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 29 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 231 261 220
Rank change year-on-year +30 -41 +120
Permanent jobs citing Deployment Automation 36 58 53
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.38% 0.52% 0.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% 0.63% 0.76%
Number of salaries quoted 9 20 39
10th Percentile £62,500 £44,125 £42,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £48,925 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,000 £56,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +38.67% +2.27% -
75th Percentile £86,250 £61,438 £64,375
90th Percentile £93,500 £72,750 £75,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £68,000 £70,576
% change year-on-year +10.29% -3.65% -5.90%

All Process and 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 8,004 9,195 6,943
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 83.71% 83.21% 92.86%
Number of salaries quoted 4,877 4,818 4,874
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,750 £30,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £43,313 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £56,465 £54,763
Median % change year-on-year -13.22% +3.11% -0.43%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -3.04%

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 29 November 2025.

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 29 November 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
Thames Valley +16 27 £81,250 +66.07% 18
Berkshire +6 24 £67,500 +37.97% 6
Hampshire +47 7 £78,000 +33.33% 12
Oxfordshire +23 3 £95,000 +26.67% 7
Kent +2 1 £65,000 - 7
East Sussex - 1 £85,000 - 2
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 (5.56%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.78%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.78%) Confluence
2 1 (2.78%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 10 (27.78%) Azure
2 8 (22.22%) AWS
3 5 (13.89%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (11.11%) GCP
5 3 (8.33%) GitHub
5 3 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (5.56%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (5.56%) Amazon ELB
6 2 (5.56%) Amazon S3
7 1 (2.78%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (2.78%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (2.78%) Azure Service Fabric
7 1 (2.78%) Datadog
7 1 (2.78%) Entra ID
7 1 (2.78%) OCI
7 1 (2.78%) PaaS
7 1 (2.78%) Power Platform
7 1 (2.78%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
7 1 (2.78%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.33%) Metadata
2 2 (5.56%) Delta Lake
2 2 (5.56%) DynamoDB
2 2 (5.56%) Spark SQL
3 1 (2.78%) Big Data
3 1 (2.78%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (13.89%) Git
1 5 (13.89%) Jenkins
2 4 (11.11%) GitLab
3 3 (8.33%) MLflow
4 2 (5.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (2.78%) Bitbucket
5 1 (2.78%) Burp Suite
5 1 (2.78%) JIRA
General
1 22 (61.11%) Finance
2 21 (58.33%) Pharmaceutical
3 9 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (2.78%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.78%) Banking
4 1 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (2.78%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 24 (66.67%) Lead
2 3 (8.33%) Machine Learning Engineer
3 2 (5.56%) Associate Director
3 2 (5.56%) Developer
3 2 (5.56%) Operations Engineer
3 2 (5.56%) Platform Engineer
3 2 (5.56%) Senior
4 1 (2.78%) Azure Consultant
4 1 (2.78%) Azure Specialist
4 1 (2.78%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (2.78%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 1 (2.78%) Consultant
4 1 (2.78%) DevOps Consultant
4 1 (2.78%) DevOps Specialist
4 1 (2.78%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 1 (2.78%) Lead DevOps
4 1 (2.78%) Senior Platform Engineer
4 1 (2.78%) Site Engineer
4 1 (2.78%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 1 (2.78%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.56%) .NET
1 2 (5.56%) Keras
1 2 (5.56%) Lambda Expressions
1 2 (5.56%) Metaflow
1 2 (5.56%) NumPy
1 2 (5.56%) OAuth
1 2 (5.56%) OAuth2
1 2 (5.56%) Pandas
1 2 (5.56%) PySpark
1 2 (5.56%) PyTorch
1 2 (5.56%) REST
1 2 (5.56%) scikit-learn
1 2 (5.56%) SOAP
1 2 (5.56%) TensorFlow
1 2 (5.56%) YAML
2 1 (2.78%) GraphQL
2 1 (2.78%) OpenID
2 1 (2.78%) React
2 1 (2.78%) React Native
2 1 (2.78%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 22 (61.11%) Life Science
2 3 (8.33%) Low-Code
3 2 (5.56%) Cloud Native
3 2 (5.56%) Hackathon
3 2 (5.56%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (2.78%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.78%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.78%) IoT
4 1 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (77.78%) Agile
2 27 (75.00%) AI
2 27 (75.00%) Machine Learning
3 25 (69.44%) Data Science
4 24 (66.67%) Analytics
5 23 (63.89%) Computer Science
6 22 (61.11%) Hematology
6 22 (61.11%) Immunology
6 22 (61.11%) Roadmaps
6 22 (61.11%) Use Case
7 20 (55.56%) Digital Twin
7 20 (55.56%) Disruptive Innovation
7 20 (55.56%) Enterprise Architecture
7 20 (55.56%) Generative AI
7 20 (55.56%) Intelligent Automation
7 20 (55.56%) Thought Leadership
8 12 (33.33%) CI/CD
9 9 (25.00%) DevOps
10 6 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
11 5 (13.89%) MLOps
Programming Languages
1 8 (22.22%) Python
2 2 (5.56%) SQL
3 1 (2.78%) Apex Code
3 1 (2.78%) Bicep
3 1 (2.78%) Delphi
3 1 (2.78%) JavaScript
3 1 (2.78%) PowerShell
3 1 (2.78%) VB
3 1 (2.78%) VB6
Qualifications
1 24 (66.67%) Degree
2 23 (63.89%) Master's Degree
3 20 (55.56%) PhD
4 4 (11.11%) Security Cleared
5 3 (8.33%) DV Cleared
6 2 (5.56%) SC Cleared
7 1 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (55.56%) GxP
2 1 (2.78%) GDPR
2 1 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.78%) SOC 2
System Software
1 5 (13.89%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 6 (16.67%) Terraform
2 2 (5.56%) Ansible
2 2 (5.56%) Grafana
2 2 (5.56%) Kubeflow
2 2 (5.56%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (5.56%) Databricks
2 1 (2.78%) Dynatrace
2 1 (2.78%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.78%) Oracle
2 1 (2.78%) Salesforce