Deployment Automation Job Trends in the South East

Deployment Automation
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Deployment Automation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 213 227 259
Rank change year-on-year +14 +32 +25
Permanent jobs citing Deployment Automation 70 30 101
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.54% 0.45% 0.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.72% 0.50% 0.78%
Number of salaries quoted 38 18 86
10th Percentile - £46,250 £51,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,563 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £56,250 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.56% -8.54% -5.38%
75th Percentile £91,875 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £76,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +15.38% -18.75%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South East

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 in the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,656 6,038 12,917
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 74.64% 89.92% 85.02%
Number of salaries quoted 6,212 3,246 9,473
10th Percentile £28,750 £30,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £66,250 £71,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £77,750
England median annual salary £55,163 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.06% +9.09% -12.00%

Deployment Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Deployment Automation relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Deployment Automation job vacancy trend in the South East

Deployment Automation
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Deployment Automation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Deployment Automation

Deployment Automation
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Deployment Automation in the South East over the 6 months to 31 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Deployment Automation in the South East

Deployment Automation
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Deployment Automation within the South East region over the 6 months to 31 March 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
Thames Valley +40 51 £45,000 -12.20% 9
Berkshire +63 47 £45,000 -10.00% 8
Hampshire -6 13 £85,000 +25.93% 3
Oxfordshire -4 4 £55,000 +4.76% 1
East Sussex -15 4 £85,000 +78.95%
Kent - 2 £65,000 -
Deployment Automation
England

Deployment Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 2 (2.86%) Confluence
1 2 (2.86%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 35 (50.00%) Azure
2 24 (34.29%) Azure DevOps
3 17 (24.29%) Azure Logic Apps
3 17 (24.29%) Power Platform
4 14 (20.00%) AWS
5 7 (10.00%) GitHub
5 7 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (8.57%) GCP
7 4 (5.71%) Datadog
8 2 (2.86%) AWS CodePipeline
8 2 (2.86%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (2.86%) Azure Service Fabric
8 2 (2.86%) PaaS
9 1 (1.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (1.43%) Entra ID
9 1 (1.43%) OCI
9 1 (1.43%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
9 1 (1.43%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 1 (1.43%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.71%) MQTT
2 1 (1.43%) DHCP
2 1 (1.43%) DNS
2 1 (1.43%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.86%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.43%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 11 (15.71%) GitLab
2 10 (14.29%) Git
3 9 (12.86%) Jenkins
4 6 (8.57%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (2.86%) JIRA
5 2 (2.86%) Polyspace
5 2 (2.86%) VectorCAST
6 1 (1.43%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.43%) Burp Suite
6 1 (1.43%) SonarQube
General
1 32 (45.71%) Finance
2 20 (28.57%) Pharmaceutical
3 19 (27.14%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (24.29%) Social Skills
5 2 (2.86%) Aerospace
5 2 (2.86%) Banking
5 2 (2.86%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.43%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 27 (38.57%) Lead
2 18 (25.71%) Developer
3 15 (21.43%) Power Platform Developer
4 11 (15.71%) Associate Director
5 6 (8.57%) DevSecOps Engineer
6 4 (5.71%) Site Engineer
6 4 (5.71%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 2 (2.86%) QA Engineer
7 2 (2.86%) QA Test Engineer
7 2 (2.86%) Senior
7 2 (2.86%) Software Developer
7 2 (2.86%) Test Engineer
8 1 (1.43%) Architect
8 1 (1.43%) DevOps Engineer
8 1 (1.43%) Embedded Engineer
8 1 (1.43%) Full-Stack Developer
8 1 (1.43%) Lead DevOps
8 1 (1.43%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.71%) Kafka
2 3 (4.29%) .NET
2 3 (4.29%) OAuth
2 3 (4.29%) OAuth2
2 3 (4.29%) REST
2 3 (4.29%) SOAP
3 2 (2.86%) ASP.NET
3 2 (2.86%) OpenID
3 2 (2.86%) pytest
3 2 (2.86%) WCF
3 2 (2.86%) Web Services
4 1 (1.43%) .NET Core
4 1 (1.43%) .NET Framework
4 1 (1.43%) GraphQL
4 1 (1.43%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (1.43%) Middleware
4 1 (1.43%) React
4 1 (1.43%) React Native
4 1 (1.43%) RESTful
4 1 (1.43%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 31 (44.29%) Life Science
2 28 (40.00%) Low-Code
3 11 (15.71%) Hackathon
4 5 (7.14%) Cloud Native
4 5 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (5.71%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.86%) Embedded Systems
6 2 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.86%) Robotics
7 1 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.43%) IoT
7 1 (1.43%) PKI
7 1 (1.43%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.43%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.43%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.43%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.43%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (62.86%) Agile
2 38 (54.29%) AI
2 38 (54.29%) CI/CD
3 37 (52.86%) Machine Learning
4 35 (50.00%) Analytics
5 33 (47.14%) Computer Science
6 31 (44.29%) Data Science
7 30 (42.86%) Hematology
7 30 (42.86%) Immunology
7 30 (42.86%) Use Case
8 29 (41.43%) DevOps
9 25 (35.71%) Continuous Improvement
10 24 (34.29%) Roadmaps
11 20 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
11 20 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
12 19 (27.14%) Digital Twin
12 19 (27.14%) Disruptive Innovation
12 19 (27.14%) Enterprise Architecture
12 19 (27.14%) Intelligent Automation
12 19 (27.14%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 39 (55.71%) Python
2 16 (22.86%) JavaScript
3 15 (21.43%) C#
4 5 (7.14%) Rust
5 3 (4.29%) Bash
5 3 (4.29%) PowerShell
6 2 (2.86%) Delphi
6 2 (2.86%) VB
6 2 (2.86%) VB6
7 1 (1.43%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 39 (55.71%) Degree
2 30 (42.86%) Master's Degree
3 19 (27.14%) PhD
4 11 (15.71%) Security Cleared
5 6 (8.57%) DV Cleared
6 5 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (7.14%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (27.14%) GxP
2 13 (18.57%) Accessibility
3 7 (10.00%) QA
4 2 (2.86%) Def Stans
4 2 (2.86%) IEC 61508
4 2 (2.86%) ISO 26262
4 2 (2.86%) SOC 2
5 1 (1.43%) GDPR
5 1 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.43%) NCSC
System Software
1 11 (15.71%) Docker
2 1 (1.43%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.43%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.43%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (15.71%) Kubernetes
2 10 (14.29%) Ansible
3 7 (10.00%) Terraform
4 6 (8.57%) Grafana
4 6 (8.57%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.43%) Functional Safety
5 1 (1.43%) Puppet
Vendors
1 17 (24.29%) Microsoft
2 4 (5.71%) Dynatrace
3 1 (1.43%) Oracle
3 1 (1.43%) Salesforce
3 1 (1.43%) Tenable
3 1 (1.43%) VMware