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

6 months to
10 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 415 415 429
Rank change year-on-year 0 +14 -46
Permanent jobs citing Deployment Automation 239 338 308
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.40% 0.63% 0.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 0.70% 0.62%
Number of salaries quoted 105 223 246
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £51,875 £52,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% -0.82% -11.78%
75th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £94,375
90th Percentile £97,000 £130,000 £138,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% - -9.91%

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 48,314 48,563 49,842
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 81.11% 90.50% 89.97%
Number of salaries quoted 28,431 23,714 37,983
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%

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 10 January 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 10 January 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 -38 192 £70,500 +0.71% 186
UK excluding London +17 149 £65,000 +8.33% 174
Work from Home +45 102 £65,000 -3.70% 39
London -9 83 £77,217 -16.52% 35
South East +33 52 £60,000 +2.56% 53
Scotland +31 33 £77,217 +47.08% 6
North of England -32 31 £68,000 +37.37% 31
Yorkshire -55 18 £60,000 +21.21% 18
North West +18 12 £75,000 +62.16% 9
South West -4 11 £80,000 +18.52% 29
Wales +12 10 £48,500 -25.38% 8
East of England +8 7 £67,500 -10.00% 22
Midlands +4 4 £77,217 +23.55% 26
West Midlands +4 4 £77,217 +23.55% 9
North East - 1 £77,217 - 4
Northern Ireland - 1 £77,217 - 3

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 9 (3.77%) Appian
2 3 (1.26%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.26%) Confluence
3 2 (0.84%) Apache
3 2 (0.84%) BizTalk Server
3 2 (0.84%) IIS
3 2 (0.84%) nginx
3 2 (0.84%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.42%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.42%) SAS
4 1 (0.42%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.42%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (1.26%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 129 (53.97%) Azure
2 81 (33.89%) AWS
2 81 (33.89%) Azure DevOps
3 56 (23.43%) GitHub
4 52 (21.76%) GitHub Actions
5 36 (15.06%) GCP
6 31 (12.97%) Serverless
7 30 (12.55%) Azure Monitor
8 28 (11.72%) Amazon EKS
8 28 (11.72%) SaaS
9 27 (11.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 25 (10.46%) Azure Data Factory
11 24 (10.04%) Azure Logic Apps
12 23 (9.62%) AWS Lambda
13 17 (7.11%) AWS CloudFormation
13 17 (7.11%) Power Platform
14 16 (6.69%) Amazon S3
15 15 (6.28%) Amazon SQS
15 15 (6.28%) Azure Service Bus
16 14 (5.86%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.77%) Firewall
2 5 (2.09%) SSL
3 4 (1.67%) DNS
4 3 (1.26%) DMZ
4 3 (1.26%) VPN
5 2 (0.84%) BGP
5 2 (0.84%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (0.84%) MQTT
5 2 (0.84%) OSPF
5 2 (0.84%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (0.84%) RTMP
5 2 (0.84%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.84%) VLAN
5 2 (0.84%) WAN
5 2 (0.84%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.84%) Wireless
6 1 (0.42%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (12.13%) SQL Server
2 18 (7.53%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (7.11%) DynamoDB
4 15 (6.28%) NoSQL
5 9 (3.77%) Pinecone
6 8 (3.35%) MySQL
7 7 (2.93%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (2.51%) Amazon Aurora
8 6 (2.51%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (2.51%) Tick Data
9 5 (2.09%) Power BI
10 4 (1.67%) MongoDB
11 3 (1.26%) CockroachDB
11 3 (1.26%) Data Lake
11 3 (1.26%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (1.26%) Metadata
12 2 (0.84%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (0.84%) Relational Database
12 2 (0.84%) Tableau
13 1 (0.42%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 34 (14.23%) Git
2 23 (9.62%) Jenkins
3 19 (7.95%) TeamCity
4 18 (7.53%) GitLab
5 12 (5.02%) MLflow
6 6 (2.51%) JIRA
6 6 (2.51%) Storybook
7 5 (2.09%) Gradle
7 5 (2.09%) Maven
8 4 (1.67%) Artifactory
9 3 (1.26%) Bitbucket
9 3 (1.26%) JUnit
9 3 (1.26%) Octopus Deploy
9 3 (1.26%) Selenium
9 3 (1.26%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 3 (1.26%) TestNG
10 2 (0.84%) ESLint
10 2 (0.84%) Jaeger
10 2 (0.84%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.84%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 109 (45.61%) Finance
2 55 (23.01%) Social Skills
3 29 (12.13%) Pharmaceutical
4 25 (10.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 24 (10.04%) Banking
6 18 (7.53%) Retail
7 17 (7.11%) Law
8 16 (6.69%) Financial Institution
9 15 (6.28%) Back Office
10 14 (5.86%) Analytical Skills
11 12 (5.02%) Marketing
12 3 (1.26%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (1.26%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (1.26%) Legal
12 3 (1.26%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (1.26%) Public Sector
12 3 (1.26%) Retail Banking
13 2 (0.84%) Advertising
13 2 (0.84%) Agriculture
13 2 (0.84%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 59 (24.69%) Lead
2 42 (17.57%) Developer
3 21 (8.79%) DevOps Engineer
4 19 (7.95%) Software Engineer
5 18 (7.53%) Senior
6 15 (6.28%) Cloud Engineer
6 15 (6.28%) Platform Engineer
7 13 (5.44%) Integration Engineer
8 12 (5.02%) .NET Developer
8 12 (5.02%) Azure Engineer
9 11 (4.60%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 10 (4.18%) Analyst
10 10 (4.18%) AWS Developer
11 9 (3.77%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 9 (3.77%) Automation Engineer
11 9 (3.77%) AWS Engineer
12 8 (3.35%) AWS Platform Engineer
12 8 (3.35%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 8 (3.35%) Power Platform Developer
13 7 (2.93%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (18.41%) RESTful
2 31 (12.97%) .NET
3 30 (12.55%) OAuth
4 23 (9.62%) React
5 21 (8.79%) OAuth2
6 20 (8.37%) JSON
7 19 (7.95%) .NET Core
8 18 (7.53%) REST
9 15 (6.28%) Blazor
10 14 (5.86%) ASP.NET
10 14 (5.86%) AWS CDK
11 13 (5.44%) ASP.NET Core
12 12 (5.02%) FastAPI
12 12 (5.02%) JWT
13 11 (4.60%) OpenAPI
13 11 (4.60%) Swagger
14 10 (4.18%) Flask
14 10 (4.18%) Web Services
15 9 (3.77%) Pandas
15 9 (3.77%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 55 (23.01%) Cloud Native
2 32 (13.39%) Life Science
3 25 (10.46%) Low-Code
4 16 (6.69%) Product Ownership
5 10 (4.18%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (2.51%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (2.09%) IoT
7 5 (2.09%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.67%) Hackathon
9 3 (1.26%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.26%) Private Cloud
10 2 (0.84%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.84%) Blog
10 2 (0.84%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (0.84%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.84%) IVR
10 2 (0.84%) Mobile App
10 2 (0.84%) Public Cloud
10 2 (0.84%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.84%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 23 (9.62%) Linux
2 14 (5.86%) Windows
3 8 (3.35%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.42%) CentOS
4 1 (0.42%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 152 (63.60%) CI/CD
2 139 (58.16%) DevOps
3 102 (42.68%) Agile
4 91 (38.08%) Infrastructure as Code
5 80 (33.47%) Test Automation
6 76 (31.80%) AI
7 72 (30.13%) Analytics
8 64 (26.78%) Machine Learning
9 53 (22.18%) Roadmaps
10 50 (20.92%) Problem-Solving
11 49 (20.50%) Containerisation
12 43 (17.99%) Continuous Improvement
12 43 (17.99%) Microservices
13 42 (17.57%) Observability
14 41 (17.15%) Generative AI
15 39 (16.32%) Computer Science
15 39 (16.32%) Data Science
16 38 (15.90%) Coaching
16 38 (15.90%) Intelligent Automation
17 36 (15.06%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 80 (33.47%) Python
2 41 (17.15%) SQL
3 33 (13.81%) Bicep
4 32 (13.39%) PowerShell
5 31 (12.97%) Bash
5 31 (12.97%) C#
6 26 (10.88%) Java
7 23 (9.62%) JavaScript
8 13 (5.44%) TypeScript
9 4 (1.67%) Go
10 2 (0.84%) C++
10 2 (0.84%) Groovy
10 2 (0.84%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.42%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.42%) C
11 1 (0.42%) Delphi
11 1 (0.42%) R
11 1 (0.42%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.42%) VB
11 1 (0.42%) VB6
Qualifications
1 47 (19.67%) Degree
2 33 (13.81%) Master's Degree
3 28 (11.72%) PhD
4 14 (5.86%) Security Cleared
5 13 (5.44%) AWS Certification
6 11 (4.60%) AWS Certified Developer
6 11 (4.60%) Azure Certification
7 9 (3.77%) SC Cleared
8 7 (2.93%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.67%) DV Cleared
10 3 (1.26%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.42%) MCSE
11 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.42%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.42%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (11.72%) GxP
2 19 (7.95%) GDPR
3 13 (5.44%) Data Quality
4 12 (5.02%) Accessibility
5 11 (4.60%) QA
6 6 (2.51%) WCAG
7 4 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.84%) GRC
8 2 (0.84%) NIST
8 2 (0.84%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.42%) EU AI Act
9 1 (0.42%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.42%) SLA
System Software
1 65 (27.20%) Docker
2 12 (5.02%) Virtual Machines
3 10 (4.18%) Virtual Desktop
4 8 (3.35%) Active Directory
5 3 (1.26%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.84%) NFS
7 1 (0.42%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.42%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 107 (44.77%) Terraform
2 79 (33.05%) Kubernetes
3 40 (16.74%) Grafana
4 19 (7.95%) Ansible
4 19 (7.95%) Prometheus
5 10 (4.18%) Microsoft Intune
6 7 (2.93%) Argo
7 4 (1.67%) logstash
8 2 (0.84%) Istio
8 2 (0.84%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.84%) Puppet
8 2 (0.84%) Rancher
8 2 (0.84%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.42%) Nagios
Vendors
1 24 (10.04%) Microsoft
2 14 (5.86%) Ab Initio
3 9 (3.77%) Automation Anywhere
3 9 (3.77%) OpenAI
3 9 (3.77%) UiPath
4 7 (2.93%) Databricks
4 7 (2.93%) Splunk
5 6 (2.51%) Cisco
5 6 (2.51%) Salesforce
6 5 (2.09%) Oracle
7 4 (1.67%) VMware
8 3 (1.26%) Citrix
8 3 (1.26%) Dynatrace
8 3 (1.26%) Google
9 2 (0.84%) MikroTik
9 2 (0.84%) NETGEAR
9 2 (0.84%) Pega
9 2 (0.84%) Sonatype
9 2 (0.84%) Starlink
9 2 (0.84%) Ubiquiti