Deployment Automation Job Trends

Deployment Automation
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Deployment Automation skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 461 464 397
Rank change year-on-year +3 -67 -12
Permanent jobs citing Deployment Automation 209 364 458
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.42% 0.47% 0.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.48% 0.58% 0.78%
Number of salaries quoted 114 263 352
10th Percentile £48,250 £44,263 £47,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £48,250 £55,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,250 £65,000 £71,750
Median % change year-on-year +6.54% -9.41% +2.50%
75th Percentile £82,500 £74,375 £88,000
90th Percentile £94,250 £87,500 £111,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,750 £58,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +15.81% -10.00% +18.18%

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 43,832 63,083 58,844
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 88.65% 80.93% 94.46%
Number of salaries quoted 24,681 36,451 44,024
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% -2.78% +2.86%

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

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 14 September 2025.

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 14 September 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 -51 169 £75,000 +15.38% 95
UK excluding London -21 117 £67,750 +15.81% 71
London +54 86 £75,000 -7.69% 41
Work from Home +27 83 £75,000 +11.11% 63
North of England -62 26 £68,500 +38.38% 24
Scotland +87 25 £77,217 +47.08% 6
South East +12 25 £82,500 +41.03% 16
Midlands +38 18 £60,000 - 12
North West -6 14 £75,000 +114.29% 19
Wales +33 13 £48,500 -25.38% 1
West Midlands +32 12 £60,000 - 7
Yorkshire -61 10 £68,500 +38.38% 4
South West +40 7 £80,000 +20.75% 7
East Midlands +32 6 £75,000 +118.33% 4
East of England -20 2 - - 4
North East - 2 £77,217 - 1
Northern Ireland - 1 £77,217 - 1

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 21 (10.05%) Apache Spark
2 8 (3.83%) nginx
3 4 (1.91%) Apache
3 4 (1.91%) Confluence
4 3 (1.44%) BizTalk Server
4 3 (1.44%) IIS
4 3 (1.44%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.96%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.96%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.48%) Drupal
Applications
1 2 (0.96%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.48%) Eikon
Cloud Services
1 87 (41.63%) Azure
2 86 (41.15%) AWS
3 43 (20.57%) GCP
4 33 (15.79%) GitHub
5 31 (14.83%) Azure DevOps
6 27 (12.92%) Amazon EKS
6 27 (12.92%) Amazon S3
6 27 (12.92%) GitHub Actions
7 22 (10.53%) Serverless
8 19 (9.09%) Amazon ELB
9 15 (7.18%) AWS Lambda
9 15 (7.18%) SaaS
10 11 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
11 10 (4.78%) Entra ID
11 10 (4.78%) PaaS
12 8 (3.83%) AWS CloudFormation
12 8 (3.83%) Azure Monitor
13 6 (2.87%) Amazon EC2
13 6 (2.87%) OpenShift
14 5 (2.39%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 14 (6.70%) Network Security
2 8 (3.83%) DNS
3 6 (2.87%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 5 (2.39%) Broadband
4 5 (2.39%) WAN
5 3 (1.44%) BGP
5 3 (1.44%) SSH
5 3 (1.44%) SSL
5 3 (1.44%) VPN
6 2 (0.96%) Cisco IOS
6 2 (0.96%) IOS XR
6 2 (0.96%) LAN
6 2 (0.96%) NX-OS
6 2 (0.96%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.48%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (0.48%) DHCP
7 1 (0.48%) MQTT
7 1 (0.48%) Multicast
7 1 (0.48%) Remote Desktop
7 1 (0.48%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (10.05%) DynamoDB
2 20 (9.57%) Metadata
3 19 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
3 19 (9.09%) Delta Lake
3 19 (9.09%) Spark SQL
4 18 (8.61%) Tick Data
5 8 (3.83%) SQL Server
6 7 (3.35%) Big Data
7 5 (2.39%) MongoDB
7 5 (2.39%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (1.91%) MySQL
9 3 (1.44%) Data Lake
9 3 (1.44%) NoSQL
10 2 (0.96%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (0.96%) Power BI
10 2 (0.96%) Relational Database
11 1 (0.48%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (0.48%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.48%) Tableau
11 1 (0.48%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 24 (11.48%) Git
2 21 (10.05%) GitLab
2 21 (10.05%) MLflow
3 19 (9.09%) Jenkins
4 7 (3.35%) CircleCI
4 7 (3.35%) IntelliJ
4 7 (3.35%) Maven
5 5 (2.39%) Cucumber
5 5 (2.39%) JUnit
5 5 (2.39%) Mockito
6 4 (1.91%) JIRA
7 3 (1.44%) Artifactory
7 3 (1.44%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 2 (0.96%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.96%) Selenium
8 2 (0.96%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.48%) Ant
9 1 (0.48%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.48%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.48%) Visual Studio
General
1 58 (27.75%) Finance
2 52 (24.88%) Social Skills
3 22 (10.53%) Marketing
4 18 (8.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 11 (5.26%) Law
5 11 (5.26%) Pharmaceutical
6 9 (4.31%) Legal
6 9 (4.31%) Organisational Skills
7 7 (3.35%) Public Sector
8 4 (1.91%) Games
8 4 (1.91%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.44%) Advertising
9 3 (1.44%) Banking
9 3 (1.44%) Retail
10 2 (0.96%) Automotive
10 2 (0.96%) Cantonese Language
10 2 (0.96%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.96%) Mandarin Language
11 1 (0.48%) Back Office
11 1 (0.48%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 52 (24.88%) Lead
2 34 (16.27%) Developer
3 33 (15.79%) Senior
4 30 (14.35%) Software Engineer
5 26 (12.44%) DevOps Engineer
6 20 (9.57%) Machine Learning Engineer
7 19 (9.09%) Operations Engineer
8 18 (8.61%) Data Warehouse Developer
8 18 (8.61%) ETL Developer
8 18 (8.61%) Market Data Developer
9 17 (8.13%) Architect
10 16 (7.66%) Python Developer
11 13 (6.22%) Cloud Engineer
11 13 (6.22%) Senior DevOps
12 12 (5.74%) .NET Software Engineer
12 12 (5.74%) C# Software Engineer
12 12 (5.74%) Lead Software Engineer
13 11 (5.26%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 11 (5.26%) Platform Engineer
14 10 (4.78%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (11.96%) YAML
2 21 (10.05%) PySpark
3 19 (9.09%) .NET
3 19 (9.09%) Keras
3 19 (9.09%) Lambda Expressions
3 19 (9.09%) Metaflow
3 19 (9.09%) NumPy
3 19 (9.09%) Pandas
3 19 (9.09%) PyTorch
3 19 (9.09%) scikit-learn
3 19 (9.09%) TensorFlow
4 16 (7.66%) AngularJS
4 16 (7.66%) RESTful
4 16 (7.66%) Spring
5 15 (7.18%) React
6 12 (5.74%) .NET Core
7 9 (4.31%) Blazor
8 8 (3.83%) Elastic Stack
9 7 (3.35%) Kafka
10 6 (2.87%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 31 (14.83%) Management Information System
2 19 (9.09%) Linux Command Line
3 18 (8.61%) Cloud Native
4 14 (6.70%) Distributed Systems
5 12 (5.74%) Enterprise Software
6 11 (5.26%) Life Science
6 11 (5.26%) Private Cloud
7 10 (4.78%) Public Cloud
8 9 (4.31%) Product Ownership
9 5 (2.39%) Credit Derivative
9 5 (2.39%) Onboarding
10 4 (1.91%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (1.44%) Cyber Threat
11 3 (1.44%) Data Centre
11 3 (1.44%) Video\Live Streaming
12 2 (0.96%) Algorithms
12 2 (0.96%) Cyberattack
12 2 (0.96%) PKI
12 2 (0.96%) Tandem
12 2 (0.96%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 19 (9.09%) Unix
2 17 (8.13%) Linux
3 16 (7.66%) Windows
4 7 (3.35%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.96%) CentOS
6 2 (0.96%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.48%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (0.48%) Android
7 1 (0.48%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.48%) Debian
7 1 (0.48%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (55.02%) CI/CD
2 114 (54.55%) DevOps
3 84 (40.19%) Containerisation
4 81 (38.76%) Agile
5 60 (28.71%) Infrastructure as Code
6 52 (24.88%) Artificial Intelligence
7 49 (23.44%) Software Engineering
8 45 (21.53%) Machine Learning
8 45 (21.53%) Roadmaps
9 36 (17.22%) Continuous Improvement
9 36 (17.22%) Microservices
10 35 (16.75%) Problem-Solving
11 34 (16.27%) Test Automation
12 33 (15.79%) Data Science
13 30 (14.35%) Analytics
14 28 (13.40%) Mentoring
15 25 (11.96%) Information Security
16 24 (11.48%) Computer Science
17 23 (11.00%) ETL
17 23 (11.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 81 (38.76%) Python
2 28 (13.40%) SQL
3 26 (12.44%) Java
4 25 (11.96%) C#
5 18 (8.61%) PowerShell
6 11 (5.26%) Bash
7 9 (4.31%) JavaScript
8 7 (3.35%) Bicep
8 7 (3.35%) C++
8 7 (3.35%) Go
8 7 (3.35%) Shell Script
8 7 (3.35%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.96%) C
9 2 (0.96%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.48%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.48%) Objective-C
10 1 (0.48%) R
10 1 (0.48%) SPARQL
10 1 (0.48%) Swift
Qualifications
1 27 (12.92%) Degree
2 16 (7.66%) Security Cleared
3 13 (6.22%) Azure Certification
3 13 (6.22%) SC Cleared
4 12 (5.74%) Computer Science Degree
4 12 (5.74%) Master's Degree
5 11 (5.26%) PhD
6 8 (3.83%) AWS Certification
6 8 (3.83%) CCNP
6 8 (3.83%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (2.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 6 (2.87%) CCNA
7 6 (2.87%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.96%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.96%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.48%) CCIE
9 1 (0.48%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.74%) GDPR
1 12 (5.74%) QA
2 11 (5.26%) GxP
3 6 (2.87%) HIPAA
3 6 (2.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.44%) NIST
5 2 (0.96%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.96%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.96%) GRC
5 2 (0.96%) PMO
5 2 (0.96%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.48%) EU AI Act
6 1 (0.48%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 95 (45.45%) Docker
2 10 (4.78%) Active Directory
3 7 (3.35%) Virtual Desktop
4 6 (2.87%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (1.44%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.96%) Terminal Server
7 1 (0.48%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.48%) NFS
Systems Management
1 99 (47.37%) Kubernetes
2 91 (43.54%) Terraform
3 19 (9.09%) Ansible
3 19 (9.09%) Kubeflow
4 17 (8.13%) Grafana
4 17 (8.13%) Prometheus
5 5 (2.39%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (1.44%) Argo
7 2 (0.96%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.96%) Puppet
8 1 (0.48%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.48%) Packer
8 1 (0.48%) SCCM
Vendors
1 39 (18.66%) Databricks
2 16 (7.66%) Microsoft
3 6 (2.87%) F5
3 6 (2.87%) Google
4 5 (2.39%) IBM
5 4 (1.91%) Oracle
5 4 (1.91%) Salesforce
6 3 (1.44%) Cisco
6 3 (1.44%) Citrix
6 3 (1.44%) Dynatrace
6 3 (1.44%) Red Hat
6 3 (1.44%) ServiceNow
6 3 (1.44%) VMware
7 2 (0.96%) Arista
7 2 (0.96%) Guidewire
7 2 (0.96%) iManage
7 2 (0.96%) Pega
7 2 (0.96%) SAP
7 2 (0.96%) Thales
7 2 (0.96%) Workday