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

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 409 473 468
Rank change year-on-year +64 -5 -72
Permanent jobs citing Deployment Automation 448 222 384
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.42% 0.45% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.57% 0.50% 0.57%
Number of salaries quoted 262 137 289
10th Percentile £44,564 £46,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £51,563 £51,250 £48,925
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 £77,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £96,750 £92,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% - -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 77,915 44,448 67,793
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.48% 89.27% 81.15%
Number of salaries quoted 53,724 25,250 43,771
10th Percentile £30,750 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £48,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +14.58% -4.00% -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 12 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 12 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 +72 385 £70,000 +2.19% 444
UK excluding London +24 245 £65,000 +8.33% 240
London +15 169 £85,000 +13.33% 245
Work from Home +44 163 £65,000 +4.00% 221
North of England -2 81 £57,500 -1.71% 72
South East +7 58 £65,000 -1.89% 52
Midlands -2 36 £49,000 -18.33% 25
South West -34 35 £70,000 -6.67% 38
North West -8 32 £52,500 +14.13% 41
North East -29 27 £47,250 - 16
Yorkshire -15 22 £82,500 +20.44% 17
West Midlands -13 20 £50,000 -16.67% 13
Wales -50 18 £58,000 +19.59% 7
East Midlands -10 16 £42,500 -43.33% 12
Scotland +9 15 £68,750 -14.06% 24
East of England -29 4 £56,000 - 17
Northern Ireland - 1 £77,500 - 9

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 (2.90%) Confluence
2 11 (2.46%) Apache
3 10 (2.23%) SharePoint
4 9 (2.01%) Apache Spark
5 8 (1.79%) nginx
6 7 (1.56%) IIS
7 6 (1.34%) Apache Airflow
8 5 (1.12%) Camunda
9 4 (0.89%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.89%) SAS
10 2 (0.45%) Cloud Foundry
10 2 (0.45%) CMS
10 2 (0.45%) 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 (0.45%) 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
1 243 (54.24%) AWS
2 229 (51.12%) Azure
3 124 (27.68%) GCP
4 105 (23.44%) Azure DevOps
5 73 (16.29%) GitHub
6 62 (13.84%) Amazon EKS
7 57 (12.72%) Serverless
8 54 (12.05%) SaaS
9 42 (9.38%) GitHub Actions
10 31 (6.92%) Power Platform
11 28 (6.25%) Datadog
12 26 (5.80%) Firebase
12 26 (5.80%) Microsoft 365
13 25 (5.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 25 (5.58%) Amazon S3
13 25 (5.58%) AWS CloudFormation
14 24 (5.36%) Azure Monitor
15 23 (5.13%) Amazon ECS
16 22 (4.91%) PaaS
17 19 (4.24%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 19 (4.24%) Firewall
2 17 (3.79%) DNS
3 12 (2.68%) VPN
4 8 (1.79%) Network Security
5 7 (1.56%) MQTT
6 6 (1.34%) DHCP
7 5 (1.12%) BGP
7 5 (1.12%) SSL
7 5 (1.12%) TCP/IP
7 5 (1.12%) Wi-Fi
8 4 (0.89%) Broadband
8 4 (0.89%) Kerberos
8 4 (0.89%) NAS
8 4 (0.89%) SSH
8 4 (0.89%) WAN
8 4 (0.89%) Wireless
9 3 (0.67%) LAN
9 3 (0.67%) PBX
9 3 (0.67%) Unified Communications
9 3 (0.67%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (9.60%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (7.59%) SQL Server
3 25 (5.58%) MongoDB
3 25 (5.58%) MySQL
4 20 (4.46%) Data Warehouse
4 20 (4.46%) Elasticsearch
5 19 (4.24%) NoSQL
5 19 (4.24%) Power BI
6 14 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
7 11 (2.46%) Data Lake
7 11 (2.46%) Spark SQL
8 10 (2.23%) Azure SQL Database
8 10 (2.23%) Metadata
9 9 (2.01%) Relational Database
10 8 (1.79%) Big Data
11 7 (1.56%) Geospatial Data
12 6 (1.34%) Delta Lake
12 6 (1.34%) DynamoDB
12 6 (1.34%) Redis
13 5 (1.12%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 95 (21.21%) Git
2 53 (11.83%) Jenkins
3 48 (10.71%) TeamCity
4 44 (9.82%) GitLab
5 33 (7.37%) JIRA
6 19 (4.24%) Crashlytics
7 16 (3.57%) Bitbucket
8 13 (2.90%) fastlane
8 13 (2.90%) SonarQube
8 13 (2.90%) XCTest
9 11 (2.46%) Cucumber
10 10 (2.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 8 (1.79%) JUnit
11 8 (1.79%) Mockito
11 8 (1.79%) Octopus Deploy
12 7 (1.56%) Artifactory
12 7 (1.56%) Claude Code
12 7 (1.56%) MSI
12 7 (1.56%) Xcode
13 6 (1.34%) JMeter
General
1 134 (29.91%) Social Skills
2 130 (29.02%) Finance
3 91 (20.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 83 (18.53%) Banking
5 65 (14.51%) Law
6 61 (13.62%) Analytical Skills
7 52 (11.61%) Retail
8 45 (10.04%) Financial Institution
9 44 (9.82%) Public Sector
10 37 (8.26%) Back Office
11 9 (2.01%) Marketing
12 7 (1.56%) Manufacturing
12 7 (1.56%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (1.34%) Aerospace
13 6 (1.34%) 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 (0.45%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 87 (19.42%) Lead
2 84 (18.75%) Software Engineer
3 69 (15.40%) DevOps Engineer
4 63 (14.06%) Developer
5 62 (13.84%) Senior
6 37 (8.26%) Azure Engineer
7 32 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
8 24 (5.36%) Data Engineer
9 23 (5.13%) Platform Engineer
10 21 (4.69%) Senior Software Engineer
10 21 (4.69%) Site Engineer
10 21 (4.69%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 20 (4.46%) Lead Software Engineer
12 19 (4.24%) Technical Leader
13 16 (3.57%) Automation Engineer
13 16 (3.57%) AWS Engineer
13 16 (3.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 15 (3.35%) Administrator
14 15 (3.35%) Java Engineer
14 15 (3.35%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (10.27%) RESTful
2 45 (10.04%) REST
3 42 (9.38%) .NET
4 29 (6.47%) React
5 27 (6.03%) Kafka
6 20 (4.46%) SwiftUI
6 20 (4.46%) UIKit
7 19 (4.24%) Spring
8 18 (4.02%) Spring Boot
9 17 (3.79%) ARM Templates
9 17 (3.79%) CSS
10 16 (3.57%) Next.js
11 15 (3.35%) .NET Core
12 14 (3.13%) LangChain
12 14 (3.13%) Node.js
13 13 (2.90%) AngularJS
13 13 (2.90%) Elastic Stack
13 13 (2.90%) HTML
13 13 (2.90%) PySpark
14 12 (2.68%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 148 (33.04%) Cloud Native
2 73 (16.29%) Product Ownership
3 45 (10.04%) Distributed Systems
4 28 (6.25%) Mobile App
5 26 (5.80%) Onboarding
6 19 (4.24%) Life Science
7 18 (4.02%) Legacy Systems
8 17 (3.79%) Self-Motivation
9 14 (3.13%) AI Agents
9 14 (3.13%) Greenfield Project
9 14 (3.13%) Management Information System
10 12 (2.68%) Enterprise Software
11 11 (2.46%) Low-Code
12 10 (2.23%) Blog
12 10 (2.23%) Virtual Team
13 9 (2.01%) Hybrid Cloud
14 8 (1.79%) Linux Command Line
14 8 (1.79%) PKI
14 8 (1.79%) Public Cloud
15 7 (1.56%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 83 (18.53%) Linux
2 64 (14.29%) Windows
3 32 (7.14%) Apple iOS
4 22 (4.91%) Windows Server
5 16 (3.57%) CentOS
6 13 (2.90%) Android
7 8 (1.79%) Mac OS
8 7 (1.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (1.34%) Ubuntu
9 6 (1.34%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.67%) Unix
11 2 (0.45%) Amazon Linux
11 2 (0.45%) Embedded Linux
11 2 (0.45%) Solaris
11 2 (0.45%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 350 (78.13%) CI/CD
2 271 (60.49%) DevOps
3 188 (41.96%) Test Automation
4 182 (40.63%) Infrastructure as Code
5 150 (33.48%) Software Engineering
6 147 (32.81%) Agile
7 126 (28.13%) Observability
8 115 (25.67%) Microservices
9 111 (24.78%) Containerisation
10 110 (24.55%) AI
11 106 (23.66%) Continuous Improvement
12 99 (22.10%) Mentoring
13 92 (20.54%) Problem-Solving
14 87 (19.42%) Clean Code
15 73 (16.29%) Analytics
16 61 (13.62%) Machine Learning
17 60 (13.39%) Continuous Deployment
18 54 (12.05%) Computer Science
19 50 (11.16%) Technical Leadership
20 48 (10.71%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 189 (42.19%) Python
2 122 (27.23%) Java
3 78 (17.41%) SQL
4 70 (15.63%) PowerShell
5 54 (12.05%) Bash
6 46 (10.27%) C#
6 46 (10.27%) TypeScript
7 39 (8.71%) JavaScript
8 21 (4.69%) Bicep
8 21 (4.69%) Kotlin
9 20 (4.46%) Swift
10 12 (2.68%) Go
11 10 (2.23%) Rust
12 9 (2.01%) Scala
13 8 (1.79%) Groovy
14 7 (1.56%) Shell Script
15 6 (1.34%) C
15 6 (1.34%) C++
16 4 (0.89%) Perl
16 4 (0.89%) PHP
Qualifications
1 76 (16.96%) Security Cleared
2 58 (12.95%) Degree
3 45 (10.04%) SC Cleared
4 35 (7.81%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (3.35%) DV Cleared
6 14 (3.13%) Azure Certification
7 13 (2.90%) AWS Certification
8 12 (2.68%) Master's Degree
9 8 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (1.12%) 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 (0.45%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 2 (0.45%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.45%) PMP
14 1 (0.22%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 1 (0.22%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (14.06%) QA
2 40 (8.93%) Accessibility
3 28 (6.25%) WCAG
4 21 (4.69%) GDPR
5 16 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 14 (3.13%) Data Quality
7 12 (2.68%) SLA
8 10 (2.23%) NCSC
9 7 (1.56%) SOC 2
10 4 (0.89%) NIST
11 2 (0.45%) Def Stans
11 2 (0.45%) IEC 61508
11 2 (0.45%) IFRS
11 2 (0.45%) IFRS 17
11 2 (0.45%) ISO 26262
11 2 (0.45%) JTAG
11 2 (0.45%) PMO
11 2 (0.45%) Solvency II
12 1 (0.22%) GRC
System Software
1 117 (26.12%) Docker
2 22 (4.91%) Active Directory
3 10 (2.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.34%) Hyper-V
5 5 (1.12%) Firmware
5 5 (1.12%) 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
1 195 (43.53%) Terraform
2 179 (39.96%) Kubernetes
3 107 (23.88%) Grafana
4 86 (19.20%) Ansible
5 38 (8.48%) Prometheus
6 12 (2.68%) Argo
6 12 (2.68%) Microsoft Intune
7 11 (2.46%) Puppet
8 10 (2.23%) Jamf Pro
8 10 (2.23%) Nagios
9 6 (1.34%) Progress Chef
9 6 (1.34%) SCCM
10 4 (0.89%) Packer
10 4 (0.89%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (0.67%) cPanel
11 3 (0.67%) Docker Swarm
11 3 (0.67%) Plesk
11 3 (0.67%) Podman
11 3 (0.67%) SCOM
11 3 (0.67%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 83 (18.53%) Microsoft
2 36 (8.04%) Dynatrace
3 29 (6.47%) Google
4 21 (4.69%) Databricks
5 18 (4.02%) Splunk
6 16 (3.57%) Red Hat
7 15 (3.35%) VMware
8 14 (3.13%) Salesforce
9 13 (2.90%) Amplitude
9 13 (2.90%) Braze
10 11 (2.46%) Apple
10 11 (2.46%) OpenAI
11 10 (2.23%) Rapid7
12 7 (1.56%) AppDynamics
12 7 (1.56%) Atlassian
13 6 (1.34%) IBM
13 6 (1.34%) Oracle
14 5 (1.12%) ServiceNow
15 4 (0.89%) Cisco
15 4 (0.89%) Dell