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 17 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 215 256 294
Rank change year-on-year +41 +38 -14
Permanent jobs citing Deployment Automation 77 19 90
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.53% 0.24% 0.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.74% 0.27% 0.65%
Number of salaries quoted 50 15 79
10th Percentile - - £52,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £52,500 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +26.19% -14.63% -5.38%
75th Percentile £91,875 £78,750 £74,375
90th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £71,991 £67,500
% change year-on-year -2.77% +6.65% -12.90%

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 10,390 7,112 13,824
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 71.84% 90.56% 84.00%
Number of salaries quoted 7,048 3,380 9,805
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £39,969 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% +8.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,375 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,550 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +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 17 May 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 17 May 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 +59 48 £45,000 -12.20% 11
Berkshire +53 42 £45,000 -10.00% 8
Hampshire -4 21 £85,000 +21.43% 11
Oxfordshire +4 6 £55,000 +4.76% 3
East Sussex -20 4 £85,000 +61.90% 1
Kent - 3 £65,000 -
Surrey -12 1 - - 3
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 (2.60%) Confluence
1 2 (2.60%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 45 (58.44%) Azure
2 28 (36.36%) AWS
3 26 (33.77%) Azure DevOps
4 17 (22.08%) Azure Logic Apps
4 17 (22.08%) Power Platform
5 12 (15.58%) GCP
6 11 (14.29%) Serverless
7 7 (9.09%) GitHub
7 7 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (7.79%) Amazon EC2
8 6 (7.79%) Amazon EKS
8 6 (7.79%) Amazon S3
8 6 (7.79%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (5.19%) Datadog
9 4 (5.19%) Entra ID
9 4 (5.19%) PaaS
10 3 (3.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 2 (2.60%) AWS CodePipeline
11 2 (2.60%) Azure Service Bus
11 2 (2.60%) Azure Service Fabric
Communications & Networking
1 7 (9.09%) MQTT
2 5 (6.49%) Network Security
3 4 (5.19%) DHCP
3 4 (5.19%) DNS
3 4 (5.19%) Firewall
4 1 (1.30%) BGP
4 1 (1.30%) Broadband
4 1 (1.30%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (1.30%) LAN
4 1 (1.30%) NGFW
4 1 (1.30%) OSPF
4 1 (1.30%) SD-WAN
4 1 (1.30%) SSH
4 1 (1.30%) SSL
4 1 (1.30%) VPN
4 1 (1.30%) VSAN
4 1 (1.30%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.19%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.90%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (1.30%) Delta Lake
3 1 (1.30%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 22 (28.57%) GitLab
2 19 (24.68%) Git
3 15 (19.48%) Jenkins
4 11 (14.29%) SonarQube
5 7 (9.09%) JIRA
6 6 (7.79%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 5 (6.49%) Cucumber
8 4 (5.19%) Artifactory
9 2 (2.60%) Polyspace
9 2 (2.60%) VectorCAST
10 1 (1.30%) Bitbucket
General
1 26 (33.77%) Finance
2 22 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 19 (24.68%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (12.99%) Pharmaceutical
5 4 (5.19%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.60%) Aerospace
6 2 (2.60%) Banking
7 1 (1.30%) Automotive
7 1 (1.30%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 20 (25.97%) Developer
2 17 (22.08%) Lead
3 15 (19.48%) Power Platform Developer
4 11 (14.29%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 9 (11.69%) Associate Director
5 9 (11.69%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (5.19%) Site Engineer
6 4 (5.19%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 3 (3.90%) Senior
8 2 (2.60%) .NET Software Engineer
8 2 (2.60%) C# Software Engineer
8 2 (2.60%) DevOps Developer
8 2 (2.60%) Java Developer
8 2 (2.60%) Java Engineer
8 2 (2.60%) QA Engineer
8 2 (2.60%) QA Test Engineer
8 2 (2.60%) SC Cleared Java Developer
8 2 (2.60%) Software Developer
8 2 (2.60%) Software Engineer
8 2 (2.60%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (14.29%) REST
2 7 (9.09%) Kafka
3 5 (6.49%) .NET
3 5 (6.49%) JSON
4 4 (5.19%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (5.19%) RabbitMQ
4 4 (5.19%) YAML
5 3 (3.90%) gRPC
5 3 (3.90%) Keycloak
5 3 (3.90%) OAuth
5 3 (3.90%) OAuth2
5 3 (3.90%) Protocol Buffers
5 3 (3.90%) SOAP
6 2 (2.60%) ASP.NET
6 2 (2.60%) GraphQL
6 2 (2.60%) OpenID
6 2 (2.60%) pytest
6 2 (2.60%) RESTful
6 2 (2.60%) WCF
6 2 (2.60%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 26 (33.77%) Low-Code
2 22 (28.57%) Life Science
3 13 (16.88%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (11.69%) Hackathon
5 5 (6.49%) Cloud Native
6 4 (5.19%) Product Ownership
7 3 (3.90%) Private Cloud
7 3 (3.90%) Public Cloud
7 3 (3.90%) Renewable Energy
7 3 (3.90%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (3.90%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 3 (3.90%) Virtual Team
8 2 (2.60%) Data Centre
8 2 (2.60%) Embedded Systems
8 2 (2.60%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (2.60%) PKI
8 2 (2.60%) Robotics
9 1 (1.30%) Cyber Threat
9 1 (1.30%) Cyberattack
9 1 (1.30%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 14 (18.18%) Linux
2 2 (2.60%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (66.23%) CI/CD
2 41 (53.25%) Agile
3 40 (51.95%) DevOps
4 30 (38.96%) AI
5 26 (33.77%) Cybersecurity
5 26 (33.77%) Machine Learning
6 24 (31.17%) Computer Science
6 24 (31.17%) Continuous Improvement
6 24 (31.17%) Infrastructure as Code
7 23 (29.87%) Analytics
7 23 (29.87%) Problem-Solving
8 22 (28.57%) Microservices
9 20 (25.97%) Containerisation
10 19 (24.68%) Data Science
10 19 (24.68%) Hematology
10 19 (24.68%) Immunology
10 19 (24.68%) Use Case
11 17 (22.08%) MLOps
12 16 (20.78%) Data Governance
12 16 (20.78%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 50 (64.94%) Python
2 17 (22.08%) C#
3 16 (20.78%) JavaScript
4 10 (12.99%) Rust
5 6 (7.79%) Bash
5 6 (7.79%) Groovy
5 6 (7.79%) PowerShell
6 5 (6.49%) Java
7 4 (5.19%) Perl
8 3 (3.90%) Shell Script
9 2 (2.60%) Delphi
9 2 (2.60%) VB
9 2 (2.60%) VB6
10 1 (1.30%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 30 (38.96%) Degree
2 24 (31.17%) Security Cleared
3 19 (24.68%) Master's Degree
4 14 (18.18%) SC Cleared
5 10 (12.99%) PhD
6 9 (11.69%) DV Cleared
7 7 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.30%) CCNP
8 1 (1.30%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (18.18%) QA
2 13 (16.88%) Accessibility
3 10 (12.99%) GxP
4 3 (3.90%) SOC 2
5 2 (2.60%) Def Stans
5 2 (2.60%) IEC 61508
5 2 (2.60%) ISO 26262
6 1 (1.30%) GDPR
6 1 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (1.30%) NCSC
6 1 (1.30%) NIST
6 1 (1.30%) SLA
System Software
1 20 (25.97%) Docker
2 4 (5.19%) Active Directory
3 3 (3.90%) Hyper-V
3 3 (3.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.30%) VMware NSX
4 1 (1.30%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 25 (32.47%) Ansible
2 24 (31.17%) Kubernetes
3 21 (27.27%) Terraform
4 13 (16.88%) Grafana
4 13 (16.88%) Prometheus
5 6 (7.79%) Puppet
6 4 (5.19%) Packer
7 3 (3.90%) Podman
8 1 (1.30%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 17 (22.08%) Microsoft
2 5 (6.49%) AppDynamics
2 5 (6.49%) Tenable
3 4 (5.19%) Dynatrace
3 4 (5.19%) IBM
3 4 (5.19%) NVIDIA
3 4 (5.19%) VMware
4 3 (3.90%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.30%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.30%) Databricks
5 1 (1.30%) Mellanox
5 1 (1.30%) Thales