Deployment Automation Jobs

Deployment Automation
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Deployment Automation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Deployment Automation over the 6 months leading up to 5 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 432 504 439
Rank change year-on-year +72 -65 -95
Permanent jobs citing Deployment Automation 272 442 701
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.52% 0.45% 0.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.55% 0.52% 0.71%
Number of salaries quoted 220 343 484
10th Percentile £46,000 £45,000 £48,750
25th Percentile £55,938 £55,070 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £67,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -12.90% +19.23%
75th Percentile £96,250 £85,625 £100,000
90th Percentile £130,000 £112,500 £136,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £61,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +5.69% -8.89% +12.50%

All Process and 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 49,192 84,627 98,923
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.39% 85.89% 95.62%
Number of salaries quoted 26,577 59,744 58,120
10th Percentile £30,375 £29,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%
75th Percentile £75,772 £72,500 £81,500
90th Percentile £98,474 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%

Deployment Automation
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Deployment Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Deployment Automation in the UK

Deployment Automation
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Deployment Automation.

Salary trend for Deployment Automation in the UK

Deployment Automation
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Deployment Automation over the 6 months to 5 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Deployment Automation in the UK

Deployment Automation
Top 14 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 5 May 2025. 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 +66 253 £75,000 +11.11% 234
London +100 154 £85,000 -15.00% 143
Work from Home +119 130 £61,250 -0.41% 157
UK excluding London +75 108 £65,000 +5.69% 140
North of England +46 42 £61,250 +6.52% 35
North West +19 28 £67,500 +52.50% 27
South East +31 21 £55,000 -10.57% 47
Midlands +59 18 £62,500 +8.70% 15
West Midlands +55 18 £62,500 +8.70% 9
Scotland +139 14 £75,360 +214.00% 13
Yorkshire +56 14 £49,500 -15.74% 7
South West +70 11 £71,991 +13.82% 16
East of England +42 1 £75,000 +27.66% 10
Wales - 1 - - 7

Deployment Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 9 (3.31%) Apache
1 9 (3.31%) Confluence
2 6 (2.21%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.84%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (1.84%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.10%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.74%) CMS
5 2 (0.74%) nginx
6 1 (0.37%) Camunda
6 1 (0.37%) Drupal
6 1 (0.37%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.37%) IIS
6 1 (0.37%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.37%) Strapi
6 1 (0.37%) Umbraco
Applications
1 3 (1.10%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 139 (51.10%) AWS
2 112 (41.18%) Azure
3 56 (20.59%) GitHub
3 56 (20.59%) Serverless
4 54 (19.85%) GCP
5 48 (17.65%) AWS Lambda
6 47 (17.28%) Azure DevOps
7 31 (11.40%) Amazon S3
8 30 (11.03%) GitHub Actions
9 28 (10.29%) Amazon EC2
9 28 (10.29%) AWS CloudFormation
10 23 (8.46%) Amazon EKS
11 20 (7.35%) Pulumi
12 15 (5.51%) SaaS
13 13 (4.78%) Amazon ECS
13 13 (4.78%) AWS KMS
13 13 (4.78%) Datadog
14 12 (4.41%) PaaS
14 12 (4.41%) Power Platform
15 11 (4.04%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (7.35%) Network Security
2 8 (2.94%) Firewall
3 6 (2.21%) HTTP
4 3 (1.10%) VPN
5 2 (0.74%) SSH
5 2 (0.74%) SSL
6 1 (0.37%) Broadband
6 1 (0.37%) DNS
6 1 (0.37%) FTP
6 1 (0.37%) Internet
6 1 (0.37%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.37%) MQTT
6 1 (0.37%) OpenVPN
6 1 (0.37%) SAN
6 1 (0.37%) SMTP
6 1 (0.37%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (5.51%) Amazon RDS
2 12 (4.41%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (3.68%) Cloud Spanner
3 10 (3.68%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (3.68%) MySQL
4 9 (3.31%) SQL Server
5 8 (2.94%) Amazon Redshift
5 8 (2.94%) MongoDB
5 8 (2.94%) NoSQL
6 7 (2.57%) Tick Data
7 6 (2.21%) DynamoDB
7 6 (2.21%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (1.84%) Data Lake
8 5 (1.84%) Power BI
9 3 (1.10%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (1.10%) Big Data
9 3 (1.10%) Relational Database
10 2 (0.74%) RavenDB
11 1 (0.37%) Redis
11 1 (0.37%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 57 (20.96%) Jenkins
2 37 (13.60%) Git
3 27 (9.93%) GitLab
4 21 (7.72%) Cucumber
5 17 (6.25%) JIRA
6 13 (4.78%) Artifactory
6 13 (4.78%) IntelliJ
6 13 (4.78%) JUnit
6 13 (4.78%) Maven
6 13 (4.78%) Mockito
7 12 (4.41%) SonarQube
8 11 (4.04%) CircleCI
9 9 (3.31%) Selenium
10 7 (2.57%) Postman
11 5 (1.84%) Appium
12 4 (1.47%) Bitbucket
12 4 (1.47%) Cypress.io
12 4 (1.47%) IBM UrbanCode
12 4 (1.47%) JMeter
12 4 (1.47%) SoapUI
General
1 79 (29.04%) Social Skills
2 70 (25.74%) Finance
3 31 (11.40%) Banking
4 22 (8.09%) Public Sector
5 18 (6.62%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (6.62%) Marketing
6 14 (5.15%) Front Office
7 12 (4.41%) Games
8 9 (3.31%) Legal
8 9 (3.31%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (2.21%) Investment Banking
9 6 (2.21%) Manufacturing
10 5 (1.84%) Automotive
10 5 (1.84%) Law
11 3 (1.10%) Agriculture
11 3 (1.10%) Retail
12 2 (0.74%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.74%) Publishing
13 1 (0.37%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 65 (23.90%) Senior
2 61 (22.43%) DevOps Engineer
3 56 (20.59%) Developer
4 32 (11.76%) Software Engineer
5 31 (11.40%) Platform Engineer
6 25 (9.19%) AWS DevOps
7 23 (8.46%) Senior DevOps
8 22 (8.09%) Lead
9 20 (7.35%) Architect
10 17 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
11 16 (5.88%) Azure Engineer
11 16 (5.88%) Cloud Architect
11 16 (5.88%) Senior Developer
11 16 (5.88%) Senior Software Engineer
12 15 (5.51%) Java Developer
13 14 (5.15%) AWS Developer
13 14 (5.15%) AWS Engineer
13 14 (5.15%) Consultant
13 14 (5.15%) DevOps Developer
13 14 (5.15%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (11.03%) Spring Boot
2 28 (10.29%) Spring
3 27 (9.93%) Kafka
4 26 (9.56%) React
5 23 (8.46%) Elastic Stack
5 23 (8.46%) RESTful
6 21 (7.72%) .NET
6 21 (7.72%) Node.js
7 13 (4.78%) ActiveMQ
7 13 (4.78%) AngularJS
7 13 (4.78%) JMS
8 12 (4.41%) Azure Blueprints
8 12 (4.41%) REST
9 11 (4.04%) JSON
10 9 (3.31%) .NET Core
10 9 (3.31%) Playwright
11 8 (2.94%) ARM Templates
11 8 (2.94%) J2EE
12 7 (2.57%) HTML
12 7 (2.57%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 43 (15.81%) Management Information System
2 39 (14.34%) Public Cloud
3 22 (8.09%) Cloud Native
3 22 (8.09%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (4.78%) Credit Derivative
4 13 (4.78%) Enterprise Software
5 10 (3.68%) Educational Technology
5 10 (3.68%) Mobile Games
5 10 (3.68%) Onboarding
6 9 (3.31%) Algorithms
7 8 (2.94%) Tandem
8 7 (2.57%) Mobile App
9 4 (1.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 4 (1.47%) Legacy Applications
9 4 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.47%) Life Science
9 4 (1.47%) Low-Code
9 4 (1.47%) Product Ownership
9 4 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.10%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 73 (26.84%) Linux
2 17 (6.25%) Android
2 17 (6.25%) Apple iOS
2 17 (6.25%) Windows
3 8 (2.94%) Mac OS
4 4 (1.47%) CentOS
4 4 (1.47%) Unix
5 2 (0.74%) Debian
5 2 (0.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.74%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.37%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 183 (67.28%) DevOps
2 180 (66.18%) CI/CD
3 104 (38.24%) Infrastructure as Code
4 100 (36.76%) Containerisation
5 93 (34.19%) Agile
6 83 (30.51%) Software Engineering
7 66 (24.26%) Microservices
8 63 (23.16%) Mentoring
9 59 (21.69%) Problem-Solving
9 59 (21.69%) Test Automation
10 43 (15.81%) Continuous Integration
11 41 (15.07%) Continuous Delivery
12 40 (14.71%) Platform Engineering
12 40 (14.71%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 31 (11.40%) Low Latency
14 30 (11.03%) Continuous Improvement
14 30 (11.03%) Design Patterns
15 29 (10.66%) Cost Optimisation
16 27 (9.93%) Cloud Security
17 26 (9.56%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 94 (34.56%) Python
2 91 (33.46%) Java
3 32 (11.76%) JavaScript
4 27 (9.93%) Bicep
4 27 (9.93%) TypeScript
5 24 (8.82%) C#
5 24 (8.82%) Go
6 22 (8.09%) PowerShell
6 22 (8.09%) SQL
7 19 (6.99%) C++
8 14 (5.15%) Kotlin
9 13 (4.78%) Ruby
10 12 (4.41%) Bash
10 12 (4.41%) Swift
11 10 (3.68%) Objective-C
12 6 (2.21%) Groovy
13 5 (1.84%) C
14 4 (1.47%) Kusto Query Language
14 4 (1.47%) Rust
14 4 (1.47%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 41 (15.07%) Security Cleared
2 31 (11.40%) Degree
3 26 (9.56%) SC Cleared
4 20 (7.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (6.62%) AWS Certification
6 16 (5.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 8 (2.94%) Azure Certification
7 8 (2.94%) BPSS Clearance
8 7 (2.57%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (1.10%) DBS Check
9 3 (1.10%) ISTQB
9 3 (1.10%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 2 (0.74%) CEH
10 2 (0.74%) CISSP
10 2 (0.74%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.74%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.37%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (13.97%) QA
2 21 (7.72%) GDPR
3 18 (6.62%) HIPAA
4 10 (3.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (2.94%) NCSC
6 7 (2.57%) Accessibility
7 3 (1.10%) PCI DSS
7 3 (1.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.74%) PMO
8 2 (0.74%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.37%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.37%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 128 (47.06%) Docker
2 12 (4.41%) Active Directory
3 8 (2.94%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.37%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 139 (51.10%) Kubernetes
2 125 (45.96%) Terraform
3 67 (24.63%) Ansible
4 35 (12.87%) Prometheus
5 32 (11.76%) Grafana
6 28 (10.29%) Progress Chef
7 23 (8.46%) Puppet
8 20 (7.35%) Podman
9 4 (1.47%) Nagios
9 4 (1.47%) Packer
10 2 (0.74%) Argo
10 2 (0.74%) Istio
11 1 (0.37%) Check_MK
11 1 (0.37%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.37%) Kibana
11 1 (0.37%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.37%) logstash
11 1 (0.37%) Opsgenie
11 1 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.37%) vRealize
Vendors
1 20 (7.35%) IBM
2 19 (6.99%) Microsoft
3 17 (6.25%) Databricks
4 13 (4.78%) Google
5 8 (2.94%) iManage
6 6 (2.21%) Atlassian
6 6 (2.21%) Dynatrace
6 6 (2.21%) Red Hat
7 4 (1.47%) AppDynamics
7 4 (1.47%) Hitachi
7 4 (1.47%) IBM Sterling
7 4 (1.47%) Rapid7
7 4 (1.47%) Splunk
8 3 (1.10%) Oracle
8 3 (1.10%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.10%) VMware
9 2 (0.74%) Cisco
9 2 (0.74%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.74%) SAP
10 1 (0.37%) Workday