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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 268 201 190
Rank change year-on-year -67 -11 0
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Delivery 1,080 1,984 3,315
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.10% 1.90% 2.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.28% 1.98% 2.25%
Number of salaries quoted 476 802 1,219
10th Percentile £46,872 £46,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £55,938 £60,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% +3.33% +15.38%
75th Percentile £91,934 £92,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £100,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £67,634 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.89% +4.05% +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 84,305 100,095 147,310
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.99% 95.64% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 59,591 58,745 83,129
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £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 27 April 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 27 April 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 -21 856 £65,000 -3.89% 74
Scotland +54 527 £60,000 -28.65% 8
England -214 479 £72,500 -7.22% 115
Work from Home -77 283 £70,000 -12.50% 64
London -198 157 £85,000 - 46
North of England -99 94 £62,500 -3.85% 15
Midlands -78 93 £65,000 - 5
West Midlands -4 91 £65,000 - 4
North West -33 69 £62,500 -3.85% 8
South West -44 57 £75,000 +50.00% 15
South East -76 48 £80,000 +3.23% 21
East of England -14 26 £57,500 -36.11% 9
Yorkshire -25 16 £52,500 -19.23% 5
North East -27 9 £56,250 -19.64% 2
Northern Ireland -2 7 £67,500 +35.00% 2
Wales -13 4 £62,248 +38.33% 1
East Midlands -90 2 £105,000 +61.54% 1

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 (8.98%) Apache Spark
2 35 (3.24%) SharePoint
3 26 (2.41%) IIS
4 21 (1.94%) GemFire
5 18 (1.67%) Apache
6 14 (1.30%) Confluence
7 12 (1.11%) Apache Airflow
8 10 (0.93%) nginx
9 4 (0.37%) Drupal
10 3 (0.28%) CMS
11 2 (0.19%) JBoss
11 2 (0.19%) WordPress
12 1 (0.093%) Apache Synapse
12 1 (0.093%) BizTalk Server
12 1 (0.093%) Microsoft Exchange
12 1 (0.093%) Tuxedo
12 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 (2.41%) Dynamics CRM
2 18 (1.67%) Salesforce CRM
3 17 (1.57%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 17 (1.57%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.19%) Temenos T24
5 1 (0.093%) Cognos Business Intelligence
Cloud Services
1 418 (38.70%) AWS
2 312 (28.89%) Azure
3 127 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
4 114 (10.56%) Datadog
5 91 (8.43%) Power Platform
6 80 (7.41%) GCP
7 79 (7.31%) Dynamics 365
8 66 (6.11%) Serverless
9 58 (5.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 55 (5.09%) SaaS
11 40 (3.70%) GitHub
12 37 (3.43%) PaaS
13 36 (3.33%) Azure Logic Apps
14 35 (3.24%) Cloud Computing
15 34 (3.15%) Amazon ECS
16 30 (2.78%) GitHub Actions
17 26 (2.41%) IaaS
18 25 (2.31%) Microsoft 365
19 24 (2.22%) Azure Service Bus
20 21 (1.94%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 66 (6.11%) Kerberos
2 27 (2.50%) WAN
3 18 (1.67%) DSL
4 7 (0.65%) Internet
4 7 (0.65%) VPN
5 5 (0.46%) Firewall
6 4 (0.37%) Network Security
7 3 (0.28%) FTP
8 2 (0.19%) HTTP
8 2 (0.19%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.093%) Broadband
9 1 (0.093%) DNS
9 1 (0.093%) IPsec
9 1 (0.093%) LAN
9 1 (0.093%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 197 (18.24%) NoSQL
2 103 (9.54%) Relational Database
3 101 (9.35%) Big Data
4 95 (8.80%) SQL Server
5 66 (6.11%) Metadata
6 42 (3.89%) MongoDB
7 40 (3.70%) Data Lake
8 28 (2.59%) Data Warehouse
9 22 (2.04%) Looker
10 21 (1.94%) Apache Cassandra
10 21 (1.94%) CockroachDB
10 21 (1.94%) Hazelcast
10 21 (1.94%) Power BI
11 20 (1.85%) Hadoop
11 20 (1.85%) Tableau
12 19 (1.76%) Elasticsearch
13 18 (1.67%) DB2
13 18 (1.67%) Flink
14 14 (1.30%) Azure SQL Database
14 14 (1.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 136 (12.59%) Jenkins
2 129 (11.94%) Git
3 72 (6.67%) Bitbucket
4 66 (6.11%) Artifactory
5 50 (4.63%) GitLab
6 31 (2.87%) Visual Studio
7 27 (2.50%) JIRA
8 21 (1.94%) CircleCI
8 21 (1.94%) Jaeger
9 20 (1.85%) Team Foundation Server
10 13 (1.20%) Storybook
11 9 (0.83%) SonarQube
12 8 (0.74%) Cypress.io
12 8 (0.74%) git-flow
12 8 (0.74%) Oracle Forms
13 7 (0.65%) JUnit
14 6 (0.56%) Crashlytics
14 6 (0.56%) MSTest
14 6 (0.56%) Selenium
14 6 (0.56%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 591 (54.72%) Finance
2 524 (48.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 505 (46.76%) Law
4 401 (37.13%) Marketing
5 191 (17.69%) Social Skills
6 154 (14.26%) Financial Institution
7 148 (13.70%) Banking
8 82 (7.59%) Influencing Skills
9 71 (6.57%) Investment Banking
10 67 (6.20%) Analytical Skills
11 33 (3.06%) Retail
12 27 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
13 26 (2.41%) Public Sector
14 22 (2.04%) Prime Brokerage
15 15 (1.39%) Retail Banking
16 12 (1.11%) French Language
17 9 (0.83%) Front Office
17 9 (0.83%) Private Banking
18 8 (0.74%) Legal
19 5 (0.46%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 373 (34.54%) Software Engineer
2 361 (33.43%) Lead
3 296 (27.41%) Lead Software Engineer
4 186 (17.22%) Senior
5 154 (14.26%) Developer
6 132 (12.22%) Engineering Manager
7 120 (11.11%) Software Engineering Manager
8 90 (8.33%) Architect
8 90 (8.33%) Java Engineer
9 86 (7.96%) Java Software Engineer
10 81 (7.50%) Lead Java Engineer
11 65 (6.02%) Cloud Engineer
12 61 (5.65%) Senior Software Engineer
13 55 (5.09%) DevOps Engineer
14 54 (5.00%) Cloud Software Engineer
15 53 (4.91%) Big Data Manager
16 52 (4.81%) Senior Developer
17 51 (4.72%) Solutions Architect
17 51 (4.72%) UI Engineer
18 50 (4.63%) Power Platform Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 119 (11.02%) React
2 118 (10.93%) .NET
3 115 (10.65%) Spring
4 111 (10.28%) Web Services
5 104 (9.63%) Kafka
5 104 (9.63%) RESTful
6 94 (8.70%) CSS
7 91 (8.43%) OpenTelemetry
8 90 (8.33%) HTML
8 90 (8.33%) Spring Boot
9 77 (7.13%) OpenID
10 75 (6.94%) JSON
10 75 (6.94%) Node.js
11 70 (6.48%) SAML
12 69 (6.39%) XML
13 65 (6.02%) JSON-LD
13 65 (6.02%) LDAP
14 61 (5.65%) NumPy
14 61 (5.65%) Pandas
15 57 (5.28%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 287 (26.57%) Cloud Native
2 150 (13.89%) Management Information System
3 146 (13.52%) Public Cloud
4 77 (7.13%) Enterprise Cloud
5 69 (6.39%) Product Ownership
6 67 (6.20%) Distributed Systems
6 67 (6.20%) Reference Data
7 58 (5.37%) Market Risk
8 33 (3.06%) Onboarding
9 29 (2.69%) Data Structures
10 27 (2.50%) Algorithms
11 26 (2.41%) Clustering
12 25 (2.31%) Mobile App
13 24 (2.22%) Greenfield Project
14 21 (1.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 21 (1.94%) Replication
15 17 (1.57%) Low-Code
16 16 (1.48%) FMCG
17 14 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
17 14 (1.30%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 102 (9.44%) Linux
2 17 (1.57%) Android
3 13 (1.20%) Windows
4 12 (1.11%) Apple iOS
5 11 (1.02%) Ubuntu
6 8 (0.74%) Debian
7 6 (0.56%) Unix
8 4 (0.37%) Mac OS X
9 3 (0.28%) CentOS
9 3 (0.28%) Windows Server
10 1 (0.093%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 843 (78.06%) CI/CD
2 842 (77.96%) Agile
3 697 (64.54%) Software Engineering
4 510 (47.22%) SDLC
5 363 (33.61%) Operational Stability
6 346 (32.04%) Community of Practice
7 323 (29.91%) Continuous Integration
8 322 (29.81%) DevOps
9 321 (29.72%) Architectural Design
10 316 (29.26%) Information Architecture
11 226 (20.93%) Machine Learning
12 222 (20.56%) Artificial Intelligence
13 197 (18.24%) Test Automation
14 149 (13.80%) Mentoring
15 148 (13.70%) Data Modelling
16 147 (13.61%) Roadmaps
17 139 (12.87%) Computer Science
18 133 (12.31%) TDD
19 132 (12.22%) Problem-Solving
20 117 (10.83%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 437 (40.46%) Java
2 387 (35.83%) SQL
3 273 (25.28%) Python
4 154 (14.26%) JavaScript
5 127 (11.76%) C#
6 117 (10.83%) Scala
7 113 (10.46%) TypeScript
8 102 (9.44%) Go
9 65 (6.02%) Prolog
9 65 (6.02%) SPARQL
10 27 (2.50%) Groovy
11 23 (2.13%) PowerShell
12 20 (1.85%) PL/SQL
13 17 (1.57%) Shell Script
14 16 (1.48%) T-SQL
15 15 (1.39%) Kotlin
16 13 (1.20%) Bash
17 12 (1.11%) PHP
18 7 (0.65%) Swift
19 6 (0.56%) C++
Qualifications
1 129 (11.94%) Security Cleared
2 88 (8.15%) Degree
3 82 (7.59%) SC Cleared
4 39 (3.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 36 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
6 31 (2.87%) AWS Certification
7 19 (1.76%) Microsoft Certification
8 15 (1.39%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 13 (1.20%) Master's Degree
10 11 (1.02%) Azure Certification
11 6 (0.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 5 (0.46%) ISTQB
13 3 (0.28%) AWS Certified Developer
14 2 (0.19%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 2 (0.19%) Cisco Certification
14 2 (0.19%) CISSP
14 2 (0.19%) ISEB
14 2 (0.19%) ITIL Certification
14 2 (0.19%) OSCP
14 2 (0.19%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (4.81%) Accessibility
2 36 (3.33%) SLA
3 33 (3.06%) QA
4 28 (2.59%) PMO
5 9 (0.83%) Data Quality
6 8 (0.74%) NCSC
7 7 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (0.46%) WCAG
9 3 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.28%) MiFID
9 3 (0.28%) PSD2
10 2 (0.19%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.093%) Disclosure Scotland
11 1 (0.093%) GDPR
11 1 (0.093%) NIST
System Software
1 122 (11.30%) Docker
2 76 (7.04%) Active Directory
3 26 (2.41%) VMware NSX
4 8 (0.74%) HDFS
4 8 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.093%) RACF
5 1 (0.093%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 211 (19.54%) Kubernetes
2 144 (13.33%) Terraform
3 118 (10.93%) Grafana
4 59 (5.46%) Prometheus
5 37 (3.43%) Ansible
6 30 (2.78%) Kibana
7 21 (1.94%) HAProxy
7 21 (1.94%) ITRS Geneos
7 21 (1.94%) Zipkin
8 19 (1.76%) Puppet
9 14 (1.30%) Consul
10 8 (0.74%) Rancher
11 4 (0.37%) vRealize
11 4 (0.37%) vRealize Orchestrator
12 3 (0.28%) Nagios
13 2 (0.19%) Graphite
13 2 (0.19%) Istio
13 2 (0.19%) linkerd
13 2 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
13 2 (0.19%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 193 (17.87%) Microsoft
2 128 (11.85%) Splunk
3 124 (11.48%) Oracle
4 114 (10.56%) Dynatrace
5 40 (3.70%) Google
6 37 (3.43%) Databricks
7 34 (3.15%) VMware
8 24 (2.22%) Atlassian
9 20 (1.85%) Salesforce
10 19 (1.76%) Alteryx
10 19 (1.76%) Cognos
10 19 (1.76%) SAP
11 18 (1.67%) Sybase
12 10 (0.93%) Commvault
12 10 (0.93%) Teradata
13 8 (0.74%) Cloudera
13 8 (0.74%) McAfee
14 6 (0.56%) Amplitude
14 6 (0.56%) Cadence
15 4 (0.37%) Dell