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 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 422 392 374
Rank change year-on-year -30 -18 +48
Permanent jobs citing Deployment Automation 238 363 365
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.41% 0.62% 0.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 0.70% 0.79%
Number of salaries quoted 103 241 291
10th Percentile £47,650 £46,250 £46,350
25th Percentile £55,000 £48,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,000 £68,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - -9.33% -6.25%
75th Percentile £82,500 £90,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £116,250 £138,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £58,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +15.38% -2.50% -2.83%

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 48,535 51,647 46,319
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.52% 88.55% 93.77%
Number of salaries quoted 28,396 26,504 35,505
10th Percentile £28,432 £35,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -1.64%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £99,899
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,500 £54,793 £52,500
% change year-on-year -11.49% +4.37% -2.51%

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 14 December 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 December 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 -55 187 £75,000 +10.29% 116
UK excluding London +7 155 £67,500 +15.38% 93
Work from Home +37 98 £67,500 - 60
London +11 77 £76,109 -15.44% 46
South East +26 42 £67,500 +15.38% 35
North of England -26 36 £71,750 +44.95% 29
Scotland +41 34 £77,217 +47.08% 5
Yorkshire -45 20 £60,000 +21.21% 12
North West +26 14 £77,217 +120.62% 13
Wales +18 14 £48,500 -25.38% 1
Midlands +10 11 £76,109 +26.85% 7
South West 0 10 £80,000 +18.52% 12
East of England +16 7 £67,500 +42.11% 7
West Midlands +9 6 £77,217 +28.70% 7
East Midlands +2 5 £75,000 +161.30%
North East - 2 £77,217 - 5
Northern Ireland - 1 £77,217 - 1

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 20 (8.40%) Apache Spark
2 5 (2.10%) Appian
3 3 (1.26%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.26%) IIS
4 2 (0.84%) Apache
4 2 (0.84%) BizTalk Server
4 2 (0.84%) nginx
4 2 (0.84%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.84%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.42%) Confluence
5 1 (0.42%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.42%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.84%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 118 (49.58%) Azure
2 97 (40.76%) AWS
3 74 (31.09%) Azure DevOps
4 52 (21.85%) GitHub
5 50 (21.01%) GitHub Actions
6 43 (18.07%) Amazon EKS
7 36 (15.13%) GCP
8 32 (13.45%) Amazon S3
9 30 (12.61%) SaaS
9 30 (12.61%) Serverless
10 29 (12.18%) Azure Monitor
11 20 (8.40%) Azure Data Factory
12 19 (7.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 19 (7.98%) Amazon ELB
12 19 (7.98%) AWS Lambda
12 19 (7.98%) Azure Logic Apps
13 17 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
14 14 (5.88%) Azure Service Bus
14 14 (5.88%) Entra ID
15 13 (5.46%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.94%) Firewall
2 5 (2.10%) SSL
3 4 (1.68%) WAN
4 3 (1.26%) DMZ
4 3 (1.26%) DNS
4 3 (1.26%) VPN
5 2 (0.84%) BGP
5 2 (0.84%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (0.84%) LAN
5 2 (0.84%) MQTT
5 2 (0.84%) Network Security
5 2 (0.84%) OSPF
5 2 (0.84%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (0.84%) RTMP
5 2 (0.84%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.84%) VLAN
5 2 (0.84%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.84%) Wireless
6 1 (0.42%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (14.29%) DynamoDB
2 25 (10.50%) SQL Server
3 22 (9.24%) Metadata
4 20 (8.40%) Delta Lake
5 19 (7.98%) Spark SQL
6 16 (6.72%) PostgreSQL
7 13 (5.46%) NoSQL
8 9 (3.78%) Data Warehouse
9 8 (3.36%) Tick Data
10 6 (2.52%) MySQL
11 5 (2.10%) Pinecone
11 5 (2.10%) Power BI
12 4 (1.68%) Amazon RDS
12 4 (1.68%) MongoDB
13 3 (1.26%) Amazon Aurora
13 3 (1.26%) Data Lake
14 2 (0.84%) Azure SQL Database
14 2 (0.84%) Big Data
14 2 (0.84%) Elasticsearch
14 2 (0.84%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 34 (14.29%) Git
2 27 (11.34%) MLflow
3 20 (8.40%) Jenkins
4 18 (7.56%) TeamCity
5 17 (7.14%) GitLab
6 6 (2.52%) Storybook
7 4 (1.68%) Artifactory
7 4 (1.68%) CircleCI
7 4 (1.68%) JIRA
8 3 (1.26%) Bitbucket
8 3 (1.26%) Gradle
8 3 (1.26%) Maven
8 3 (1.26%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 2 (0.84%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (0.84%) Jaeger
9 2 (0.84%) Octopus Deploy
9 2 (0.84%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.42%) JUnit
10 1 (0.42%) Selenium
10 1 (0.42%) TestNG
General
1 100 (42.02%) Finance
2 62 (26.05%) Social Skills
3 24 (10.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 23 (9.66%) Pharmaceutical
5 19 (7.98%) Banking
6 16 (6.72%) Financial Institution
6 16 (6.72%) Law
6 16 (6.72%) Retail
7 15 (6.30%) Back Office
8 14 (5.88%) Marketing
9 8 (3.36%) Analytical Skills
10 5 (2.10%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (1.68%) Public Sector
12 3 (1.26%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (1.26%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (1.26%) Legal
13 2 (0.84%) Advertising
13 2 (0.84%) Agriculture
13 2 (0.84%) Manufacturing
14 1 (0.42%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 52 (21.85%) Lead
2 37 (15.55%) Developer
3 23 (9.66%) Software Engineer
4 22 (9.24%) DevOps Engineer
5 20 (8.40%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 20 (8.40%) Operations Engineer
6 18 (7.56%) Senior
7 14 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
8 13 (5.46%) Platform Engineer
9 12 (5.04%) Integration Engineer
10 11 (4.62%) Azure Engineer
11 10 (4.20%) .NET Developer
12 9 (3.78%) Analyst
12 9 (3.78%) AWS Developer
12 9 (3.78%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 8 (3.36%) Data Warehouse Developer
13 8 (3.36%) ETL Developer
13 8 (3.36%) Market Data Developer
13 8 (3.36%) Senior Software Engineer
14 7 (2.94%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (16.81%) RESTful
2 28 (11.76%) .NET
3 24 (10.08%) NumPy
3 24 (10.08%) Pandas
3 24 (10.08%) PyTorch
3 24 (10.08%) React
3 24 (10.08%) scikit-learn
3 24 (10.08%) TensorFlow
4 23 (9.66%) YAML
5 22 (9.24%) OAuth
6 20 (8.40%) PySpark
7 19 (7.98%) .NET Core
7 19 (7.98%) JSON
7 19 (7.98%) Keras
7 19 (7.98%) Lambda Expressions
7 19 (7.98%) Metaflow
8 17 (7.14%) OAuth2
9 15 (6.30%) Blazor
10 12 (5.04%) ASP.NET
11 11 (4.62%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 54 (22.69%) Cloud Native
2 24 (10.08%) Life Science
3 19 (7.98%) Linux Command Line
4 16 (6.72%) Product Ownership
5 15 (6.30%) Low-Code
6 8 (3.36%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (3.36%) Management Information System
7 6 (2.52%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.68%) IoT
9 3 (1.26%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.26%) Public Cloud
10 2 (0.84%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.84%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (0.84%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.84%) Hackathon
10 2 (0.84%) IVR
10 2 (0.84%) Mobile App
10 2 (0.84%) MPEG
10 2 (0.84%) Robotics
10 2 (0.84%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 20 (8.40%) Linux
2 19 (7.98%) Unix
3 13 (5.46%) Windows
4 9 (3.78%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.84%) CentOS
5 2 (0.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.42%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (65.55%) CI/CD
2 128 (53.78%) DevOps
3 97 (40.76%) Agile
4 87 (36.55%) Infrastructure as Code
5 84 (35.29%) AI
6 72 (30.25%) Machine Learning
7 69 (28.99%) Test Automation
8 67 (28.15%) Containerisation
9 61 (25.63%) Analytics
10 50 (21.01%) Data Science
11 47 (19.75%) Roadmaps
12 45 (18.91%) Microservices
13 43 (18.07%) Problem-Solving
14 41 (17.23%) Continuous Improvement
15 38 (15.97%) Coaching
16 35 (14.71%) Observability
17 34 (14.29%) Software Engineering
18 33 (13.87%) Root Cause Analysis
19 31 (13.03%) Computer Science
19 31 (13.03%) MLOps
Programming Languages
1 89 (37.39%) Python
2 52 (21.85%) SQL
3 31 (13.03%) PowerShell
4 29 (12.18%) Bicep
5 28 (11.76%) Bash
6 26 (10.92%) C#
7 23 (9.66%) Java
8 18 (7.56%) JavaScript
9 12 (5.04%) TypeScript
10 4 (1.68%) Go
11 2 (0.84%) C++
11 2 (0.84%) Groovy
11 2 (0.84%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.42%) C
12 1 (0.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.42%) Delphi
12 1 (0.42%) R
12 1 (0.42%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.42%) VB
12 1 (0.42%) VB6
Qualifications
1 37 (15.55%) Degree
2 25 (10.50%) Master's Degree
3 22 (9.24%) PhD
4 14 (5.88%) Security Cleared
5 12 (5.04%) AWS Certification
6 11 (4.62%) Azure Certification
7 10 (4.20%) AWS Certified Developer
8 9 (3.78%) SC Cleared
9 7 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (1.68%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.42%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.42%) MCSE
11 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.42%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.42%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (9.24%) GxP
2 20 (8.40%) GDPR
3 9 (3.78%) Data Quality
4 8 (3.36%) Accessibility
4 8 (3.36%) QA
5 6 (2.52%) WCAG
6 4 (1.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.84%) GRC
7 2 (0.84%) NIST
7 2 (0.84%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.42%) EU AI Act
8 1 (0.42%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.42%) SLA
System Software
1 79 (33.19%) Docker
2 12 (5.04%) Virtual Machines
3 10 (4.20%) Virtual Desktop
4 9 (3.78%) Active Directory
5 3 (1.26%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.84%) NFS
6 2 (0.84%) Terminal Server
7 1 (0.42%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.42%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 121 (50.84%) Terraform
2 92 (38.66%) Kubernetes
3 33 (13.87%) Grafana
4 19 (7.98%) Kubeflow
5 18 (7.56%) Ansible
6 13 (5.46%) Prometheus
7 10 (4.20%) Microsoft Intune
8 7 (2.94%) Argo
9 4 (1.68%) logstash
10 2 (0.84%) Istio
10 2 (0.84%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.84%) Puppet
10 2 (0.84%) Rancher
10 2 (0.84%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 28 (11.76%) Databricks
2 20 (8.40%) Microsoft
3 13 (5.46%) Ab Initio
4 6 (2.52%) Cisco
5 5 (2.10%) Automation Anywhere
5 5 (2.10%) Citrix
5 5 (2.10%) OpenAI
5 5 (2.10%) Salesforce
5 5 (2.10%) UiPath
6 3 (1.26%) Dynatrace
6 3 (1.26%) Oracle
6 3 (1.26%) VMware
7 2 (0.84%) ForgeRock
7 2 (0.84%) MikroTik
7 2 (0.84%) NETGEAR
7 2 (0.84%) Pega
7 2 (0.84%) Red Hat
7 2 (0.84%) Sonatype
7 2 (0.84%) Splunk
7 2 (0.84%) Ubiquiti