Deployment Automation Jobs

Deployment Automation
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Deployment Automation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Deployment Automation over the 6 months leading up to 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 471 490 453
Rank change year-on-year +19 -37 -101
Permanent jobs citing Deployment Automation 258 449 685
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.47% 0.45% 0.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.50% 0.53% 0.71%
Number of salaries quoted 207 348 473
10th Percentile £46,000 £45,000 £48,750
25th Percentile £53,750 £55,500 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £67,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -12.90% +19.23%
75th Percentile £95,625 £85,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £130,000 £112,500 £136,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £61,500 £68,474
% change year-on-year +1.63% -10.18% +14.12%

All Process and 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 51,711 84,738 96,776
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.87% 85.57% 95.61%
Number of salaries quoted 26,444 59,708 57,080
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,450 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.90% -9.09% +4.76%

Deployment Automation
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Deployment Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Deployment Automation in the UK

Deployment Automation
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Deployment Automation.

Salary trend for Deployment Automation in the UK

Deployment Automation
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Deployment Automation over the 6 months to 14 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Deployment Automation in the UK

Deployment Automation
Top 14 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 14 May 2025. 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 +6 237 £75,000 +11.11% 317
London +100 145 £80,000 -20.00% 159
Work from Home +67 130 £60,000 -2.44% 164
UK excluding London +40 103 £62,500 +1.63% 217
North of England +19 38 £67,500 +10.66% 56
North West +1 27 £67,500 +47.12% 33
South East +28 19 £52,500 -14.63% 68
Midlands +57 18 £62,500 +4.17% 30
West Midlands +50 18 £62,500 +4.17% 18
Scotland +125 15 £75,360 +214.00% 17
Yorkshire +50 11 £58,750 -13.60% 19
South West +60 10 £71,991 +17.06% 23
Wales - 2 £50,000 - 8
East of England +41 1 £75,000 +27.66% 21

Deployment Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 9 (3.49%) Apache
2 8 (3.10%) Confluence
3 6 (2.33%) SharePoint
4 5 (1.94%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.94%) Apache Spark
5 4 (1.55%) nginx
6 3 (1.16%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.78%) CMS
7 2 (0.78%) IIS
8 1 (0.39%) BizTalk Server
8 1 (0.39%) Camunda
8 1 (0.39%) Drupal
8 1 (0.39%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.39%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.39%) Strapi
8 1 (0.39%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.39%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (0.78%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.55%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 132 (51.16%) AWS
2 106 (41.09%) Azure
3 55 (21.32%) Serverless
4 54 (20.93%) GCP
5 50 (19.38%) GitHub
6 46 (17.83%) AWS Lambda
7 42 (16.28%) Azure DevOps
8 30 (11.63%) Amazon S3
9 27 (10.47%) Amazon EC2
10 25 (9.69%) AWS CloudFormation
10 25 (9.69%) GitHub Actions
11 24 (9.30%) Amazon EKS
12 18 (6.98%) Pulumi
13 15 (5.81%) SaaS
14 14 (5.43%) Datadog
15 13 (5.04%) AWS KMS
16 12 (4.65%) Power Platform
17 11 (4.26%) Amazon ECS
17 11 (4.26%) Azure Machine Learning
17 11 (4.26%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 18 (6.98%) Network Security
2 5 (1.94%) Firewall
2 5 (1.94%) HTTP
3 3 (1.16%) DNS
3 3 (1.16%) VPN
4 2 (0.78%) Broadband
4 2 (0.78%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 2 (0.78%) SSH
4 2 (0.78%) SSL
5 1 (0.39%) FTP
5 1 (0.39%) Internet
5 1 (0.39%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.39%) MQTT
5 1 (0.39%) OpenVPN
5 1 (0.39%) SAN
5 1 (0.39%) SMTP
5 1 (0.39%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (5.04%) Amazon RDS
2 11 (4.26%) Data Warehouse
2 11 (4.26%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (3.88%) Cloud Spanner
3 10 (3.88%) MySQL
3 10 (3.88%) SQL Server
4 8 (3.10%) Tick Data
5 7 (2.71%) MongoDB
5 7 (2.71%) NoSQL
6 6 (2.33%) Amazon Redshift
6 6 (2.33%) DynamoDB
6 6 (2.33%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (1.94%) Data Lake
7 5 (1.94%) Power BI
8 3 (1.16%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (1.16%) Big Data
8 3 (1.16%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.39%) RavenDB
9 1 (0.39%) Redis
9 1 (0.39%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 49 (18.99%) Jenkins
2 37 (14.34%) Git
3 30 (11.63%) GitLab
4 22 (8.53%) Cucumber
5 16 (6.20%) JIRA
6 15 (5.81%) IntelliJ
7 14 (5.43%) JUnit
7 14 (5.43%) Maven
7 14 (5.43%) Mockito
8 11 (4.26%) Artifactory
8 11 (4.26%) SonarQube
9 8 (3.10%) CircleCI
9 8 (3.10%) Selenium
10 6 (2.33%) Postman
11 5 (1.94%) Appium
12 4 (1.55%) Bitbucket
12 4 (1.55%) Cypress.io
12 4 (1.55%) IBM UrbanCode
12 4 (1.55%) JMeter
12 4 (1.55%) SoapUI
General
1 75 (29.07%) Social Skills
2 65 (25.19%) Finance
3 29 (11.24%) Banking
4 19 (7.36%) Marketing
5 18 (6.98%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (6.59%) Public Sector
7 13 (5.04%) Games
8 11 (4.26%) Front Office
9 9 (3.49%) Legal
10 6 (2.33%) Investment Banking
10 6 (2.33%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (1.55%) Law
12 3 (1.16%) Manufacturing
12 3 (1.16%) Retail
13 2 (0.78%) Agriculture
13 2 (0.78%) Automotive
13 2 (0.78%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.78%) Publishing
14 1 (0.39%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 61 (23.64%) Senior
2 55 (21.32%) Developer
3 53 (20.54%) DevOps Engineer
4 30 (11.63%) Software Engineer
5 28 (10.85%) Platform Engineer
6 24 (9.30%) AWS DevOps
7 23 (8.91%) Senior DevOps
8 21 (8.14%) Architect
9 18 (6.98%) Lead
10 17 (6.59%) Cloud Engineer
11 16 (6.20%) Java Developer
11 16 (6.20%) Senior Developer
12 15 (5.81%) AWS Developer
12 15 (5.81%) Cloud Architect
12 15 (5.81%) Consultant
12 15 (5.81%) DevOps Developer
13 14 (5.43%) Java Pricing Developer
13 14 (5.43%) Pricing Developer
13 14 (5.43%) Senior Java Developer
13 14 (5.43%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (12.02%) Spring Boot
2 30 (11.63%) Spring
3 24 (9.30%) Kafka
3 24 (9.30%) React
4 22 (8.53%) Elastic Stack
5 20 (7.75%) Node.js
5 20 (7.75%) RESTful
6 16 (6.20%) .NET
7 14 (5.43%) ActiveMQ
7 14 (5.43%) JMS
8 12 (4.65%) REST
9 11 (4.26%) AngularJS
10 10 (3.88%) JSON
11 8 (3.10%) Azure Blueprints
11 8 (3.10%) Playwright
12 7 (2.71%) ARM Templates
13 6 (2.33%) J2EE
13 6 (2.33%) Middleware
13 6 (2.33%) OpenTelemetry
13 6 (2.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 45 (17.44%) Management Information System
2 36 (13.95%) Public Cloud
3 19 (7.36%) Cloud Native
4 17 (6.59%) Distributed Systems
4 17 (6.59%) Enterprise Software
5 14 (5.43%) Credit Derivative
6 10 (3.88%) Educational Technology
6 10 (3.88%) Mobile Games
7 9 (3.49%) Algorithms
8 8 (3.10%) Onboarding
9 7 (2.71%) Mobile App
10 6 (2.33%) Tandem
11 5 (1.94%) Product Ownership
12 4 (1.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 4 (1.55%) Legacy Systems
12 4 (1.55%) Private Cloud
12 4 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (1.55%) Virtual Team
13 3 (1.16%) Cyber Threat
13 3 (1.16%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 69 (26.74%) Linux
2 18 (6.98%) Windows
3 17 (6.59%) Android
3 17 (6.59%) Apple iOS
4 8 (3.10%) Mac OS
5 4 (1.55%) CentOS
6 2 (0.78%) Debian
6 2 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.78%) Unix
6 2 (0.78%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.39%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 175 (67.83%) DevOps
2 168 (65.12%) CI/CD
3 101 (39.15%) Infrastructure as Code
4 94 (36.43%) Containerisation
5 90 (34.88%) Agile
6 78 (30.23%) Software Engineering
7 60 (23.26%) Microservices
8 59 (22.87%) Mentoring
9 58 (22.48%) Test Automation
10 54 (20.93%) Problem-Solving
11 41 (15.89%) Continuous Integration
12 40 (15.50%) Continuous Delivery
13 37 (14.34%) Platform Engineering
14 36 (13.95%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 30 (11.63%) Continuous Improvement
16 29 (11.24%) Low Latency
17 28 (10.85%) Cost Optimisation
18 27 (10.47%) Design Patterns
18 27 (10.47%) High Availability
19 26 (10.08%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 88 (34.11%) Java
2 86 (33.33%) Python
3 29 (11.24%) JavaScript
4 26 (10.08%) TypeScript
5 23 (8.91%) SQL
6 22 (8.53%) Bicep
7 20 (7.75%) Go
8 19 (7.36%) C#
8 19 (7.36%) C++
8 19 (7.36%) PowerShell
9 14 (5.43%) Kotlin
10 12 (4.65%) Swift
11 11 (4.26%) Ruby
12 10 (3.88%) Bash
12 10 (3.88%) Objective-C
13 4 (1.55%) C
13 4 (1.55%) Groovy
13 4 (1.55%) Kusto Query Language
13 4 (1.55%) Shell Script
14 3 (1.16%) Perl
Qualifications
1 38 (14.73%) Security Cleared
2 30 (11.63%) Degree
3 24 (9.30%) SC Cleared
4 20 (7.75%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (6.59%) AWS Certification
6 15 (5.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 7 (2.71%) Azure Certification
7 7 (2.71%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (2.33%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (1.16%) ISTQB
9 3 (1.16%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 2 (0.78%) CCNA
10 2 (0.78%) CCNP
10 2 (0.78%) CEH
10 2 (0.78%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.78%) CISSP
10 2 (0.78%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.78%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.39%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.39%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (14.34%) QA
2 20 (7.75%) GDPR
3 17 (6.59%) HIPAA
4 10 (3.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (2.71%) NCSC
6 5 (1.94%) Accessibility
7 3 (1.16%) PCI DSS
7 3 (1.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.78%) PMO
8 2 (0.78%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.39%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.39%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 117 (45.35%) Docker
2 12 (4.65%) Active Directory
3 8 (3.10%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 130 (50.39%) Kubernetes
2 119 (46.12%) Terraform
3 66 (25.58%) Ansible
4 34 (13.18%) Prometheus
5 31 (12.02%) Grafana
6 25 (9.69%) Progress Chef
7 21 (8.14%) Puppet
8 18 (6.98%) Podman
9 4 (1.55%) Nagios
9 4 (1.55%) Packer
10 2 (0.78%) Argo
11 1 (0.39%) Check_MK
11 1 (0.39%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.39%) Kibana
11 1 (0.39%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.39%) logstash
11 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.39%) Opsgenie
11 1 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.39%) vRealize
Vendors
1 21 (8.14%) IBM
2 19 (7.36%) Microsoft
3 18 (6.98%) Databricks
4 13 (5.04%) Google
5 8 (3.10%) iManage
6 6 (2.33%) Atlassian
6 6 (2.33%) Dynatrace
6 6 (2.33%) Red Hat
7 4 (1.55%) AppDynamics
7 4 (1.55%) IBM Sterling
7 4 (1.55%) Oracle
7 4 (1.55%) Rapid7
7 4 (1.55%) Salesforce
7 4 (1.55%) Splunk
7 4 (1.55%) VMware
8 3 (1.16%) SAP
9 2 (0.78%) Cisco
9 2 (0.78%) F5
9 2 (0.78%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.78%) Workday