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

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 400 465 472
Rank change year-on-year +65 +7 -72
Permanent jobs citing Deployment Automation 467 202 379
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.43% 0.40% 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.59% 0.45% 0.56%
Number of salaries quoted 266 122 276
10th Percentile £45,456 £46,000 £45,733
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,125 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £66,250 £62,641
Median % change year-on-year +5.66% +5.76% -14.89%
75th Percentile £85,750 £82,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £113,750 £95,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%

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 79,759 44,399 67,357
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.20% 88.84% 80.67%
Number of salaries quoted 55,200 25,247 42,330
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -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 26 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 26 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 +82 389 £70,000 +2.19% 294
UK excluding London +29 247 £65,000 +4.00% 175
London +32 178 £84,500 +16.55% 164
Work from Home +74 167 £65,000 +1.96% 158
North of England +4 82 £65,000 -4.41% 53
South East +3 52 £65,000 -21.21% 29
South West -41 38 £70,000 -9.68% 32
Midlands -18 34 £51,250 -14.58% 19
North West +4 30 £52,500 +14.13% 28
North East -34 29 £49,815 - 12
Yorkshire -24 23 £82,500 +20.44% 14
Wales -49 22 £52,500 +8.25% 5
West Midlands -21 19 £51,250 -14.58% 10
Scotland +1 17 £68,750 -14.06% 24
East Midlands -11 15 £52,500 -30.00% 9
East of England -22 4 £56,000 - 11
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 (2.78%) Confluence
2 11 (2.36%) SharePoint
3 10 (2.14%) Apache
4 9 (1.93%) Apache Spark
5 8 (1.71%) nginx
6 7 (1.50%) IIS
7 6 (1.28%) Apache Airflow
8 5 (1.07%) Camunda
9 4 (0.86%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.86%) SAS
10 2 (0.43%) Cloud Foundry
10 2 (0.43%) CMS
10 2 (0.43%) Luigi
11 1 (0.21%) Documentum
11 1 (0.21%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.21%) JBoss
11 1 (0.21%) NServiceBus
11 1 (0.21%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (0.64%) SPSS
2 1 (0.21%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.21%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (0.64%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.21%) Magento
2 1 (0.21%) Misys Equation
2 1 (0.21%) Misys Midas
Cloud Services
1 263 (56.32%) AWS
2 240 (51.39%) Azure
3 146 (31.26%) GCP
4 104 (22.27%) Azure DevOps
5 69 (14.78%) Amazon EKS
5 69 (14.78%) GitHub
6 58 (12.42%) SaaS
7 52 (11.13%) Serverless
8 39 (8.35%) GitHub Actions
9 31 (6.64%) Datadog
9 31 (6.64%) Power Platform
10 29 (6.21%) AWS CloudFormation
10 29 (6.21%) Microsoft 365
11 25 (5.35%) Amazon ECS
12 24 (5.14%) Firebase
13 23 (4.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 23 (4.93%) PaaS
14 22 (4.71%) Azure Monitor
15 21 (4.50%) Amazon S3
16 20 (4.28%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 19 (4.07%) Firewall
2 18 (3.85%) DNS
3 13 (2.78%) VPN
4 8 (1.71%) Network Security
5 7 (1.50%) DHCP
6 6 (1.28%) BGP
6 6 (1.28%) MQTT
6 6 (1.28%) SSL
6 6 (1.28%) TCP/IP
7 5 (1.07%) Wi-Fi
8 4 (0.86%) Broadband
8 4 (0.86%) Kerberos
8 4 (0.86%) NAS
8 4 (0.86%) OSPF
8 4 (0.86%) SD-WAN
8 4 (0.86%) SSH
8 4 (0.86%) WAN
8 4 (0.86%) Wireless
9 3 (0.64%) LAN
9 3 (0.64%) PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (9.64%) PostgreSQL
2 32 (6.85%) SQL Server
3 29 (6.21%) MySQL
4 28 (6.00%) MongoDB
5 22 (4.71%) NoSQL
6 21 (4.50%) Data Warehouse
6 21 (4.50%) Elasticsearch
6 21 (4.50%) Power BI
7 15 (3.21%) Amazon RDS
8 13 (2.78%) Data Lake
9 11 (2.36%) Azure SQL Database
9 11 (2.36%) Spark SQL
10 9 (1.93%) Metadata
10 9 (1.93%) Relational Database
11 8 (1.71%) Big Data
12 7 (1.50%) Geospatial Data
13 6 (1.28%) Delta Lake
13 6 (1.28%) DynamoDB
14 5 (1.07%) Hadoop
14 5 (1.07%) Redis
Development Applications
1 100 (21.41%) Git
2 58 (12.42%) Jenkins
3 53 (11.35%) TeamCity
4 45 (9.64%) GitLab
5 34 (7.28%) JIRA
6 17 (3.64%) Crashlytics
7 16 (3.43%) Bitbucket
8 13 (2.78%) fastlane
8 13 (2.78%) SonarQube
9 11 (2.36%) Cucumber
9 11 (2.36%) XCTest
10 10 (2.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 9 (1.93%) JUnit
12 8 (1.71%) Claude Code
12 8 (1.71%) Mockito
12 8 (1.71%) Octopus Deploy
13 7 (1.50%) Artifactory
13 7 (1.50%) MSI
13 7 (1.50%) Xcode
14 6 (1.28%) JMeter
General
1 142 (30.41%) Finance
2 136 (29.12%) Social Skills
3 99 (21.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 92 (19.70%) Banking
5 70 (14.99%) Law
6 62 (13.28%) Analytical Skills
7 56 (11.99%) Retail
8 51 (10.92%) Financial Institution
9 50 (10.71%) Public Sector
10 43 (9.21%) Back Office
11 10 (2.14%) Marketing
12 7 (1.50%) Manufacturing
13 6 (1.28%) Aerospace
13 6 (1.28%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (1.28%) Telecoms
14 4 (0.86%) Legal
14 4 (0.86%) Mandarin Language
15 3 (0.64%) Front Office
16 2 (0.43%) Electronics
16 2 (0.43%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 92 (19.70%) Software Engineer
2 91 (19.49%) Lead
3 76 (16.27%) DevOps Engineer
4 68 (14.56%) Senior
5 66 (14.13%) Developer
6 37 (7.92%) Cloud Engineer
7 35 (7.49%) Azure Engineer
8 26 (5.57%) Data Engineer
9 23 (4.93%) Platform Engineer
9 23 (4.93%) Senior Software Engineer
10 22 (4.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 22 (4.71%) Site Engineer
10 22 (4.71%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 21 (4.50%) Lead Software Engineer
12 19 (4.07%) Java Engineer
12 19 (4.07%) Technical Leader
13 18 (3.85%) Automation Engineer
14 16 (3.43%) Administrator
14 16 (3.43%) Java Developer
14 16 (3.43%) Software Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 212 (45.40%) Terraform
2 50 (10.71%) REST
3 49 (10.49%) RESTful
4 42 (8.99%) .NET
5 30 (6.42%) Kafka
6 29 (6.21%) React
7 23 (4.93%) Spring
8 21 (4.50%) Spring Boot
9 18 (3.85%) SwiftUI
9 18 (3.85%) UIKit
10 17 (3.64%) ARM Templates
10 17 (3.64%) LangChain
11 16 (3.43%) AngularJS
11 16 (3.43%) CSS
12 15 (3.21%) Next.js
12 15 (3.21%) PySpark
13 14 (3.00%) Hibernate
13 14 (3.00%) JPA
13 14 (3.00%) Node.js
13 14 (3.00%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 160 (34.26%) Cloud Native
2 87 (18.63%) Product Ownership
3 50 (10.71%) Distributed Systems
4 28 (6.00%) Onboarding
5 26 (5.57%) Mobile App
6 20 (4.28%) Self-Motivation
7 18 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
7 18 (3.85%) Life Science
8 17 (3.64%) Enterprise Software
9 15 (3.21%) AI Agents
9 15 (3.21%) Management Information System
10 14 (3.00%) Virtual Team
11 12 (2.57%) Greenfield Project
12 10 (2.14%) Hybrid Cloud
13 9 (1.93%) Blog
14 8 (1.71%) Linux Command Line
14 8 (1.71%) Low-Code
14 8 (1.71%) PKI
15 7 (1.50%) Private Cloud
15 7 (1.50%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 84 (17.99%) Linux
2 62 (13.28%) Windows
3 29 (6.21%) Apple iOS
4 21 (4.50%) Windows Server
5 17 (3.64%) CentOS
6 12 (2.57%) Android
7 7 (1.50%) Mac OS
7 7 (1.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (1.28%) Ubuntu
8 6 (1.28%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (0.86%) Unix
10 2 (0.43%) Amazon Linux
10 2 (0.43%) Embedded Linux
10 2 (0.43%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 370 (79.23%) CI/CD
2 291 (62.31%) DevOps
3 199 (42.61%) Infrastructure as Code
3 199 (42.61%) Test Automation
4 167 (35.76%) Software Engineering
5 155 (33.19%) Agile
6 140 (29.98%) Observability
7 124 (26.55%) AI
8 122 (26.12%) Microservices
9 119 (25.48%) Containerisation
10 116 (24.84%) Continuous Improvement
11 112 (23.98%) Mentoring
12 102 (21.84%) Problem-Solving
13 92 (19.70%) Clean Code
14 72 (15.42%) Analytics
15 64 (13.70%) Continuous Deployment
15 64 (13.70%) Machine Learning
16 63 (13.49%) Technical Leadership
17 53 (11.35%) Coaching
17 53 (11.35%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 194 (41.54%) Python
2 133 (28.48%) Java
3 80 (17.13%) SQL
4 73 (15.63%) PowerShell
5 55 (11.78%) Bash
6 47 (10.06%) TypeScript
7 45 (9.64%) C#
8 35 (7.49%) JavaScript
9 21 (4.50%) Bicep
10 19 (4.07%) Kotlin
11 18 (3.85%) Swift
12 11 (2.36%) Go
13 9 (1.93%) Scala
14 8 (1.71%) Groovy
14 8 (1.71%) Rust
14 8 (1.71%) Shell Script
15 7 (1.50%) C++
16 6 (1.28%) C
17 4 (0.86%) Perl
18 3 (0.64%) PHP
Qualifications
1 76 (16.27%) Security Cleared
2 56 (11.99%) Degree
3 46 (9.85%) SC Cleared
4 36 (7.71%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (3.85%) Azure Certification
6 15 (3.21%) AWS Certification
7 14 (3.00%) DV Cleared
8 12 (2.57%) Master's Degree
9 10 (2.14%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (0.86%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 4 (0.86%) Postgraduate
12 3 (0.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 3 (0.64%) CCNP
12 3 (0.64%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (0.43%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 2 (0.43%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.43%) PMP
14 1 (0.21%) ISTQB
14 1 (0.21%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (14.35%) QA
2 41 (8.78%) Accessibility
3 28 (6.00%) WCAG
4 21 (4.50%) GDPR
5 16 (3.43%) Data Quality
6 15 (3.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 14 (3.00%) SLA
8 12 (2.57%) NCSC
9 7 (1.50%) SOC 2
10 4 (0.86%) NIST
11 2 (0.43%) Def Stans
11 2 (0.43%) GRC
11 2 (0.43%) IEC 61508
11 2 (0.43%) IFRS
11 2 (0.43%) IFRS 17
11 2 (0.43%) ISO 26262
11 2 (0.43%) JTAG
11 2 (0.43%) PMO
11 2 (0.43%) Solvency II
System Software
1 123 (26.34%) Docker
2 22 (4.71%) Active Directory
3 10 (2.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.28%) Hyper-V
5 5 (1.07%) Firmware
5 5 (1.07%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.86%) vSphere
7 3 (0.64%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.21%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.21%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 193 (41.33%) Kubernetes
2 118 (25.27%) Grafana
3 90 (19.27%) Ansible
4 39 (8.35%) Prometheus
5 14 (3.00%) Argo
6 13 (2.78%) Microsoft Intune
7 11 (2.36%) Nagios
7 11 (2.36%) Puppet
8 9 (1.93%) Jamf Pro
9 6 (1.28%) Progress Chef
9 6 (1.28%) SCCM
10 4 (0.86%) Packer
10 4 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (0.64%) Control-M
11 3 (0.64%) cPanel
11 3 (0.64%) Docker Swarm
11 3 (0.64%) Plesk
11 3 (0.64%) Podman
11 3 (0.64%) SCOM
11 3 (0.64%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 88 (18.84%) Microsoft
2 39 (8.35%) Dynatrace
3 30 (6.42%) Google
4 22 (4.71%) Databricks
4 22 (4.71%) Splunk
5 17 (3.64%) Red Hat
6 15 (3.21%) Salesforce
6 15 (3.21%) VMware
7 12 (2.57%) OpenAI
8 11 (2.36%) Amplitude
8 11 (2.36%) Apple
8 11 (2.36%) Braze
8 11 (2.36%) Rapid7
9 7 (1.50%) AppDynamics
9 7 (1.50%) Atlassian
10 6 (1.28%) IBM
10 6 (1.28%) Oracle
11 5 (1.07%) Fortinet
11 5 (1.07%) ServiceNow
12 4 (0.86%) Dell