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

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 400 470 463
Rank change year-on-year +70 -7 -69
Permanent jobs citing Deployment Automation 489 211 361
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.43% 0.43% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.59% 0.48% 0.57%
Number of salaries quoted 275 120 260
10th Percentile £45,456 £47,500 £44,263
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% -9.72%
75th Percentile £85,500 £85,000 £75,313
90th Percentile £112,000 £96,250 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £68,250 £58,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +16.67% -10.00%

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 82,210 43,908 63,272
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.10% 88.55% 80.74%
Number of salaries quoted 57,176 24,796 36,704
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,875
25th Percentile £41,500 £36,250 £42,500
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 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

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 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 9 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 +68 402 £70,000 -6.67% 494
UK excluding London +11 252 £65,000 -4.76% 263
London +39 189 £82,000 +9.33% 310
Work from Home +36 168 £65,000 -13.33% 476
North of England -8 83 £67,500 -1.46% 78
South East -6 48 £65,000 -22.39% 49
South West -36 42 £70,000 -12.50% 47
Midlands -32 35 £56,250 -6.25% 23
North West -1 30 £52,500 -30.00% 41
North East -36 30 £67,500 -12.58% 17
Wales -58 25 £52,500 +8.25% 8
Yorkshire -34 23 £82,500 +20.44% 21
East Midlands -21 18 £61,250 -18.33% 11
Scotland +2 17 £68,750 -10.97% 36
West Midlands -29 17 £51,250 -14.58% 12
East of England -33 4 £56,000 - 11
Northern Ireland -78 1 £77,500 +0.37% 14

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 (2.66%) Confluence
2 11 (2.25%) SharePoint
3 9 (1.84%) Apache
3 9 (1.84%) Apache Spark
4 8 (1.64%) IIS
4 8 (1.64%) nginx
5 5 (1.02%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (1.02%) Camunda
5 5 (1.02%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (0.82%) SAS
7 2 (0.41%) Cloud Foundry
7 2 (0.41%) CMS
7 2 (0.41%) Luigi
8 1 (0.20%) Documentum
8 1 (0.20%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.20%) JBoss
8 1 (0.20%) NServiceBus
8 1 (0.20%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (0.61%) SPSS
2 1 (0.20%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.20%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.20%) Magento
2 1 (0.20%) Misys Equation
2 1 (0.20%) Misys Midas
Cloud Services
1 279 (57.06%) AWS
2 259 (52.97%) Azure
3 159 (32.52%) GCP
4 107 (21.88%) Azure DevOps
5 77 (15.75%) Amazon EKS
6 72 (14.72%) GitHub
7 57 (11.66%) SaaS
8 51 (10.43%) Serverless
9 41 (8.38%) GitHub Actions
10 32 (6.54%) AWS CloudFormation
11 31 (6.34%) Microsoft 365
11 31 (6.34%) Power Platform
12 27 (5.52%) Datadog
13 26 (5.32%) Amazon ECS
14 24 (4.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 23 (4.70%) Firebase
16 22 (4.50%) Azure Monitor
17 21 (4.29%) Amazon S3
17 21 (4.29%) Entra ID
18 20 (4.09%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (4.29%) DNS
2 19 (3.89%) Firewall
3 15 (3.07%) VPN
4 8 (1.64%) BGP
4 8 (1.64%) DHCP
4 8 (1.64%) Network Security
5 6 (1.23%) OSPF
5 6 (1.23%) SD-WAN
5 6 (1.23%) SSL
5 6 (1.23%) TCP/IP
5 6 (1.23%) WAN
5 6 (1.23%) Wireless
6 5 (1.02%) LAN
6 5 (1.02%) MQTT
6 5 (1.02%) Wi-Fi
7 4 (0.82%) Broadband
7 4 (0.82%) Kerberos
7 4 (0.82%) NAS
7 4 (0.82%) SSH
7 4 (0.82%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (10.22%) PostgreSQL
2 36 (7.36%) SQL Server
3 31 (6.34%) MongoDB
3 31 (6.34%) MySQL
4 25 (5.11%) NoSQL
5 21 (4.29%) Data Warehouse
5 21 (4.29%) Elasticsearch
5 21 (4.29%) Power BI
6 15 (3.07%) Amazon RDS
6 15 (3.07%) Data Lake
7 12 (2.45%) Azure SQL Database
8 11 (2.25%) Spark SQL
9 10 (2.04%) Metadata
9 10 (2.04%) Relational Database
10 8 (1.64%) Big Data
11 7 (1.43%) Geospatial Data
12 6 (1.23%) Delta Lake
13 5 (1.02%) DynamoDB
13 5 (1.02%) Hadoop
13 5 (1.02%) Redis
Development Applications
1 107 (21.88%) Git
2 64 (13.09%) Jenkins
3 56 (11.45%) TeamCity
4 47 (9.61%) GitLab
5 34 (6.95%) JIRA
6 17 (3.48%) Bitbucket
7 16 (3.27%) Crashlytics
8 13 (2.66%) fastlane
8 13 (2.66%) SonarQube
9 10 (2.04%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 10 (2.04%) XCTest
10 9 (1.84%) JUnit
11 8 (1.64%) Claude Code
11 8 (1.64%) Cucumber
11 8 (1.64%) Mockito
11 8 (1.64%) Octopus Deploy
12 7 (1.43%) Artifactory
12 7 (1.43%) MSI
12 7 (1.43%) Xcode
13 6 (1.23%) Gradle
General
1 150 (30.67%) Finance
2 137 (28.02%) Social Skills
3 101 (20.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 100 (20.45%) Banking
5 72 (14.72%) Law
6 64 (13.09%) Analytical Skills
7 59 (12.07%) Retail
8 57 (11.66%) Public Sector
9 53 (10.84%) Financial Institution
10 45 (9.20%) Back Office
11 10 (2.04%) Marketing
12 8 (1.64%) Manufacturing
12 8 (1.64%) Telecoms
13 6 (1.23%) Aerospace
13 6 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (0.82%) Legal
14 4 (0.82%) Mandarin Language
15 3 (0.61%) Documentation Skills
15 3 (0.61%) Front Office
16 2 (0.41%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 99 (20.25%) Software Engineer
2 90 (18.40%) Lead
3 83 (16.97%) DevOps Engineer
4 79 (16.16%) Senior
5 73 (14.93%) Developer
6 38 (7.77%) Cloud Engineer
7 36 (7.36%) Azure Engineer
8 27 (5.52%) Data Engineer
9 24 (4.91%) Senior Software Engineer
10 23 (4.70%) Platform Engineer
11 22 (4.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 22 (4.50%) Lead Software Engineer
12 21 (4.29%) Site Engineer
12 21 (4.29%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 20 (4.09%) Java Engineer
14 19 (3.89%) Senior Developer
14 19 (3.89%) Technical Leader
15 18 (3.68%) Automation Engineer
15 18 (3.68%) Java Developer
16 17 (3.48%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 226 (46.22%) Terraform
2 56 (11.45%) REST
3 53 (10.84%) RESTful
4 45 (9.20%) .NET
5 32 (6.54%) Kafka
6 30 (6.13%) React
7 25 (5.11%) Spring
8 23 (4.70%) Spring Boot
9 21 (4.29%) LangChain
10 17 (3.48%) AngularJS
10 17 (3.48%) ARM Templates
10 17 (3.48%) PySpark
10 17 (3.48%) SwiftUI
10 17 (3.48%) UIKit
11 16 (3.27%) CSS
11 16 (3.27%) Hibernate
11 16 (3.27%) JPA
11 16 (3.27%) PyTorch
11 16 (3.27%) RabbitMQ
11 16 (3.27%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 178 (36.40%) Cloud Native
2 96 (19.63%) Product Ownership
3 50 (10.22%) Distributed Systems
4 30 (6.13%) Onboarding
5 25 (5.11%) Mobile App
6 22 (4.50%) Enterprise Software
6 22 (4.50%) Self-Motivation
7 18 (3.68%) Legacy Systems
8 16 (3.27%) AI Agents
8 16 (3.27%) Management Information System
8 16 (3.27%) Virtual Team
9 15 (3.07%) Life Science
10 11 (2.25%) Greenfield Project
10 11 (2.25%) Hybrid Cloud
11 10 (2.04%) Blog
12 8 (1.64%) Data Centre
12 8 (1.64%) Linux Command Line
12 8 (1.64%) PKI
12 8 (1.64%) Private Cloud
12 8 (1.64%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 90 (18.40%) Linux
2 63 (12.88%) Windows
3 27 (5.52%) Apple iOS
4 22 (4.50%) Windows Server
5 17 (3.48%) CentOS
6 11 (2.25%) Android
7 7 (1.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (1.43%) Windows Server 2016
8 6 (1.23%) Mac OS
8 6 (1.23%) Ubuntu
9 5 (1.02%) Unix
10 2 (0.41%) Amazon Linux
10 2 (0.41%) Embedded Linux
10 2 (0.41%) Solaris
11 1 (0.20%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 395 (80.78%) CI/CD
2 308 (62.99%) DevOps
3 213 (43.56%) Infrastructure as Code
4 208 (42.54%) Test Automation
5 182 (37.22%) Software Engineering
6 157 (32.11%) Agile
7 143 (29.24%) Observability
8 130 (26.58%) AI
9 126 (25.77%) Microservices
10 124 (25.36%) Containerisation
10 124 (25.36%) Mentoring
11 118 (24.13%) Continuous Improvement
12 111 (22.70%) Problem-Solving
13 95 (19.43%) Clean Code
14 72 (14.72%) Technical Leadership
15 69 (14.11%) Analytics
16 67 (13.70%) Continuous Deployment
17 64 (13.09%) Machine Learning
18 55 (11.25%) Coaching
19 51 (10.43%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 199 (40.70%) Python
2 136 (27.81%) Java
3 86 (17.59%) SQL
4 75 (15.34%) PowerShell
5 55 (11.25%) Bash
6 48 (9.82%) C#
6 48 (9.82%) TypeScript
7 36 (7.36%) JavaScript
8 21 (4.29%) Bicep
9 18 (3.68%) Kotlin
10 17 (3.48%) Swift
11 11 (2.25%) Go
12 9 (1.84%) C++
12 9 (1.84%) Scala
13 8 (1.64%) Groovy
13 8 (1.64%) Shell Script
14 7 (1.43%) Rust
15 6 (1.23%) C
16 4 (0.82%) Apex Code
16 4 (0.82%) Perl
Qualifications
1 83 (16.97%) Security Cleared
2 53 (10.84%) Degree
3 52 (10.63%) SC Cleared
4 38 (7.77%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (3.89%) Azure Certification
6 16 (3.27%) AWS Certification
7 14 (2.86%) DV Cleared
8 12 (2.45%) BPSS Clearance
9 10 (2.04%) Master's Degree
10 7 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (1.02%) CCNP
11 5 (1.02%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (0.82%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 4 (0.82%) Postgraduate
13 3 (0.61%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 2 (0.41%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 2 (0.41%) PMI Certification
14 2 (0.41%) PMP
15 1 (0.20%) ISTQB
15 1 (0.20%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (13.91%) QA
2 35 (7.16%) Accessibility
3 25 (5.11%) WCAG
4 22 (4.50%) GDPR
5 18 (3.68%) Data Quality
6 16 (3.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 14 (2.86%) SLA
8 13 (2.66%) NCSC
9 7 (1.43%) SOC 2
10 4 (0.82%) 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
1 128 (26.18%) Docker
2 24 (4.91%) Active Directory
3 11 (2.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (1.43%) Firmware
4 7 (1.43%) Hyper-V
5 6 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.82%) vSphere
7 3 (0.61%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.20%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.20%) NDS
8 1 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.20%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 203 (41.51%) Kubernetes
2 118 (24.13%) Grafana
3 90 (18.40%) Ansible
4 40 (8.18%) Prometheus
5 14 (2.86%) Argo
5 14 (2.86%) Microsoft Intune
6 11 (2.25%) Nagios
6 11 (2.25%) Puppet
7 8 (1.64%) Jamf Pro
8 6 (1.23%) Progress Chef
8 6 (1.23%) SCCM
9 4 (0.82%) Packer
9 4 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.61%) Control-M
10 3 (0.61%) cPanel
10 3 (0.61%) Docker Swarm
10 3 (0.61%) Istio
10 3 (0.61%) Plesk
10 3 (0.61%) SCOM
10 3 (0.61%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 95 (19.43%) Microsoft
2 38 (7.77%) Dynatrace
3 33 (6.75%) Google
4 24 (4.91%) Splunk
5 23 (4.70%) Databricks
6 18 (3.68%) Salesforce
7 17 (3.48%) Red Hat
8 16 (3.27%) VMware
9 12 (2.45%) OpenAI
10 11 (2.25%) Apple
10 11 (2.25%) Rapid7
11 10 (2.04%) Amplitude
11 10 (2.04%) Braze
12 7 (1.43%) Atlassian
12 7 (1.43%) Fortinet
12 7 (1.43%) ServiceNow
13 6 (1.23%) AppDynamics
13 6 (1.23%) IBM
13 6 (1.23%) Oracle
14 5 (1.02%) Cisco