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

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 385 479 466
Rank change year-on-year +94 -13 -80
Permanent jobs citing Deployment Automation 510 209 362
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.44% 0.42% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.61% 0.48% 0.57%
Number of salaries quoted 273 112 257
10th Percentile £45,091 £48,250 £44,058
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £69,250 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.08% +6.54% -9.72%
75th Percentile £86,000 £82,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £107,500 £92,250 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £68,000 £58,500
% change year-on-year -4.41% +16.24% -10.00%

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 83,912 43,812 63,193
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.03% 88.75% 81.16%
Number of salaries quoted 58,112 24,707 35,897
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,000 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

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 17 September 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 17 September 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 +86 418 £70,000 -6.67% 742
UK excluding London -3 250 £65,000 -4.41% 402
London +51 207 £80,000 +6.67% 425
Work from Home +60 180 £65,000 -8.77% 303
North of England +4 83 £67,500 -1.46% 112
South East -30 46 £65,000 -21.21% 91
South West -36 45 £70,000 -12.50% 68
North East -34 32 £67,500 -12.58% 24
Midlands -32 30 £52,500 -12.50% 37
North West -8 29 £53,750 -28.33% 60
Wales -58 28 £52,500 +8.25% 8
Yorkshire -29 22 £82,500 +20.44% 29
Scotland -8 15 £75,000 -2.87% 55
East Midlands -32 15 £61,250 -18.33% 20
West Midlands -34 15 £50,000 -16.67% 17
East of England -28 5 £56,000 - 15
Northern Ireland -74 1 £77,500 +0.37% 16

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 14 (2.75%) Confluence
2 12 (2.35%) SharePoint
3 10 (1.96%) Apache
3 10 (1.96%) nginx
4 9 (1.76%) Apache Spark
5 8 (1.57%) IIS
6 5 (0.98%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (0.98%) Camunda
7 4 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (0.78%) SAS
8 2 (0.39%) Cloud Foundry
8 2 (0.39%) Luigi
9 1 (0.20%) CMS
9 1 (0.20%) Documentum
9 1 (0.20%) JBoss
9 1 (0.20%) NServiceBus
9 1 (0.20%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 2 (0.39%) SPSS
2 1 (0.20%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.20%) ProjectWise
2 1 (0.20%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (0.59%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.20%) Magento
2 1 (0.20%) Misys Equation
2 1 (0.20%) Misys Midas
2 1 (0.20%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 292 (57.25%) AWS
2 274 (53.73%) Azure
3 180 (35.29%) GCP
4 112 (21.96%) Azure DevOps
5 87 (17.06%) Amazon EKS
6 74 (14.51%) GitHub
7 61 (11.96%) SaaS
8 51 (10.00%) Serverless
9 41 (8.04%) GitHub Actions
10 36 (7.06%) AWS CloudFormation
11 32 (6.27%) Power Platform
12 30 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
13 25 (4.90%) Amazon ECS
14 24 (4.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 24 (4.71%) Datadog
15 22 (4.31%) Azure Monitor
15 22 (4.31%) Entra ID
16 21 (4.12%) Amazon S3
17 20 (3.92%) Azure Functions
18 19 (3.73%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 21 (4.12%) DNS
2 18 (3.53%) Firewall
3 16 (3.14%) VPN
4 8 (1.57%) DHCP
5 7 (1.37%) BGP
5 7 (1.37%) Network Security
6 6 (1.18%) OSPF
6 6 (1.18%) SD-WAN
6 6 (1.18%) SSL
6 6 (1.18%) TCP/IP
6 6 (1.18%) WAN
6 6 (1.18%) Wireless
7 5 (0.98%) LAN
7 5 (0.98%) MQTT
7 5 (0.98%) Wi-Fi
8 4 (0.78%) Broadband
8 4 (0.78%) Kerberos
8 4 (0.78%) NAS
8 4 (0.78%) SSH
8 4 (0.78%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
2 37 (7.25%) SQL Server
3 34 (6.67%) MongoDB
4 33 (6.47%) MySQL
5 31 (6.08%) NoSQL
6 22 (4.31%) Elasticsearch
7 21 (4.12%) Power BI
8 20 (3.92%) Data Warehouse
9 15 (2.94%) Amazon RDS
9 15 (2.94%) Data Lake
10 13 (2.55%) Azure SQL Database
11 11 (2.16%) Metadata
11 11 (2.16%) Relational Database
12 9 (1.76%) Spark SQL
13 8 (1.57%) Big Data
14 7 (1.37%) Geospatial Data
15 6 (1.18%) Redis
16 5 (0.98%) Delta Lake
16 5 (0.98%) DynamoDB
16 5 (0.98%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 112 (21.96%) Git
2 66 (12.94%) Jenkins
2 66 (12.94%) TeamCity
3 51 (10.00%) GitLab
4 35 (6.86%) JIRA
5 18 (3.53%) Bitbucket
6 13 (2.55%) SonarQube
7 11 (2.16%) Crashlytics
7 11 (2.16%) fastlane
8 9 (1.76%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 9 (1.76%) JUnit
9 8 (1.57%) Claude Code
9 8 (1.57%) Mockito
9 8 (1.57%) Octopus Deploy
10 7 (1.37%) Artifactory
10 7 (1.37%) Cucumber
10 7 (1.37%) MSI
11 6 (1.18%) Xcode
11 6 (1.18%) XCTest
12 5 (0.98%) Gradle
General
1 155 (30.39%) Finance
2 139 (27.25%) Social Skills
3 112 (21.96%) Banking
4 108 (21.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 83 (16.27%) Law
6 70 (13.73%) Analytical Skills
7 69 (13.53%) Retail
8 62 (12.16%) Public Sector
9 58 (11.37%) Financial Institution
10 51 (10.00%) Back Office
11 10 (1.96%) Marketing
12 8 (1.57%) Manufacturing
12 8 (1.57%) Telecoms
13 6 (1.18%) Aerospace
13 6 (1.18%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (0.78%) Legal
14 4 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
15 3 (0.59%) Documentation Skills
15 3 (0.59%) Mandarin Language
16 2 (0.39%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 111 (21.76%) Software Engineer
2 93 (18.24%) Lead
3 87 (17.06%) DevOps Engineer
4 84 (16.47%) Senior
5 76 (14.90%) Developer
6 44 (8.63%) Cloud Engineer
7 37 (7.25%) Azure Engineer
8 28 (5.49%) Senior Software Engineer
9 27 (5.29%) Data Engineer
10 26 (5.10%) Platform Engineer
11 24 (4.71%) Java Engineer
11 24 (4.71%) Lead Software Engineer
12 23 (4.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 20 (3.92%) Java Developer
13 20 (3.92%) Senior Developer
13 20 (3.92%) Site Engineer
13 20 (3.92%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 19 (3.73%) Software Team Leader
14 19 (3.73%) Team Leader
15 18 (3.53%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 248 (48.63%) Terraform
2 57 (11.18%) REST
2 57 (11.18%) RESTful
3 49 (9.61%) .NET
4 36 (7.06%) React
5 33 (6.47%) Kafka
6 27 (5.29%) Spring
7 25 (4.90%) Spring Boot
8 22 (4.31%) LangChain
9 19 (3.73%) AngularJS
10 18 (3.53%) CSS
10 18 (3.53%) Hibernate
10 18 (3.53%) JPA
10 18 (3.53%) RabbitMQ
11 17 (3.33%) Node.js
11 17 (3.33%) Web Services
12 16 (3.14%) ARM Templates
12 16 (3.14%) PyTorch
12 16 (3.14%) scikit-learn
12 16 (3.14%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 199 (39.02%) Cloud Native
2 104 (20.39%) Product Ownership
3 58 (11.37%) Distributed Systems
4 32 (6.27%) Onboarding
5 28 (5.49%) Enterprise Software
6 24 (4.71%) Self-Motivation
7 21 (4.12%) AI Agents
8 19 (3.73%) Mobile App
8 19 (3.73%) Virtual Team
9 18 (3.53%) Legacy Systems
10 16 (3.14%) Management Information System
11 15 (2.94%) Blog
12 14 (2.75%) Life Science
13 10 (1.96%) Hybrid Cloud
14 9 (1.76%) Public Cloud
15 8 (1.57%) Data Centre
15 8 (1.57%) Linux Command Line
15 8 (1.57%) Private Cloud
15 8 (1.57%) Replication
16 7 (1.37%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 90 (17.65%) Linux
2 63 (12.35%) Windows
3 21 (4.12%) Apple iOS
3 21 (4.12%) Windows Server
4 15 (2.94%) CentOS
5 10 (1.96%) Android
6 7 (1.37%) Windows Server 2016
7 6 (1.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (0.98%) Mac OS
8 5 (0.98%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.98%) Unix
9 2 (0.39%) Amazon Linux
9 2 (0.39%) Embedded Linux
9 2 (0.39%) Solaris
10 1 (0.20%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 415 (81.37%) CI/CD
2 329 (64.51%) DevOps
3 227 (44.51%) Infrastructure as Code
4 216 (42.35%) Test Automation
5 200 (39.22%) Software Engineering
6 167 (32.75%) Agile
7 147 (28.82%) Observability
8 141 (27.65%) Microservices
9 140 (27.45%) AI
10 133 (26.08%) Mentoring
11 130 (25.49%) Containerisation
12 126 (24.71%) Continuous Improvement
13 123 (24.12%) Problem-Solving
14 101 (19.80%) Clean Code
15 79 (15.49%) Technical Leadership
16 77 (15.10%) Continuous Deployment
17 64 (12.55%) Machine Learning
18 61 (11.96%) Analytics
18 61 (11.96%) Coaching
19 54 (10.59%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 202 (39.61%) Python
2 147 (28.82%) Java
3 90 (17.65%) SQL
4 78 (15.29%) PowerShell
5 55 (10.78%) Bash
6 53 (10.39%) C#
7 52 (10.20%) TypeScript
8 41 (8.04%) JavaScript
9 23 (4.51%) Bicep
10 13 (2.55%) Kotlin
11 12 (2.35%) Go
11 12 (2.35%) Swift
12 9 (1.76%) C++
12 9 (1.76%) Groovy
12 9 (1.76%) Scala
13 7 (1.37%) Shell Script
14 6 (1.18%) C
14 6 (1.18%) Rust
15 4 (0.78%) Apex Code
15 4 (0.78%) Perl
Qualifications
1 90 (17.65%) Security Cleared
2 56 (10.98%) SC Cleared
3 54 (10.59%) Degree
4 40 (7.84%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (3.92%) Azure Certification
6 17 (3.33%) AWS Certification
7 16 (3.14%) DV Cleared
8 13 (2.55%) BPSS Clearance
9 9 (1.76%) Master's Degree
10 7 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (0.98%) CCNP
11 5 (0.98%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (0.78%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 3 (0.59%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 3 (0.59%) PMI Certification
13 3 (0.59%) Postgraduate
14 2 (0.39%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 2 (0.39%) PMP
15 1 (0.20%) ISTQB
15 1 (0.20%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (13.73%) QA
2 32 (6.27%) Accessibility
3 23 (4.51%) GDPR
4 22 (4.31%) WCAG
5 19 (3.73%) Data Quality
6 15 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 14 (2.75%) NCSC
8 13 (2.55%) SLA
9 6 (1.18%) SOC 2
10 4 (0.78%) NIST
11 3 (0.59%) PMO
12 2 (0.39%) Def Stans
12 2 (0.39%) GRC
12 2 (0.39%) IEC 61508
12 2 (0.39%) IFRS
12 2 (0.39%) IFRS 17
12 2 (0.39%) ISO 26262
12 2 (0.39%) JTAG
12 2 (0.39%) Solvency II
System Software
1 134 (26.27%) Docker
2 25 (4.90%) Active Directory
3 11 (2.16%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (1.37%) Firmware
4 7 (1.37%) Hyper-V
5 6 (1.18%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.98%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.78%) vSphere
8 1 (0.20%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.20%) NDS
8 1 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.20%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 220 (43.14%) Kubernetes
2 129 (25.29%) Grafana
3 90 (17.65%) Ansible
4 43 (8.43%) Prometheus
5 14 (2.75%) Argo
6 13 (2.55%) Microsoft Intune
7 11 (2.16%) Puppet
8 10 (1.96%) Nagios
9 6 (1.18%) Jamf Pro
9 6 (1.18%) Progress Chef
9 6 (1.18%) SCCM
10 4 (0.78%) Packer
11 3 (0.59%) cPanel
11 3 (0.59%) Docker Swarm
11 3 (0.59%) Istio
11 3 (0.59%) Podman
11 3 (0.59%) Rancher
11 3 (0.59%) SCOM
11 3 (0.59%) SCOrch
11 3 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 102 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 35 (6.86%) Dynatrace
3 33 (6.47%) Google
4 27 (5.29%) Splunk
5 21 (4.12%) Databricks
6 18 (3.53%) Salesforce
7 16 (3.14%) Red Hat
7 16 (3.14%) VMware
8 12 (2.35%) OpenAI
9 10 (1.96%) Rapid7
10 9 (1.76%) Apple
11 8 (1.57%) Oracle
12 7 (1.37%) Atlassian
12 7 (1.37%) Fortinet
12 7 (1.37%) IBM
12 7 (1.37%) ServiceNow
13 6 (1.18%) Amplitude
13 6 (1.18%) AppDynamics
13 6 (1.18%) Braze
14 5 (0.98%) Cisco