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

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 423 399 398
Rank change year-on-year -24 -1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Deployment Automation 235 358 329
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.39% 0.64% 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.48% 0.72% 0.69%
Number of salaries quoted 109 238 265
10th Percentile £46,150 £47,125 £45,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,000 £68,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year - -3.65% -11.78%
75th Percentile £85,000 £92,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £123,125 £138,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £66,250 £58,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +13.25% -2.50% -7.69%

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 49,174 50,059 47,595
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 81.96% 89.84% 91.52%
Number of salaries quoted 28,944 25,024 36,293
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £31,500
25th Percentile £36,750 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.34%

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 27 December 2025.

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 27 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 -50 183 £72,500 +6.62% 383
UK excluding London -5 145 £66,250 +13.25% 344
Work from Home +45 103 £67,500 - 195
London -13 83 £78,609 -12.66% 80
South East +20 43 £66,250 +13.25% 102
Scotland +35 35 £77,217 +47.08% 15
North of England -33 33 £68,500 +38.38% 70
Yorkshire -44 19 £60,000 +21.21% 34
Wales +13 13 £48,500 -25.38% 9
North West +12 13 £75,000 +93.55% 33
South West -11 10 £80,000 +18.52% 41
East of England +19 6 £67,500 -3.57% 52
West Midlands +10 4 £77,217 +23.55% 29
Midlands +7 4 £77,217 +26.07% 57
North East - 1 £77,217 - 4
Northern Ireland - 1 £77,217 - 4

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 7 (2.98%) Appian
2 3 (1.28%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.28%) IIS
3 2 (0.85%) Apache
3 2 (0.85%) BizTalk Server
3 2 (0.85%) Confluence
3 2 (0.85%) nginx
3 2 (0.85%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.85%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.43%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.43%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.43%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 129 (54.89%) Azure
2 83 (35.32%) AWS
3 79 (33.62%) Azure DevOps
4 58 (24.68%) GitHub
5 55 (23.40%) GitHub Actions
6 38 (16.17%) GCP
7 33 (14.04%) Serverless
8 30 (12.77%) Azure Monitor
8 30 (12.77%) SaaS
9 27 (11.49%) Amazon EKS
10 25 (10.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 23 (9.79%) AWS Lambda
11 23 (9.79%) Azure Data Factory
12 21 (8.94%) Azure Logic Apps
13 19 (8.09%) AWS CloudFormation
14 16 (6.81%) Amazon S3
15 15 (6.38%) Amazon SQS
15 15 (6.38%) Azure Service Bus
15 15 (6.38%) PaaS
16 14 (5.96%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.40%) Firewall
2 5 (2.13%) SSL
3 4 (1.70%) DNS
3 4 (1.70%) WAN
4 3 (1.28%) DMZ
4 3 (1.28%) VPN
5 2 (0.85%) BGP
5 2 (0.85%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (0.85%) LAN
5 2 (0.85%) MQTT
5 2 (0.85%) Network Security
5 2 (0.85%) OSPF
5 2 (0.85%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (0.85%) RTMP
5 2 (0.85%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.85%) VLAN
5 2 (0.85%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.85%) Wireless
6 1 (0.43%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (11.91%) SQL Server
2 18 (7.66%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (7.23%) DynamoDB
4 15 (6.38%) NoSQL
5 8 (3.40%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (3.40%) MySQL
6 7 (2.98%) Pinecone
6 7 (2.98%) Tick Data
7 5 (2.13%) Amazon Aurora
7 5 (2.13%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (2.13%) Power BI
8 4 (1.70%) MongoDB
9 3 (1.28%) Data Lake
9 3 (1.28%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (1.28%) Metadata
10 2 (0.85%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (0.85%) CockroachDB
10 2 (0.85%) Relational Database
10 2 (0.85%) Tableau
11 1 (0.43%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 36 (15.32%) Git
2 23 (9.79%) Jenkins
3 20 (8.51%) GitLab
4 19 (8.09%) TeamCity
5 10 (4.26%) MLflow
6 6 (2.55%) Storybook
7 5 (2.13%) JIRA
8 4 (1.70%) Artifactory
8 4 (1.70%) CircleCI
8 4 (1.70%) Gradle
8 4 (1.70%) Maven
9 3 (1.28%) Bitbucket
9 3 (1.28%) Octopus Deploy
9 3 (1.28%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 2 (0.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (0.85%) Jaeger
10 2 (0.85%) JUnit
10 2 (0.85%) Selenium
10 2 (0.85%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.85%) TestNG
General
1 107 (45.53%) Finance
2 50 (21.28%) Social Skills
3 25 (10.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 25 (10.64%) Pharmaceutical
4 23 (9.79%) Banking
5 18 (7.66%) Retail
6 17 (7.23%) Law
7 16 (6.81%) Financial Institution
8 15 (6.38%) Back Office
9 13 (5.53%) Marketing
10 10 (4.26%) Analytical Skills
11 5 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (1.70%) Public Sector
13 3 (1.28%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (1.28%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (1.28%) Legal
14 2 (0.85%) Advertising
14 2 (0.85%) Agriculture
14 2 (0.85%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.85%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 57 (24.26%) Lead
2 40 (17.02%) Developer
3 23 (9.79%) DevOps Engineer
4 22 (9.36%) Software Engineer
5 19 (8.09%) Senior
6 17 (7.23%) Cloud Engineer
7 14 (5.96%) Platform Engineer
8 13 (5.53%) Integration Engineer
9 12 (5.11%) .NET Developer
10 11 (4.68%) Azure Engineer
11 10 (4.26%) Analyst
11 10 (4.26%) AWS Developer
11 10 (4.26%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 8 (3.40%) AWS Engineer
12 8 (3.40%) Senior Software Engineer
13 7 (2.98%) .NET Software Engineer
13 7 (2.98%) Java Engineer
13 7 (2.98%) Lead Product Manager
13 7 (2.98%) Market Data Developer
13 7 (2.98%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (19.15%) RESTful
2 33 (14.04%) .NET
3 27 (11.49%) OAuth
4 26 (11.06%) React
5 22 (9.36%) .NET Core
6 20 (8.51%) JSON
6 20 (8.51%) OAuth2
7 17 (7.23%) Blazor
8 15 (6.38%) REST
9 14 (5.96%) ASP.NET
9 14 (5.96%) AWS CDK
10 13 (5.53%) ASP.NET Core
11 10 (4.26%) FastAPI
12 9 (3.83%) JWT
12 9 (3.83%) Web Services
13 8 (3.40%) Flask
13 8 (3.40%) OpenAPI
13 8 (3.40%) Swagger
14 7 (2.98%) Pandas
14 7 (2.98%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 57 (24.26%) Cloud Native
2 26 (11.06%) Life Science
3 18 (7.66%) Low-Code
4 16 (6.81%) Product Ownership
5 9 (3.83%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (3.40%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (2.55%) Management Information System
8 5 (2.13%) IoT
9 3 (1.28%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.28%) Public Cloud
10 2 (0.85%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.85%) Blog
10 2 (0.85%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.85%) Hackathon
10 2 (0.85%) IVR
10 2 (0.85%) Mobile App
10 2 (0.85%) Private Cloud
10 2 (0.85%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 23 (9.79%) Linux
2 14 (5.96%) Windows
3 9 (3.83%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.28%) CentOS
5 2 (0.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.43%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 152 (64.68%) CI/CD
2 139 (59.15%) DevOps
3 98 (41.70%) Agile
4 93 (39.57%) Infrastructure as Code
5 75 (31.91%) Test Automation
6 69 (29.36%) AI
7 66 (28.09%) Analytics
8 56 (23.83%) Machine Learning
9 54 (22.98%) Containerisation
10 49 (20.85%) Roadmaps
11 48 (20.43%) Microservices
12 47 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
13 42 (17.87%) Continuous Improvement
14 40 (17.02%) Observability
15 38 (16.17%) Coaching
16 36 (15.32%) Root Cause Analysis
17 35 (14.89%) Generative AI
18 33 (14.04%) Computer Science
18 33 (14.04%) Data Science
18 33 (14.04%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 75 (31.91%) Python
2 38 (16.17%) SQL
3 33 (14.04%) PowerShell
4 32 (13.62%) Bash
4 32 (13.62%) Bicep
5 31 (13.19%) C#
6 25 (10.64%) Java
7 20 (8.51%) JavaScript
8 13 (5.53%) TypeScript
9 4 (1.70%) Go
10 2 (0.85%) C++
10 2 (0.85%) Groovy
10 2 (0.85%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.43%) C
11 1 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.43%) Delphi
11 1 (0.43%) R
11 1 (0.43%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.43%) VB
11 1 (0.43%) VB6
Qualifications
1 40 (17.02%) Degree
2 27 (11.49%) Master's Degree
3 24 (10.21%) PhD
4 14 (5.96%) Security Cleared
5 13 (5.53%) AWS Certification
6 11 (4.68%) AWS Certified Developer
6 11 (4.68%) Azure Certification
7 9 (3.83%) SC Cleared
8 7 (2.98%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.70%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.85%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.43%) MCSE
11 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.43%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.43%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (10.21%) GxP
2 21 (8.94%) GDPR
3 11 (4.68%) Data Quality
4 10 (4.26%) QA
5 8 (3.40%) Accessibility
6 6 (2.55%) WCAG
7 4 (1.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.85%) GRC
8 2 (0.85%) NIST
8 2 (0.85%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.43%) EU AI Act
9 1 (0.43%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.43%) SLA
System Software
1 67 (28.51%) Docker
2 12 (5.11%) Virtual Machines
3 10 (4.26%) Virtual Desktop
4 9 (3.83%) Active Directory
5 3 (1.28%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.85%) NFS
6 2 (0.85%) Terminal Server
7 1 (0.43%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.43%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 109 (46.38%) Terraform
2 79 (33.62%) Kubernetes
3 38 (16.17%) Grafana
4 20 (8.51%) Ansible
5 16 (6.81%) Prometheus
6 10 (4.26%) Microsoft Intune
7 7 (2.98%) Argo
8 4 (1.70%) logstash
9 2 (0.85%) Istio
9 2 (0.85%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.85%) Puppet
9 2 (0.85%) Rancher
9 2 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.43%) Nagios
Vendors
1 22 (9.36%) Microsoft
2 14 (5.96%) Ab Initio
3 8 (3.40%) Databricks
4 7 (2.98%) Automation Anywhere
4 7 (2.98%) OpenAI
4 7 (2.98%) UiPath
5 6 (2.55%) Cisco
5 6 (2.55%) Salesforce
6 5 (2.13%) Citrix
6 5 (2.13%) Splunk
7 4 (1.70%) Oracle
7 4 (1.70%) VMware
8 3 (1.28%) Dynatrace
8 3 (1.28%) Red Hat
9 2 (0.85%) Google
9 2 (0.85%) MikroTik
9 2 (0.85%) OneLogin
9 2 (0.85%) Sonatype
9 2 (0.85%) Starlink
9 2 (0.85%) Ubiquiti