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

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 400 397 495
Rank change year-on-year -3 +98 -64
Permanent jobs citing Deployment Automation 359 275 435
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.40% 0.65% 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% 0.70% 0.53%
Number of salaries quoted 172 219 340
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £51,719 £56,875 £55,105
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £67,750
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +10.70% -12.58%
75th Percentile £88,125 £96,875 £86,563
90th Percentile £98,750 £131,750 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £61,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% +1.63% -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 67,199 39,303 82,062
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 74.71% 92.91% 85.63%
Number of salaries quoted 41,762 22,588 59,681
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,946 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.42% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £78,500 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +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 1 May 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 May 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 +4 325 £70,079 -6.56% 97
UK excluding London +17 201 £65,000 +4.00% 59
Work from Home +21 152 £61,496 -1.61% 36
London -37 142 £81,500 -4.12% 46
South East +27 77 £66,250 +20.45% 28
North of England -48 55 £71,000 +29.09% 9
Yorkshire -47 27 £82,500 +66.67% 3
North West -30 23 £73,000 +19.18% 3
Midlands -34 22 £50,250 -19.60% 8
Scotland -24 17 £55,000 -27.02% 3
South West -49 16 £64,200 -10.82% 5
East Midlands - 13 £37,500 - 4
West Midlands -38 9 £52,500 -16.00% 4
East of England -16 8 £85,000 +13.33% 8
Wales -21 8 £61,248 -
North East - 5 £58,789 - 3
Northern Ireland - 1 £77,500 -

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 (3.34%) Appian
2 8 (2.23%) Apache
3 6 (1.67%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.39%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.39%) IIS
5 4 (1.11%) Confluence
5 4 (1.11%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.84%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.56%) BizTalk Server
7 2 (0.56%) SAS
8 1 (0.28%) CMS
8 1 (0.28%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.28%) nginx
8 1 (0.28%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (0.84%) SPSS
2 2 (0.56%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.56%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (0.84%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.28%) Misys Equation
2 1 (0.28%) Misys Midas
2 1 (0.28%) Oracle SCM
2 1 (0.28%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 190 (52.92%) AWS
2 171 (47.63%) Azure
3 82 (22.84%) Azure DevOps
4 79 (22.01%) GCP
5 74 (20.61%) GitHub
6 70 (19.50%) Amazon EKS
7 64 (17.83%) GitHub Actions
8 63 (17.55%) Serverless
9 46 (12.81%) SaaS
10 38 (10.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 38 (10.58%) Azure Logic Apps
11 33 (9.19%) Amazon S3
12 31 (8.64%) AWS Lambda
12 31 (8.64%) Azure Data Factory
12 31 (8.64%) Power Platform
13 28 (7.80%) Azure Monitor
14 24 (6.69%) AWS CloudFormation
15 21 (5.85%) Amazon EC2
16 18 (5.01%) Datadog
16 18 (5.01%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (5.29%) Firewall
2 11 (3.06%) DNS
3 8 (2.23%) SSL
4 5 (1.39%) DHCP
4 5 (1.39%) VPN
5 4 (1.11%) Broadband
5 4 (1.11%) MQTT
5 4 (1.11%) Network Security
5 4 (1.11%) SSH
6 3 (0.84%) DMZ
7 2 (0.56%) BGP
7 2 (0.56%) Intrusion Detection
7 2 (0.56%) SAN
8 1 (0.28%) Ethernet VPN
8 1 (0.28%) HTTP
8 1 (0.28%) NetScaler
8 1 (0.28%) SNMP
8 1 (0.28%) VSAN
8 1 (0.28%) VXLAN
8 1 (0.28%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (10.31%) SQL Server
2 32 (8.91%) PostgreSQL
3 21 (5.85%) NoSQL
4 19 (5.29%) DynamoDB
5 17 (4.74%) MySQL
6 15 (4.18%) Elasticsearch
7 14 (3.90%) Amazon Aurora
7 14 (3.90%) Pinecone
8 13 (3.62%) Amazon RDS
9 12 (3.34%) MongoDB
10 11 (3.06%) Power BI
11 10 (2.79%) Data Warehouse
12 8 (2.23%) Spark SQL
13 7 (1.95%) Metadata
13 7 (1.95%) Relational Database
14 5 (1.39%) Delta Lake
15 3 (0.84%) Amazon Redshift
15 3 (0.84%) Big Data
15 3 (0.84%) CockroachDB
15 3 (0.84%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 66 (18.38%) Git
2 49 (13.65%) TeamCity
3 43 (11.98%) GitLab
4 41 (11.42%) Jenkins
5 18 (5.01%) JIRA
6 14 (3.90%) MLflow
7 13 (3.62%) Crashlytics
8 12 (3.34%) XCTest
9 11 (3.06%) Bitbucket
10 10 (2.79%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 10 (2.79%) Cucumber
11 9 (2.51%) SonarQube
12 8 (2.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 6 (1.67%) Artifactory
13 6 (1.67%) JMeter
14 5 (1.39%) Gradle
14 5 (1.39%) Locust
15 4 (1.11%) Maven
15 4 (1.11%) NUnit
15 4 (1.11%) Storybook
General
1 118 (32.87%) Finance
2 111 (30.92%) Social Skills
3 65 (18.11%) Banking
4 59 (16.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 50 (13.93%) Law
6 49 (13.65%) Retail
7 38 (10.58%) Analytical Skills
8 31 (8.64%) Back Office
8 31 (8.64%) Financial Institution
9 15 (4.18%) Pharmaceutical
10 13 (3.62%) Public Sector
11 7 (1.95%) Aerospace
12 6 (1.67%) Retail Banking
13 4 (1.11%) Mandarin Language
13 4 (1.11%) Marketing
13 4 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.84%) Front Office
14 3 (0.84%) Manufacturing
15 2 (0.56%) Advertising
15 2 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 77 (21.45%) Lead
2 56 (15.60%) Developer
3 47 (13.09%) Senior
4 46 (12.81%) Software Engineer
5 37 (10.31%) DevOps Engineer
6 27 (7.52%) Cloud Engineer
7 23 (6.41%) Azure Engineer
8 22 (6.13%) Platform Engineer
9 21 (5.85%) AWS Engineer
10 20 (5.57%) Java Engineer
11 18 (5.01%) Lead Software Engineer
12 17 (4.74%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 16 (4.46%) Power Platform Developer
14 15 (4.18%) Data Engineer
14 15 (4.18%) Integration Engineer
14 15 (4.18%) Java Software Engineer
15 14 (3.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 13 (3.62%) Automation Engineer
17 12 (3.34%) Mobile Engineer
17 12 (3.34%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (12.81%) RESTful
2 39 (10.86%) REST
3 38 (10.58%) .NET
4 32 (8.91%) React
5 30 (8.36%) OAuth
6 24 (6.69%) .NET Core
7 19 (5.29%) JSON
8 18 (5.01%) OAuth2
9 17 (4.74%) JWT
9 17 (4.74%) Web Services
10 16 (4.46%) FastAPI
11 15 (4.18%) NumPy
11 15 (4.18%) Pandas
11 15 (4.18%) PyTorch
11 15 (4.18%) scikit-learn
11 15 (4.18%) TensorFlow
12 14 (3.90%) Flask
12 14 (3.90%) OpenAPI
12 14 (3.90%) pytest
12 14 (3.90%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 88 (24.51%) Cloud Native
2 42 (11.70%) Low-Code
3 29 (8.08%) Life Science
4 26 (7.24%) Product Ownership
5 20 (5.57%) Distributed Systems
6 17 (4.74%) Legacy Systems
7 16 (4.46%) Blog
8 15 (4.18%) Mobile App
9 14 (3.90%) Greenfield Project
10 13 (3.62%) Onboarding
11 11 (3.06%) Hackathon
11 11 (3.06%) Management Information System
12 9 (2.51%) Hybrid Cloud
12 9 (2.51%) PKI
13 8 (2.23%) Public Cloud
14 6 (1.67%) Cyberattack
14 6 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
15 5 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
15 5 (1.39%) Linux Command Line
15 5 (1.39%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 60 (16.71%) Linux
2 32 (8.91%) Windows
3 23 (6.41%) Apple iOS
4 16 (4.46%) Windows Server
5 13 (3.62%) CentOS
6 7 (1.95%) Mac OS
7 6 (1.67%) Android
7 6 (1.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (1.67%) Ubuntu
7 6 (1.67%) VMS
8 4 (1.11%) Unix
9 2 (0.56%) Amazon Linux
9 2 (0.56%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 270 (75.21%) CI/CD
2 187 (52.09%) DevOps
3 162 (45.13%) Test Automation
4 140 (39.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 115 (32.03%) Agile
6 89 (24.79%) Containerisation
7 79 (22.01%) Microservices
8 77 (21.45%) Analytics
8 77 (21.45%) Clean Code
9 76 (21.17%) Problem-Solving
10 75 (20.89%) Observability
11 70 (19.50%) Continuous Improvement
12 69 (19.22%) Software Engineering
13 66 (18.38%) AI
14 59 (16.43%) Continuous Deployment
15 54 (15.04%) Computer Science
15 54 (15.04%) Machine Learning
16 47 (13.09%) Cybersecurity
17 41 (11.42%) Disruptive Innovation
18 39 (10.86%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 152 (42.34%) Python
2 80 (22.28%) Java
3 76 (21.17%) SQL
4 53 (14.76%) Bash
5 52 (14.48%) PowerShell
6 40 (11.14%) JavaScript
7 39 (10.86%) C#
8 29 (8.08%) Bicep
9 26 (7.24%) TypeScript
10 15 (4.18%) Kotlin
11 13 (3.62%) Swift
12 9 (2.51%) Rust
13 8 (2.23%) Kusto Query Language
14 7 (1.95%) Groovy
14 7 (1.95%) Shell Script
15 6 (1.67%) Go
16 4 (1.11%) Perl
17 3 (0.84%) PHP
17 3 (0.84%) VB
18 2 (0.56%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 67 (18.66%) Degree
2 48 (13.37%) Security Cleared
3 27 (7.52%) Master's Degree
4 26 (7.24%) SC Cleared
5 22 (6.13%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (4.18%) PhD
7 14 (3.90%) AWS Certification
8 13 (3.62%) DV Cleared
9 11 (3.06%) Azure Certification
10 9 (2.51%) AWS Certified Developer
11 4 (1.11%) Postgraduate
12 3 (0.84%) ISTQB
12 3 (0.84%) PMI Certification
12 3 (0.84%) PMP
13 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
14 1 (0.28%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 1 (0.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 1 (0.28%) JNCIP
14 1 (0.28%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (11.14%) QA
2 24 (6.69%) Accessibility
3 21 (5.85%) GDPR
4 20 (5.57%) Data Quality
5 15 (4.18%) GxP
6 12 (3.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 11 (3.06%) WCAG
8 7 (1.95%) SLA
9 6 (1.67%) SOC 2
10 4 (1.11%) NIST
11 2 (0.56%) Def Stans
11 2 (0.56%) IEC 61508
11 2 (0.56%) IFRS
11 2 (0.56%) IFRS 17
11 2 (0.56%) ISO 26262
11 2 (0.56%) PMO
11 2 (0.56%) Solvency II
12 1 (0.28%) NCSC
System Software
1 99 (27.58%) Docker
2 17 (4.74%) Active Directory
3 9 (2.51%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.84%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.56%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.28%) Firmware
6 1 (0.28%) vCloud
6 1 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.28%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 175 (48.75%) Terraform
2 153 (42.62%) Kubernetes
3 90 (25.07%) Grafana
4 53 (14.76%) Ansible
5 29 (8.08%) Prometheus
6 12 (3.34%) Microsoft Intune
7 9 (2.51%) Argo
7 9 (2.51%) Jamf Pro
8 7 (1.95%) Nagios
9 5 (1.39%) SCCM
10 4 (1.11%) logstash
10 4 (1.11%) Packer
10 4 (1.11%) Rancher
11 3 (0.84%) Puppet
11 3 (0.84%) SCOM
11 3 (0.84%) SCOrch
12 2 (0.56%) Istio
12 2 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.28%) Functional Safety
13 1 (0.28%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 55 (15.32%) Microsoft
2 16 (4.46%) Databricks
2 16 (4.46%) OpenAI
3 13 (3.62%) Automation Anywhere
3 13 (3.62%) UiPath
4 12 (3.34%) Amplitude
4 12 (3.34%) Braze
4 12 (3.34%) Google
4 12 (3.34%) Splunk
5 10 (2.79%) VMware
6 9 (2.51%) Red Hat
7 8 (2.23%) Ab Initio
7 8 (2.23%) Dynatrace
8 7 (1.95%) Rapid7
9 6 (1.67%) AppDynamics
9 6 (1.67%) IBM
9 6 (1.67%) Salesforce
10 5 (1.39%) Cisco
10 5 (1.39%) Oracle
11 4 (1.11%) Apple