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

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 402 443 491
Rank change year-on-year +41 +48 -77
Permanent jobs citing Deployment Automation 376 233 447
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.41% 0.53% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.55% 0.57% 0.52%
Number of salaries quoted 195 170 348
10th Percentile £42,500 £43,625 £46,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £55,105
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £67,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +4.48% -10.67%
75th Percentile £86,750 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £101,750 £117,625 £112,500
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 68,107 40,669 85,373
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.51% 93.11% 83.11%
Number of salaries quoted 45,062 21,401 61,158
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,500 £29,250
25th Percentile £41,114 £40,000 £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 £50,967 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.01% +1.93% -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 4 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 4 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 +49 347 £67,950 -2.93% 164
UK excluding London +32 201 £65,000 -3.70% 94
Work from Home +51 163 £65,000 +4.00% 147
London +4 154 £80,000 - 78
South East +34 74 £65,000 +20.93% 34
North of England -11 69 £56,250 -16.67% 28
North West +6 29 £55,000 -6.38% 17
Midlands -30 25 £50,250 -19.60% 10
Yorkshire -31 25 £82,500 +21.32% 3
East Midlands - 16 £40,000 - 5
South West -45 15 £68,400 -4.99% 10
North East - 15 £47,000 - 8
West Midlands -40 9 £58,750 -6.00% 5
Scotland +1 8 £55,000 -27.02% 3
East of England -19 7 £76,250 +1.67% 8
Wales -34 5 £70,079 +40.16% 1
Northern Ireland - 1 £77,500 - 4

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 8 (2.13%) Apache
1 8 (2.13%) Appian
2 7 (1.86%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (1.60%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.33%) SharePoint
5 4 (1.06%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.80%) Confluence
6 3 (0.80%) IIS
7 2 (0.53%) Luigi
8 1 (0.27%) BizTalk Server
8 1 (0.27%) CMS
8 1 (0.27%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.27%) nginx
8 1 (0.27%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (0.80%) SPSS
2 2 (0.53%) Trello
3 1 (0.27%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (0.80%) 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
1 204 (54.26%) AWS
2 181 (48.14%) Azure
3 99 (26.33%) GCP
4 86 (22.87%) Azure DevOps
5 74 (19.68%) Amazon EKS
6 67 (17.82%) GitHub
7 62 (16.49%) Serverless
8 55 (14.63%) GitHub Actions
9 51 (13.56%) SaaS
10 34 (9.04%) Azure Logic Apps
11 32 (8.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 30 (7.98%) Power Platform
13 28 (7.45%) Amazon S3
14 26 (6.91%) Azure Data Factory
15 25 (6.65%) AWS Lambda
15 25 (6.65%) Azure Monitor
15 25 (6.65%) PaaS
16 24 (6.38%) Firebase
17 21 (5.59%) AWS CloudFormation
18 18 (4.79%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 21 (5.59%) Firewall
2 13 (3.46%) DNS
3 8 (2.13%) Network Security
4 7 (1.86%) MQTT
5 6 (1.60%) DHCP
5 6 (1.60%) SSL
6 5 (1.33%) VPN
7 4 (1.06%) Broadband
7 4 (1.06%) SSH
8 3 (0.80%) BGP
9 2 (0.53%) DKIM
9 2 (0.53%) DMARC
9 2 (0.53%) Ethernet VPN
9 2 (0.53%) Intrusion Detection
9 2 (0.53%) PBX
9 2 (0.53%) Unified Communications
9 2 (0.53%) VLAN
9 2 (0.53%) VoIP
9 2 (0.53%) WAN
9 2 (0.53%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (9.57%) SQL Server
2 32 (8.51%) PostgreSQL
3 19 (5.05%) NoSQL
4 18 (4.79%) Elasticsearch
5 16 (4.26%) MySQL
6 15 (3.99%) Data Warehouse
7 14 (3.72%) DynamoDB
8 13 (3.46%) MongoDB
8 13 (3.46%) Power BI
9 12 (3.19%) Amazon Aurora
10 11 (2.93%) Amazon RDS
10 11 (2.93%) Spark SQL
11 10 (2.66%) Pinecone
11 10 (2.66%) Relational Database
12 7 (1.86%) Metadata
13 5 (1.33%) Delta Lake
14 3 (0.80%) Amazon Redshift
14 3 (0.80%) CockroachDB
14 3 (0.80%) Data Lake
14 3 (0.80%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 61 (16.22%) Git
2 57 (15.16%) TeamCity
3 51 (13.56%) Jenkins
4 46 (12.23%) GitLab
5 19 (5.05%) Crashlytics
6 17 (4.52%) JIRA
7 15 (3.99%) SonarQube
8 14 (3.72%) XCTest
9 13 (3.46%) Bitbucket
10 10 (2.66%) Cucumber
10 10 (2.66%) fastlane
10 10 (2.66%) MLflow
11 9 (2.39%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 9 (2.39%) Gradle
12 7 (1.86%) Artifactory
12 7 (1.86%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 6 (1.60%) JMeter
13 6 (1.60%) JUnit
13 6 (1.60%) Maven
14 5 (1.33%) Xcode
General
1 118 (31.38%) Finance
2 104 (27.66%) Social Skills
3 74 (19.68%) Banking
3 74 (19.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 60 (15.96%) Law
5 56 (14.89%) Retail
6 39 (10.37%) Analytical Skills
6 39 (10.37%) Financial Institution
7 36 (9.57%) Back Office
8 20 (5.32%) Public Sector
9 10 (2.66%) Pharmaceutical
10 7 (1.86%) Aerospace
11 6 (1.60%) Retail Banking
12 4 (1.06%) Mandarin Language
12 4 (1.06%) Manufacturing
12 4 (1.06%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (0.80%) Front Office
13 3 (0.80%) Telecoms
14 2 (0.53%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (0.53%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 72 (19.15%) Lead
2 67 (17.82%) Software Engineer
3 63 (16.76%) Developer
4 53 (14.10%) Senior
5 38 (10.11%) DevOps Engineer
6 31 (8.24%) Azure Engineer
7 23 (6.12%) Cloud Engineer
8 22 (5.85%) Platform Engineer
9 21 (5.59%) Java Engineer
10 20 (5.32%) Lead Software Engineer
11 19 (5.05%) AWS Engineer
12 17 (4.52%) Data Engineer
13 16 (4.26%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 16 (4.26%) Java Software Engineer
14 15 (3.99%) Senior Software Engineer
15 14 (3.72%) Mobile Engineer
15 14 (3.72%) Power Platform Developer
16 13 (3.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 12 (3.19%) Customer Engineer
17 12 (3.19%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (10.90%) REST
2 40 (10.64%) .NET
3 38 (10.11%) RESTful
4 25 (6.65%) React
5 19 (5.05%) OAuth
5 19 (5.05%) SwiftUI
5 19 (5.05%) UIKit
6 18 (4.79%) .NET Core
6 18 (4.79%) Kafka
7 16 (4.26%) PyTorch
7 16 (4.26%) scikit-learn
7 16 (4.26%) TensorFlow
8 14 (3.72%) ARM Templates
8 14 (3.72%) FastAPI
9 13 (3.46%) JWT
9 13 (3.46%) Web Services
10 12 (3.19%) JSON
10 12 (3.19%) Spring
11 11 (2.93%) NumPy
11 11 (2.93%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 97 (25.80%) Cloud Native
2 45 (11.97%) Product Ownership
3 32 (8.51%) Low-Code
4 25 (6.65%) Mobile App
5 23 (6.12%) Life Science
6 22 (5.85%) Distributed Systems
7 18 (4.79%) Blog
8 15 (3.99%) Greenfield Project
9 14 (3.72%) Onboarding
10 12 (3.19%) Legacy Systems
11 11 (2.93%) Management Information System
12 10 (2.66%) PKI
13 9 (2.39%) Hackathon
13 9 (2.39%) Hybrid Cloud
14 8 (2.13%) Public Cloud
14 8 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
15 7 (1.86%) Replication
16 6 (1.60%) Cyberattack
16 6 (1.60%) Private Cloud
17 5 (1.33%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 66 (17.55%) Linux
2 35 (9.31%) Windows
3 30 (7.98%) Apple iOS
4 16 (4.26%) Windows Server
5 14 (3.72%) CentOS
6 11 (2.93%) Android
7 8 (2.13%) Mac OS
8 6 (1.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (1.60%) Ubuntu
8 6 (1.60%) VMS
9 4 (1.06%) Unix
10 2 (0.53%) Amazon Linux
10 2 (0.53%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 281 (74.73%) CI/CD
2 196 (52.13%) DevOps
3 172 (45.74%) Test Automation
4 132 (35.11%) Infrastructure as Code
5 106 (28.19%) Agile
6 98 (26.06%) Clean Code
7 90 (23.94%) Software Engineering
8 88 (23.40%) Containerisation
8 88 (23.40%) Microservices
9 81 (21.54%) Observability
10 76 (20.21%) Analytics
11 74 (19.68%) Continuous Improvement
12 66 (17.55%) Problem-Solving
13 64 (17.02%) Continuous Deployment
14 62 (16.49%) AI
15 52 (13.83%) Computer Science
16 51 (13.56%) Cybersecurity
17 46 (12.23%) Machine Learning
17 46 (12.23%) Mentoring
18 44 (11.70%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 160 (42.55%) Python
2 98 (26.06%) Java
3 73 (19.41%) SQL
4 52 (13.83%) Bash
5 50 (13.30%) C#
5 50 (13.30%) PowerShell
6 38 (10.11%) JavaScript
7 26 (6.91%) TypeScript
8 21 (5.59%) Kotlin
9 20 (5.32%) Bicep
10 19 (5.05%) Swift
11 13 (3.46%) Rust
12 8 (2.13%) Groovy
12 8 (2.13%) Kusto Query Language
13 7 (1.86%) Go
13 7 (1.86%) Shell Script
14 4 (1.06%) Perl
14 4 (1.06%) PHP
14 4 (1.06%) Scala
15 2 (0.53%) VB
Qualifications
1 61 (16.22%) Degree
2 56 (14.89%) Security Cleared
3 33 (8.78%) SC Cleared
4 24 (6.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (5.32%) Master's Degree
6 14 (3.72%) DV Cleared
7 10 (2.66%) AWS Certification
7 10 (2.66%) PhD
8 9 (2.39%) Azure Certification
9 4 (1.06%) AWS Certified Developer
9 4 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (1.06%) Postgraduate
10 3 (0.80%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.53%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.53%) PMP
12 1 (0.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.27%) CCNP
12 1 (0.27%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.27%) JNCIP
12 1 (0.27%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (10.37%) QA
2 28 (7.45%) Accessibility
3 21 (5.59%) GDPR
4 16 (4.26%) Data Quality
5 15 (3.99%) WCAG
6 13 (3.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (2.66%) GxP
8 7 (1.86%) SLA
8 7 (1.86%) SOC 2
9 4 (1.06%) NIST
10 2 (0.53%) Def Stans
10 2 (0.53%) IEC 61508
10 2 (0.53%) IFRS
10 2 (0.53%) IFRS 17
10 2 (0.53%) ISO 26262
10 2 (0.53%) PMO
10 2 (0.53%) Solvency II
11 1 (0.27%) NCSC
System Software
1 97 (25.80%) Docker
2 16 (4.26%) Active Directory
3 10 (2.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.33%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.80%) vSphere
6 2 (0.53%) 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
1 179 (47.61%) Terraform
2 157 (41.76%) Kubernetes
3 103 (27.39%) Grafana
4 59 (15.69%) Ansible
5 34 (9.04%) Prometheus
6 12 (3.19%) Microsoft Intune
7 10 (2.66%) Jamf Pro
8 9 (2.39%) Argo
9 8 (2.13%) Nagios
10 7 (1.86%) Puppet
11 5 (1.33%) SCCM
12 4 (1.06%) Packer
13 3 (0.80%) Podman
13 3 (0.80%) Rancher
13 3 (0.80%) SCOM
13 3 (0.80%) SCOrch
14 2 (0.53%) Docker Swarm
14 2 (0.53%) Plesk
14 2 (0.53%) Progress Chef
14 2 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 59 (15.69%) Microsoft
2 20 (5.32%) Databricks
3 17 (4.52%) Dynatrace
3 17 (4.52%) Google
4 15 (3.99%) Splunk
4 15 (3.99%) VMware
5 14 (3.72%) Amplitude
5 14 (3.72%) Braze
6 13 (3.46%) OpenAI
7 12 (3.19%) Salesforce
8 10 (2.66%) Red Hat
9 9 (2.39%) Apple
9 9 (2.39%) Automation Anywhere
9 9 (2.39%) UiPath
10 8 (2.13%) Rapid7
11 7 (1.86%) AppDynamics
12 6 (1.60%) IBM
12 6 (1.60%) Oracle
13 5 (1.33%) Tenable
14 4 (1.06%) NVIDIA