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 30 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 418 421 370
Rank change year-on-year +3 -51 +67
Permanent jobs citing Deployment Automation 219 353 397
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.40% 0.54% 0.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.48% 0.63% 0.83%
Number of salaries quoted 91 229 313
10th Percentile £48,250 £46,250 £46,350
25th Percentile £60,000 £48,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £68,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year +6.62% -3.65% -5.90%
75th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £115,250 £122,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £68,500 £58,000 £60,250
% change year-on-year +18.10% -3.73% +0.42%

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 45,531 55,918 47,797
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.16% 85.44% 93.76%
Number of salaries quoted 27,749 29,151 36,831
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,500 £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% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £99,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -0.94%

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 30 November 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 30 November 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 -37 165 £75,000 +10.29% 105
UK excluding London +22 143 £68,500 +18.10% 105
Work from Home +36 83 £77,217 +14.40% 49
London +15 71 £77,217 -14.20% 36
Scotland +39 37 £78,609 +49.73% 6
South East +27 36 £78,000 +38.67% 54
North of England -6 30 £75,000 +51.52% 17
Yorkshire -35 16 £67,500 +36.36% 8
Wales +24 15 £48,500 -25.38% 5
North West +40 12 £78,609 +124.60% 7
Midlands +34 12 £75,000 +25.00% 8
South West +16 8 £68,750 +1.85% 12
West Midlands +33 6 £77,217 +28.70% 7
East Midlands +27 6 £75,000 +118.33% 1
East of England +22 4 £55,000 +15.79% 5
North East - 2 £77,217 - 2
Northern Ireland - 1 £77,217 -

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 (9.13%) Apache Spark
2 4 (1.83%) IIS
2 4 (1.83%) nginx
3 3 (1.37%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.37%) Appian
3 3 (1.37%) BizTalk Server
3 3 (1.37%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.91%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.46%) Apache
5 1 (0.46%) Confluence
5 1 (0.46%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.46%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.46%) Eikon
Cloud Services
1 106 (48.40%) Azure
2 84 (38.36%) AWS
3 60 (27.40%) Azure DevOps
4 46 (21.00%) GitHub
5 44 (20.09%) GitHub Actions
6 40 (18.26%) GCP
7 38 (17.35%) Amazon EKS
8 29 (13.24%) Amazon S3
9 28 (12.79%) SaaS
10 24 (10.96%) Azure Monitor
11 22 (10.05%) Serverless
12 19 (8.68%) Amazon ELB
13 16 (7.31%) Azure Data Factory
14 15 (6.85%) Entra ID
14 15 (6.85%) Microsoft 365
15 13 (5.94%) PaaS
16 12 (5.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 12 (5.48%) AWS CloudFormation
16 12 (5.48%) AWS Lambda
16 12 (5.48%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.28%) DNS
2 4 (1.83%) Network Security
2 4 (1.83%) SSL
2 4 (1.83%) VPN
2 4 (1.83%) WAN
3 3 (1.37%) Firewall
3 3 (1.37%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.91%) BGP
4 2 (0.91%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (0.91%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 2 (0.91%) LAN
4 2 (0.91%) MQTT
4 2 (0.91%) OSPF
4 2 (0.91%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (0.91%) RTMP
4 2 (0.91%) VLAN
4 2 (0.91%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.91%) Wireless
5 1 (0.46%) DHCP
5 1 (0.46%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (13.24%) DynamoDB
2 22 (10.05%) Metadata
3 20 (9.13%) Delta Lake
4 19 (8.68%) Spark SQL
5 17 (7.76%) SQL Server
6 12 (5.48%) Data Warehouse
7 11 (5.02%) PostgreSQL
7 11 (5.02%) Tick Data
8 8 (3.65%) NoSQL
9 5 (2.28%) MySQL
10 4 (1.83%) Power BI
11 3 (1.37%) Big Data
11 3 (1.37%) Data Lake
11 3 (1.37%) MongoDB
11 3 (1.37%) Pinecone
12 2 (0.91%) Amazon RDS
12 2 (0.91%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (0.91%) Tableau
13 1 (0.46%) Elasticsearch
13 1 (0.46%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 32 (14.61%) Git
2 25 (11.42%) MLflow
3 17 (7.76%) TeamCity
4 15 (6.85%) GitLab
5 14 (6.39%) Jenkins
6 6 (2.74%) CircleCI
6 6 (2.74%) Storybook
7 4 (1.83%) Artifactory
7 4 (1.83%) JIRA
8 3 (1.37%) Maven
8 3 (1.37%) Octopus Deploy
8 3 (1.37%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 2 (0.91%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (0.91%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.91%) Gradle
9 2 (0.91%) Jaeger
9 2 (0.91%) Selenium
9 2 (0.91%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.91%) webpack
10 1 (0.46%) gulp
General
1 91 (41.55%) Finance
2 55 (25.11%) Social Skills
3 27 (12.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 21 (9.59%) Pharmaceutical
5 20 (9.13%) Marketing
6 19 (8.68%) Law
7 18 (8.22%) Banking
8 16 (7.31%) Financial Institution
9 15 (6.85%) Back Office
10 14 (6.39%) Retail
11 7 (3.20%) Organisational Skills
12 6 (2.74%) Public Sector
13 5 (2.28%) Legal
14 3 (1.37%) Analytical Skills
14 3 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
15 2 (0.91%) Advertising
15 2 (0.91%) Agriculture
15 2 (0.91%) Manufacturing
16 1 (0.46%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 55 (25.11%) Lead
2 27 (12.33%) Software Engineer
3 26 (11.87%) Developer
4 22 (10.05%) DevOps Engineer
5 20 (9.13%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 20 (9.13%) Operations Engineer
5 20 (9.13%) Senior
6 12 (5.48%) Platform Engineer
7 11 (5.02%) Cloud Engineer
7 11 (5.02%) Data Warehouse Developer
7 11 (5.02%) ETL Developer
7 11 (5.02%) Market Data Developer
8 10 (4.57%) Integration Engineer
9 9 (4.11%) .NET Software Engineer
9 9 (4.11%) Analyst
9 9 (4.11%) Architect
9 9 (4.11%) Python Developer
10 8 (3.65%) C# Software Engineer
10 8 (3.65%) Senior Software Engineer
10 8 (3.65%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (15.07%) RESTful
2 24 (10.96%) .NET
3 23 (10.50%) YAML
4 22 (10.05%) NumPy
4 22 (10.05%) Pandas
4 22 (10.05%) PyTorch
4 22 (10.05%) React
4 22 (10.05%) scikit-learn
4 22 (10.05%) TensorFlow
5 20 (9.13%) PySpark
6 19 (8.68%) Keras
6 19 (8.68%) Lambda Expressions
6 19 (8.68%) Metaflow
7 18 (8.22%) JSON
7 18 (8.22%) OAuth
8 16 (7.31%) .NET Core
9 15 (6.85%) OAuth2
10 12 (5.48%) Blazor
11 9 (4.11%) AngularJS
11 9 (4.11%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 49 (22.37%) Cloud Native
2 22 (10.05%) Life Science
3 19 (8.68%) Linux Command Line
4 15 (6.85%) Product Ownership
5 11 (5.02%) Distributed Systems
5 11 (5.02%) Management Information System
6 9 (4.11%) Low-Code
7 6 (2.74%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.83%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.83%) IoT
8 4 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.83%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.83%) Private Cloud
9 3 (1.37%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.91%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.91%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.91%) Hackathon
10 2 (0.91%) IVR
10 2 (0.91%) Robotics
10 2 (0.91%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 19 (8.68%) Unix
2 12 (5.48%) Linux
2 12 (5.48%) Windows
3 8 (3.65%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.91%) CentOS
4 2 (0.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.46%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (62.10%) CI/CD
2 109 (49.77%) DevOps
3 94 (42.92%) Agile
4 80 (36.53%) AI
5 74 (33.79%) Infrastructure as Code
6 69 (31.51%) Machine Learning
7 66 (30.14%) Containerisation
8 63 (28.77%) Test Automation
9 54 (24.66%) Analytics
10 48 (21.92%) Data Science
10 48 (21.92%) Roadmaps
11 43 (19.63%) Continuous Improvement
12 41 (18.72%) Microservices
13 39 (17.81%) Coaching
13 39 (17.81%) Software Engineering
14 37 (16.89%) Problem-Solving
15 30 (13.70%) ETL
15 30 (13.70%) Information Security
16 29 (13.24%) Computer Science
16 29 (13.24%) OO
Programming Languages
1 84 (38.36%) Python
2 38 (17.35%) SQL
3 28 (12.79%) PowerShell
4 22 (10.05%) Bicep
5 21 (9.59%) Bash
5 21 (9.59%) C#
6 20 (9.13%) Java
7 10 (4.57%) JavaScript
8 8 (3.65%) TypeScript
9 5 (2.28%) Go
10 4 (1.83%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.91%) C++
11 2 (0.91%) Groovy
12 1 (0.46%) C
12 1 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.46%) Delphi
12 1 (0.46%) R
12 1 (0.46%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.46%) VB
12 1 (0.46%) VB6
Qualifications
1 32 (14.61%) Degree
2 23 (10.50%) Master's Degree
3 20 (9.13%) PhD
4 10 (4.57%) Azure Certification
4 10 (4.57%) Security Cleared
5 9 (4.11%) AWS Certification
6 7 (3.20%) AWS Certified Developer
6 7 (3.20%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (2.74%) SC Cleared
8 4 (1.83%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.91%) CCNA
9 2 (0.91%) CCNP
9 2 (0.91%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.46%) MCSE
10 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.46%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.46%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (9.13%) GxP
2 18 (8.22%) GDPR
3 9 (4.11%) QA
4 8 (3.65%) Accessibility
5 7 (3.20%) Data Quality
6 6 (2.74%) WCAG
7 4 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.91%) GRC
8 2 (0.91%) NIST
8 2 (0.91%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.46%) EU AI Act
9 1 (0.46%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.46%) SLA
System Software
1 79 (36.07%) Docker
2 11 (5.02%) Virtual Machines
3 10 (4.57%) Virtual Desktop
4 7 (3.20%) Active Directory
5 4 (1.83%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.91%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.91%) NFS
6 2 (0.91%) Terminal Server
7 1 (0.46%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 107 (48.86%) Terraform
2 89 (40.64%) Kubernetes
3 26 (11.87%) Grafana
4 19 (8.68%) Kubeflow
5 16 (7.31%) Ansible
6 10 (4.57%) Microsoft Intune
7 9 (4.11%) Prometheus
8 6 (2.74%) Argo
9 2 (0.91%) logstash
9 2 (0.91%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.91%) Puppet
9 2 (0.91%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.46%) Istio
10 1 (0.46%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.46%) Rancher
10 1 (0.46%) SCCM
Vendors
1 31 (14.16%) Databricks
2 16 (7.31%) Microsoft
3 11 (5.02%) Ab Initio
4 4 (1.83%) VMware
5 3 (1.37%) Automation Anywhere
5 3 (1.37%) Cisco
5 3 (1.37%) Citrix
5 3 (1.37%) Dynatrace
5 3 (1.37%) Google
5 3 (1.37%) OpenAI
5 3 (1.37%) UiPath
6 2 (0.91%) ForgeRock
6 2 (0.91%) MikroTik
6 2 (0.91%) OneLogin
6 2 (0.91%) Oracle
6 2 (0.91%) Red Hat
6 2 (0.91%) Salesforce
6 2 (0.91%) Sonatype
6 2 (0.91%) Starlink
6 2 (0.91%) Ubiquiti