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

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 420 405 431
Rank change year-on-year -15 +26 -53
Permanent jobs citing Deployment Automation 243 334 302
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.40% 0.62% 0.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.50% 0.69% 0.61%
Number of salaries quoted 104 220 242
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,125
25th Percentile £51,656 £52,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% -0.82% -11.78%
75th Percentile £85,313 £95,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £97,125 £130,000 £138,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +12.50% - -9.91%

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 48,808 48,616 49,870
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 80.95% 90.71% 89.93%
Number of salaries quoted 28,796 23,669 37,967
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £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 £77,715
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £51,971
% change year-on-year -9.09% +5.83% -5.51%

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 15 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 15 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 -40 198 £69,200 -1.14% 146
UK excluding London 0 150 £67,500 +12.50% 135
Work from Home +39 106 £66,250 -1.85% 33
London +9 84 £77,217 -17.64% 37
South East +33 55 £60,000 +2.56% 43
Scotland +29 31 £77,217 +47.08% 6
North of England -31 31 £68,000 +37.37% 25
Yorkshire -51 18 £60,000 +21.21% 13
North West +18 12 £75,000 +62.16% 9
South West -8 12 £74,200 +9.93% 18
Wales +14 9 £48,500 -25.38% 7
East of England +20 7 £67,500 -10.00% 15
West Midlands -1 4 £77,217 +23.55% 8
Midlands -3 4 £77,217 +23.55% 21
North East - 1 £77,217 - 3
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 9 (3.70%) Appian
2 3 (1.23%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.23%) Confluence
3 2 (0.82%) Apache
3 2 (0.82%) BizTalk Server
3 2 (0.82%) IIS
3 2 (0.82%) nginx
3 2 (0.82%) SAS
3 2 (0.82%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.41%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.41%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.41%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (1.23%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 128 (52.67%) Azure
2 87 (35.80%) AWS
3 79 (32.51%) Azure DevOps
4 55 (22.63%) GitHub
5 50 (20.58%) GitHub Actions
6 39 (16.05%) GCP
7 32 (13.17%) Serverless
8 31 (12.76%) Amazon EKS
9 30 (12.35%) Azure Monitor
10 29 (11.93%) SaaS
11 28 (11.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 25 (10.29%) Azure Data Factory
13 24 (9.88%) Azure Logic Apps
14 23 (9.47%) AWS Lambda
15 17 (7.00%) Amazon S3
15 17 (7.00%) AWS CloudFormation
15 17 (7.00%) Power Platform
16 15 (6.17%) Amazon SQS
16 15 (6.17%) Azure Service Bus
17 14 (5.76%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.70%) Firewall
2 5 (2.06%) SSL
3 4 (1.65%) DNS
4 3 (1.23%) DMZ
4 3 (1.23%) VPN
5 2 (0.82%) BGP
5 2 (0.82%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (0.82%) MQTT
5 2 (0.82%) OSPF
5 2 (0.82%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (0.82%) RTMP
5 2 (0.82%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.82%) VLAN
5 2 (0.82%) WAN
5 2 (0.82%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.82%) Wireless
6 1 (0.41%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (11.93%) SQL Server
2 18 (7.41%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (7.00%) DynamoDB
4 16 (6.58%) NoSQL
5 9 (3.70%) Pinecone
6 8 (3.29%) MySQL
7 7 (2.88%) Amazon Aurora
7 7 (2.88%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (2.47%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (2.06%) MongoDB
9 5 (2.06%) Power BI
9 5 (2.06%) Tick Data
10 3 (1.23%) CockroachDB
10 3 (1.23%) Data Lake
10 3 (1.23%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (1.23%) Metadata
11 2 (0.82%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (0.82%) Relational Database
11 2 (0.82%) Tableau
12 1 (0.41%) Redis
Development Applications
1 34 (13.99%) Git
2 23 (9.47%) Jenkins
3 21 (8.64%) TeamCity
4 18 (7.41%) GitLab
5 12 (4.94%) MLflow
6 6 (2.47%) JIRA
6 6 (2.47%) Storybook
7 5 (2.06%) Gradle
7 5 (2.06%) Maven
8 4 (1.65%) Artifactory
9 3 (1.23%) Bitbucket
9 3 (1.23%) JUnit
9 3 (1.23%) Octopus Deploy
9 3 (1.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 3 (1.23%) TestNG
10 2 (0.82%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (0.82%) Checkstyle
10 2 (0.82%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.82%) Mockito
10 2 (0.82%) Selenium
General
1 110 (45.27%) Finance
2 56 (23.05%) Social Skills
3 31 (12.76%) Pharmaceutical
4 27 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 26 (10.70%) Banking
6 20 (8.23%) Retail
7 19 (7.82%) Law
8 17 (7.00%) Financial Institution
9 16 (6.58%) Back Office
10 14 (5.76%) Analytical Skills
11 11 (4.53%) Marketing
12 4 (1.65%) Public Sector
13 3 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (1.23%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (1.23%) Legal
13 3 (1.23%) Retail Banking
14 2 (0.82%) Advertising
14 2 (0.82%) Agriculture
14 2 (0.82%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 60 (24.69%) Lead
2 44 (18.11%) Developer
3 21 (8.64%) DevOps Engineer
4 18 (7.41%) Senior
4 18 (7.41%) Software Engineer
5 16 (6.58%) Cloud Engineer
5 16 (6.58%) Platform Engineer
6 13 (5.35%) Integration Engineer
7 12 (4.94%) .NET Developer
7 12 (4.94%) Azure Engineer
7 12 (4.94%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 10 (4.12%) AWS Developer
8 10 (4.12%) AWS Engineer
9 9 (3.70%) Analyst
9 9 (3.70%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 9 (3.70%) Automation Engineer
9 9 (3.70%) AWS Platform Engineer
10 8 (3.29%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 8 (3.29%) Power Platform Developer
11 7 (2.88%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (17.28%) RESTful
2 30 (12.35%) .NET
2 30 (12.35%) OAuth
3 24 (9.88%) React
4 21 (8.64%) OAuth2
5 20 (8.23%) JSON
6 18 (7.41%) .NET Core
6 18 (7.41%) REST
7 14 (5.76%) ASP.NET
7 14 (5.76%) AWS CDK
8 13 (5.35%) ASP.NET Core
8 13 (5.35%) Blazor
9 12 (4.94%) FastAPI
9 12 (4.94%) JWT
10 11 (4.53%) OpenAPI
10 11 (4.53%) Swagger
11 10 (4.12%) Flask
11 10 (4.12%) Web Services
12 9 (3.70%) Pandas
12 9 (3.70%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 58 (23.87%) Cloud Native
2 35 (14.40%) Life Science
3 26 (10.70%) Low-Code
4 17 (7.00%) Product Ownership
5 10 (4.12%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (2.06%) Hackathon
6 5 (2.06%) IoT
7 4 (1.65%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (1.65%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.23%) Blog
8 3 (1.23%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.23%) Private Cloud
9 2 (0.82%) Algorithms
9 2 (0.82%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.82%) IVR
9 2 (0.82%) Mobile App
9 2 (0.82%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.82%) Robotics
9 2 (0.82%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.82%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 24 (9.88%) Linux
2 14 (5.76%) Windows
3 8 (3.29%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.41%) CentOS
4 1 (0.41%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 155 (63.79%) CI/CD
2 140 (57.61%) DevOps
3 104 (42.80%) Agile
4 93 (38.27%) Infrastructure as Code
5 83 (34.16%) Test Automation
6 79 (32.51%) AI
7 75 (30.86%) Analytics
8 67 (27.57%) Machine Learning
9 55 (22.63%) Roadmaps
10 50 (20.58%) Problem-Solving
11 48 (19.75%) Containerisation
12 46 (18.93%) Continuous Improvement
13 43 (17.70%) Generative AI
13 43 (17.70%) Microservices
13 43 (17.70%) Observability
14 42 (17.28%) Computer Science
14 42 (17.28%) Data Science
15 40 (16.46%) Intelligent Automation
16 39 (16.05%) Coaching
17 37 (15.23%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 83 (34.16%) Python
2 41 (16.87%) SQL
3 33 (13.58%) Bicep
4 32 (13.17%) Bash
4 32 (13.17%) PowerShell
5 29 (11.93%) C#
5 29 (11.93%) Java
6 27 (11.11%) JavaScript
7 16 (6.58%) TypeScript
8 4 (1.65%) Go
9 2 (0.82%) C++
9 2 (0.82%) Groovy
9 2 (0.82%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.41%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.41%) C
10 1 (0.41%) Delphi
10 1 (0.41%) R
10 1 (0.41%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.41%) VB
10 1 (0.41%) VB6
Qualifications
1 51 (20.99%) Degree
2 36 (14.81%) Master's Degree
3 30 (12.35%) PhD
4 15 (6.17%) Security Cleared
5 13 (5.35%) AWS Certification
6 11 (4.53%) AWS Certified Developer
6 11 (4.53%) Azure Certification
7 9 (3.70%) SC Cleared
8 7 (2.88%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.65%) DV Cleared
10 3 (1.23%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.41%) MCSE
11 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.41%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.41%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (12.35%) GxP
2 19 (7.82%) GDPR
3 14 (5.76%) Accessibility
4 13 (5.35%) Data Quality
5 11 (4.53%) QA
6 6 (2.47%) WCAG
7 4 (1.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.82%) GRC
8 2 (0.82%) NIST
8 2 (0.82%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.41%) EU AI Act
9 1 (0.41%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.41%) SLA
System Software
1 65 (26.75%) Docker
2 12 (4.94%) Virtual Machines
3 10 (4.12%) Virtual Desktop
4 8 (3.29%) Active Directory
5 3 (1.23%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.82%) NFS
7 1 (0.41%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.41%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 111 (45.68%) Terraform
2 83 (34.16%) Kubernetes
3 43 (17.70%) Grafana
4 20 (8.23%) Prometheus
5 19 (7.82%) Ansible
6 10 (4.12%) Microsoft Intune
7 7 (2.88%) Argo
8 4 (1.65%) logstash
9 2 (0.82%) Istio
9 2 (0.82%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.82%) Puppet
9 2 (0.82%) Rancher
9 2 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.41%) Nagios
Vendors
1 24 (9.88%) Microsoft
2 14 (5.76%) Ab Initio
3 10 (4.12%) OpenAI
4 9 (3.70%) Automation Anywhere
4 9 (3.70%) UiPath
5 6 (2.47%) Cisco
5 6 (2.47%) Databricks
5 6 (2.47%) Salesforce
5 6 (2.47%) Splunk
6 5 (2.06%) Oracle
7 4 (1.65%) VMware
8 3 (1.23%) Citrix
8 3 (1.23%) Dynatrace
8 3 (1.23%) Google
9 2 (0.82%) MikroTik
9 2 (0.82%) NETGEAR
9 2 (0.82%) Pega
9 2 (0.82%) Sonatype
9 2 (0.82%) Starlink
9 2 (0.82%) Ubiquiti