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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 414 459 523
Rank change year-on-year +45 +64 -117
Permanent jobs citing Deployment Automation 376 224 441
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.40% 0.50% 0.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.55% 0.54% 0.49%
Number of salaries quoted 207 157 337
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £44,705
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,400 £68,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.15% +5.38% -13.33%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,750 £103,500 £104,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £61,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +9.76% -11.44%

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 68,746 41,496 89,251
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.03% 92.46% 81.73%
Number of salaries quoted 47,319 22,262 63,244
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -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 20 June 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 20 June 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 +37 343 £70,000 +2.19% 104
UK excluding London +50 205 £65,000 -3.70% 88
Work from Home +47 161 £65,000 +8.33% 55
London +7 149 £80,500 +3.87% 43
South East +31 71 £65,000 +23.81% 35
North of England +12 70 £55,000 -18.52% 20
North West +12 33 £55,000 -6.38% 13
Midlands -16 26 £52,500 -16.00% 8
North East - 19 £47,000 - 4
Yorkshire -29 18 £82,500 +20.88% 3
South West -51 18 £70,000 -2.77% 7
East Midlands -18 16 £40,000 -46.67% 4
West Midlands -22 10 £65,000 +6.12% 4
Scotland -1 9 £55,000 -27.02% 4
Wales -41 7 £70,000 +30.23% 3
East of England - 6 £85,000 - 10
Northern Ireland - 1 £77,500 - 6

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 7 (1.86%) Apache
1 7 (1.86%) Apache Airflow
1 7 (1.86%) Confluence
1 7 (1.86%) SharePoint
2 6 (1.60%) Apache Spark
2 6 (1.60%) Appian
3 5 (1.33%) IIS
4 4 (1.06%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.80%) nginx
6 2 (0.53%) Luigi
6 2 (0.53%) SAS
7 1 (0.27%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.27%) CMS
7 1 (0.27%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 3 (0.80%) SPSS
2 2 (0.53%) Trello
3 1 (0.27%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.27%) Magento
2 1 (0.27%) Misys Equation
2 1 (0.27%) Misys Midas
2 1 (0.27%) Oracle SCM
2 1 (0.27%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 202 (53.72%) AWS
2 184 (48.94%) Azure
3 106 (28.19%) GCP
4 82 (21.81%) Azure DevOps
5 72 (19.15%) Amazon EKS
6 55 (14.63%) GitHub
7 54 (14.36%) Serverless
8 52 (13.83%) SaaS
9 40 (10.64%) GitHub Actions
10 29 (7.71%) Power Platform
11 28 (7.45%) Azure Logic Apps
12 27 (7.18%) Firebase
13 25 (6.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 25 (6.65%) PaaS
14 22 (5.85%) Amazon S3
15 21 (5.59%) Azure Data Factory
15 21 (5.59%) Azure Monitor
16 17 (4.52%) Amazon EC2
16 17 (4.52%) Azure Functions
16 17 (4.52%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 20 (5.32%) Firewall
2 13 (3.46%) DNS
3 8 (2.13%) Network Security
4 7 (1.86%) MQTT
5 6 (1.60%) DHCP
5 6 (1.60%) VPN
6 5 (1.33%) SSL
7 4 (1.06%) Broadband
7 4 (1.06%) SSH
8 3 (0.80%) BGP
8 3 (0.80%) DKIM
8 3 (0.80%) DMARC
8 3 (0.80%) PBX
8 3 (0.80%) Unified Communications
8 3 (0.80%) VLAN
8 3 (0.80%) VoIP
8 3 (0.80%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.53%) Ethernet VPN
9 2 (0.53%) Intrusion Detection
9 2 (0.53%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (8.24%) PostgreSQL
1 31 (8.24%) SQL Server
2 18 (4.79%) Elasticsearch
3 16 (4.26%) Data Warehouse
3 16 (4.26%) MySQL
3 16 (4.26%) NoSQL
4 15 (3.99%) MongoDB
5 12 (3.19%) Amazon RDS
5 12 (3.19%) Power BI
6 11 (2.93%) Amazon Aurora
6 11 (2.93%) Spark SQL
7 10 (2.66%) Relational Database
8 8 (2.13%) DynamoDB
8 8 (2.13%) Pinecone
9 7 (1.86%) Metadata
10 5 (1.33%) Delta Lake
11 4 (1.06%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (0.80%) Neo4j
12 3 (0.80%) RDBMS
12 3 (0.80%) Redis
Development Applications
1 65 (17.29%) Git
2 57 (15.16%) TeamCity
3 49 (13.03%) Jenkins
4 43 (11.44%) GitLab
5 24 (6.38%) JIRA
6 20 (5.32%) Crashlytics
7 16 (4.26%) SonarQube
8 15 (3.99%) Bitbucket
9 14 (3.72%) XCTest
10 13 (3.46%) fastlane
11 11 (2.93%) Cucumber
12 10 (2.66%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 9 (2.39%) Gradle
14 8 (2.13%) Artifactory
14 8 (2.13%) MLflow
15 7 (1.86%) Xcode
16 6 (1.60%) JMeter
16 6 (1.60%) JUnit
16 6 (1.60%) Maven
16 6 (1.60%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 110 (29.26%) Social Skills
2 109 (28.99%) Finance
3 79 (21.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 76 (20.21%) Banking
5 60 (15.96%) Law
6 55 (14.63%) Retail
7 42 (11.17%) Analytical Skills
8 41 (10.90%) Financial Institution
9 37 (9.84%) Back Office
10 25 (6.65%) Public Sector
11 7 (1.86%) Aerospace
12 6 (1.60%) Manufacturing
12 6 (1.60%) Pharmaceutical
13 5 (1.33%) Retail Banking
14 4 (1.06%) Mandarin Language
14 4 (1.06%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (1.06%) Telecoms
15 3 (0.80%) Front Office
16 2 (0.53%) Legal
16 2 (0.53%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 74 (19.68%) Software Engineer
2 70 (18.62%) Lead
3 61 (16.22%) Developer
4 58 (15.43%) Senior
5 43 (11.44%) DevOps Engineer
6 31 (8.24%) Azure Engineer
7 25 (6.65%) Cloud Engineer
8 24 (6.38%) Platform Engineer
9 21 (5.59%) Java Engineer
9 21 (5.59%) Lead Software Engineer
10 18 (4.79%) AWS Engineer
10 18 (4.79%) Senior Software Engineer
11 17 (4.52%) Data Engineer
12 16 (4.26%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 16 (4.26%) Java Software Engineer
13 14 (3.72%) Mobile Engineer
14 13 (3.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 13 (3.46%) Senior Developer
14 13 (3.46%) Software Team Leader
14 13 (3.46%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (11.44%) REST
2 37 (9.84%) .NET
3 36 (9.57%) RESTful
4 25 (6.65%) React
5 21 (5.59%) SwiftUI
5 21 (5.59%) UIKit
6 20 (5.32%) Kafka
7 16 (4.26%) PyTorch
7 16 (4.26%) scikit-learn
7 16 (4.26%) TensorFlow
8 14 (3.72%) ARM Templates
8 14 (3.72%) FastAPI
9 13 (3.46%) .NET Core
9 13 (3.46%) OAuth
9 13 (3.46%) Spring
10 12 (3.19%) Spring Boot
10 12 (3.19%) Web Services
11 11 (2.93%) Elastic Stack
11 11 (2.93%) Flask
11 11 (2.93%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 104 (27.66%) Cloud Native
2 56 (14.89%) Product Ownership
3 29 (7.71%) Mobile App
4 28 (7.45%) Low-Code
5 25 (6.65%) Distributed Systems
6 22 (5.85%) Life Science
7 17 (4.52%) Blog
7 17 (4.52%) Onboarding
8 15 (3.99%) Greenfield Project
9 14 (3.72%) Legacy Systems
10 11 (2.93%) Management Information System
10 11 (2.93%) Self-Motivation
11 10 (2.66%) PKI
12 9 (2.39%) Hackathon
12 9 (2.39%) Hybrid Cloud
13 8 (2.13%) Public Cloud
13 8 (2.13%) Replication
14 6 (1.60%) Cyberattack
14 6 (1.60%) Data Centre
14 6 (1.60%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 67 (17.82%) Linux
2 43 (11.44%) Windows
3 33 (8.78%) Apple iOS
4 16 (4.26%) Windows Server
5 14 (3.72%) CentOS
6 13 (3.46%) Android
7 8 (2.13%) Mac OS
8 6 (1.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (1.60%) Ubuntu
9 5 (1.33%) VMS
10 4 (1.06%) Unix
11 3 (0.80%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.53%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 283 (75.27%) CI/CD
2 193 (51.33%) DevOps
3 171 (45.48%) Test Automation
4 122 (32.45%) Infrastructure as Code
5 112 (29.79%) Agile
6 106 (28.19%) Software Engineering
7 99 (26.33%) Clean Code
8 92 (24.47%) Microservices
9 84 (22.34%) Containerisation
10 80 (21.28%) Continuous Improvement
11 77 (20.48%) Observability
12 70 (18.62%) Analytics
13 65 (17.29%) Continuous Deployment
13 65 (17.29%) Problem-Solving
14 64 (17.02%) AI
15 52 (13.83%) Computer Science
15 52 (13.83%) Mentoring
16 48 (12.77%) Cybersecurity
17 45 (11.97%) Machine Learning
18 44 (11.70%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 161 (42.82%) Python
2 104 (27.66%) Java
3 66 (17.55%) SQL
4 53 (14.10%) PowerShell
5 50 (13.30%) Bash
5 50 (13.30%) C#
6 38 (10.11%) JavaScript
7 31 (8.24%) TypeScript
8 23 (6.12%) Kotlin
9 21 (5.59%) Swift
10 16 (4.26%) Bicep
11 13 (3.46%) Rust
12 8 (2.13%) Groovy
13 7 (1.86%) Go
13 7 (1.86%) Kusto Query Language
13 7 (1.86%) Shell Script
14 4 (1.06%) C++
14 4 (1.06%) Perl
14 4 (1.06%) PHP
14 4 (1.06%) Scala
Qualifications
1 61 (16.22%) Degree
2 57 (15.16%) Security Cleared
3 33 (8.78%) SC Cleared
4 27 (7.18%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (4.26%) Master's Degree
6 14 (3.72%) DV Cleared
7 7 (1.86%) Azure Certification
8 6 (1.60%) AWS Certification
8 6 (1.60%) PhD
9 4 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (1.06%) Postgraduate
10 3 (0.80%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.53%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.53%) PMP
12 1 (0.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.27%) CCNP
12 1 (0.27%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.27%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 1 (0.27%) JNCIP
12 1 (0.27%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (11.70%) QA
2 35 (9.31%) Accessibility
3 22 (5.85%) WCAG
4 19 (5.05%) GDPR
5 14 (3.72%) Data Quality
6 13 (3.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (1.86%) SLA
7 7 (1.86%) SOC 2
8 6 (1.60%) GxP
9 4 (1.06%) NCSC
9 4 (1.06%) NIST
10 2 (0.53%) Def Stans
10 2 (0.53%) IEC 61508
10 2 (0.53%) IFRS
10 2 (0.53%) IFRS 17
10 2 (0.53%) ISO 26262
10 2 (0.53%) PMO
10 2 (0.53%) Solvency II
System Software
1 95 (25.27%) Docker
2 16 (4.26%) Active Directory
3 11 (2.93%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.60%) Hyper-V
5 4 (1.06%) vSphere
6 3 (0.80%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.27%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.27%) Firmware
8 1 (0.27%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 167 (44.41%) Terraform
2 159 (42.29%) Kubernetes
3 104 (27.66%) Grafana
4 62 (16.49%) Ansible
5 36 (9.57%) Prometheus
6 14 (3.72%) Microsoft Intune
7 10 (2.66%) Jamf Pro
8 9 (2.39%) Argo
9 8 (2.13%) Nagios
10 7 (1.86%) Puppet
11 6 (1.60%) SCCM
12 4 (1.06%) Packer
13 3 (0.80%) Control-M
13 3 (0.80%) cPanel
13 3 (0.80%) Docker Swarm
13 3 (0.80%) Plesk
13 3 (0.80%) Podman
13 3 (0.80%) Rancher
13 3 (0.80%) SCOM
13 3 (0.80%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 66 (17.55%) Microsoft
2 22 (5.85%) Dynatrace
3 20 (5.32%) Databricks
3 20 (5.32%) Google
4 16 (4.26%) VMware
5 15 (3.99%) Splunk
6 14 (3.72%) Amplitude
6 14 (3.72%) Braze
7 11 (2.93%) Apple
7 11 (2.93%) OpenAI
8 10 (2.66%) Red Hat
9 8 (2.13%) Rapid7
9 8 (2.13%) Salesforce
10 7 (1.86%) AppDynamics
10 7 (1.86%) Automation Anywhere
10 7 (1.86%) UiPath
11 6 (1.60%) IBM
12 5 (1.33%) Atlassian
12 5 (1.33%) Oracle
12 5 (1.33%) Tenable