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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 378 483 445
Rank change year-on-year +105 -38 -70
Permanent jobs citing Deployment Automation 539 195 364
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.46% 0.39% 0.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.62% 0.44% 0.60%
Number of salaries quoted 286 97 241
10th Percentile £44,758 £48,250 £43,750
25th Percentile £56,000 £57,500 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +11.54% -7.90%
75th Percentile £86,250 £85,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £107,500 £93,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £68,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.41% +23.64% -12.00%

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 86,281 44,107 61,151
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.16% 89.14% 81.78%
Number of salaries quoted 59,444 24,402 33,284
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,750 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £58,274
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -5.62% -2.88%
75th Percentile £79,091 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £96,250
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 1 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Deployment Automation in the UK

Deployment Automation
Top 16 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 1 October 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 +106 444 £70,000 -6.67% 530
UK excluding London +2 265 £65,000 -4.41% 294
London +72 216 £82,500 +6.84% 269
Work from Home +59 192 £65,000 -15.82% 200
North of England -1 94 £65,000 -13.33% 84
South West -28 54 £73,000 -15.36% 57
South East -39 44 £65,000 -21.21% 54
North East -28 40 £60,000 -22.30% 10
North West -5 36 £56,250 -27.15% 51
Midlands -35 30 £56,250 -6.25% 29
Wales -57 28 £52,500 +8.25% 6
Yorkshire -18 24 £70,000 +2.19% 23
East Midlands -24 16 £61,250 -18.33% 8
Scotland 0 14 £75,000 -2.87% 35
West Midlands -46 14 £51,250 -14.58% 21
East of England -25 5 £56,000 - 18

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 17 (3.15%) Confluence
2 14 (2.60%) SharePoint
3 13 (2.41%) Apache
3 13 (2.41%) nginx
4 12 (2.23%) Apache Spark
5 8 (1.48%) Apache Airflow
5 8 (1.48%) IIS
6 7 (1.30%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (0.93%) Camunda
8 4 (0.74%) SAS
9 2 (0.37%) Cloud Foundry
9 2 (0.37%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.37%) Luigi
10 1 (0.19%) CMS
10 1 (0.19%) Documentum
10 1 (0.19%) JBoss
10 1 (0.19%) NServiceBus
10 1 (0.19%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (0.19%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.19%) ProjectWise
1 1 (0.19%) SPSS
1 1 (0.19%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.19%) Magento
2 1 (0.19%) Misys Equation
2 1 (0.19%) Misys Midas
2 1 (0.19%) Primavera
2 1 (0.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 307 (56.96%) AWS
2 288 (53.43%) Azure
3 187 (34.69%) GCP
4 125 (23.19%) Azure DevOps
5 93 (17.25%) Amazon EKS
6 88 (16.33%) GitHub
7 66 (12.24%) SaaS
8 57 (10.58%) Serverless
9 45 (8.35%) GitHub Actions
10 41 (7.61%) AWS CloudFormation
11 35 (6.49%) Power Platform
12 31 (5.75%) Microsoft 365
13 28 (5.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 28 (5.19%) Amazon ECS
13 28 (5.19%) Entra ID
14 26 (4.82%) Amazon S3
14 26 (4.82%) Azure Monitor
15 23 (4.27%) Azure Functions
16 22 (4.08%) Datadog
17 20 (3.71%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (4.08%) DNS
2 19 (3.53%) Firewall
2 19 (3.53%) VPN
3 9 (1.67%) Network Security
4 8 (1.48%) DHCP
5 7 (1.30%) BGP
5 7 (1.30%) SD-WAN
5 7 (1.30%) WAN
5 7 (1.30%) Wireless
6 6 (1.11%) LAN
6 6 (1.11%) OSPF
6 6 (1.11%) SSL
6 6 (1.11%) TCP/IP
6 6 (1.11%) Wi-Fi
7 5 (0.93%) MQTT
8 4 (0.74%) Broadband
8 4 (0.74%) Kerberos
8 4 (0.74%) NAS
8 4 (0.74%) SSH
8 4 (0.74%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (11.87%) PostgreSQL
2 40 (7.42%) SQL Server
3 35 (6.49%) MongoDB
4 32 (5.94%) MySQL
5 30 (5.57%) NoSQL
6 23 (4.27%) Power BI
7 19 (3.53%) Data Warehouse
7 19 (3.53%) Elasticsearch
8 17 (3.15%) Amazon RDS
8 17 (3.15%) Data Lake
9 16 (2.97%) Azure SQL Database
10 15 (2.78%) Relational Database
11 13 (2.41%) Metadata
12 8 (1.48%) Big Data
13 7 (1.30%) Geospatial Data
13 7 (1.30%) Redis
13 7 (1.30%) Spark SQL
14 5 (0.93%) Delta Lake
14 5 (0.93%) DocumentDB
14 5 (0.93%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 114 (21.15%) Git
2 72 (13.36%) TeamCity
3 71 (13.17%) Jenkins
4 64 (11.87%) GitLab
5 39 (7.24%) JIRA
6 18 (3.34%) Bitbucket
7 13 (2.41%) SonarQube
8 11 (2.04%) fastlane
9 10 (1.86%) Artifactory
9 10 (1.86%) Crashlytics
10 9 (1.67%) JUnit
11 8 (1.48%) Claude Code
11 8 (1.48%) Mockito
11 8 (1.48%) Octopus Deploy
12 7 (1.30%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 7 (1.30%) MSI
13 6 (1.11%) Cucumber
13 6 (1.11%) Xcode
14 5 (0.93%) Android Studio
14 5 (0.93%) Gradle
General
1 162 (30.06%) Finance
2 149 (27.64%) Social Skills
3 116 (21.52%) Banking
4 114 (21.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 87 (16.14%) Law
6 82 (15.21%) Analytical Skills
7 80 (14.84%) Public Sector
8 73 (13.54%) Retail
9 60 (11.13%) Financial Institution
10 53 (9.83%) Back Office
11 10 (1.86%) Marketing
12 7 (1.30%) Manufacturing
12 7 (1.30%) Telecoms
13 6 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (0.74%) Aerospace
14 4 (0.74%) Legal
14 4 (0.74%) Police
14 4 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
15 3 (0.56%) Documentation Skills
16 2 (0.37%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 119 (22.08%) Software Engineer
2 101 (18.74%) DevOps Engineer
3 97 (18.00%) Senior
4 90 (16.70%) Lead
5 80 (14.84%) Developer
6 47 (8.72%) Cloud Engineer
7 36 (6.68%) Azure Engineer
8 31 (5.75%) Senior Software Engineer
9 27 (5.01%) Data Engineer
9 27 (5.01%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 27 (5.01%) Platform Engineer
10 26 (4.82%) Lead Software Engineer
11 25 (4.64%) Java Engineer
12 21 (3.90%) Site Engineer
12 21 (3.90%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 21 (3.90%) Software Team Leader
12 21 (3.90%) Team Leader
13 20 (3.71%) Senior Developer
14 19 (3.53%) Java Developer
14 19 (3.53%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 275 (51.02%) Terraform
2 63 (11.69%) RESTful
3 60 (11.13%) REST
4 54 (10.02%) .NET
5 39 (7.24%) React
6 36 (6.68%) Kafka
7 26 (4.82%) Spring
8 24 (4.45%) LangChain
8 24 (4.45%) Spring Boot
9 20 (3.71%) AngularJS
9 20 (3.71%) Web Services
10 19 (3.53%) Node.js
11 18 (3.34%) CSS
11 18 (3.34%) Hibernate
11 18 (3.34%) JPA
11 18 (3.34%) RabbitMQ
12 16 (2.97%) .NET Framework
12 16 (2.97%) PyTorch
12 16 (2.97%) scikit-learn
12 16 (2.97%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 213 (39.52%) Cloud Native
2 108 (20.04%) Product Ownership
3 62 (11.50%) Distributed Systems
4 36 (6.68%) Onboarding
5 33 (6.12%) Enterprise Software
6 26 (4.82%) Self-Motivation
7 23 (4.27%) AI Agents
8 20 (3.71%) Legacy Systems
8 20 (3.71%) Management Information System
9 19 (3.53%) Mobile App
10 18 (3.34%) Virtual Team
11 17 (3.15%) Blog
12 12 (2.23%) Life Science
13 11 (2.04%) Hybrid Cloud
14 9 (1.67%) Data Centre
14 9 (1.67%) Replication
15 8 (1.48%) Linux Command Line
15 8 (1.48%) PKI
15 8 (1.48%) Public Cloud
16 7 (1.30%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 94 (17.44%) Linux
2 61 (11.32%) Windows
3 19 (3.53%) Windows Server
4 17 (3.15%) Apple iOS
5 12 (2.23%) CentOS
6 9 (1.67%) Android
7 8 (1.48%) Unix
8 7 (1.30%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (0.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (0.56%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.56%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.37%) Amazon Linux
11 2 (0.37%) Embedded Linux
11 2 (0.37%) Solaris
11 2 (0.37%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 445 (82.56%) CI/CD
2 360 (66.79%) DevOps
3 248 (46.01%) Infrastructure as Code
4 230 (42.67%) Test Automation
5 213 (39.52%) Software Engineering
6 184 (34.14%) Agile
7 157 (29.13%) Observability
8 151 (28.01%) Microservices
9 149 (27.64%) Continuous Improvement
10 148 (27.46%) AI
11 144 (26.72%) Mentoring
12 138 (25.60%) Problem-Solving
13 136 (25.23%) Containerisation
14 107 (19.85%) Clean Code
15 86 (15.96%) Technical Leadership
16 81 (15.03%) Continuous Deployment
17 72 (13.36%) Analytics
18 65 (12.06%) Coaching
18 65 (12.06%) Machine Learning
19 63 (11.69%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 208 (38.59%) Python
2 150 (27.83%) Java
3 95 (17.63%) SQL
4 81 (15.03%) PowerShell
5 58 (10.76%) TypeScript
6 56 (10.39%) C#
7 55 (10.20%) Bash
8 48 (8.91%) JavaScript
9 31 (5.75%) Bicep
10 13 (2.41%) Kotlin
11 12 (2.23%) Go
12 11 (2.04%) Swift
13 10 (1.86%) C++
13 10 (1.86%) Groovy
14 9 (1.67%) Scala
15 7 (1.30%) C
16 6 (1.11%) Shell Script
17 5 (0.93%) PHP
17 5 (0.93%) Rust
18 4 (0.74%) Perl
Qualifications
1 107 (19.85%) Security Cleared
2 73 (13.54%) SC Cleared
3 47 (8.72%) Degree
4 36 (6.68%) Computer Science Degree
5 29 (5.38%) Azure Certification
6 22 (4.08%) AWS Certification
7 17 (3.15%) DV Cleared
8 15 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (1.48%) Master's Degree
10 7 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (0.93%) CCNP
11 5 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (0.74%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 4 (0.74%) TOGAF Certification
13 3 (0.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 3 (0.56%) PMI Certification
14 2 (0.37%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 2 (0.37%) PMP
15 1 (0.19%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 1 (0.19%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (12.24%) QA
2 31 (5.75%) Accessibility
3 23 (4.27%) Data Quality
4 21 (3.90%) GDPR
4 21 (3.90%) WCAG
5 16 (2.97%) NCSC
6 14 (2.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 13 (2.41%) SLA
8 5 (0.93%) SOC 2
9 4 (0.74%) NIST
10 3 (0.56%) PMO
11 2 (0.37%) GRC
11 2 (0.37%) IFRS
11 2 (0.37%) IFRS 17
11 2 (0.37%) JTAG
11 2 (0.37%) Solvency II
System Software
1 140 (25.97%) Docker
2 25 (4.64%) Active Directory
3 10 (1.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.48%) Virtual Desktop
5 7 (1.30%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (1.11%) Firmware
6 6 (1.11%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.74%) vSphere
8 1 (0.19%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.19%) NDS
8 1 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.19%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 229 (42.49%) Kubernetes
2 141 (26.16%) Grafana
3 91 (16.88%) Ansible
4 46 (8.53%) Prometheus
5 14 (2.60%) Argo
6 13 (2.41%) Microsoft Intune
7 11 (2.04%) Puppet
8 9 (1.67%) Nagios
9 6 (1.11%) Progress Chef
10 5 (0.93%) SCCM
11 4 (0.74%) Jamf Pro
11 4 (0.74%) Packer
11 4 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
12 3 (0.56%) cPanel
12 3 (0.56%) Docker Swarm
12 3 (0.56%) Istio
12 3 (0.56%) Podman
12 3 (0.56%) Rancher
12 3 (0.56%) SCOM
12 3 (0.56%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 111 (20.59%) Microsoft
2 44 (8.16%) Dynatrace
3 33 (6.12%) Google
4 26 (4.82%) Splunk
5 22 (4.08%) Databricks
6 18 (3.34%) Salesforce
7 15 (2.78%) VMware
8 14 (2.60%) Red Hat
9 12 (2.23%) OpenAI
10 10 (1.86%) Oracle
11 9 (1.67%) Rapid7
12 8 (1.48%) Apple
12 8 (1.48%) Fortinet
13 7 (1.30%) Atlassian
13 7 (1.30%) IBM
13 7 (1.30%) ServiceNow
14 6 (1.11%) AppDynamics
15 5 (0.93%) Amplitude
15 5 (0.93%) Cisco
15 5 (0.93%) Confluent