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 23 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 433 437 362
Rank change year-on-year +4 -75 +66
Permanent jobs citing Deployment Automation 221 352 399
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.42% 0.51% 0.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 0.61% 0.82%
Number of salaries quoted 92 229 312
10th Percentile £48,250 £46,250 £46,365
25th Percentile £59,688 £48,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,750 £68,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year +8.46% -3.65% -5.90%
75th Percentile £83,125 £87,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £96,125 £112,500 £121,875
UK excluding London median annual salary £68,250 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +18.70% -4.17% -

All Process and 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 45,242 57,727 48,781
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.14% 83.98% 93.81%
Number of salaries quoted 27,567 30,431 37,438
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £54,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -12.04% +2.86% -

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 23 November 2025.

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 23 November 2025. 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 -31 167 £75,000 +10.29% 214
UK excluding London +29 141 £68,250 +18.70% 147
Work from Home +29 83 £77,217 +16.55% 125
London +17 75 £80,000 -11.11% 99
Scotland +52 38 £78,609 +49.73% 11
South East +29 36 £77,750 +41.36% 56
North of England -24 27 £75,000 +51.52% 40
Wales +26 14 £48,500 -25.38% 6
Yorkshire -40 14 £67,500 +36.36% 9
Midlands +44 13 £75,000 +25.00% 11
North West +41 11 £78,609 +124.60% 30
South West +15 8 £68,750 - 14
West Midlands +38 7 £69,859 +16.43% 9
East Midlands +32 6 £75,000 +118.33% 2
East of England +20 4 £55,000 +15.79% 10
North East - 2 £77,217 - 1
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 20 (9.05%) Apache Spark
2 6 (2.71%) nginx
3 3 (1.36%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.36%) IIS
4 2 (0.90%) Appian
4 2 (0.90%) BizTalk Server
4 2 (0.90%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.45%) Apache
5 1 (0.45%) Confluence
5 1 (0.45%) SAS
5 1 (0.45%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.45%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.45%) Eikon
Cloud Services
1 102 (46.15%) Azure
2 82 (37.10%) AWS
3 55 (24.89%) Azure DevOps
4 44 (19.91%) GCP
4 44 (19.91%) GitHub
5 42 (19.00%) GitHub Actions
6 37 (16.74%) Amazon EKS
7 28 (12.67%) SaaS
8 27 (12.22%) Amazon S3
9 22 (9.95%) Azure Monitor
10 19 (8.60%) Amazon ELB
11 18 (8.14%) Serverless
12 16 (7.24%) Entra ID
13 14 (6.33%) Azure Data Factory
13 14 (6.33%) Microsoft 365
14 13 (5.88%) PaaS
15 10 (4.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 10 (4.52%) Azure Logic Apps
15 10 (4.52%) Azure Service Bus
16 9 (4.07%) Azure Event Grid
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.17%) DNS
2 6 (2.71%) Network Security
2 6 (2.71%) WAN
3 4 (1.81%) BGP
3 4 (1.81%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 4 (1.81%) SSL
3 4 (1.81%) VPN
4 3 (1.36%) Firewall
4 3 (1.36%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.90%) Cisco IOS
5 2 (0.90%) IOS XR
5 2 (0.90%) LAN
5 2 (0.90%) MQTT
5 2 (0.90%) NX-OS
5 2 (0.90%) OSPF
5 2 (0.90%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (0.90%) RTMP
5 2 (0.90%) VLAN
5 2 (0.90%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.90%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (11.76%) DynamoDB
2 22 (9.95%) Metadata
3 20 (9.05%) Delta Lake
4 19 (8.60%) Spark SQL
5 15 (6.79%) Data Warehouse
6 13 (5.88%) SQL Server
6 13 (5.88%) Tick Data
7 8 (3.62%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (2.26%) NoSQL
9 4 (1.81%) MySQL
9 4 (1.81%) Power BI
10 3 (1.36%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (1.36%) Big Data
10 3 (1.36%) Data Lake
10 3 (1.36%) Tableau
11 2 (0.90%) Amazon QuickSight
11 2 (0.90%) MongoDB
11 2 (0.90%) Pinecone
11 2 (0.90%) Power Query
11 2 (0.90%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 31 (14.03%) Git
2 24 (10.86%) MLflow
3 17 (7.69%) GitLab
3 17 (7.69%) Jenkins
4 16 (7.24%) TeamCity
5 6 (2.71%) CircleCI
6 5 (2.26%) Storybook
7 4 (1.81%) JIRA
8 3 (1.36%) Artifactory
8 3 (1.36%) Maven
9 2 (0.90%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (0.90%) Gradle
9 2 (0.90%) Jaeger
9 2 (0.90%) Octopus Deploy
9 2 (0.90%) Selenium
9 2 (0.90%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.90%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 2 (0.90%) webpack
10 1 (0.45%) Burp Suite
10 1 (0.45%) gulp
General
1 90 (40.72%) Finance
2 50 (22.62%) Social Skills
3 30 (13.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 21 (9.50%) Law
4 21 (9.50%) Marketing
4 21 (9.50%) Pharmaceutical
5 18 (8.14%) Banking
6 16 (7.24%) Financial Institution
7 15 (6.79%) Back Office
8 14 (6.33%) Retail
9 8 (3.62%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (2.71%) Legal
10 6 (2.71%) Public Sector
11 3 (1.36%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.36%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.36%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.90%) Advertising
12 2 (0.90%) Agriculture
12 2 (0.90%) Analytical Skills
12 2 (0.90%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 59 (26.70%) Lead
2 31 (14.03%) Software Engineer
3 26 (11.76%) Developer
4 23 (10.41%) Senior
5 20 (9.05%) DevOps Engineer
5 20 (9.05%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 20 (9.05%) Operations Engineer
6 13 (5.88%) Data Warehouse Developer
6 13 (5.88%) ETL Developer
6 13 (5.88%) Market Data Developer
7 12 (5.43%) Platform Engineer
8 11 (4.98%) .NET Software Engineer
8 11 (4.98%) Architect
8 11 (4.98%) Cloud Engineer
9 10 (4.52%) C# Software Engineer
9 10 (4.52%) Lead Software Engineer
9 10 (4.52%) Python Developer
10 9 (4.07%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 9 (4.07%) Java Engineer
10 9 (4.07%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (13.12%) RESTful
2 23 (10.41%) .NET
2 23 (10.41%) YAML
3 22 (9.95%) React
4 21 (9.50%) NumPy
4 21 (9.50%) Pandas
4 21 (9.50%) PyTorch
4 21 (9.50%) scikit-learn
4 21 (9.50%) TensorFlow
5 20 (9.05%) PySpark
6 19 (8.60%) Keras
6 19 (8.60%) Lambda Expressions
6 19 (8.60%) Metaflow
7 16 (7.24%) .NET Core
8 15 (6.79%) JSON
8 15 (6.79%) OAuth
9 13 (5.88%) OAuth2
10 12 (5.43%) AngularJS
10 12 (5.43%) Blazor
11 9 (4.07%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 46 (20.81%) Cloud Native
2 22 (9.95%) Life Science
3 19 (8.60%) Linux Command Line
4 15 (6.79%) Product Ownership
5 12 (5.43%) Distributed Systems
5 12 (5.43%) Management Information System
6 7 (3.17%) Low-Code
6 7 (3.17%) Private Cloud
6 7 (3.17%) Public Cloud
7 6 (2.71%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.81%) IoT
8 4 (1.81%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.36%) Algorithms
9 3 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.90%) Data Centre
10 2 (0.90%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.90%) Hackathon
10 2 (0.90%) IVR
10 2 (0.90%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 19 (8.60%) Unix
2 11 (4.98%) Windows
3 10 (4.52%) Linux
4 7 (3.17%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.90%) CentOS
5 2 (0.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.45%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (59.28%) CI/CD
2 108 (48.87%) DevOps
3 95 (42.99%) Agile
4 78 (35.29%) AI
5 71 (32.13%) Infrastructure as Code
6 67 (30.32%) Machine Learning
7 66 (29.86%) Containerisation
8 60 (27.15%) Test Automation
9 52 (23.53%) Analytics
10 50 (22.62%) Roadmaps
11 48 (21.72%) Data Science
12 45 (20.36%) Continuous Improvement
13 42 (19.00%) Software Engineering
14 40 (18.10%) Microservices
15 38 (17.19%) Coaching
16 34 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
17 30 (13.57%) Information Security
18 29 (13.12%) Computer Science
18 29 (13.12%) ETL
19 28 (12.67%) MLOps
Programming Languages
1 87 (39.37%) Python
2 35 (15.84%) SQL
3 26 (11.76%) PowerShell
4 23 (10.41%) C#
5 20 (9.05%) Bash
5 20 (9.05%) Java
6 19 (8.60%) Bicep
7 10 (4.52%) JavaScript
8 7 (3.17%) Go
8 7 (3.17%) TypeScript
9 5 (2.26%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.90%) C++
10 2 (0.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.90%) Groovy
10 2 (0.90%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.45%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.45%) Delphi
11 1 (0.45%) R
11 1 (0.45%) VB
11 1 (0.45%) VB6
Qualifications
1 32 (14.48%) Degree
2 23 (10.41%) Master's Degree
3 20 (9.05%) PhD
4 11 (4.98%) Azure Certification
5 10 (4.52%) Security Cleared
6 7 (3.17%) AWS Certification
6 7 (3.17%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (2.71%) CCNP
7 6 (2.71%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (2.71%) SC Cleared
8 5 (2.26%) AWS Certified Developer
9 4 (1.81%) CCNA
9 4 (1.81%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.90%) MCSE
10 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.45%) CCIE
11 1 (0.45%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.45%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (9.05%) GxP
2 16 (7.24%) GDPR
3 7 (3.17%) Accessibility
3 7 (3.17%) Data Quality
3 7 (3.17%) QA
4 5 (2.26%) WCAG
5 4 (1.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.90%) GRC
6 2 (0.90%) NIST
6 2 (0.90%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.45%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.45%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.45%) SLA
System Software
1 81 (36.65%) Docker
2 11 (4.98%) Virtual Machines
3 10 (4.52%) Virtual Desktop
4 7 (3.17%) Active Directory
5 3 (1.36%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.90%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.90%) NFS
6 2 (0.90%) Terminal Server
7 1 (0.45%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 106 (47.96%) Terraform
2 93 (42.08%) Kubernetes
3 27 (12.22%) Grafana
4 19 (8.60%) Kubeflow
5 15 (6.79%) Ansible
6 10 (4.52%) Microsoft Intune
6 10 (4.52%) Prometheus
7 6 (2.71%) Argo
8 2 (0.90%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.90%) Puppet
8 2 (0.90%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.45%) Istio
9 1 (0.45%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.45%) logstash
9 1 (0.45%) SCCM
Vendors
1 33 (14.93%) Databricks
2 15 (6.79%) Microsoft
3 9 (4.07%) Ab Initio
4 5 (2.26%) Cisco
5 4 (1.81%) F5
5 4 (1.81%) Google
6 3 (1.36%) Citrix
6 3 (1.36%) Oracle
6 3 (1.36%) VMware
7 2 (0.90%) Arista
7 2 (0.90%) Dynatrace
7 2 (0.90%) ForgeRock
7 2 (0.90%) MikroTik
7 2 (0.90%) NETGEAR
7 2 (0.90%) OneLogin
7 2 (0.90%) Red Hat
7 2 (0.90%) Salesforce
7 2 (0.90%) Sonatype
7 2 (0.90%) Starlink
7 2 (0.90%) Ubiquiti