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 3 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 421 417 365
Rank change year-on-year -4 -52 +58
Permanent jobs citing Deployment Automation 223 352 379
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.41% 0.55% 0.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 0.64% 0.80%
Number of salaries quoted 92 229 298
10th Percentile £48,250 £46,250 £45,945
25th Percentile £59,375 £48,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,250 £68,000 £71,288
Median % change year-on-year +4.78% -4.61% -8.02%
75th Percentile £83,125 £87,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £96,125 £115,250 £124,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £68,250 £58,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +17.67% -3.33% -

All Process and 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 45,786 54,654 47,090
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.83% 86.14% 93.75%
Number of salaries quoted 27,991 28,426 36,268
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,750 £99,700
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £54,793 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.31% +4.37% -0.94%

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 3 December 2025.

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 3 December 2025. 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 -23 168 £75,000 +10.29% 116
UK excluding London +10 144 £68,250 +17.67% 115
Work from Home +26 85 £77,217 +14.40% 69
London +3 73 £77,217 -14.20% 38
Scotland +46 37 £78,609 +49.73% 6
South East +29 36 £78,000 +38.67% 59
North of England -25 30 £75,000 +51.52% 23
Yorkshire -45 16 £67,500 +36.36% 9
Wales +23 15 £48,500 -25.38% 4
Midlands +37 12 £75,000 +25.00% 10
North West +34 12 £78,609 +124.60% 11
South West +7 8 £68,750 +1.85% 9
West Midlands +24 6 £77,217 +28.70% 9
East Midlands +20 6 £75,000 +118.33% 1
East of England +29 5 £42,500 -10.53% 7
North East - 2 £77,217 - 4
Northern Ireland - 1 £77,217 -

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 20 (8.97%) Apache Spark
2 4 (1.79%) Appian
2 4 (1.79%) IIS
2 4 (1.79%) nginx
3 3 (1.35%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.35%) BizTalk Server
3 3 (1.35%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.90%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.45%) Apache
5 1 (0.45%) Confluence
5 1 (0.45%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.45%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.45%) Eikon
Cloud Services
1 108 (48.43%) Azure
2 86 (38.57%) AWS
3 61 (27.35%) Azure DevOps
4 47 (21.08%) GitHub
5 45 (20.18%) GitHub Actions
6 40 (17.94%) GCP
7 39 (17.49%) Amazon EKS
8 29 (13.00%) Amazon S3
9 28 (12.56%) SaaS
10 24 (10.76%) Azure Monitor
11 23 (10.31%) Serverless
12 19 (8.52%) Amazon ELB
13 17 (7.62%) Azure Data Factory
14 15 (6.73%) Entra ID
14 15 (6.73%) Microsoft 365
15 13 (5.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 13 (5.83%) AWS Lambda
15 13 (5.83%) PaaS
16 12 (5.38%) AWS CloudFormation
16 12 (5.38%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.24%) DNS
2 4 (1.79%) Network Security
2 4 (1.79%) SSL
2 4 (1.79%) VPN
2 4 (1.79%) WAN
3 3 (1.35%) Firewall
3 3 (1.35%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.90%) BGP
4 2 (0.90%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (0.90%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 2 (0.90%) LAN
4 2 (0.90%) MQTT
4 2 (0.90%) OSPF
4 2 (0.90%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (0.90%) RTMP
4 2 (0.90%) VLAN
4 2 (0.90%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.90%) Wireless
5 1 (0.45%) NetScaler
5 1 (0.45%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (13.00%) DynamoDB
2 22 (9.87%) Metadata
3 20 (8.97%) Delta Lake
4 19 (8.52%) Spark SQL
5 18 (8.07%) SQL Server
6 12 (5.38%) Data Warehouse
7 11 (4.93%) PostgreSQL
7 11 (4.93%) Tick Data
8 8 (3.59%) NoSQL
9 5 (2.24%) MySQL
10 4 (1.79%) Pinecone
10 4 (1.79%) Power BI
11 3 (1.35%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (1.35%) Big Data
11 3 (1.35%) Data Lake
11 3 (1.35%) MongoDB
12 2 (0.90%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (0.90%) Tableau
13 1 (0.45%) Amazon Aurora
13 1 (0.45%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 32 (14.35%) Git
2 26 (11.66%) MLflow
3 17 (7.62%) TeamCity
4 15 (6.73%) GitLab
4 15 (6.73%) Jenkins
5 6 (2.69%) CircleCI
5 6 (2.69%) Storybook
6 4 (1.79%) Artifactory
6 4 (1.79%) JIRA
7 3 (1.35%) Maven
7 3 (1.35%) Octopus Deploy
7 3 (1.35%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 2 (0.90%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (0.90%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.90%) Gradle
8 2 (0.90%) Jaeger
8 2 (0.90%) Selenium
8 2 (0.90%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.90%) webpack
9 1 (0.45%) Ant
General
1 93 (41.70%) Finance
2 57 (25.56%) Social Skills
3 27 (12.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 21 (9.42%) Pharmaceutical
5 20 (8.97%) Marketing
6 19 (8.52%) Law
7 18 (8.07%) Banking
8 16 (7.17%) Financial Institution
9 15 (6.73%) Back Office
10 14 (6.28%) Retail
11 7 (3.14%) Organisational Skills
12 6 (2.69%) Public Sector
13 5 (2.24%) Legal
14 3 (1.35%) Analytical Skills
14 3 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
15 2 (0.90%) Advertising
15 2 (0.90%) Agriculture
15 2 (0.90%) Manufacturing
16 1 (0.45%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 55 (24.66%) Lead
2 27 (12.11%) Developer
2 27 (12.11%) Software Engineer
3 22 (9.87%) DevOps Engineer
4 20 (8.97%) Machine Learning Engineer
4 20 (8.97%) Operations Engineer
4 20 (8.97%) Senior
5 13 (5.83%) Cloud Engineer
5 13 (5.83%) Platform Engineer
6 11 (4.93%) Data Warehouse Developer
6 11 (4.93%) ETL Developer
6 11 (4.93%) Market Data Developer
7 10 (4.48%) Integration Engineer
8 9 (4.04%) .NET Software Engineer
8 9 (4.04%) Analyst
8 9 (4.04%) Architect
8 9 (4.04%) Python Developer
9 8 (3.59%) Lead Software Engineer
9 8 (3.59%) Senior Software Engineer
9 8 (3.59%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (15.25%) RESTful
2 24 (10.76%) .NET
3 23 (10.31%) NumPy
3 23 (10.31%) Pandas
3 23 (10.31%) PyTorch
3 23 (10.31%) scikit-learn
3 23 (10.31%) TensorFlow
3 23 (10.31%) YAML
4 22 (9.87%) React
5 20 (8.97%) PySpark
6 19 (8.52%) Keras
6 19 (8.52%) Lambda Expressions
6 19 (8.52%) Metaflow
6 19 (8.52%) OAuth
7 18 (8.07%) JSON
8 16 (7.17%) .NET Core
9 15 (6.73%) OAuth2
10 12 (5.38%) Blazor
11 10 (4.48%) REST
12 9 (4.04%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 49 (21.97%) Cloud Native
2 22 (9.87%) Life Science
3 19 (8.52%) Linux Command Line
4 15 (6.73%) Product Ownership
5 11 (4.93%) Distributed Systems
5 11 (4.93%) Management Information System
6 10 (4.48%) Low-Code
7 6 (2.69%) Public Cloud
8 5 (2.24%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.79%) IoT
9 4 (1.79%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.79%) Private Cloud
10 3 (1.35%) Algorithms
11 2 (0.90%) Data Structures
11 2 (0.90%) IVR
11 2 (0.90%) Mobile App
11 2 (0.90%) MPEG
11 2 (0.90%) Robotics
11 2 (0.90%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 19 (8.52%) Unix
2 13 (5.83%) Linux
3 12 (5.38%) Windows
4 8 (3.59%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.90%) CentOS
5 2 (0.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.45%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (62.33%) CI/CD
2 112 (50.22%) DevOps
3 94 (42.15%) Agile
4 82 (36.77%) AI
5 77 (34.53%) Infrastructure as Code
6 70 (31.39%) Machine Learning
7 67 (30.04%) Containerisation
8 64 (28.70%) Test Automation
9 54 (24.22%) Analytics
10 48 (21.52%) Data Science
10 48 (21.52%) Roadmaps
11 44 (19.73%) Continuous Improvement
12 41 (18.39%) Microservices
13 39 (17.49%) Coaching
13 39 (17.49%) Software Engineering
14 38 (17.04%) Problem-Solving
15 31 (13.90%) ETL
16 30 (13.45%) Information Security
16 30 (13.45%) MLOps
16 30 (13.45%) OO
Programming Languages
1 86 (38.57%) Python
2 39 (17.49%) SQL
3 29 (13.00%) PowerShell
4 22 (9.87%) Bash
4 22 (9.87%) Bicep
5 21 (9.42%) C#
6 20 (8.97%) Java
7 11 (4.93%) JavaScript
8 9 (4.04%) TypeScript
9 5 (2.24%) Go
10 4 (1.79%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.90%) C++
11 2 (0.90%) Groovy
12 1 (0.45%) C
12 1 (0.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.45%) Delphi
12 1 (0.45%) R
12 1 (0.45%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.45%) VB
12 1 (0.45%) VB6
Qualifications
1 33 (14.80%) Degree
2 23 (10.31%) Master's Degree
3 20 (8.97%) PhD
4 11 (4.93%) Azure Certification
4 11 (4.93%) Security Cleared
5 9 (4.04%) AWS Certification
6 7 (3.14%) AWS Certified Developer
6 7 (3.14%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (3.14%) SC Cleared
7 4 (1.79%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.90%) CCNA
8 2 (0.90%) CCNP
8 2 (0.90%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.45%) MCSE
9 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.45%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.45%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (8.97%) GxP
2 18 (8.07%) GDPR
3 9 (4.04%) QA
4 8 (3.59%) Accessibility
4 8 (3.59%) Data Quality
5 6 (2.69%) WCAG
6 4 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.90%) GRC
7 2 (0.90%) NIST
7 2 (0.90%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.45%) EU AI Act
8 1 (0.45%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.45%) SLA
System Software
1 80 (35.87%) Docker
2 11 (4.93%) Virtual Machines
3 10 (4.48%) Virtual Desktop
4 7 (3.14%) Active Directory
5 4 (1.79%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.90%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.90%) NFS
6 2 (0.90%) Terminal Server
7 1 (0.45%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 109 (48.88%) Terraform
2 91 (40.81%) Kubernetes
3 27 (12.11%) Grafana
4 19 (8.52%) Kubeflow
5 16 (7.17%) Ansible
6 10 (4.48%) Microsoft Intune
6 10 (4.48%) Prometheus
7 6 (2.69%) Argo
8 2 (0.90%) logstash
8 2 (0.90%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.90%) Puppet
8 2 (0.90%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.45%) Istio
9 1 (0.45%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.45%) Rancher
9 1 (0.45%) SCCM
Vendors
1 31 (13.90%) Databricks
2 17 (7.62%) Microsoft
3 11 (4.93%) Ab Initio
4 4 (1.79%) Automation Anywhere
4 4 (1.79%) OpenAI
4 4 (1.79%) UiPath
4 4 (1.79%) VMware
5 3 (1.35%) Cisco
5 3 (1.35%) Citrix
5 3 (1.35%) Dynatrace
5 3 (1.35%) Google
5 3 (1.35%) Salesforce
6 2 (0.90%) F5
6 2 (0.90%) MikroTik
6 2 (0.90%) NETGEAR
6 2 (0.90%) Oracle
6 2 (0.90%) Pega
6 2 (0.90%) Red Hat
6 2 (0.90%) Sonatype
6 2 (0.90%) Ubiquiti