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

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 400 400 491
Rank change year-on-year 0 +91 -52
Permanent jobs citing Deployment Automation 361 270 442
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.40% 0.61% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.54% 0.66% 0.54%
Number of salaries quoted 187 213 348
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £50,625 £55,000 £55,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +11.11% -12.90%
75th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £130,000 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £61,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% +1.63% -11.44%

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 66,871 40,971 82,332
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.97% 93.32% 85.23%
Number of salaries quoted 42,937 22,765 59,727
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -10.10%
75th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,410 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £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 11 May 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 May 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 +25 329 £70,000 -6.67% 91
UK excluding London +28 203 £65,000 +4.00% 60
Work from Home +33 147 £62,500 +4.17% 47
London -26 142 £80,750 +0.94% 38
South East +35 75 £66,250 +23.26% 28
North of England -26 61 £70,000 +14.29% 14
Yorkshire -33 27 £82,500 +40.43% 4
North West -12 23 £71,000 +15.92% 5
Midlands -32 22 £50,250 -19.60% 7
Scotland -4 15 £55,000 -27.02% 3
South West -45 15 £68,400 -4.99% 5
East Midlands - 13 £37,500 - 3
North East - 11 £47,250 - 5
East of England -5 9 £76,250 +1.67% 3
West Midlands -34 9 £52,500 -16.00% 4
Wales -22 8 £61,248 +22.50%
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 12 (3.32%) Appian
2 8 (2.22%) Apache
3 7 (1.94%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.66%) Apache Spark
5 5 (1.39%) IIS
6 4 (1.11%) Confluence
6 4 (1.11%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.83%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.55%) BizTalk Server
8 2 (0.55%) Luigi
8 2 (0.55%) SAS
9 1 (0.28%) CMS
9 1 (0.28%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.28%) nginx
9 1 (0.28%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (0.83%) SPSS
2 2 (0.55%) Trello
3 1 (0.28%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.28%) Misys Equation
2 1 (0.28%) Misys Midas
2 1 (0.28%) Oracle SCM
2 1 (0.28%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 193 (53.46%) AWS
2 183 (50.69%) Azure
3 88 (24.38%) Azure DevOps
4 81 (22.44%) GCP
5 74 (20.50%) GitHub
6 66 (18.28%) Amazon EKS
6 66 (18.28%) Serverless
7 64 (17.73%) GitHub Actions
8 42 (11.63%) SaaS
9 38 (10.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 38 (10.53%) Azure Logic Apps
10 34 (9.42%) Power Platform
11 33 (9.14%) Azure Data Factory
12 32 (8.86%) Amazon S3
13 31 (8.59%) AWS Lambda
14 27 (7.48%) Azure Monitor
15 24 (6.65%) AWS CloudFormation
16 20 (5.54%) Amazon EC2
16 20 (5.54%) PaaS
17 18 (4.99%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 20 (5.54%) Firewall
2 12 (3.32%) DNS
3 7 (1.94%) SSL
4 6 (1.66%) DHCP
4 6 (1.66%) MQTT
4 6 (1.66%) Network Security
5 5 (1.39%) VPN
6 4 (1.11%) Broadband
6 4 (1.11%) SSH
7 3 (0.83%) DMZ
8 2 (0.55%) BGP
8 2 (0.55%) Intrusion Detection
8 2 (0.55%) SAN
9 1 (0.28%) Ethernet VPN
9 1 (0.28%) HTTP
9 1 (0.28%) NetScaler
9 1 (0.28%) SNMP
9 1 (0.28%) VSAN
9 1 (0.28%) VXLAN
9 1 (0.28%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (11.08%) SQL Server
2 33 (9.14%) PostgreSQL
3 21 (5.82%) NoSQL
4 19 (5.26%) DynamoDB
5 17 (4.71%) Elasticsearch
5 17 (4.71%) MySQL
6 15 (4.16%) Amazon Aurora
7 14 (3.88%) Amazon RDS
7 14 (3.88%) Pinecone
7 14 (3.88%) Power BI
8 13 (3.60%) Data Warehouse
8 13 (3.60%) MongoDB
9 9 (2.49%) Spark SQL
10 7 (1.94%) Metadata
10 7 (1.94%) Relational Database
11 5 (1.39%) Delta Lake
12 3 (0.83%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (0.83%) Big Data
12 3 (0.83%) CockroachDB
12 3 (0.83%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 68 (18.84%) Git
2 47 (13.02%) TeamCity
3 46 (12.74%) GitLab
3 46 (12.74%) Jenkins
4 20 (5.54%) JIRA
5 15 (4.16%) Crashlytics
6 14 (3.88%) Bitbucket
6 14 (3.88%) MLflow
6 14 (3.88%) SonarQube
7 12 (3.32%) XCTest
8 10 (2.77%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 10 (2.77%) Cucumber
9 8 (2.22%) Artifactory
9 8 (2.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 7 (1.94%) Gradle
11 6 (1.66%) fastlane
11 6 (1.66%) JMeter
12 5 (1.39%) Locust
12 5 (1.39%) Octopus Deploy
13 4 (1.11%) NUnit
General
1 110 (30.47%) Finance
1 110 (30.47%) Social Skills
2 61 (16.90%) Banking
3 59 (16.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 46 (12.74%) Law
5 45 (12.47%) Retail
6 39 (10.80%) Analytical Skills
7 30 (8.31%) Financial Institution
8 27 (7.48%) Back Office
9 17 (4.71%) Public Sector
10 10 (2.77%) Pharmaceutical
11 7 (1.94%) Aerospace
12 6 (1.66%) Retail Banking
13 4 (1.11%) Mandarin Language
13 4 (1.11%) Manufacturing
13 4 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.83%) Front Office
14 3 (0.83%) Marketing
15 2 (0.55%) Influencing Skills
15 2 (0.55%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 72 (19.94%) Lead
2 61 (16.90%) Developer
3 47 (13.02%) Senior
4 44 (12.19%) Software Engineer
5 38 (10.53%) DevOps Engineer
6 26 (7.20%) Cloud Engineer
7 25 (6.93%) Azure Engineer
8 23 (6.37%) Platform Engineer
9 22 (6.09%) AWS Engineer
10 18 (4.99%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 18 (4.99%) Data Engineer
10 18 (4.99%) Java Engineer
10 18 (4.99%) Lead Software Engineer
11 16 (4.43%) Power Platform Developer
12 14 (3.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 13 (3.60%) Automation Engineer
13 13 (3.60%) Integration Engineer
13 13 (3.60%) Java Software Engineer
14 12 (3.32%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 12 (3.32%) Mobile Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (13.30%) RESTful
2 42 (11.63%) REST
3 40 (11.08%) .NET
4 31 (8.59%) React
5 29 (8.03%) OAuth
6 23 (6.37%) .NET Core
7 17 (4.71%) FastAPI
7 17 (4.71%) JSON
7 17 (4.71%) JWT
7 17 (4.71%) OAuth2
7 17 (4.71%) Web Services
8 15 (4.16%) Kafka
8 15 (4.16%) NumPy
8 15 (4.16%) Pandas
8 15 (4.16%) PyTorch
8 15 (4.16%) scikit-learn
8 15 (4.16%) SwiftUI
8 15 (4.16%) TensorFlow
8 15 (4.16%) UIKit
9 14 (3.88%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 83 (22.99%) Cloud Native
2 41 (11.36%) Low-Code
3 30 (8.31%) Product Ownership
4 24 (6.65%) Life Science
5 21 (5.82%) Distributed Systems
6 19 (5.26%) Mobile App
7 17 (4.71%) Legacy Systems
8 16 (4.43%) Blog
9 15 (4.16%) Greenfield Project
10 12 (3.32%) Onboarding
11 11 (3.05%) Management Information System
12 10 (2.77%) Hackathon
13 9 (2.49%) Hybrid Cloud
13 9 (2.49%) PKI
13 9 (2.49%) Public Cloud
14 7 (1.94%) Self-Motivation
15 6 (1.66%) Cyberattack
15 6 (1.66%) Private Cloud
16 5 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
16 5 (1.39%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 65 (18.01%) Linux
2 35 (9.70%) Windows
3 25 (6.93%) Apple iOS
4 16 (4.43%) Windows Server
5 13 (3.60%) CentOS
6 8 (2.22%) Android
7 7 (1.94%) Mac OS
8 6 (1.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (1.66%) Ubuntu
8 6 (1.66%) VMS
9 4 (1.11%) Unix
10 2 (0.55%) Amazon Linux
10 2 (0.55%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 276 (76.45%) CI/CD
2 196 (54.29%) DevOps
3 164 (45.43%) Test Automation
4 143 (39.61%) Infrastructure as Code
5 114 (31.58%) Agile
6 92 (25.48%) Containerisation
7 82 (22.71%) Observability
8 79 (21.88%) Clean Code
9 78 (21.61%) Microservices
10 76 (21.05%) Analytics
11 75 (20.78%) Problem-Solving
12 71 (19.67%) Continuous Improvement
13 68 (18.84%) Software Engineering
14 60 (16.62%) AI
15 55 (15.24%) Continuous Deployment
16 54 (14.96%) Computer Science
17 50 (13.85%) Cybersecurity
18 48 (13.30%) Machine Learning
19 41 (11.36%) Mentoring
20 39 (10.80%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 161 (44.60%) Python
2 81 (22.44%) Java
2 81 (22.44%) SQL
3 54 (14.96%) PowerShell
4 53 (14.68%) Bash
5 44 (12.19%) C#
6 41 (11.36%) JavaScript
7 27 (7.48%) Bicep
8 26 (7.20%) TypeScript
9 17 (4.71%) Kotlin
10 15 (4.16%) Swift
11 12 (3.32%) Rust
12 8 (2.22%) Kusto Query Language
13 7 (1.94%) Groovy
13 7 (1.94%) Shell Script
14 6 (1.66%) Go
15 4 (1.11%) Perl
16 3 (0.83%) PHP
16 3 (0.83%) Scala
16 3 (0.83%) VB
Qualifications
1 67 (18.56%) Degree
2 52 (14.40%) Security Cleared
3 29 (8.03%) SC Cleared
4 26 (7.20%) Computer Science Degree
5 21 (5.82%) Master's Degree
6 14 (3.88%) DV Cleared
7 13 (3.60%) AWS Certification
8 11 (3.05%) Azure Certification
9 10 (2.77%) PhD
10 8 (2.22%) AWS Certified Developer
11 4 (1.11%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (1.11%) Postgraduate
12 3 (0.83%) ISTQB
12 3 (0.83%) PMI Certification
12 3 (0.83%) PMP
13 1 (0.28%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 1 (0.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.28%) JNCIP
13 1 (0.28%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (11.36%) QA
2 27 (7.48%) Accessibility
3 22 (6.09%) Data Quality
4 21 (5.82%) GDPR
5 14 (3.88%) WCAG
6 12 (3.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (2.77%) GxP
8 7 (1.94%) SLA
8 7 (1.94%) SOC 2
9 4 (1.11%) NIST
10 2 (0.55%) Def Stans
10 2 (0.55%) IEC 61508
10 2 (0.55%) IFRS
10 2 (0.55%) IFRS 17
10 2 (0.55%) ISO 26262
10 2 (0.55%) PMO
10 2 (0.55%) Solvency II
11 1 (0.28%) NCSC
System Software
1 103 (28.53%) Docker
2 18 (4.99%) Active Directory
3 10 (2.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.11%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.83%) vSphere
6 2 (0.55%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.28%) Firmware
7 1 (0.28%) vCloud
7 1 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 176 (48.75%) Terraform
2 153 (42.38%) Kubernetes
3 92 (25.48%) Grafana
4 59 (16.34%) Ansible
5 34 (9.42%) Prometheus
6 12 (3.32%) Microsoft Intune
7 9 (2.49%) Jamf Pro
8 8 (2.22%) Argo
9 7 (1.94%) Nagios
10 6 (1.66%) Puppet
11 5 (1.39%) SCCM
12 4 (1.11%) logstash
12 4 (1.11%) Packer
12 4 (1.11%) Rancher
13 3 (0.83%) SCOM
13 3 (0.83%) SCOrch
14 2 (0.55%) Control-M
14 2 (0.55%) Docker Swarm
14 2 (0.55%) Podman
14 2 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 59 (16.34%) Microsoft
2 19 (5.26%) Databricks
3 16 (4.43%) OpenAI
4 14 (3.88%) Google
5 13 (3.60%) Automation Anywhere
5 13 (3.60%) Splunk
5 13 (3.60%) UiPath
5 13 (3.60%) VMware
6 12 (3.32%) Amplitude
6 12 (3.32%) Braze
6 12 (3.32%) Dynatrace
7 9 (2.49%) Red Hat
8 8 (2.22%) Salesforce
9 7 (1.94%) Ab Initio
9 7 (1.94%) Rapid7
10 6 (1.66%) AppDynamics
10 6 (1.66%) Apple
10 6 (1.66%) IBM
10 6 (1.66%) Oracle
11 5 (1.39%) Cisco