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

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 404 381 499
Rank change year-on-year -23 +118 -84
Permanent jobs citing Deployment Automation 355 285 428
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.40% 0.68% 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.54% 0.73% 0.52%
Number of salaries quoted 166 229 330
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,000 £46,125
25th Percentile £50,000 £57,500 £55,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,950 £75,000 £68,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.40% +10.29% -12.26%
75th Percentile £87,125 £97,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £131,750 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £63,750 £62,500 £61,500
% change year-on-year +2.00% +1.63% -11.44%

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 66,274 38,859 81,572
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 75.13% 92.82% 85.77%
Number of salaries quoted 40,927 22,757 59,545
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -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 24 April 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 24 April 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 -23 318 £70,000 -6.67% 130
UK excluding London +6 198 £63,750 +2.00% 99
Work from Home +7 155 £60,000 -4.00% 89
London -19 142 £80,750 -10.28% 63
South East +9 73 £67,500 +22.73% 46
North of England -44 57 £68,789 +31.03% 7
Yorkshire -49 30 £63,750 +28.79% 1
North West -31 22 £73,000 +19.18% 4
Scotland -17 20 £55,000 -27.02% 5
Midlands -37 19 £48,000 -23.20% 8
South West -53 15 £60,000 -16.66% 13
East Midlands - 12 £37,500 - 4
Wales -19 8 £61,248 -
East of England -32 8 £76,250 +1.67% 21
West Midlands -28 7 £48,000 -23.20% 4
North East - 5 £58,789 - 2
Northern Ireland - 1 £77,500 - 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 (3.38%) Appian
2 7 (1.97%) Apache
3 5 (1.41%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (1.41%) Apache Spark
3 5 (1.41%) IIS
4 4 (1.13%) Confluence
4 4 (1.13%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.85%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.56%) BizTalk Server
6 2 (0.56%) SAS
7 1 (0.28%) CMS
7 1 (0.28%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.28%) nginx
7 1 (0.28%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (0.85%) SPSS
2 2 (0.56%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.56%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.28%) Misys Equation
2 1 (0.28%) Misys Midas
2 1 (0.28%) Oracle SCM
2 1 (0.28%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 191 (53.80%) AWS
2 168 (47.32%) Azure
3 82 (23.10%) Azure DevOps
4 78 (21.97%) GCP
5 73 (20.56%) GitHub
6 70 (19.72%) Amazon EKS
7 67 (18.87%) Serverless
8 63 (17.75%) GitHub Actions
9 46 (12.96%) SaaS
10 40 (11.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 38 (10.70%) Azure Logic Apps
12 36 (10.14%) Amazon S3
12 36 (10.14%) AWS Lambda
13 31 (8.73%) Power Platform
14 30 (8.45%) Azure Data Factory
15 27 (7.61%) Azure Monitor
16 26 (7.32%) AWS CloudFormation
17 20 (5.63%) Amazon EC2
18 19 (5.35%) Amazon SQS
18 19 (5.35%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 18 (5.07%) Firewall
2 9 (2.54%) DNS
3 8 (2.25%) SSL
4 5 (1.41%) VPN
5 4 (1.13%) Broadband
5 4 (1.13%) MQTT
5 4 (1.13%) Network Security
5 4 (1.13%) SSH
6 3 (0.85%) DHCP
6 3 (0.85%) DMZ
7 2 (0.56%) BGP
7 2 (0.56%) Intrusion Detection
7 2 (0.56%) SAN
8 1 (0.28%) Ethernet VPN
8 1 (0.28%) HTTP
8 1 (0.28%) NetScaler
8 1 (0.28%) SNMP
8 1 (0.28%) VXLAN
8 1 (0.28%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (10.99%) SQL Server
2 33 (9.30%) PostgreSQL
3 23 (6.48%) DynamoDB
3 23 (6.48%) NoSQL
4 17 (4.79%) MySQL
5 15 (4.23%) Elasticsearch
6 14 (3.94%) Amazon Aurora
6 14 (3.94%) Pinecone
7 13 (3.66%) Amazon RDS
8 12 (3.38%) MongoDB
9 11 (3.10%) Power BI
10 8 (2.25%) Data Warehouse
11 7 (1.97%) Spark SQL
12 6 (1.69%) Metadata
12 6 (1.69%) Relational Database
13 3 (0.85%) Amazon Redshift
13 3 (0.85%) CockroachDB
13 3 (0.85%) Delta Lake
13 3 (0.85%) Neo4j
14 2 (0.56%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 69 (19.44%) Git
2 49 (13.80%) TeamCity
3 42 (11.83%) GitLab
4 40 (11.27%) Jenkins
5 18 (5.07%) JIRA
6 13 (3.66%) MLflow
7 12 (3.38%) Crashlytics
8 11 (3.10%) XCTest
9 10 (2.82%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 10 (2.82%) Bitbucket
9 10 (2.82%) Cucumber
10 9 (2.54%) SonarQube
11 8 (2.25%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 6 (1.69%) Artifactory
12 6 (1.69%) JMeter
13 5 (1.41%) Gradle
13 5 (1.41%) Locust
13 5 (1.41%) Storybook
14 4 (1.13%) Maven
14 4 (1.13%) NUnit
General
1 119 (33.52%) Finance
2 108 (30.42%) Social Skills
3 65 (18.31%) Banking
4 59 (16.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 50 (14.08%) Law
6 49 (13.80%) Retail
7 37 (10.42%) Analytical Skills
8 31 (8.73%) Back Office
8 31 (8.73%) Financial Institution
9 15 (4.23%) Pharmaceutical
10 12 (3.38%) Public Sector
11 7 (1.97%) Aerospace
12 6 (1.69%) Retail Banking
13 5 (1.41%) Marketing
14 4 (1.13%) Mandarin Language
14 4 (1.13%) Organisational Skills
15 3 (0.85%) Front Office
16 2 (0.56%) Advertising
16 2 (0.56%) Manufacturing
16 2 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 74 (20.85%) Lead
2 58 (16.34%) Developer
3 47 (13.24%) Software Engineer
4 46 (12.96%) Senior
5 35 (9.86%) DevOps Engineer
6 26 (7.32%) Cloud Engineer
7 23 (6.48%) AWS Engineer
8 22 (6.20%) Azure Engineer
9 21 (5.92%) Platform Engineer
10 20 (5.63%) Java Engineer
11 18 (5.07%) Lead Software Engineer
12 17 (4.79%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 16 (4.51%) Power Platform Developer
14 15 (4.23%) Integration Engineer
14 15 (4.23%) Java Software Engineer
15 14 (3.94%) Data Engineer
16 13 (3.66%) Automation Engineer
16 13 (3.66%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 12 (3.38%) .NET Developer
17 12 (3.38%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (13.80%) RESTful
2 41 (11.55%) .NET
3 38 (10.70%) REST
4 36 (10.14%) React
5 31 (8.73%) OAuth
6 26 (7.32%) .NET Core
7 21 (5.92%) JSON
8 19 (5.35%) OAuth2
9 17 (4.79%) JWT
9 17 (4.79%) Web Services
10 16 (4.51%) ASP.NET
10 16 (4.51%) AWS CDK
10 16 (4.51%) FastAPI
11 15 (4.23%) NumPy
11 15 (4.23%) Pandas
11 15 (4.23%) PyTorch
11 15 (4.23%) scikit-learn
11 15 (4.23%) TensorFlow
12 14 (3.94%) Flask
12 14 (3.94%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 92 (25.92%) Cloud Native
2 42 (11.83%) Low-Code
3 28 (7.89%) Life Science
4 27 (7.61%) Product Ownership
5 18 (5.07%) Distributed Systems
6 17 (4.79%) Legacy Systems
7 16 (4.51%) Blog
8 14 (3.94%) Mobile App
9 13 (3.66%) Greenfield Project
10 12 (3.38%) Onboarding
11 11 (3.10%) Hackathon
11 11 (3.10%) Management Information System
12 9 (2.54%) Hybrid Cloud
12 9 (2.54%) PKI
13 7 (1.97%) Public Cloud
14 6 (1.69%) Cyberattack
15 5 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
15 5 (1.41%) Linux Command Line
15 5 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
16 4 (1.13%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 58 (16.34%) Linux
2 30 (8.45%) Windows
3 21 (5.92%) Apple iOS
4 16 (4.51%) Windows Server
5 12 (3.38%) CentOS
6 6 (1.69%) Mac OS
6 6 (1.69%) VMS
7 5 (1.41%) Android
7 5 (1.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (1.41%) Ubuntu
8 4 (1.13%) Unix
9 2 (0.56%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.28%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 267 (75.21%) CI/CD
2 188 (52.96%) DevOps
3 160 (45.07%) Test Automation
4 137 (38.59%) Infrastructure as Code
5 116 (32.68%) Agile
6 88 (24.79%) Containerisation
7 80 (22.54%) Microservices
8 76 (21.41%) Analytics
8 76 (21.41%) Clean Code
8 76 (21.41%) Problem-Solving
9 75 (21.13%) Observability
10 70 (19.72%) Software Engineering
11 69 (19.44%) Continuous Improvement
12 64 (18.03%) AI
13 59 (16.62%) Continuous Deployment
14 53 (14.93%) Machine Learning
15 52 (14.65%) Computer Science
16 47 (13.24%) Cybersecurity
17 42 (11.83%) Root Cause Analysis
18 41 (11.55%) Disruptive Innovation
Programming Languages
1 149 (41.97%) Python
2 81 (22.82%) Java
3 78 (21.97%) SQL
4 49 (13.80%) PowerShell
5 48 (13.52%) Bash
6 42 (11.83%) JavaScript
7 40 (11.27%) C#
8 29 (8.17%) Bicep
9 27 (7.61%) TypeScript
10 14 (3.94%) Kotlin
11 12 (3.38%) Swift
12 8 (2.25%) Kusto Query Language
12 8 (2.25%) Rust
13 7 (1.97%) Groovy
13 7 (1.97%) Shell Script
14 6 (1.69%) Go
15 4 (1.13%) Perl
16 3 (0.85%) PHP
16 3 (0.85%) VB
17 2 (0.56%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 65 (18.31%) Degree
2 46 (12.96%) Security Cleared
3 26 (7.32%) Master's Degree
4 25 (7.04%) SC Cleared
5 20 (5.63%) Computer Science Degree
6 17 (4.79%) AWS Certification
7 15 (4.23%) PhD
8 12 (3.38%) DV Cleared
9 11 (3.10%) AWS Certified Developer
10 9 (2.54%) Azure Certification
11 4 (1.13%) Postgraduate
12 3 (0.85%) ISTQB
12 3 (0.85%) PMI Certification
12 3 (0.85%) PMP
13 1 (0.28%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 1 (0.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.28%) JNCIP
13 1 (0.28%) LPIC
13 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (10.99%) QA
2 26 (7.32%) Accessibility
3 19 (5.35%) Data Quality
3 19 (5.35%) GDPR
4 15 (4.23%) GxP
5 12 (3.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (3.38%) WCAG
6 7 (1.97%) SLA
7 5 (1.41%) SOC 2
8 4 (1.13%) NIST
9 2 (0.56%) Def Stans
9 2 (0.56%) IEC 61508
9 2 (0.56%) ISO 26262
9 2 (0.56%) PMO
10 1 (0.28%) IFRS
10 1 (0.28%) IFRS 17
10 1 (0.28%) NCSC
10 1 (0.28%) Solvency II
System Software
1 97 (27.32%) Docker
2 14 (3.94%) Active Directory
3 8 (2.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.85%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.56%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.28%) Firmware
6 1 (0.28%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 171 (48.17%) Terraform
2 149 (41.97%) Kubernetes
3 87 (24.51%) Grafana
4 49 (13.80%) Ansible
5 26 (7.32%) Prometheus
6 12 (3.38%) Microsoft Intune
7 8 (2.25%) Argo
7 8 (2.25%) Jamf Pro
8 7 (1.97%) Nagios
9 5 (1.41%) SCCM
10 4 (1.13%) logstash
10 4 (1.13%) Packer
10 4 (1.13%) Rancher
11 3 (0.85%) SCOM
11 3 (0.85%) SCOrch
12 2 (0.56%) Istio
12 2 (0.56%) Puppet
12 2 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.28%) Functional Safety
13 1 (0.28%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 49 (13.80%) Microsoft
2 16 (4.51%) OpenAI
3 13 (3.66%) Automation Anywhere
3 13 (3.66%) UiPath
4 12 (3.38%) Databricks
4 12 (3.38%) Google
4 12 (3.38%) Splunk
5 11 (3.10%) Amplitude
5 11 (3.10%) Braze
6 9 (2.54%) Ab Initio
6 9 (2.54%) Red Hat
6 9 (2.54%) VMware
7 8 (2.25%) Dynatrace
8 7 (1.97%) Rapid7
9 6 (1.69%) AppDynamics
9 6 (1.69%) Cisco
9 6 (1.69%) IBM
9 6 (1.69%) Salesforce
10 5 (1.41%) Oracle
11 4 (1.13%) Apple