Deployment Automation Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Deployment Automation
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Deployment Automation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 168 194 169
Rank change year-on-year +26 -25 +6
Permanent jobs citing Deployment Automation 26 10 31
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.37% 0.25% 0.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.52% 0.28% 0.78%
Number of salaries quoted 15 0 12
10th Percentile £54,500 - -
25th Percentile £57,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 - £48,925
Median % change year-on-year - - -27.52%
75th Percentile £78,125 - £64,750
90th Percentile £83,750 - £75,100
South East median annual salary £65,000 £83,750 £58,500
% change year-on-year -22.39% +43.16% -2.50%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,971 3,557 3,974
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 70.30% 89.78% 81.48%
Number of salaries quoted 3,538 1,481 2,133
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,500 £41,220
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 £83,750 £82,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -7.41% -1.82%

Deployment Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Deployment Automation relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Deployment Automation job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Deployment Automation
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Deployment Automation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Deployment Automation

Deployment Automation
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Deployment Automation in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 9 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Deployment Automation in the Thames Valley

Deployment Automation
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Deployment Automation within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 9 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
Berkshire +27 14 £67,500 - 9
Oxfordshire -18 10 £60,000 - 2
Buckinghamshire - 2 £65,000 - 2
Deployment Automation
South East

Deployment Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Cloud Services
1 16 (61.54%) Azure
2 14 (53.85%) AWS
3 8 (30.77%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (23.08%) Amazon EC2
4 6 (23.08%) Amazon EKS
4 6 (23.08%) Amazon S3
4 6 (23.08%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (23.08%) Serverless
5 5 (19.23%) PaaS
6 3 (11.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (11.54%) GCP
7 2 (7.69%) AWS CodePipeline
8 1 (3.85%) Azure AKS
8 1 (3.85%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (11.54%) DHCP
1 3 (11.54%) DNS
1 3 (11.54%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (26.92%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (42.31%) Git
2 8 (30.77%) Jenkins
3 6 (23.08%) GitLab
3 6 (23.08%) SonarQube
4 5 (19.23%) Cucumber
4 5 (19.23%) JIRA
5 4 (15.38%) Artifactory
6 3 (11.54%) Eclipse
6 3 (11.54%) Eclipse RCP
7 2 (7.69%) Polyspace
7 2 (7.69%) Terragrunt
7 2 (7.69%) VectorCAST
General
1 9 (34.62%) Social Skills
2 7 (26.92%) Manufacturing
3 5 (19.23%) Finance
4 3 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (7.69%) Aerospace
6 1 (3.85%) Automotive
6 1 (3.85%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (34.62%) DevOps Engineer
2 8 (30.77%) Software Engineer
3 6 (23.08%) .NET Software Engineer
3 6 (23.08%) C# Software Engineer
4 5 (19.23%) Azure Engineer
4 5 (19.23%) Azure Software Engineer
5 4 (15.38%) Developer
5 4 (15.38%) Senior
6 3 (11.54%) Senior Software Engineer
7 2 (7.69%) .NET Developer
7 2 (7.69%) Azure Consultant
7 2 (7.69%) C# .NET Developer
7 2 (7.69%) C# Developer
7 2 (7.69%) Consultant
7 2 (7.69%) DevOps Developer
7 2 (7.69%) Java Developer
7 2 (7.69%) Java Engineer
7 2 (7.69%) QA Engineer
7 2 (7.69%) SC Cleared Java Developer
7 2 (7.69%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (42.31%) .NET
1 11 (42.31%) Terraform
2 5 (19.23%) JSON
2 5 (19.23%) REST
3 4 (15.38%) Elastic Stack
3 4 (15.38%) RabbitMQ
3 4 (15.38%) YAML
4 2 (7.69%) ASP.NET
4 2 (7.69%) ASP.NET MVC
4 2 (7.69%) pytest
4 2 (7.69%) React
5 1 (3.85%) AngularJS
5 1 (3.85%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 8 (30.77%) Distributed Systems
1 8 (30.77%) Life Science
2 6 (23.08%) Renewable Energy
2 6 (23.08%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (11.54%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (11.54%) Private Cloud
3 3 (11.54%) Product Ownership
3 3 (11.54%) Public Cloud
3 3 (11.54%) Virtual Team
4 2 (7.69%) Cloud Native
4 2 (7.69%) Embedded Systems
4 2 (7.69%) Hackathon
4 2 (7.69%) Low-Code
4 2 (7.69%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 7 (26.92%) Linux
2 1 (3.85%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (73.08%) DevOps
2 18 (69.23%) CI/CD
3 15 (57.69%) Test Automation
4 12 (46.15%) Software Engineering
5 11 (42.31%) Agile
5 11 (42.31%) Infrastructure as Code
6 10 (38.46%) Computer Science
7 9 (34.62%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (30.77%) AI
9 7 (26.92%) Continuous Integration
9 7 (26.92%) Machine Learning
9 7 (26.92%) Secrets Management
10 6 (23.08%) Auto-Scaling
10 6 (23.08%) Containerisation
10 6 (23.08%) Design Patterns
10 6 (23.08%) Microservices
11 5 (19.23%) Clean Code
11 5 (19.23%) Full-Stack Development
11 5 (19.23%) Incident Response
11 5 (19.23%) Security Hardening
Programming Languages
1 14 (53.85%) Python
2 11 (42.31%) C#
3 6 (23.08%) Groovy
4 5 (19.23%) Bash
4 5 (19.23%) Java
5 4 (15.38%) Perl
5 4 (15.38%) PowerShell
6 3 (11.54%) C
6 3 (11.54%) C++
7 2 (7.69%) Shell Script
8 1 (3.85%) JavaScript
8 1 (3.85%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (38.46%) Degree
2 8 (30.77%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (19.23%) Security Cleared
4 4 (15.38%) SC Cleared
5 2 (7.69%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (38.46%) QA
2 3 (11.54%) SOC 2
3 2 (7.69%) Accessibility
3 2 (7.69%) Def Stans
3 2 (7.69%) IEC 61508
3 2 (7.69%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 5 (19.23%) Docker
2 3 (11.54%) Active Directory
2 3 (11.54%) Hyper-V
2 3 (11.54%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (38.46%) Kubernetes
2 9 (34.62%) Ansible
3 4 (15.38%) Packer
4 3 (11.54%) Grafana
4 3 (11.54%) Prometheus
5 1 (3.85%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 5 (19.23%) AppDynamics
1 5 (19.23%) Salesforce
2 4 (15.38%) IBM
3 3 (11.54%) Google
3 3 (11.54%) VMware
4 2 (7.69%) Microsoft
5 1 (3.85%) Atlassian