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

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 404 444 514
Rank change year-on-year +40 +70 -97
Permanent jobs citing Deployment Automation 398 245 438
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.41% 0.53% 0.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.56% 0.57% 0.51%
Number of salaries quoted 226 159 340
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £44,263
25th Percentile £50,000 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £68,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.19% +5.38% -13.33%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,625 £81,563
90th Percentile £103,750 £97,528 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £61,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +9.76% -10.18%

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 70,838 42,616 86,708
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.43% 91.47% 82.17%
Number of salaries quoted 48,971 23,341 61,278
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.09%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,171 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +6.34% - -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 1 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 1 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 +56 356 £70,000 +2.19% 166
UK excluding London +15 214 £65,000 -3.70% 101
Work from Home +52 175 £65,000 +8.33% 73
London +9 157 £81,500 +8.67% 89
North of England -6 76 £53,750 -20.37% 22
South East +23 69 £65,000 +23.81% 38
North West +1 34 £52,500 -22.22% 13
Midlands -32 28 £52,500 -16.00% 12
Yorkshire -24 22 £82,500 +20.44% 5
North East -33 20 £47,000 - 5
South West -49 18 £70,000 -2.77% 12
East Midlands -15 16 £40,000 -46.67% 3
West Midlands -34 12 £62,500 +2.04% 9
Scotland +5 10 £55,000 -27.02% 5
Wales -42 10 £66,750 +24.19% 5
East of England -11 5 £70,500 - 8
Northern Ireland - 1 £77,500 - 3

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 (2.26%) Confluence
2 8 (2.01%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.76%) Apache
3 7 (1.76%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.51%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.51%) IIS
5 5 (1.26%) Appian
6 4 (1.01%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (1.01%) nginx
6 4 (1.01%) SAS
7 2 (0.50%) CMS
7 2 (0.50%) Luigi
8 1 (0.25%) BizTalk Server
8 1 (0.25%) Camunda
8 1 (0.25%) Documentum
8 1 (0.25%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.25%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 3 (0.75%) SPSS
2 2 (0.50%) Trello
3 1 (0.25%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.01%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.25%) Magento
2 1 (0.25%) Misys Equation
2 1 (0.25%) Misys Midas
2 1 (0.25%) Oracle SCM
2 1 (0.25%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 217 (54.52%) AWS
2 197 (49.50%) Azure
3 111 (27.89%) GCP
4 90 (22.61%) Azure DevOps
5 76 (19.10%) Amazon EKS
6 60 (15.08%) Serverless
7 59 (14.82%) SaaS
8 58 (14.57%) GitHub
9 42 (10.55%) GitHub Actions
10 32 (8.04%) Power Platform
11 27 (6.78%) Azure Logic Apps
11 27 (6.78%) Firebase
12 25 (6.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 25 (6.28%) Amazon S3
13 24 (6.03%) PaaS
14 22 (5.53%) Azure Data Factory
14 22 (5.53%) Azure Monitor
15 20 (5.03%) Azure Functions
16 18 (4.52%) AWS CloudFormation
16 18 (4.52%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 18 (4.52%) Firewall
2 11 (2.76%) DNS
3 8 (2.01%) Network Security
4 7 (1.76%) MQTT
5 6 (1.51%) DHCP
5 6 (1.51%) VPN
6 5 (1.26%) SSL
7 4 (1.01%) Broadband
7 4 (1.01%) SSH
8 3 (0.75%) BGP
8 3 (0.75%) DKIM
8 3 (0.75%) DMARC
8 3 (0.75%) Kerberos
8 3 (0.75%) NAS
8 3 (0.75%) PBX
8 3 (0.75%) Unified Communications
8 3 (0.75%) VLAN
8 3 (0.75%) VoIP
8 3 (0.75%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.50%) Ethernet VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (9.80%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (8.54%) SQL Server
3 19 (4.77%) Elasticsearch
4 18 (4.52%) Data Warehouse
4 18 (4.52%) MySQL
5 17 (4.27%) MongoDB
5 17 (4.27%) NoSQL
6 13 (3.27%) Amazon RDS
6 13 (3.27%) Power BI
7 11 (2.76%) Relational Database
7 11 (2.76%) Spark SQL
8 10 (2.51%) Amazon Aurora
9 8 (2.01%) DynamoDB
9 8 (2.01%) Metadata
10 7 (1.76%) Azure SQL Database
10 7 (1.76%) Pinecone
11 6 (1.51%) Delta Lake
12 5 (1.26%) Data Lake
13 4 (1.01%) Geospatial Data
13 4 (1.01%) Redis
Development Applications
1 73 (18.34%) Git
2 61 (15.33%) TeamCity
3 47 (11.81%) Jenkins
4 41 (10.30%) GitLab
5 28 (7.04%) JIRA
6 20 (5.03%) Crashlytics
7 15 (3.77%) Bitbucket
8 14 (3.52%) SonarQube
8 14 (3.52%) XCTest
9 13 (3.27%) fastlane
10 11 (2.76%) Cucumber
11 10 (2.51%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 8 (2.01%) Artifactory
13 7 (1.76%) Gradle
13 7 (1.76%) MLflow
13 7 (1.76%) Octopus Deploy
13 7 (1.76%) Xcode
14 6 (1.51%) Android Studio
14 6 (1.51%) JMeter
14 6 (1.51%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 116 (29.15%) Finance
2 112 (28.14%) Social Skills
3 84 (21.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 81 (20.35%) Banking
5 64 (16.08%) Law
6 60 (15.08%) Retail
7 44 (11.06%) Financial Institution
8 43 (10.80%) Analytical Skills
9 40 (10.05%) Back Office
10 33 (8.29%) Public Sector
11 7 (1.76%) Aerospace
12 6 (1.51%) Manufacturing
13 4 (1.01%) Mandarin Language
13 4 (1.01%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (1.01%) Pharmaceutical
13 4 (1.01%) Retail Banking
13 4 (1.01%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.75%) Front Office
14 3 (0.75%) Legal
15 2 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 79 (19.85%) Software Engineer
2 72 (18.09%) Lead
3 64 (16.08%) Developer
4 63 (15.83%) Senior
5 55 (13.82%) DevOps Engineer
6 35 (8.79%) Azure Engineer
7 26 (6.53%) Cloud Engineer
7 26 (6.53%) Platform Engineer
8 22 (5.53%) Lead Software Engineer
9 21 (5.28%) Java Engineer
10 20 (5.03%) Data Engineer
11 19 (4.77%) Senior Software Engineer
12 17 (4.27%) AWS Engineer
13 16 (4.02%) Java Software Engineer
14 15 (3.77%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 14 (3.52%) Mobile Engineer
15 14 (3.52%) Senior Developer
15 14 (3.52%) Software Team Leader
15 14 (3.52%) Team Leader
16 13 (3.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (11.31%) REST
2 40 (10.05%) .NET
3 38 (9.55%) RESTful
4 28 (7.04%) React
5 22 (5.53%) Kafka
6 21 (5.28%) SwiftUI
6 21 (5.28%) UIKit
7 15 (3.77%) ARM Templates
7 15 (3.77%) PyTorch
7 15 (3.77%) scikit-learn
7 15 (3.77%) TensorFlow
8 14 (3.52%) .NET Core
8 14 (3.52%) CSS
9 13 (3.27%) FastAPI
9 13 (3.27%) PySpark
9 13 (3.27%) Spring
10 12 (3.02%) Node.js
10 12 (3.02%) OAuth
10 12 (3.02%) Spring Boot
10 12 (3.02%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 120 (30.15%) Cloud Native
2 61 (15.33%) Product Ownership
3 31 (7.79%) Distributed Systems
4 29 (7.29%) Mobile App
5 26 (6.53%) Low-Code
6 21 (5.28%) Life Science
7 19 (4.77%) Blog
8 18 (4.52%) Onboarding
9 15 (3.77%) Greenfield Project
9 15 (3.77%) Legacy Systems
10 14 (3.52%) Self-Motivation
11 11 (2.76%) Hybrid Cloud
11 11 (2.76%) Management Information System
12 10 (2.51%) PKI
13 8 (2.01%) Enterprise Software
13 8 (2.01%) Hackathon
13 8 (2.01%) Public Cloud
13 8 (2.01%) Replication
14 6 (1.51%) Cyberattack
14 6 (1.51%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 69 (17.34%) Linux
2 46 (11.56%) Windows
3 33 (8.29%) Apple iOS
4 18 (4.52%) Windows Server
5 15 (3.77%) CentOS
6 13 (3.27%) Android
7 8 (2.01%) Mac OS
8 6 (1.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (1.51%) Ubuntu
9 5 (1.26%) VMS
9 5 (1.26%) Windows Server 2016
10 4 (1.01%) Unix
11 2 (0.50%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 308 (77.39%) CI/CD
2 215 (54.02%) DevOps
3 181 (45.48%) Test Automation
4 139 (34.92%) Infrastructure as Code
5 123 (30.90%) Agile
6 120 (30.15%) Software Engineering
7 106 (26.63%) Microservices
8 102 (25.63%) Clean Code
9 91 (22.86%) Containerisation
10 86 (21.61%) Continuous Improvement
10 86 (21.61%) Observability
11 72 (18.09%) Problem-Solving
12 70 (17.59%) Analytics
12 70 (17.59%) Continuous Deployment
13 69 (17.34%) Mentoring
14 67 (16.83%) AI
15 49 (12.31%) Computer Science
16 47 (11.81%) Cybersecurity
17 46 (11.56%) Fintech
18 43 (10.80%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 161 (40.45%) Python
2 111 (27.89%) Java
3 68 (17.09%) SQL
4 57 (14.32%) PowerShell
5 52 (13.07%) C#
6 49 (12.31%) Bash
7 41 (10.30%) JavaScript
8 36 (9.05%) TypeScript
9 23 (5.78%) Kotlin
10 21 (5.28%) Swift
11 17 (4.27%) Bicep
12 13 (3.27%) Rust
13 8 (2.01%) Groovy
14 7 (1.76%) Go
14 7 (1.76%) Kusto Query Language
14 7 (1.76%) Shell Script
15 4 (1.01%) C++
15 4 (1.01%) Perl
15 4 (1.01%) PHP
15 4 (1.01%) Scala
Qualifications
1 65 (16.33%) Security Cleared
2 57 (14.32%) Degree
3 38 (9.55%) SC Cleared
4 27 (6.78%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (3.77%) DV Cleared
6 13 (3.27%) Master's Degree
7 7 (1.76%) Azure Certification
8 6 (1.51%) AWS Certification
9 4 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (1.01%) PhD
9 4 (1.01%) Postgraduate
10 2 (0.50%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.50%) PMP
11 1 (0.25%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.25%) CCNP
11 1 (0.25%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.25%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.25%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.25%) JNCIP
11 1 (0.25%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (12.06%) QA
2 37 (9.30%) Accessibility
3 24 (6.03%) WCAG
4 21 (5.28%) GDPR
5 15 (3.77%) Data Quality
6 13 (3.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (1.76%) SLA
7 7 (1.76%) SOC 2
8 5 (1.26%) NCSC
9 4 (1.01%) GxP
9 4 (1.01%) NIST
10 2 (0.50%) Def Stans
10 2 (0.50%) IEC 61508
10 2 (0.50%) IFRS
10 2 (0.50%) IFRS 17
10 2 (0.50%) ISO 26262
10 2 (0.50%) PMO
10 2 (0.50%) Solvency II
System Software
1 98 (24.62%) Docker
2 20 (5.03%) Active Directory
3 11 (2.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.51%) Hyper-V
5 4 (1.01%) vSphere
6 3 (0.75%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.25%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.25%) Firmware
7 1 (0.25%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 179 (44.97%) Terraform
2 170 (42.71%) Kubernetes
3 109 (27.39%) Grafana
4 66 (16.58%) Ansible
5 34 (8.54%) Prometheus
6 14 (3.52%) Microsoft Intune
7 10 (2.51%) Argo
7 10 (2.51%) Jamf Pro
8 9 (2.26%) Nagios
9 7 (1.76%) Puppet
10 6 (1.51%) SCCM
11 4 (1.01%) Packer
12 3 (0.75%) Control-M
12 3 (0.75%) cPanel
12 3 (0.75%) Docker Swarm
12 3 (0.75%) Plesk
12 3 (0.75%) Podman
12 3 (0.75%) Rancher
12 3 (0.75%) SCOM
12 3 (0.75%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 70 (17.59%) Microsoft
2 24 (6.03%) Dynatrace
3 21 (5.28%) Databricks
4 19 (4.77%) Google
5 16 (4.02%) VMware
6 14 (3.52%) Amplitude
6 14 (3.52%) Braze
7 13 (3.27%) OpenAI
7 13 (3.27%) Splunk
8 11 (2.76%) Apple
8 11 (2.76%) Red Hat
9 9 (2.26%) Rapid7
9 9 (2.26%) Salesforce
10 7 (1.76%) AppDynamics
11 6 (1.51%) Automation Anywhere
11 6 (1.51%) IBM
11 6 (1.51%) UiPath
12 5 (1.26%) Atlassian
12 5 (1.26%) Tenable
13 4 (1.01%) Dell