Software Delivery Jobs in the UK excluding London

Software Delivery
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Software Delivery skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Software Delivery over the 6 months leading up to 27 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 302 329 362
Rank change year-on-year +27 +33 -92
Permanent jobs citing Software Delivery 307 549 485
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.79% 0.75% 0.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.85% 0.91% 0.87%
Number of salaries quoted 140 298 315
10th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £41,100
25th Percentile £47,683 £43,470 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year - -7.60% -0.79%
75th Percentile £71,250 £72,433 £71,250
90th Percentile £86,375 £76,950 £84,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding 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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 35,974 60,639 55,898
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.75% 82.65% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 17,037 41,817 28,998
10th Percentile £26,500 £27,300 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

Software Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Software Delivery as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Software Delivery in the UK excluding London

Software Delivery
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Delivery in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Software Delivery in the UK excluding London

Software Delivery
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Delivery in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 27 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Software Delivery in the UK excluding London

Software Delivery
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Delivery within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 27 May 2025. 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 +94 80 £75,000 +25.00% 296
North of England -43 76 £54,793 -8.68% 268
North West -43 64 £54,793 -8.68% 139
East of England +83 59 £62,500 +25.00% 152
Midlands +10 44 £60,000 +14.29% 199
South West +77 33 £57,500 +4.55% 152
West Midlands +35 22 £60,000 +9.09% 102
East Midlands +19 22 £60,000 +25.00% 87
Scotland +53 11 £60,000 +4.35% 68
Yorkshire +18 11 £45,000 -14.29% 95
Wales +10 3 £50,000 - 30
North East +40 1 - - 34
Northern Ireland +26 1 £85,000 - 13
Software Delivery
UK

Software Delivery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 12 (3.91%) Confluence
2 7 (2.28%) Apache Solr
2 7 (2.28%) nginx
3 2 (0.65%) BizTalk Server
3 2 (0.65%) CMS
4 1 (0.33%) IIS
4 1 (0.33%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.33%) Tomcat
Applications
1 44 (14.33%) Microsoft Office
2 40 (13.03%) Simulink
3 3 (0.98%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.65%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.33%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (1.63%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.33%) Magento
2 1 (0.33%) Sage 200
2 1 (0.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 44 (14.33%) AWS
2 26 (8.47%) Azure
3 21 (6.84%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
4 20 (6.51%) SaaS
5 15 (4.89%) GCP
6 9 (2.93%) Amazon S3
7 8 (2.61%) Amazon EC2
7 8 (2.61%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (2.61%) Google Workspace
8 7 (2.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 7 (2.28%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 6 (1.95%) Serverless
10 5 (1.63%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (1.30%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (1.30%) GitHub
12 3 (0.98%) Dynamics 365
12 3 (0.98%) Smartsheet
13 2 (0.65%) AWS Step Functions
13 2 (0.65%) Azure AKS
13 2 (0.65%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 87 (28.34%) Broadband
2 7 (2.28%) DNS
2 7 (2.28%) HTTPS
2 7 (2.28%) IPsec
2 7 (2.28%) SSL
2 7 (2.28%) TCP/IP
3 3 (0.98%) Firewall
4 2 (0.65%) FTP
5 1 (0.33%) LAN
5 1 (0.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (3.91%) Big Data
2 11 (3.58%) MongoDB
3 9 (2.93%) NoSQL
4 8 (2.61%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (2.28%) Couchbase
5 7 (2.28%) MySQL
6 5 (1.63%) SQL Server
7 2 (0.65%) DB2
7 2 (0.65%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.33%) Power BI
8 1 (0.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 80 (26.06%) JIRA
2 9 (2.93%) GitLab
3 6 (1.95%) Git
4 2 (0.65%) Cypress.io
4 2 (0.65%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.65%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.33%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.33%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.33%) JMeter
5 1 (0.33%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.33%) Postman
5 1 (0.33%) Selenium
5 1 (0.33%) TeamCity
General
1 122 (39.74%) Social Skills
2 46 (14.98%) Finance
3 41 (13.36%) Aerospace
4 32 (10.42%) Law
5 23 (7.49%) Marketing
6 22 (7.17%) Games
7 17 (5.54%) Analytical Skills
8 14 (4.56%) Banking
9 8 (2.61%) Local Government
9 8 (2.61%) Public Sector
10 4 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (0.98%) Legal
11 3 (0.98%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.65%) Retail
13 1 (0.33%) Aviation
13 1 (0.33%) Health Technology
13 1 (0.33%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.33%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.33%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 81 (26.38%) Senior
2 65 (21.17%) Embedded Engineer
2 65 (21.17%) Release Engineer
3 56 (18.24%) Lead
4 40 (13.03%) Lead Systems Engineer
4 40 (13.03%) Senior Systems Engineer
4 40 (13.03%) Systems Engineer
4 40 (13.03%) Team Leader
5 28 (9.12%) Engineering Manager
5 28 (9.12%) Project Manager
6 27 (8.79%) Software Engineer
7 26 (8.47%) Architect
8 25 (8.14%) Senior Manager
9 23 (7.49%) Enterprise Architect
9 23 (7.49%) Senior Service Manager
10 22 (7.17%) ServiceNow Manager
11 21 (6.84%) Salesforce Architect
12 19 (6.19%) Development Manager
12 19 (6.19%) DevOps Engineer
13 16 (5.21%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (28.34%) Middleware
2 24 (7.82%) REST
3 21 (6.84%) Lightning Web Components
3 21 (6.84%) SOAP
4 14 (4.56%) React
5 10 (3.26%) gRPC
5 10 (3.26%) Kafka
6 9 (2.93%) .NET
7 8 (2.61%) Spring
8 7 (2.28%) Android Jetpack
8 7 (2.28%) Jetpack Compose
8 7 (2.28%) OAuth
8 7 (2.28%) RabbitMQ
8 7 (2.28%) SwiftUI
8 7 (2.28%) UIKit
9 6 (1.95%) Node.js
10 4 (1.30%) AngularJS
11 3 (0.98%) .NET Core
11 3 (0.98%) RESTful
12 2 (0.65%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 65 (21.17%) Embedded Systems
2 39 (12.70%) Product Ownership
3 24 (7.82%) Enterprise Software
4 22 (7.17%) Management Information System
4 22 (7.17%) Video\Live Streaming
5 13 (4.23%) Virtual Team
6 12 (3.91%) Public Cloud
7 10 (3.26%) Data Structures
7 10 (3.26%) Distributed Systems
7 10 (3.26%) Reference Data
7 10 (3.26%) Replication
8 9 (2.93%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.30%) Driving Licence
10 2 (0.65%) AS400
10 2 (0.65%) Cloud Native
10 2 (0.65%) iSeries
10 2 (0.65%) Private Cloud
11 1 (0.33%) Credit Risk
11 1 (0.33%) Data Protection Act
11 1 (0.33%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.28%) Android
1 7 (2.28%) Apple iOS
2 2 (0.65%) Linux
2 2 (0.65%) Windows
2 2 (0.65%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 195 (63.52%) Agile
2 129 (42.02%) CI/CD
3 104 (33.88%) Roadmaps
4 78 (25.41%) Software Engineering
5 70 (22.80%) Strategic Thinking
6 67 (21.82%) DevOps
7 66 (21.50%) Artificial Intelligence
7 66 (21.50%) Continuous Deployment
8 65 (21.17%) Release Automation
8 65 (21.17%) Technical Leadership
9 64 (20.85%) Project Management
10 54 (17.59%) Coaching
10 54 (17.59%) Microservices
11 52 (16.94%) Stakeholder Management
12 47 (15.31%) Continuous Improvement
13 45 (14.66%) Computer Science
14 43 (14.01%) Change Management
15 41 (13.36%) Systems Engineering
16 40 (13.03%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
16 40 (13.03%) Safety Engineering
Programming Languages
1 42 (13.68%) Java
2 21 (6.84%) Apex Code
3 20 (6.51%) JavaScript
4 15 (4.89%) C#
5 11 (3.58%) SQL
6 10 (3.26%) Python
7 9 (2.93%) Kotlin
7 9 (2.93%) TypeScript
8 8 (2.61%) PHP
9 7 (2.28%) Swift
10 5 (1.63%) Bash
11 4 (1.30%) Go
12 2 (0.65%) RPG
12 2 (0.65%) RPG IV
13 1 (0.33%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.33%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 47 (15.31%) Degree
2 43 (14.01%) Computer Science Degree
3 40 (13.03%) BPSS Clearance
4 21 (6.84%) Master's Degree
5 13 (4.23%) Security Cleared
6 9 (2.93%) SC Cleared
7 7 (2.28%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.98%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.98%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 1 (0.33%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.33%) CBAP
9 1 (0.33%) CCNA
9 1 (0.33%) CCNP
9 1 (0.33%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.33%) ISEB
9 1 (0.33%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (6.84%) Data Quality
2 15 (4.89%) QA
3 3 (0.98%) PMO
4 1 (0.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 22 (7.17%) Docker
2 3 (0.98%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.65%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 40 (13.03%) Kubernetes
2 35 (11.40%) Terraform
3 13 (4.23%) Ansible
4 4 (1.30%) Argo
5 2 (0.65%) Grafana
6 1 (0.33%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.33%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.33%) Puppet
6 1 (0.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 58 (18.89%) Microsoft
2 40 (13.03%) MathWorks
3 30 (9.77%) Salesforce
4 24 (7.82%) ServiceNow
5 21 (6.84%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 12 (3.91%) Google
7 8 (2.61%) Cisco
8 7 (2.28%) VMware
9 2 (0.65%) IBM
9 2 (0.65%) Pega
10 1 (0.33%) Adobe
10 1 (0.33%) Atlassian
10 1 (0.33%) Citrix
10 1 (0.33%) Guidewire
10 1 (0.33%) HP
10 1 (0.33%) New Relic
10 1 (0.33%) Palo Alto
10 1 (0.33%) SAP
10 1 (0.33%) Sparx
10 1 (0.33%) Splunk