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

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 412 451 477
Rank change year-on-year +39 +26 -58
Permanent jobs citing Deployment Automation 420 247 410
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.42% 0.50% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.57% 0.56% 0.54%
Number of salaries quoted 250 158 316
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £53,125 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +3.85% -13.33%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £103,750 £97,528 £101,875
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £64,500 £61,500
% change year-on-year +0.78% +4.88% -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 73,858 44,154 75,761
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.61% 89.93% 81.83%
Number of salaries quoted 51,064 24,939 51,848
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,599 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,043 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.01% +0.08% -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,528 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -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 23 July 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 23 July 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 +39 367 £70,000 +2.94% 166
UK excluding London +26 233 £65,000 +0.78% 101
Work from Home +39 178 £65,000 +8.33% 71
London +7 158 £82,500 +11.86% 87
North of England +7 78 £55,000 -18.52% 27
South East +26 66 £67,500 +22.73% 29
Midlands -16 34 £49,000 -20.00% 12
North West +4 33 £52,500 -22.22% 19
Yorkshire -17 24 £82,500 +20.44% 4
South West -43 24 £70,000 -2.77% 21
North East -33 21 £47,000 - 4
East Midlands -16 17 £42,500 -43.33% 4
West Midlands -27 17 £50,000 -16.67% 8
Wales -45 16 £66,750 +35.53% 3
Scotland +9 13 £62,500 -17.06% 5
East of England -5 4 £56,000 - 5
Northern Ireland - 1 £77,500 - 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 10 (2.38%) Confluence
2 9 (2.14%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.90%) Apache
4 7 (1.67%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.67%) Apache Spark
4 7 (1.67%) IIS
5 6 (1.43%) nginx
6 5 (1.19%) Camunda
7 4 (0.95%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (0.95%) SAS
8 2 (0.48%) Appian
8 2 (0.48%) CMS
8 2 (0.48%) Luigi
9 1 (0.24%) Documentum
9 1 (0.24%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.24%) NServiceBus
9 1 (0.24%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (0.71%) SPSS
2 2 (0.48%) Trello
3 1 (0.24%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.24%) Magento
2 1 (0.24%) Misys Equation
2 1 (0.24%) Misys Midas
2 1 (0.24%) Oracle SCM
2 1 (0.24%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 229 (54.52%) AWS
2 220 (52.38%) Azure
3 121 (28.81%) GCP
4 99 (23.57%) Azure DevOps
5 66 (15.71%) Amazon EKS
6 59 (14.05%) GitHub
7 58 (13.81%) SaaS
8 56 (13.33%) Serverless
9 42 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
10 31 (7.38%) Power Platform
11 27 (6.43%) Firebase
12 24 (5.71%) Azure Monitor
12 24 (5.71%) Microsoft 365
13 22 (5.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 22 (5.24%) Amazon S3
13 22 (5.24%) Datadog
13 22 (5.24%) PaaS
14 21 (5.00%) Azure Logic Apps
15 20 (4.76%) AWS CloudFormation
15 20 (4.76%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 19 (4.52%) Firewall
2 15 (3.57%) DNS
3 10 (2.38%) VPN
4 9 (2.14%) MQTT
5 8 (1.90%) Network Security
6 6 (1.43%) DHCP
7 5 (1.19%) SSL
7 5 (1.19%) Wi-Fi
8 4 (0.95%) Broadband
8 4 (0.95%) Kerberos
8 4 (0.95%) NAS
8 4 (0.95%) SSH
8 4 (0.95%) TCP/IP
9 3 (0.71%) BGP
9 3 (0.71%) DKIM
9 3 (0.71%) DMARC
9 3 (0.71%) PBX
9 3 (0.71%) Unified Communications
9 3 (0.71%) VLAN
9 3 (0.71%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (10.48%) PostgreSQL
2 35 (8.33%) SQL Server
3 20 (4.76%) Elasticsearch
3 20 (4.76%) MongoDB
3 20 (4.76%) MySQL
4 19 (4.52%) Data Warehouse
5 18 (4.29%) NoSQL
6 16 (3.81%) Power BI
7 11 (2.62%) Amazon RDS
7 11 (2.62%) Spark SQL
8 9 (2.14%) Azure SQL Database
8 9 (2.14%) Metadata
9 8 (1.90%) Relational Database
10 7 (1.67%) DynamoDB
11 6 (1.43%) Amazon Aurora
11 6 (1.43%) Data Lake
11 6 (1.43%) Delta Lake
11 6 (1.43%) Geospatial Data
12 4 (0.95%) Big Data
12 4 (0.95%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 87 (20.71%) Git
2 56 (13.33%) TeamCity
3 53 (12.62%) Jenkins
4 46 (10.95%) GitLab
5 32 (7.62%) JIRA
6 20 (4.76%) Crashlytics
7 15 (3.57%) Bitbucket
8 14 (3.33%) SonarQube
8 14 (3.33%) XCTest
9 13 (3.10%) fastlane
10 11 (2.62%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 11 (2.62%) Cucumber
11 9 (2.14%) JUnit
12 8 (1.90%) Mockito
12 8 (1.90%) Octopus Deploy
13 7 (1.67%) Artifactory
13 7 (1.67%) Xcode
14 6 (1.43%) Gradle
14 6 (1.43%) JMeter
14 6 (1.43%) MSI
General
1 121 (28.81%) Social Skills
2 119 (28.33%) Finance
3 84 (20.00%) Banking
4 83 (19.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 61 (14.52%) Law
6 59 (14.05%) Retail
7 53 (12.62%) Analytical Skills
8 44 (10.48%) Financial Institution
9 40 (9.52%) Back Office
10 37 (8.81%) Public Sector
11 7 (1.67%) Aerospace
11 7 (1.67%) Manufacturing
12 6 (1.43%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (0.95%) Mandarin Language
13 4 (0.95%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.71%) Front Office
14 3 (0.71%) Legal
14 3 (0.71%) Retail Banking
15 2 (0.48%) Electronics
15 2 (0.48%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 85 (20.24%) Software Engineer
2 77 (18.33%) Lead
3 65 (15.48%) Senior
4 63 (15.00%) Developer
5 61 (14.52%) DevOps Engineer
6 36 (8.57%) Azure Engineer
7 30 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
8 25 (5.95%) Platform Engineer
9 21 (5.00%) Data Engineer
9 21 (5.00%) Lead Software Engineer
10 20 (4.76%) Senior Software Engineer
11 19 (4.52%) Java Engineer
12 17 (4.05%) Site Engineer
12 17 (4.05%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 17 (4.05%) Technical Leader
13 15 (3.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 15 (3.57%) Senior Developer
14 14 (3.33%) Administrator
14 14 (3.33%) Mobile Engineer
14 14 (3.33%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (10.71%) REST
2 42 (10.00%) RESTful
3 40 (9.52%) .NET
4 28 (6.67%) React
5 25 (5.95%) Kafka
6 21 (5.00%) SwiftUI
6 21 (5.00%) UIKit
7 20 (4.76%) Spring
8 19 (4.52%) Spring Boot
9 17 (4.05%) ARM Templates
9 17 (4.05%) CSS
10 14 (3.33%) Next.js
10 14 (3.33%) PyTorch
10 14 (3.33%) scikit-learn
10 14 (3.33%) TensorFlow
11 13 (3.10%) .NET Core
11 13 (3.10%) PySpark
12 12 (2.86%) HTML
12 12 (2.86%) Node.js
13 11 (2.62%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 132 (31.43%) Cloud Native
2 71 (16.90%) Product Ownership
3 41 (9.76%) Distributed Systems
4 29 (6.90%) Mobile App
5 21 (5.00%) Onboarding
6 17 (4.05%) Legacy Systems
6 17 (4.05%) Life Science
7 16 (3.81%) Low-Code
7 16 (3.81%) Self-Motivation
8 15 (3.57%) Blog
8 15 (3.57%) Greenfield Project
9 12 (2.86%) Hybrid Cloud
10 11 (2.62%) Enterprise Software
10 11 (2.62%) Management Information System
11 10 (2.38%) PKI
12 9 (2.14%) Virtual Team
13 8 (1.90%) Replication
14 7 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
14 7 (1.67%) Linux Command Line
15 6 (1.43%) Hackathon
Operating Systems
1 81 (19.29%) Linux
2 59 (14.05%) Windows
3 33 (7.86%) Apple iOS
4 21 (5.00%) Windows Server
5 16 (3.81%) CentOS
6 13 (3.10%) Android
7 8 (1.90%) Mac OS
8 6 (1.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (1.43%) Ubuntu
8 6 (1.43%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (0.95%) Unix
9 4 (0.95%) VMS
10 2 (0.48%) Amazon Linux
10 2 (0.48%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.24%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 328 (78.10%) CI/CD
2 244 (58.10%) DevOps
3 180 (42.86%) Test Automation
4 156 (37.14%) Infrastructure as Code
5 135 (32.14%) Software Engineering
6 134 (31.90%) Agile
7 120 (28.57%) Microservices
8 100 (23.81%) Observability
9 98 (23.33%) Containerisation
10 94 (22.38%) Clean Code
11 91 (21.67%) Continuous Improvement
12 84 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
13 82 (19.52%) Mentoring
14 76 (18.10%) AI
15 69 (16.43%) Continuous Deployment
16 66 (15.71%) Analytics
17 48 (11.43%) Computer Science
18 45 (10.71%) Platform Engineering
19 44 (10.48%) Scrum
19 44 (10.48%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 170 (40.48%) Python
2 121 (28.81%) Java
3 73 (17.38%) SQL
4 62 (14.76%) PowerShell
5 52 (12.38%) Bash
6 50 (11.90%) C#
7 40 (9.52%) JavaScript
8 39 (9.29%) TypeScript
9 23 (5.48%) Kotlin
10 21 (5.00%) Bicep
10 21 (5.00%) Swift
11 13 (3.10%) Rust
12 8 (1.90%) Go
12 8 (1.90%) Groovy
13 7 (1.67%) C++
13 7 (1.67%) Shell Script
14 6 (1.43%) C
14 6 (1.43%) Kusto Query Language
15 5 (1.19%) Scala
16 4 (0.95%) Perl
Qualifications
1 71 (16.90%) Security Cleared
2 54 (12.86%) Degree
3 41 (9.76%) SC Cleared
4 29 (6.90%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (4.52%) DV Cleared
6 9 (2.14%) Azure Certification
6 9 (2.14%) Master's Degree
7 7 (1.67%) AWS Certification
8 4 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (0.95%) Postgraduate
9 2 (0.48%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.48%) PMP
10 1 (0.24%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.24%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.24%) CCNP
10 1 (0.24%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.24%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.24%) JNCIP
10 1 (0.24%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (13.33%) QA
2 34 (8.10%) Accessibility
3 27 (6.43%) WCAG
4 21 (5.00%) GDPR
5 13 (3.10%) Data Quality
5 13 (3.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (2.38%) SLA
7 7 (1.67%) NCSC
7 7 (1.67%) SOC 2
8 4 (0.95%) NIST
9 2 (0.48%) Def Stans
9 2 (0.48%) IEC 61508
9 2 (0.48%) IFRS
9 2 (0.48%) IFRS 17
9 2 (0.48%) ISO 26262
9 2 (0.48%) JTAG
9 2 (0.48%) PMO
9 2 (0.48%) Solvency II
System Software
1 104 (24.76%) Docker
2 20 (4.76%) Active Directory
3 10 (2.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.43%) Hyper-V
5 5 (1.19%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.95%) vSphere
7 3 (0.71%) Firmware
7 3 (0.71%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.24%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.24%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 184 (43.81%) Terraform
2 174 (41.43%) Kubernetes
3 111 (26.43%) Grafana
4 77 (18.33%) Ansible
5 39 (9.29%) Prometheus
6 14 (3.33%) Microsoft Intune
7 10 (2.38%) Argo
7 10 (2.38%) Jamf Pro
7 10 (2.38%) Nagios
8 9 (2.14%) Puppet
9 6 (1.43%) SCCM
10 4 (0.95%) Packer
11 3 (0.71%) Control-M
11 3 (0.71%) cPanel
11 3 (0.71%) Docker Swarm
11 3 (0.71%) Plesk
11 3 (0.71%) Podman
11 3 (0.71%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.71%) SCOM
11 3 (0.71%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 77 (18.33%) Microsoft
2 29 (6.90%) Dynatrace
3 27 (6.43%) Google
4 21 (5.00%) Databricks
5 17 (4.05%) Splunk
6 15 (3.57%) VMware
7 14 (3.33%) Amplitude
7 14 (3.33%) Braze
8 13 (3.10%) OpenAI
8 13 (3.10%) Red Hat
9 11 (2.62%) Apple
10 10 (2.38%) Rapid7
10 10 (2.38%) Salesforce
11 7 (1.67%) AppDynamics
12 6 (1.43%) IBM
13 5 (1.19%) Atlassian
13 5 (1.19%) Tenable
14 4 (0.95%) Dell
14 4 (0.95%) NVIDIA
14 4 (0.95%) Thales