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 19 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 413 449 504
Rank change year-on-year +36 +55 -99
Permanent jobs citing Deployment Automation 373 228 443
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.40% 0.51% 0.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.54% 0.55% 0.50%
Number of salaries quoted 206 159 341
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £53,750 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% -13.33%
75th Percentile £85,750 £87,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £101,250 £111,500 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £61,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +9.76% -11.44%

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 68,493 41,477 89,117
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.95% 92.48% 81.80%
Number of salaries quoted 47,109 22,216 63,180
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +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 19 June 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 19 June 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 +39 341 £70,000 +2.19% 118
UK excluding London +32 202 £65,000 -3.70% 93
Work from Home +46 160 £65,000 +8.33% 60
London -3 150 £81,000 +2.86% 49
North of England +8 70 £55,000 -18.52% 22
South East +28 69 £65,000 +23.81% 36
North West +11 33 £55,000 -6.38% 14
Midlands -9 26 £52,500 -16.00% 7
North East - 19 £47,000 - 4
Yorkshire -31 18 £82,500 +20.88% 4
South West -46 17 £70,000 -2.77% 13
East Midlands -11 16 £40,000 -46.67% 3
West Midlands -17 10 £65,000 +6.12% 4
Scotland -1 9 £55,000 -27.02% 4
Wales -42 7 £70,000 +30.23% 3
East of England - 6 £85,000 - 10
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 7 (1.88%) Apache
1 7 (1.88%) Apache Airflow
1 7 (1.88%) Appian
1 7 (1.88%) Confluence
1 7 (1.88%) SharePoint
2 6 (1.61%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.07%) IIS
3 4 (1.07%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.54%) Luigi
4 2 (0.54%) nginx
4 2 (0.54%) SAS
5 1 (0.27%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (0.27%) CMS
5 1 (0.27%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 3 (0.80%) SPSS
2 2 (0.54%) Trello
3 1 (0.27%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.07%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.27%) Magento
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
1 198 (53.08%) AWS
2 184 (49.33%) Azure
3 102 (27.35%) GCP
4 82 (21.98%) Azure DevOps
5 70 (18.77%) Amazon EKS
6 57 (15.28%) GitHub
7 53 (14.21%) Serverless
8 51 (13.67%) SaaS
9 41 (10.99%) GitHub Actions
10 29 (7.77%) Azure Logic Apps
10 29 (7.77%) Power Platform
11 27 (7.24%) Firebase
12 26 (6.97%) PaaS
13 25 (6.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 23 (6.17%) Azure Data Factory
15 22 (5.90%) Amazon S3
16 21 (5.63%) Azure Monitor
17 17 (4.56%) Amazon EC2
17 17 (4.56%) Azure Functions
17 17 (4.56%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 20 (5.36%) Firewall
2 13 (3.49%) DNS
3 8 (2.14%) Network Security
4 7 (1.88%) MQTT
5 6 (1.61%) DHCP
5 6 (1.61%) VPN
6 5 (1.34%) SSL
7 4 (1.07%) Broadband
7 4 (1.07%) SSH
8 3 (0.80%) BGP
8 3 (0.80%) DKIM
8 3 (0.80%) DMARC
8 3 (0.80%) PBX
8 3 (0.80%) Unified Communications
8 3 (0.80%) VLAN
8 3 (0.80%) VoIP
8 3 (0.80%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.54%) Ethernet VPN
9 2 (0.54%) Intrusion Detection
9 2 (0.54%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (8.31%) SQL Server
2 29 (7.77%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (4.56%) Elasticsearch
4 16 (4.29%) Data Warehouse
5 15 (4.02%) MySQL
5 15 (4.02%) NoSQL
6 13 (3.49%) MongoDB
7 12 (3.22%) Amazon RDS
7 12 (3.22%) Power BI
8 11 (2.95%) Amazon Aurora
8 11 (2.95%) Spark SQL
9 10 (2.68%) Relational Database
10 9 (2.41%) Pinecone
11 7 (1.88%) DynamoDB
11 7 (1.88%) Metadata
12 5 (1.34%) Delta Lake
13 3 (0.80%) Data Lake
13 3 (0.80%) Geospatial Data
13 3 (0.80%) Neo4j
13 3 (0.80%) Redis
Development Applications
1 62 (16.62%) Git
2 56 (15.01%) TeamCity
3 49 (13.14%) Jenkins
4 42 (11.26%) GitLab
5 24 (6.43%) JIRA
6 20 (5.36%) Crashlytics
7 16 (4.29%) SonarQube
8 14 (3.75%) XCTest
9 13 (3.49%) Bitbucket
9 13 (3.49%) fastlane
10 11 (2.95%) Cucumber
11 9 (2.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 9 (2.41%) Gradle
11 9 (2.41%) MLflow
12 8 (2.14%) Artifactory
13 7 (1.88%) Xcode
14 6 (1.61%) Android Studio
14 6 (1.61%) JUnit
14 6 (1.61%) Maven
14 6 (1.61%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 109 (29.22%) Finance
1 109 (29.22%) Social Skills
2 78 (20.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 75 (20.11%) Banking
4 59 (15.82%) Law
5 54 (14.48%) Retail
6 41 (10.99%) Analytical Skills
7 40 (10.72%) Financial Institution
8 36 (9.65%) Back Office
9 25 (6.70%) Public Sector
10 7 (1.88%) Aerospace
11 6 (1.61%) Pharmaceutical
11 6 (1.61%) Retail Banking
12 5 (1.34%) Manufacturing
13 4 (1.07%) Mandarin Language
13 4 (1.07%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (1.07%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.80%) Front Office
15 2 (0.54%) Legal
15 2 (0.54%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 71 (19.03%) Software Engineer
2 70 (18.77%) Lead
3 60 (16.09%) Developer
4 57 (15.28%) Senior
5 41 (10.99%) DevOps Engineer
6 30 (8.04%) Azure Engineer
7 24 (6.43%) Cloud Engineer
8 23 (6.17%) Platform Engineer
9 21 (5.63%) Java Engineer
10 20 (5.36%) Lead Software Engineer
11 18 (4.83%) AWS Engineer
12 17 (4.56%) Data Engineer
12 17 (4.56%) Senior Software Engineer
13 16 (4.29%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 16 (4.29%) Java Software Engineer
14 14 (3.75%) Mobile Engineer
15 13 (3.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 13 (3.49%) Senior Developer
16 12 (3.22%) Site Engineer
16 12 (3.22%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (11.80%) REST
2 37 (9.92%) RESTful
3 36 (9.65%) .NET
4 24 (6.43%) React
5 21 (5.63%) SwiftUI
5 21 (5.63%) UIKit
6 19 (5.09%) Kafka
7 16 (4.29%) PyTorch
7 16 (4.29%) scikit-learn
7 16 (4.29%) TensorFlow
8 15 (4.02%) FastAPI
8 15 (4.02%) OAuth
9 13 (3.49%) .NET Core
9 13 (3.49%) ARM Templates
9 13 (3.49%) Spring
9 13 (3.49%) Web Services
10 12 (3.22%) Flask
10 12 (3.22%) Spring Boot
11 11 (2.95%) Elastic Stack
11 11 (2.95%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 101 (27.08%) Cloud Native
2 53 (14.21%) Product Ownership
3 29 (7.77%) Low-Code
3 29 (7.77%) Mobile App
4 25 (6.70%) Distributed Systems
5 21 (5.63%) Life Science
6 17 (4.56%) Blog
6 17 (4.56%) Onboarding
7 15 (4.02%) Greenfield Project
8 14 (3.75%) Legacy Systems
9 11 (2.95%) Management Information System
10 10 (2.68%) Hybrid Cloud
10 10 (2.68%) PKI
10 10 (2.68%) Self-Motivation
11 9 (2.41%) Hackathon
12 8 (2.14%) Replication
13 7 (1.88%) Public Cloud
14 6 (1.61%) Cyberattack
14 6 (1.61%) Data Centre
14 6 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 64 (17.16%) Linux
2 42 (11.26%) Windows
3 33 (8.85%) Apple iOS
4 16 (4.29%) Windows Server
5 14 (3.75%) CentOS
6 13 (3.49%) Android
7 8 (2.14%) Mac OS
8 6 (1.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (1.61%) Ubuntu
9 5 (1.34%) VMS
10 4 (1.07%) Unix
11 3 (0.80%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.54%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 280 (75.07%) CI/CD
2 190 (50.94%) DevOps
3 170 (45.58%) Test Automation
4 123 (32.98%) Infrastructure as Code
5 111 (29.76%) Agile
6 101 (27.08%) Software Engineering
7 98 (26.27%) Clean Code
8 89 (23.86%) Microservices
9 83 (22.25%) Containerisation
10 78 (20.91%) Continuous Improvement
11 77 (20.64%) Observability
12 71 (19.03%) Analytics
13 63 (16.89%) AI
13 63 (16.89%) Continuous Deployment
14 62 (16.62%) Problem-Solving
15 51 (13.67%) Computer Science
15 51 (13.67%) Mentoring
16 48 (12.87%) Cybersecurity
17 44 (11.80%) Machine Learning
18 43 (11.53%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 160 (42.90%) Python
2 102 (27.35%) Java
3 64 (17.16%) SQL
4 52 (13.94%) PowerShell
5 49 (13.14%) Bash
5 49 (13.14%) C#
6 37 (9.92%) JavaScript
7 30 (8.04%) TypeScript
8 23 (6.17%) Kotlin
9 21 (5.63%) Swift
10 17 (4.56%) Bicep
11 13 (3.49%) Rust
12 8 (2.14%) Groovy
13 7 (1.88%) Kusto Query Language
13 7 (1.88%) Shell Script
14 6 (1.61%) Go
15 4 (1.07%) Perl
15 4 (1.07%) PHP
15 4 (1.07%) Scala
16 3 (0.80%) C++
Qualifications
1 60 (16.09%) Degree
2 56 (15.01%) Security Cleared
3 33 (8.85%) SC Cleared
4 26 (6.97%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (4.29%) Master's Degree
6 14 (3.75%) DV Cleared
7 7 (1.88%) Azure Certification
8 6 (1.61%) AWS Certification
8 6 (1.61%) PhD
9 4 (1.07%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (1.07%) Postgraduate
10 3 (0.80%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.54%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.54%) PMP
12 1 (0.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.27%) CCNP
12 1 (0.27%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.27%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 1 (0.27%) JNCIP
12 1 (0.27%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (11.53%) QA
2 35 (9.38%) Accessibility
3 22 (5.90%) WCAG
4 20 (5.36%) GDPR
5 15 (4.02%) Data Quality
6 13 (3.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (1.88%) SLA
7 7 (1.88%) SOC 2
8 6 (1.61%) GxP
9 4 (1.07%) NCSC
9 4 (1.07%) NIST
10 2 (0.54%) Def Stans
10 2 (0.54%) IEC 61508
10 2 (0.54%) IFRS
10 2 (0.54%) IFRS 17
10 2 (0.54%) ISO 26262
10 2 (0.54%) PMO
10 2 (0.54%) Solvency II
System Software
1 95 (25.47%) Docker
2 16 (4.29%) Active Directory
3 11 (2.95%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.61%) Hyper-V
5 4 (1.07%) vSphere
6 3 (0.80%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.27%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.27%) Firmware
7 1 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.27%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 166 (44.50%) Terraform
2 156 (41.82%) Kubernetes
3 102 (27.35%) Grafana
4 61 (16.35%) Ansible
5 35 (9.38%) Prometheus
6 14 (3.75%) Microsoft Intune
7 10 (2.68%) Jamf Pro
8 8 (2.14%) Argo
8 8 (2.14%) Nagios
9 7 (1.88%) Puppet
10 6 (1.61%) SCCM
11 4 (1.07%) Packer
12 3 (0.80%) Control-M
12 3 (0.80%) cPanel
12 3 (0.80%) Docker Swarm
12 3 (0.80%) Plesk
12 3 (0.80%) Podman
12 3 (0.80%) SCOM
12 3 (0.80%) SCOrch
13 2 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 65 (17.43%) Microsoft
2 22 (5.90%) Dynatrace
3 20 (5.36%) Databricks
4 19 (5.09%) Google
5 17 (4.56%) VMware
6 15 (4.02%) Splunk
7 14 (3.75%) Amplitude
7 14 (3.75%) Braze
8 12 (3.22%) OpenAI
9 11 (2.95%) Apple
10 10 (2.68%) Red Hat
11 8 (2.14%) Automation Anywhere
11 8 (2.14%) Rapid7
11 8 (2.14%) Salesforce
11 8 (2.14%) UiPath
12 7 (1.88%) AppDynamics
13 6 (1.61%) IBM
14 5 (1.34%) Atlassian
14 5 (1.34%) Oracle
14 5 (1.34%) Tenable