) Senior
5 37 (10.03%) DevOps Engineer
6 30 (8.13%) Azure Engineer
7 23 (6.23%) Cloud Engineer
8 22 (5.96%) Platform Engineer
9 21 (5.69%) Java Engineer
10 20 (5.42%) Lead Software Engineer
11 19 (5.15%) AWS Engineer
12 17 (4.61%) Data Engineer
13 16 (4.34%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 16 (4.34%) Java Software Engineer
14 15 (4.07%) Senior Software Engineer
15 14 (3.79%) Mobile Engineer
16 13 (3.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 12 (3.25%) Customer Engineer
17 12 (3.25%) Senior Developer
17 12 (3.25%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (10.84%) REST
2 39 (10.57%) .NET
3 38 (10.30%) RESTful
4 24 (6.50%) React
5 20 (5.42%) SwiftUI
5 20 (5.42%) UIKit
6 18 (4.88%) Kafka
6 18 (4.88%) OAuth
7 17 (4.61%) .NET Core
8 16 (4.34%) PyTorch
8 16 (4.34%) scikit-learn
8 16 (4.34%) TensorFlow
9 14 (3.79%) ARM Templates
9 14 (3.79%) FastAPI
10 13 (3.52%) JWT
10 13 (3.52%) Web Services
11 12 (3.25%) Spring
12 11 (2.98%) JSON
12 11 (2.98%) NumPy
12 11 (2.98%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 96 (26.02%) Cloud Native
2 48 (13.01%) Product Ownership
3 30 (8.13%) Low-Code
4 27 (7.32%) Mobile App
5 22 (5.96%) Distributed Systems
6 21 (5.69%) Life Science
7 18 (4.88%) Blog
8 15 (4.07%) Greenfield Project
9 13 (3.52%) Onboarding
10 12 (3.25%) Legacy Systems
11 11 (2.98%) Management Information System
12 10 (2.71%) PKI
13 9 (2.44%) Hackathon
13 9 (2.44%) Hybrid Cloud
14 8 (2.17%) Public Cloud
14 8 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
15 7 (1.90%) Replication
16 6 (1.63%) Cyberattack
17 5 (1.36%) Linux Command Line
17 5 (1.36%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 64 (17.34%) Linux
2 35 (9.49%) Windows
3 31 (8.40%) Apple iOS
4 16 (4.34%) Windows Server
5 14 (3.79%) CentOS
6 12 (3.25%) Android
7 8 (2.17%) Mac OS
8 6 (1.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (1.63%) Ubuntu
8 6 (1.63%) VMS
9 4 (1.08%) Unix
10 2 (0.54%) Amazon Linux
10 2 (0.54%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 277 (75.07%) CI/CD
2 190 (51.49%) DevOps
3 172 (46.61%) Test Automation
4 127 (34.42%) Infrastructure as Code
5 106 (28.73%) Agile
6 100 (27.10%) Clean Code
7 90 (24.39%) Software Engineering
8 87 (23.58%) Containerisation
8 87 (23.58%) Microservices
9 79 (21.41%) Observability
10 75 (20.33%) Analytics
10 75 (20.33%) Continuous Improvement
11 64 (17.34%) Continuous Deployment
11 64 (17.34%) Problem-Solving
12 58 (15.72%) AI
13 51 (13.82%) Computer Science
14 49 (13.28%) Cybersecurity
15 46 (12.47%) Mentoring
16 44 (11.92%) Fintech
16 44 (11.92%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 157 (42.55%) Python
2 100 (27.10%) Java
3 71 (19.24%) SQL
4 50 (13.55%) Bash
5 49 (13.28%) PowerShell
6 48 (13.01%) C#
7 35 (9.49%) JavaScript
8 25 (6.78%) TypeScript
9 22 (5.96%) Kotlin
10 20 (5.42%) Swift
11 18 (4.88%) Bicep
12 13 (3.52%) Rust
13 8 (2.17%) Groovy
13 8 (2.17%) Kusto Query Language
14 7 (1.90%) Go
14 7 (1.90%) Shell Script
15 4 (1.08%) Perl
15 4 (1.08%) PHP
15 4 (1.08%) Scala
16 2 (0.54%) VB
Qualifications
1 60 (16.26%) Degree
2 54 (14.63%) Security Cleared
3 31 (8.40%) SC Cleared
4 25 (6.78%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (4.88%) Master's Degree
6 14 (3.79%) DV Cleared
7 9 (2.44%) AWS Certification
8 8 (2.17%) Azure Certification
8 8 (2.17%) PhD
9 4 (1.08%) ISTQB
9 4 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (1.08%) Postgraduate
10 3 (0.81%) AWS Certified Developer
11 2 (0.54%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.54%) PMP
12 1 (0.27%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 1 (0.27%) CCNP
12 1 (0.27%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.27%) JNCIP
12 1 (0.27%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (10.57%) QA
2 30 (8.13%) Accessibility
3 20 (5.42%) GDPR
4 17 (4.61%) WCAG
5 16 (4.34%) Data Quality
6 13 (3.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (2.17%) GxP
8 7 (1.90%) SLA
8 7 (1.90%) 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 (26.02%) Docker
2 16 (4.34%) Active Directory
3 10 (2.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.36%) 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
1 174 (47.15%) Terraform
2 154 (41.73%) Kubernetes
3 103 (27.91%) Grafana
4 59 (15.99%) Ansible
5 34 (9.21%) Prometheus
6 12 (3.25%) Microsoft Intune
7 10 (2.71%) Jamf Pro
8 8 (2.17%) Argo
8 8 (2.17%) Nagios
9 7 (1.90%) Puppet
10 5 (1.36%) SCCM
11 4 (1.08%) Packer
12 3 (0.81%) Podman
12 3 (0.81%) Rancher
12 3 (0.81%) SCOM
12 3 (0.81%) SCOrch
13 2 (0.54%) Control-M
13 2 (0.54%) cPanel
13 2 (0.54%) Plesk
13 2 (0.54%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 57 (15.45%) Microsoft
2 20 (5.42%) Databricks
3 19 (5.15%) Dynatrace
4 17 (4.61%) Google
5 15 (4.07%) Splunk
5 15 (4.07%) VMware
6 14 (3.79%) Amplitude
6 14 (3.79%) Braze
7 13 (3.52%) OpenAI
8 10 (2.71%) Apple
8 10 (2.71%) Red Hat
8 10 (2.71%) Salesforce
9 9 (2.44%) Automation Anywhere
9 9 (2.44%) UiPath
10 8 (2.17%) Rapid7
11 7 (1.90%) AppDynamics
12 6 (1.63%) IBM
13 5 (1.36%) Oracle
13 5 (1.36%) Tenable
14 4 (1.08%) NVIDIA