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

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 401 450 462
Rank change year-on-year +49 +12 -51
Permanent jobs citing Deployment Automation 436 239 397
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.42% 0.48% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.58% 0.54% 0.56%
Number of salaries quoted 261 151 302
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,875 £49,569
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 £78,750
90th Percentile £107,500 £97,528 £92,500
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 75,768 44,292 70,756
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.64% 89.63% 81.31%
Number of salaries quoted 52,326 25,118 47,262
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% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £73,886
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
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 31 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 31 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 +53 379 £70,000 +2.94% 187
UK excluding London +35 242 £65,000 +0.78% 109
Work from Home +44 174 £65,000 +4.00% 94
London +18 164 £83,750 +13.56% 95
North of England +13 80 £55,000 -18.52% 33
South East +8 64 £67,500 +22.73% 34
Midlands -24 36 £49,000 -18.33% 15
North West +10 34 £53,750 -8.51% 19
South West -43 29 £70,000 -2.77% 12
Yorkshire -20 24 £82,500 +20.44% 7
North East -28 22 £47,000 - 7
West Midlands -15 19 £50,000 -16.67% 11
East Midlands -12 17 £42,500 -43.33% 4
Wales -52 17 £63,500 +30.93% 4
Scotland +1 14 £62,500 -19.54% 4
East of England -17 4 £56,000 - 9
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 11 (2.52%) Confluence
2 10 (2.29%) Apache
3 9 (2.06%) SharePoint
4 8 (1.83%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (1.83%) Apache Spark
5 7 (1.61%) IIS
5 7 (1.61%) nginx
6 5 (1.15%) Camunda
7 4 (0.92%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (0.92%) SAS
8 2 (0.46%) CMS
8 2 (0.46%) Luigi
9 1 (0.23%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.23%) Documentum
9 1 (0.23%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.23%) NServiceBus
9 1 (0.23%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (0.69%) SPSS
2 2 (0.46%) Trello
3 1 (0.23%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.23%) Magento
2 1 (0.23%) Misys Equation
2 1 (0.23%) Misys Midas
2 1 (0.23%) Oracle SCM
2 1 (0.23%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 236 (54.13%) AWS
2 223 (51.15%) Azure
3 121 (27.75%) GCP
4 104 (23.85%) Azure DevOps
5 68 (15.60%) GitHub
6 63 (14.45%) Amazon EKS
7 57 (13.07%) Serverless
8 55 (12.61%) SaaS
9 42 (9.63%) GitHub Actions
10 28 (6.42%) Power Platform
11 27 (6.19%) Firebase
12 25 (5.73%) Datadog
13 24 (5.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 24 (5.50%) Amazon S3
14 23 (5.28%) Microsoft 365
15 22 (5.05%) Azure Monitor
15 22 (5.05%) PaaS
16 21 (4.82%) AWS CloudFormation
17 19 (4.36%) Amazon ECS
17 19 (4.36%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 19 (4.36%) Firewall
2 17 (3.90%) DNS
3 12 (2.75%) VPN
4 8 (1.83%) MQTT
4 8 (1.83%) Network Security
5 6 (1.38%) DHCP
6 5 (1.15%) SSL
6 5 (1.15%) TCP/IP
6 5 (1.15%) Wi-Fi
7 4 (0.92%) BGP
7 4 (0.92%) Broadband
7 4 (0.92%) Kerberos
7 4 (0.92%) NAS
7 4 (0.92%) SSH
8 3 (0.69%) DKIM
8 3 (0.69%) DMARC
8 3 (0.69%) PBX
8 3 (0.69%) Unified Communications
8 3 (0.69%) VLAN
8 3 (0.69%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (10.09%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (7.80%) SQL Server
3 22 (5.05%) MongoDB
3 22 (5.05%) MySQL
4 21 (4.82%) Elasticsearch
5 20 (4.59%) Data Warehouse
6 18 (4.13%) NoSQL
7 15 (3.44%) Power BI
8 12 (2.75%) Amazon RDS
9 11 (2.52%) Spark SQL
10 10 (2.29%) Azure SQL Database
10 10 (2.29%) Metadata
10 10 (2.29%) Relational Database
11 9 (2.06%) Data Lake
12 7 (1.61%) DynamoDB
13 6 (1.38%) Big Data
13 6 (1.38%) Delta Lake
13 6 (1.38%) Geospatial Data
14 5 (1.15%) Amazon Aurora
14 5 (1.15%) Redis
Development Applications
1 91 (20.87%) Git
2 52 (11.93%) TeamCity
3 51 (11.70%) Jenkins
4 45 (10.32%) GitLab
5 32 (7.34%) JIRA
6 20 (4.59%) Crashlytics
7 15 (3.44%) Bitbucket
8 14 (3.21%) SonarQube
8 14 (3.21%) XCTest
9 13 (2.98%) fastlane
10 11 (2.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 11 (2.52%) Cucumber
11 8 (1.83%) JUnit
11 8 (1.83%) Mockito
11 8 (1.83%) Octopus Deploy
12 7 (1.61%) Artifactory
12 7 (1.61%) Xcode
13 6 (1.38%) Gradle
13 6 (1.38%) JMeter
13 6 (1.38%) MSI
General
1 131 (30.05%) Social Skills
2 124 (28.44%) Finance
3 87 (19.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 86 (19.72%) Banking
5 66 (15.14%) Law
6 56 (12.84%) Analytical Skills
6 56 (12.84%) Retail
7 46 (10.55%) Financial Institution
8 40 (9.17%) Public Sector
9 38 (8.72%) Back Office
10 8 (1.83%) Manufacturing
11 7 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
12 6 (1.38%) Aerospace
13 5 (1.15%) Marketing
13 5 (1.15%) Telecoms
14 4 (0.92%) Mandarin Language
15 3 (0.69%) Front Office
15 3 (0.69%) Legal
15 3 (0.69%) Retail Banking
16 2 (0.46%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 85 (19.50%) Software Engineer
2 81 (18.58%) Lead
3 63 (14.45%) DevOps Engineer
3 63 (14.45%) Senior
4 62 (14.22%) Developer
5 36 (8.26%) Azure Engineer
6 30 (6.88%) Cloud Engineer
7 25 (5.73%) Platform Engineer
8 24 (5.50%) Data Engineer
9 21 (4.82%) Lead Software Engineer
9 21 (4.82%) Senior Software Engineer
10 19 (4.36%) Site Engineer
10 19 (4.36%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 18 (4.13%) Technical Leader
12 17 (3.90%) Java Engineer
13 15 (3.44%) Administrator
13 15 (3.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 15 (3.44%) Senior Developer
14 14 (3.21%) Software Team Leader
14 14 (3.21%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (10.09%) REST
2 43 (9.86%) RESTful
3 41 (9.40%) .NET
4 31 (7.11%) React
5 25 (5.73%) Kafka
6 21 (4.82%) SwiftUI
6 21 (4.82%) UIKit
7 18 (4.13%) Spring
8 17 (3.90%) ARM Templates
8 17 (3.90%) CSS
8 17 (3.90%) Spring Boot
9 15 (3.44%) Next.js
10 14 (3.21%) Node.js
11 13 (2.98%) .NET Core
11 13 (2.98%) AngularJS
11 13 (2.98%) PySpark
12 12 (2.75%) Elastic Stack
12 12 (2.75%) LangChain
12 12 (2.75%) PyTorch
12 12 (2.75%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 139 (31.88%) Cloud Native
2 70 (16.06%) Product Ownership
3 43 (9.86%) Distributed Systems
4 29 (6.65%) Mobile App
5 20 (4.59%) Onboarding
6 18 (4.13%) Legacy Systems
6 18 (4.13%) Life Science
7 16 (3.67%) Self-Motivation
8 15 (3.44%) Greenfield Project
9 13 (2.98%) Blog
10 12 (2.75%) Low-Code
10 12 (2.75%) Management Information System
11 11 (2.52%) AI Agents
11 11 (2.52%) Enterprise Software
12 10 (2.29%) Hybrid Cloud
13 9 (2.06%) PKI
13 9 (2.06%) Virtual Team
14 8 (1.83%) Replication
15 7 (1.61%) Linux Command Line
15 7 (1.61%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 84 (19.27%) Linux
2 62 (14.22%) Windows
3 33 (7.57%) Apple iOS
4 22 (5.05%) Windows Server
5 17 (3.90%) CentOS
6 13 (2.98%) Android
7 8 (1.83%) Mac OS
8 7 (1.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (1.38%) Ubuntu
9 6 (1.38%) Windows Server 2016
10 4 (0.92%) Unix
11 2 (0.46%) Amazon Linux
11 2 (0.46%) Embedded Linux
11 2 (0.46%) VMS
12 1 (0.23%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 341 (78.21%) CI/CD
2 256 (58.72%) DevOps
3 187 (42.89%) Test Automation
4 167 (38.30%) Infrastructure as Code
5 145 (33.26%) Software Engineering
6 137 (31.42%) Agile
7 116 (26.61%) Microservices
8 113 (25.92%) Observability
9 104 (23.85%) Containerisation
10 100 (22.94%) Continuous Improvement
11 92 (21.10%) AI
12 89 (20.41%) Clean Code
12 89 (20.41%) Mentoring
13 86 (19.72%) Problem-Solving
14 69 (15.83%) Analytics
15 65 (14.91%) Continuous Deployment
16 54 (12.39%) Computer Science
17 50 (11.47%) Machine Learning
18 48 (11.01%) User Experience
19 47 (10.78%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 177 (40.60%) Python
2 120 (27.52%) Java
3 75 (17.20%) SQL
4 64 (14.68%) PowerShell
5 52 (11.93%) Bash
6 48 (11.01%) C#
7 44 (10.09%) TypeScript
8 39 (8.94%) JavaScript
9 22 (5.05%) Kotlin
10 21 (4.82%) Bicep
10 21 (4.82%) Swift
11 12 (2.75%) Rust
12 10 (2.29%) Go
13 8 (1.83%) Groovy
14 7 (1.61%) Scala
14 7 (1.61%) Shell Script
15 6 (1.38%) C
15 6 (1.38%) C++
16 4 (0.92%) Perl
16 4 (0.92%) PHP
Qualifications
1 73 (16.74%) Security Cleared
2 58 (13.30%) Degree
3 42 (9.63%) SC Cleared
4 35 (8.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (3.90%) DV Cleared
6 10 (2.29%) Azure Certification
6 10 (2.29%) Master's Degree
7 9 (2.06%) AWS Certification
8 4 (0.92%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (0.92%) Postgraduate
9 2 (0.46%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (0.46%) CCNP
9 2 (0.46%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.46%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.46%) PMP
10 1 (0.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.23%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.23%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.23%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (13.99%) QA
2 36 (8.26%) Accessibility
3 27 (6.19%) WCAG
4 21 (4.82%) GDPR
5 14 (3.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (2.98%) Data Quality
7 10 (2.29%) SLA
8 8 (1.83%) NCSC
9 7 (1.61%) SOC 2
10 4 (0.92%) NIST
11 2 (0.46%) Def Stans
11 2 (0.46%) IEC 61508
11 2 (0.46%) IFRS
11 2 (0.46%) IFRS 17
11 2 (0.46%) ISO 26262
11 2 (0.46%) JTAG
11 2 (0.46%) PMO
11 2 (0.46%) Solvency II
System Software
1 110 (25.23%) Docker
2 21 (4.82%) Active Directory
3 10 (2.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.38%) Hyper-V
5 5 (1.15%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.92%) Firmware
6 4 (0.92%) vSphere
7 3 (0.69%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.23%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.23%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 189 (43.35%) Terraform
2 175 (40.14%) Kubernetes
3 109 (25.00%) Grafana
4 82 (18.81%) Ansible
5 38 (8.72%) Prometheus
6 12 (2.75%) Microsoft Intune
7 11 (2.52%) Argo
7 11 (2.52%) Nagios
8 10 (2.29%) Jamf Pro
8 10 (2.29%) Puppet
9 6 (1.38%) SCCM
10 4 (0.92%) Packer
10 4 (0.92%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.69%) cPanel
11 3 (0.69%) Docker Swarm
11 3 (0.69%) Plesk
11 3 (0.69%) Podman
11 3 (0.69%) SCOM
11 3 (0.69%) SCOrch
11 3 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 77 (17.66%) Microsoft
2 33 (7.57%) Dynatrace
3 27 (6.19%) Google
4 22 (5.05%) Databricks
5 18 (4.13%) Splunk
6 15 (3.44%) VMware
7 14 (3.21%) Amplitude
7 14 (3.21%) Braze
7 14 (3.21%) Red Hat
8 12 (2.75%) Salesforce
9 11 (2.52%) Apple
9 11 (2.52%) OpenAI
9 11 (2.52%) Rapid7
10 7 (1.61%) AppDynamics
11 6 (1.38%) Atlassian
11 6 (1.38%) IBM
11 6 (1.38%) Oracle
12 5 (1.15%) Tenable
13 4 (0.92%) NVIDIA
13 4 (0.92%) Thales