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

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 379 479 462
Rank change year-on-year +100 -17 -65
Permanent jobs citing Deployment Automation 523 201 353
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.45% 0.41% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.62% 0.46% 0.57%
Number of salaries quoted 283 105 250
10th Percentile £45,456 £48,250 £43,500
25th Percentile £54,750 £57,500 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% -9.09%
75th Percentile £86,250 £85,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £105,500 £94,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £68,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year -4.41% +28.30% -18.46%

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 84,843 43,391 61,954
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.02% 88.66% 81.33%
Number of salaries quoted 58,659 24,441 34,825
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,250
25th Percentile £41,969 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

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 22 September 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 22 September 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 +79 430 £70,000 -6.67% 563
UK excluding London -9 256 £65,000 -4.41% 320
London +52 212 £80,500 +4.25% 298
Work from Home +57 187 £65,000 -15.82% 219
North of England -1 89 £67,500 -5.92% 84
South West -35 48 £70,000 -18.84% 57
South East -23 46 £65,000 -21.21% 79
North East -30 36 £63,750 -17.44% 10
North West -18 32 £55,000 -27.73% 48
Midlands -36 28 £56,250 -6.25% 30
Wales -59 28 £52,500 +8.25% 7
Yorkshire -28 24 £81,750 +19.34% 26
Scotland -6 14 £75,000 -2.87% 35
East Midlands -20 14 £61,250 -18.33% 12
West Midlands -48 14 £51,250 -14.58% 18
East of England -24 5 £56,000 - 18
Northern Ireland -81 1 £77,500 +0.37% 11

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 15 (2.87%) Confluence
2 12 (2.29%) SharePoint
3 11 (2.10%) Apache
3 11 (2.10%) nginx
4 10 (1.91%) Apache Spark
5 8 (1.53%) IIS
6 6 (1.15%) Apache Airflow
6 6 (1.15%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (0.96%) Camunda
8 4 (0.76%) SAS
9 2 (0.38%) Cloud Foundry
9 2 (0.38%) Luigi
10 1 (0.19%) CMS
10 1 (0.19%) Documentum
10 1 (0.19%) JBoss
10 1 (0.19%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.19%) NServiceBus
10 1 (0.19%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 2 (0.38%) SPSS
2 1 (0.19%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.19%) ProjectWise
2 1 (0.19%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.19%) Magento
2 1 (0.19%) Misys Equation
2 1 (0.19%) Misys Midas
2 1 (0.19%) Primavera
2 1 (0.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 296 (56.60%) AWS
2 283 (54.11%) Azure
3 181 (34.61%) GCP
4 121 (23.14%) Azure DevOps
5 88 (16.83%) Amazon EKS
6 79 (15.11%) GitHub
7 65 (12.43%) SaaS
8 55 (10.52%) Serverless
9 41 (7.84%) GitHub Actions
10 37 (7.07%) AWS CloudFormation
11 34 (6.50%) Power Platform
12 31 (5.93%) Microsoft 365
13 28 (5.35%) Azure Monitor
14 27 (5.16%) Entra ID
15 25 (4.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 25 (4.78%) Amazon ECS
16 24 (4.59%) Azure Functions
17 23 (4.40%) Amazon S3
17 23 (4.40%) Datadog
18 21 (4.02%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 23 (4.40%) DNS
2 20 (3.82%) Firewall
3 18 (3.44%) VPN
4 9 (1.72%) DHCP
4 9 (1.72%) Network Security
5 7 (1.34%) BGP
5 7 (1.34%) SD-WAN
5 7 (1.34%) WAN
5 7 (1.34%) Wireless
6 6 (1.15%) LAN
6 6 (1.15%) OSPF
6 6 (1.15%) SSL
6 6 (1.15%) TCP/IP
6 6 (1.15%) Wi-Fi
7 5 (0.96%) MQTT
8 4 (0.76%) Broadband
8 4 (0.76%) Kerberos
8 4 (0.76%) NAS
8 4 (0.76%) SSH
8 4 (0.76%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (11.66%) PostgreSQL
2 39 (7.46%) SQL Server
3 35 (6.69%) MongoDB
4 32 (6.12%) MySQL
5 30 (5.74%) NoSQL
6 22 (4.21%) Power BI
7 20 (3.82%) Data Warehouse
7 20 (3.82%) Elasticsearch
8 16 (3.06%) Azure SQL Database
8 16 (3.06%) Data Lake
9 15 (2.87%) Amazon RDS
10 13 (2.49%) Metadata
10 13 (2.49%) Relational Database
11 9 (1.72%) Spark SQL
12 8 (1.53%) Big Data
13 7 (1.34%) Geospatial Data
13 7 (1.34%) Redis
14 5 (0.96%) Delta Lake
14 5 (0.96%) DynamoDB
14 5 (0.96%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 114 (21.80%) Git
2 67 (12.81%) Jenkins
2 67 (12.81%) TeamCity
3 54 (10.33%) GitLab
4 36 (6.88%) JIRA
5 18 (3.44%) Bitbucket
6 13 (2.49%) SonarQube
7 11 (2.10%) fastlane
8 10 (1.91%) Crashlytics
9 9 (1.72%) JUnit
10 8 (1.53%) Artifactory
10 8 (1.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 8 (1.53%) Claude Code
10 8 (1.53%) Mockito
10 8 (1.53%) Octopus Deploy
11 7 (1.34%) Cucumber
11 7 (1.34%) MSI
12 6 (1.15%) Xcode
13 5 (0.96%) Android Studio
13 5 (0.96%) Maven
General
1 161 (30.78%) Finance
2 144 (27.53%) Social Skills
3 112 (21.41%) Banking
4 110 (21.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 84 (16.06%) Law
6 75 (14.34%) Analytical Skills
7 72 (13.77%) Public Sector
8 70 (13.38%) Retail
9 59 (11.28%) Financial Institution
10 52 (9.94%) Back Office
11 10 (1.91%) Marketing
12 8 (1.53%) Manufacturing
12 8 (1.53%) Telecoms
13 6 (1.15%) Aerospace
13 6 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (0.76%) Legal
14 4 (0.76%) Police
14 4 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
15 3 (0.57%) Documentation Skills
16 2 (0.38%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 114 (21.80%) Software Engineer
2 93 (17.78%) Lead
3 90 (17.21%) DevOps Engineer
4 89 (17.02%) Senior
5 78 (14.91%) Developer
6 44 (8.41%) Cloud Engineer
7 37 (7.07%) Azure Engineer
8 28 (5.35%) Data Engineer
8 28 (5.35%) Senior Software Engineer
9 27 (5.16%) Platform Engineer
10 26 (4.97%) Lead Software Engineer
11 24 (4.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 23 (4.40%) Java Engineer
13 21 (4.02%) Software Team Leader
13 21 (4.02%) Team Leader
14 20 (3.82%) Java Developer
14 20 (3.82%) Senior Developer
14 20 (3.82%) Site Engineer
14 20 (3.82%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 19 (3.63%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 260 (49.71%) Terraform
2 60 (11.47%) REST
3 59 (11.28%) RESTful
4 50 (9.56%) .NET
5 37 (7.07%) React
6 34 (6.50%) Kafka
7 26 (4.97%) Spring
8 24 (4.59%) Spring Boot
9 23 (4.40%) LangChain
10 20 (3.82%) AngularJS
11 18 (3.44%) CSS
11 18 (3.44%) Hibernate
11 18 (3.44%) JPA
11 18 (3.44%) Node.js
11 18 (3.44%) RabbitMQ
11 18 (3.44%) Web Services
12 16 (3.06%) ARM Templates
12 16 (3.06%) PyTorch
12 16 (3.06%) scikit-learn
12 16 (3.06%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 203 (38.81%) Cloud Native
2 107 (20.46%) Product Ownership
3 59 (11.28%) Distributed Systems
4 33 (6.31%) Onboarding
5 32 (6.12%) Enterprise Software
6 25 (4.78%) Self-Motivation
7 21 (4.02%) AI Agents
7 21 (4.02%) Management Information System
8 20 (3.82%) Legacy Systems
9 19 (3.63%) Mobile App
9 19 (3.63%) Virtual Team
10 15 (2.87%) Blog
11 14 (2.68%) Life Science
12 11 (2.10%) Hybrid Cloud
13 9 (1.72%) Data Centre
13 9 (1.72%) Public Cloud
13 9 (1.72%) Replication
14 8 (1.53%) Linux Command Line
14 8 (1.53%) PKI
14 8 (1.53%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 91 (17.40%) Linux
2 62 (11.85%) Windows
3 20 (3.82%) Windows Server
4 19 (3.63%) Apple iOS
5 13 (2.49%) CentOS
6 9 (1.72%) Android
7 7 (1.34%) Windows Server 2016
8 6 (1.15%) Unix
9 5 (0.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 4 (0.76%) Mac OS
10 4 (0.76%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.38%) Amazon Linux
11 2 (0.38%) Embedded Linux
11 2 (0.38%) Solaris
11 2 (0.38%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 427 (81.64%) CI/CD
2 343 (65.58%) DevOps
3 237 (45.32%) Infrastructure as Code
4 223 (42.64%) Test Automation
5 208 (39.77%) Software Engineering
6 175 (33.46%) Agile
7 153 (29.25%) Observability
8 144 (27.53%) AI
8 144 (27.53%) Microservices
9 137 (26.20%) Continuous Improvement
9 137 (26.20%) Mentoring
10 132 (25.24%) Containerisation
11 128 (24.47%) Problem-Solving
12 102 (19.50%) Clean Code
13 82 (15.68%) Technical Leadership
14 78 (14.91%) Continuous Deployment
15 67 (12.81%) Analytics
16 66 (12.62%) Machine Learning
17 64 (12.24%) Coaching
18 58 (11.09%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 205 (39.20%) Python
2 147 (28.11%) Java
3 93 (17.78%) SQL
4 78 (14.91%) PowerShell
5 55 (10.52%) Bash
6 54 (10.33%) TypeScript
7 53 (10.13%) C#
8 44 (8.41%) JavaScript
9 29 (5.54%) Bicep
10 13 (2.49%) Kotlin
11 12 (2.29%) Go
12 11 (2.10%) Swift
13 9 (1.72%) C++
13 9 (1.72%) Groovy
13 9 (1.72%) Scala
14 7 (1.34%) Shell Script
15 6 (1.15%) C
15 6 (1.15%) Rust
16 4 (0.76%) Apex Code
16 4 (0.76%) Perl
Qualifications
1 100 (19.12%) Security Cleared
2 65 (12.43%) SC Cleared
3 53 (10.13%) Degree
4 40 (7.65%) Computer Science Degree
5 26 (4.97%) Azure Certification
6 18 (3.44%) AWS Certification
7 17 (3.25%) DV Cleared
8 14 (2.68%) BPSS Clearance
9 9 (1.72%) Master's Degree
10 7 (1.34%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (0.96%) CCNP
11 5 (0.96%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (0.76%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 4 (0.76%) TOGAF Certification
13 3 (0.57%) PMI Certification
14 2 (0.38%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 2 (0.38%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 2 (0.38%) PMP
14 2 (0.38%) Postgraduate
15 1 (0.19%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (13.38%) QA
2 33 (6.31%) Accessibility
3 23 (4.40%) GDPR
4 22 (4.21%) WCAG
5 20 (3.82%) Data Quality
6 15 (2.87%) NCSC
7 14 (2.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 13 (2.49%) SLA
9 6 (1.15%) SOC 2
10 4 (0.76%) NIST
11 3 (0.57%) PMO
12 2 (0.38%) Def Stans
12 2 (0.38%) GRC
12 2 (0.38%) IEC 61508
12 2 (0.38%) IFRS
12 2 (0.38%) IFRS 17
12 2 (0.38%) ISO 26262
12 2 (0.38%) JTAG
12 2 (0.38%) Solvency II
System Software
1 136 (26.00%) Docker
2 25 (4.78%) Active Directory
3 11 (2.10%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (1.34%) Firmware
4 7 (1.34%) Hyper-V
4 7 (1.34%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (1.15%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.76%) vSphere
7 1 (0.19%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.19%) NDS
7 1 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.19%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 220 (42.07%) Kubernetes
2 137 (26.20%) Grafana
3 90 (17.21%) Ansible
4 45 (8.60%) Prometheus
5 13 (2.49%) Argo
5 13 (2.49%) Microsoft Intune
6 12 (2.29%) Puppet
7 9 (1.72%) Nagios
8 6 (1.15%) Progress Chef
8 6 (1.15%) SCCM
9 5 (0.96%) Jamf Pro
10 4 (0.76%) Packer
10 4 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (0.57%) cPanel
11 3 (0.57%) Docker Swarm
11 3 (0.57%) Istio
11 3 (0.57%) Plesk
11 3 (0.57%) Rancher
11 3 (0.57%) SCOM
11 3 (0.57%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 108 (20.65%) Microsoft
2 42 (8.03%) Dynatrace
3 33 (6.31%) Google
4 26 (4.97%) Splunk
5 22 (4.21%) Databricks
6 18 (3.44%) Salesforce
7 16 (3.06%) VMware
8 15 (2.87%) Red Hat
9 12 (2.29%) OpenAI
10 9 (1.72%) Apple
10 9 (1.72%) Oracle
10 9 (1.72%) Rapid7
11 8 (1.53%) Fortinet
12 7 (1.34%) Atlassian
12 7 (1.34%) IBM
12 7 (1.34%) ServiceNow
13 6 (1.15%) AppDynamics
13 6 (1.15%) Cisco
14 5 (0.96%) Amplitude
14 5 (0.96%) Dell