Continuous Delivery Job Trends in England

Continuous Delivery
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Continuous 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 483 252 339
Rank change year-on-year -231 +87 -102
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Delivery 129 553 393
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.25% 1.14% 0.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 1.26% 0.93%
Number of salaries quoted 64 148 320
10th Percentile £55,000 £43,911 £46,300
25th Percentile £64,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,039 £69,308 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year +1.06% -1.80% -11.78%
75th Percentile £85,500 £80,000 £91,934
90th Percentile £96,250 £110,000 £102,750
UK median annual salary £70,079 £69,308 £70,000
% change year-on-year +1.11% -0.99% -9.68%

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

Continuous 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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 42,692 44,038 42,419
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 81.67% 90.44% 90.61%
Number of salaries quoted 25,525 21,717 32,741
10th Percentile £28,518 £35,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,750 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Continuous Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Continuous Delivery relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Continuous Delivery job vacancy trend in England

Continuous Delivery
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Continuous Delivery.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Continuous Delivery

Continuous Delivery
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Continuous Delivery in England over the 6 months to 6 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Continuous Delivery in England

Continuous Delivery
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Continuous Delivery within the England region over the 6 months to 6 January 2026. 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
South East -69 45 £80,000 +23.08% 13
London -127 44 £70,079 -12.40% 23
North of England -12 23 £65,000 +23.81% 15
Yorkshire -17 11 £60,000 +50.00% 6
North West +4 9 £65,000 +6.03% 5
East of England -7 6 £66,250 -5.36% 4
West Midlands -2 5 £80,271 +15.82% 4
Midlands -10 5 £80,271 +15.82% 4
North East -1 3 £60,000 -13.43% 4
South West -2 2 £62,000 -14.48% 6
Continuous Delivery
UK

Continuous Delivery
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (2.33%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.55%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.55%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.78%) Apache
3 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 35 (27.13%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (6.20%) SAP ERP
3 2 (1.55%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.78%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.78%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 48 (37.21%) AWS
2 45 (34.88%) Azure DevOps
3 34 (26.36%) Azure
4 22 (17.05%) Serverless
5 19 (14.73%) AWS Lambda
6 13 (10.08%) SaaS
7 12 (9.30%) GCP
7 12 (9.30%) GitHub
8 10 (7.75%) GitHub Actions
8 10 (7.75%) PaaS
9 8 (6.20%) Datadog
10 6 (4.65%) Amazon EC2
11 5 (3.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 5 (3.88%) Amazon Kinesis
11 5 (3.88%) AWS CloudFormation
12 4 (3.10%) Amazon S3
12 4 (3.10%) Cloud Computing
12 4 (3.10%) dbt
12 4 (3.10%) Power Platform
13 2 (1.55%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.88%) HTTP
2 4 (3.10%) DNS
2 4 (3.10%) Firewall
2 4 (3.10%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.55%) SSL
4 1 (0.78%) AMQP
4 1 (0.78%) Broadband
4 1 (0.78%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (17.05%) DynamoDB
2 12 (9.30%) Elasticsearch
2 12 (9.30%) NoSQL
3 10 (7.75%) SQL Server
4 6 (4.65%) Redis
5 5 (3.88%) Couchbase
5 5 (3.88%) Relational Database
6 4 (3.10%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (3.10%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (2.33%) MariaDB
8 2 (1.55%) MySQL
9 1 (0.78%) Amazon QuickSight
9 1 (0.78%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.78%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.78%) DB2
9 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 1 (0.78%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (0.78%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 1 (0.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.78%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 37 (28.68%) JIRA
2 35 (27.13%) eCATT
3 28 (21.71%) NeoLoad
4 18 (13.95%) Jenkins
5 10 (7.75%) Git
6 7 (5.43%) GitLab
7 6 (4.65%) Cucumber
7 6 (4.65%) JMeter
8 4 (3.10%) CircleCI
8 4 (3.10%) Locust
9 3 (2.33%) Cypress.io
10 2 (1.55%) Burp Suite
10 2 (1.55%) LoadRunner
10 2 (1.55%) MSTest
10 2 (1.55%) NUnit
10 2 (1.55%) Postman
10 2 (1.55%) SpecFlow
10 2 (1.55%) TestNG
11 1 (0.78%) Android Studio
11 1 (0.78%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 50 (38.76%) Finance
2 38 (29.46%) Social Skills
3 35 (27.13%) Manufacturing
3 35 (27.13%) Marketing
4 19 (14.73%) Presentation Skills
5 14 (10.85%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (9.30%) Health Technology
6 12 (9.30%) Law
6 12 (9.30%) Publishing
6 12 (9.30%) Tech for Good
7 9 (6.98%) Influencing Skills
7 9 (6.98%) Telecoms
8 5 (3.88%) Banking
9 3 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.33%) Public Sector
10 2 (1.55%) Advertising
10 2 (1.55%) Automotive
10 2 (1.55%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.78%) Aviation
11 1 (0.78%) Legal
Job Titles
1 53 (41.09%) Senior
2 41 (31.78%) Lead
3 30 (23.26%) Test Leader
4 25 (19.38%) Developer
5 20 (15.50%) Senior Developer
6 16 (12.40%) Automation Test Lead
7 12 (9.30%) Python Developer
7 12 (9.30%) Senior Python Developer
8 10 (7.75%) Performance Test Leader
9 9 (6.98%) Analyst
9 9 (6.98%) Automation Test Analyst
9 9 (6.98%) Software Engineer
9 9 (6.98%) Test Analyst
10 8 (6.20%) QA Manager
11 7 (5.43%) AWS Developer
11 7 (5.43%) Product Manager
11 7 (5.43%) Software Developer
12 6 (4.65%) Cloud Engineer
12 6 (4.65%) React Developer
12 6 (4.65%) Senior React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (17.05%) React
2 21 (16.28%) RESTful
3 12 (9.30%) Kafka
3 12 (9.30%) Swagger
4 11 (8.53%) .NET
5 10 (7.75%) Spring
6 7 (5.43%) CSS
6 7 (5.43%) GraphQL
6 7 (5.43%) gRPC
6 7 (5.43%) HTML
6 7 (5.43%) Node.js
7 5 (3.88%) .NET Core
7 5 (3.88%) Memcached
7 5 (3.88%) RabbitMQ
8 4 (3.10%) Elastic Stack
8 4 (3.10%) Gherkin
8 4 (3.10%) Next.js
8 4 (3.10%) Playwright
8 4 (3.10%) REST
8 4 (3.10%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 13 (10.08%) Cloud Native
2 9 (6.98%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (6.20%) Product Ownership
4 7 (5.43%) Data Structures
5 6 (4.65%) Virtual Team
6 4 (3.10%) Blockchain
6 4 (3.10%) Web3
7 3 (2.33%) Legacy Code
7 3 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (2.33%) Management Information System
7 3 (2.33%) Mobile App
7 3 (2.33%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.55%) Client/Server
8 2 (1.55%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.55%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.78%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.78%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.78%) Mainframe
9 1 (0.78%) Over-the-Top Content
9 1 (0.78%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 7 (5.43%) Linux
2 3 (2.33%) Apple iOS
2 3 (2.33%) Windows
3 1 (0.78%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (53.49%) CI/CD
2 64 (49.61%) Agile
3 53 (41.09%) Test Automation
4 50 (38.76%) Roadmaps
5 46 (35.66%) DevOps
6 44 (34.11%) Product Roadmap
7 35 (27.13%) Source to Pay
7 35 (27.13%) Test Management
7 35 (27.13%) Test Strategy
8 34 (26.36%) ERP
9 33 (25.58%) Performance Testing
10 31 (24.03%) TDD
11 27 (20.93%) Scrum
12 26 (20.16%) Continuous Integration
12 26 (20.16%) Requirements Gathering
13 23 (17.83%) Containerisation
14 22 (17.05%) Infrastructure as Code
14 22 (17.05%) Microservices
15 20 (15.50%) Continuous Improvement
16 19 (14.73%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 29 (22.48%) Python
2 23 (17.83%) TypeScript
3 16 (12.40%) Java
4 11 (8.53%) C#
5 9 (6.98%) Go
5 9 (6.98%) JavaScript
6 6 (4.65%) Bash
6 6 (4.65%) Kotlin
6 6 (4.65%) Scala
7 4 (3.10%) PHP
7 4 (3.10%) SQL
8 3 (2.33%) Swift
9 2 (1.55%) Objective-C
9 2 (1.55%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.78%) Bicep
10 1 (0.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.78%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.78%) X++
Qualifications
1 14 (10.85%) Degree
2 10 (7.75%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (6.20%) Master's Degree
4 7 (5.43%) Security Cleared
5 6 (4.65%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.55%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.55%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.78%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.78%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.78%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (24.81%) QA
2 11 (8.53%) Accessibility
3 7 (5.43%) WCAG
4 5 (3.88%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.78%) GDPR
5 1 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 22 (17.05%) Docker
2 1 (0.78%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 35 (27.13%) HP ALM
2 25 (19.38%) Kubernetes
3 23 (17.83%) Terraform
4 12 (9.30%) Ansible
5 11 (8.53%) Prometheus
6 10 (7.75%) Grafana
7 2 (1.55%) Argo
7 2 (1.55%) Istio
8 1 (0.78%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 43 (33.33%) SAP
2 35 (27.13%) HP
3 7 (5.43%) Microsoft
4 2 (1.55%) CA Agile Central
5 1 (0.78%) Charles River
5 1 (0.78%) Databricks
5 1 (0.78%) Murex
5 1 (0.78%) OneLogin
5 1 (0.78%) Oracle
5 1 (0.78%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.78%) VMware