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

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 411 401 449
Rank change year-on-year -10 +48 -72
Permanent jobs citing Deployment Automation 249 332 322
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.40% 0.62% 0.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.50% 0.69% 0.58%
Number of salaries quoted 107 216 258
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £51,438 £56,625 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% - -12.50%
75th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £96,750 £130,000 £138,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% - -10.78%

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 49,863 48,378 55,939
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 80.51% 91.05% 89.23%
Number of salaries quoted 29,434 23,452 42,996
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £96,250
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 22 January 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 22 January 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 -39 205 £68,000 -2.86% 184
UK excluding London +1 151 £65,000 +8.33% 170
Work from Home +47 109 £63,750 -5.56% 64
London -6 88 £77,217 -18.72% 38
South East +37 56 £45,000 -23.08% 51
North of England -23 32 £68,000 +37.37% 35
Scotland +18 31 £77,217 +47.08% 6
Yorkshire -51 18 £60,000 +21.21% 13
North West +19 13 £75,000 +46.34% 17
South West +6 12 £74,200 +9.93% 27
East of England +14 7 £67,500 -10.00% 22
Wales +10 7 £48,500 -25.38% 7
Midlands -4 5 £57,359 -8.23% 22
West Midlands +9 4 £77,217 +23.55% 8
East Midlands -5 1 £37,500 +30.65% 14
North East - 1 £77,217 - 5
Northern Ireland - 1 £77,217 - 3

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 10 (4.02%) Appian
2 4 (1.61%) Confluence
3 3 (1.20%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.20%) IIS
4 2 (0.80%) Apache
4 2 (0.80%) BizTalk Server
4 2 (0.80%) nginx
4 2 (0.80%) SAS
4 2 (0.80%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.40%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.40%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.40%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 133 (53.41%) Azure
2 91 (36.55%) AWS
3 82 (32.93%) Azure DevOps
4 56 (22.49%) GitHub
5 51 (20.48%) GitHub Actions
6 41 (16.47%) GCP
7 35 (14.06%) Amazon EKS
7 35 (14.06%) Serverless
8 31 (12.45%) Azure Monitor
8 31 (12.45%) SaaS
9 29 (11.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 28 (11.24%) Azure Logic Apps
11 26 (10.44%) Azure Data Factory
12 25 (10.04%) AWS Lambda
13 21 (8.43%) Power Platform
14 19 (7.63%) AWS CloudFormation
15 18 (7.23%) Amazon S3
16 16 (6.43%) Amazon SQS
16 16 (6.43%) Azure Service Bus
17 15 (6.02%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.61%) Firewall
2 5 (2.01%) SSL
3 4 (1.61%) DNS
4 3 (1.20%) DMZ
4 3 (1.20%) VPN
5 2 (0.80%) BGP
5 2 (0.80%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (0.80%) MQTT
5 2 (0.80%) OSPF
5 2 (0.80%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (0.80%) RTMP
5 2 (0.80%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.80%) VLAN
5 2 (0.80%) WAN
5 2 (0.80%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.80%) Wireless
6 1 (0.40%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (12.85%) SQL Server
2 20 (8.03%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (7.23%) DynamoDB
4 17 (6.83%) NoSQL
5 10 (4.02%) MySQL
5 10 (4.02%) Pinecone
6 8 (3.21%) Amazon Aurora
7 7 (2.81%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (2.41%) MongoDB
8 6 (2.41%) Power BI
9 4 (1.61%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (1.61%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (1.61%) Relational Database
10 3 (1.20%) CockroachDB
10 3 (1.20%) Data Lake
10 3 (1.20%) Metadata
10 3 (1.20%) Tick Data
11 2 (0.80%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (0.80%) Tableau
12 1 (0.40%) Redis
Development Applications
1 36 (14.46%) Git
2 23 (9.24%) Jenkins
2 23 (9.24%) TeamCity
3 18 (7.23%) GitLab
4 13 (5.22%) MLflow
5 7 (2.81%) JIRA
6 6 (2.41%) Gradle
6 6 (2.41%) Maven
6 6 (2.41%) Storybook
7 4 (1.61%) Artifactory
7 4 (1.61%) Bitbucket
7 4 (1.61%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 3 (1.20%) JUnit
8 3 (1.20%) Octopus Deploy
8 3 (1.20%) TestNG
9 2 (0.80%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (0.80%) Checkstyle
9 2 (0.80%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.80%) Mockito
9 2 (0.80%) NUnit
General
1 115 (46.18%) Finance
2 58 (23.29%) Social Skills
3 31 (12.45%) Pharmaceutical
4 29 (11.65%) Banking
5 28 (11.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 22 (8.84%) Retail
7 21 (8.43%) Law
8 18 (7.23%) Financial Institution
9 17 (6.83%) Back Office
10 16 (6.43%) Analytical Skills
11 10 (4.02%) Marketing
12 4 (1.61%) Public Sector
13 3 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (1.20%) Legal
13 3 (1.20%) Retail Banking
14 2 (0.80%) Advertising
14 2 (0.80%) Agriculture
14 2 (0.80%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.80%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.80%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 58 (23.29%) Lead
2 45 (18.07%) Developer
3 22 (8.84%) DevOps Engineer
4 21 (8.43%) Software Engineer
5 19 (7.63%) Senior
6 17 (6.83%) Cloud Engineer
7 15 (6.02%) Platform Engineer
8 13 (5.22%) Azure Engineer
8 13 (5.22%) Integration Engineer
9 12 (4.82%) .NET Developer
9 12 (4.82%) AWS Engineer
10 11 (4.42%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 10 (4.02%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 10 (4.02%) Automation Engineer
11 10 (4.02%) AWS Developer
11 10 (4.02%) Power Platform Developer
12 9 (3.61%) AWS Platform Engineer
13 8 (3.21%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 8 (3.21%) Java Engineer
13 8 (3.21%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (17.67%) RESTful
2 33 (13.25%) .NET
2 33 (13.25%) OAuth
3 25 (10.04%) React
4 23 (9.24%) OAuth2
5 21 (8.43%) JSON
5 21 (8.43%) REST
6 20 (8.03%) .NET Core
7 15 (6.02%) ASP.NET
7 15 (6.02%) AWS CDK
8 14 (5.62%) FastAPI
8 14 (5.62%) JWT
9 13 (5.22%) ASP.NET Core
9 13 (5.22%) Blazor
10 12 (4.82%) Flask
10 12 (4.82%) OpenAPI
10 12 (4.82%) Swagger
10 12 (4.82%) Web Services
11 11 (4.42%) Django
12 10 (4.02%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 61 (24.50%) Cloud Native
2 35 (14.06%) Life Science
3 30 (12.05%) Low-Code
4 18 (7.23%) Product Ownership
5 12 (4.82%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (2.01%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (2.01%) Hackathon
6 5 (2.01%) IoT
7 4 (1.61%) Blog
7 4 (1.61%) Public Cloud
7 4 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.20%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.20%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.20%) Private Cloud
9 2 (0.80%) Algorithms
9 2 (0.80%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.80%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.80%) IVR
9 2 (0.80%) Mobile App
9 2 (0.80%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 27 (10.84%) Linux
2 14 (5.62%) Windows
3 8 (3.21%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.80%) VMS
5 1 (0.40%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (65.06%) CI/CD
2 146 (58.63%) DevOps
3 104 (41.77%) Agile
4 96 (38.55%) Infrastructure as Code
5 88 (35.34%) Test Automation
6 80 (32.13%) AI
7 77 (30.92%) Analytics
8 68 (27.31%) Machine Learning
9 56 (22.49%) Roadmaps
10 53 (21.29%) Problem-Solving
11 51 (20.48%) Containerisation
12 47 (18.88%) Continuous Improvement
13 46 (18.47%) Microservices
14 44 (17.67%) Generative AI
15 43 (17.27%) Observability
16 42 (16.87%) Computer Science
16 42 (16.87%) Data Science
17 41 (16.47%) Intelligent Automation
18 40 (16.06%) Coaching
19 37 (14.86%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 87 (34.94%) Python
2 45 (18.07%) SQL
3 34 (13.65%) PowerShell
4 32 (12.85%) Bash
4 32 (12.85%) Bicep
4 32 (12.85%) Java
5 31 (12.45%) C#
6 30 (12.05%) JavaScript
7 17 (6.83%) TypeScript
8 5 (2.01%) Go
9 2 (0.80%) C++
9 2 (0.80%) Delphi
9 2 (0.80%) Groovy
9 2 (0.80%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (0.80%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.80%) VB
9 2 (0.80%) VB6
10 1 (0.40%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.40%) C
10 1 (0.40%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 52 (20.88%) Degree
2 36 (14.46%) Master's Degree
3 30 (12.05%) PhD
4 18 (7.23%) Security Cleared
5 13 (5.22%) AWS Certification
6 11 (4.42%) AWS Certified Developer
6 11 (4.42%) Azure Certification
6 11 (4.42%) SC Cleared
7 8 (3.21%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.61%) DV Cleared
9 3 (1.20%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.40%) MCSE
10 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.40%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.40%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (12.05%) GxP
2 19 (7.63%) GDPR
3 14 (5.62%) Accessibility
3 14 (5.62%) Data Quality
4 12 (4.82%) QA
5 6 (2.41%) WCAG
6 4 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.80%) GRC
7 2 (0.80%) NIST
7 2 (0.80%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.40%) EU AI Act
8 1 (0.40%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.40%) SLA
System Software
1 67 (26.91%) Docker
2 12 (4.82%) Virtual Machines
3 10 (4.02%) Virtual Desktop
4 8 (3.21%) Active Directory
5 3 (1.20%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.80%) NFS
7 1 (0.40%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.40%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 116 (46.59%) Terraform
2 87 (34.94%) Kubernetes
3 45 (18.07%) Grafana
4 21 (8.43%) Ansible
5 19 (7.63%) Prometheus
6 10 (4.02%) Microsoft Intune
7 7 (2.81%) Argo
8 4 (1.61%) logstash
9 3 (1.20%) Rancher
10 2 (0.80%) Istio
10 2 (0.80%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.80%) Puppet
10 2 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.40%) Nagios
Vendors
1 27 (10.84%) Microsoft
2 14 (5.62%) Ab Initio
3 11 (4.42%) OpenAI
4 10 (4.02%) Automation Anywhere
4 10 (4.02%) UiPath
5 6 (2.41%) Cisco
5 6 (2.41%) Salesforce
5 6 (2.41%) Splunk
6 5 (2.01%) Oracle
7 4 (1.61%) Databricks
7 4 (1.61%) VMware
8 3 (1.20%) Citrix
8 3 (1.20%) Dynatrace
8 3 (1.20%) Google
9 2 (0.80%) MikroTik
9 2 (0.80%) NETGEAR
9 2 (0.80%) Pega
9 2 (0.80%) Rapid7
9 2 (0.80%) Sonatype
9 2 (0.80%) Ubiquiti