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

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 408 382 476
Rank change year-on-year -26 +94 -76
Permanent jobs citing Deployment Automation 278 329 355
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.43% 0.64% 0.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% 0.70% 0.55%
Number of salaries quoted 114 212 291
10th Percentile £42,500 £48,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +15.38% -18.75%
75th Percentile £85,000 £97,528 £90,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £138,750 £137,913
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -10.16%

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 51,996 46,880 64,892
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 79.99% 91.87% 88.55%
Number of salaries quoted 30,799 22,693 50,451
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £76,000 £80,100 £75,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £101,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -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 6 February 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 6 February 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 -20 233 £67,500 -10.00% 126
UK excluding London +5 158 £65,000 -3.70% 97
Work from Home +63 133 £60,748 -10.00% 74
London 0 107 £73,750 -18.06% 54
South East +28 62 £60,000 +2.56% 41
North of England -36 35 £67,500 +25.58% 18
Scotland +14 31 £77,217 +2.46% 8
Yorkshire -40 20 £60,000 +21.21% 4
North West +4 13 £75,000 +15.38% 12
South West -6 10 £62,950 -6.74% 11
East of England +16 8 £76,250 +1.67% 4
Wales +9 6 £54,750 -15.77% 3
Midlands -8 5 £57,359 -23.52% 11
West Midlands +6 4 £77,217 +2.96% 9
North East - 2 £77,217 - 2
East Midlands -16 1 £37,500 +30.65% 2
Northern Ireland - 1 £77,217 - 1

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 (4.32%) Appian
2 4 (1.44%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (1.44%) Confluence
3 3 (1.08%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.08%) IIS
4 2 (0.72%) Apache
4 2 (0.72%) BizTalk Server
4 2 (0.72%) nginx
4 2 (0.72%) SAS
4 2 (0.72%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.36%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (1.08%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.36%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 142 (51.08%) Azure
2 117 (42.09%) AWS
3 82 (29.50%) Azure DevOps
4 60 (21.58%) GCP
5 57 (20.50%) GitHub
6 52 (18.71%) GitHub Actions
7 51 (18.35%) Amazon EKS
8 41 (14.75%) SaaS
9 39 (14.03%) Serverless
10 33 (11.87%) Azure Monitor
11 32 (11.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 32 (11.51%) Azure Logic Apps
12 28 (10.07%) Azure Data Factory
13 26 (9.35%) AWS Lambda
13 26 (9.35%) Power Platform
14 20 (7.19%) AWS CloudFormation
15 19 (6.83%) Amazon S3
16 17 (6.12%) Amazon SQS
17 16 (5.76%) Azure Service Bus
17 16 (5.76%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.24%) Firewall
2 5 (1.80%) SSL
3 4 (1.44%) DNS
4 3 (1.08%) DMZ
4 3 (1.08%) MQTT
4 3 (1.08%) VPN
5 2 (0.72%) BGP
5 2 (0.72%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (0.72%) OSPF
5 2 (0.72%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (0.72%) RTMP
5 2 (0.72%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.72%) VLAN
5 2 (0.72%) WAN
5 2 (0.72%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.72%) Wireless
6 1 (0.36%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (12.95%) SQL Server
2 24 (8.63%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (6.47%) DynamoDB
3 18 (6.47%) NoSQL
4 13 (4.68%) MySQL
5 12 (4.32%) Pinecone
6 10 (3.60%) Amazon Aurora
7 9 (3.24%) Power BI
8 8 (2.88%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (2.16%) MongoDB
9 6 (2.16%) Relational Database
10 5 (1.80%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (1.08%) CockroachDB
11 3 (1.08%) Data Lake
11 3 (1.08%) Metadata
11 3 (1.08%) Tableau
12 2 (0.72%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (0.72%) Data Warehouse
13 1 (0.36%) BusinessObjects
13 1 (0.36%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 39 (14.03%) Git
2 37 (13.31%) TeamCity
3 27 (9.71%) Jenkins
4 25 (8.99%) GitLab
5 15 (5.40%) MLflow
6 9 (3.24%) JIRA
7 6 (2.16%) Gradle
7 6 (2.16%) Maven
7 6 (2.16%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 6 (2.16%) Storybook
8 5 (1.80%) Bitbucket
9 4 (1.44%) Artifactory
9 4 (1.44%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 4 (1.44%) JUnit
10 3 (1.08%) NUnit
10 3 (1.08%) Octopus Deploy
10 3 (1.08%) SonarQube
10 3 (1.08%) TestNG
11 2 (0.72%) Jaeger
11 2 (0.72%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 126 (45.32%) Finance
2 63 (22.66%) Social Skills
3 44 (15.83%) Banking
4 42 (15.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 36 (12.95%) Retail
6 35 (12.59%) Law
7 31 (11.15%) Pharmaceutical
8 26 (9.35%) Financial Institution
9 25 (8.99%) Back Office
10 18 (6.47%) Analytical Skills
11 9 (3.24%) Marketing
12 4 (1.44%) Public Sector
13 3 (1.08%) Manufacturing
13 3 (1.08%) Retail Banking
14 2 (0.72%) Advertising
14 2 (0.72%) Agriculture
14 2 (0.72%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.72%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (0.72%) Legal
14 2 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 62 (22.30%) Lead
2 47 (16.91%) Developer
3 33 (11.87%) Software Engineer
4 28 (10.07%) Senior
5 24 (8.63%) DevOps Engineer
6 21 (7.55%) Cloud Engineer
7 18 (6.47%) Platform Engineer
8 14 (5.04%) AWS Engineer
8 14 (5.04%) Integration Engineer
8 14 (5.04%) Java Engineer
9 13 (4.68%) Azure Engineer
9 13 (4.68%) Java Software Engineer
10 12 (4.32%) .NET Developer
10 12 (4.32%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 12 (4.32%) Automation Engineer
10 12 (4.32%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 12 (4.32%) Power Platform Developer
11 10 (3.60%) AWS Developer
11 10 (3.60%) AWS Platform Engineer
11 10 (3.60%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (16.91%) RESTful
2 36 (12.95%) .NET
2 36 (12.95%) OAuth
3 28 (10.07%) React
4 26 (9.35%) REST
5 24 (8.63%) OAuth2
6 23 (8.27%) .NET Core
7 22 (7.91%) JSON
8 17 (6.12%) JWT
9 16 (5.76%) AWS CDK
9 16 (5.76%) FastAPI
10 15 (5.40%) ASP.NET
10 15 (5.40%) Web Services
11 14 (5.04%) Flask
11 14 (5.04%) OpenAPI
11 14 (5.04%) Swagger
12 13 (4.68%) ASP.NET Core
12 13 (4.68%) Blazor
12 13 (4.68%) Django
13 12 (4.32%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 75 (26.98%) Cloud Native
2 35 (12.59%) Life Science
3 34 (12.23%) Low-Code
4 22 (7.91%) Product Ownership
5 14 (5.04%) Legacy Systems
6 10 (3.60%) Blog
7 7 (2.52%) Distributed Systems
8 6 (2.16%) Onboarding
9 5 (1.80%) Hackathon
9 5 (1.80%) IoT
9 5 (1.80%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.44%) Public Cloud
11 3 (1.08%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (1.08%) Private Cloud
12 2 (0.72%) Algorithms
12 2 (0.72%) Greenfield Project
12 2 (0.72%) Robotics
12 2 (0.72%) Security Operations Centre
12 2 (0.72%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 33 (11.87%) Linux
2 15 (5.40%) Windows
3 8 (2.88%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.44%) VMS
5 2 (0.72%) CentOS
6 1 (0.36%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 189 (67.99%) CI/CD
2 157 (56.47%) DevOps
3 108 (38.85%) Agile
4 106 (38.13%) Test Automation
5 102 (36.69%) Infrastructure as Code
6 81 (29.14%) AI
7 80 (28.78%) Analytics
8 70 (25.18%) Machine Learning
9 61 (21.94%) Problem-Solving
10 60 (21.58%) Microservices
11 57 (20.50%) Continuous Improvement
12 56 (20.14%) Roadmaps
13 55 (19.78%) Containerisation
14 52 (18.71%) Clean Code
15 46 (16.55%) Computer Science
15 46 (16.55%) Generative AI
15 46 (16.55%) Observability
16 45 (16.19%) Disruptive Innovation
16 45 (16.19%) Software Engineering
17 44 (15.83%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 92 (33.09%) Python
2 52 (18.71%) SQL
3 50 (17.99%) Java
4 36 (12.95%) C#
4 36 (12.95%) JavaScript
5 35 (12.59%) Bash
6 34 (12.23%) PowerShell
7 29 (10.43%) Bicep
8 20 (7.19%) TypeScript
9 5 (1.80%) Go
10 4 (1.44%) Kusto Query Language
11 3 (1.08%) C++
12 2 (0.72%) Delphi
12 2 (0.72%) Groovy
12 2 (0.72%) Rust
12 2 (0.72%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.72%) VB
12 2 (0.72%) VB6
13 1 (0.36%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.36%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 58 (20.86%) Degree
2 36 (12.95%) Master's Degree
3 30 (10.79%) PhD
4 24 (8.63%) Security Cleared
5 14 (5.04%) AWS Certification
5 14 (5.04%) SC Cleared
6 11 (3.96%) AWS Certified Developer
6 11 (3.96%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (2.88%) Azure Certification
8 7 (2.52%) DV Cleared
9 3 (1.08%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.36%) MCSE
11 1 (0.36%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.36%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (10.79%) GxP
2 19 (6.83%) GDPR
3 16 (5.76%) Data Quality
4 15 (5.40%) QA
5 14 (5.04%) Accessibility
6 6 (2.16%) WCAG
7 4 (1.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (1.08%) SLA
9 2 (0.72%) NIST
9 2 (0.72%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.36%) EU AI Act
10 1 (0.36%) GRC
10 1 (0.36%) HIPAA
System Software
1 71 (25.54%) Docker
2 12 (4.32%) Virtual Machines
3 10 (3.60%) Virtual Desktop
4 9 (3.24%) Active Directory
5 3 (1.08%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.72%) NFS
7 1 (0.36%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.36%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 136 (48.92%) Terraform
2 107 (38.49%) Kubernetes
3 64 (23.02%) Grafana
4 25 (8.99%) Ansible
5 22 (7.91%) Prometheus
6 12 (4.32%) Microsoft Intune
7 7 (2.52%) Argo
8 4 (1.44%) logstash
9 3 (1.08%) Puppet
9 3 (1.08%) Rancher
10 2 (0.72%) Istio
10 2 (0.72%) Nagios
10 2 (0.72%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 28 (10.07%) Microsoft
2 14 (5.04%) Ab Initio
3 13 (4.68%) OpenAI
4 12 (4.32%) Automation Anywhere
4 12 (4.32%) UiPath
5 7 (2.52%) Splunk
6 6 (2.16%) Cisco
6 6 (2.16%) Oracle
6 6 (2.16%) Salesforce
7 4 (1.44%) Google
7 4 (1.44%) VMware
8 3 (1.08%) Citrix
8 3 (1.08%) Dynatrace
8 3 (1.08%) Red Hat
9 2 (0.72%) Databricks
9 2 (0.72%) MikroTik
9 2 (0.72%) NETGEAR
9 2 (0.72%) Pega
9 2 (0.72%) Sonatype
9 2 (0.72%) Ubiquiti