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 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 278 192 181
Rank change year-on-year -86 -11 +8
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Delivery 1,059 1,892 3,922
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.03% 1.95% 2.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.22% 2.04% 2.45%
Number of salaries quoted 455 736 1,242
10th Percentile £47,513 £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 £106,250 £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 86,886 92,843 159,778
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.13% 95.56% 95.90%
Number of salaries quoted 60,763 54,795 82,800
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,899 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +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%

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 29 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 29 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 -45 836 £65,000 -6.40% 62
Scotland +64 508 £60,000 -32.19% 8
England -233 476 £72,500 -3.33% 92
Work from Home -76 283 £70,000 -6.67% 52
London -191 154 £85,000 +3.03% 36
North of England -125 99 £62,500 -3.85% 18
Midlands -106 86 £65,000 - 8
West Midlands -30 82 £65,000 - 8
North West -58 72 £62,859 -3.29% 8
South West -64 61 £72,500 +4.40% 6
South East -123 46 £80,000 +14.29% 13
East of England -30 22 £57,500 -11.54% 5
Yorkshire -44 18 £52,500 -16.00% 6
Northern Ireland -11 9 £67,500 +35.00% 4
North East -27 9 £56,250 -19.64% 4
Wales -26 5 £51,996 +15.55% 1
East Midlands -103 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 94 (8.88%) Apache Spark
2 31 (2.93%) SharePoint
3 21 (1.98%) GemFire
4 20 (1.89%) IIS
5 17 (1.61%) Apache
6 11 (1.04%) Apache Airflow
6 11 (1.04%) Confluence
7 7 (0.66%) nginx
8 4 (0.38%) Drupal
9 2 (0.19%) CMS
9 2 (0.19%) WordPress
10 1 (0.094%) Apache Synapse
10 1 (0.094%) BizTalk Server
10 1 (0.094%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.094%) Moodle
10 1 (0.094%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.094%) Red Hat Fuse
10 1 (0.094%) Tuxedo
10 1 (0.094%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (0.094%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 26 (2.46%) Dynamics CRM
2 17 (1.61%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 17 (1.61%) SAP S/4HANA
3 12 (1.13%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.094%) Cognos Business Intelligence
Cloud Services
1 406 (38.34%) AWS
2 331 (31.26%) Azure
3 121 (11.43%) Azure DevOps
4 115 (10.86%) Datadog
5 91 (8.59%) Power Platform
6 81 (7.65%) Dynamics 365
7 79 (7.46%) GCP
8 61 (5.76%) SaaS
9 60 (5.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 59 (5.57%) Serverless
11 42 (3.97%) PaaS
12 41 (3.87%) Cloud Computing
13 36 (3.40%) GitHub
14 35 (3.31%) Amazon ECS
15 33 (3.12%) Azure Logic Apps
16 28 (2.64%) Azure Service Bus
16 28 (2.64%) IaaS
17 26 (2.46%) GitHub Actions
18 23 (2.17%) AWS CloudFormation
19 22 (2.08%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 65 (6.14%) Kerberos
2 21 (1.98%) WAN
3 17 (1.61%) DSL
4 7 (0.66%) Firewall
4 7 (0.66%) Internet
5 6 (0.57%) VPN
6 4 (0.38%) FTP
7 2 (0.19%) HTTP
7 2 (0.19%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.094%) Broadband
8 1 (0.094%) DNS
8 1 (0.094%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 189 (17.85%) NoSQL
2 104 (9.82%) Relational Database
3 97 (9.16%) Big Data
4 85 (8.03%) SQL Server
5 66 (6.23%) Metadata
6 39 (3.68%) Data Lake
7 38 (3.59%) MongoDB
8 27 (2.55%) Data Warehouse
9 21 (1.98%) Apache Cassandra
9 21 (1.98%) CockroachDB
9 21 (1.98%) Hazelcast
9 21 (1.98%) Looker
10 20 (1.89%) Power BI
11 19 (1.79%) Tableau
12 18 (1.70%) Hadoop
13 17 (1.61%) DB2
13 17 (1.61%) Elasticsearch
13 17 (1.61%) Flink
14 14 (1.32%) Azure SQL Database
15 13 (1.23%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 137 (12.94%) Jenkins
2 126 (11.90%) Git
3 72 (6.80%) Bitbucket
4 66 (6.23%) Artifactory
5 42 (3.97%) GitLab
6 33 (3.12%) JIRA
7 29 (2.74%) Visual Studio
8 22 (2.08%) SonarQube
9 21 (1.98%) Jaeger
10 20 (1.89%) Team Foundation Server
11 13 (1.23%) CircleCI
11 13 (1.23%) Storybook
12 12 (1.13%) Terragrunt
13 8 (0.76%) Cypress.io
13 8 (0.76%) Oracle Forms
14 6 (0.57%) Crashlytics
14 6 (0.57%) JUnit
14 6 (0.57%) MSTest
14 6 (0.57%) Selenium
14 6 (0.57%) webpack
General
1 572 (54.01%) Finance
2 518 (48.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 497 (46.93%) Law
4 397 (37.49%) Marketing
5 205 (19.36%) Social Skills
6 151 (14.26%) Financial Institution
7 140 (13.22%) Banking
8 78 (7.37%) Influencing Skills
9 71 (6.70%) Investment Banking
10 60 (5.67%) Analytical Skills
11 35 (3.31%) Retail
12 29 (2.74%) Presentation Skills
13 22 (2.08%) Prime Brokerage
14 21 (1.98%) Public Sector
15 17 (1.61%) Retail Banking
16 11 (1.04%) French Language
17 10 (0.94%) Front Office
18 7 (0.66%) Legal
18 7 (0.66%) Private Banking
19 5 (0.47%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 363 (34.28%) Software Engineer
2 355 (33.52%) Lead
3 290 (27.38%) Lead Software Engineer
4 174 (16.43%) Senior
5 158 (14.92%) Developer
6 129 (12.18%) Engineering Manager
7 117 (11.05%) Software Engineering Manager
8 88 (8.31%) Architect
8 88 (8.31%) Java Engineer
9 84 (7.93%) Java Software Engineer
10 79 (7.46%) Lead Java Engineer
11 63 (5.95%) Cloud Engineer
12 58 (5.48%) DevOps Engineer
12 58 (5.48%) Senior Software Engineer
13 53 (5.00%) Cloud Software Engineer
13 53 (5.00%) Senior Developer
14 52 (4.91%) Big Data Manager
15 49 (4.63%) UI Engineer
16 48 (4.53%) Solutions Architect
17 43 (4.06%) Power Platform Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 130 (12.28%) .NET
2 119 (11.24%) React
3 117 (11.05%) Spring
4 114 (10.76%) Web Services
5 105 (9.92%) RESTful
6 104 (9.82%) Kafka
7 97 (9.16%) CSS
8 91 (8.59%) Node.js
8 91 (8.59%) OpenTelemetry
9 90 (8.50%) HTML
10 89 (8.40%) Spring Boot
11 82 (7.74%) OpenID
12 72 (6.80%) JSON
13 69 (6.52%) SAML
13 69 (6.52%) XML
14 65 (6.14%) JSON-LD
14 65 (6.14%) LDAP
15 62 (5.85%) NumPy
15 62 (5.85%) Pandas
16 59 (5.57%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 292 (27.57%) Cloud Native
2 152 (14.35%) Management Information System
3 133 (12.56%) Public Cloud
4 80 (7.55%) Product Ownership
5 73 (6.89%) Enterprise Cloud
6 67 (6.33%) Reference Data
7 61 (5.76%) Distributed Systems
8 58 (5.48%) Market Risk
9 35 (3.31%) Onboarding
10 29 (2.74%) Data Structures
11 27 (2.55%) Algorithms
12 26 (2.46%) Mobile App
13 25 (2.36%) Greenfield Project
14 23 (2.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 21 (1.98%) Replication
16 20 (1.89%) Clustering
17 16 (1.51%) FMCG
18 14 (1.32%) Low-Code
19 12 (1.13%) Legacy Systems
20 10 (0.94%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 92 (8.69%) Linux
2 17 (1.61%) Android
3 15 (1.42%) Windows
4 12 (1.13%) Apple iOS
5 11 (1.04%) Ubuntu
6 8 (0.76%) Debian
7 6 (0.57%) Unix
8 4 (0.38%) Windows Server
9 3 (0.28%) CentOS
10 1 (0.094%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.094%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 829 (78.28%) Agile
2 816 (77.05%) CI/CD
3 676 (63.83%) Software Engineering
4 502 (47.40%) SDLC
5 356 (33.62%) Operational Stability
6 344 (32.48%) Community of Practice
7 323 (30.50%) DevOps
8 316 (29.84%) Architectural Design
9 311 (29.37%) Information Architecture
10 298 (28.14%) Continuous Integration
11 233 (22.00%) Artificial Intelligence
12 219 (20.68%) Machine Learning
13 206 (19.45%) Test Automation
14 161 (15.20%) Mentoring
15 151 (14.26%) Roadmaps
16 143 (13.50%) Data Modelling
17 134 (12.65%) TDD
18 133 (12.56%) Computer Science
19 121 (11.43%) Problem-Solving
20 117 (11.05%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 435 (41.08%) Java
2 370 (34.94%) SQL
3 276 (26.06%) Python
4 170 (16.05%) JavaScript
5 130 (12.28%) C#
6 114 (10.76%) Scala
7 106 (10.01%) TypeScript
8 104 (9.82%) Go
9 65 (6.14%) Prolog
9 65 (6.14%) SPARQL
10 27 (2.55%) Groovy
11 26 (2.46%) PowerShell
12 18 (1.70%) PL/SQL
13 16 (1.51%) Kotlin
14 15 (1.42%) Bash
15 13 (1.23%) T-SQL
16 9 (0.85%) C++
16 9 (0.85%) PHP
16 9 (0.85%) Ruby
17 8 (0.76%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 137 (12.94%) Security Cleared
2 89 (8.40%) SC Cleared
3 87 (8.22%) Degree
4 40 (3.78%) AWS Certification
5 38 (3.59%) BPSS Clearance
6 32 (3.02%) Computer Science Degree
7 22 (2.08%) Azure Certification
8 15 (1.42%) Microsoft Certification
9 14 (1.32%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 7 (0.66%) 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%) CEH
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 (5.19%) Accessibility
2 35 (3.31%) SLA
3 29 (2.74%) QA
4 27 (2.55%) PMO
5 10 (0.94%) NCSC
6 8 (0.76%) Data Quality
7 7 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (0.47%) WCAG
9 4 (0.38%) MiFID
10 3 (0.28%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 3 (0.28%) PSD2
11 1 (0.094%) Disclosure Scotland
11 1 (0.094%) GDPR
11 1 (0.094%) NIST
System Software
1 133 (12.56%) Docker
2 72 (6.80%) Active Directory
3 20 (1.89%) VMware NSX
4 9 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (0.66%) HDFS
6 4 (0.38%) Embedded Firmware
6 4 (0.38%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 216 (20.40%) Kubernetes
2 162 (15.30%) Terraform
3 119 (11.24%) Grafana
4 61 (5.76%) Prometheus
5 54 (5.10%) Ansible
6 26 (2.46%) Kibana
7 21 (1.98%) HAProxy
7 21 (1.98%) ITRS Geneos
7 21 (1.98%) Zipkin
8 19 (1.79%) Puppet
9 14 (1.32%) Consul
10 4 (0.38%) Rancher
11 3 (0.28%) Graphite
11 3 (0.28%) Nagios
11 3 (0.28%) ZABBIX
12 2 (0.19%) Argo
12 2 (0.19%) cPanel
12 2 (0.19%) linkerd
12 2 (0.19%) Progress Chef
13 1 (0.094%) Podman
Vendors
1 185 (17.47%) Microsoft
2 126 (11.90%) Splunk
3 119 (11.24%) Oracle
4 111 (10.48%) Dynatrace
5 38 (3.59%) Google
6 33 (3.12%) Databricks
7 24 (2.27%) VMware
8 19 (1.79%) Atlassian
9 18 (1.70%) Cognos
9 18 (1.70%) SAP
10 17 (1.61%) Alteryx
10 17 (1.61%) Sybase
11 16 (1.51%) Salesforce
12 12 (1.13%) Black Duck
12 12 (1.13%) ServiceNow
13 10 (0.94%) Commvault
13 10 (0.94%) Teradata
14 7 (0.66%) Cloudera
15 6 (0.57%) Amplitude
15 6 (0.57%) Cadence