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

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 404 446 509
Rank change year-on-year +42 +63 -91
Permanent jobs citing Deployment Automation 398 243 438
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.41% 0.52% 0.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.56% 0.57% 0.51%
Number of salaries quoted 225 157 340
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £44,263
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £68,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.19% +5.38% -13.33%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £81,563
90th Percentile £103,750 £97,528 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £61,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +9.76% -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 70,675 42,514 86,697
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.44% 91.57% 82.17%
Number of salaries quoted 48,811 23,148 61,276
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.09%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,171 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +6.34% - -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 30 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 30 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 +44 357 £70,000 +2.94% 93
UK excluding London +24 213 £65,000 -3.70% 81
Work from Home +44 175 £65,000 +8.33% 43
London +13 158 £81,250 +8.33% 44
North of England -20 76 £53,750 -20.37% 15
South East +26 69 £65,000 +23.81% 34
North West +5 34 £52,500 -22.22% 9
Midlands -30 28 £52,500 -16.00% 9
Yorkshire -20 22 £82,500 +20.88% 3
North East -29 20 £47,000 - 4
South West -52 18 £72,500 +0.71% 6
East Midlands -17 16 £40,000 -46.67% 3
West Midlands -27 12 £62,500 +2.04% 6
Scotland +2 10 £55,000 -27.02% 7
Wales -44 9 £70,000 +30.23% 4
East of England -15 5 £70,500 - 8
Northern Ireland - 1 £77,500 - 3

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 9 (2.26%) Confluence
2 8 (2.01%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.76%) Apache
3 7 (1.76%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.51%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.51%) IIS
5 5 (1.26%) Appian
6 4 (1.01%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (1.01%) nginx
6 4 (1.01%) SAS
7 2 (0.50%) CMS
7 2 (0.50%) Luigi
8 1 (0.25%) BizTalk Server
8 1 (0.25%) Camunda
8 1 (0.25%) Documentum
8 1 (0.25%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.25%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 3 (0.75%) SPSS
2 2 (0.50%) Trello
3 1 (0.25%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.01%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.25%) Magento
2 1 (0.25%) Misys Equation
2 1 (0.25%) Misys Midas
2 1 (0.25%) Oracle SCM
2 1 (0.25%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 218 (54.77%) AWS
2 196 (49.25%) Azure
3 112 (28.14%) GCP
4 89 (22.36%) Azure DevOps
5 76 (19.10%) Amazon EKS
6 60 (15.08%) Serverless
7 59 (14.82%) GitHub
7 59 (14.82%) SaaS
8 42 (10.55%) GitHub Actions
9 32 (8.04%) Power Platform
10 27 (6.78%) Azure Logic Apps
10 27 (6.78%) Firebase
11 26 (6.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 25 (6.28%) Amazon S3
13 24 (6.03%) PaaS
14 22 (5.53%) Azure Data Factory
14 22 (5.53%) Azure Monitor
15 20 (5.03%) Azure Functions
16 18 (4.52%) AWS CloudFormation
16 18 (4.52%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 19 (4.77%) Firewall
2 12 (3.02%) DNS
3 8 (2.01%) Network Security
4 7 (1.76%) MQTT
5 6 (1.51%) DHCP
5 6 (1.51%) VPN
6 5 (1.26%) SSL
7 4 (1.01%) Broadband
7 4 (1.01%) SSH
8 3 (0.75%) BGP
8 3 (0.75%) DKIM
8 3 (0.75%) DMARC
8 3 (0.75%) Kerberos
8 3 (0.75%) NAS
8 3 (0.75%) PBX
8 3 (0.75%) Unified Communications
8 3 (0.75%) VLAN
8 3 (0.75%) VoIP
8 3 (0.75%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.50%) Ethernet VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (9.80%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (8.54%) SQL Server
3 19 (4.77%) Elasticsearch
4 18 (4.52%) Data Warehouse
4 18 (4.52%) MySQL
5 17 (4.27%) MongoDB
5 17 (4.27%) NoSQL
6 13 (3.27%) Amazon RDS
6 13 (3.27%) Power BI
7 11 (2.76%) Relational Database
7 11 (2.76%) Spark SQL
8 10 (2.51%) Amazon Aurora
9 8 (2.01%) DynamoDB
9 8 (2.01%) Metadata
10 7 (1.76%) Azure SQL Database
10 7 (1.76%) Pinecone
11 6 (1.51%) Delta Lake
12 5 (1.26%) Data Lake
13 4 (1.01%) Redis
14 3 (0.75%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 72 (18.09%) Git
2 61 (15.33%) TeamCity
3 49 (12.31%) Jenkins
4 43 (10.80%) GitLab
5 28 (7.04%) JIRA
6 20 (5.03%) Crashlytics
7 15 (3.77%) Bitbucket
7 15 (3.77%) SonarQube
8 14 (3.52%) XCTest
9 13 (3.27%) fastlane
10 11 (2.76%) Cucumber
11 10 (2.51%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 8 (2.01%) Artifactory
12 8 (2.01%) Gradle
13 7 (1.76%) MLflow
13 7 (1.76%) Octopus Deploy
13 7 (1.76%) Xcode
14 6 (1.51%) Android Studio
14 6 (1.51%) JMeter
14 6 (1.51%) JUnit
General
1 116 (29.15%) Finance
2 112 (28.14%) Social Skills
3 83 (20.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 81 (20.35%) Banking
5 64 (16.08%) Law
6 59 (14.82%) Retail
7 44 (11.06%) Analytical Skills
7 44 (11.06%) Financial Institution
8 40 (10.05%) Back Office
9 32 (8.04%) Public Sector
10 7 (1.76%) Aerospace
11 6 (1.51%) Manufacturing
12 4 (1.01%) Mandarin Language
12 4 (1.01%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (1.01%) Pharmaceutical
12 4 (1.01%) Retail Banking
12 4 (1.01%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.75%) Front Office
13 3 (0.75%) Legal
14 2 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 79 (19.85%) Software Engineer
2 72 (18.09%) Lead
3 63 (15.83%) Developer
4 62 (15.58%) Senior
5 55 (13.82%) DevOps Engineer
6 35 (8.79%) Azure Engineer
7 26 (6.53%) Platform Engineer
8 25 (6.28%) Cloud Engineer
9 22 (5.53%) Lead Software Engineer
10 21 (5.28%) Java Engineer
11 20 (5.03%) Data Engineer
12 19 (4.77%) Senior Software Engineer
13 17 (4.27%) AWS Engineer
14 16 (4.02%) Java Software Engineer
15 15 (3.77%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 14 (3.52%) Mobile Engineer
16 14 (3.52%) Software Team Leader
16 14 (3.52%) Team Leader
17 13 (3.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 13 (3.27%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (11.31%) REST
2 39 (9.80%) .NET
3 37 (9.30%) RESTful
4 28 (7.04%) React
5 22 (5.53%) Kafka
6 21 (5.28%) SwiftUI
6 21 (5.28%) UIKit
7 15 (3.77%) ARM Templates
7 15 (3.77%) PyTorch
7 15 (3.77%) scikit-learn
7 15 (3.77%) TensorFlow
8 14 (3.52%) Spring
9 13 (3.27%) .NET Core
9 13 (3.27%) CSS
9 13 (3.27%) FastAPI
9 13 (3.27%) OAuth
9 13 (3.27%) PySpark
9 13 (3.27%) Spring Boot
10 12 (3.02%) Node.js
10 12 (3.02%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 119 (29.90%) Cloud Native
2 61 (15.33%) Product Ownership
3 31 (7.79%) Distributed Systems
4 29 (7.29%) Mobile App
5 26 (6.53%) Low-Code
6 21 (5.28%) Life Science
7 19 (4.77%) Blog
8 17 (4.27%) Onboarding
9 15 (3.77%) Greenfield Project
10 14 (3.52%) Self-Motivation
11 13 (3.27%) Legacy Systems
12 11 (2.76%) Hybrid Cloud
12 11 (2.76%) Management Information System
13 10 (2.51%) PKI
14 8 (2.01%) Enterprise Software
14 8 (2.01%) Hackathon
14 8 (2.01%) Public Cloud
14 8 (2.01%) Replication
15 6 (1.51%) Cyberattack
15 6 (1.51%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 70 (17.59%) Linux
2 45 (11.31%) Windows
3 33 (8.29%) Apple iOS
4 18 (4.52%) Windows Server
5 15 (3.77%) CentOS
6 13 (3.27%) Android
7 8 (2.01%) Mac OS
8 6 (1.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (1.51%) Ubuntu
9 5 (1.26%) VMS
9 5 (1.26%) Windows Server 2016
10 4 (1.01%) Unix
11 2 (0.50%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 308 (77.39%) CI/CD
2 215 (54.02%) DevOps
3 182 (45.73%) Test Automation
4 137 (34.42%) Infrastructure as Code
5 123 (30.90%) Agile
6 120 (30.15%) Software Engineering
7 105 (26.38%) Microservices
8 102 (25.63%) Clean Code
9 91 (22.86%) Containerisation
10 87 (21.86%) Observability
11 86 (21.61%) Continuous Improvement
12 73 (18.34%) Problem-Solving
13 70 (17.59%) Analytics
13 70 (17.59%) Continuous Deployment
14 69 (17.34%) Mentoring
15 67 (16.83%) AI
16 49 (12.31%) Computer Science
17 47 (11.81%) Cybersecurity
18 46 (11.56%) Fintech
19 43 (10.80%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 162 (40.70%) Python
2 112 (28.14%) Java
3 69 (17.34%) SQL
4 58 (14.57%) PowerShell
5 51 (12.81%) Bash
5 51 (12.81%) C#
6 40 (10.05%) JavaScript
7 35 (8.79%) TypeScript
8 23 (5.78%) Kotlin
9 21 (5.28%) Swift
10 17 (4.27%) Bicep
11 13 (3.27%) Rust
12 8 (2.01%) Groovy
13 7 (1.76%) Go
13 7 (1.76%) Kusto Query Language
13 7 (1.76%) Shell Script
14 4 (1.01%) C++
14 4 (1.01%) Perl
14 4 (1.01%) PHP
14 4 (1.01%) Scala
Qualifications
1 64 (16.08%) Security Cleared
2 57 (14.32%) Degree
3 37 (9.30%) SC Cleared
4 27 (6.78%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (3.77%) DV Cleared
6 13 (3.27%) Master's Degree
7 7 (1.76%) Azure Certification
8 6 (1.51%) AWS Certification
9 4 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (1.01%) PhD
9 4 (1.01%) Postgraduate
10 2 (0.50%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.50%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.50%) PMP
11 1 (0.25%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.25%) CCNP
11 1 (0.25%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.25%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.25%) JNCIP
11 1 (0.25%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (12.06%) QA
2 36 (9.05%) Accessibility
3 23 (5.78%) WCAG
4 21 (5.28%) GDPR
5 15 (3.77%) Data Quality
6 13 (3.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (1.76%) SLA
7 7 (1.76%) SOC 2
8 4 (1.01%) GxP
8 4 (1.01%) NCSC
8 4 (1.01%) NIST
9 2 (0.50%) Def Stans
9 2 (0.50%) IEC 61508
9 2 (0.50%) IFRS
9 2 (0.50%) IFRS 17
9 2 (0.50%) ISO 26262
9 2 (0.50%) PMO
9 2 (0.50%) Solvency II
System Software
1 99 (24.87%) Docker
2 20 (5.03%) Active Directory
3 11 (2.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.51%) Hyper-V
5 4 (1.01%) vSphere
6 3 (0.75%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.25%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.25%) Firmware
7 1 (0.25%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 178 (44.72%) Terraform
2 171 (42.96%) Kubernetes
3 110 (27.64%) Grafana
4 66 (16.58%) Ansible
5 36 (9.05%) Prometheus
6 14 (3.52%) Microsoft Intune
7 10 (2.51%) Argo
7 10 (2.51%) Jamf Pro
8 9 (2.26%) Nagios
9 7 (1.76%) Puppet
10 6 (1.51%) SCCM
11 4 (1.01%) Packer
12 3 (0.75%) Control-M
12 3 (0.75%) cPanel
12 3 (0.75%) Docker Swarm
12 3 (0.75%) Plesk
12 3 (0.75%) Podman
12 3 (0.75%) Rancher
12 3 (0.75%) SCOM
12 3 (0.75%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 70 (17.59%) Microsoft
2 24 (6.03%) Dynatrace
3 21 (5.28%) Databricks
4 20 (5.03%) Google
5 16 (4.02%) VMware
6 15 (3.77%) Splunk
7 14 (3.52%) Amplitude
7 14 (3.52%) Braze
8 13 (3.27%) OpenAI
9 11 (2.76%) Apple
9 11 (2.76%) Red Hat
10 9 (2.26%) Rapid7
10 9 (2.26%) Salesforce
11 7 (1.76%) AppDynamics
12 6 (1.51%) Automation Anywhere
12 6 (1.51%) IBM
12 6 (1.51%) UiPath
13 5 (1.26%) Atlassian
13 5 (1.26%) Oracle
13 5 (1.26%) Tenable