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

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 416 396 427
Rank change year-on-year -20 +31 -38
Permanent jobs citing Deployment Automation 237 346 312
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.40% 0.64% 0.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 0.71% 0.65%
Number of salaries quoted 107 227 249
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £68,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -0.74% -3.65% -11.78%
75th Percentile £85,000 £94,375 £92,500
90th Percentile £96,750 £128,500 £138,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £64,750 £59,250 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.28% -1.25% -7.69%

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 48,217 49,041 48,085
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 81.67% 90.12% 91.17%
Number of salaries quoted 28,251 24,093 36,700
10th Percentile £28,456 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,750 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £79,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%

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 4 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Deployment Automation in the UK

Deployment Automation
Top 16 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 4 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 -35 187 £72,500 +3.57% 227
UK excluding London +20 147 £64,750 +9.28% 197
Work from Home +46 103 £66,250 -1.85% 49
London +1 83 £78,609 -15.02% 61
South East +19 47 £65,000 +11.11% 64
Scotland +26 33 £77,217 +47.08% 10
North of England -27 31 £68,000 +37.37% 36
Yorkshire -47 18 £60,000 +21.21% 19
Wales +20 13 £48,500 -25.38% 5
North West +22 12 £75,000 +76.47% 13
South West 0 11 £80,000 +18.52% 26
East of England +16 7 £67,500 -6.90% 28
West Midlands +10 4 £77,217 +23.55% 16
Midlands -3 4 £77,217 +23.55% 30
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 8 (3.38%) Appian
2 3 (1.27%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.27%) Confluence
2 3 (1.27%) IIS
3 2 (0.84%) Apache
3 2 (0.84%) BizTalk Server
3 2 (0.84%) nginx
3 2 (0.84%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.84%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.42%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.42%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.42%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.84%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 129 (54.43%) Azure
2 82 (34.60%) AWS
3 79 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
4 56 (23.63%) GitHub
5 52 (21.94%) GitHub Actions
6 37 (15.61%) GCP
7 32 (13.50%) Serverless
8 30 (12.66%) Azure Monitor
9 29 (12.24%) SaaS
10 28 (11.81%) Amazon EKS
11 27 (11.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 24 (10.13%) Azure Data Factory
13 23 (9.70%) AWS Lambda
14 22 (9.28%) Azure Logic Apps
15 18 (7.59%) AWS CloudFormation
16 16 (6.75%) Amazon S3
17 15 (6.33%) Amazon SQS
17 15 (6.33%) Azure Service Bus
17 15 (6.33%) PaaS
17 15 (6.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.80%) Firewall
2 5 (2.11%) DNS
2 5 (2.11%) SSL
3 3 (1.27%) DMZ
3 3 (1.27%) VPN
3 3 (1.27%) WAN
4 2 (0.84%) BGP
4 2 (0.84%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (0.84%) MQTT
4 2 (0.84%) OSPF
4 2 (0.84%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (0.84%) RTMP
4 2 (0.84%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.84%) VLAN
4 2 (0.84%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.84%) Wireless
5 1 (0.42%) LAN
5 1 (0.42%) NetScaler
5 1 (0.42%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (12.24%) SQL Server
2 18 (7.59%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (7.17%) DynamoDB
4 15 (6.33%) NoSQL
5 8 (3.38%) MySQL
5 8 (3.38%) Pinecone
6 7 (2.95%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (2.53%) Amazon Aurora
7 6 (2.53%) Amazon RDS
7 6 (2.53%) Tick Data
8 5 (2.11%) Power BI
9 4 (1.69%) MongoDB
10 3 (1.27%) CockroachDB
10 3 (1.27%) Data Lake
10 3 (1.27%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (1.27%) Metadata
11 2 (0.84%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (0.84%) Relational Database
11 2 (0.84%) Tableau
12 1 (0.42%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 35 (14.77%) Git
2 24 (10.13%) Jenkins
3 20 (8.44%) GitLab
4 19 (8.02%) TeamCity
5 11 (4.64%) MLflow
6 6 (2.53%) JIRA
6 6 (2.53%) Storybook
7 5 (2.11%) Gradle
7 5 (2.11%) Maven
8 4 (1.69%) Artifactory
9 3 (1.27%) Bitbucket
9 3 (1.27%) JUnit
9 3 (1.27%) Octopus Deploy
9 3 (1.27%) Selenium
9 3 (1.27%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 3 (1.27%) TestNG
10 2 (0.84%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (0.84%) Checkstyle
10 2 (0.84%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.84%) Mockito
General
1 108 (45.57%) Finance
2 54 (22.78%) Social Skills
3 27 (11.39%) Pharmaceutical
4 25 (10.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 24 (10.13%) Banking
6 18 (7.59%) Retail
7 17 (7.17%) Law
8 16 (6.75%) Financial Institution
9 15 (6.33%) Back Office
10 12 (5.06%) Analytical Skills
10 12 (5.06%) Marketing
11 3 (1.27%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.27%) Legal
11 3 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.27%) Public Sector
11 3 (1.27%) Retail Banking
12 2 (0.84%) Advertising
12 2 (0.84%) Agriculture
12 2 (0.84%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 58 (24.47%) Lead
2 40 (16.88%) Developer
3 22 (9.28%) DevOps Engineer
4 19 (8.02%) Software Engineer
5 18 (7.59%) Senior
6 16 (6.75%) Cloud Engineer
7 15 (6.33%) Platform Engineer
8 13 (5.49%) Integration Engineer
9 12 (5.06%) .NET Developer
10 11 (4.64%) Analyst
10 11 (4.64%) Azure Engineer
10 11 (4.64%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 10 (4.22%) AWS Developer
12 9 (3.80%) AWS Engineer
13 8 (3.38%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 8 (3.38%) Automation Engineer
13 8 (3.38%) AWS Platform Engineer
14 7 (2.95%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 7 (2.95%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
14 7 (2.95%) Lead Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (18.14%) RESTful
2 31 (13.08%) .NET
3 29 (12.24%) OAuth
4 23 (9.70%) React
5 21 (8.86%) OAuth2
6 20 (8.44%) JSON
7 19 (8.02%) .NET Core
8 17 (7.17%) REST
9 15 (6.33%) Blazor
10 14 (5.91%) ASP.NET
10 14 (5.91%) AWS CDK
11 13 (5.49%) ASP.NET Core
12 11 (4.64%) FastAPI
12 11 (4.64%) JWT
13 10 (4.22%) OpenAPI
13 10 (4.22%) Swagger
13 10 (4.22%) Web Services
14 9 (3.80%) Flask
15 8 (3.38%) Pandas
15 8 (3.38%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 56 (23.63%) Cloud Native
2 29 (12.24%) Life Science
3 21 (8.86%) Low-Code
4 16 (6.75%) Product Ownership
5 9 (3.80%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (2.53%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (2.11%) IoT
7 5 (2.11%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.27%) Hackathon
8 3 (1.27%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.27%) Private Cloud
9 2 (0.84%) Algorithms
9 2 (0.84%) Blog
9 2 (0.84%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.84%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.84%) IVR
9 2 (0.84%) Mobile App
9 2 (0.84%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.84%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.84%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 24 (10.13%) Linux
2 15 (6.33%) Windows
3 9 (3.80%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.84%) CentOS
5 1 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.42%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 153 (64.56%) CI/CD
2 139 (58.65%) DevOps
3 100 (42.19%) Agile
4 92 (38.82%) Infrastructure as Code
5 79 (33.33%) Test Automation
6 72 (30.38%) AI
7 69 (29.11%) Analytics
8 60 (25.32%) Machine Learning
9 51 (21.52%) Roadmaps
10 50 (21.10%) Containerisation
11 49 (20.68%) Problem-Solving
12 44 (18.57%) Microservices
13 43 (18.14%) Continuous Improvement
14 42 (17.72%) Observability
15 38 (16.03%) Coaching
15 38 (16.03%) Generative AI
16 36 (15.19%) Computer Science
16 36 (15.19%) Data Science
16 36 (15.19%) Root Cause Analysis
17 35 (14.77%) Intelligent Automation
Programming Languages
1 78 (32.91%) Python
2 40 (16.88%) SQL
3 33 (13.92%) Bash
3 33 (13.92%) Bicep
3 33 (13.92%) PowerShell
4 30 (12.66%) C#
5 26 (10.97%) Java
6 21 (8.86%) JavaScript
7 13 (5.49%) TypeScript
8 4 (1.69%) Go
9 2 (0.84%) C++
9 2 (0.84%) Groovy
9 2 (0.84%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.42%) C
10 1 (0.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.42%) Delphi
10 1 (0.42%) R
10 1 (0.42%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.42%) VB
10 1 (0.42%) VB6
Qualifications
1 44 (18.57%) Degree
2 30 (12.66%) Master's Degree
3 26 (10.97%) PhD
4 14 (5.91%) Security Cleared
5 13 (5.49%) AWS Certification
6 11 (4.64%) AWS Certified Developer
6 11 (4.64%) Azure Certification
7 9 (3.80%) SC Cleared
8 7 (2.95%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.69%) DV Cleared
10 3 (1.27%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.42%) MCSE
11 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.42%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.42%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (10.97%) GxP
2 20 (8.44%) GDPR
3 12 (5.06%) Data Quality
4 10 (4.22%) QA
5 9 (3.80%) Accessibility
6 6 (2.53%) WCAG
7 4 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.84%) GRC
8 2 (0.84%) NIST
8 2 (0.84%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.42%) EU AI Act
9 1 (0.42%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.42%) SLA
System Software
1 65 (27.43%) Docker
2 12 (5.06%) Virtual Machines
3 10 (4.22%) Virtual Desktop
4 9 (3.80%) Active Directory
5 3 (1.27%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.84%) NFS
7 1 (0.42%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.42%) Terminal Server
7 1 (0.42%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 109 (45.99%) Terraform
2 79 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 40 (16.88%) Grafana
4 20 (8.44%) Ansible
5 19 (8.02%) Prometheus
6 10 (4.22%) Microsoft Intune
7 7 (2.95%) Argo
8 4 (1.69%) logstash
9 2 (0.84%) Istio
9 2 (0.84%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.84%) Puppet
9 2 (0.84%) Rancher
9 2 (0.84%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.42%) Nagios
Vendors
1 23 (9.70%) Microsoft
2 14 (5.91%) Ab Initio
3 8 (3.38%) Automation Anywhere
3 8 (3.38%) OpenAI
3 8 (3.38%) UiPath
4 7 (2.95%) Databricks
4 7 (2.95%) Splunk
5 6 (2.53%) Cisco
5 6 (2.53%) Salesforce
6 5 (2.11%) Oracle
7 4 (1.69%) Citrix
7 4 (1.69%) VMware
8 3 (1.27%) Dynatrace
8 3 (1.27%) Google
9 2 (0.84%) MikroTik
9 2 (0.84%) NETGEAR
9 2 (0.84%) Pega
9 2 (0.84%) Sonatype
9 2 (0.84%) Starlink
9 2 (0.84%) Ubiquiti