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 5 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 403 473 454
Rank change year-on-year +70 -19 -57
Permanent jobs citing Deployment Automation 484 202 368
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.44% 0.41% 0.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.60% 0.46% 0.58%
Number of salaries quoted 274 114 266
10th Percentile £45,694 £46,625 £44,632
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,750 £63,750
Median % change year-on-year +3.32% +6.27% -12.07%
75th Percentile £85,750 £85,000 £75,938
90th Percentile £112,125 £95,875 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £64,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +0.78% +7.50% -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 81,075 43,637 63,564
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.98% 88.47% 80.58%
Number of salaries quoted 56,400 24,673 38,159
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,500 £36,250 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,700 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -8.65% -4.74%

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 5 September 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 5 September 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 +67 400 £70,000 - 380
UK excluding London +16 251 £65,000 +0.78% 223
London +45 186 £82,000 +11.19% 229
Work from Home +46 165 £65,000 - 174
North of England -8 82 £66,250 -3.28% 57
South East -9 50 £65,000 -22.39% 48
South West -42 42 £70,000 -12.50% 45
Midlands -21 35 £52,500 -12.50% 16
North West +4 30 £52,500 -26.32% 31
North East -34 29 £59,815 - 9
Yorkshire -36 23 £82,500 +20.44% 17
Wales -54 23 £58,000 +19.59% 7
West Midlands -29 18 £50,000 -16.67% 11
Scotland -1 17 £68,750 -4.84% 28
East Midlands -22 17 £61,250 -18.33% 5
East of England -35 4 £56,000 - 11
Northern Ireland - 1 £77,500 - 13

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 (2.69%) Confluence
2 11 (2.27%) SharePoint
3 9 (1.86%) Apache
3 9 (1.86%) Apache Spark
4 8 (1.65%) IIS
4 8 (1.65%) nginx
5 5 (1.03%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (1.03%) Camunda
5 5 (1.03%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (0.83%) SAS
7 2 (0.41%) Cloud Foundry
7 2 (0.41%) CMS
7 2 (0.41%) Luigi
8 1 (0.21%) Documentum
8 1 (0.21%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.21%) JBoss
8 1 (0.21%) NServiceBus
8 1 (0.21%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (0.62%) SPSS
2 1 (0.21%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.21%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.21%) Magento
2 1 (0.21%) Misys Equation
2 1 (0.21%) Misys Midas
Cloud Services
1 272 (56.20%) AWS
2 254 (52.48%) Azure
3 153 (31.61%) GCP
4 107 (22.11%) Azure DevOps
5 74 (15.29%) Amazon EKS
6 71 (14.67%) GitHub
7 56 (11.57%) SaaS
8 50 (10.33%) Serverless
9 40 (8.26%) GitHub Actions
10 31 (6.40%) Microsoft 365
10 31 (6.40%) Power Platform
11 30 (6.20%) AWS CloudFormation
12 27 (5.58%) Datadog
13 25 (5.17%) Amazon ECS
14 23 (4.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 23 (4.75%) Firebase
15 22 (4.55%) Azure Monitor
16 21 (4.34%) Entra ID
17 20 (4.13%) Amazon S3
17 20 (4.13%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (4.34%) DNS
2 19 (3.93%) Firewall
3 15 (3.10%) VPN
4 8 (1.65%) BGP
4 8 (1.65%) DHCP
4 8 (1.65%) Network Security
5 6 (1.24%) OSPF
5 6 (1.24%) SD-WAN
5 6 (1.24%) SSL
5 6 (1.24%) TCP/IP
5 6 (1.24%) WAN
5 6 (1.24%) Wireless
6 5 (1.03%) LAN
6 5 (1.03%) MQTT
6 5 (1.03%) Wi-Fi
7 4 (0.83%) Broadband
7 4 (0.83%) Kerberos
7 4 (0.83%) NAS
7 4 (0.83%) SSH
7 4 (0.83%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (9.92%) PostgreSQL
2 36 (7.44%) SQL Server
3 29 (5.99%) MySQL
4 28 (5.79%) MongoDB
5 23 (4.75%) NoSQL
6 21 (4.34%) Data Warehouse
6 21 (4.34%) Elasticsearch
6 21 (4.34%) Power BI
7 15 (3.10%) Amazon RDS
7 15 (3.10%) Data Lake
8 12 (2.48%) Azure SQL Database
9 11 (2.27%) Spark SQL
10 10 (2.07%) Metadata
10 10 (2.07%) Relational Database
11 8 (1.65%) Big Data
12 7 (1.45%) Geospatial Data
13 6 (1.24%) Delta Lake
14 5 (1.03%) DynamoDB
14 5 (1.03%) Hadoop
14 5 (1.03%) Redis
Development Applications
1 104 (21.49%) Git
2 63 (13.02%) Jenkins
3 55 (11.36%) TeamCity
4 46 (9.50%) GitLab
5 34 (7.02%) JIRA
6 17 (3.51%) Bitbucket
7 16 (3.31%) Crashlytics
8 13 (2.69%) fastlane
8 13 (2.69%) SonarQube
9 10 (2.07%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 10 (2.07%) XCTest
10 9 (1.86%) JUnit
11 8 (1.65%) Claude Code
11 8 (1.65%) Cucumber
11 8 (1.65%) Mockito
11 8 (1.65%) Octopus Deploy
12 7 (1.45%) Artifactory
12 7 (1.45%) MSI
12 7 (1.45%) Xcode
13 6 (1.24%) Gradle
General
1 147 (30.37%) Finance
2 139 (28.72%) Social Skills
3 99 (20.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 95 (19.63%) Banking
5 71 (14.67%) Law
6 62 (12.81%) Analytical Skills
7 58 (11.98%) Retail
8 54 (11.16%) Public Sector
9 52 (10.74%) Financial Institution
10 44 (9.09%) Back Office
11 10 (2.07%) Marketing
12 8 (1.65%) Manufacturing
12 8 (1.65%) Telecoms
13 6 (1.24%) Aerospace
13 6 (1.24%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (0.83%) Legal
14 4 (0.83%) Mandarin Language
15 3 (0.62%) Documentation Skills
15 3 (0.62%) Front Office
16 2 (0.41%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 96 (19.83%) Software Engineer
2 91 (18.80%) Lead
3 82 (16.94%) DevOps Engineer
4 77 (15.91%) Senior
5 70 (14.46%) Developer
6 38 (7.85%) Cloud Engineer
7 36 (7.44%) Azure Engineer
8 27 (5.58%) Data Engineer
9 24 (4.96%) Senior Software Engineer
10 23 (4.75%) Platform Engineer
11 22 (4.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 22 (4.55%) Lead Software Engineer
12 21 (4.34%) Site Engineer
12 21 (4.34%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 20 (4.13%) Java Engineer
14 19 (3.93%) Technical Leader
15 18 (3.72%) Automation Engineer
15 18 (3.72%) Senior Developer
16 17 (3.51%) Administrator
16 17 (3.51%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 220 (45.45%) Terraform
2 55 (11.36%) REST
3 50 (10.33%) RESTful
4 45 (9.30%) .NET
5 30 (6.20%) React
6 29 (5.99%) Kafka
7 23 (4.75%) Spring
8 21 (4.34%) Spring Boot
9 19 (3.93%) LangChain
10 17 (3.51%) ARM Templates
10 17 (3.51%) PySpark
10 17 (3.51%) SwiftUI
10 17 (3.51%) UIKit
11 16 (3.31%) AngularJS
11 16 (3.31%) CSS
12 15 (3.10%) Next.js
12 15 (3.10%) Web Services
13 14 (2.89%) PyTorch
13 14 (2.89%) scikit-learn
13 14 (2.89%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 171 (35.33%) Cloud Native
2 90 (18.60%) Product Ownership
3 48 (9.92%) Distributed Systems
4 31 (6.40%) Onboarding
5 25 (5.17%) Mobile App
6 20 (4.13%) Self-Motivation
7 19 (3.93%) Enterprise Software
8 18 (3.72%) Legacy Systems
9 17 (3.51%) Life Science
10 16 (3.31%) AI Agents
10 16 (3.31%) Management Information System
11 14 (2.89%) Virtual Team
12 11 (2.27%) Greenfield Project
12 11 (2.27%) Hybrid Cloud
13 10 (2.07%) Blog
14 8 (1.65%) Data Centre
14 8 (1.65%) Linux Command Line
14 8 (1.65%) PKI
14 8 (1.65%) Private Cloud
14 8 (1.65%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 89 (18.39%) Linux
2 64 (13.22%) Windows
3 28 (5.79%) Apple iOS
4 22 (4.55%) Windows Server
5 17 (3.51%) CentOS
6 12 (2.48%) Android
7 7 (1.45%) Mac OS
7 7 (1.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (1.45%) Windows Server 2016
8 6 (1.24%) Ubuntu
9 5 (1.03%) Unix
10 2 (0.41%) Amazon Linux
10 2 (0.41%) Embedded Linux
10 2 (0.41%) Solaris
11 1 (0.21%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 387 (79.96%) CI/CD
2 302 (62.40%) DevOps
3 209 (43.18%) Infrastructure as Code
4 204 (42.15%) Test Automation
5 176 (36.36%) Software Engineering
6 155 (32.02%) Agile
7 140 (28.93%) Observability
8 129 (26.65%) AI
9 123 (25.41%) Microservices
10 121 (25.00%) Containerisation
10 121 (25.00%) Mentoring
11 119 (24.59%) Continuous Improvement
12 109 (22.52%) Problem-Solving
13 93 (19.21%) Clean Code
14 71 (14.67%) Analytics
15 67 (13.84%) Technical Leadership
16 66 (13.64%) Continuous Deployment
17 64 (13.22%) Machine Learning
18 54 (11.16%) Coaching
19 53 (10.95%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 198 (40.91%) Python
2 133 (27.48%) Java
3 86 (17.77%) SQL
4 76 (15.70%) PowerShell
5 56 (11.57%) Bash
6 48 (9.92%) C#
7 47 (9.71%) TypeScript
8 35 (7.23%) JavaScript
9 21 (4.34%) Bicep
10 18 (3.72%) Kotlin
11 17 (3.51%) Swift
12 11 (2.27%) Go
13 9 (1.86%) C++
13 9 (1.86%) Scala
14 8 (1.65%) Groovy
14 8 (1.65%) Shell Script
15 7 (1.45%) Rust
16 6 (1.24%) C
17 4 (0.83%) Apex Code
17 4 (0.83%) Perl
Qualifications
1 81 (16.74%) Security Cleared
2 55 (11.36%) Degree
3 50 (10.33%) SC Cleared
4 38 (7.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (3.93%) Azure Certification
6 16 (3.31%) AWS Certification
7 14 (2.89%) DV Cleared
8 12 (2.48%) BPSS Clearance
8 12 (2.48%) Master's Degree
9 7 (1.45%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (1.03%) CCNP
10 5 (1.03%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (0.83%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 4 (0.83%) Postgraduate
12 3 (0.62%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 2 (0.41%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 2 (0.41%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.41%) PMP
14 1 (0.21%) ISTQB
14 1 (0.21%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (13.43%) QA
2 37 (7.64%) Accessibility
3 25 (5.17%) WCAG
4 22 (4.55%) GDPR
5 18 (3.72%) Data Quality
6 17 (3.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 14 (2.89%) SLA
8 13 (2.69%) NCSC
9 7 (1.45%) SOC 2
10 4 (0.83%) NIST
11 2 (0.41%) Def Stans
11 2 (0.41%) GRC
11 2 (0.41%) IEC 61508
11 2 (0.41%) IFRS
11 2 (0.41%) IFRS 17
11 2 (0.41%) ISO 26262
11 2 (0.41%) JTAG
11 2 (0.41%) PMO
11 2 (0.41%) Solvency II
System Software
1 124 (25.62%) Docker
2 24 (4.96%) Active Directory
3 11 (2.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (1.45%) Firmware
4 7 (1.45%) Hyper-V
5 6 (1.24%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.83%) vSphere
7 3 (0.62%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.21%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.21%) NDS
8 1 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.21%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 197 (40.70%) Kubernetes
2 115 (23.76%) Grafana
3 90 (18.60%) Ansible
4 38 (7.85%) Prometheus
5 14 (2.89%) Argo
5 14 (2.89%) Microsoft Intune
6 11 (2.27%) Nagios
6 11 (2.27%) Puppet
7 9 (1.86%) Jamf Pro
8 6 (1.24%) Progress Chef
8 6 (1.24%) SCCM
9 4 (0.83%) Packer
9 4 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.62%) Control-M
10 3 (0.62%) cPanel
10 3 (0.62%) Docker Swarm
10 3 (0.62%) Plesk
10 3 (0.62%) Podman
10 3 (0.62%) SCOM
10 3 (0.62%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 94 (19.42%) Microsoft
2 37 (7.64%) Dynatrace
3 32 (6.61%) Google
4 23 (4.75%) Databricks
5 22 (4.55%) Splunk
6 18 (3.72%) Salesforce
7 17 (3.51%) Red Hat
8 16 (3.31%) VMware
9 12 (2.48%) OpenAI
10 11 (2.27%) Apple
10 11 (2.27%) Rapid7
11 10 (2.07%) Amplitude
11 10 (2.07%) Braze
12 7 (1.45%) Atlassian
12 7 (1.45%) Fortinet
12 7 (1.45%) ServiceNow
13 6 (1.24%) AppDynamics
13 6 (1.24%) IBM
13 6 (1.24%) Oracle
14 5 (1.03%) Cisco