Continuous Delivery
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Continuous Delivery skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Continuous Delivery over the 6 months to 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 270 189 179
Rank change year-on-year -81 -10 +8
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Delivery 1,072 1,940 3,774
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.06% 1.97% 2.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.25% 2.06% 2.40%
Number of salaries quoted 455 759 1,231
10th Percentile £46,747 £46,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £91,934 £92,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £69,447 £65,000
% change year-on-year -6.40% +6.84% +8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Continuous Delivery is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 85,549 94,155 156,986
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.76% 95.59% 95.83%
Number of salaries quoted 60,063 55,401 82,663
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%

Continuous Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Continuous Delivery as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Delivery in the UK

Continuous Delivery
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Continuous Delivery.

Salary trend for Continuous Delivery in the UK

Continuous Delivery
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Continuous Delivery over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Continuous Delivery in the UK

Continuous Delivery
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Continuous Delivery within the UK over the 6 months to 23 May 2024. 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
UK excluding London -38 851 £65,000 -6.40% 87
Scotland +64 519 £60,000 -28.65% 7
England -226 475 £72,500 -3.33% 128
Work from Home -83 282 £70,000 -6.67% 58
London -192 153 £87,500 +7.50% 66
North of England -108 100 £62,500 -3.85% 16
Midlands -99 88 £65,000 - 8
West Midlands -22 84 £65,000 - 8
North West -56 72 £62,859 -3.29% 7
South West -65 60 £73,750 +7.71% 9
South East -108 47 £80,000 +14.29% 37
East of England -22 23 £57,500 -11.54% 7
Yorkshire -38 19 £52,500 -17.65% 5
Northern Ireland -9 9 £67,500 +35.00% 4
North East -31 9 £56,250 -19.64% 4
Wales -23 5 £51,996 +15.55%
East Midlands -84 4 £105,000 +121.05%

Continuous Delivery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 97 (9.05%) Apache Spark
2 32 (2.99%) SharePoint
3 21 (1.96%) GemFire
4 20 (1.87%) IIS
5 18 (1.68%) Apache
6 12 (1.12%) Apache Airflow
7 10 (0.93%) Confluence
8 7 (0.65%) nginx
9 4 (0.37%) Drupal
10 2 (0.19%) CMS
10 2 (0.19%) WordPress
11 1 (0.093%) Apache Synapse
11 1 (0.093%) BizTalk Server
11 1 (0.093%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.093%) Moodle
11 1 (0.093%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.093%) Red Hat Fuse
11 1 (0.093%) Tuxedo
11 1 (0.093%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.093%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.093%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 26 (2.43%) Dynamics CRM
2 17 (1.59%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 17 (1.59%) SAP S/4HANA
3 14 (1.31%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.093%) Cognos Business Intelligence
Cloud Services
1 414 (38.62%) AWS
2 329 (30.69%) Azure
3 118 (11.01%) Azure DevOps
4 116 (10.82%) Datadog
5 89 (8.30%) Power Platform
6 85 (7.93%) GCP
7 78 (7.28%) Dynamics 365
8 60 (5.60%) SaaS
9 59 (5.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 58 (5.41%) Serverless
11 41 (3.82%) Cloud Computing
12 39 (3.64%) PaaS
13 37 (3.45%) GitHub
14 36 (3.36%) Amazon ECS
15 33 (3.08%) Azure Logic Apps
16 28 (2.61%) GitHub Actions
17 27 (2.52%) IaaS
18 26 (2.43%) Azure Service Bus
19 22 (2.05%) AWS CloudFormation
19 22 (2.05%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 65 (6.06%) Kerberos
2 21 (1.96%) WAN
3 18 (1.68%) DSL
4 7 (0.65%) Firewall
4 7 (0.65%) Internet
4 7 (0.65%) VPN
5 4 (0.37%) FTP
6 2 (0.19%) HTTP
6 2 (0.19%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.093%) Broadband
7 1 (0.093%) DNS
7 1 (0.093%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 194 (18.10%) NoSQL
2 107 (9.98%) Relational Database
3 100 (9.33%) Big Data
4 87 (8.12%) SQL Server
5 66 (6.16%) Metadata
6 41 (3.82%) Data Lake
7 40 (3.73%) MongoDB
8 28 (2.61%) Data Warehouse
9 22 (2.05%) Looker
10 21 (1.96%) Apache Cassandra
10 21 (1.96%) CockroachDB
10 21 (1.96%) Hazelcast
10 21 (1.96%) Power BI
11 20 (1.87%) Tableau
12 19 (1.77%) Hadoop
13 18 (1.68%) DB2
13 18 (1.68%) Elasticsearch
13 18 (1.68%) Flink
14 14 (1.31%) Azure SQL Database
15 13 (1.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 138 (12.87%) Jenkins
2 125 (11.66%) Git
3 72 (6.72%) Bitbucket
4 66 (6.16%) Artifactory
5 43 (4.01%) GitLab
6 32 (2.99%) JIRA
7 29 (2.71%) Visual Studio
8 21 (1.96%) Jaeger
8 21 (1.96%) SonarQube
9 19 (1.77%) Team Foundation Server
10 15 (1.40%) CircleCI
11 13 (1.21%) Storybook
12 12 (1.12%) Terragrunt
13 8 (0.75%) Cypress.io
13 8 (0.75%) Oracle Forms
14 7 (0.65%) JUnit
15 6 (0.56%) Crashlytics
15 6 (0.56%) MSTest
16 5 (0.47%) Postman
16 5 (0.47%) webpack
General
1 586 (54.66%) Finance
2 527 (49.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 507 (47.29%) Law
4 405 (37.78%) Marketing
5 207 (19.31%) Social Skills
6 155 (14.46%) Financial Institution
7 144 (13.43%) Banking
8 80 (7.46%) Influencing Skills
9 72 (6.72%) Investment Banking
10 64 (5.97%) Analytical Skills
11 34 (3.17%) Retail
12 30 (2.80%) Presentation Skills
13 22 (2.05%) Prime Brokerage
13 22 (2.05%) Public Sector
14 17 (1.59%) Retail Banking
15 11 (1.03%) French Language
16 10 (0.93%) Front Office
17 9 (0.84%) Private Banking
18 8 (0.75%) Legal
19 5 (0.47%) Digital Healthcare
Job Titles
1 369 (34.42%) Software Engineer
2 361 (33.68%) Lead
3 296 (27.61%) Lead Software Engineer
4 175 (16.32%) Senior
5 159 (14.83%) Developer
6 133 (12.41%) Engineering Manager
7 121 (11.29%) Software Engineering Manager
8 90 (8.40%) Java Engineer
9 89 (8.30%) Architect
10 86 (8.02%) Java Software Engineer
11 81 (7.56%) Lead Java Engineer
12 64 (5.97%) Cloud Engineer
13 59 (5.50%) Senior Software Engineer
14 58 (5.41%) DevOps Engineer
15 54 (5.04%) Cloud Software Engineer
16 53 (4.94%) Big Data Manager
16 53 (4.94%) Senior Developer
17 51 (4.76%) UI Engineer
18 50 (4.66%) Solutions Architect
19 43 (4.01%) Power Platform Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 129 (12.03%) .NET
2 120 (11.19%) React
3 119 (11.10%) Spring
4 114 (10.63%) Web Services
5 106 (9.89%) Kafka
5 106 (9.89%) RESTful
6 98 (9.14%) CSS
7 92 (8.58%) HTML
8 91 (8.49%) OpenTelemetry
9 90 (8.40%) Node.js
9 90 (8.40%) Spring Boot
10 81 (7.56%) OpenID
11 72 (6.72%) JSON
12 69 (6.44%) SAML
12 69 (6.44%) XML
13 65 (6.06%) JSON-LD
13 65 (6.06%) LDAP
14 63 (5.88%) NumPy
14 63 (5.88%) Pandas
15 59 (5.50%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 297 (27.71%) Cloud Native
2 153 (14.27%) Management Information System
3 137 (12.78%) Public Cloud
4 81 (7.56%) Product Ownership
5 74 (6.90%) Enterprise Cloud
6 67 (6.25%) Reference Data
7 62 (5.78%) Distributed Systems
8 59 (5.50%) Market Risk
9 35 (3.26%) Onboarding
10 29 (2.71%) Data Structures
11 27 (2.52%) Algorithms
12 25 (2.33%) Greenfield Project
12 25 (2.33%) Mobile App
13 23 (2.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 21 (1.96%) Replication
15 20 (1.87%) Clustering
16 16 (1.49%) FMCG
16 16 (1.49%) Low-Code
17 13 (1.21%) Legacy Systems
18 11 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 94 (8.77%) Linux
2 17 (1.59%) Android
3 14 (1.31%) Windows
4 12 (1.12%) Apple iOS
5 11 (1.03%) Ubuntu
6 8 (0.75%) Debian
7 6 (0.56%) Unix
8 4 (0.37%) Windows Server
9 3 (0.28%) CentOS
10 1 (0.093%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 843 (78.64%) Agile
2 825 (76.96%) CI/CD
3 683 (63.71%) Software Engineering
4 511 (47.67%) SDLC
5 363 (33.86%) Operational Stability
6 348 (32.46%) Community of Practice
7 324 (30.22%) DevOps
8 321 (29.94%) Architectural Design
9 316 (29.48%) Information Architecture
10 296 (27.61%) Continuous Integration
11 237 (22.11%) Artificial Intelligence
12 224 (20.90%) Machine Learning
13 204 (19.03%) Test Automation
14 162 (15.11%) Mentoring
15 151 (14.09%) Roadmaps
16 146 (13.62%) Data Modelling
17 136 (12.69%) Computer Science
18 133 (12.41%) TDD
19 123 (11.47%) Problem-Solving
20 117 (10.91%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 443 (41.32%) Java
2 379 (35.35%) SQL
3 279 (26.03%) Python
4 169 (15.76%) JavaScript
5 129 (12.03%) C#
6 117 (10.91%) Scala
7 107 (9.98%) TypeScript
8 103 (9.61%) Go
9 65 (6.06%) Prolog
9 65 (6.06%) SPARQL
10 28 (2.61%) Groovy
11 25 (2.33%) PowerShell
12 20 (1.87%) PL/SQL
13 16 (1.49%) Kotlin
14 14 (1.31%) Bash
14 14 (1.31%) T-SQL
15 9 (0.84%) C++
15 9 (0.84%) PHP
15 9 (0.84%) Shell Script
16 8 (0.75%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 131 (12.22%) Security Cleared
2 89 (8.30%) Degree
3 87 (8.12%) SC Cleared
4 42 (3.92%) AWS Certification
5 38 (3.54%) BPSS Clearance
6 33 (3.08%) Computer Science Degree
7 23 (2.15%) Azure Certification
8 17 (1.59%) Microsoft Certification
9 15 (1.40%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 7 (0.65%) Master's Degree
11 5 (0.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (0.28%) AWS Certified Developer
12 3 (0.28%) ISTQB
13 2 (0.19%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (0.19%) CISM
13 2 (0.19%) CISSP
13 2 (0.19%) ISEB
13 2 (0.19%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.19%) OSCP
13 2 (0.19%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (5.13%) Accessibility
2 36 (3.36%) SLA
3 29 (2.71%) QA
4 28 (2.61%) PMO
5 9 (0.84%) NCSC
6 8 (0.75%) Data Quality
7 7 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (0.47%) WCAG
9 4 (0.37%) MiFID
10 3 (0.28%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 3 (0.28%) PSD2
11 1 (0.093%) Disclosure Scotland
11 1 (0.093%) GDPR
11 1 (0.093%) NIST
System Software
1 132 (12.31%) Docker
2 73 (6.81%) Active Directory
3 20 (1.87%) VMware NSX
4 8 (0.75%) HDFS
4 8 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.37%) Embedded Firmware
5 4 (0.37%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 218 (20.34%) Kubernetes
2 162 (15.11%) Terraform
3 119 (11.10%) Grafana
4 60 (5.60%) Prometheus
5 53 (4.94%) Ansible
6 26 (2.43%) Kibana
7 21 (1.96%) HAProxy
7 21 (1.96%) ITRS Geneos
7 21 (1.96%) Zipkin
8 19 (1.77%) Puppet
9 15 (1.40%) Consul
10 4 (0.37%) Rancher
11 3 (0.28%) Graphite
11 3 (0.28%) Nagios
11 3 (0.28%) ZABBIX
12 2 (0.19%) cPanel
12 2 (0.19%) linkerd
13 1 (0.093%) Argo
13 1 (0.093%) Istio
13 1 (0.093%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 183 (17.07%) Microsoft
2 126 (11.75%) Splunk
3 122 (11.38%) Oracle
4 112 (10.45%) Dynatrace
5 38 (3.54%) Google
6 35 (3.26%) Databricks
7 24 (2.24%) VMware
8 20 (1.87%) Atlassian
9 19 (1.77%) Cognos
10 18 (1.68%) Alteryx
10 18 (1.68%) SAP
10 18 (1.68%) Sybase
11 17 (1.59%) Salesforce
12 12 (1.12%) Black Duck
12 12 (1.12%) ServiceNow
13 10 (0.93%) Commvault
13 10 (0.93%) Teradata
14 8 (0.75%) Cloudera
15 6 (0.56%) Amplitude
15 6 (0.56%) Cadence