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 26 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 405 426 481
Rank change year-on-year +21 +55 -53
Permanent jobs citing Deployment Automation 374 238 443
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.40% 0.56% 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.55% 0.60% 0.53%
Number of salaries quoted 192 182 346
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,625 £55,418
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,200 £71,991 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.88% +6.65% -10.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £93,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £120,000 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £61,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +9.76% -8.89%

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 68,523 39,694 83,256
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.83% 93.27% 84.12%
Number of salaries quoted 44,541 20,818 60,168
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,750 £29,250
25th Percentile £40,875 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +6.36% -9.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £51,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +1.94% +3.00% -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 26 May 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 26 May 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 +25 342 £70,000 -2.77% 118
UK excluding London +50 200 £65,000 -3.70% 72
Work from Home +44 166 £65,000 +4.00% 59
London -2 152 £80,000 - 55
South East +45 75 £65,000 +18.18% 22
North of England -10 64 £65,000 -3.70% 24
Yorkshire -36 26 £82,500 +21.32% 6
North West -8 25 £61,750 +0.82% 12
Midlands -31 23 £52,500 -14.29% 6
South West -56 15 £68,400 -4.99% 8
East Midlands - 14 £37,500 - 1
North East - 13 £47,000 - 6
Scotland -2 11 £55,000 -27.02% 5
East of England -16 9 £76,250 +1.67% 3
West Midlands -49 9 £58,750 -4.08% 5
Wales -29 5 £70,079 +40.16% 1
Northern Ireland - 1 £77,500 - 3

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 9 (2.41%) Appian
2 8 (2.14%) Apache
3 7 (1.87%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.60%) Apache Spark
5 4 (1.07%) IIS
5 4 (1.07%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (1.07%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.80%) Confluence
7 2 (0.53%) BizTalk Server
7 2 (0.53%) Luigi
8 1 (0.27%) CMS
8 1 (0.27%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.27%) nginx
8 1 (0.27%) SAS
8 1 (0.27%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (0.80%) SPSS
2 2 (0.53%) Trello
3 1 (0.27%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.07%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.27%) Misys Equation
2 1 (0.27%) Misys Midas
2 1 (0.27%) Oracle SCM
2 1 (0.27%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 205 (54.81%) AWS
2 182 (48.66%) Azure
3 94 (25.13%) GCP
4 88 (23.53%) Azure DevOps
5 79 (21.12%) Amazon EKS
6 70 (18.72%) GitHub
7 65 (17.38%) Serverless
8 59 (15.78%) GitHub Actions
9 52 (13.90%) SaaS
10 38 (10.16%) Azure Logic Apps
11 36 (9.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 33 (8.82%) Power Platform
13 30 (8.02%) Amazon S3
14 29 (7.75%) Azure Data Factory
15 28 (7.49%) AWS Lambda
16 27 (7.22%) Azure Monitor
17 25 (6.68%) PaaS
18 22 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
19 21 (5.61%) Firebase
20 20 (5.35%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 20 (5.35%) Firewall
2 11 (2.94%) DNS
3 8 (2.14%) Network Security
4 7 (1.87%) MQTT
5 6 (1.60%) DHCP
5 6 (1.60%) SSL
6 5 (1.34%) VPN
7 4 (1.07%) Broadband
7 4 (1.07%) SSH
8 3 (0.80%) BGP
8 3 (0.80%) DMZ
9 2 (0.53%) Ethernet VPN
9 2 (0.53%) Intrusion Detection
9 2 (0.53%) SAN
9 2 (0.53%) WAN
10 1 (0.27%) HTTP
10 1 (0.27%) LAN
10 1 (0.27%) NGFW
10 1 (0.27%) OSPF
10 1 (0.27%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (10.43%) SQL Server
2 34 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
3 20 (5.35%) NoSQL
4 18 (4.81%) Elasticsearch
5 17 (4.55%) DynamoDB
6 16 (4.28%) MySQL
7 15 (4.01%) Amazon Aurora
7 15 (4.01%) Data Warehouse
8 14 (3.74%) Amazon RDS
9 13 (3.48%) MongoDB
9 13 (3.48%) Power BI
10 11 (2.94%) Pinecone
10 11 (2.94%) Spark SQL
11 8 (2.14%) Relational Database
12 7 (1.87%) Metadata
13 5 (1.34%) Delta Lake
14 3 (0.80%) Amazon Redshift
14 3 (0.80%) Big Data
14 3 (0.80%) CockroachDB
14 3 (0.80%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 62 (16.58%) Git
2 59 (15.78%) TeamCity
3 48 (12.83%) Jenkins
4 46 (12.30%) GitLab
5 17 (4.55%) Crashlytics
5 17 (4.55%) JIRA
6 15 (4.01%) SonarQube
7 13 (3.48%) Bitbucket
7 13 (3.48%) XCTest
8 11 (2.94%) MLflow
9 10 (2.67%) Cucumber
10 8 (2.14%) Artifactory
10 8 (2.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 8 (2.14%) fastlane
10 8 (2.14%) Gradle
10 8 (2.14%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 6 (1.60%) JMeter
12 5 (1.34%) JUnit
12 5 (1.34%) Maven
12 5 (1.34%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 121 (32.35%) Finance
2 104 (27.81%) Social Skills
3 73 (19.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 71 (18.98%) Banking
5 61 (16.31%) Law
6 57 (15.24%) Retail
7 41 (10.96%) Analytical Skills
8 40 (10.70%) Financial Institution
9 37 (9.89%) Back Office
10 18 (4.81%) Public Sector
11 10 (2.67%) Pharmaceutical
12 7 (1.87%) Aerospace
13 6 (1.60%) Retail Banking
14 4 (1.07%) Mandarin Language
14 4 (1.07%) Manufacturing
14 4 (1.07%) Organisational Skills
15 3 (0.80%) Front Office
16 2 (0.53%) Influencing Skills
16 2 (0.53%) Presentation Skills
17 1 (0.27%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 73 (19.52%) Lead
2 64 (17.11%) Software Engineer
3 60 (16.04%) Developer
4 52 (13.90%) Senior
5 37 (9.89%) DevOps Engineer
6 31 (8.29%) Azure Engineer
7 26 (6.95%) Cloud Engineer
8 24 (6.42%) Platform Engineer
9 22 (5.88%) AWS Engineer
10 21 (5.61%) Java Engineer
10 21 (5.61%) Lead Software Engineer
11 18 (4.81%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 17 (4.55%) Data Engineer
13 16 (4.28%) Java Software Engineer
13 16 (4.28%) Power Platform Developer
14 15 (4.01%) Senior Software Engineer
15 14 (3.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 13 (3.48%) Integration Engineer
16 13 (3.48%) Software Team Leader
16 13 (3.48%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (11.23%) RESTful
2 41 (10.96%) .NET
3 40 (10.70%) REST
4 26 (6.95%) React
5 22 (5.88%) OAuth
6 20 (5.35%) .NET Core
7 17 (4.55%) Kafka
7 17 (4.55%) SwiftUI
7 17 (4.55%) UIKit
8 15 (4.01%) JSON
9 14 (3.74%) ARM Templates
9 14 (3.74%) JWT
9 14 (3.74%) PyTorch
9 14 (3.74%) scikit-learn
9 14 (3.74%) TensorFlow
10 13 (3.48%) FastAPI
10 13 (3.48%) OAuth2
10 13 (3.48%) Web Services
11 12 (3.21%) NumPy
11 12 (3.21%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 92 (24.60%) Cloud Native
2 41 (10.96%) Product Ownership
3 36 (9.63%) Low-Code
4 23 (6.15%) Life Science
5 22 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
5 22 (5.88%) Mobile App
6 18 (4.81%) Blog
7 14 (3.74%) Greenfield Project
8 13 (3.48%) Legacy Systems
9 12 (3.21%) Onboarding
10 11 (2.94%) Management Information System
11 10 (2.67%) PKI
12 9 (2.41%) Hackathon
12 9 (2.41%) Hybrid Cloud
12 9 (2.41%) Public Cloud
13 7 (1.87%) Replication
13 7 (1.87%) Self-Motivation
14 6 (1.60%) Cyberattack
14 6 (1.60%) Private Cloud
15 5 (1.34%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 67 (17.91%) Linux
2 35 (9.36%) Windows
3 28 (7.49%) Apple iOS
4 16 (4.28%) Windows Server
5 13 (3.48%) CentOS
6 10 (2.67%) Android
7 8 (2.14%) Mac OS
8 6 (1.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (1.60%) Ubuntu
8 6 (1.60%) VMS
9 4 (1.07%) Unix
10 2 (0.53%) Amazon Linux
10 2 (0.53%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 282 (75.40%) CI/CD
2 201 (53.74%) DevOps
3 171 (45.72%) Test Automation
4 138 (36.90%) Infrastructure as Code
5 106 (28.34%) Agile
6 97 (25.94%) Clean Code
7 90 (24.06%) Microservices
8 89 (23.80%) Containerisation
9 85 (22.73%) Software Engineering
10 83 (22.19%) Observability
11 75 (20.05%) Analytics
12 71 (18.98%) Continuous Improvement
12 71 (18.98%) Problem-Solving
13 65 (17.38%) Continuous Deployment
14 58 (15.51%) AI
15 52 (13.90%) Computer Science
16 51 (13.64%) Cybersecurity
17 47 (12.57%) Mentoring
18 45 (12.03%) Fintech
18 45 (12.03%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 159 (42.51%) Python
2 97 (25.94%) Java
3 76 (20.32%) SQL
4 53 (14.17%) Bash
5 52 (13.90%) PowerShell
6 49 (13.10%) C#
7 40 (10.70%) JavaScript
8 25 (6.68%) TypeScript
9 23 (6.15%) Bicep
10 19 (5.08%) Kotlin
11 17 (4.55%) Swift
12 13 (3.48%) Rust
13 8 (2.14%) Kusto Query Language
14 7 (1.87%) Groovy
14 7 (1.87%) Shell Script
15 6 (1.60%) Go
16 4 (1.07%) Perl
16 4 (1.07%) Scala
17 3 (0.80%) PHP
18 2 (0.53%) C++
Qualifications
1 64 (17.11%) Degree
2 55 (14.71%) Security Cleared
3 33 (8.82%) SC Cleared
4 24 (6.42%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (5.35%) Master's Degree
6 13 (3.48%) DV Cleared
7 12 (3.21%) AWS Certification
8 11 (2.94%) Azure Certification
9 10 (2.67%) PhD
10 6 (1.60%) AWS Certified Developer
11 4 (1.07%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (1.07%) Postgraduate
12 3 (0.80%) ISTQB
13 2 (0.53%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.53%) PMP
14 1 (0.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 1 (0.27%) CCNP
14 1 (0.27%) Cisco Certification
14 1 (0.27%) JNCIP
14 1 (0.27%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (10.70%) QA
2 27 (7.22%) Accessibility
3 23 (6.15%) GDPR
4 17 (4.55%) Data Quality
5 14 (3.74%) WCAG
6 13 (3.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (2.67%) GxP
8 7 (1.87%) SLA
8 7 (1.87%) SOC 2
9 4 (1.07%) NIST
10 2 (0.53%) Def Stans
10 2 (0.53%) IEC 61508
10 2 (0.53%) IFRS
10 2 (0.53%) IFRS 17
10 2 (0.53%) ISO 26262
10 2 (0.53%) PMO
10 2 (0.53%) Solvency II
11 1 (0.27%) NCSC
System Software
1 100 (26.74%) Docker
2 18 (4.81%) Active Directory
3 9 (2.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.80%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.80%) vSphere
5 2 (0.53%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.27%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.27%) Firmware
6 1 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.27%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 187 (50.00%) Terraform
2 163 (43.58%) Kubernetes
3 106 (28.34%) Grafana
4 61 (16.31%) Ansible
5 37 (9.89%) Prometheus
6 12 (3.21%) Microsoft Intune
7 10 (2.67%) Jamf Pro
8 8 (2.14%) Argo
9 7 (1.87%) Nagios
9 7 (1.87%) Puppet
10 5 (1.34%) SCCM
11 4 (1.07%) Packer
11 4 (1.07%) Rancher
12 3 (0.80%) logstash
12 3 (0.80%) Podman
12 3 (0.80%) SCOM
12 3 (0.80%) SCOrch
13 2 (0.53%) Control-M
13 2 (0.53%) Docker Swarm
13 2 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 59 (15.78%) Microsoft
2 20 (5.35%) Databricks
3 16 (4.28%) Dynatrace
4 15 (4.01%) Google
5 14 (3.74%) Splunk
5 14 (3.74%) VMware
6 13 (3.48%) Amplitude
6 13 (3.48%) Braze
6 13 (3.48%) OpenAI
6 13 (3.48%) Salesforce
7 10 (2.67%) Automation Anywhere
7 10 (2.67%) UiPath
8 9 (2.41%) Red Hat
9 8 (2.14%) Apple
10 7 (1.87%) AppDynamics
10 7 (1.87%) Rapid7
11 6 (1.60%) IBM
12 5 (1.34%) Ab Initio
12 5 (1.34%) Cisco
12 5 (1.34%) Oracle