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 20 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 265 279 233
Rank change year-on-year +14 -46 +96
Permanent jobs citing Deployment Automation 26 51 57
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.29% 0.44% 0.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 0.55% 0.75%
Number of salaries quoted 4 18 43
10th Percentile £75,250 £42,375 £42,500
25th Percentile £77,500 - £50,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £48,925 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +68.63% -14.91% +4.55%
75th Percentile £89,063 £63,813 £66,250
90th Percentile £94,125 £73,250 £71,250
England median annual salary £76,109 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +12.75% -3.57% -6.67%

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 7,893 9,332 7,643
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 88.18% 81.25% 93.42%
Number of salaries quoted 4,295 4,965 5,256
10th Percentile £27,000 £32,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% - -
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,249
% change year-on-year -8.33% -0.41% +0.42%

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 20 October 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 20 October 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 0 18 £95,000 +94.17% 7
Berkshire -12 15 - - 5
Hampshire +46 6 £82,500 +41.03% 9
Oxfordshire +13 3 £95,000 +26.67% 2
Middlesex -24 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 (7.69%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.85%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 7 (26.92%) Azure
2 6 (23.08%) AWS
3 4 (15.38%) GCP
4 2 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (7.69%) Amazon ELB
4 2 (7.69%) Amazon S3
4 2 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.85%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (3.85%) GitHub
5 1 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (3.85%) OCI
5 1 (3.85%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.85%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.69%) Delta Lake
1 2 (7.69%) DynamoDB
1 2 (7.69%) Metadata
1 2 (7.69%) Spark SQL
2 1 (3.85%) Big Data
2 1 (3.85%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 4 (15.38%) Git
2 3 (11.54%) GitLab
2 3 (11.54%) Jenkins
2 3 (11.54%) MLflow
3 1 (3.85%) Burp Suite
3 1 (3.85%) JIRA
General
1 16 (61.54%) Finance
1 16 (61.54%) Pharmaceutical
2 8 (30.77%) Social Skills
3 1 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (3.85%) Games
3 1 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (3.85%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 15 (57.69%) Lead
2 4 (15.38%) Senior
3 3 (11.54%) Machine Learning Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Operations Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Senior Platform Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Automation Developer
5 1 (3.85%) Azure Consultant
5 1 (3.85%) Azure Specialist
5 1 (3.85%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Consultant
5 1 (3.85%) Developer
5 1 (3.85%) DevOps Consultant
5 1 (3.85%) DevOps Specialist
5 1 (3.85%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Engineering Manager
5 1 (3.85%) Environment And Release Manager
5 1 (3.85%) Release Manager
5 1 (3.85%) Senior Developer
5 1 (3.85%) Software Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.69%) Keras
1 2 (7.69%) Lambda Expressions
1 2 (7.69%) Metaflow
1 2 (7.69%) NumPy
1 2 (7.69%) Pandas
1 2 (7.69%) PySpark
1 2 (7.69%) PyTorch
1 2 (7.69%) scikit-learn
1 2 (7.69%) TensorFlow
1 2 (7.69%) YAML
2 1 (3.85%) AngularJS
2 1 (3.85%) Node.js
2 1 (3.85%) React
Miscellaneous
1 15 (57.69%) Life Science
2 2 (7.69%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (3.85%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.85%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (3.85%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (76.92%) Agile
2 19 (73.08%) AI
3 18 (69.23%) Data Science
3 18 (69.23%) Machine Learning
4 17 (65.38%) Computer Science
5 16 (61.54%) Intelligent Automation
5 16 (61.54%) Roadmaps
6 15 (57.69%) Analytics
6 15 (57.69%) Digital Twin
6 15 (57.69%) Disruptive Innovation
6 15 (57.69%) Enterprise Architecture
6 15 (57.69%) Generative AI
6 15 (57.69%) Hematology
6 15 (57.69%) Immunology
6 15 (57.69%) Thought Leadership
6 15 (57.69%) Use Case
7 8 (30.77%) CI/CD
8 6 (23.08%) DevOps
9 3 (11.54%) MLOps
9 3 (11.54%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 5 (19.23%) Python
2 2 (7.69%) SQL
3 1 (3.85%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 17 (65.38%) Degree
2 16 (61.54%) Master's Degree
3 15 (57.69%) PhD
4 3 (11.54%) SC Cleared
4 3 (11.54%) Security Cleared
5 2 (7.69%) DV Cleared
6 1 (3.85%) Azure Certification
6 1 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (57.69%) GxP
2 1 (3.85%) GDPR
2 1 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.85%) SOC 2
System Software
1 5 (19.23%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (26.92%) Kubernetes
1 7 (26.92%) Terraform
2 3 (11.54%) Grafana
2 3 (11.54%) Prometheus
3 2 (7.69%) Ansible
3 2 (7.69%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 2 (7.69%) Databricks
1 2 (7.69%) Oracle
2 1 (3.85%) ServiceNow
2 1 (3.85%) UiPath