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

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 409 445 499
Rank change year-on-year +36 +54 -87
Permanent jobs citing Deployment Automation 369 234 443
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.40% 0.52% 0.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.54% 0.57% 0.50%
Number of salaries quoted 198 165 342
10th Percentile £42,500 £43,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £50,313 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,200 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.14% +7.69% -13.33%
75th Percentile £86,375 £87,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £103,750 £112,000 £109,500
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 67,964 41,274 88,698
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.85% 92.59% 81.93%
Number of salaries quoted 46,731 22,044 62,765
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £29,525
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 £91,991
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 16 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 16 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 +25 339 £70,000 +2.19% 150
UK excluding London +42 197 £65,000 -3.70% 96
Work from Home +38 159 £65,000 +8.33% 71
London -2 151 £81,250 +1.56% 69
North of England +6 70 £55,000 -18.52% 25
South East +34 69 £65,000 +23.81% 37
North West +13 32 £55,000 -6.38% 17
Midlands -2 25 £50,250 -19.60% 12
Yorkshire -29 19 £82,500 +21.32% 3
North East - 19 £47,000 - 5
East Midlands -7 16 £40,000 -46.67% 6
South West -48 15 £68,400 -4.99% 7
West Midlands -26 9 £58,750 -4.08% 6
Scotland -10 8 £55,000 -27.02% 2
East of England -12 6 £85,000 +13.33% 13
Wales -41 6 £70,039 +30.31% 4
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 7 (1.90%) Apache
1 7 (1.90%) Apache Airflow
1 7 (1.90%) Appian
2 6 (1.63%) Apache Spark
3 5 (1.36%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.08%) Confluence
4 4 (1.08%) IIS
4 4 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.54%) Luigi
5 2 (0.54%) nginx
5 2 (0.54%) SAS
6 1 (0.27%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (0.27%) CMS
6 1 (0.27%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 3 (0.81%) SPSS
2 2 (0.54%) Trello
3 1 (0.27%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.08%) 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
1 201 (54.47%) AWS
2 180 (48.78%) Azure
3 102 (27.64%) GCP
4 80 (21.68%) Azure DevOps
5 72 (19.51%) Amazon EKS
6 59 (15.99%) GitHub
7 56 (15.18%) Serverless
8 51 (13.82%) SaaS
9 45 (12.20%) GitHub Actions
10 29 (7.86%) Azure Logic Apps
11 28 (7.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 27 (7.32%) Firebase
12 27 (7.32%) Power Platform
13 25 (6.78%) Amazon S3
13 25 (6.78%) PaaS
14 23 (6.23%) Azure Data Factory
15 21 (5.69%) Azure Monitor
16 19 (5.15%) AWS Lambda
17 17 (4.61%) Amazon EC2
17 17 (4.61%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 19 (5.15%) Firewall
2 12 (3.25%) DNS
3 8 (2.17%) Network Security
4 7 (1.90%) MQTT
5 6 (1.63%) DHCP
5 6 (1.63%) VPN
6 5 (1.36%) SSL
7 4 (1.08%) Broadband
7 4 (1.08%) SSH
8 3 (0.81%) BGP
9 2 (0.54%) DKIM
9 2 (0.54%) DMARC
9 2 (0.54%) Ethernet VPN
9 2 (0.54%) Intrusion Detection
9 2 (0.54%) PBX
9 2 (0.54%) Unified Communications
9 2 (0.54%) VLAN
9 2 (0.54%) VoIP
9 2 (0.54%) WAN
9 2 (0.54%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (8.40%) SQL Server
2 30 (8.13%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (4.61%) Elasticsearch
3 17 (4.61%) NoSQL
4 16 (4.34%) Data Warehouse
4 16 (4.34%) MySQL
5 13 (3.52%) MongoDB
6 12 (3.25%) Amazon Aurora
6 12 (3.25%) Amazon RDS
6 12 (3.25%) Power BI
7 11 (2.98%) Relational Database
7 11 (2.98%) Spark SQL
8 9 (2.44%) DynamoDB
8 9 (2.44%) Pinecone
9 7 (1.90%) Metadata
10 5 (1.36%) Delta Lake
11 3 (0.81%) Big Data
11 3 (0.81%) Data Lake
11 3 (0.81%) Neo4j
11 3 (0.81%) Redis
Development Applications
1 62 (16.80%) Git
2 57 (15.45%) TeamCity
3 49 (13.28%) Jenkins
4 42 (11.38%) GitLab
5 21 (5.69%) JIRA
6 20 (5.42%) Crashlytics
7 16 (4.34%) SonarQube
8 14 (3.79%) XCTest
9 13 (3.52%) Bitbucket
9 13 (3.52%) fastlane
10 11 (2.98%) Cucumber
11 9 (2.44%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 9 (2.44%) Gradle
11 9 (2.44%) MLflow
12 8 (2.17%) Artifactory
13 7 (1.90%) Xcode
14 6 (1.63%) JMeter
14 6 (1.63%) JUnit
14 6 (1.63%) Maven
14 6 (1.63%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 108 (29.27%) Finance
2 105 (28.46%) Social Skills
3 77 (20.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 75 (20.33%) Banking
5 59 (15.99%) Law
6 55 (14.91%) Retail
7 40 (10.84%) Financial Institution
8 39 (10.57%) Analytical Skills
9 36 (9.76%) Back Office
10 24 (6.50%) Public Sector
11 7 (1.90%) Aerospace
12 6 (1.63%) Pharmaceutical
12 6 (1.63%) Retail Banking
13 5 (1.36%) Manufacturing
14 4 (1.08%) Mandarin Language
14 4 (1.08%) Organisational Skills
15 3 (0.81%) Front Office
15 3 (0.81%) Telecoms
16 2 (0.54%) Influencing Skills
16 2 (0.54%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 71 (19.24%) Software Engineer
2 69 (18.70%) Lead
3 60 (16.26%) Developer
4 57 (15.45%) Senior
5 40 (10.84%) DevOps Engineer
6 30 (8.13%) Azure Engineer
7 23 (6.23%) Cloud Engineer
8 22 (5.96%) Platform Engineer
9 21 (5.69%) Java Engineer
10 20 (5.42%) Lead Software Engineer
11 19 (5.15%) AWS Engineer
12 17 (4.61%) Data Engineer
12 17 (4.61%) Senior Software Engineer
13 16 (4.34%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 16 (4.34%) Java Software Engineer
14 14 (3.79%) Mobile Engineer
15 12 (3.25%) DevSecOps Engineer
15 12 (3.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 12 (3.25%) Senior Developer
15 12 (3.25%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (11.38%) REST
2 37 (10.03%) .NET
2 37 (10.03%) RESTful
3 25 (6.78%) React
4 21 (5.69%) SwiftUI
4 21 (5.69%) UIKit
5 19 (5.15%) Kafka
6 16 (4.34%) OAuth
6 16 (4.34%) PyTorch
6 16 (4.34%) scikit-learn
6 16 (4.34%) TensorFlow
7 15 (4.07%) FastAPI
8 14 (3.79%) .NET Core
9 13 (3.52%) ARM Templates
9 13 (3.52%) Spring
10 12 (3.25%) Flask
10 12 (3.25%) JWT
10 12 (3.25%) Spring Boot
10 12 (3.25%) Web Services
11 11 (2.98%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 102 (27.64%) Cloud Native
2 53 (14.36%) Product Ownership
3 29 (7.86%) Mobile App
4 28 (7.59%) Low-Code
5 26 (7.05%) Distributed Systems
6 21 (5.69%) Life Science
7 17 (4.61%) Blog
8 15 (4.07%) Greenfield Project
9 14 (3.79%) Onboarding
10 12 (3.25%) Legacy Systems
11 11 (2.98%) Management Information System
11 11 (2.98%) Self-Motivation
12 10 (2.71%) Hybrid Cloud
12 10 (2.71%) PKI
13 9 (2.44%) Hackathon
14 7 (1.90%) Public Cloud
14 7 (1.90%) Replication
15 6 (1.63%) Cyberattack
15 6 (1.63%) Enterprise Software
16 5 (1.36%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 64 (17.34%) Linux
2 37 (10.03%) Windows
3 32 (8.67%) Apple iOS
4 15 (4.07%) Windows Server
5 14 (3.79%) CentOS
6 13 (3.52%) Android
7 8 (2.17%) Mac OS
8 6 (1.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (1.63%) Ubuntu
9 5 (1.36%) VMS
10 4 (1.08%) Unix
11 3 (0.81%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.54%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 280 (75.88%) CI/CD
2 190 (51.49%) DevOps
3 169 (45.80%) Test Automation
4 123 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 107 (29.00%) Agile
6 99 (26.83%) Clean Code
6 99 (26.83%) Software Engineering
7 89 (24.12%) Microservices
8 84 (22.76%) Containerisation
9 78 (21.14%) Continuous Improvement
9 78 (21.14%) Observability
10 72 (19.51%) Analytics
11 64 (17.34%) Continuous Deployment
11 64 (17.34%) Problem-Solving
12 62 (16.80%) AI
13 51 (13.82%) Computer Science
14 49 (13.28%) Mentoring
15 47 (12.74%) Cybersecurity
16 44 (11.92%) Fintech
16 44 (11.92%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 157 (42.55%) Python
2 101 (27.37%) Java
3 65 (17.62%) SQL
4 49 (13.28%) Bash
4 49 (13.28%) PowerShell
5 48 (13.01%) C#
6 35 (9.49%) JavaScript
7 28 (7.59%) TypeScript
8 23 (6.23%) Kotlin
9 21 (5.69%) Swift
10 15 (4.07%) Bicep
11 13 (3.52%) Rust
12 8 (2.17%) Groovy
13 7 (1.90%) Kusto Query Language
13 7 (1.90%) Shell Script
14 6 (1.63%) Go
15 4 (1.08%) Perl
15 4 (1.08%) PHP
15 4 (1.08%) Scala
16 3 (0.81%) C++
Qualifications
1 60 (16.26%) Degree
2 55 (14.91%) Security Cleared
3 32 (8.67%) SC Cleared
4 26 (7.05%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (4.34%) Master's Degree
6 14 (3.79%) DV Cleared
7 7 (1.90%) AWS Certification
7 7 (1.90%) Azure Certification
8 6 (1.63%) PhD
9 4 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (1.08%) Postgraduate
10 3 (0.81%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.54%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.54%) PMP
12 1 (0.27%) AWS Certified Developer
12 1 (0.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.27%) CCNP
12 1 (0.27%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.27%) JNCIP
12 1 (0.27%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (11.65%) QA
2 32 (8.67%) Accessibility
3 20 (5.42%) GDPR
4 19 (5.15%) WCAG
5 15 (4.07%) Data Quality
6 13 (3.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (1.90%) SLA
7 7 (1.90%) SOC 2
8 6 (1.63%) GxP
9 4 (1.08%) NIST
10 2 (0.54%) Def Stans
10 2 (0.54%) IEC 61508
10 2 (0.54%) IFRS
10 2 (0.54%) IFRS 17
10 2 (0.54%) ISO 26262
10 2 (0.54%) NCSC
10 2 (0.54%) PMO
10 2 (0.54%) Solvency II
System Software
1 95 (25.75%) Docker
2 15 (4.07%) Active Directory
3 10 (2.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.36%) Hyper-V
5 4 (1.08%) vSphere
6 2 (0.54%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.27%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.27%) Firmware
7 1 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.27%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 167 (45.26%) Terraform
2 154 (41.73%) Kubernetes
3 103 (27.91%) Grafana
4 59 (15.99%) Ansible
5 35 (9.49%) Prometheus
6 13 (3.52%) Microsoft Intune
7 10 (2.71%) Jamf Pro
8 8 (2.17%) Argo
8 8 (2.17%) Nagios
9 7 (1.90%) Puppet
10 5 (1.36%) SCCM
11 4 (1.08%) Packer
12 3 (0.81%) Control-M
12 3 (0.81%) Docker Swarm
12 3 (0.81%) Podman
12 3 (0.81%) SCOM
12 3 (0.81%) SCOrch
13 2 (0.54%) cPanel
13 2 (0.54%) Plesk
13 2 (0.54%) Rancher
Vendors
1 61 (16.53%) Microsoft
2 20 (5.42%) Databricks
2 20 (5.42%) Dynatrace
3 19 (5.15%) Google
4 16 (4.34%) VMware
5 15 (4.07%) Splunk
6 14 (3.79%) Amplitude
6 14 (3.79%) Braze
7 12 (3.25%) OpenAI
8 11 (2.98%) Apple
9 10 (2.71%) Red Hat
10 9 (2.44%) Salesforce
11 8 (2.17%) Automation Anywhere
11 8 (2.17%) Rapid7
11 8 (2.17%) UiPath
12 7 (1.90%) AppDynamics
13 6 (1.63%) IBM
14 5 (1.36%) Atlassian
14 5 (1.36%) Oracle
14 5 (1.36%) Tenable