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 24 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 405 460 483
Rank change year-on-year +55 +23 -60
Permanent jobs citing Deployment Automation 415 244 406
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.41% 0.50% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.56% 0.55% 0.54%
Number of salaries quoted 250 155 311
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,875 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +3.85% -13.33%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £103,750 £97,528 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £64,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +0.78% +7.50% -11.11%

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 74,007 44,123 74,573
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.62% 89.89% 81.72%
Number of salaries quoted 51,106 24,962 50,806
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%

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 24 July 2026.

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 24 July 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 +38 361 £70,000 +3.70% 169
UK excluding London +24 233 £65,000 +0.78% 104
Work from Home +37 172 £65,000 +6.12% 72
London +12 152 £82,500 +13.79% 87
North of England +2 79 £55,000 -18.52% 30
South East +27 65 £68,750 +25.00% 28
Midlands -20 34 £49,000 -20.00% 12
North West 0 33 £52,500 -22.22% 19
Yorkshire -19 24 £82,500 +20.44% 5
South West -44 24 £70,000 -2.77% 22
North East -26 22 £47,000 - 6
East Midlands -15 17 £42,500 -43.33% 4
West Midlands -30 17 £50,000 -16.67% 8
Wales -49 16 £66,750 +35.53% 3
Scotland +4 13 £62,500 -17.06% 5
East of England -11 4 £56,000 - 5
Northern Ireland - 1 £77,500 - 2

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 10 (2.41%) Confluence
2 9 (2.17%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.93%) Apache
4 7 (1.69%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.69%) Apache Spark
4 7 (1.69%) IIS
5 6 (1.45%) nginx
6 5 (1.20%) Camunda
7 4 (0.96%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (0.96%) SAS
8 2 (0.48%) CMS
8 2 (0.48%) Luigi
9 1 (0.24%) Appian
9 1 (0.24%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.24%) Documentum
9 1 (0.24%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.24%) NServiceBus
9 1 (0.24%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (0.72%) SPSS
2 2 (0.48%) Trello
3 1 (0.24%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.24%) Magento
2 1 (0.24%) Misys Equation
2 1 (0.24%) Misys Midas
2 1 (0.24%) Oracle SCM
2 1 (0.24%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 226 (54.46%) AWS
2 217 (52.29%) Azure
3 117 (28.19%) GCP
4 99 (23.86%) Azure DevOps
5 63 (15.18%) Amazon EKS
6 60 (14.46%) GitHub
7 56 (13.49%) Serverless
8 55 (13.25%) SaaS
9 42 (10.12%) GitHub Actions
10 29 (6.99%) Power Platform
11 27 (6.51%) Firebase
12 23 (5.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 23 (5.54%) Amazon S3
12 23 (5.54%) Azure Monitor
12 23 (5.54%) Microsoft 365
12 23 (5.54%) PaaS
13 22 (5.30%) Datadog
14 20 (4.82%) Azure Logic Apps
15 19 (4.58%) AWS CloudFormation
15 19 (4.58%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 19 (4.58%) Firewall
2 15 (3.61%) DNS
3 10 (2.41%) VPN
4 9 (2.17%) MQTT
5 8 (1.93%) Network Security
6 6 (1.45%) DHCP
7 5 (1.20%) SSL
7 5 (1.20%) Wi-Fi
8 4 (0.96%) Broadband
8 4 (0.96%) Kerberos
8 4 (0.96%) NAS
8 4 (0.96%) SSH
8 4 (0.96%) TCP/IP
9 3 (0.72%) BGP
9 3 (0.72%) DKIM
9 3 (0.72%) DMARC
9 3 (0.72%) PBX
9 3 (0.72%) Unified Communications
9 3 (0.72%) VLAN
9 3 (0.72%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (10.36%) PostgreSQL
2 33 (7.95%) SQL Server
3 21 (5.06%) MongoDB
3 21 (5.06%) MySQL
4 20 (4.82%) Elasticsearch
5 19 (4.58%) Data Warehouse
6 18 (4.34%) NoSQL
7 15 (3.61%) Power BI
8 11 (2.65%) Amazon RDS
8 11 (2.65%) Spark SQL
9 9 (2.17%) Azure SQL Database
9 9 (2.17%) Metadata
10 8 (1.93%) Relational Database
11 7 (1.69%) DynamoDB
12 6 (1.45%) Amazon Aurora
12 6 (1.45%) Data Lake
12 6 (1.45%) Delta Lake
12 6 (1.45%) Geospatial Data
13 4 (0.96%) Big Data
13 4 (0.96%) Redis
Development Applications
1 88 (21.20%) Git
2 53 (12.77%) Jenkins
3 52 (12.53%) TeamCity
4 47 (11.33%) GitLab
5 32 (7.71%) JIRA
6 20 (4.82%) Crashlytics
7 15 (3.61%) Bitbucket
8 14 (3.37%) SonarQube
8 14 (3.37%) XCTest
9 13 (3.13%) fastlane
10 11 (2.65%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 11 (2.65%) Cucumber
11 9 (2.17%) JUnit
12 8 (1.93%) Mockito
12 8 (1.93%) Octopus Deploy
13 7 (1.69%) Artifactory
13 7 (1.69%) Xcode
14 6 (1.45%) Gradle
14 6 (1.45%) JMeter
14 6 (1.45%) MSI
General
1 121 (29.16%) Social Skills
2 116 (27.95%) Finance
3 81 (19.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 80 (19.28%) Banking
5 58 (13.98%) Law
6 55 (13.25%) Retail
7 52 (12.53%) Analytical Skills
8 42 (10.12%) Financial Institution
9 38 (9.16%) Back Office
9 38 (9.16%) Public Sector
10 7 (1.69%) Manufacturing
11 6 (1.45%) Aerospace
11 6 (1.45%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (0.96%) Mandarin Language
12 4 (0.96%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.72%) Front Office
13 3 (0.72%) Legal
13 3 (0.72%) Marketing
13 3 (0.72%) Retail Banking
14 2 (0.48%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 83 (20.00%) Software Engineer
2 77 (18.55%) Lead
3 64 (15.42%) Senior
4 63 (15.18%) Developer
5 62 (14.94%) DevOps Engineer
6 36 (8.67%) Azure Engineer
7 29 (6.99%) Cloud Engineer
8 25 (6.02%) Platform Engineer
9 21 (5.06%) Data Engineer
9 21 (5.06%) Lead Software Engineer
10 20 (4.82%) Senior Software Engineer
11 18 (4.34%) Java Engineer
12 17 (4.10%) Site Engineer
12 17 (4.10%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 17 (4.10%) Technical Leader
13 15 (3.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 15 (3.61%) Senior Developer
14 14 (3.37%) Administrator
14 14 (3.37%) Mobile Engineer
15 13 (3.13%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (10.84%) REST
2 42 (10.12%) RESTful
3 39 (9.40%) .NET
4 27 (6.51%) Kafka
4 27 (6.51%) React
5 21 (5.06%) SwiftUI
5 21 (5.06%) UIKit
6 20 (4.82%) Spring
7 19 (4.58%) Spring Boot
8 17 (4.10%) ARM Templates
8 17 (4.10%) CSS
9 14 (3.37%) Next.js
10 13 (3.13%) Node.js
10 13 (3.13%) PySpark
10 13 (3.13%) PyTorch
10 13 (3.13%) scikit-learn
10 13 (3.13%) TensorFlow
11 12 (2.89%) .NET Core
11 12 (2.89%) HTML
12 11 (2.65%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 130 (31.33%) Cloud Native
2 71 (17.11%) Product Ownership
3 41 (9.88%) Distributed Systems
4 29 (6.99%) Mobile App
5 20 (4.82%) Onboarding
6 17 (4.10%) Life Science
7 16 (3.86%) Legacy Systems
7 16 (3.86%) Self-Motivation
8 15 (3.61%) Greenfield Project
9 14 (3.37%) Low-Code
10 13 (3.13%) Blog
11 11 (2.65%) Enterprise Software
11 11 (2.65%) Hybrid Cloud
11 11 (2.65%) Management Information System
12 9 (2.17%) PKI
12 9 (2.17%) Virtual Team
13 8 (1.93%) Replication
14 7 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
14 7 (1.69%) Linux Command Line
14 7 (1.69%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 80 (19.28%) Linux
2 58 (13.98%) Windows
3 33 (7.95%) Apple iOS
4 21 (5.06%) Windows Server
5 16 (3.86%) CentOS
6 13 (3.13%) Android
7 8 (1.93%) Mac OS
8 6 (1.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (1.45%) Ubuntu
8 6 (1.45%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (0.96%) Unix
10 3 (0.72%) VMS
11 2 (0.48%) Amazon Linux
11 2 (0.48%) Embedded Linux
12 1 (0.24%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 325 (78.31%) CI/CD
2 244 (58.80%) DevOps
3 178 (42.89%) Test Automation
4 157 (37.83%) Infrastructure as Code
5 134 (32.29%) Agile
6 132 (31.81%) Software Engineering
7 118 (28.43%) Microservices
8 100 (24.10%) Observability
9 97 (23.37%) Containerisation
10 90 (21.69%) Clean Code
10 90 (21.69%) Continuous Improvement
11 82 (19.76%) Mentoring
11 82 (19.76%) Problem-Solving
12 76 (18.31%) AI
13 65 (15.66%) Analytics
13 65 (15.66%) Continuous Deployment
14 49 (11.81%) Computer Science
15 45 (10.84%) Platform Engineering
16 44 (10.60%) Scrum
16 44 (10.60%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 168 (40.48%) Python
2 117 (28.19%) Java
3 72 (17.35%) SQL
4 61 (14.70%) PowerShell
5 51 (12.29%) Bash
6 47 (11.33%) C#
7 39 (9.40%) TypeScript
8 38 (9.16%) JavaScript
9 22 (5.30%) Kotlin
10 21 (5.06%) Bicep
10 21 (5.06%) Swift
11 13 (3.13%) Rust
12 9 (2.17%) Go
13 8 (1.93%) Groovy
14 7 (1.69%) Shell Script
15 6 (1.45%) C
15 6 (1.45%) C++
16 5 (1.20%) Kusto Query Language
16 5 (1.20%) Scala
17 4 (0.96%) Perl
Qualifications
1 71 (17.11%) Security Cleared
2 55 (13.25%) Degree
3 42 (10.12%) SC Cleared
4 30 (7.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (4.34%) DV Cleared
6 9 (2.17%) Azure Certification
6 9 (2.17%) Master's Degree
7 7 (1.69%) AWS Certification
8 5 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (0.96%) Postgraduate
10 2 (0.48%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.48%) PMP
11 1 (0.24%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.24%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.24%) CCNP
11 1 (0.24%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.24%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.24%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.24%) JNCIP
11 1 (0.24%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (13.73%) QA
2 34 (8.19%) Accessibility
3 27 (6.51%) WCAG
4 21 (5.06%) GDPR
5 13 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (2.89%) Data Quality
7 9 (2.17%) SLA
8 7 (1.69%) NCSC
8 7 (1.69%) SOC 2
9 4 (0.96%) NIST
10 2 (0.48%) Def Stans
10 2 (0.48%) IEC 61508
10 2 (0.48%) IFRS
10 2 (0.48%) IFRS 17
10 2 (0.48%) ISO 26262
10 2 (0.48%) JTAG
10 2 (0.48%) PMO
10 2 (0.48%) Solvency II
System Software
1 104 (25.06%) Docker
2 20 (4.82%) Active Directory
3 10 (2.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.45%) Hyper-V
5 5 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.96%) vSphere
7 3 (0.72%) Firmware
7 3 (0.72%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.24%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.24%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 182 (43.86%) Terraform
2 170 (40.96%) Kubernetes
3 107 (25.78%) Grafana
4 78 (18.80%) Ansible
5 39 (9.40%) Prometheus
6 13 (3.13%) Microsoft Intune
7 10 (2.41%) Argo
7 10 (2.41%) Jamf Pro
7 10 (2.41%) Nagios
8 9 (2.17%) Puppet
9 6 (1.45%) SCCM
10 4 (0.96%) Packer
10 4 (0.96%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.72%) Control-M
11 3 (0.72%) cPanel
11 3 (0.72%) Docker Swarm
11 3 (0.72%) Plesk
11 3 (0.72%) Podman
11 3 (0.72%) SCOM
11 3 (0.72%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 77 (18.55%) Microsoft
2 30 (7.23%) Dynatrace
3 26 (6.27%) Google
4 21 (5.06%) Databricks
5 17 (4.10%) Splunk
6 15 (3.61%) VMware
7 14 (3.37%) Amplitude
7 14 (3.37%) Braze
8 13 (3.13%) Red Hat
9 12 (2.89%) OpenAI
10 11 (2.65%) Apple
11 10 (2.41%) Rapid7
11 10 (2.41%) Salesforce
12 7 (1.69%) AppDynamics
13 6 (1.45%) IBM
14 5 (1.20%) Atlassian
14 5 (1.20%) Oracle
14 5 (1.20%) Tenable
15 4 (0.96%) NVIDIA
15 4 (0.96%) Thales