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

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 408 447 507
Rank change year-on-year +39 +60 -93
Permanent jobs citing Deployment Automation 369 232 440
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.40% 0.52% 0.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.55% 0.56% 0.50%
Number of salaries quoted 198 164 339
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,875 £45,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £54,375 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,200 £69,250 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.07% +6.54% -13.33%
75th Percentile £87,125 £87,500 £84,375
90th Percentile £103,750 £109,375 £110,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £61,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +9.76% -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 67,552 41,143 88,287
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.85% 92.63% 82.27%
Number of salaries quoted 46,362 21,911 62,510
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £29,556
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.69%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +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 13 June 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 13 June 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 +37 339 £70,000 +2.19% 132
UK excluding London +25 198 £65,000 -3.70% 90
Work from Home +44 159 £65,000 +6.12% 62
London +17 150 £82,000 +2.50% 55
South East +42 72 £65,000 +23.81% 42
North of England -6 69 £56,250 -16.67% 20
North West +13 31 £55,000 -6.38% 13
Midlands -9 25 £50,250 -19.60% 9
Yorkshire -31 19 £82,500 +21.32% 3
North East - 19 £47,000 - 4
East Midlands -6 16 £40,000 -46.67% 4
South West -49 14 £68,400 -4.99% 11
West Midlands -28 9 £58,750 -6.00% 5
Scotland +4 8 £55,000 -27.02% 2
East of England -10 6 £85,000 +13.33% 11
Wales -42 6 £70,039 +30.31% 1
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 7 (1.90%) Apache
1 7 (1.90%) Apache Airflow
1 7 (1.90%) Appian
2 6 (1.63%) Apache Spark
3 5 (1.36%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.08%) Confluence
4 4 (1.08%) IIS
4 4 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.54%) Luigi
5 2 (0.54%) nginx
6 1 (0.27%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (0.27%) CMS
6 1 (0.27%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.27%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (0.81%) SPSS
2 2 (0.54%) Trello
3 1 (0.27%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.08%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.27%) Magento
2 1 (0.27%) Misys Equation
2 1 (0.27%) Misys Midas
2 1 (0.27%) Oracle SCM
2 1 (0.27%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 200 (54.20%) AWS
2 180 (48.78%) Azure
3 103 (27.91%) GCP
4 81 (21.95%) Azure DevOps
5 72 (19.51%) Amazon EKS
6 59 (15.99%) GitHub
7 56 (15.18%) Serverless
8 51 (13.82%) SaaS
9 45 (12.20%) GitHub Actions
10 30 (8.13%) Azure Logic Apps
11 29 (7.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 28 (7.59%) Power Platform
13 27 (7.32%) Firebase
14 25 (6.78%) Amazon S3
14 25 (6.78%) PaaS
15 23 (6.23%) Azure Data Factory
16 21 (5.69%) Azure Monitor
17 19 (5.15%) AWS Lambda
18 17 (4.61%) Amazon EC2
18 17 (4.61%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 18 (4.88%) Firewall
2 12 (3.25%) DNS
3 8 (2.17%) Network Security
4 7 (1.90%) MQTT
5 6 (1.63%) DHCP
6 5 (1.36%) SSL
6 5 (1.36%) VPN
7 4 (1.08%) Broadband
7 4 (1.08%) SSH
8 3 (0.81%) BGP
9 2 (0.54%) DKIM
9 2 (0.54%) DMARC
9 2 (0.54%) Intrusion Detection
9 2 (0.54%) PBX
9 2 (0.54%) SAN
9 2 (0.54%) Unified Communications
9 2 (0.54%) VLAN
9 2 (0.54%) VoIP
9 2 (0.54%) WAN
9 2 (0.54%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (8.40%) SQL Server
2 30 (8.13%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (4.88%) Elasticsearch
4 17 (4.61%) MySQL
5 16 (4.34%) NoSQL
6 15 (4.07%) Data Warehouse
7 13 (3.52%) MongoDB
8 12 (3.25%) Amazon Aurora
8 12 (3.25%) Amazon RDS
8 12 (3.25%) Power BI
9 11 (2.98%) Spark SQL
10 10 (2.71%) Relational Database
11 9 (2.44%) DynamoDB
11 9 (2.44%) Pinecone
12 7 (1.90%) Metadata
13 5 (1.36%) Delta Lake
14 3 (0.81%) Amazon Redshift
14 3 (0.81%) Big Data
14 3 (0.81%) Neo4j
14 3 (0.81%) Redis
Development Applications
1 63 (17.07%) Git
2 57 (15.45%) TeamCity
3 49 (13.28%) Jenkins
4 43 (11.65%) GitLab
5 20 (5.42%) Crashlytics
5 20 (5.42%) JIRA
6 16 (4.34%) SonarQube
7 14 (3.79%) XCTest
8 13 (3.52%) Bitbucket
8 13 (3.52%) fastlane
9 11 (2.98%) Cucumber
10 9 (2.44%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 9 (2.44%) Gradle
10 9 (2.44%) MLflow
11 8 (2.17%) Artifactory
12 7 (1.90%) Xcode
13 6 (1.63%) Android Studio
13 6 (1.63%) JUnit
13 6 (1.63%) Maven
13 6 (1.63%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 112 (30.35%) Finance
2 106 (28.73%) Social Skills
3 77 (20.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 76 (20.60%) Banking
5 59 (15.99%) Law
6 55 (14.91%) Retail
7 40 (10.84%) Financial Institution
8 39 (10.57%) Analytical Skills
9 36 (9.76%) Back Office
10 24 (6.50%) Public Sector
11 8 (2.17%) Pharmaceutical
12 7 (1.90%) Aerospace
13 6 (1.63%) Retail Banking
14 5 (1.36%) Manufacturing
15 4 (1.08%) Mandarin Language
15 4 (1.08%) Organisational Skills
16 3 (0.81%) Front Office
16 3 (0.81%) Telecoms
17 2 (0.54%) Influencing Skills
17 2 (0.54%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 71 (19.24%) Lead
1 71 (19.24%) Software Engineer
2 60 (16.26%) Developer
3 56 (15.18%) Senior
4 40 (10.84%) DevOps Engineer
5 30 (8.13%) Azure Engineer
6 23 (6.23%) Cloud Engineer
7 22 (5.96%) Platform Engineer
8 21 (5.69%) Java Engineer
9 20 (5.42%) Lead Software Engineer
10 19 (5.15%) AWS Engineer
11 17 (4.61%) Data Engineer
11 17 (4.61%) Senior Software Engineer
12 16 (4.34%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 16 (4.34%) Java Software Engineer
13 14 (3.79%) Mobile Engineer
14 12 (3.25%) DevSecOps Engineer
14 12 (3.25%) Power Platform Developer
14 12 (3.25%) Senior Developer
14 12 (3.25%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (11.38%) REST
2 37 (10.03%) .NET
2 37 (10.03%) RESTful
3 24 (6.50%) React
4 21 (5.69%) SwiftUI
4 21 (5.69%) UIKit
5 19 (5.15%) Kafka
6 16 (4.34%) OAuth
6 16 (4.34%) PyTorch
6 16 (4.34%) scikit-learn
6 16 (4.34%) TensorFlow
7 14 (3.79%) .NET Core
7 14 (3.79%) FastAPI
8 13 (3.52%) ARM Templates
8 13 (3.52%) Spring
9 12 (3.25%) JWT
9 12 (3.25%) Spring Boot
9 12 (3.25%) Web Services
10 11 (2.98%) Flask
10 11 (2.98%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 100 (27.10%) Cloud Native
2 53 (14.36%) Product Ownership
3 29 (7.86%) Low-Code
3 29 (7.86%) Mobile App
4 26 (7.05%) Distributed Systems
5 23 (6.23%) Life Science
6 17 (4.61%) Blog
7 15 (4.07%) Greenfield Project
8 14 (3.79%) Onboarding
9 12 (3.25%) Legacy Systems
10 11 (2.98%) Management Information System
11 10 (2.71%) PKI
11 10 (2.71%) Self-Motivation
12 9 (2.44%) Hackathon
12 9 (2.44%) Hybrid Cloud
13 7 (1.90%) Public Cloud
13 7 (1.90%) Replication
14 6 (1.63%) Cyberattack
14 6 (1.63%) Enterprise Software
15 5 (1.36%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 64 (17.34%) Linux
2 36 (9.76%) Windows
3 32 (8.67%) Apple iOS
4 15 (4.07%) CentOS
5 14 (3.79%) Windows Server
6 13 (3.52%) Android
7 8 (2.17%) Mac OS
8 6 (1.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (1.63%) Ubuntu
9 5 (1.36%) VMS
10 4 (1.08%) Unix
11 2 (0.54%) Amazon Linux
11 2 (0.54%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 280 (75.88%) CI/CD
2 191 (51.76%) DevOps
3 169 (45.80%) Test Automation
4 124 (33.60%) Infrastructure as Code
5 108 (29.27%) Agile
6 99 (26.83%) Clean Code
6 99 (26.83%) Software Engineering
7 88 (23.85%) Microservices
8 85 (23.04%) Containerisation
9 77 (20.87%) Continuous Improvement
9 77 (20.87%) Observability
10 72 (19.51%) Analytics
11 64 (17.34%) Continuous Deployment
11 64 (17.34%) Problem-Solving
12 62 (16.80%) AI
13 53 (14.36%) Computer Science
14 49 (13.28%) Mentoring
15 47 (12.74%) Cybersecurity
16 46 (12.47%) Machine Learning
17 44 (11.92%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 158 (42.82%) Python
2 101 (27.37%) Java
3 64 (17.34%) SQL
4 49 (13.28%) Bash
4 49 (13.28%) C#
5 48 (13.01%) PowerShell
6 36 (9.76%) JavaScript
7 27 (7.32%) TypeScript
8 23 (6.23%) Kotlin
9 21 (5.69%) Swift
10 15 (4.07%) Bicep
11 13 (3.52%) Rust
12 8 (2.17%) Groovy
13 7 (1.90%) Kusto Query Language
13 7 (1.90%) Shell Script
14 6 (1.63%) Go
15 4 (1.08%) Perl
15 4 (1.08%) PHP
15 4 (1.08%) Scala
16 3 (0.81%) C++
Qualifications
1 62 (16.80%) Degree
2 54 (14.63%) Security Cleared
3 31 (8.40%) SC Cleared
4 26 (7.05%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (4.88%) Master's Degree
6 14 (3.79%) DV Cleared
7 8 (2.17%) PhD
8 7 (1.90%) AWS Certification
8 7 (1.90%) Azure Certification
9 4 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (1.08%) Postgraduate
10 3 (0.81%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.54%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.54%) PMP
12 1 (0.27%) AWS Certified Developer
12 1 (0.27%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 1 (0.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.27%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 1 (0.27%) JNCIP
12 1 (0.27%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (11.92%) QA
2 32 (8.67%) Accessibility
3 20 (5.42%) GDPR
4 19 (5.15%) WCAG
5 15 (4.07%) Data Quality
6 13 (3.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (2.17%) GxP
8 7 (1.90%) SLA
8 7 (1.90%) SOC 2
9 4 (1.08%) NIST
10 2 (0.54%) Def Stans
10 2 (0.54%) IEC 61508
10 2 (0.54%) IFRS
10 2 (0.54%) IFRS 17
10 2 (0.54%) ISO 26262
10 2 (0.54%) NCSC
10 2 (0.54%) PMO
10 2 (0.54%) Solvency II
System Software
1 96 (26.02%) Docker
2 14 (3.79%) Active Directory
3 10 (2.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.36%) Hyper-V
5 4 (1.08%) vSphere
6 2 (0.54%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.27%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.27%) Firmware
7 1 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.27%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 168 (45.53%) Terraform
2 155 (42.01%) Kubernetes
3 104 (28.18%) Grafana
4 59 (15.99%) Ansible
5 35 (9.49%) Prometheus
6 12 (3.25%) Microsoft Intune
7 10 (2.71%) Jamf Pro
8 9 (2.44%) Nagios
9 8 (2.17%) Argo
10 7 (1.90%) Puppet
11 5 (1.36%) SCCM
12 4 (1.08%) Packer
13 3 (0.81%) Control-M
13 3 (0.81%) Docker Swarm
13 3 (0.81%) Podman
13 3 (0.81%) SCOM
13 3 (0.81%) SCOrch
14 2 (0.54%) Plesk
14 2 (0.54%) Progress Chef
14 2 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 61 (16.53%) Microsoft
2 20 (5.42%) Databricks
2 20 (5.42%) Dynatrace
3 19 (5.15%) Google
4 16 (4.34%) Splunk
4 16 (4.34%) VMware
5 14 (3.79%) Amplitude
5 14 (3.79%) Braze
6 12 (3.25%) OpenAI
7 11 (2.98%) Apple
7 11 (2.98%) Red Hat
8 9 (2.44%) Rapid7
8 9 (2.44%) Salesforce
9 8 (2.17%) Automation Anywhere
9 8 (2.17%) UiPath
10 7 (1.90%) AppDynamics
11 6 (1.63%) IBM
12 5 (1.36%) Atlassian
12 5 (1.36%) Oracle
12 5 (1.36%) Tenable