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 25 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 294 262 296
Rank change year-on-year -32 +34 -55
Permanent jobs citing Deployment Automation 44 24 40
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.23% 0.27% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 0.31% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 30 6 19
10th Percentile £52,500 £63,125 £43,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £75,000 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £82,500 £48,925
Median % change year-on-year -21.21% +68.63% -18.46%
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,938 £65,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £86,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +15.38% -8.18%

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 13,519 7,811 10,462
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 71.81% 87.88% 81.29%
Number of salaries quoted 9,635 4,221 5,675
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £33,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £58,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -5.98% -6.40%

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 25 September 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 25 September 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 +3 23 £65,000 - 30
Berkshire +6 12 £67,500 - 18
Oxfordshire -23 9 £60,000 - 7
Surrey -26 9 £65,000 +18.18% 7
Hampshire -46 9 £95,000 +15.15% 10
East Sussex -11 2 £85,000 - 1
Buckinghamshire - 2 £65,000 - 5
Kent - 1 £60,000 - 1
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 5 (11.36%) IIS
1 5 (11.36%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 31 (70.45%) Azure
2 21 (47.73%) AWS
3 13 (29.55%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (22.73%) Serverless
5 9 (20.45%) GCP
6 6 (13.64%) Amazon EC2
6 6 (13.64%) Amazon EKS
6 6 (13.64%) Amazon S3
6 6 (13.64%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (13.64%) Azure AKS
7 5 (11.36%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 5 (11.36%) Azure Monitor
7 5 (11.36%) Azure Pipelines
7 5 (11.36%) Azure Service Bus
7 5 (11.36%) Cloudflare
7 5 (11.36%) PaaS
8 3 (6.82%) Azure Stack
8 3 (6.82%) Entra ID
9 2 (4.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (4.55%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 5 (11.36%) Network Security
2 4 (9.09%) DNS
3 3 (6.82%) DHCP
3 3 (6.82%) Firewall
3 3 (6.82%) MQTT
4 2 (4.55%) VPN
5 1 (2.27%) BGP
5 1 (2.27%) Broadband
5 1 (2.27%) Ethernet VPN
5 1 (2.27%) LAN
5 1 (2.27%) NGFW
5 1 (2.27%) OSPF
5 1 (2.27%) SD-WAN
5 1 (2.27%) SSH
5 1 (2.27%) SSL
5 1 (2.27%) TCP/IP
5 1 (2.27%) VSAN
5 1 (2.27%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (29.55%) SQL Server
2 5 (11.36%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (6.82%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (2.27%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 15 (34.09%) Git
2 11 (25.00%) GitLab
3 10 (22.73%) SonarQube
4 8 (18.18%) Jenkins
5 5 (11.36%) Cucumber
5 5 (11.36%) JIRA
5 5 (11.36%) Octopus Deploy
6 4 (9.09%) Artifactory
7 3 (6.82%) Eclipse
7 3 (6.82%) Eclipse RCP
8 2 (4.55%) Polyspace
8 2 (4.55%) Terragrunt
8 2 (4.55%) VectorCAST
General
1 14 (31.82%) Social Skills
2 9 (20.45%) Finance
3 6 (13.64%) Manufacturing
4 5 (11.36%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.55%) Aerospace
6 1 (2.27%) Automotive
6 1 (2.27%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 13 (29.55%) Azure Engineer
1 13 (29.55%) DevOps Engineer
2 8 (18.18%) Software Engineer
3 7 (15.91%) Senior
4 6 (13.64%) .NET Software Engineer
4 6 (13.64%) C# Software Engineer
4 6 (13.64%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 5 (11.36%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 5 (11.36%) Azure Software Engineer
6 4 (9.09%) Developer
7 3 (6.82%) Cloud Engineer
7 3 (6.82%) Senior Software Engineer
8 2 (4.55%) Azure Consultant
8 2 (4.55%) C# .NET Developer
8 2 (4.55%) Java Engineer
8 2 (4.55%) QA Engineer
8 2 (4.55%) QA Test Engineer
8 2 (4.55%) SC Cleared Java Developer
8 2 (4.55%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 2 (4.55%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (38.64%) Terraform
2 16 (36.36%) .NET
3 8 (18.18%) REST
4 5 (11.36%) ARM Templates
4 5 (11.36%) JSON
4 5 (11.36%) Loki
5 4 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
5 4 (9.09%) RabbitMQ
5 4 (9.09%) YAML
6 3 (6.82%) gRPC
6 3 (6.82%) Kafka
6 3 (6.82%) Keycloak
6 3 (6.82%) Protocol Buffers
7 2 (4.55%) ASP.NET
7 2 (4.55%) ASP.NET MVC
7 2 (4.55%) pytest
7 2 (4.55%) React
8 1 (2.27%) AngularJS
8 1 (2.27%) RESTful
8 1 (2.27%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 10 (22.73%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (11.36%) Life Science
2 5 (11.36%) Private Cloud
2 5 (11.36%) Renewable Energy
2 5 (11.36%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (9.09%) Cloud Native
4 3 (6.82%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (6.82%) Product Ownership
4 3 (6.82%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 2 (4.55%) Data Centre
5 2 (4.55%) Embedded Systems
5 2 (4.55%) Public Cloud
5 2 (4.55%) Robotics
5 2 (4.55%) Virtual Team
6 1 (2.27%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (2.27%) Cyberattack
6 1 (2.27%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.27%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 19 (43.18%) Linux
2 8 (18.18%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (72.73%) CI/CD
2 27 (61.36%) DevOps
3 20 (45.45%) Infrastructure as Code
4 19 (43.18%) Microservices
5 15 (34.09%) Test Automation
6 13 (29.55%) AI
7 12 (27.27%) Containerisation
8 11 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
8 11 (25.00%) Software Engineering
9 10 (22.73%) Observability
10 8 (18.18%) Agile
10 8 (18.18%) DevSecOps
10 8 (18.18%) Machine Learning
10 8 (18.18%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 7 (15.91%) Computer Science
11 7 (15.91%) Continuous Deployment
11 7 (15.91%) Continuous Improvement
11 7 (15.91%) Continuous Integration
12 6 (13.64%) Full-Stack Development
12 6 (13.64%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (40.91%) Python
2 16 (36.36%) C#
3 9 (20.45%) PowerShell
4 6 (13.64%) Groovy
5 5 (11.36%) Bash
5 5 (11.36%) Bicep
5 5 (11.36%) Java
5 5 (11.36%) Rust
5 5 (11.36%) SQL
6 4 (9.09%) Perl
7 3 (6.82%) C
7 3 (6.82%) C++
7 3 (6.82%) Shell Script
8 1 (2.27%) JavaScript
8 1 (2.27%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 16 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 9 (20.45%) SC Cleared
3 7 (15.91%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (15.91%) Degree
4 3 (6.82%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.27%) CCNP
5 1 (2.27%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (31.82%) QA
2 2 (4.55%) Def Stans
2 2 (4.55%) IEC 61508
2 2 (4.55%) ISO 26262
2 2 (4.55%) SOC 2
3 1 (2.27%) GDPR
3 1 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.27%) NIST
3 1 (2.27%) SLA
System Software
1 17 (38.64%) Docker
2 5 (11.36%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (6.82%) Active Directory
4 2 (4.55%) Hyper-V
4 2 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (2.27%) VMware NSX
5 1 (2.27%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 22 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 17 (38.64%) Ansible
3 12 (27.27%) Grafana
3 12 (27.27%) Prometheus
4 5 (11.36%) Puppet
5 4 (9.09%) Packer
6 3 (6.82%) Podman
7 1 (2.27%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 8 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 5 (11.36%) AppDynamics
2 5 (11.36%) Salesforce
3 4 (9.09%) IBM
3 4 (9.09%) NVIDIA
3 4 (9.09%) Tenable
4 3 (6.82%) Google
4 3 (6.82%) VMware
5 2 (4.55%) Dynatrace
6 1 (2.27%) Atlassian
6 1 (2.27%) Databricks
6 1 (2.27%) Mellanox
6 1 (2.27%) Thales