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

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 409 445 505
Rank change year-on-year +36 +60 -94
Permanent jobs citing Deployment Automation 370 234 441
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.40% 0.53% 0.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.55% 0.57% 0.50%
Number of salaries quoted 200 165 340
10th Percentile £42,500 £43,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £54,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,200 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.14% +7.69% -13.33%
75th Percentile £86,750 £87,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £103,750 £112,000 £110,000
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 67,867 41,257 88,577
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.84% 92.63% 82.08%
Number of salaries quoted 46,626 22,001 62,691
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £29,629
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,353 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%
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 15 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 15 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 +41 340 £70,000 +2.19% 108
UK excluding London +37 197 £65,000 -3.70% 81
Work from Home +42 160 £65,000 +8.33% 57
London +6 152 £81,500 +1.88% 43
South East +36 70 £65,000 +23.81% 40
North of England +1 70 £55,000 -18.52% 17
North West +4 32 £55,000 -6.38% 11
Midlands -13 25 £50,250 -19.60% 9
Yorkshire -23 19 £82,500 +21.32% 3
North East - 19 £47,000 - 3
East Midlands -3 16 £40,000 -46.67% 4
South West -54 14 £68,400 -4.99% 7
West Midlands -23 9 £58,750 -4.08% 5
Scotland -1 8 £55,000 -27.02% 2
East of England -15 6 £85,000 +13.33% 10
Wales -44 6 £70,039 +30.31% 2
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 (1.89%) Apache
1 7 (1.89%) Apache Airflow
1 7 (1.89%) Appian
2 6 (1.62%) Apache Spark
3 5 (1.35%) 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
5 2 (0.54%) SAS
6 1 (0.27%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (0.27%) CMS
6 1 (0.27%) Headless CMS
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
1 202 (54.59%) AWS
2 182 (49.19%) Azure
3 103 (27.84%) GCP
4 81 (21.89%) Azure DevOps
5 72 (19.46%) Amazon EKS
6 59 (15.95%) GitHub
7 56 (15.14%) Serverless
8 51 (13.78%) SaaS
9 45 (12.16%) GitHub Actions
10 30 (8.11%) Azure Logic Apps
11 29 (7.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 28 (7.57%) Power Platform
13 27 (7.30%) Firebase
14 25 (6.76%) Amazon S3
14 25 (6.76%) PaaS
15 23 (6.22%) Azure Data Factory
16 21 (5.68%) Azure Monitor
17 19 (5.14%) AWS Lambda
18 17 (4.59%) Amazon EC2
18 17 (4.59%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 19 (5.14%) Firewall
2 12 (3.24%) DNS
3 8 (2.16%) Network Security
4 7 (1.89%) MQTT
5 6 (1.62%) DHCP
5 6 (1.62%) VPN
6 5 (1.35%) SSL
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%) Ethernet VPN
9 2 (0.54%) Intrusion Detection
9 2 (0.54%) PBX
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 (8.38%) SQL Server
2 30 (8.11%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (4.86%) Elasticsearch
4 17 (4.59%) MySQL
4 17 (4.59%) NoSQL
5 16 (4.32%) Data Warehouse
6 13 (3.51%) MongoDB
7 12 (3.24%) Amazon Aurora
7 12 (3.24%) Amazon RDS
7 12 (3.24%) Power BI
8 11 (2.97%) Relational Database
8 11 (2.97%) Spark SQL
9 9 (2.43%) DynamoDB
9 9 (2.43%) Pinecone
10 7 (1.89%) Metadata
11 5 (1.35%) Delta Lake
12 3 (0.81%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (0.81%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (0.81%) Data Lake
12 3 (0.81%) Redis
Development Applications
1 63 (17.03%) Git
2 57 (15.41%) TeamCity
3 49 (13.24%) Jenkins
4 43 (11.62%) GitLab
5 21 (5.68%) JIRA
6 20 (5.41%) Crashlytics
7 16 (4.32%) SonarQube
8 14 (3.78%) XCTest
9 13 (3.51%) Bitbucket
9 13 (3.51%) fastlane
10 11 (2.97%) Cucumber
11 9 (2.43%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 9 (2.43%) Gradle
11 9 (2.43%) MLflow
12 8 (2.16%) Artifactory
13 7 (1.89%) Xcode
14 6 (1.62%) JMeter
14 6 (1.62%) JUnit
14 6 (1.62%) Maven
14 6 (1.62%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 110 (29.73%) Finance
2 106 (28.65%) Social Skills
3 77 (20.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 76 (20.54%) Banking
5 59 (15.95%) Law
6 55 (14.86%) Retail
7 40 (10.81%) Analytical Skills
7 40 (10.81%) Financial Institution
8 36 (9.73%) Back Office
9 24 (6.49%) Public Sector
10 7 (1.89%) Aerospace
11 6 (1.62%) Pharmaceutical
11 6 (1.62%) Retail Banking
12 5 (1.35%) Manufacturing
13 4 (1.08%) Mandarin Language
13 4 (1.08%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.81%) Front Office
14 3 (0.81%) Telecoms
15 2 (0.54%) Influencing Skills
15 2 (0.54%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 71 (19.19%) Software Engineer
2 69 (18.65%) Lead
3 61 (16.49%) Developer
4 57 (15.41%) Senior
5 41 (11.08%) DevOps Engineer
6 30 (8.11%) Azure Engineer
7 24 (6.49%) Cloud Engineer
8 22 (5.95%) Platform Engineer
9 21 (5.68%) Java Engineer
10 20 (5.41%) Lead Software Engineer
11 19 (5.14%) AWS Engineer
12 17 (4.59%) Data Engineer
12 17 (4.59%) Senior Software Engineer
13 16 (4.32%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 16 (4.32%) Java Software Engineer
14 14 (3.78%) Mobile Engineer
15 12 (3.24%) DevSecOps Engineer
15 12 (3.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 12 (3.24%) Power Platform Developer
15 12 (3.24%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (11.35%) REST
2 37 (10.00%) .NET
2 37 (10.00%) RESTful
3 25 (6.76%) React
4 21 (5.68%) SwiftUI
4 21 (5.68%) UIKit
5 19 (5.14%) Kafka
6 16 (4.32%) OAuth
6 16 (4.32%) PyTorch
6 16 (4.32%) scikit-learn
6 16 (4.32%) TensorFlow
7 15 (4.05%) FastAPI
8 14 (3.78%) .NET Core
9 13 (3.51%) ARM Templates
9 13 (3.51%) Spring
10 12 (3.24%) Flask
10 12 (3.24%) JWT
10 12 (3.24%) Spring Boot
10 12 (3.24%) Web Services
11 11 (2.97%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 102 (27.57%) Cloud Native
2 53 (14.32%) Product Ownership
3 29 (7.84%) Low-Code
3 29 (7.84%) Mobile App
4 26 (7.03%) Distributed Systems
5 21 (5.68%) Life Science
6 17 (4.59%) Blog
7 15 (4.05%) Greenfield Project
8 14 (3.78%) Onboarding
9 12 (3.24%) Legacy Systems
10 11 (2.97%) Management Information System
10 11 (2.97%) Self-Motivation
11 10 (2.70%) Hybrid Cloud
11 10 (2.70%) PKI
12 9 (2.43%) Hackathon
13 7 (1.89%) Public Cloud
13 7 (1.89%) Replication
14 6 (1.62%) Cyberattack
14 6 (1.62%) Enterprise Software
15 5 (1.35%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 65 (17.57%) Linux
2 37 (10.00%) Windows
3 32 (8.65%) Apple iOS
4 15 (4.05%) CentOS
4 15 (4.05%) Windows Server
5 13 (3.51%) Android
6 8 (2.16%) Mac OS
7 6 (1.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (1.62%) Ubuntu
8 5 (1.35%) VMS
9 4 (1.08%) Unix
10 3 (0.81%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.54%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 282 (76.22%) CI/CD
2 192 (51.89%) DevOps
3 169 (45.68%) Test Automation
4 124 (33.51%) Infrastructure as Code
5 107 (28.92%) Agile
6 99 (26.76%) Clean Code
6 99 (26.76%) Software Engineering
7 89 (24.05%) Microservices
8 85 (22.97%) Containerisation
9 78 (21.08%) Continuous Improvement
9 78 (21.08%) Observability
10 71 (19.19%) Analytics
11 65 (17.57%) Problem-Solving
12 64 (17.30%) Continuous Deployment
13 62 (16.76%) AI
14 51 (13.78%) Computer Science
15 49 (13.24%) Mentoring
16 48 (12.97%) Cybersecurity
17 44 (11.89%) Fintech
17 44 (11.89%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 159 (42.97%) Python
2 101 (27.30%) Java
3 65 (17.57%) SQL
4 50 (13.51%) Bash
5 49 (13.24%) C#
5 49 (13.24%) PowerShell
6 36 (9.73%) JavaScript
7 28 (7.57%) TypeScript
8 23 (6.22%) Kotlin
9 21 (5.68%) Swift
10 15 (4.05%) Bicep
11 13 (3.51%) Rust
12 8 (2.16%) Groovy
13 7 (1.89%) Kusto Query Language
13 7 (1.89%) Shell Script
14 6 (1.62%) Go
15 4 (1.08%) Perl
15 4 (1.08%) PHP
15 4 (1.08%) Scala
16 3 (0.81%) C++
Qualifications
1 60 (16.22%) Degree
2 55 (14.86%) Security Cleared
3 32 (8.65%) SC Cleared
4 26 (7.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (4.32%) Master's Degree
6 14 (3.78%) DV Cleared
7 7 (1.89%) AWS Certification
7 7 (1.89%) Azure Certification
8 6 (1.62%) PhD
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 DevOps Engineer
12 1 (0.27%) CCNP
12 1 (0.27%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.27%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 1 (0.27%) JNCIP
12 1 (0.27%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (11.89%) QA
2 32 (8.65%) Accessibility
3 20 (5.41%) GDPR
4 19 (5.14%) WCAG
5 15 (4.05%) Data Quality
6 13 (3.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (1.89%) SLA
7 7 (1.89%) SOC 2
8 6 (1.62%) GxP
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 (25.95%) Docker
2 15 (4.05%) Active Directory
3 10 (2.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.35%) 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 (45.41%) Terraform
2 155 (41.89%) Kubernetes
3 104 (28.11%) Grafana
4 60 (16.22%) Ansible
5 35 (9.46%) Prometheus
6 13 (3.51%) Microsoft Intune
7 10 (2.70%) Jamf Pro
8 9 (2.43%) Nagios
9 8 (2.16%) Argo
10 7 (1.89%) Puppet
11 5 (1.35%) 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%) cPanel
14 2 (0.54%) Plesk
14 2 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 62 (16.76%) Microsoft
2 20 (5.41%) Databricks
2 20 (5.41%) Dynatrace
3 19 (5.14%) Google
4 16 (4.32%) Splunk
4 16 (4.32%) VMware
5 14 (3.78%) Amplitude
5 14 (3.78%) Braze
6 12 (3.24%) OpenAI
7 11 (2.97%) Apple
7 11 (2.97%) Red Hat
8 9 (2.43%) Rapid7
8 9 (2.43%) Salesforce
9 8 (2.16%) Automation Anywhere
9 8 (2.16%) UiPath
10 7 (1.89%) AppDynamics
11 6 (1.62%) IBM
12 5 (1.35%) Atlassian
12 5 (1.35%) Oracle
12 5 (1.35%) Tenable