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 21 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 412 353 482
Rank change year-on-year -59 +129 -51
Permanent jobs citing Deployment Automation 309 318 419
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.41% 0.75% 0.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.52% 0.80% 0.56%
Number of salaries quoted 137 233 336
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,050 £46,300
25th Percentile £48,000 £60,000 £55,410
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +15.38% -18.75%
75th Percentile £90,000 £97,528 £87,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £138,750 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £61,000 £67,750 £61,500
% change year-on-year -9.96% +10.16% -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 58,981 39,507 74,640
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 77.68% 93.49% 87.04%
Number of salaries quoted 35,808 22,230 56,250
10th Percentile £29,750 £31,750 £29,079
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,887 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.29%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,410 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.90%

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 21 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Deployment Automation in the UK

Deployment Automation
Top 16 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 21 March 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 -47 271 £67,500 -10.00% 124
UK excluding London -21 168 £61,000 -9.96% 86
Work from Home +11 149 £60,000 -7.69% 62
London -31 129 £80,000 -11.11% 51
South East +8 66 £66,250 +20.45% 26
North of England -60 38 £60,000 +9.09% 26
Scotland -2 27 £55,000 -27.02% 2
Yorkshire -37 21 £60,000 +21.21% 4
Midlands -22 18 £48,000 -36.00% 18
North West -32 14 £73,000 +24.26% 17
East Midlands -37 10 £37,500 - 2
East of England -9 8 £76,250 +1.67%
West Midlands -14 8 £48,000 -36.00% 16
South West -40 7 £62,950 -12.56% 10
Wales -21 4 £61,248 - 3
North East - 3 £47,500 - 5

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 12 (3.88%) Appian
2 5 (1.62%) Apache
2 5 (1.62%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.29%) Confluence
4 3 (0.97%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.97%) IIS
5 2 (0.65%) BizTalk Server
5 2 (0.65%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.65%) SAS
6 1 (0.32%) CMS
6 1 (0.32%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.32%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.32%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.32%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.32%) SPSS
1 1 (0.32%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.32%) Oracle SCM
2 1 (0.32%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 162 (52.43%) AWS
2 141 (45.63%) Azure
3 76 (24.60%) Azure DevOps
3 76 (24.60%) GCP
4 67 (21.68%) Amazon EKS
5 66 (21.36%) GitHub
6 59 (19.09%) GitHub Actions
7 55 (17.80%) Serverless
8 48 (15.53%) SaaS
9 36 (11.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 36 (11.65%) Azure Logic Apps
10 30 (9.71%) AWS Lambda
10 30 (9.71%) Power Platform
11 27 (8.74%) Azure Data Factory
11 27 (8.74%) Azure Monitor
12 25 (8.09%) Amazon S3
13 23 (7.44%) AWS CloudFormation
14 19 (6.15%) AWS Step Functions
15 18 (5.83%) Amazon SQS
16 14 (4.53%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.24%) Firewall
2 5 (1.62%) DNS
3 4 (1.29%) MQTT
3 4 (1.29%) SSL
4 3 (0.97%) DMZ
4 3 (0.97%) VPN
5 2 (0.65%) Network Security
6 1 (0.32%) BGP
6 1 (0.32%) Ethernet VPN
6 1 (0.32%) HTTP
6 1 (0.32%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.32%) NetScaler
6 1 (0.32%) SNMP
6 1 (0.32%) VXLAN
6 1 (0.32%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (12.30%) SQL Server
2 29 (9.39%) PostgreSQL
3 22 (7.12%) DynamoDB
4 19 (6.15%) NoSQL
5 14 (4.53%) Amazon Aurora
6 13 (4.21%) MySQL
7 12 (3.88%) Pinecone
7 12 (3.88%) Power BI
8 10 (3.24%) Elasticsearch
9 9 (2.91%) Amazon RDS
10 6 (1.94%) Relational Database
11 4 (1.29%) Metadata
11 4 (1.29%) MongoDB
12 3 (0.97%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (0.97%) CockroachDB
12 3 (0.97%) Data Warehouse
12 3 (0.97%) Tableau
13 2 (0.65%) Azure SQL Database
13 2 (0.65%) Delta Lake
13 2 (0.65%) Redis
Development Applications
1 53 (17.15%) TeamCity
2 50 (16.18%) Git
3 32 (10.36%) GitLab
4 27 (8.74%) Jenkins
5 12 (3.88%) MLflow
6 10 (3.24%) Crashlytics
6 10 (3.24%) JIRA
7 9 (2.91%) XCTest
8 8 (2.59%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 8 (2.59%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 7 (2.27%) Bitbucket
10 6 (1.94%) Gradle
10 6 (1.94%) Storybook
11 5 (1.62%) JMeter
11 5 (1.62%) Maven
12 4 (1.29%) Cucumber
12 4 (1.29%) JUnit
12 4 (1.29%) Locust
13 3 (0.97%) NUnit
13 3 (0.97%) SonarQube
General
1 127 (41.10%) Finance
2 85 (27.51%) Social Skills
3 65 (21.04%) Banking
4 60 (19.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 54 (17.48%) Law
6 53 (17.15%) Retail
7 36 (11.65%) Back Office
7 36 (11.65%) Financial Institution
8 31 (10.03%) Analytical Skills
9 20 (6.47%) Pharmaceutical
10 9 (2.91%) Public Sector
11 7 (2.27%) Marketing
12 6 (1.94%) Retail Banking
13 2 (0.65%) Advertising
13 2 (0.65%) Front Office
13 2 (0.65%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.65%) Mandarin Language
13 2 (0.65%) Manufacturing
14 1 (0.32%) Documentation Skills
14 1 (0.32%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 59 (19.09%) Lead
2 50 (16.18%) Developer
3 48 (15.53%) Software Engineer
4 43 (13.92%) Senior
5 24 (7.77%) DevOps Engineer
6 22 (7.12%) AWS Engineer
7 20 (6.47%) Cloud Engineer
8 18 (5.83%) Integration Engineer
8 18 (5.83%) Java Engineer
9 16 (5.18%) Java Software Engineer
9 16 (5.18%) Platform Engineer
9 16 (5.18%) Senior Software Engineer
10 15 (4.85%) Azure Engineer
10 15 (4.85%) Power Platform Developer
11 13 (4.21%) Automation Engineer
11 13 (4.21%) Lead Software Engineer
12 12 (3.88%) .NET Developer
12 12 (3.88%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 12 (3.88%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 10 (3.24%) AWS Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (14.89%) RESTful
2 39 (12.62%) .NET
3 34 (11.00%) OAuth
3 34 (11.00%) React
4 26 (8.41%) .NET Core
4 26 (8.41%) REST
5 22 (7.12%) OAuth2
6 20 (6.47%) JSON
7 17 (5.50%) JWT
8 16 (5.18%) AWS CDK
9 15 (4.85%) ASP.NET
9 15 (4.85%) Web Services
10 14 (4.53%) FastAPI
10 14 (4.53%) Flask
10 14 (4.53%) OpenAPI
10 14 (4.53%) Swagger
11 13 (4.21%) ASP.NET Core
11 13 (4.21%) Blazor
11 13 (4.21%) Django
12 12 (3.88%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 93 (30.10%) Cloud Native
2 40 (12.94%) Low-Code
3 29 (9.39%) Life Science
4 26 (8.41%) Product Ownership
5 15 (4.85%) Blog
5 15 (4.85%) Legacy Systems
6 12 (3.88%) Mobile App
7 11 (3.56%) Greenfield Project
8 10 (3.24%) Hackathon
9 9 (2.91%) Distributed Systems
10 8 (2.59%) Onboarding
11 5 (1.62%) Hybrid Cloud
11 5 (1.62%) Public Cloud
12 4 (1.29%) Enterprise Software
12 4 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
13 3 (0.97%) Analytical Mindset
13 3 (0.97%) IoT
13 3 (0.97%) PKI
13 3 (0.97%) Private Cloud
14 2 (0.65%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 36 (11.65%) Linux
2 18 (5.83%) Windows
3 14 (4.53%) Apple iOS
4 10 (3.24%) Windows Server
5 7 (2.27%) CentOS
6 6 (1.94%) VMS
7 4 (1.29%) Android
7 4 (1.29%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.65%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.32%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 232 (75.08%) CI/CD
2 159 (51.46%) DevOps
3 135 (43.69%) Test Automation
4 107 (34.63%) Infrastructure as Code
5 104 (33.66%) Agile
6 81 (26.21%) Analytics
7 78 (25.24%) Clean Code
7 78 (25.24%) Microservices
8 66 (21.36%) Containerisation
9 64 (20.71%) AI
9 64 (20.71%) Software Engineering
10 63 (20.39%) Observability
11 62 (20.06%) Continuous Improvement
12 59 (19.09%) Problem-Solving
13 58 (18.77%) Continuous Deployment
14 57 (18.45%) Machine Learning
15 42 (13.59%) Computer Science
15 42 (13.59%) Disruptive Innovation
16 41 (13.27%) Coaching
17 40 (12.94%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 111 (35.92%) Python
2 70 (22.65%) Java
3 61 (19.74%) SQL
4 41 (13.27%) JavaScript
5 38 (12.30%) Bash
6 37 (11.97%) C#
7 34 (11.00%) PowerShell
8 27 (8.74%) Bicep
9 25 (8.09%) TypeScript
10 11 (3.56%) Kotlin
11 10 (3.24%) Swift
12 7 (2.27%) Kusto Query Language
12 7 (2.27%) Rust
13 6 (1.94%) Go
14 2 (0.65%) Delphi
14 2 (0.65%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.65%) VB
14 2 (0.65%) VB6
15 1 (0.32%) PHP
15 1 (0.32%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 56 (18.12%) Degree
2 32 (10.36%) Security Cleared
3 29 (9.39%) Master's Degree
4 19 (6.15%) PhD
5 18 (5.83%) SC Cleared
6 17 (5.50%) AWS Certification
7 11 (3.56%) AWS Certified Developer
8 9 (2.91%) Computer Science Degree
9 8 (2.59%) Azure Certification
9 8 (2.59%) DV Cleared
10 3 (0.97%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.65%) Postgraduate
12 1 (0.32%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 1 (0.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.32%) JNCIP
12 1 (0.32%) LPIC
12 1 (0.32%) MCSE
12 1 (0.32%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.32%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (8.09%) Accessibility
2 22 (7.12%) QA
3 19 (6.15%) Data Quality
3 19 (6.15%) GxP
4 14 (4.53%) GDPR
5 12 (3.88%) WCAG
6 7 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (1.29%) SLA
8 2 (0.65%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.32%) NCSC
9 1 (0.32%) NIST
System Software
1 76 (24.60%) Docker
2 9 (2.91%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.62%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (1.29%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.97%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.32%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.32%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 152 (49.19%) Terraform
2 131 (42.39%) Kubernetes
3 84 (27.18%) Grafana
4 31 (10.03%) Ansible
5 21 (6.80%) Prometheus
6 9 (2.91%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (1.62%) Argo
7 5 (1.62%) Jamf Pro
7 5 (1.62%) Nagios
8 4 (1.29%) logstash
9 3 (0.97%) Rancher
10 2 (0.65%) Istio
10 2 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.32%) Puppet
Vendors
1 29 (9.39%) Microsoft
2 13 (4.21%) OpenAI
3 12 (3.88%) Ab Initio
3 12 (3.88%) Automation Anywhere
3 12 (3.88%) UiPath
4 10 (3.24%) Splunk
5 9 (2.91%) Amplitude
6 8 (2.59%) Dynatrace
6 8 (2.59%) Google
7 6 (1.94%) Databricks
7 6 (1.94%) Oracle
7 6 (1.94%) Red Hat
7 6 (1.94%) Salesforce
8 5 (1.62%) Cisco
8 5 (1.62%) Rapid7
9 4 (1.29%) Pega
9 4 (1.29%) VMware
10 3 (0.97%) Citrix
11 2 (0.65%) Apple
12 1 (0.32%) Juniper