Software Delivery Jobs

Software Delivery
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Software Delivery skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Software Delivery over the 6 months to 7 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 390 346 298
Rank change year-on-year -44 -48 -22
Permanent jobs citing Software Delivery 689 903 2,411
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.64% 0.96% 1.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.77% 1.01% 1.47%
Number of salaries quoted 338 608 1,125
10th Percentile £37,500 £43,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £77,715
90th Percentile £85,000 £97,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £59,526 £58,750
% change year-on-year -7.60% +1.32% +5.86%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Software 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 89,606 89,460 164,368
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.05% 95.45% 95.91%
Number of salaries quoted 62,082 54,032 83,742
10th Percentile £29,500 £33,950 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +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% +9.38%

Software Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Delivery in the UK

Software Delivery
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Software Delivery in the UK

Software Delivery
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Delivery over the 6 months to 7 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Delivery in the UK

Software 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 Software Delivery within the UK over the 6 months to 7 June 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 +11 539 £55,000 -7.60% 103
England -86 528 £58,350 -10.23% 133
Work from Home +71 426 £55,000 -8.33% 91
North of England +45 172 £60,000 +9.09% 27
North West +26 109 £60,000 +9.09% 22
London -122 104 £74,137 -1.15% 41
Midlands +11 102 £52,500 -11.76% 25
South East -26 71 £61,084 -6.03% 14
Scotland -29 68 £60,000 - 12
South West -29 60 £55,000 -8.33% 13
West Midlands +2 55 £55,000 - 16
Yorkshire +50 53 £52,500 -8.70% 1
East Midlands 0 44 £51,000 -21.54% 9
Wales +28 37 £49,250 +8.35% 7
Northern Ireland - 17 - - 2
East of England -42 12 £50,000 -28.57% 6
North East -11 10 £70,000 +25.00% 4

Software 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 51 (7.40%) Confluence
2 15 (2.18%) NServiceBus
3 6 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (0.87%) nginx
4 5 (0.73%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.15%) Apache
5 1 (0.15%) CMS
5 1 (0.15%) Drupal
5 1 (0.15%) IIS
5 1 (0.15%) Liferay
5 1 (0.15%) WordPress
Applications
1 16 (2.32%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.15%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (1.74%) NEC Housing
2 4 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.29%) Magento
3 2 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.15%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.15%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 184 (26.71%) Azure
2 161 (23.37%) AWS
3 56 (8.13%) Azure DevOps
4 40 (5.81%) GCP
5 39 (5.66%) SaaS
6 30 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation
7 24 (3.48%) Cloud Computing
8 17 (2.47%) Serverless
9 16 (2.32%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 16 (2.32%) Azure Monitor
9 16 (2.32%) Azure Service Bus
10 12 (1.74%) AWS CodeStar
10 12 (1.74%) OCI
11 9 (1.31%) Microsoft 365
12 7 (1.02%) OpenShift
12 7 (1.02%) Snowflake
13 5 (0.73%) AWS Fargate
13 5 (0.73%) AWS Lambda
13 5 (0.73%) GitHub
13 5 (0.73%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.16%) HTTPS
1 8 (1.16%) SSL
2 6 (0.87%) WAN
3 5 (0.73%) Bluetooth
3 5 (0.73%) LAN
3 5 (0.73%) WLAN
4 4 (0.58%) Internet
5 3 (0.44%) Firewall
5 3 (0.44%) HTTP
5 3 (0.44%) MQTT
5 3 (0.44%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (0.44%) ZigBee
6 2 (0.29%) Broadband
6 2 (0.29%) DNS
6 2 (0.29%) Ethernet
6 2 (0.29%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.15%) DAB
7 1 (0.15%) DHCP
7 1 (0.15%) Network Security
7 1 (0.15%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (5.95%) Data Warehouse
2 26 (3.77%) SQL Server
3 16 (2.32%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 7 (1.02%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (0.87%) MySQL
5 6 (0.87%) NoSQL
6 5 (0.73%) Power BI
7 3 (0.44%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (0.44%) DocumentDB
7 3 (0.44%) Tableau
8 2 (0.29%) Big Data
8 2 (0.29%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.29%) Data Vault
8 2 (0.29%) Delta Lake
8 2 (0.29%) DynamoDB
8 2 (0.29%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.15%) Event Store
9 1 (0.15%) InfluxDB
9 1 (0.15%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 83 (12.05%) JIRA
2 39 (5.66%) Jenkins
3 35 (5.08%) Git
4 27 (3.92%) GitLab
5 14 (2.03%) SonarQube
6 12 (1.74%) Cucumber
6 12 (1.74%) Terragrunt
7 8 (1.16%) Vagrant
8 6 (0.87%) IBM UrbanCode
9 5 (0.73%) Appium
9 5 (0.73%) JUnit
9 5 (0.73%) SpecFlow
9 5 (0.73%) Visual Studio
10 4 (0.58%) Gatling
10 4 (0.58%) JBehave
10 4 (0.58%) JMeter
10 4 (0.58%) Postman
10 4 (0.58%) Subversion
11 3 (0.44%) Bitbucket
11 3 (0.44%) MSBuild
General
1 184 (26.71%) Social Skills
2 110 (15.97%) Finance
3 46 (6.68%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (6.10%) Banking
5 39 (5.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 32 (4.64%) Marketing
7 28 (4.06%) Local Government
8 23 (3.34%) Legal
8 23 (3.34%) Public Sector
9 20 (2.90%) Telecoms
10 17 (2.47%) Back Office
10 17 (2.47%) Presentation Skills
11 15 (2.18%) Law
12 14 (2.03%) Automotive
13 12 (1.74%) Billing
13 12 (1.74%) Police
14 11 (1.60%) Influencing Skills
14 11 (1.60%) Retail Banking
15 10 (1.45%) Electronics
15 10 (1.45%) Retail
Job Titles
1 205 (29.75%) Project Manager
2 159 (23.08%) Presales Manager
3 91 (13.21%) Senior
4 76 (11.03%) Lead
5 67 (9.72%) DevOps Engineer
6 62 (9.00%) Architect
7 50 (7.26%) Solutions Architect
8 43 (6.24%) Developer
9 40 (5.81%) Software Engineer
10 38 (5.52%) Software Manager
11 36 (5.22%) Presales Solution Architect
12 26 (3.77%) Delivery Manager
13 21 (3.05%) Software Project Manager
14 18 (2.61%) Analyst
15 16 (2.32%) Business Analyst
15 16 (2.32%) Senior Manager
15 16 (2.32%) Software Delivery Manager
16 15 (2.18%) Senior Project Manager
17 14 (2.03%) Engineering Manager
17 14 (2.03%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (9.14%) .NET
2 40 (5.81%) Node.js
3 34 (4.93%) AngularJS
3 34 (4.93%) React
4 29 (4.21%) Vue
5 17 (2.47%) .NET Core
5 17 (2.47%) ARM Templates
6 15 (2.18%) Apache Cordova
7 11 (1.60%) Spring Boot
8 9 (1.31%) AWS CDK
8 9 (1.31%) Elastic Stack
8 9 (1.31%) Spring
9 8 (1.16%) HTML
10 7 (1.02%) Next.js
11 6 (0.87%) ADO
11 6 (0.87%) ASP.NET
11 6 (0.87%) CSS
11 6 (0.87%) REST
12 5 (0.73%) RESTful
12 5 (0.73%) WebGL
Miscellaneous
1 65 (9.43%) Cloud Native
2 58 (8.42%) Product Ownership
3 35 (5.08%) Management Information System
4 21 (3.05%) Self-Motivation
5 16 (2.32%) Mobile App
6 10 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (1.16%) Algorithms
7 8 (1.16%) Public Cloud
8 7 (1.02%) Data Structures
8 7 (1.02%) Distributed Systems
8 7 (1.02%) Greenfield Project
9 5 (0.73%) NHS
10 4 (0.58%) Client/Server
10 4 (0.58%) IoT
10 4 (0.58%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (0.58%) Virtual Team
11 3 (0.44%) Embedded Systems
12 2 (0.29%) Digital Media
12 2 (0.29%) FMCG
12 2 (0.29%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 48 (6.97%) Linux
2 27 (3.92%) Apple iOS
3 26 (3.77%) Windows
4 24 (3.48%) Android
5 10 (1.45%) CentOS
6 9 (1.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (1.31%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.44%) Unix
8 2 (0.29%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.15%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 492 (71.41%) Agile
2 248 (35.99%) Project Management
3 224 (32.51%) Presales
4 205 (29.75%) Project Delivery
5 196 (28.45%) DevOps
6 190 (27.58%) SDLC
7 175 (25.40%) Actionable Insight
7 175 (25.40%) Scrum
8 160 (23.22%) Agile Project Management
9 113 (16.40%) CI/CD
10 112 (16.26%) Software Engineering
11 100 (14.51%) Continuous Improvement
12 73 (10.60%) Mentoring
13 72 (10.45%) Problem-Solving
13 72 (10.45%) Roadmaps
14 65 (9.43%) Infrastructure as Code
15 64 (9.29%) TDD
16 53 (7.69%) Coaching
17 52 (7.55%) Test Automation
18 43 (6.24%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 89 (12.92%) C#
2 72 (10.45%) Python
3 71 (10.30%) JavaScript
4 39 (5.66%) Java
5 35 (5.08%) SQL
6 27 (3.92%) PowerShell
7 26 (3.77%) Bash
8 21 (3.05%) TypeScript
9 16 (2.32%) Bicep
9 16 (2.32%) C++
10 14 (2.03%) C
11 11 (1.60%) PHP
12 8 (1.16%) Go
12 8 (1.16%) Ruby
12 8 (1.16%) Shell Script
13 7 (1.02%) Groovy
14 5 (0.73%) GLSL
15 2 (0.29%) Embedded C
16 1 (0.15%) COBOL
16 1 (0.15%) JCL
Qualifications
1 68 (9.87%) Degree
2 39 (5.66%) Security Cleared
3 36 (5.22%) TOGAF Certification
4 23 (3.34%) Azure Certification
5 22 (3.19%) SC Cleared
6 16 (2.32%) AWS Certification
7 15 (2.18%) DBS Check
8 12 (1.74%) Computer Science Degree
9 10 (1.45%) DV Cleared
9 10 (1.45%) Master's Degree
10 7 (1.02%) Numerate Degree
11 5 (0.73%) ISTQB
11 5 (0.73%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 4 (0.58%) PMI Certification
13 3 (0.44%) APMP
13 3 (0.44%) BPSS Clearance
13 3 (0.44%) Microsoft Certification
13 3 (0.44%) PMP
13 3 (0.44%) PRINCE2 Certification
14 2 (0.29%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (7.69%) QA
2 22 (3.19%) Accessibility
3 10 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials
5 5 (0.73%) GDPR
6 4 (0.58%) AUTOSAR
7 2 (0.29%) Automotive SPICE
7 2 (0.29%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.29%) ISO 26262
8 1 (0.15%) AQAP
8 1 (0.15%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.15%) NIST
8 1 (0.15%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.15%) SLA
8 1 (0.15%) TickIT
System Software
1 56 (8.13%) Docker
2 25 (3.63%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.02%) Hyper-V
3 7 (1.02%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.58%) Firmware
4 4 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.44%) Microsoft App-V
5 3 (0.44%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.29%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.15%) etcd
7 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (0.15%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 67 (9.72%) Terraform
2 60 (8.71%) Kubernetes
3 57 (8.27%) Ansible
4 12 (1.74%) Progress Chef
5 8 (1.16%) Rancher
6 7 (1.02%) Kibana
6 7 (1.02%) Microsoft Intune
6 7 (1.02%) Prometheus
7 6 (0.87%) Grafana
7 6 (0.87%) Puppet
8 5 (0.73%) SCCM
9 3 (0.44%) Jamf Pro
9 3 (0.44%) Packer
10 2 (0.29%) Functional Safety
10 2 (0.29%) ZABBIX
11 1 (0.15%) CA Endevor
11 1 (0.15%) Control-M
11 1 (0.15%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.15%) HAProxy
11 1 (0.15%) Red Hat Spacewalk
Vendors
1 80 (11.61%) Microsoft
2 19 (2.76%) ServiceNow
3 13 (1.89%) Google
3 13 (1.89%) Xamarin
4 12 (1.74%) Black Duck
4 12 (1.74%) NEC
5 11 (1.60%) IBM
5 11 (1.60%) VMware
6 6 (0.87%) Databricks
6 6 (0.87%) YouTube
7 5 (0.73%) Oracle
7 5 (0.73%) Splunk
8 4 (0.58%) Salesforce
8 4 (0.58%) SAP
9 3 (0.44%) Apple
10 2 (0.29%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.29%) Dynatrace
10 2 (0.29%) QNX
10 2 (0.29%) Red Hat
11 1 (0.15%) CA Agile Central