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 12 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 397 395 476
Rank change year-on-year -2 +81 -69
Permanent jobs citing Deployment Automation 289 336 359
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.43% 0.67% 0.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.54% 0.73% 0.55%
Number of salaries quoted 117 220 295
10th Percentile £42,500 £48,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +15.38% -18.75%
75th Percentile £87,500 £97,528 £90,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £138,750 £128,748
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +12.50% -10.45%

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 53,044 45,908 65,136
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 79.73% 92.10% 88.26%
Number of salaries quoted 31,514 22,467 50,521
10th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £101,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.90%

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 12 February 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 12 February 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 -20 245 £67,500 -10.00% 121
UK excluding London +18 160 £67,500 - 93
Work from Home +33 144 £61,496 -8.89% 71
London -3 115 £73,750 -18.06% 50
South East +32 65 £65,000 +11.11% 36
North of England -30 36 £67,500 +22.73% 20
Scotland +8 31 £77,217 +2.46% 5
Yorkshire -52 20 £60,000 +21.21% 3
North West +7 14 £76,109 +12.75% 12
South West -24 9 £57,500 -16.36% 14
East of England +10 8 £76,250 +1.67% 4
Midlands -26 6 £57,359 -23.52% 12
Wales +2 4 £61,248 -5.77% 3
West Midlands -4 4 £77,217 +2.96% 11
East Midlands -16 2 £37,500 +30.65% 1
North East - 2 £77,217 - 5
Northern Ireland - 1 £77,217 -

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 12 (4.15%) Appian
2 5 (1.73%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.38%) Confluence
4 3 (1.04%) Apache
4 3 (1.04%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.04%) IIS
5 2 (0.69%) BizTalk Server
5 2 (0.69%) nginx
5 2 (0.69%) SAS
5 2 (0.69%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.35%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (1.04%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.35%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 145 (50.17%) Azure
2 129 (44.64%) AWS
3 84 (29.07%) Azure DevOps
4 69 (23.88%) GCP
5 59 (20.42%) GitHub
6 58 (20.07%) Amazon EKS
7 54 (18.69%) GitHub Actions
8 43 (14.88%) SaaS
9 41 (14.19%) Serverless
10 33 (11.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 33 (11.42%) Azure Logic Apps
10 33 (11.42%) Azure Monitor
11 28 (9.69%) Azure Data Factory
12 27 (9.34%) AWS Lambda
12 27 (9.34%) Power Platform
13 20 (6.92%) Amazon S3
13 20 (6.92%) AWS CloudFormation
14 17 (5.88%) Amazon SQS
15 16 (5.54%) AWS Step Functions
15 16 (5.54%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.11%) Firewall
2 5 (1.73%) DNS
2 5 (1.73%) SSL
3 4 (1.38%) MQTT
3 4 (1.38%) VPN
4 3 (1.04%) DMZ
5 2 (0.69%) BGP
5 2 (0.69%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (0.69%) OSPF
5 2 (0.69%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (0.69%) RTMP
5 2 (0.69%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.69%) VLAN
5 2 (0.69%) WAN
5 2 (0.69%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.69%) Wireless
6 1 (0.35%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (12.46%) SQL Server
2 27 (9.34%) PostgreSQL
3 19 (6.57%) DynamoDB
4 18 (6.23%) NoSQL
5 14 (4.84%) MySQL
6 12 (4.15%) Pinecone
7 11 (3.81%) Amazon Aurora
8 9 (3.11%) Power BI
9 8 (2.77%) Amazon RDS
10 6 (2.08%) Elasticsearch
10 6 (2.08%) MongoDB
10 6 (2.08%) Relational Database
11 4 (1.38%) Metadata
12 3 (1.04%) CockroachDB
12 3 (1.04%) Data Lake
12 3 (1.04%) Tableau
13 2 (0.69%) Azure SQL Database
14 1 (0.35%) Amazon Redshift
14 1 (0.35%) BigQuery
14 1 (0.35%) Redis
Development Applications
1 44 (15.22%) TeamCity
2 41 (14.19%) Git
3 28 (9.69%) GitLab
3 28 (9.69%) Jenkins
4 15 (5.19%) MLflow
5 9 (3.11%) JIRA
6 6 (2.08%) Gradle
6 6 (2.08%) Maven
6 6 (2.08%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 6 (2.08%) Storybook
7 5 (1.73%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 5 (1.73%) Bitbucket
8 4 (1.38%) Artifactory
8 4 (1.38%) JUnit
9 3 (1.04%) NUnit
9 3 (1.04%) Octopus Deploy
9 3 (1.04%) SonarQube
9 3 (1.04%) TestNG
10 2 (0.69%) Jaeger
10 2 (0.69%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 133 (46.02%) Finance
2 66 (22.84%) Social Skills
3 52 (17.99%) Banking
4 49 (16.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 43 (14.88%) Law
5 43 (14.88%) Retail
6 30 (10.38%) Financial Institution
6 30 (10.38%) Pharmaceutical
7 29 (10.03%) Back Office
8 20 (6.92%) Analytical Skills
9 8 (2.77%) Marketing
10 5 (1.73%) Public Sector
11 3 (1.04%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.04%) Retail Banking
12 2 (0.69%) Advertising
12 2 (0.69%) Agriculture
12 2 (0.69%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.69%) Legal
12 2 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 63 (21.80%) Lead
2 47 (16.26%) Developer
3 40 (13.84%) Software Engineer
4 32 (11.07%) Senior
5 25 (8.65%) DevOps Engineer
6 21 (7.27%) Cloud Engineer
7 18 (6.23%) Platform Engineer
8 16 (5.54%) Java Engineer
9 15 (5.19%) AWS Engineer
9 15 (5.19%) Integration Engineer
9 15 (5.19%) Java Software Engineer
10 13 (4.50%) Azure Engineer
10 13 (4.50%) Power Platform Developer
11 12 (4.15%) .NET Developer
11 12 (4.15%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 12 (4.15%) Automation Engineer
11 12 (4.15%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 12 (4.15%) Senior Software Engineer
12 11 (3.81%) Lead Software Engineer
13 10 (3.46%) AWS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (16.26%) RESTful
2 37 (12.80%) .NET
3 36 (12.46%) OAuth
4 30 (10.38%) React
5 26 (9.00%) REST
6 24 (8.30%) .NET Core
6 24 (8.30%) OAuth2
7 22 (7.61%) JSON
8 17 (5.88%) JWT
9 16 (5.54%) AWS CDK
9 16 (5.54%) FastAPI
10 15 (5.19%) ASP.NET
10 15 (5.19%) Web Services
11 14 (4.84%) Flask
11 14 (4.84%) OpenAPI
11 14 (4.84%) Swagger
12 13 (4.50%) ASP.NET Core
12 13 (4.50%) Blazor
12 13 (4.50%) Django
13 12 (4.15%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 85 (29.41%) Cloud Native
2 35 (12.11%) Low-Code
3 34 (11.76%) Life Science
4 25 (8.65%) Product Ownership
5 15 (5.19%) Legacy Systems
6 13 (4.50%) Blog
7 7 (2.42%) Distributed Systems
8 6 (2.08%) Onboarding
9 5 (1.73%) Hackathon
9 5 (1.73%) IoT
9 5 (1.73%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.38%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (1.38%) Public Cloud
11 3 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (1.04%) Mobile App
11 3 (1.04%) Private Cloud
12 2 (0.69%) IVR
12 2 (0.69%) PKI
12 2 (0.69%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 34 (11.76%) Linux
2 15 (5.19%) Windows
3 8 (2.77%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.38%) VMS
5 3 (1.04%) CentOS
6 1 (0.35%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.35%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 202 (69.90%) CI/CD
2 162 (56.06%) DevOps
3 114 (39.45%) Test Automation
4 107 (37.02%) Agile
5 106 (36.68%) Infrastructure as Code
6 80 (27.68%) AI
7 79 (27.34%) Analytics
8 68 (23.53%) Machine Learning
9 65 (22.49%) Microservices
10 61 (21.11%) Problem-Solving
11 59 (20.42%) Clean Code
12 58 (20.07%) Continuous Improvement
13 57 (19.72%) Containerisation
14 55 (19.03%) Roadmaps
15 53 (18.34%) Software Engineering
16 49 (16.96%) Continuous Deployment
17 48 (16.61%) Disruptive Innovation
18 47 (16.26%) Observability
19 46 (15.92%) Coaching
19 46 (15.92%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 95 (32.87%) Python
2 57 (19.72%) Java
3 53 (18.34%) SQL
4 39 (13.49%) JavaScript
5 36 (12.46%) Bash
5 36 (12.46%) C#
6 34 (11.76%) PowerShell
7 30 (10.38%) Bicep
8 22 (7.61%) TypeScript
9 6 (2.08%) Go
10 4 (1.38%) Kusto Query Language
11 3 (1.04%) C++
11 3 (1.04%) Rust
12 2 (0.69%) Delphi
12 2 (0.69%) Groovy
12 2 (0.69%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.69%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.69%) VB
12 2 (0.69%) VB6
13 1 (0.35%) Swift
Qualifications
1 59 (20.42%) Degree
2 35 (12.11%) Master's Degree
3 29 (10.03%) PhD
4 27 (9.34%) Security Cleared
5 15 (5.19%) AWS Certification
5 15 (5.19%) SC Cleared
6 11 (3.81%) AWS Certified Developer
6 11 (3.81%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (3.11%) Azure Certification
8 8 (2.77%) DV Cleared
9 3 (1.04%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.35%) MCSE
11 1 (0.35%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.35%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (10.03%) GxP
2 19 (6.57%) GDPR
3 17 (5.88%) Data Quality
4 16 (5.54%) QA
5 14 (4.84%) Accessibility
6 6 (2.08%) WCAG
7 4 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (1.04%) SLA
9 2 (0.69%) NIST
9 2 (0.69%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.35%) EU AI Act
10 1 (0.35%) GRC
10 1 (0.35%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.35%) NCSC
System Software
1 74 (25.61%) Docker
2 12 (4.15%) Virtual Machines
3 10 (3.46%) Virtual Desktop
4 9 (3.11%) Active Directory
5 3 (1.04%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.69%) NFS
7 1 (0.35%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.35%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 146 (50.52%) Terraform
2 118 (40.83%) Kubernetes
3 73 (25.26%) Grafana
4 27 (9.34%) Ansible
5 23 (7.96%) Prometheus
6 12 (4.15%) Microsoft Intune
7 7 (2.42%) Argo
8 4 (1.38%) logstash
9 3 (1.04%) Nagios
9 3 (1.04%) Puppet
9 3 (1.04%) Rancher
10 2 (0.69%) Istio
10 2 (0.69%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 29 (10.03%) Microsoft
2 14 (4.84%) Ab Initio
3 13 (4.50%) OpenAI
4 12 (4.15%) Automation Anywhere
4 12 (4.15%) UiPath
5 8 (2.77%) Splunk
6 6 (2.08%) Cisco
6 6 (2.08%) Oracle
6 6 (2.08%) Salesforce
7 4 (1.38%) Google
7 4 (1.38%) Red Hat
7 4 (1.38%) VMware
8 3 (1.04%) Citrix
8 3 (1.04%) Dynatrace
8 3 (1.04%) Rapid7
9 2 (0.69%) ForgeRock
9 2 (0.69%) NETGEAR
9 2 (0.69%) Pega
9 2 (0.69%) Sonatype
9 2 (0.69%) Starlink