Trunk-Based Development Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Trunk-Based Development
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Trunk-Based Development skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 504 - 571
Rank change year-on-year - - +193
Permanent jobs citing Trunk-Based Development 5 0 2
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.012% - 0.006%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.015% - 0.007%
Number of salaries quoted 5 0 2
10th Percentile - - £53,500
25th Percentile £60,000 - £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 - £67,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -12.90%
75th Percentile £65,000 - £76,250
90th Percentile £66,500 - £81,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £85,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -26.47% +25.93% -12.90%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Trunk-Based Development 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 33,283 31,985 30,588
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 78.49% 89.04% 88.64%
Number of salaries quoted 19,187 14,363 22,780
10th Percentile £27,750 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £33,500 £41,250 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +5.77% -5.45%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Trunk-Based Development
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Trunk-Based Development relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Trunk-Based Development job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Trunk-Based Development
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Trunk-Based Development.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Trunk-Based Development

Trunk-Based Development
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 Trunk-Based Development within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 14 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
Midlands - 3 £60,000 -
West Midlands - 3 £60,000 -
North of England - 1 £65,000 -
North West - 1 £65,000 -
South West - 1 £62,500 -
Trunk-Based Development
UK

Trunk-Based Development
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (20.00%) GitHub
1 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (20.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Git
1 4 (80.00%) git-flow
General
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Developer
1 3 (60.00%) DevOps Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Senior
2 2 (40.00%) Symfony Developer
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Operations Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) PHP Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Operations Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) jQuery
1 3 (60.00%) REST
1 3 (60.00%) Symfony
2 1 (20.00%) .NET
2 1 (20.00%) Node.js
2 1 (20.00%) React
2 1 (20.00%) Spring
2 1 (20.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Agile
1 4 (80.00%) DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (20.00%) Community of Practice
2 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (20.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (20.00%) GitOps
2 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (20.00%) Microservices
2 1 (20.00%) Observability
2 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) SQL
2 3 (60.00%) PHP
3 1 (20.00%) Bash
3 1 (20.00%) Java
3 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Ansible
1 1 (20.00%) Argo
1 1 (20.00%) Grafana
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (20.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform