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

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 244 270 311
Rank change year-on-year +26 +41 -23
Permanent jobs citing Deployment Automation 70 19 84
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.46% 0.23% 0.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.64% 0.26% 0.57%
Number of salaries quoted 47 13 71
10th Percentile £42,500 - £48,925
25th Percentile £53,750 £46,250 £53,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £52,500 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +23.81% -14.63% -1.60%
75th Percentile £91,250 £85,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £95,000 - £80,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £68,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +2.19% +5.38% -13.33%

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 11,020 7,309 14,678
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 71.91% 89.38% 81.58%
Number of salaries quoted 7,842 3,724 10,195
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £27,857
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -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 2 July 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 2 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
Thames Valley +56 41 £60,000 +14.29% 7
Berkshire +39 30 £45,000 - 5
Hampshire -29 18 £90,000 +9.09% 7
Oxfordshire -3 9 £60,000 +14.29% 2
Surrey -13 5 £65,000 +38.30% 3
East Sussex -14 4 £85,000 +61.90%
Buckinghamshire - 2 £65,000 -
Kent - 2 £62,500 -
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 4 (5.71%) IIS
2 3 (4.29%) nginx
3 1 (1.43%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 45 (64.29%) Azure
2 28 (40.00%) AWS
3 24 (34.29%) Azure DevOps
4 13 (18.57%) GCP
5 11 (15.71%) Serverless
6 10 (14.29%) Azure Logic Apps
6 10 (14.29%) Power Platform
7 6 (8.57%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (8.57%) Amazon EKS
7 6 (8.57%) Amazon S3
7 6 (8.57%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (8.57%) PaaS
8 5 (7.14%) GitHub
8 5 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (5.71%) Azure Service Bus
9 4 (5.71%) Datadog
10 3 (4.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (4.29%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (4.29%) Cloudflare
10 3 (4.29%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 7 (10.00%) MQTT
2 5 (7.14%) Network Security
3 4 (5.71%) DHCP
3 4 (5.71%) DNS
3 4 (5.71%) Firewall
4 1 (1.43%) BGP
4 1 (1.43%) Broadband
4 1 (1.43%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (1.43%) LAN
4 1 (1.43%) NGFW
4 1 (1.43%) OSPF
4 1 (1.43%) SD-WAN
4 1 (1.43%) SSH
4 1 (1.43%) SSL
4 1 (1.43%) VPN
4 1 (1.43%) VSAN
4 1 (1.43%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (15.71%) SQL Server
2 3 (4.29%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (4.29%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (1.43%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 20 (28.57%) GitLab
2 19 (27.14%) Git
3 12 (17.14%) Jenkins
4 11 (15.71%) SonarQube
5 6 (8.57%) JIRA
6 5 (7.14%) Cucumber
7 4 (5.71%) Artifactory
7 4 (5.71%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 3 (4.29%) Octopus Deploy
9 2 (2.86%) Eclipse
9 2 (2.86%) Eclipse RCP
9 2 (2.86%) Polyspace
9 2 (2.86%) VectorCAST
General
1 22 (31.43%) Social Skills
2 17 (24.29%) Finance
3 15 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (8.57%) Manufacturing
5 4 (5.71%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (2.86%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.43%) Automotive
7 1 (1.43%) Banking
7 1 (1.43%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 14 (20.00%) Developer
2 12 (17.14%) DevOps Engineer
3 11 (15.71%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 9 (12.86%) Azure Engineer
4 9 (12.86%) Power Platform Developer
5 8 (11.43%) Associate Director
5 8 (11.43%) Lead
6 7 (10.00%) Software Engineer
7 5 (7.14%) .NET Software Engineer
7 5 (7.14%) Azure Software Engineer
7 5 (7.14%) C# Software Engineer
7 5 (7.14%) Senior
8 4 (5.71%) Site Engineer
8 4 (5.71%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 3 (4.29%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 2 (2.86%) C# .NET Developer
10 2 (2.86%) DevOps Developer
10 2 (2.86%) Java Engineer
10 2 (2.86%) QA Test Engineer
10 2 (2.86%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (18.57%) .NET
2 9 (12.86%) REST
3 7 (10.00%) Kafka
4 5 (7.14%) JSON
5 4 (5.71%) Elastic Stack
5 4 (5.71%) RabbitMQ
5 4 (5.71%) YAML
6 3 (4.29%) ARM Templates
6 3 (4.29%) ASP.NET
6 3 (4.29%) gRPC
6 3 (4.29%) Keycloak
6 3 (4.29%) Loki
6 3 (4.29%) Protocol Buffers
7 2 (2.86%) ASP.NET MVC
7 2 (2.86%) pytest
8 1 (1.43%) Apollo GraphQL
8 1 (1.43%) GraphQL
8 1 (1.43%) OAuth2
8 1 (1.43%) OpenID
8 1 (1.43%) React
Miscellaneous
1 18 (25.71%) Low-Code
2 17 (24.29%) Life Science
3 13 (18.57%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (11.43%) Hackathon
5 6 (8.57%) Product Ownership
6 5 (7.14%) Renewable Energy
6 5 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (5.71%) Cloud Native
7 4 (5.71%) Private Cloud
8 3 (4.29%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (4.29%) Public Cloud
8 3 (4.29%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 3 (4.29%) Virtual Team
9 2 (2.86%) Data Centre
9 2 (2.86%) Embedded Systems
9 2 (2.86%) PKI
9 2 (2.86%) Robotics
10 1 (1.43%) Cyber Threat
10 1 (1.43%) Cyberattack
10 1 (1.43%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 17 (24.29%) Linux
2 5 (7.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (67.14%) CI/CD
2 37 (52.86%) DevOps
3 30 (42.86%) Agile
4 25 (35.71%) AI
5 24 (34.29%) Microservices
6 22 (31.43%) Continuous Improvement
6 22 (31.43%) Infrastructure as Code
7 21 (30.00%) Machine Learning
8 20 (28.57%) Containerisation
8 20 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
9 19 (27.14%) Computer Science
9 19 (27.14%) Problem-Solving
10 16 (22.86%) Analytics
10 16 (22.86%) MLOps
11 15 (21.43%) Observability
11 15 (21.43%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 13 (18.57%) Scrum
12 13 (18.57%) Test Automation
13 12 (17.14%) Kanban
13 12 (17.14%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 42 (60.00%) Python
2 21 (30.00%) C#
3 10 (14.29%) Rust
4 9 (12.86%) JavaScript
5 8 (11.43%) PowerShell
6 6 (8.57%) Bash
6 6 (8.57%) Groovy
7 5 (7.14%) Java
8 4 (5.71%) Perl
9 3 (4.29%) Bicep
9 3 (4.29%) Shell Script
9 3 (4.29%) SQL
10 2 (2.86%) C
10 2 (2.86%) C++
11 1 (1.43%) Delphi
11 1 (1.43%) VB
11 1 (1.43%) VB6
Qualifications
1 24 (34.29%) Degree
2 23 (32.86%) Security Cleared
3 14 (20.00%) SC Cleared
4 12 (17.14%) Master's Degree
5 8 (11.43%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (10.00%) DV Cleared
7 4 (5.71%) PhD
8 1 (1.43%) CCNP
8 1 (1.43%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (24.29%) QA
2 12 (17.14%) Accessibility
3 4 (5.71%) GxP
4 3 (4.29%) SOC 2
5 2 (2.86%) Def Stans
5 2 (2.86%) IEC 61508
5 2 (2.86%) ISO 26262
6 1 (1.43%) GDPR
6 1 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (1.43%) NCSC
6 1 (1.43%) NIST
6 1 (1.43%) SLA
System Software
1 23 (32.86%) Docker
2 4 (5.71%) Active Directory
3 3 (4.29%) Hyper-V
3 3 (4.29%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (4.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.43%) VMware NSX
4 1 (1.43%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 27 (38.57%) Kubernetes
2 25 (35.71%) Ansible
3 21 (30.00%) Terraform
4 16 (22.86%) Grafana
4 16 (22.86%) Prometheus
5 6 (8.57%) Puppet
6 4 (5.71%) Packer
7 3 (4.29%) Podman
8 1 (1.43%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 13 (18.57%) Microsoft
2 5 (7.14%) AppDynamics
2 5 (7.14%) Salesforce
2 5 (7.14%) Tenable
3 4 (5.71%) Dynatrace
3 4 (5.71%) IBM
3 4 (5.71%) NVIDIA
3 4 (5.71%) VMware
4 2 (2.86%) Google
5 1 (1.43%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.43%) Databricks
5 1 (1.43%) Mellanox
5 1 (1.43%) Thales