Black Duck Job Trends in the South East

Black Duck
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring knowledge or experience of Black Duck products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Black Duck over the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT labour market in general and are not representative of salaries within Black Duck Software.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 256 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Black Duck 19 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.18% - -
As % of the Vendors category 0.59% - -
Number of salaries quoted 18 0 0
10th Percentile £33,350 - -
25th Percentile £45,000 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,750 - -
75th Percentile £97,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £80,750 - -

All Vendors
South East

Black Duck falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 3,218 3,342 3,464
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 31.20% 37.08% 39.02%
Number of salaries quoted 1,779 1,750 2,637
10th Percentile £27,000 £31,500 £28,800
25th Percentile £32,000 £41,250 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £62,500 £68,625 £61,700
90th Percentile £78,500 £80,000 £73,750
England median annual salary £51,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.43% +4.55% -4.35%

Black Duck
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Black Duck relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Black Duck job vacancy trend in the South East

Black Duck
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Black Duck.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Black Duck

Black Duck
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Black Duck in the South East over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Black Duck in the South East

Black Duck
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Black Duck within the South East region over the 6 months to 12 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
Hampshire - 19 £80,750 -
Black Duck
England

Black Duck
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 4 (21.05%) Apache
1 4 (21.05%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (21.05%) Appian
Cloud Services
1 19 (100.00%) Azure
1 19 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
2 17 (89.47%) AWS
3 4 (21.05%) Amazon S3
3 4 (21.05%) MinIO
3 4 (21.05%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 12 (63.16%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (21.05%) Airbyte
Development Applications
1 19 (100.00%) Robot Framework
1 19 (100.00%) Selenium
1 19 (100.00%) Snyk
2 15 (78.95%) Git
General
1 13 (68.42%) Analytical Skills
1 13 (68.42%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (47.37%) Lead
2 7 (36.84%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 4 (21.05%) Applications Architect
3 4 (21.05%) Architect
4 2 (10.53%) Lead DevOps
5 1 (5.26%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Junior
5 1 (5.26%) Junior DevOps
5 1 (5.26%) Junior DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Lead DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (21.05%) Apache NiFi
1 4 (21.05%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 8 (42.11%) Product Ownership
2 4 (21.05%) Cloud Native
2 4 (21.05%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 12 (63.16%) Linux
1 12 (63.16%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 19 (100.00%) DevOps
1 19 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 19 (100.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
1 19 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 19 (100.00%) Interactive Application Security Testing
1 19 (100.00%) Secrets Management
1 19 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 19 (100.00%) Test Management
2 16 (84.21%) Agile
3 15 (78.95%) Scrum
4 13 (68.42%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (63.16%) Build Automation
5 12 (63.16%) Roadmaps
6 11 (57.89%) Technical Leadership
7 8 (42.11%) Mentoring
8 7 (36.84%) Dependency Management
9 4 (21.05%) ArchiMate
9 4 (21.05%) Data Integration
9 4 (21.05%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 4 (21.05%) Python
Qualifications
1 18 (94.74%) Security Cleared
2 16 (84.21%) DV Cleared
3 5 (26.32%) SC Cleared
Systems Management
1 19 (100.00%) Ansible
1 19 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 19 (100.00%) Coverity
2 4 (21.05%) BiZZdesign
2 4 (21.05%) Blue Prism
2 4 (21.05%) UiPath
2 4 (21.05%) VMware