Black Duck Job Trends

Black Duck
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 7 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
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 621 - 717
Rank change year-on-year - - +295
Permanent jobs citing Black Duck 21 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.035% - 0.002%
As % of the Vendors category 0.11% - 0.005%
Number of salaries quoted 20 0 0
10th Percentile £38,450 - -
25th Percentile £45,000 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,750 - -
75th Percentile £97,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median annual salary £77,750 - -

All Vendors
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 19,092 20,084 21,339
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 31.96% 37.00% 39.71%
Number of salaries quoted 10,813 10,285 16,269
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,500 £28,790
25th Percentile £33,500 £41,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,860 £57,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.77% +3.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £73,750 £76,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £91,934
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,750 £50,000 £49,000
% change year-on-year -14.50% +2.04% -2.00%

Black Duck
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Black Duck job vacancy trend in the UK

Black Duck
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Black Duck.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Black Duck

Black Duck
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Black Duck over the 6 months to 7 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Black Duck in the UK

Black Duck
Top 3 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Black Duck within the UK over the 6 months to 7 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 - 21 £77,750 - 1
England - 21 £77,750 - 3
UK excluding London - 21 £77,750 - 2

Black Duck
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 6 (28.57%) Apache Airflow
1 6 (28.57%) Appian
2 5 (23.81%) Apache
3 1 (4.76%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 21 (100.00%) Azure
1 21 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
2 19 (90.48%) AWS
3 6 (28.57%) Amazon S3
3 6 (28.57%) MinIO
3 6 (28.57%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 12 (57.14%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (23.81%) Airbyte
Development Applications
1 21 (100.00%) Robot Framework
1 21 (100.00%) Selenium
1 21 (100.00%) Snyk
2 15 (71.43%) Git
General
1 14 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 13 (61.90%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (42.86%) Lead
2 7 (33.33%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 6 (28.57%) Applications Architect
3 6 (28.57%) Architect
4 2 (9.52%) Lead DevOps
5 1 (4.76%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Junior
5 1 (4.76%) Junior DevOps
5 1 (4.76%) Junior DevOps Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Lead DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (28.57%) Apache NiFi
1 6 (28.57%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 8 (38.10%) Product Ownership
2 6 (28.57%) Cloud Native
2 6 (28.57%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 12 (57.14%) Linux
1 12 (57.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 21 (100.00%) DevOps
1 21 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 21 (100.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
1 21 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 21 (100.00%) Interactive Application Security Testing
1 21 (100.00%) Secrets Management
1 21 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 20 (95.24%) Test Management
3 18 (85.71%) Agile
4 15 (71.43%) Scrum
5 13 (61.90%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (61.90%) Technical Leadership
6 12 (57.14%) Build Automation
6 12 (57.14%) Roadmaps
7 8 (38.10%) Mentoring
8 7 (33.33%) Dependency Management
9 6 (28.57%) Data Integration
9 6 (28.57%) Data Pipeline
9 6 (28.57%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 6 (28.57%) Python
Qualifications
1 20 (95.24%) Security Cleared
2 17 (80.95%) DV Cleared
3 6 (28.57%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 1 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 21 (100.00%) Ansible
1 21 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 20 (95.24%) Coverity
2 6 (28.57%) BiZZdesign
2 6 (28.57%) UiPath
2 6 (28.57%) VMware
3 5 (23.81%) Blue Prism