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

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 407 366 475
Rank change year-on-year -41 +109 -46
Permanent jobs citing Deployment Automation 305 311 411
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.41% 0.72% 0.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.52% 0.77% 0.56%
Number of salaries quoted 134 226 329
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £48,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +15.38% -18.75%
75th Percentile £90,938 £97,528 £87,500
90th Percentile £98,375 £138,750 £113,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £61,496 £67,750 £61,500
% change year-on-year -9.23% +10.16% -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 58,222 40,192 73,990
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 77.86% 93.47% 87.20%
Number of salaries quoted 35,232 22,295 56,140
10th Percentile £29,750 £31,750 £29,035
25th Percentile £40,000 £44,188 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.41%
75th Percentile £77,424 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +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 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Deployment Automation in the UK

Deployment Automation
Top 16 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 March 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 -38 266 £68,400 -8.80% 129
UK excluding London -1 166 £61,496 -9.23% 93
Work from Home +13 150 £60,000 -7.69% 80
London -17 125 £80,000 -11.11% 53
South East +14 66 £66,250 +20.45% 30
North of England -39 37 £60,000 +9.09% 29
Scotland -6 28 £58,750 -22.04% 2
Yorkshire -33 21 £60,000 +21.21% 6
Midlands -23 16 £48,000 -36.00% 13
North West -26 14 £73,000 +16.80% 16
East Midlands -24 9 £37,500 - 2
East of England -12 8 £76,250 +1.67% 1
West Midlands -4 7 £59,039 -21.28% 11
South West -32 7 £62,950 -12.56% 14
Wales -12 4 £61,248 - 4
North East - 2 £47,500 - 7

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 12 (3.93%) Appian
2 5 (1.64%) Apache
2 5 (1.64%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.31%) Confluence
4 3 (0.98%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.98%) IIS
5 2 (0.66%) BizTalk Server
5 2 (0.66%) SAS
6 1 (0.33%) CMS
6 1 (0.33%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.33%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.33%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.33%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.33%) SPSS
1 1 (0.33%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.33%) Oracle SCM
2 1 (0.33%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 157 (51.48%) AWS
2 143 (46.89%) Azure
3 79 (25.90%) Azure DevOps
4 74 (24.26%) GCP
5 66 (21.64%) GitHub
6 65 (21.31%) Amazon EKS
7 60 (19.67%) GitHub Actions
8 54 (17.70%) Serverless
9 47 (15.41%) SaaS
10 37 (12.13%) Azure Logic Apps
11 35 (11.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 31 (10.16%) Power Platform
13 30 (9.84%) AWS Lambda
14 29 (9.51%) Azure Monitor
15 28 (9.18%) Azure Data Factory
16 25 (8.20%) Amazon S3
17 22 (7.21%) AWS CloudFormation
18 19 (6.23%) AWS Step Functions
19 18 (5.90%) Amazon SQS
20 15 (4.92%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.28%) Firewall
2 5 (1.64%) DNS
3 4 (1.31%) MQTT
3 4 (1.31%) SSL
4 3 (0.98%) DMZ
4 3 (0.98%) VPN
5 2 (0.66%) Network Security
6 1 (0.33%) BGP
6 1 (0.33%) Ethernet VPN
6 1 (0.33%) HTTP
6 1 (0.33%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.33%) NetScaler
6 1 (0.33%) SNMP
6 1 (0.33%) VXLAN
6 1 (0.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (12.46%) SQL Server
2 29 (9.51%) PostgreSQL
3 22 (7.21%) DynamoDB
4 18 (5.90%) NoSQL
5 14 (4.59%) Amazon Aurora
6 12 (3.93%) MySQL
6 12 (3.93%) Pinecone
6 12 (3.93%) Power BI
7 9 (2.95%) Amazon RDS
8 8 (2.62%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (1.97%) Relational Database
10 4 (1.31%) Metadata
10 4 (1.31%) MongoDB
11 3 (0.98%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (0.98%) CockroachDB
11 3 (0.98%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (0.98%) Tableau
12 2 (0.66%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (0.66%) Delta Lake
12 2 (0.66%) Redis
Development Applications
1 52 (17.05%) TeamCity
2 50 (16.39%) Git
3 30 (9.84%) GitLab
4 27 (8.85%) Jenkins
5 12 (3.93%) MLflow
6 10 (3.28%) JIRA
7 9 (2.95%) Crashlytics
8 8 (2.62%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 8 (2.62%) XCTest
9 7 (2.30%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 7 (2.30%) Bitbucket
10 6 (1.97%) Gradle
10 6 (1.97%) Storybook
11 5 (1.64%) JMeter
11 5 (1.64%) Maven
12 4 (1.31%) Cucumber
12 4 (1.31%) JUnit
12 4 (1.31%) Locust
13 3 (0.98%) NUnit
13 3 (0.98%) TestNG
General
1 128 (41.97%) Finance
2 82 (26.89%) Social Skills
3 63 (20.66%) Banking
4 58 (19.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 53 (17.38%) Law
6 52 (17.05%) Retail
7 35 (11.48%) Back Office
7 35 (11.48%) Financial Institution
8 31 (10.16%) Analytical Skills
9 20 (6.56%) Pharmaceutical
10 8 (2.62%) Marketing
10 8 (2.62%) Public Sector
11 6 (1.97%) Retail Banking
12 2 (0.66%) Advertising
12 2 (0.66%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.66%) Front Office
12 2 (0.66%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.66%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.33%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.33%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 56 (18.36%) Lead
2 50 (16.39%) Developer
3 47 (15.41%) Software Engineer
4 41 (13.44%) Senior
5 22 (7.21%) DevOps Engineer
6 21 (6.89%) AWS Engineer
7 20 (6.56%) Cloud Engineer
8 17 (5.57%) Integration Engineer
8 17 (5.57%) Java Engineer
9 16 (5.25%) Java Software Engineer
9 16 (5.25%) Platform Engineer
10 15 (4.92%) Azure Engineer
10 15 (4.92%) Power Platform Developer
10 15 (4.92%) Senior Software Engineer
11 13 (4.26%) Automation Engineer
11 13 (4.26%) Lead Software Engineer
12 12 (3.93%) .NET Developer
12 12 (3.93%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 12 (3.93%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 10 (3.28%) AWS Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (15.41%) RESTful
2 39 (12.79%) .NET
3 35 (11.48%) OAuth
4 34 (11.15%) React
5 26 (8.52%) .NET Core
5 26 (8.52%) REST
6 23 (7.54%) OAuth2
7 21 (6.89%) JSON
8 17 (5.57%) JWT
9 16 (5.25%) AWS CDK
10 15 (4.92%) ASP.NET
10 15 (4.92%) Web Services
11 14 (4.59%) FastAPI
11 14 (4.59%) Flask
11 14 (4.59%) OpenAPI
11 14 (4.59%) Swagger
12 13 (4.26%) ASP.NET Core
12 13 (4.26%) Blazor
12 13 (4.26%) Django
13 12 (3.93%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 93 (30.49%) Cloud Native
2 41 (13.44%) Low-Code
3 29 (9.51%) Life Science
4 27 (8.85%) Product Ownership
5 15 (4.92%) Blog
5 15 (4.92%) Legacy Systems
6 11 (3.61%) Mobile App
7 10 (3.28%) Greenfield Project
7 10 (3.28%) Hackathon
8 9 (2.95%) Distributed Systems
9 7 (2.30%) Onboarding
10 5 (1.64%) Hybrid Cloud
10 5 (1.64%) Public Cloud
11 4 (1.31%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
12 3 (0.98%) Analytical Mindset
12 3 (0.98%) IoT
12 3 (0.98%) PKI
12 3 (0.98%) Private Cloud
13 2 (0.66%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 34 (11.15%) Linux
2 16 (5.25%) Windows
3 12 (3.93%) Apple iOS
4 9 (2.95%) Windows Server
5 6 (1.97%) VMS
6 5 (1.64%) CentOS
7 3 (0.98%) Android
7 3 (0.98%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.33%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 227 (74.43%) CI/CD
2 159 (52.13%) DevOps
3 132 (43.28%) Test Automation
4 106 (34.75%) Infrastructure as Code
5 103 (33.77%) Agile
6 82 (26.89%) Analytics
7 76 (24.92%) Clean Code
7 76 (24.92%) Microservices
8 66 (21.64%) AI
9 63 (20.66%) Containerisation
9 63 (20.66%) Observability
10 62 (20.33%) Continuous Improvement
10 62 (20.33%) Software Engineering
11 60 (19.67%) Problem-Solving
12 58 (19.02%) Machine Learning
13 57 (18.69%) Continuous Deployment
14 43 (14.10%) Coaching
15 42 (13.77%) Disruptive Innovation
16 41 (13.44%) Computer Science
16 41 (13.44%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 111 (36.39%) Python
2 69 (22.62%) Java
3 60 (19.67%) SQL
4 41 (13.44%) JavaScript
5 37 (12.13%) C#
6 36 (11.80%) Bash
7 33 (10.82%) PowerShell
8 28 (9.18%) Bicep
9 25 (8.20%) TypeScript
10 10 (3.28%) Kotlin
11 9 (2.95%) Swift
12 7 (2.30%) Kusto Query Language
12 7 (2.30%) Rust
13 6 (1.97%) Go
14 2 (0.66%) Delphi
14 2 (0.66%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.66%) VB
14 2 (0.66%) VB6
15 1 (0.33%) Groovy
15 1 (0.33%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 56 (18.36%) Degree
2 32 (10.49%) Security Cleared
3 29 (9.51%) Master's Degree
4 19 (6.23%) PhD
5 18 (5.90%) SC Cleared
6 16 (5.25%) AWS Certification
7 11 (3.61%) AWS Certified Developer
8 9 (2.95%) Computer Science Degree
9 8 (2.62%) Azure Certification
9 8 (2.62%) DV Cleared
10 3 (0.98%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.33%) JNCIP
12 1 (0.33%) LPIC
12 1 (0.33%) MCSE
12 1 (0.33%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.33%) PMP
12 1 (0.33%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (8.20%) Accessibility
2 21 (6.89%) QA
3 19 (6.23%) Data Quality
3 19 (6.23%) GxP
4 16 (5.25%) GDPR
5 12 (3.93%) WCAG
6 7 (2.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (1.31%) SLA
8 3 (0.98%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.33%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.33%) NCSC
9 1 (0.33%) NIST
System Software
1 74 (24.26%) Docker
2 8 (2.62%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.97%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (1.64%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.98%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.33%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.33%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 150 (49.18%) Terraform
2 126 (41.31%) Kubernetes
3 83 (27.21%) Grafana
4 29 (9.51%) Ansible
5 22 (7.21%) Prometheus
6 9 (2.95%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (1.64%) Argo
8 4 (1.31%) Jamf Pro
8 4 (1.31%) logstash
8 4 (1.31%) Nagios
9 3 (0.98%) Rancher
10 2 (0.66%) Istio
10 2 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 29 (9.51%) Microsoft
2 13 (4.26%) Ab Initio
2 13 (4.26%) OpenAI
3 12 (3.93%) Automation Anywhere
3 12 (3.93%) UiPath
4 9 (2.95%) Splunk
5 8 (2.62%) Amplitude
5 8 (2.62%) Dynatrace
6 7 (2.30%) Google
7 6 (1.97%) Databricks
7 6 (1.97%) Oracle
7 6 (1.97%) Salesforce
8 5 (1.64%) Cisco
8 5 (1.64%) Red Hat
9 4 (1.31%) Rapid7
9 4 (1.31%) VMware
10 3 (0.98%) Citrix
10 3 (0.98%) Pega
11 2 (0.66%) Apple
12 1 (0.33%) Juniper