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

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 406 453 500
Rank change year-on-year +47 +47 -86
Permanent jobs citing Deployment Automation 364 237 448
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.40% 0.54% 0.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.54% 0.58% 0.51%
Number of salaries quoted 193 167 347
10th Percentile £42,500 £43,250 £45,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,625 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,500 £70,000 £66,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -11.33%
75th Percentile £86,000 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £103,750 £114,500 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £61,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +9.76% -8.89%

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 66,839 40,980 87,741
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.86% 92.69% 82.42%
Number of salaries quoted 45,659 21,831 62,274
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £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 £92,500
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 10 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 10 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 +30 335 £68,400 -2.29% 118
UK excluding London +48 195 £65,000 -3.70% 76
Work from Home +54 158 £65,000 +4.00% 75
London +11 148 £80,750 +0.94% 51
South East +36 70 £65,000 +20.93% 36
North of England +1 69 £55,000 -18.52% 20
North West +10 30 £55,000 -6.38% 13
Midlands -6 25 £50,250 -19.60% 9
Yorkshire -34 21 £82,500 +21.32% 2
North East - 18 £47,000 - 5
East Midlands - 16 £40,000 - 4
South West -45 14 £68,400 -4.99% 4
West Midlands -25 9 £58,750 -6.00% 5
Scotland +4 8 £55,000 -27.02% 2
East of England -7 6 £85,000 +13.33% 8
Wales -41 5 £70,079 +30.38% 2
Northern Ireland - 1 £77,500 -

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 8 (2.20%) Appian
2 7 (1.92%) Apache
2 7 (1.92%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (1.65%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.37%) SharePoint
5 4 (1.10%) Confluence
5 4 (1.10%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.82%) IIS
7 2 (0.55%) Luigi
8 1 (0.27%) BizTalk Server
8 1 (0.27%) CMS
8 1 (0.27%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.27%) nginx
8 1 (0.27%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (0.82%) SPSS
2 2 (0.55%) Trello
3 1 (0.27%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (0.82%) 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 (54.40%) AWS
2 176 (48.35%) Azure
3 101 (27.75%) GCP
4 80 (21.98%) Azure DevOps
5 74 (20.33%) Amazon EKS
6 61 (16.76%) GitHub
7 54 (14.84%) Serverless
8 50 (13.74%) SaaS
9 47 (12.91%) GitHub Actions
10 30 (8.24%) Azure Logic Apps
11 28 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 27 (7.42%) Power Platform
13 26 (7.14%) Firebase
14 25 (6.87%) Azure Data Factory
14 25 (6.87%) PaaS
15 24 (6.59%) Amazon S3
16 21 (5.77%) Azure Monitor
17 18 (4.95%) AWS Lambda
18 17 (4.67%) Amazon EC2
18 17 (4.67%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 21 (5.77%) Firewall
2 13 (3.57%) DNS
3 8 (2.20%) Network Security
4 7 (1.92%) MQTT
5 6 (1.65%) DHCP
6 5 (1.37%) SSL
6 5 (1.37%) VPN
7 4 (1.10%) Broadband
7 4 (1.10%) SSH
8 3 (0.82%) BGP
9 2 (0.55%) DKIM
9 2 (0.55%) DMARC
9 2 (0.55%) DMZ
9 2 (0.55%) Ethernet VPN
9 2 (0.55%) Intrusion Detection
9 2 (0.55%) PBX
9 2 (0.55%) SAN
9 2 (0.55%) Unified Communications
9 2 (0.55%) VLAN
9 2 (0.55%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (9.07%) SQL Server
2 29 (7.97%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (4.95%) Elasticsearch
4 16 (4.40%) MySQL
5 15 (4.12%) Data Warehouse
5 15 (4.12%) NoSQL
6 13 (3.57%) MongoDB
7 12 (3.30%) Amazon Aurora
7 12 (3.30%) Power BI
8 11 (3.02%) Amazon RDS
8 11 (3.02%) Spark SQL
9 10 (2.75%) DynamoDB
9 10 (2.75%) Pinecone
9 10 (2.75%) Relational Database
10 7 (1.92%) Metadata
11 5 (1.37%) Delta Lake
12 3 (0.82%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (0.82%) Data Lake
12 3 (0.82%) Neo4j
12 3 (0.82%) Redis
Development Applications
1 60 (16.48%) Git
2 58 (15.93%) TeamCity
3 49 (13.46%) Jenkins
4 44 (12.09%) GitLab
5 20 (5.49%) Crashlytics
5 20 (5.49%) JIRA
6 16 (4.40%) SonarQube
7 14 (3.85%) Bitbucket
7 14 (3.85%) XCTest
8 12 (3.30%) fastlane
9 11 (3.02%) Cucumber
10 10 (2.75%) MLflow
11 9 (2.47%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 9 (2.47%) Gradle
12 8 (2.20%) Artifactory
13 6 (1.65%) Android Studio
13 6 (1.65%) JMeter
13 6 (1.65%) JUnit
13 6 (1.65%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 6 (1.65%) Xcode
General
1 112 (30.77%) Finance
2 101 (27.75%) Social Skills
3 77 (21.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 74 (20.33%) Banking
5 60 (16.48%) Law
6 56 (15.38%) Retail
7 40 (10.99%) Financial Institution
8 38 (10.44%) Analytical Skills
9 36 (9.89%) Back Office
10 22 (6.04%) Public Sector
11 8 (2.20%) Pharmaceutical
12 7 (1.92%) Aerospace
13 6 (1.65%) Retail Banking
14 4 (1.10%) Mandarin Language
14 4 (1.10%) Manufacturing
14 4 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
15 3 (0.82%) Front Office
15 3 (0.82%) Telecoms
16 2 (0.55%) Influencing Skills
16 2 (0.55%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 69 (18.96%) Lead
2 68 (18.68%) Software Engineer
3 56 (15.38%) Developer
4 54 (14.84%) Senior
5 38 (10.44%) DevOps Engineer
6 29 (7.97%) Azure Engineer
7 23 (6.32%) Cloud Engineer
8 22 (6.04%) Platform Engineer
9 21 (5.77%) Java Engineer
10 20 (5.49%) Lead Software Engineer
11 19 (5.22%) AWS Engineer
12 17 (4.67%) Data Engineer
13 16 (4.40%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 16 (4.40%) Java Software Engineer
13 16 (4.40%) Senior Software Engineer
14 14 (3.85%) Mobile Engineer
15 13 (3.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 12 (3.30%) Customer Engineer
16 12 (3.30%) Senior Developer
16 12 (3.30%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (11.26%) REST
2 36 (9.89%) RESTful
3 34 (9.34%) .NET
4 23 (6.32%) React
5 20 (5.49%) SwiftUI
5 20 (5.49%) UIKit
6 18 (4.95%) Kafka
6 18 (4.95%) OAuth
7 16 (4.40%) PyTorch
7 16 (4.40%) scikit-learn
7 16 (4.40%) TensorFlow
8 14 (3.85%) .NET Core
8 14 (3.85%) FastAPI
9 13 (3.57%) JWT
9 13 (3.57%) Web Services
10 12 (3.30%) ARM Templates
10 12 (3.30%) Spring
11 11 (3.02%) Elastic Stack
11 11 (3.02%) JSON
11 11 (3.02%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 95 (26.10%) Cloud Native
2 48 (13.19%) Product Ownership
3 30 (8.24%) Low-Code
4 27 (7.42%) Mobile App
5 23 (6.32%) Distributed Systems
6 21 (5.77%) Life Science
7 18 (4.95%) Blog
8 15 (4.12%) Greenfield Project
9 14 (3.85%) Onboarding
10 12 (3.30%) Legacy Systems
11 11 (3.02%) Management Information System
12 10 (2.75%) PKI
13 9 (2.47%) Hackathon
13 9 (2.47%) Hybrid Cloud
14 8 (2.20%) Public Cloud
14 8 (2.20%) Self-Motivation
15 7 (1.92%) Replication
16 6 (1.65%) Cyberattack
17 5 (1.37%) Data Centre
17 5 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 65 (17.86%) Linux
2 37 (10.16%) Windows
3 31 (8.52%) Apple iOS
4 16 (4.40%) Windows Server
5 14 (3.85%) CentOS
6 12 (3.30%) Android
7 8 (2.20%) Mac OS
8 6 (1.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (1.65%) Ubuntu
9 5 (1.37%) VMS
10 4 (1.10%) Unix
11 2 (0.55%) Amazon Linux
11 2 (0.55%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 273 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 186 (51.10%) DevOps
3 170 (46.70%) Test Automation
4 122 (33.52%) Infrastructure as Code
5 105 (28.85%) Agile
6 100 (27.47%) Clean Code
7 91 (25.00%) Software Engineering
8 85 (23.35%) Containerisation
8 85 (23.35%) Microservices
9 78 (21.43%) Observability
10 75 (20.60%) Continuous Improvement
11 72 (19.78%) Analytics
12 64 (17.58%) Continuous Deployment
13 62 (17.03%) Problem-Solving
14 59 (16.21%) AI
15 52 (14.29%) Computer Science
16 49 (13.46%) Cybersecurity
17 45 (12.36%) Fintech
17 45 (12.36%) Mentoring
18 43 (11.81%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 159 (43.68%) Python
2 101 (27.75%) Java
3 67 (18.41%) SQL
4 50 (13.74%) Bash
5 49 (13.46%) PowerShell
6 47 (12.91%) C#
7 35 (9.62%) JavaScript
8 26 (7.14%) TypeScript
9 22 (6.04%) Kotlin
10 20 (5.49%) Swift
11 17 (4.67%) Bicep
12 13 (3.57%) Rust
13 8 (2.20%) Groovy
14 7 (1.92%) Go
14 7 (1.92%) Kusto Query Language
14 7 (1.92%) Shell Script
15 4 (1.10%) Perl
15 4 (1.10%) PHP
15 4 (1.10%) Scala
16 2 (0.55%) C++
Qualifications
1 61 (16.76%) Degree
2 53 (14.56%) Security Cleared
3 31 (8.52%) SC Cleared
4 25 (6.87%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (4.95%) Master's Degree
6 14 (3.85%) DV Cleared
7 8 (2.20%) Azure Certification
7 8 (2.20%) PhD
8 7 (1.92%) AWS Certification
9 4 (1.10%) ISTQB
9 4 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (1.10%) Postgraduate
10 2 (0.55%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.55%) PMP
11 1 (0.27%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.27%) CCNP
11 1 (0.27%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.27%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.27%) JNCIP
11 1 (0.27%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (10.71%) QA
2 31 (8.52%) Accessibility
3 20 (5.49%) GDPR
4 18 (4.95%) WCAG
5 16 (4.40%) Data Quality
6 13 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (2.20%) GxP
8 7 (1.92%) SLA
8 7 (1.92%) SOC 2
9 4 (1.10%) NIST
10 2 (0.55%) Def Stans
10 2 (0.55%) IEC 61508
10 2 (0.55%) IFRS
10 2 (0.55%) IFRS 17
10 2 (0.55%) ISO 26262
10 2 (0.55%) NCSC
10 2 (0.55%) PMO
10 2 (0.55%) Solvency II
System Software
1 94 (25.82%) Docker
2 16 (4.40%) Active Directory
3 10 (2.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.37%) Hyper-V
5 4 (1.10%) vSphere
6 2 (0.55%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.27%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.27%) Firmware
7 1 (0.27%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 170 (46.70%) Terraform
2 156 (42.86%) Kubernetes
3 102 (28.02%) Grafana
4 60 (16.48%) Ansible
5 34 (9.34%) Prometheus
6 12 (3.30%) Microsoft Intune
7 10 (2.75%) Jamf Pro
8 8 (2.20%) Argo
8 8 (2.20%) Nagios
9 7 (1.92%) Puppet
10 5 (1.37%) SCCM
11 4 (1.10%) Packer
12 3 (0.82%) Control-M
12 3 (0.82%) Docker Swarm
12 3 (0.82%) Podman
12 3 (0.82%) Rancher
12 3 (0.82%) SCOM
12 3 (0.82%) SCOrch
13 2 (0.55%) Plesk
13 2 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 59 (16.21%) Microsoft
2 20 (5.49%) Databricks
3 19 (5.22%) Dynatrace
4 17 (4.67%) Google
5 16 (4.40%) VMware
6 15 (4.12%) Splunk
7 14 (3.85%) Amplitude
7 14 (3.85%) Braze
8 13 (3.57%) OpenAI
9 10 (2.75%) Apple
9 10 (2.75%) Red Hat
10 9 (2.47%) Automation Anywhere
10 9 (2.47%) Salesforce
10 9 (2.47%) UiPath
11 8 (2.20%) Rapid7
12 7 (1.92%) AppDynamics
13 6 (1.65%) IBM
14 5 (1.37%) Atlassian
14 5 (1.37%) Oracle
14 5 (1.37%) Tenable