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

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 385 488 452
Rank change year-on-year +103 -36 -74
Permanent jobs citing Deployment Automation 540 195 365
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 285 95 241
10th Percentile £44,709 £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 £83,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £107,500 £94,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £66,250 £55,000
% change year-on-year -1.89% +20.45% -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 86,437 44,202 61,341
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.18% 89.12% 81.82%
Number of salaries quoted 59,483 24,460 33,440
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,500 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £58,465
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -5.93% -2.56%
75th Percentile £78,750 £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 2 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 2 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 +95 443 £70,000 -6.67% 626
UK excluding London -2 264 £65,000 -1.89% 344
London +69 216 £82,500 +4.95% 337
Work from Home +66 193 £65,000 -15.82% 247
North of England +7 93 £61,250 -18.33% 87
South West -21 55 £74,000 -14.20% 61
North East -21 43 £60,000 -22.30% 11
South East -33 39 £65,000 -21.21% 78
North West -8 36 £56,250 -27.15% 49
Midlands -38 31 £56,250 -6.25% 37
Wales -60 28 £52,500 +8.25% 6
Yorkshire -17 23 £70,000 +2.19% 27
East Midlands -28 17 £61,250 -18.33% 13
Scotland -7 14 £75,000 -2.87% 42
West Midlands -42 14 £51,250 -14.58% 24
East of England -37 5 £56,000 - 21

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 (2.59%) Apache
2 14 (2.59%) nginx
2 14 (2.59%) SharePoint
3 13 (2.41%) Apache Spark
4 9 (1.67%) Apache Airflow
5 8 (1.48%) IIS
6 7 (1.30%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (0.93%) Camunda
8 4 (0.74%) SAS
9 3 (0.56%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.37%) Cloud Foundry
10 2 (0.37%) Luigi
11 1 (0.19%) CMS
11 1 (0.19%) Documentum
11 1 (0.19%) JBoss
11 1 (0.19%) NServiceBus
11 1 (0.19%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (0.19%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.19%) ProjectWise
1 1 (0.19%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.19%) Magento
2 1 (0.19%) Maximo
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
1 306 (56.67%) AWS
2 291 (53.89%) Azure
3 189 (35.00%) GCP
4 125 (23.15%) Azure DevOps
5 89 (16.48%) Amazon EKS
6 88 (16.30%) GitHub
7 68 (12.59%) SaaS
8 53 (9.81%) Serverless
9 45 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
10 42 (7.78%) AWS CloudFormation
11 35 (6.48%) Power Platform
12 30 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
13 29 (5.37%) Amazon ECS
14 28 (5.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 27 (5.00%) Entra ID
16 25 (4.63%) Azure Monitor
17 23 (4.26%) Azure Functions
18 22 (4.07%) Amazon S3
18 22 (4.07%) Datadog
19 21 (3.89%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 22 (4.07%) DNS
2 19 (3.52%) Firewall
2 19 (3.52%) 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 (11.85%) PostgreSQL
2 41 (7.59%) SQL Server
3 34 (6.30%) MongoDB
4 32 (5.93%) MySQL
4 32 (5.93%) NoSQL
5 23 (4.26%) Power BI
6 19 (3.52%) Data Warehouse
6 19 (3.52%) Elasticsearch
7 18 (3.33%) Data Lake
8 17 (3.15%) Amazon RDS
9 15 (2.78%) Azure SQL Database
9 15 (2.78%) Relational Database
10 13 (2.41%) Metadata
11 8 (1.48%) Big Data
12 7 (1.30%) Geospatial Data
12 7 (1.30%) Redis
12 7 (1.30%) Spark SQL
13 5 (0.93%) Delta Lake
13 5 (0.93%) DocumentDB
13 5 (0.93%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 111 (20.56%) Git
2 73 (13.52%) TeamCity
3 66 (12.22%) Jenkins
4 62 (11.48%) GitLab
5 35 (6.48%) JIRA
6 17 (3.15%) Bitbucket
7 11 (2.04%) fastlane
8 10 (1.85%) Crashlytics
9 9 (1.67%) JUnit
10 8 (1.48%) Claude Code
10 8 (1.48%) Mockito
10 8 (1.48%) Octopus Deploy
10 8 (1.48%) SonarQube
11 7 (1.30%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 7 (1.30%) MSI
12 6 (1.11%) Artifactory
12 6 (1.11%) Xcode
13 5 (0.93%) Android Studio
13 5 (0.93%) Gradle
13 5 (0.93%) Maven
General
1 165 (30.56%) Finance
2 149 (27.59%) Social Skills
3 118 (21.85%) Banking
4 114 (21.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 88 (16.30%) Law
6 87 (16.11%) Analytical Skills
7 83 (15.37%) Public Sector
8 74 (13.70%) Retail
9 61 (11.30%) Financial Institution
10 54 (10.00%) Back Office
11 10 (1.85%) Marketing
12 7 (1.30%) Manufacturing
12 7 (1.30%) Telecoms
13 6 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (0.93%) Aerospace
15 4 (0.74%) Legal
15 4 (0.74%) Police
15 4 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
16 3 (0.56%) Documentation Skills
17 2 (0.37%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 121 (22.41%) Software Engineer
2 99 (18.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 98 (18.15%) Senior
4 89 (16.48%) Lead
5 80 (14.81%) Developer
6 47 (8.70%) Cloud Engineer
7 37 (6.85%) Azure Engineer
8 32 (5.93%) Senior Software Engineer
9 27 (5.00%) Data Engineer
9 27 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 27 (5.00%) Lead Software Engineer
9 27 (5.00%) Platform Engineer
10 23 (4.26%) Java Engineer
11 22 (4.07%) Software Team Leader
11 22 (4.07%) Team Leader
12 21 (3.89%) Senior Developer
12 21 (3.89%) Site Engineer
12 21 (3.89%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 19 (3.52%) Automation Engineer
13 19 (3.52%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 275 (50.93%) Terraform
2 64 (11.85%) RESTful
3 56 (10.37%) REST
4 55 (10.19%) .NET
5 40 (7.41%) React
6 37 (6.85%) Kafka
7 26 (4.81%) Spring
8 24 (4.44%) Spring Boot
9 23 (4.26%) LangChain
10 21 (3.89%) Web Services
11 19 (3.52%) AngularJS
11 19 (3.52%) Node.js
12 18 (3.33%) CSS
12 18 (3.33%) Hibernate
12 18 (3.33%) JPA
13 15 (2.78%) .NET Framework
13 15 (2.78%) Next.js
13 15 (2.78%) PyTorch
13 15 (2.78%) scikit-learn
13 15 (2.78%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 214 (39.63%) Cloud Native
2 110 (20.37%) Product Ownership
3 58 (10.74%) Distributed Systems
4 36 (6.67%) Onboarding
5 32 (5.93%) Enterprise Software
6 28 (5.19%) Self-Motivation
7 24 (4.44%) AI Agents
8 20 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
8 20 (3.70%) Management Information System
9 18 (3.33%) Mobile App
9 18 (3.33%) Virtual Team
10 17 (3.15%) Blog
11 12 (2.22%) Life Science
12 11 (2.04%) Hybrid Cloud
13 9 (1.67%) Data Centre
13 9 (1.67%) Replication
14 8 (1.48%) Linux Command Line
14 8 (1.48%) PKI
14 8 (1.48%) Public Cloud
15 7 (1.30%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 90 (16.67%) Linux
2 61 (11.30%) Windows
3 19 (3.52%) Windows Server
4 15 (2.78%) Apple iOS
5 12 (2.22%) CentOS
6 8 (1.48%) Android
6 8 (1.48%) Unix
7 7 (1.30%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (0.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.56%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.37%) Amazon Linux
10 2 (0.37%) Embedded Linux
10 2 (0.37%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.37%) Solaris
10 2 (0.37%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 446 (82.59%) CI/CD
2 362 (67.04%) DevOps
3 246 (45.56%) Infrastructure as Code
4 229 (42.41%) Test Automation
5 216 (40.00%) Software Engineering
6 186 (34.44%) Agile
7 158 (29.26%) Observability
8 154 (28.52%) Continuous Improvement
9 149 (27.59%) Microservices
10 148 (27.41%) AI
11 146 (27.04%) Mentoring
12 144 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
13 135 (25.00%) Containerisation
14 108 (20.00%) Clean Code
15 86 (15.93%) Technical Leadership
16 80 (14.81%) Continuous Deployment
17 73 (13.52%) Analytics
18 66 (12.22%) Coaching
19 65 (12.04%) Platform Engineering
20 64 (11.85%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 205 (37.96%) Python
2 147 (27.22%) Java
3 96 (17.78%) SQL
4 81 (15.00%) PowerShell
5 58 (10.74%) C#
5 58 (10.74%) TypeScript
6 55 (10.19%) Bash
7 48 (8.89%) JavaScript
8 30 (5.56%) Bicep
9 13 (2.41%) Kotlin
10 12 (2.22%) Go
11 11 (2.04%) C++
11 11 (2.04%) Swift
12 9 (1.67%) Scala
13 7 (1.30%) C
14 5 (0.93%) Groovy
14 5 (0.93%) PHP
14 5 (0.93%) Rust
15 4 (0.74%) Apex Code
15 4 (0.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 108 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 75 (13.89%) SC Cleared
3 48 (8.89%) Degree
4 37 (6.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 29 (5.37%) Azure Certification
6 23 (4.26%) 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
15 1 (0.19%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (11.30%) QA
2 31 (5.74%) Accessibility
3 23 (4.26%) Data Quality
4 21 (3.89%) WCAG
5 20 (3.70%) GDPR
6 16 (2.96%) NCSC
7 14 (2.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 13 (2.41%) SLA
9 5 (0.93%) SOC 2
10 4 (0.74%) NIST
11 3 (0.56%) PMO
12 2 (0.37%) GRC
12 2 (0.37%) IFRS
12 2 (0.37%) IFRS 17
12 2 (0.37%) JTAG
12 2 (0.37%) Solvency II
System Software
1 141 (26.11%) Docker
2 25 (4.63%) Active Directory
3 10 (1.85%) 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
1 226 (41.85%) Kubernetes
2 143 (26.48%) Grafana
3 87 (16.11%) Ansible
4 47 (8.70%) Prometheus
5 13 (2.41%) Argo
6 12 (2.22%) 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%) Single Sign-On
12 3 (0.56%) cPanel
12 3 (0.56%) Docker Swarm
12 3 (0.56%) Istio
12 3 (0.56%) Jamf Pro
12 3 (0.56%) Plesk
12 3 (0.56%) Podman
12 3 (0.56%) Rancher
12 3 (0.56%) SCOM
12 3 (0.56%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 112 (20.74%) Microsoft
2 44 (8.15%) Dynatrace
3 32 (5.93%) Google
4 26 (4.81%) Splunk
5 23 (4.26%) Databricks
6 18 (3.33%) Salesforce
7 15 (2.78%) Red Hat
7 15 (2.78%) VMware
8 12 (2.22%) Oracle
9 11 (2.04%) OpenAI
10 9 (1.67%) Rapid7
11 8 (1.48%) Fortinet
12 7 (1.30%) Apple
12 7 (1.30%) ServiceNow
13 6 (1.11%) Atlassian
14 5 (0.93%) Amplitude
14 5 (0.93%) Braze
14 5 (0.93%) Cisco
14 5 (0.93%) Confluent
15 4 (0.74%) UiPath