Software Delivery Job Trends in the City of London

Software Delivery
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Software Delivery skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 112 144 154
Rank change year-on-year +32 +10 +24
Permanent jobs citing Software Delivery 20 19 11
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 0.92% 0.71% 0.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.06% 0.75% 0.41%
Number of salaries quoted 20 16 8
10th Percentile £52,500 £63,125 £62,150
25th Percentile £56,250 £67,188 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £83,750 £71,250
Median % change year-on-year -22.39% +17.54% +9.62%
75th Percentile £88,438 £110,313 £85,313
90th Percentile £119,000 £117,500 £94,125
Central London median annual salary £95,000 £83,750 £65,000
% change year-on-year +13.43% +28.85% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of London

Software Delivery 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 City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,893 2,545 2,655
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 86.99% 95.50% 95.13%
Number of salaries quoted 1,399 1,634 2,379
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £40,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% - -
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £96,625
90th Percentile £113,750 £117,500 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £77,500 £74,750 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.68% -0.33% -

Software Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Software Delivery relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Software Delivery job vacancy trend in the City of London

Software Delivery
Salary Trend in the City of London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Software Delivery.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Software Delivery

Software Delivery
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Delivery in the City of London over the 6 months to 6 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Software Delivery in the City of London

Software Delivery
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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:

Cloud Services
1 14 (70.00%) Azure
2 12 (60.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (10.00%) AWS
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon ECR
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon S3
4 1 (5.00%) Apigee
4 1 (5.00%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (5.00%) GCP
4 1 (5.00%) GitHub
4 1 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (5.00%) Power Platform
4 1 (5.00%) SaaS
4 1 (5.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (55.00%) SQL Server
1 11 (55.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (5.00%) DynamoDB
2 1 (5.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 11 (55.00%) Octopus Deploy
1 11 (55.00%) TeamCity
2 1 (5.00%) Katalon Studio
General
1 12 (60.00%) Finance
2 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (10.00%) Banking
2 2 (10.00%) Front Office
2 2 (10.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Advertising
3 1 (5.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 12 (60.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (15.00%) Senior
3 2 (10.00%) Development Manager
3 2 (10.00%) Java Development Manager
3 2 (10.00%) Senior Development Manager
3 2 (10.00%) Senior Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Account Executive
4 1 (5.00%) Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Business Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Financial Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Financial Business Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Java Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Quality Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Release Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Senior Test Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Service Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Technical Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Test Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (55.00%) .NET
2 1 (5.00%) JWT
2 1 (5.00%) Node.js
2 1 (5.00%) OAuth
2 1 (5.00%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 12 (60.00%) Legacy Systems
2 11 (55.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 11 (55.00%) Virtual Team
3 2 (10.00%) Derivative
4 1 (5.00%) Cloud Native
4 1 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (5.00%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (70.00%) CI/CD
1 14 (70.00%) DevOps
2 12 (60.00%) AI
2 12 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (20.00%) Agile
4 2 (10.00%) Containerisation
4 2 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (10.00%) Decision-Making
4 2 (10.00%) Defect Management
4 2 (10.00%) Design Patterns
4 2 (10.00%) Microservices
4 2 (10.00%) People Management
4 2 (10.00%) Test Automation
5 1 (5.00%) API Management
5 1 (5.00%) Code Quality
5 1 (5.00%) Collaborative Culture
5 1 (5.00%) Defect Tracking
5 1 (5.00%) Performance Optimisation
5 1 (5.00%) Secure Coding
5 1 (5.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 11 (55.00%) PowerShell
1 11 (55.00%) SQL
2 4 (20.00%) Java
3 3 (15.00%) Python
4 2 (10.00%) C#
5 1 (5.00%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 1 (5.00%) Degree
1 1 (5.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (60.00%) Terraform
2 1 (5.00%) Ansible
2 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (5.00%) Google
1 1 (5.00%) Pega
1 1 (5.00%) Salesforce