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

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 405 453 473
Rank change year-on-year +48 +20 -70
Permanent jobs citing Deployment Automation 419 243 401
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.42% 0.49% 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.56% 0.55% 0.55%
Number of salaries quoted 253 154 307
10th Percentile £42,903 £46,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,563 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +3.85% -13.33%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £103,750 £97,528 £101,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £64,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +0.78% +7.50% -11.11%

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 74,263 44,137 73,415
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.70% 89.84% 81.67%
Number of salaries quoted 51,228 24,998 49,763
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -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 25 July 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 25 July 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 +50 364 £70,000 +3.70% 149
UK excluding London +26 237 £65,000 +0.78% 92
Work from Home +41 171 £65,000 +4.00% 70
London +8 153 £85,000 +17.24% 76
North of England +11 80 £55,000 -18.52% 28
South East +6 65 £68,750 +25.00% 28
Midlands -23 34 £49,000 -20.00% 11
North West -3 33 £52,500 -10.64% 16
South West -47 26 £70,000 -2.77% 15
Yorkshire -25 24 £82,500 +20.44% 6
North East -27 23 £47,000 - 6
East Midlands -20 17 £42,500 -43.33% 5
West Midlands -20 17 £50,000 -16.67% 6
Wales -48 16 £66,750 +35.53% 3
Scotland +8 14 £62,500 -17.06% 3
East of England -9 4 £56,000 - 5
Northern Ireland - 1 £77,500 - 2

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 10 (2.39%) Confluence
2 9 (2.15%) Apache
2 9 (2.15%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.91%) Apache Spark
4 7 (1.67%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.67%) IIS
5 6 (1.43%) nginx
6 5 (1.19%) Camunda
7 4 (0.95%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (0.95%) SAS
8 2 (0.48%) CMS
8 2 (0.48%) Luigi
9 1 (0.24%) Appian
9 1 (0.24%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.24%) Documentum
9 1 (0.24%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.24%) NServiceBus
9 1 (0.24%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (0.72%) SPSS
2 2 (0.48%) Trello
3 1 (0.24%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.24%) Magento
2 1 (0.24%) Misys Equation
2 1 (0.24%) Misys Midas
2 1 (0.24%) Oracle SCM
2 1 (0.24%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 228 (54.42%) AWS
2 218 (52.03%) Azure
3 117 (27.92%) GCP
4 99 (23.63%) Azure DevOps
5 62 (14.80%) Amazon EKS
6 60 (14.32%) GitHub
7 56 (13.37%) Serverless
8 55 (13.13%) SaaS
9 41 (9.79%) GitHub Actions
10 29 (6.92%) Power Platform
11 27 (6.44%) Firebase
12 23 (5.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 23 (5.49%) Amazon S3
12 23 (5.49%) Azure Monitor
12 23 (5.49%) Microsoft 365
13 22 (5.25%) Datadog
13 22 (5.25%) PaaS
14 20 (4.77%) Azure Logic Apps
15 19 (4.53%) AWS CloudFormation
15 19 (4.53%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 19 (4.53%) Firewall
2 16 (3.82%) DNS
3 11 (2.63%) VPN
4 9 (2.15%) MQTT
5 8 (1.91%) Network Security
6 6 (1.43%) DHCP
7 5 (1.19%) SSL
7 5 (1.19%) Wi-Fi
8 4 (0.95%) BGP
8 4 (0.95%) Broadband
8 4 (0.95%) Kerberos
8 4 (0.95%) NAS
8 4 (0.95%) SSH
8 4 (0.95%) TCP/IP
9 3 (0.72%) DKIM
9 3 (0.72%) DMARC
9 3 (0.72%) PBX
9 3 (0.72%) Unified Communications
9 3 (0.72%) VLAN
9 3 (0.72%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (10.02%) PostgreSQL
2 33 (7.88%) SQL Server
3 21 (5.01%) MongoDB
3 21 (5.01%) MySQL
4 20 (4.77%) Elasticsearch
5 19 (4.53%) Data Warehouse
6 18 (4.30%) NoSQL
7 15 (3.58%) Power BI
8 11 (2.63%) Amazon RDS
8 11 (2.63%) Spark SQL
9 10 (2.39%) Metadata
10 9 (2.15%) Azure SQL Database
11 8 (1.91%) Relational Database
12 7 (1.67%) Data Lake
12 7 (1.67%) DynamoDB
13 6 (1.43%) Amazon Aurora
13 6 (1.43%) Delta Lake
13 6 (1.43%) Geospatial Data
14 5 (1.19%) Big Data
15 4 (0.95%) Redis
Development Applications
1 87 (20.76%) Git
2 52 (12.41%) Jenkins
3 51 (12.17%) TeamCity
4 46 (10.98%) GitLab
5 31 (7.40%) JIRA
6 20 (4.77%) Crashlytics
7 15 (3.58%) Bitbucket
8 14 (3.34%) SonarQube
8 14 (3.34%) XCTest
9 13 (3.10%) fastlane
10 11 (2.63%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 11 (2.63%) Cucumber
11 9 (2.15%) JUnit
12 8 (1.91%) Mockito
12 8 (1.91%) Octopus Deploy
13 7 (1.67%) Artifactory
13 7 (1.67%) Xcode
14 6 (1.43%) Gradle
14 6 (1.43%) JMeter
14 6 (1.43%) MSI
General
1 122 (29.12%) Social Skills
2 117 (27.92%) Finance
3 81 (19.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 79 (18.85%) Banking
5 58 (13.84%) Law
6 54 (12.89%) Analytical Skills
6 54 (12.89%) Retail
7 42 (10.02%) Financial Institution
8 39 (9.31%) Public Sector
9 38 (9.07%) Back Office
10 7 (1.67%) Manufacturing
11 6 (1.43%) Aerospace
11 6 (1.43%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (1.19%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.95%) Mandarin Language
13 4 (0.95%) Marketing
14 3 (0.72%) Front Office
14 3 (0.72%) Legal
14 3 (0.72%) Retail Banking
15 2 (0.48%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 82 (19.57%) Software Engineer
2 78 (18.62%) Lead
3 63 (15.04%) Developer
3 63 (15.04%) Senior
4 61 (14.56%) DevOps Engineer
5 36 (8.59%) Azure Engineer
6 29 (6.92%) Cloud Engineer
7 25 (5.97%) Platform Engineer
8 22 (5.25%) Data Engineer
9 20 (4.77%) Lead Software Engineer
9 20 (4.77%) Senior Software Engineer
10 18 (4.30%) Java Engineer
10 18 (4.30%) Technical Leader
11 17 (4.06%) Site Engineer
11 17 (4.06%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 15 (3.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 15 (3.58%) Senior Developer
13 14 (3.34%) Administrator
13 14 (3.34%) Mobile Engineer
14 13 (3.10%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (10.74%) REST
2 41 (9.79%) RESTful
3 39 (9.31%) .NET
4 28 (6.68%) React
5 27 (6.44%) Kafka
6 21 (5.01%) SwiftUI
6 21 (5.01%) UIKit
7 20 (4.77%) Spring
8 19 (4.53%) Spring Boot
9 17 (4.06%) ARM Templates
9 17 (4.06%) CSS
10 15 (3.58%) Next.js
11 13 (3.10%) Node.js
11 13 (3.10%) PySpark
11 13 (3.10%) PyTorch
11 13 (3.10%) scikit-learn
11 13 (3.10%) TensorFlow
12 12 (2.86%) .NET Core
12 12 (2.86%) HTML
12 12 (2.86%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 132 (31.50%) Cloud Native
2 70 (16.71%) Product Ownership
3 41 (9.79%) Distributed Systems
4 29 (6.92%) Mobile App
5 22 (5.25%) Onboarding
6 18 (4.30%) Life Science
7 16 (3.82%) Legacy Systems
7 16 (3.82%) Self-Motivation
8 15 (3.58%) Greenfield Project
9 14 (3.34%) Low-Code
10 12 (2.86%) Blog
11 11 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
11 11 (2.63%) Hybrid Cloud
11 11 (2.63%) Management Information System
12 9 (2.15%) PKI
12 9 (2.15%) Virtual Team
13 8 (1.91%) Replication
14 7 (1.67%) Data Centre
14 7 (1.67%) Linux Command Line
14 7 (1.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 80 (19.09%) Linux
2 58 (13.84%) Windows
3 33 (7.88%) Apple iOS
4 21 (5.01%) Windows Server
5 16 (3.82%) CentOS
6 13 (3.10%) Android
7 8 (1.91%) Mac OS
8 6 (1.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (1.43%) Ubuntu
8 6 (1.43%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (0.95%) Unix
10 3 (0.72%) VMS
11 2 (0.48%) Amazon Linux
11 2 (0.48%) Embedded Linux
12 1 (0.24%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 327 (78.04%) CI/CD
2 248 (59.19%) DevOps
3 177 (42.24%) Test Automation
4 160 (38.19%) Infrastructure as Code
5 136 (32.46%) Agile
6 133 (31.74%) Software Engineering
7 118 (28.16%) Microservices
8 103 (24.58%) Observability
9 99 (23.63%) Containerisation
10 91 (21.72%) Continuous Improvement
11 89 (21.24%) Clean Code
12 85 (20.29%) Mentoring
13 82 (19.57%) Problem-Solving
14 79 (18.85%) AI
15 67 (15.99%) Analytics
16 63 (15.04%) Continuous Deployment
17 48 (11.46%) Computer Science
18 45 (10.74%) Platform Engineering
19 44 (10.50%) Machine Learning
19 44 (10.50%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 171 (40.81%) Python
2 118 (28.16%) Java
3 73 (17.42%) SQL
4 61 (14.56%) PowerShell
5 51 (12.17%) Bash
6 47 (11.22%) C#
7 40 (9.55%) TypeScript
8 39 (9.31%) JavaScript
9 22 (5.25%) Kotlin
10 21 (5.01%) Bicep
10 21 (5.01%) Swift
11 13 (3.10%) Rust
12 9 (2.15%) Go
13 8 (1.91%) Groovy
14 7 (1.67%) Shell Script
15 6 (1.43%) C
15 6 (1.43%) C++
15 6 (1.43%) Scala
16 5 (1.19%) Kusto Query Language
17 4 (0.95%) Perl
Qualifications
1 73 (17.42%) Security Cleared
2 54 (12.89%) Degree
3 42 (10.02%) SC Cleared
4 30 (7.16%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (4.30%) DV Cleared
6 10 (2.39%) Azure Certification
7 9 (2.15%) Master's Degree
8 8 (1.91%) AWS Certification
9 5 (1.19%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (0.95%) Postgraduate
11 2 (0.48%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.48%) CCNP
11 2 (0.48%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.48%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.48%) PMP
12 1 (0.24%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 1 (0.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.24%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 1 (0.24%) JNCIP
12 1 (0.24%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (14.08%) QA
2 35 (8.35%) Accessibility
3 27 (6.44%) WCAG
4 21 (5.01%) GDPR
5 14 (3.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (3.10%) Data Quality
7 9 (2.15%) SLA
8 8 (1.91%) NCSC
9 7 (1.67%) SOC 2
10 4 (0.95%) NIST
11 2 (0.48%) Def Stans
11 2 (0.48%) IEC 61508
11 2 (0.48%) IFRS
11 2 (0.48%) IFRS 17
11 2 (0.48%) ISO 26262
11 2 (0.48%) JTAG
11 2 (0.48%) PMO
11 2 (0.48%) Solvency II
System Software
1 104 (24.82%) Docker
2 20 (4.77%) Active Directory
3 10 (2.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.43%) Hyper-V
5 5 (1.19%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.95%) Firmware
6 4 (0.95%) vSphere
7 3 (0.72%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.24%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.24%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 181 (43.20%) Terraform
2 170 (40.57%) Kubernetes
3 106 (25.30%) Grafana
4 78 (18.62%) Ansible
5 40 (9.55%) Prometheus
6 13 (3.10%) Microsoft Intune
7 10 (2.39%) Argo
7 10 (2.39%) Jamf Pro
7 10 (2.39%) Nagios
8 9 (2.15%) Puppet
9 6 (1.43%) SCCM
10 4 (0.95%) Packer
10 4 (0.95%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.72%) Control-M
11 3 (0.72%) cPanel
11 3 (0.72%) Docker Swarm
11 3 (0.72%) Plesk
11 3 (0.72%) Podman
11 3 (0.72%) SCOM
11 3 (0.72%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 77 (18.38%) Microsoft
2 31 (7.40%) Dynatrace
3 26 (6.21%) Google
4 21 (5.01%) Databricks
5 17 (4.06%) Splunk
6 15 (3.58%) VMware
7 14 (3.34%) Amplitude
7 14 (3.34%) Braze
8 13 (3.10%) Red Hat
9 12 (2.86%) OpenAI
10 11 (2.63%) Apple
10 11 (2.63%) Salesforce
11 10 (2.39%) Rapid7
12 7 (1.67%) AppDynamics
13 6 (1.43%) IBM
14 5 (1.19%) Atlassian
14 5 (1.19%) Oracle
14 5 (1.19%) Tenable
15 4 (0.95%) NVIDIA
15 4 (0.95%) Thales