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

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 405 401 466
Rank change year-on-year -4 +65 -70
Permanent jobs citing Deployment Automation 265 329 339
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.42% 0.62% 0.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% 0.69% 0.56%
Number of salaries quoted 107 214 275
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,725 £43,750
25th Percentile £50,500 £56,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +7.14% -12.50%
75th Percentile £85,000 £95,938 £90,967
90th Percentile £96,750 £138,750 £138,415
UK excluding London median annual salary £63,248 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +1.20% +4.17% -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 50,302 48,021 60,136
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 80.24% 91.22% 88.90%
Number of salaries quoted 29,664 23,067 46,526
10th Percentile £28,675 £35,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -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 January 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 January 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 -28 219 £67,500 -10.00% 145
UK excluding London -7 151 £63,248 +1.20% 129
Work from Home +56 124 £61,496 -8.89% 63
London +4 101 £77,217 -16.52% 38
South East +33 57 £45,000 -23.08% 43
North of England -24 32 £68,000 +37.37% 24
Scotland +21 31 £77,217 +47.08% 4
Yorkshire -44 18 £60,000 +21.21% 9
North West +24 13 £75,000 +36.36% 11
South West -6 11 £68,400 +1.33% 20
Wales +15 7 £48,500 -25.38% 7
East of England +11 7 £67,500 -10.00% 16
Midlands -3 5 £57,359 -8.23% 15
West Midlands +10 4 £77,217 +12.32% 7
East Midlands -14 1 £37,500 +30.65% 8
North East - 1 £77,217 - 4
Northern Ireland - 1 £77,217 - 2

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 11 (4.15%) Appian
2 4 (1.51%) Confluence
3 3 (1.13%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.13%) IIS
4 2 (0.75%) Apache
4 2 (0.75%) BizTalk Server
4 2 (0.75%) nginx
4 2 (0.75%) SAS
4 2 (0.75%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.38%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.38%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.38%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (1.13%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 136 (51.32%) Azure
2 108 (40.75%) AWS
3 81 (30.57%) Azure DevOps
4 57 (21.51%) GitHub
5 56 (21.13%) GCP
6 52 (19.62%) GitHub Actions
7 49 (18.49%) Amazon EKS
8 39 (14.72%) SaaS
9 37 (13.96%) Serverless
10 32 (12.08%) Azure Monitor
11 31 (11.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 30 (11.32%) Azure Logic Apps
13 27 (10.19%) Azure Data Factory
14 26 (9.81%) AWS Lambda
15 23 (8.68%) Power Platform
16 20 (7.55%) AWS CloudFormation
17 19 (7.17%) Amazon S3
18 17 (6.42%) Amazon SQS
19 16 (6.04%) AWS Step Functions
19 16 (6.04%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.40%) Firewall
2 5 (1.89%) SSL
3 4 (1.51%) DNS
4 3 (1.13%) DMZ
4 3 (1.13%) VPN
5 2 (0.75%) BGP
5 2 (0.75%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (0.75%) MQTT
5 2 (0.75%) OSPF
5 2 (0.75%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (0.75%) RTMP
5 2 (0.75%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.75%) VLAN
5 2 (0.75%) WAN
5 2 (0.75%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.75%) Wireless
6 1 (0.38%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (12.83%) SQL Server
2 24 (9.06%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (6.79%) DynamoDB
4 17 (6.42%) NoSQL
5 12 (4.53%) MySQL
6 11 (4.15%) Pinecone
7 9 (3.40%) Amazon Aurora
8 7 (2.64%) Amazon RDS
8 7 (2.64%) Power BI
9 6 (2.26%) MongoDB
10 5 (1.89%) Elasticsearch
10 5 (1.89%) Relational Database
11 3 (1.13%) CockroachDB
11 3 (1.13%) Data Lake
11 3 (1.13%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (1.13%) Metadata
12 2 (0.75%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (0.75%) Tableau
12 2 (0.75%) Tick Data
13 1 (0.38%) Redis
Development Applications
1 38 (14.34%) Git
2 36 (13.58%) TeamCity
3 24 (9.06%) Jenkins
4 20 (7.55%) GitLab
5 14 (5.28%) MLflow
6 8 (3.02%) JIRA
7 6 (2.26%) Gradle
7 6 (2.26%) Maven
7 6 (2.26%) Storybook
8 5 (1.89%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 4 (1.51%) Artifactory
9 4 (1.51%) Bitbucket
10 3 (1.13%) JUnit
10 3 (1.13%) NUnit
10 3 (1.13%) Octopus Deploy
10 3 (1.13%) TestNG
11 2 (0.75%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 2 (0.75%) Checkstyle
11 2 (0.75%) Cypress.io
11 2 (0.75%) Selenium
General
1 125 (47.17%) Finance
2 60 (22.64%) Social Skills
3 43 (16.23%) Banking
4 41 (15.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 35 (13.21%) Retail
6 34 (12.83%) Law
7 31 (11.70%) Pharmaceutical
8 25 (9.43%) Financial Institution
9 24 (9.06%) Back Office
10 17 (6.42%) Analytical Skills
11 10 (3.77%) Marketing
12 4 (1.51%) Public Sector
13 3 (1.13%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (1.13%) Retail Banking
14 2 (0.75%) Advertising
14 2 (0.75%) Agriculture
14 2 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.75%) Legal
14 2 (0.75%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 60 (22.64%) Lead
2 45 (16.98%) Developer
3 32 (12.08%) Software Engineer
4 25 (9.43%) Senior
5 23 (8.68%) DevOps Engineer
6 19 (7.17%) Cloud Engineer
7 15 (5.66%) Platform Engineer
8 14 (5.28%) Azure Engineer
8 14 (5.28%) Integration Engineer
9 13 (4.91%) AWS Engineer
10 12 (4.53%) .NET Developer
10 12 (4.53%) Java Engineer
10 12 (4.53%) Java Software Engineer
11 11 (4.15%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 11 (4.15%) Automation Engineer
11 11 (4.15%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 11 (4.15%) Power Platform Developer
12 10 (3.77%) AWS Developer
13 9 (3.40%) AWS Platform Engineer
13 9 (3.40%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (17.36%) RESTful
2 35 (13.21%) .NET
2 35 (13.21%) OAuth
3 27 (10.19%) React
4 24 (9.06%) OAuth2
5 23 (8.68%) REST
6 22 (8.30%) .NET Core
7 21 (7.92%) JSON
8 16 (6.04%) AWS CDK
8 16 (6.04%) JWT
9 15 (5.66%) ASP.NET
9 15 (5.66%) FastAPI
10 14 (5.28%) Web Services
11 13 (4.91%) ASP.NET Core
11 13 (4.91%) Blazor
11 13 (4.91%) Flask
11 13 (4.91%) OpenAPI
11 13 (4.91%) Swagger
12 12 (4.53%) Django
13 11 (4.15%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 75 (28.30%) Cloud Native
2 35 (13.21%) Life Science
3 32 (12.08%) Low-Code
4 21 (7.92%) Product Ownership
5 13 (4.91%) Legacy Systems
6 10 (3.77%) Blog
7 6 (2.26%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (1.89%) Hackathon
8 5 (1.89%) IoT
8 5 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.51%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.51%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.13%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.13%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.13%) Private Cloud
11 2 (0.75%) Algorithms
11 2 (0.75%) IVR
11 2 (0.75%) Mobile App
11 2 (0.75%) MPEG
11 2 (0.75%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 29 (10.94%) Linux
2 14 (5.28%) Windows
3 7 (2.64%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.13%) VMS
5 2 (0.75%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 179 (67.55%) CI/CD
2 151 (56.98%) DevOps
3 105 (39.62%) Agile
4 101 (38.11%) Test Automation
5 99 (37.36%) Infrastructure as Code
6 80 (30.19%) AI
7 79 (29.81%) Analytics
8 69 (26.04%) Machine Learning
9 57 (21.51%) Problem-Solving
10 55 (20.75%) Containerisation
10 55 (20.75%) Microservices
10 55 (20.75%) Roadmaps
11 51 (19.25%) Continuous Improvement
12 50 (18.87%) Clean Code
13 45 (16.98%) Disruptive Innovation
13 45 (16.98%) Generative AI
13 45 (16.98%) Software Engineering
14 44 (16.60%) Observability
15 43 (16.23%) Coaching
15 43 (16.23%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 88 (33.21%) Python
2 47 (17.74%) SQL
3 46 (17.36%) Java
4 35 (13.21%) C#
5 34 (12.83%) Bash
5 34 (12.83%) JavaScript
5 34 (12.83%) PowerShell
6 31 (11.70%) Bicep
7 19 (7.17%) TypeScript
8 5 (1.89%) Go
9 3 (1.13%) C++
9 3 (1.13%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (0.75%) Delphi
10 2 (0.75%) Groovy
10 2 (0.75%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.75%) VB
10 2 (0.75%) VB6
11 1 (0.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.38%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.38%) R
Qualifications
1 53 (20.00%) Degree
2 36 (13.58%) Master's Degree
3 30 (11.32%) PhD
4 19 (7.17%) Security Cleared
5 14 (5.28%) AWS Certification
6 11 (4.15%) AWS Certified Developer
6 11 (4.15%) Azure Certification
6 11 (4.15%) SC Cleared
7 8 (3.02%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (1.89%) DV Cleared
9 3 (1.13%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.38%) MCSE
10 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.38%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.38%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (11.32%) GxP
2 19 (7.17%) GDPR
3 15 (5.66%) Data Quality
4 14 (5.28%) Accessibility
4 14 (5.28%) QA
5 6 (2.26%) WCAG
6 4 (1.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.75%) NIST
7 2 (0.75%) SLA
7 2 (0.75%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.38%) EU AI Act
8 1 (0.38%) GRC
8 1 (0.38%) HIPAA
System Software
1 70 (26.42%) Docker
2 12 (4.53%) Virtual Machines
3 10 (3.77%) Virtual Desktop
4 8 (3.02%) Active Directory
5 3 (1.13%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.75%) NFS
7 1 (0.38%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.38%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 132 (49.81%) Terraform
2 103 (38.87%) Kubernetes
3 60 (22.64%) Grafana
4 23 (8.68%) Ansible
5 19 (7.17%) Prometheus
6 11 (4.15%) Microsoft Intune
7 7 (2.64%) Argo
8 4 (1.51%) logstash
9 3 (1.13%) Rancher
10 2 (0.75%) Istio
10 2 (0.75%) Nagios
10 2 (0.75%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.75%) Puppet
10 2 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 27 (10.19%) Microsoft
2 14 (5.28%) Ab Initio
3 12 (4.53%) OpenAI
4 11 (4.15%) Automation Anywhere
4 11 (4.15%) UiPath
5 7 (2.64%) Splunk
6 6 (2.26%) Cisco
6 6 (2.26%) Salesforce
7 5 (1.89%) Oracle
8 4 (1.51%) Google
8 4 (1.51%) VMware
9 3 (1.13%) Citrix
9 3 (1.13%) Databricks
9 3 (1.13%) Dynatrace
9 3 (1.13%) Rapid7
10 2 (0.75%) MikroTik
10 2 (0.75%) Red Hat
10 2 (0.75%) Sonatype
10 2 (0.75%) Starlink
10 2 (0.75%) Ubiquiti