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 15 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 406 483 461
Rank change year-on-year +77 -22 -66
Permanent jobs citing Deployment Automation 451 215 381
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.42% 0.43% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.58% 0.48% 0.57%
Number of salaries quoted 262 132 286
10th Percentile £45,535 £46,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,188 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £62,783
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +7.51% -16.29%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £77,188
90th Percentile £112,250 £97,375 £91,688
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £61,250 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.12% +2.08% -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 78,311 44,508 67,246
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.48% 89.25% 80.98%
Number of salaries quoted 53,938 25,218 43,343
10th Percentile £30,775 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -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 15 August 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 15 August 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 +79 383 £70,000 +2.19% 379
UK excluding London +32 246 £65,000 +6.12% 182
London +15 169 £84,750 +13.00% 228
Work from Home +37 162 £65,000 +4.00% 170
North of England +8 80 £57,500 -1.71% 53
South East +12 56 £66,250 -17.19% 42
South West -45 37 £70,000 -6.67% 30
Midlands -12 36 £49,000 -18.33% 20
North West +4 31 £53,750 +16.85% 29
North East -33 27 £47,250 - 9
Yorkshire -17 22 £82,500 +20.44% 15
West Midlands -18 20 £50,000 -16.67% 11
Wales -47 20 £58,000 +19.59% 4
East Midlands -13 16 £42,500 -43.33% 9
Scotland -1 15 £75,000 -6.25% 20
East of England -17 4 £56,000 - 13
Northern Ireland - 1 £77,500 - 5

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 13 (2.88%) Confluence
2 11 (2.44%) Apache
3 10 (2.22%) SharePoint
4 9 (2.00%) Apache Spark
5 8 (1.77%) nginx
6 7 (1.55%) IIS
7 6 (1.33%) Apache Airflow
8 5 (1.11%) Camunda
9 4 (0.89%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.89%) SAS
10 2 (0.44%) Cloud Foundry
10 2 (0.44%) CMS
10 2 (0.44%) Luigi
11 1 (0.22%) Documentum
11 1 (0.22%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.22%) NServiceBus
11 1 (0.22%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (0.67%) SPSS
2 2 (0.44%) Trello
3 1 (0.22%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.22%) Magento
2 1 (0.22%) Misys Equation
2 1 (0.22%) Misys Midas
2 1 (0.22%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 249 (55.21%) AWS
2 231 (51.22%) Azure
3 129 (28.60%) GCP
4 103 (22.84%) Azure DevOps
5 71 (15.74%) GitHub
6 61 (13.53%) Amazon EKS
7 56 (12.42%) Serverless
8 52 (11.53%) SaaS
9 42 (9.31%) GitHub Actions
10 30 (6.65%) Datadog
11 28 (6.21%) Power Platform
12 27 (5.99%) AWS CloudFormation
12 27 (5.99%) Microsoft 365
13 26 (5.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 26 (5.76%) Firebase
14 25 (5.54%) Amazon ECS
14 25 (5.54%) Amazon S3
15 23 (5.10%) Azure Monitor
15 23 (5.10%) PaaS
16 19 (4.21%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 18 (3.99%) Firewall
2 17 (3.77%) DNS
3 12 (2.66%) VPN
4 7 (1.55%) MQTT
4 7 (1.55%) Network Security
5 6 (1.33%) DHCP
6 5 (1.11%) BGP
6 5 (1.11%) SSL
6 5 (1.11%) TCP/IP
6 5 (1.11%) Wi-Fi
7 4 (0.89%) Broadband
7 4 (0.89%) Kerberos
7 4 (0.89%) NAS
7 4 (0.89%) SSH
7 4 (0.89%) Wireless
8 3 (0.67%) LAN
8 3 (0.67%) PBX
8 3 (0.67%) SD-WAN
8 3 (0.67%) Unified Communications
8 3 (0.67%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (9.76%) PostgreSQL
2 33 (7.32%) SQL Server
3 27 (5.99%) MySQL
4 26 (5.76%) MongoDB
5 21 (4.66%) Elasticsearch
6 20 (4.43%) Data Warehouse
6 20 (4.43%) NoSQL
7 18 (3.99%) Power BI
8 15 (3.33%) Amazon RDS
9 12 (2.66%) Data Lake
10 11 (2.44%) Spark SQL
11 10 (2.22%) Azure SQL Database
11 10 (2.22%) Metadata
12 9 (2.00%) Relational Database
13 8 (1.77%) Big Data
14 7 (1.55%) DynamoDB
14 7 (1.55%) Geospatial Data
15 6 (1.33%) Delta Lake
15 6 (1.33%) Redis
16 5 (1.11%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 97 (21.51%) Git
2 54 (11.97%) Jenkins
3 46 (10.20%) GitLab
3 46 (10.20%) TeamCity
4 33 (7.32%) JIRA
5 19 (4.21%) Crashlytics
6 15 (3.33%) Bitbucket
7 13 (2.88%) fastlane
7 13 (2.88%) SonarQube
7 13 (2.88%) XCTest
8 11 (2.44%) Cucumber
9 10 (2.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 8 (1.77%) JUnit
10 8 (1.77%) Mockito
10 8 (1.77%) Octopus Deploy
11 7 (1.55%) Artifactory
11 7 (1.55%) Claude Code
11 7 (1.55%) MSI
11 7 (1.55%) Xcode
12 6 (1.33%) JMeter
General
1 136 (30.16%) Social Skills
2 131 (29.05%) Finance
3 90 (19.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 84 (18.63%) Banking
5 64 (14.19%) Law
6 62 (13.75%) Analytical Skills
7 50 (11.09%) Retail
8 46 (10.20%) Public Sector
9 44 (9.76%) Financial Institution
10 36 (7.98%) Back Office
11 10 (2.22%) Marketing
12 7 (1.55%) Manufacturing
13 6 (1.33%) Aerospace
13 6 (1.33%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (1.33%) Telecoms
14 4 (0.89%) Mandarin Language
15 3 (0.67%) Front Office
15 3 (0.67%) Legal
15 3 (0.67%) Retail Banking
16 2 (0.44%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 86 (19.07%) Lead
2 84 (18.63%) Software Engineer
3 72 (15.96%) DevOps Engineer
4 65 (14.41%) Senior
5 62 (13.75%) Developer
6 36 (7.98%) Azure Engineer
6 36 (7.98%) Cloud Engineer
7 26 (5.76%) Data Engineer
8 22 (4.88%) Platform Engineer
8 22 (4.88%) Senior Software Engineer
8 22 (4.88%) Site Engineer
8 22 (4.88%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 20 (4.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 19 (4.21%) Technical Leader
11 18 (3.99%) AWS Engineer
11 18 (3.99%) Lead Software Engineer
12 16 (3.55%) Administrator
12 16 (3.55%) Automation Engineer
12 16 (3.55%) Java Engineer
13 15 (3.33%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (10.42%) RESTful
2 45 (9.98%) REST
3 40 (8.87%) .NET
4 28 (6.21%) Kafka
4 28 (6.21%) React
5 20 (4.43%) Spring
5 20 (4.43%) SwiftUI
5 20 (4.43%) UIKit
6 19 (4.21%) Spring Boot
7 17 (3.77%) ARM Templates
7 17 (3.77%) CSS
8 16 (3.55%) Next.js
9 14 (3.10%) .NET Core
9 14 (3.10%) LangChain
9 14 (3.10%) Node.js
9 14 (3.10%) PySpark
10 13 (2.88%) AngularJS
10 13 (2.88%) Elastic Stack
10 13 (2.88%) HTML
11 12 (2.66%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 147 (32.59%) Cloud Native
2 75 (16.63%) Product Ownership
3 47 (10.42%) Distributed Systems
4 28 (6.21%) Mobile App
5 27 (5.99%) Onboarding
6 19 (4.21%) Life Science
7 18 (3.99%) Legacy Systems
7 18 (3.99%) Self-Motivation
8 14 (3.10%) AI Agents
8 14 (3.10%) Greenfield Project
8 14 (3.10%) Management Information System
9 13 (2.88%) Enterprise Software
10 12 (2.66%) Virtual Team
11 9 (2.00%) Blog
11 9 (2.00%) Hybrid Cloud
11 9 (2.00%) Low-Code
12 8 (1.77%) Linux Command Line
12 8 (1.77%) PKI
13 7 (1.55%) Analytical Mindset
13 7 (1.55%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 82 (18.18%) Linux
2 63 (13.97%) Windows
3 32 (7.10%) Apple iOS
4 21 (4.66%) Windows Server
5 17 (3.77%) CentOS
6 13 (2.88%) Android
7 8 (1.77%) Mac OS
8 7 (1.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (1.33%) Ubuntu
9 6 (1.33%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.67%) Unix
11 2 (0.44%) Amazon Linux
11 2 (0.44%) Embedded Linux
11 2 (0.44%) Solaris
12 1 (0.22%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 352 (78.05%) CI/CD
2 273 (60.53%) DevOps
3 189 (41.91%) Infrastructure as Code
4 188 (41.69%) Test Automation
5 152 (33.70%) Software Engineering
6 150 (33.26%) Agile
7 131 (29.05%) Observability
8 116 (25.72%) AI
9 115 (25.50%) Microservices
10 114 (25.28%) Containerisation
11 110 (24.39%) Continuous Improvement
12 100 (22.17%) Mentoring
13 94 (20.84%) Problem-Solving
14 85 (18.85%) Clean Code
15 74 (16.41%) Analytics
16 61 (13.53%) Machine Learning
17 58 (12.86%) Continuous Deployment
18 54 (11.97%) Computer Science
19 53 (11.75%) Technical Leadership
20 48 (10.64%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 192 (42.57%) Python
2 121 (26.83%) Java
3 79 (17.52%) SQL
4 72 (15.96%) PowerShell
5 55 (12.20%) Bash
6 45 (9.98%) TypeScript
7 43 (9.53%) C#
8 36 (7.98%) JavaScript
9 21 (4.66%) Bicep
9 21 (4.66%) Kotlin
10 20 (4.43%) Swift
11 11 (2.44%) Go
12 10 (2.22%) Rust
13 9 (2.00%) Scala
14 8 (1.77%) Groovy
15 7 (1.55%) Shell Script
16 6 (1.33%) C
16 6 (1.33%) C++
17 4 (0.89%) Perl
17 4 (0.89%) PHP
Qualifications
1 77 (17.07%) Security Cleared
2 58 (12.86%) Degree
3 46 (10.20%) SC Cleared
4 35 (7.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (3.33%) DV Cleared
6 14 (3.10%) Azure Certification
7 13 (2.88%) AWS Certification
8 12 (2.66%) Master's Degree
9 8 (1.77%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (1.11%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (0.89%) Postgraduate
12 3 (0.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 3 (0.67%) CCNP
12 3 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (0.67%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 2 (0.44%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 2 (0.44%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.44%) PMP
14 1 (0.22%) ISTQB
14 1 (0.22%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (14.41%) QA
2 41 (9.09%) Accessibility
3 28 (6.21%) WCAG
4 21 (4.66%) GDPR
5 16 (3.55%) Data Quality
5 16 (3.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (2.88%) SLA
7 10 (2.22%) NCSC
8 7 (1.55%) SOC 2
9 4 (0.89%) NIST
10 2 (0.44%) Def Stans
10 2 (0.44%) IEC 61508
10 2 (0.44%) IFRS
10 2 (0.44%) IFRS 17
10 2 (0.44%) ISO 26262
10 2 (0.44%) JTAG
10 2 (0.44%) PMO
10 2 (0.44%) Solvency II
11 1 (0.22%) GRC
System Software
1 120 (26.61%) Docker
2 22 (4.88%) Active Directory
3 10 (2.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.33%) Hyper-V
5 5 (1.11%) Firmware
5 5 (1.11%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.89%) vSphere
7 3 (0.67%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.22%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.22%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 201 (44.57%) Terraform
2 182 (40.35%) Kubernetes
3 109 (24.17%) Grafana
4 88 (19.51%) Ansible
5 39 (8.65%) Prometheus
6 13 (2.88%) Microsoft Intune
7 12 (2.66%) Argo
8 11 (2.44%) Nagios
8 11 (2.44%) Puppet
9 10 (2.22%) Jamf Pro
10 6 (1.33%) Progress Chef
10 6 (1.33%) SCCM
11 4 (0.89%) Packer
11 4 (0.89%) Single Sign-On
12 3 (0.67%) cPanel
12 3 (0.67%) Docker Swarm
12 3 (0.67%) Plesk
12 3 (0.67%) Podman
12 3 (0.67%) SCOM
12 3 (0.67%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 82 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 38 (8.43%) Dynatrace
3 31 (6.87%) Google
4 22 (4.88%) Databricks
5 20 (4.43%) Splunk
6 17 (3.77%) Red Hat
7 15 (3.33%) Salesforce
7 15 (3.33%) VMware
8 13 (2.88%) Amplitude
8 13 (2.88%) Braze
9 11 (2.44%) Apple
9 11 (2.44%) OpenAI
9 11 (2.44%) Rapid7
10 7 (1.55%) AppDynamics
10 7 (1.55%) Atlassian
11 6 (1.33%) IBM
11 6 (1.33%) Oracle
12 5 (1.11%) ServiceNow
13 4 (0.89%) Dell
13 4 (0.89%) Fortinet