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

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 402 445 490
Rank change year-on-year +43 +45 -74
Permanent jobs citing Deployment Automation 415 249 432
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.42% 0.51% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.57% 0.56% 0.54%
Number of salaries quoted 243 161 332
10th Percentile £42,500 £43,750 £46,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £62,783
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +7.51% -16.29%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £103,750 £97,528 £101,125
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 72,896 44,261 80,626
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.68% 90.09% 82.12%
Number of salaries quoted 50,426 24,863 55,989
10th Percentile £30,250 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +3.64% -8.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,750 £92,500
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 17 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 17 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 +40 366 £70,000 +3.70% 133
UK excluding London +20 226 £65,000 +0.78% 124
Work from Home +38 181 £65,000 +8.33% 90
London +18 161 £83,750 +11.67% 47
North of England +9 77 £55,000 -18.52% 28
South East +24 66 £65,000 +23.81% 36
North West -1 33 £52,500 -22.22% 16
Midlands -19 32 £50,000 -20.00% 15
Yorkshire -22 24 £82,500 +20.44% 5
South West -38 23 £70,000 -2.77% 17
North East -38 20 £47,000 - 7
East Midlands -2 17 £42,500 -43.33% 9
West Midlands -19 15 £51,250 -14.58% 6
Wales -45 14 £66,750 +24.19% 9
Scotland -7 12 £62,500 -17.06% 11
East of England -10 4 £56,000 - 8
Northern Ireland - 1 £77,500 - 4

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 (2.41%) Confluence
2 8 (1.93%) Apache
2 8 (1.93%) IIS
2 8 (1.93%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.69%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (1.69%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.45%) nginx
5 4 (0.96%) Camunda
5 4 (0.96%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.96%) SAS
6 2 (0.48%) Appian
6 2 (0.48%) CMS
6 2 (0.48%) Luigi
7 1 (0.24%) Documentum
7 1 (0.24%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.24%) NServiceBus
7 1 (0.24%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (0.72%) SPSS
2 2 (0.48%) Trello
3 1 (0.24%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (0.72%) 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
1 231 (55.66%) AWS
2 212 (51.08%) Azure
3 123 (29.64%) GCP
4 96 (23.13%) Azure DevOps
5 72 (17.35%) Amazon EKS
6 61 (14.70%) SaaS
7 59 (14.22%) GitHub
7 59 (14.22%) Serverless
8 42 (10.12%) GitHub Actions
9 29 (6.99%) Power Platform
10 27 (6.51%) Firebase
11 24 (5.78%) Azure Monitor
12 23 (5.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 23 (5.54%) Amazon S3
12 23 (5.54%) Azure Logic Apps
12 23 (5.54%) PaaS
13 21 (5.06%) Azure Functions
13 21 (5.06%) Datadog
14 20 (4.82%) AWS CloudFormation
14 20 (4.82%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 19 (4.58%) Firewall
2 14 (3.37%) DNS
3 9 (2.17%) MQTT
3 9 (2.17%) VPN
4 8 (1.93%) Network Security
5 6 (1.45%) DHCP
6 5 (1.20%) SSL
6 5 (1.20%) Wi-Fi
7 4 (0.96%) Broadband
7 4 (0.96%) Kerberos
7 4 (0.96%) NAS
7 4 (0.96%) SSH
8 3 (0.72%) BGP
8 3 (0.72%) DKIM
8 3 (0.72%) DMARC
8 3 (0.72%) PBX
8 3 (0.72%) TCP/IP
8 3 (0.72%) Unified Communications
8 3 (0.72%) VLAN
8 3 (0.72%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (10.36%) PostgreSQL
2 35 (8.43%) SQL Server
3 20 (4.82%) Elasticsearch
4 19 (4.58%) Data Warehouse
4 19 (4.58%) MySQL
5 18 (4.34%) MongoDB
6 17 (4.10%) NoSQL
7 13 (3.13%) Power BI
8 11 (2.65%) Amazon RDS
8 11 (2.65%) Spark SQL
9 9 (2.17%) Azure SQL Database
9 9 (2.17%) Metadata
9 9 (2.17%) Relational Database
10 7 (1.69%) Amazon Aurora
10 7 (1.69%) DynamoDB
11 6 (1.45%) Data Lake
11 6 (1.45%) Delta Lake
12 5 (1.20%) Geospatial Data
13 4 (0.96%) Big Data
13 4 (0.96%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 85 (20.48%) Git
2 61 (14.70%) TeamCity
3 52 (12.53%) Jenkins
4 46 (11.08%) GitLab
5 31 (7.47%) JIRA
6 20 (4.82%) Crashlytics
7 14 (3.37%) Bitbucket
7 14 (3.37%) SonarQube
7 14 (3.37%) XCTest
8 13 (3.13%) fastlane
9 11 (2.65%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 11 (2.65%) Cucumber
10 8 (1.93%) JUnit
10 8 (1.93%) Octopus Deploy
11 7 (1.69%) Artifactory
11 7 (1.69%) Gradle
11 7 (1.69%) Mockito
11 7 (1.69%) Xcode
12 6 (1.45%) Android Studio
12 6 (1.45%) JMeter
General
1 121 (29.16%) Finance
2 116 (27.95%) Social Skills
3 88 (21.20%) Banking
4 86 (20.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 65 (15.66%) Law
6 63 (15.18%) Retail
7 49 (11.81%) Analytical Skills
8 46 (11.08%) Financial Institution
9 42 (10.12%) Back Office
10 35 (8.43%) Public Sector
11 7 (1.69%) Aerospace
11 7 (1.69%) Manufacturing
12 5 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (0.96%) Mandarin Language
13 4 (0.96%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.72%) Front Office
14 3 (0.72%) Legal
14 3 (0.72%) Retail Banking
15 2 (0.48%) Electronics
15 2 (0.48%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 87 (20.96%) Software Engineer
2 74 (17.83%) Lead
3 65 (15.66%) Senior
4 61 (14.70%) Developer
4 61 (14.70%) DevOps Engineer
5 37 (8.92%) Azure Engineer
6 28 (6.75%) Cloud Engineer
7 25 (6.02%) Platform Engineer
8 22 (5.30%) Lead Software Engineer
9 21 (5.06%) Data Engineer
9 21 (5.06%) Java Engineer
10 20 (4.82%) Senior Software Engineer
11 17 (4.10%) Site Engineer
11 17 (4.10%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 15 (3.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 15 (3.61%) Java Software Engineer
12 15 (3.61%) Technical Leader
13 14 (3.37%) Senior Developer
13 14 (3.37%) Software Team Leader
13 14 (3.37%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (10.84%) REST
2 41 (9.88%) .NET
3 40 (9.64%) RESTful
4 27 (6.51%) React
5 24 (5.78%) Kafka
6 21 (5.06%) SwiftUI
6 21 (5.06%) UIKit
7 18 (4.34%) Spring
8 17 (4.10%) ARM Templates
8 17 (4.10%) Spring Boot
9 16 (3.86%) CSS
10 14 (3.37%) PyTorch
10 14 (3.37%) scikit-learn
10 14 (3.37%) TensorFlow
11 13 (3.13%) .NET Core
11 13 (3.13%) Next.js
11 13 (3.13%) PySpark
12 12 (2.89%) Node.js
12 12 (2.89%) OAuth
13 11 (2.65%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 133 (32.05%) Cloud Native
2 69 (16.63%) Product Ownership
3 39 (9.40%) Distributed Systems
4 29 (6.99%) Mobile App
5 19 (4.58%) Onboarding
6 18 (4.34%) Blog
7 17 (4.10%) Life Science
7 17 (4.10%) Low-Code
7 17 (4.10%) Self-Motivation
8 16 (3.86%) Legacy Systems
9 15 (3.61%) Greenfield Project
10 12 (2.89%) Hybrid Cloud
11 11 (2.65%) Management Information System
12 10 (2.41%) Enterprise Software
12 10 (2.41%) PKI
13 8 (1.93%) Replication
14 7 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
14 7 (1.69%) Virtual Team
15 6 (1.45%) Hackathon
15 6 (1.45%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 80 (19.28%) Linux
2 55 (13.25%) Windows
3 33 (7.95%) Apple iOS
4 19 (4.58%) Windows Server
5 16 (3.86%) CentOS
6 13 (3.13%) Android
7 8 (1.93%) Mac OS
8 6 (1.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (1.45%) Ubuntu
8 6 (1.45%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (1.20%) VMS
10 4 (0.96%) Unix
11 2 (0.48%) Amazon Linux
11 2 (0.48%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 324 (78.07%) CI/CD
2 235 (56.63%) DevOps
3 182 (43.86%) Test Automation
4 150 (36.14%) Infrastructure as Code
5 135 (32.53%) Software Engineering
6 129 (31.08%) Agile
7 119 (28.67%) Microservices
8 98 (23.61%) Clean Code
9 96 (23.13%) Containerisation
10 95 (22.89%) Observability
11 88 (21.20%) Continuous Improvement
12 79 (19.04%) Mentoring
12 79 (19.04%) Problem-Solving
13 74 (17.83%) Continuous Deployment
14 71 (17.11%) AI
15 68 (16.39%) Analytics
16 47 (11.33%) Computer Science
17 45 (10.84%) Fintech
18 44 (10.60%) Platform Engineering
18 44 (10.60%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 166 (40.00%) Python
2 121 (29.16%) Java
3 70 (16.87%) SQL
4 62 (14.94%) PowerShell
5 52 (12.53%) Bash
6 51 (12.29%) C#
7 38 (9.16%) JavaScript
8 36 (8.67%) TypeScript
9 23 (5.54%) Kotlin
10 21 (5.06%) Swift
11 20 (4.82%) Bicep
12 13 (3.13%) Rust
13 8 (1.93%) Groovy
14 7 (1.69%) C++
14 7 (1.69%) Go
14 7 (1.69%) Kusto Query Language
14 7 (1.69%) Shell Script
15 6 (1.45%) C
16 5 (1.20%) Scala
17 4 (0.96%) Perl
Qualifications
1 71 (17.11%) Security Cleared
2 54 (13.01%) Degree
3 40 (9.64%) SC Cleared
4 30 (7.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (4.58%) DV Cleared
6 9 (2.17%) Master's Degree
7 7 (1.69%) Azure Certification
8 6 (1.45%) AWS Certification
9 4 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (0.96%) Postgraduate
10 2 (0.48%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.48%) PMP
11 1 (0.24%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.24%) CCNP
11 1 (0.24%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.24%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.24%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.24%) JNCIP
11 1 (0.24%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (13.25%) QA
2 33 (7.95%) Accessibility
3 26 (6.27%) WCAG
4 21 (5.06%) GDPR
5 13 (3.13%) Data Quality
5 13 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (1.93%) SLA
7 7 (1.69%) SOC 2
8 6 (1.45%) NCSC
9 4 (0.96%) NIST
10 2 (0.48%) Def Stans
10 2 (0.48%) IEC 61508
10 2 (0.48%) IFRS
10 2 (0.48%) IFRS 17
10 2 (0.48%) ISO 26262
10 2 (0.48%) JTAG
10 2 (0.48%) PMO
10 2 (0.48%) Solvency II
System Software
1 100 (24.10%) Docker
2 20 (4.82%) Active Directory
3 10 (2.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.45%) Hyper-V
5 5 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.96%) vSphere
7 3 (0.72%) Firmware
7 3 (0.72%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.24%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.24%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 185 (44.58%) Terraform
2 174 (41.93%) Kubernetes
3 115 (27.71%) Grafana
4 75 (18.07%) Ansible
5 38 (9.16%) Prometheus
6 14 (3.37%) Microsoft Intune
7 10 (2.41%) Argo
7 10 (2.41%) Jamf Pro
7 10 (2.41%) Nagios
8 8 (1.93%) Puppet
9 6 (1.45%) SCCM
10 4 (0.96%) Packer
11 3 (0.72%) Control-M
11 3 (0.72%) cPanel
11 3 (0.72%) Docker Swarm
11 3 (0.72%) Plesk
11 3 (0.72%) Podman
11 3 (0.72%) SCOM
11 3 (0.72%) SCOrch
12 2 (0.48%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 72 (17.35%) Microsoft
2 28 (6.75%) Dynatrace
3 26 (6.27%) Google
4 21 (5.06%) Databricks
5 16 (3.86%) Splunk
6 15 (3.61%) VMware
7 14 (3.37%) Amplitude
7 14 (3.37%) Braze
8 12 (2.89%) OpenAI
8 12 (2.89%) Red Hat
9 11 (2.65%) Apple
10 10 (2.41%) Rapid7
10 10 (2.41%) Salesforce
11 7 (1.69%) AppDynamics
12 6 (1.45%) IBM
13 5 (1.20%) Atlassian
13 5 (1.20%) Tenable
14 4 (0.96%) Dell
14 4 (0.96%) NVIDIA
14 4 (0.96%) Thales