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

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 399 464 469
Rank change year-on-year +65 +5 -73
Permanent jobs citing Deployment Automation 448 224 382
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.42% 0.45% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.57% 0.50% 0.56%
Number of salaries quoted 261 139 289
10th Percentile £44,516 £46,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £48,925
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 £77,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £97,500 £92,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% - -11.11%

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 78,019 44,452 67,790
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.52% 89.29% 81.16%
Number of salaries quoted 53,759 25,267 43,796
10th Percentile £30,750 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £48,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +14.58% -4.00% -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 11 August 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 11 August 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 +56 385 £70,000 +2.94% 252
UK excluding London +38 246 £65,000 +8.33% 139
London +25 168 £85,000 +13.33% 134
Work from Home +29 163 £65,000 +4.00% 117
North of England +3 81 £57,500 +16.16% 45
South East +1 59 £65,000 -1.89% 31
Midlands -30 36 £49,000 -18.33% 14
South West -43 35 £70,000 -6.67% 22
North West -3 32 £52,500 +14.13% 26
North East -31 27 £47,250 - 7
Yorkshire -21 22 £82,500 +20.44% 12
West Midlands -28 20 £50,000 -16.67% 8
Wales -52 18 £58,000 +19.59% 5
East Midlands -14 16 £42,500 -43.33% 6
Scotland +6 15 £68,750 -14.06% 10
East of England -27 4 £56,000 - 10
Northern Ireland - 1 £77,500 - 5

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 13 (2.90%) Confluence
2 11 (2.46%) Apache
3 9 (2.01%) Apache Spark
3 9 (2.01%) SharePoint
4 8 (1.79%) nginx
5 7 (1.56%) IIS
6 6 (1.34%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (1.12%) Camunda
8 4 (0.89%) Microsoft Exchange
8 4 (0.89%) SAS
9 2 (0.45%) Cloud Foundry
9 2 (0.45%) CMS
9 2 (0.45%) Luigi
10 1 (0.22%) Documentum
10 1 (0.22%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.22%) NServiceBus
10 1 (0.22%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (0.67%) SPSS
2 2 (0.45%) Trello
3 1 (0.22%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.22%) Magento
2 1 (0.22%) Misys Equation
2 1 (0.22%) Misys Midas
2 1 (0.22%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 245 (54.69%) AWS
2 230 (51.34%) Azure
3 125 (27.90%) GCP
4 106 (23.66%) Azure DevOps
5 73 (16.29%) GitHub
6 63 (14.06%) Amazon EKS
7 57 (12.72%) Serverless
8 55 (12.28%) SaaS
9 42 (9.38%) GitHub Actions
10 30 (6.70%) Power Platform
11 28 (6.25%) Datadog
12 26 (5.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 26 (5.80%) Firebase
13 25 (5.58%) Amazon S3
13 25 (5.58%) AWS CloudFormation
13 25 (5.58%) Microsoft 365
14 24 (5.36%) Amazon ECS
14 24 (5.36%) Azure Monitor
15 22 (4.91%) PaaS
16 19 (4.24%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 19 (4.24%) Firewall
2 17 (3.79%) DNS
3 12 (2.68%) VPN
4 8 (1.79%) Network Security
5 7 (1.56%) MQTT
6 6 (1.34%) DHCP
7 5 (1.12%) BGP
7 5 (1.12%) SSL
7 5 (1.12%) TCP/IP
7 5 (1.12%) Wi-Fi
8 4 (0.89%) Broadband
8 4 (0.89%) Kerberos
8 4 (0.89%) NAS
8 4 (0.89%) SSH
8 4 (0.89%) WAN
8 4 (0.89%) Wireless
9 3 (0.67%) LAN
9 3 (0.67%) PBX
9 3 (0.67%) Unified Communications
9 3 (0.67%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (9.60%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (7.59%) SQL Server
3 26 (5.80%) MySQL
4 25 (5.58%) MongoDB
5 21 (4.69%) Elasticsearch
6 20 (4.46%) Data Warehouse
7 19 (4.24%) NoSQL
8 18 (4.02%) Power BI
9 14 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
10 11 (2.46%) Data Lake
10 11 (2.46%) Spark SQL
11 10 (2.23%) Azure SQL Database
11 10 (2.23%) Metadata
12 9 (2.01%) Relational Database
13 8 (1.79%) Big Data
14 7 (1.56%) Geospatial Data
15 6 (1.34%) Delta Lake
15 6 (1.34%) DynamoDB
15 6 (1.34%) Redis
16 5 (1.12%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 96 (21.43%) Git
2 53 (11.83%) Jenkins
3 49 (10.94%) TeamCity
4 45 (10.04%) GitLab
5 33 (7.37%) JIRA
6 19 (4.24%) Crashlytics
7 16 (3.57%) Bitbucket
8 13 (2.90%) fastlane
8 13 (2.90%) SonarQube
8 13 (2.90%) XCTest
9 11 (2.46%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 11 (2.46%) Cucumber
10 8 (1.79%) JUnit
10 8 (1.79%) Mockito
10 8 (1.79%) Octopus Deploy
11 7 (1.56%) Artifactory
11 7 (1.56%) Claude Code
11 7 (1.56%) MSI
11 7 (1.56%) Xcode
12 6 (1.34%) JMeter
General
1 135 (30.13%) Social Skills
2 132 (29.46%) Finance
3 92 (20.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 85 (18.97%) Banking
5 66 (14.73%) Law
6 61 (13.62%) Analytical Skills
7 53 (11.83%) Retail
8 46 (10.27%) Financial Institution
9 44 (9.82%) Public Sector
10 38 (8.48%) Back Office
11 9 (2.01%) Marketing
12 7 (1.56%) Manufacturing
12 7 (1.56%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (1.34%) Aerospace
13 6 (1.34%) Telecoms
14 4 (0.89%) Mandarin Language
15 3 (0.67%) Front Office
15 3 (0.67%) Legal
15 3 (0.67%) Retail Banking
16 2 (0.45%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 87 (19.42%) Lead
2 85 (18.97%) Software Engineer
3 70 (15.63%) DevOps Engineer
4 63 (14.06%) Senior
5 62 (13.84%) Developer
6 37 (8.26%) Azure Engineer
7 31 (6.92%) Cloud Engineer
8 24 (5.36%) Data Engineer
9 23 (5.13%) Platform Engineer
10 22 (4.91%) Senior Software Engineer
11 21 (4.69%) Lead Software Engineer
11 21 (4.69%) Site Engineer
11 21 (4.69%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 19 (4.24%) Technical Leader
13 16 (3.57%) Administrator
13 16 (3.57%) AWS Engineer
13 16 (3.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 16 (3.57%) Java Engineer
14 15 (3.35%) Automation Engineer
14 15 (3.35%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (10.27%) RESTful
2 45 (10.04%) REST
3 42 (9.38%) .NET
4 29 (6.47%) React
5 26 (5.80%) Kafka
6 20 (4.46%) SwiftUI
6 20 (4.46%) UIKit
7 19 (4.24%) Spring
8 18 (4.02%) Spring Boot
9 17 (3.79%) ARM Templates
9 17 (3.79%) CSS
10 16 (3.57%) Next.js
11 15 (3.35%) .NET Core
12 14 (3.13%) LangChain
12 14 (3.13%) Node.js
13 13 (2.90%) AngularJS
13 13 (2.90%) Elastic Stack
13 13 (2.90%) HTML
13 13 (2.90%) PySpark
14 12 (2.68%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 148 (33.04%) Cloud Native
2 72 (16.07%) Product Ownership
3 45 (10.04%) Distributed Systems
4 28 (6.25%) Mobile App
5 26 (5.80%) Onboarding
6 19 (4.24%) Life Science
7 18 (4.02%) Legacy Systems
8 17 (3.79%) Self-Motivation
9 14 (3.13%) AI Agents
9 14 (3.13%) Greenfield Project
9 14 (3.13%) Management Information System
10 12 (2.68%) Enterprise Software
11 11 (2.46%) Low-Code
12 10 (2.23%) Blog
12 10 (2.23%) Virtual Team
13 9 (2.01%) Hybrid Cloud
14 8 (1.79%) Linux Command Line
14 8 (1.79%) PKI
14 8 (1.79%) Public Cloud
15 7 (1.56%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 83 (18.53%) Linux
2 64 (14.29%) Windows
3 32 (7.14%) Apple iOS
4 22 (4.91%) Windows Server
5 17 (3.79%) CentOS
6 13 (2.90%) Android
7 8 (1.79%) Mac OS
8 7 (1.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (1.34%) Ubuntu
9 6 (1.34%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.67%) Unix
11 2 (0.45%) Amazon Linux
11 2 (0.45%) Embedded Linux
11 2 (0.45%) Solaris
11 2 (0.45%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 351 (78.35%) CI/CD
2 272 (60.71%) DevOps
3 188 (41.96%) Test Automation
4 183 (40.85%) Infrastructure as Code
5 152 (33.93%) Software Engineering
6 148 (33.04%) Agile
7 125 (27.90%) Observability
8 116 (25.89%) Microservices
9 112 (25.00%) Containerisation
10 107 (23.88%) AI
11 106 (23.66%) Continuous Improvement
12 99 (22.10%) Mentoring
13 92 (20.54%) Problem-Solving
14 88 (19.64%) Clean Code
15 72 (16.07%) Analytics
16 62 (13.84%) Continuous Deployment
17 60 (13.39%) Machine Learning
18 54 (12.05%) Computer Science
19 48 (10.71%) Platform Engineering
19 48 (10.71%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 189 (42.19%) Python
2 123 (27.46%) Java
3 77 (17.19%) SQL
4 70 (15.63%) PowerShell
5 54 (12.05%) Bash
6 46 (10.27%) C#
6 46 (10.27%) TypeScript
7 39 (8.71%) JavaScript
8 21 (4.69%) Bicep
8 21 (4.69%) Kotlin
9 20 (4.46%) Swift
10 11 (2.46%) Go
11 10 (2.23%) Rust
12 9 (2.01%) Scala
13 8 (1.79%) Groovy
14 7 (1.56%) Shell Script
15 6 (1.34%) C
15 6 (1.34%) C++
16 4 (0.89%) Perl
16 4 (0.89%) PHP
Qualifications
1 76 (16.96%) Security Cleared
2 58 (12.95%) Degree
3 44 (9.82%) SC Cleared
4 35 (7.81%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (3.57%) DV Cleared
6 13 (2.90%) AWS Certification
6 13 (2.90%) Azure Certification
7 12 (2.68%) Master's Degree
8 8 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (0.89%) Postgraduate
11 3 (0.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 3 (0.67%) CCNP
11 3 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (0.67%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 2 (0.45%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 2 (0.45%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.45%) PMP
13 1 (0.22%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 1 (0.22%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (14.29%) QA
2 40 (8.93%) Accessibility
3 28 (6.25%) WCAG
4 21 (4.69%) GDPR
5 16 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 14 (3.13%) Data Quality
7 12 (2.68%) SLA
8 10 (2.23%) NCSC
9 7 (1.56%) SOC 2
10 4 (0.89%) NIST
11 2 (0.45%) Def Stans
11 2 (0.45%) IEC 61508
11 2 (0.45%) IFRS
11 2 (0.45%) IFRS 17
11 2 (0.45%) ISO 26262
11 2 (0.45%) JTAG
11 2 (0.45%) PMO
11 2 (0.45%) Solvency II
12 1 (0.22%) GRC
System Software
1 117 (26.12%) Docker
2 22 (4.91%) Active Directory
3 10 (2.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.34%) Hyper-V
5 5 (1.12%) Firmware
5 5 (1.12%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.89%) vSphere
7 3 (0.67%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.22%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.22%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 196 (43.75%) Terraform
2 180 (40.18%) Kubernetes
3 108 (24.11%) Grafana
4 87 (19.42%) Ansible
5 37 (8.26%) Prometheus
6 12 (2.68%) Argo
6 12 (2.68%) Microsoft Intune
7 11 (2.46%) Nagios
7 11 (2.46%) Puppet
8 10 (2.23%) Jamf Pro
9 6 (1.34%) Progress Chef
9 6 (1.34%) SCCM
10 4 (0.89%) Packer
10 4 (0.89%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (0.67%) cPanel
11 3 (0.67%) Docker Swarm
11 3 (0.67%) Plesk
11 3 (0.67%) Podman
11 3 (0.67%) SCOM
11 3 (0.67%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 82 (18.30%) Microsoft
2 36 (8.04%) Dynatrace
3 28 (6.25%) Google
4 21 (4.69%) Databricks
5 19 (4.24%) Splunk
6 17 (3.79%) Red Hat
7 15 (3.35%) VMware
8 14 (3.13%) Salesforce
9 13 (2.90%) Amplitude
9 13 (2.90%) Braze
10 11 (2.46%) Apple
10 11 (2.46%) OpenAI
10 11 (2.46%) Rapid7
11 7 (1.56%) AppDynamics
11 7 (1.56%) Atlassian
12 6 (1.34%) IBM
12 6 (1.34%) Oracle
13 5 (1.12%) ServiceNow
14 4 (0.89%) Cisco
14 4 (0.89%) Dell