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

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 158 164 157
Rank change year-on-year +6 -7 +68
Permanent jobs citing Deployment Automation 25 31 30
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.70% 0.72% 0.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.81% 0.85% 0.94%
Number of salaries quoted 1 9 19
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £92,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £48,925 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +94.17% -11.05% -8.33%
75th Percentile £97,500 - £68,750
90th Percentile - £77,500 £73,750
South East median annual salary £82,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +50.00% - -

All Process and 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 3,094 3,656 3,200
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 86.55% 84.45% 93.46%
Number of salaries quoted 1,617 1,769 2,224
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,000 £31,613
25th Percentile £34,000 £44,106 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.74% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.64% - -

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
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 16 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
Berkshire +6 22 - - 4
Oxfordshire +25 3 £95,000 +26.67% 10
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 2 (8.00%) Azure
2 1 (4.00%) AWS
2 1 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (4.00%) GCP
2 1 (4.00%) GitHub
2 1 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (4.00%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.00%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Burp Suite
1 1 (4.00%) Git
1 1 (4.00%) MLflow
General
1 21 (84.00%) Pharmaceutical
2 20 (80.00%) Finance
3 3 (12.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (4.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 21 (84.00%) Lead
2 1 (4.00%) Associate Director
2 1 (4.00%) Azure Consultant
2 1 (4.00%) Azure Specialist
2 1 (4.00%) Consultant
2 1 (4.00%) DevOps Consultant
2 1 (4.00%) DevOps Specialist
2 1 (4.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 1 (4.00%) Machine Learning Engineer
2 1 (4.00%) Senior
Miscellaneous
1 21 (84.00%) Life Science
2 1 (4.00%) Hackathon
2 1 (4.00%) Low-Code
2 1 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (92.00%) AI
1 23 (92.00%) Machine Learning
2 22 (88.00%) Agile
2 22 (88.00%) Analytics
2 22 (88.00%) Computer Science
2 22 (88.00%) Data Science
3 21 (84.00%) Hematology
3 21 (84.00%) Immunology
3 21 (84.00%) Roadmaps
3 21 (84.00%) Use Case
4 20 (80.00%) Digital Twin
4 20 (80.00%) Disruptive Innovation
4 20 (80.00%) Enterprise Architecture
4 20 (80.00%) Generative AI
4 20 (80.00%) Intelligent Automation
4 20 (80.00%) Thought Leadership
5 3 (12.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (8.00%) CI/CD
6 2 (8.00%) MLOps
6 2 (8.00%) Model Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (8.00%) Python
2 1 (4.00%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 22 (88.00%) Degree
1 22 (88.00%) Master's Degree
2 20 (80.00%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (80.00%) GxP
2 1 (4.00%) GDPR
2 1 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (8.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (12.00%) Terraform
2 1 (4.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (4.00%) Oracle