Software Delivery Job Trends in the South East

Software Delivery
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Software Delivery skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 258 265 287
Rank change year-on-year +7 +22 -39
Permanent jobs citing Software Delivery 69 36 58
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.40% 0.40% 0.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.56% 0.46% 0.52%
Number of salaries quoted 61 1 13
10th Percentile £45,000 - £42,220
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £51,099
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £47,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +42.11% -20.83% -14.82%
75th Percentile £87,500 £48,750 £63,541
90th Percentile £95,000 - £63,750
England median annual salary £67,500 £72,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.90% +20.83% -7.69%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,300 7,858 11,125
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 71.40% 88.00% 80.80%
Number of salaries quoted 8,809 4,198 7,200
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £33,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £86,250 £80,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -12.00%

Software Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Software Delivery job vacancy trend in the South East

Software Delivery
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Software Delivery.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Software Delivery

Software Delivery
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Delivery in the South East over the 6 months to 18 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Software Delivery in the South East

Software Delivery
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 Software Delivery within the South East region over the 6 months to 18 August 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 -16 33 £73,500 - 10
Thames Valley -2 18 £67,500 +42.11% 13
Surrey - 12 £85,000 - 2
Oxfordshire - 9 £80,000 - 2
Buckinghamshire +1 6 £48,375 +1.84% 4
East Sussex - 6 £50,000 -
Berkshire +3 3 £65,000 - 7
Software Delivery
England

Software Delivery
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:

Applications
1 2 (2.90%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (2.90%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 27 (39.13%) Azure
2 22 (31.88%) AWS
3 11 (15.94%) GCP
4 8 (11.59%) Serverless
5 7 (10.14%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (5.80%) Amazon ECS
6 4 (5.80%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (5.80%) Azure Key Vault
7 3 (4.35%) Azure API Management
7 3 (4.35%) Entra ID
7 3 (4.35%) SaaS
8 2 (2.90%) Amazon EventBridge
8 2 (2.90%) Amazon S3
8 2 (2.90%) GitHub
8 2 (2.90%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (2.90%) Power Platform
9 1 (1.45%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 1 (1.45%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (8.70%) VPN
2 4 (5.80%) MQTT
3 3 (4.35%) Network Security
4 1 (1.45%) Asterisk PBX
4 1 (1.45%) BGP
4 1 (1.45%) DNS
4 1 (1.45%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.45%) VoIP
4 1 (1.45%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.80%) DynamoDB
2 3 (4.35%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (4.35%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.90%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (2.90%) MongoDB
3 2 (2.90%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (2.90%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 19 (27.54%) Git
2 8 (11.59%) GitLab
3 4 (5.80%) SonarQube
4 3 (4.35%) JIRA
5 1 (1.45%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.45%) Cypress.io
5 1 (1.45%) Jenkins
General
1 24 (34.78%) Social Skills
2 9 (13.04%) Finance
3 4 (5.80%) Games
4 3 (4.35%) Aerospace
5 1 (1.45%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (1.45%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 14 (20.29%) Software Engineer
2 11 (15.94%) Senior
3 9 (13.04%) Developer
3 9 (13.04%) DevOps Engineer
4 7 (10.14%) Lead
5 6 (8.70%) JavaScript Developer
6 5 (7.25%) C++ Software Engineer
6 5 (7.25%) DevSecOps Engineer
6 5 (7.25%) Principal Engineer
6 5 (7.25%) Principal Software Engineer
6 5 (7.25%) Project Manager
7 4 (5.80%) Azure Engineer
7 4 (5.80%) Coordinator
7 4 (5.80%) Head of Engineering
7 4 (5.80%) Project Coordinator
7 4 (5.80%) Senior Software Engineer
8 3 (4.35%) Platform Engineer
8 3 (4.35%) Senior Platform Engineer
8 3 (4.35%) Test Automation Engineer
8 3 (4.35%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (20.29%) React
2 8 (11.59%) .NET
3 6 (8.70%) AngularJS
3 6 (8.70%) CSS
3 6 (8.70%) HTML
3 6 (8.70%) jQuery
4 5 (7.25%) Unreal Engine
5 4 (5.80%) AWS SAM
5 4 (5.80%) Kafka
5 4 (5.80%) Node.js
5 4 (5.80%) Serverless Framework
6 3 (4.35%) gRPC
6 3 (4.35%) Keycloak
6 3 (4.35%) Playwright
6 3 (4.35%) Protocol Buffers
6 3 (4.35%) REST
6 3 (4.35%) YAML
7 2 (2.90%) ASP.NET
7 2 (2.90%) ASP.NET Core
7 2 (2.90%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 12 (17.39%) Cloud Native
2 7 (10.14%) Data Structures
3 6 (8.70%) Product Ownership
4 5 (7.25%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (5.80%) Onboarding
6 3 (4.35%) Algorithms
6 3 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (4.35%) PMI
6 3 (4.35%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 2 (2.90%) Driving Licence
7 2 (2.90%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (2.90%) SystemC
8 1 (1.45%) AI Agents
8 1 (1.45%) Embedded Systems
8 1 (1.45%) IoT
8 1 (1.45%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 7 (10.14%) Linux
2 1 (1.45%) Debian
2 1 (1.45%) Embedded Linux
2 1 (1.45%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (53.62%) CI/CD
2 32 (46.38%) Software Engineering
3 30 (43.48%) DevOps
4 24 (34.78%) Agile
5 23 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
6 18 (26.09%) Infrastructure as Code
7 17 (24.64%) Technical Leadership
8 15 (21.74%) Containerisation
9 14 (20.29%) Observability
9 14 (20.29%) SDLC
9 14 (20.29%) Test Automation
10 11 (15.94%) DevSecOps
10 11 (15.94%) Project Management
11 10 (14.49%) High Availability
11 10 (14.49%) Stakeholder Management
12 9 (13.04%) Mentoring
12 9 (13.04%) Platform Engineering
13 8 (11.59%) Decision-Making
13 8 (11.59%) Microservices
13 8 (11.59%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 21 (30.43%) JavaScript
2 16 (23.19%) Python
3 15 (21.74%) TypeScript
4 12 (17.39%) C#
5 9 (13.04%) Go
6 7 (10.14%) C++
6 7 (10.14%) Java
6 7 (10.14%) Rust
7 4 (5.80%) SQL
8 2 (2.90%) Bash
9 1 (1.45%) Bicep
9 1 (1.45%) PHP
Qualifications
1 21 (30.43%) Security Cleared
2 11 (15.94%) SC Cleared
3 7 (10.14%) Degree
4 6 (8.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (4.35%) PMI Certification
6 2 (2.90%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.45%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.70%) PMO
2 4 (5.80%) QA
3 3 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.90%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.45%) ISO 9001
5 1 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 1 (1.45%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 19 (27.54%) Docker
2 1 (1.45%) Firmware
2 1 (1.45%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (21.74%) Kubernetes
2 13 (18.84%) Terraform
3 11 (15.94%) Ansible
4 6 (8.70%) Grafana
4 6 (8.70%) Prometheus
5 4 (5.80%) Puppet
6 3 (4.35%) Podman
7 1 (1.45%) Packer
Vendors
1 5 (7.25%) Microsoft
1 5 (7.25%) Salesforce
2 4 (5.80%) Tenable
3 3 (4.35%) NVIDIA
4 2 (2.90%) Oracle
4 2 (2.90%) SAP
4 2 (2.90%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.45%) Google