Continuous Delivery Job Trends

Continuous Delivery
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Continuous Delivery skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 427 236 274
Rank change year-on-year -191 +38 -75
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Delivery 283 580 891
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.38% 1.35% 1.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 1.44% 1.21%
Number of salaries quoted 120 164 487
10th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £44,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £53,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,151 £69,384 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.43% -0.88% -9.68%
75th Percentile £86,250 £85,000 £91,934
90th Percentile £108,250 £113,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,542 £69,308 £65,000
% change year-on-year +1.78% +6.63% -6.40%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Continuous 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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 58,145 40,321 73,905
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 77.92% 93.51% 87.23%
Number of salaries quoted 35,200 22,427 56,120
10th Percentile £29,750 £31,925 £29,000
25th Percentile £39,911 £44,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.78%
75th Percentile £76,299 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%

Continuous Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Continuous Delivery job vacancy trend in the UK

Continuous Delivery
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Continuous Delivery.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Continuous Delivery

Continuous Delivery
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Continuous Delivery over the 6 months to 16 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Continuous Delivery in the UK

Continuous Delivery
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Continuous Delivery within the UK over the 6 months to 16 March 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
England -203 219 £75,588 +8.94% 78
UK excluding London -162 171 £70,542 +1.78% 101
Work from Home -118 156 £74,254 +7.14% 82
London -105 86 £90,000 +13.76% 22
South East -85 55 £80,000 +23.08% 14
North of England -58 50 £60,000 -13.43% 28
Scotland -20 39 £70,079 +1.11% 29
Yorkshire -51 18 £70,932 -26.30% 7
North West -28 17 £70,039 +16.73% 14
North East -20 15 £47,500 -31.47% 7
Midlands -36 12 £70,932 -5.42% 9
West Midlands -23 10 £70,932 -5.42% 6
East of England -46 5 £66,250 +6.00% 2
Wales -22 4 £70,079 +48.14% 9
South West -42 4 £72,500 - 11
Northern Ireland -31 2 £73,801 +6.48% 2
East Midlands -36 2 £73,250 -8.44% 3

Continuous Delivery
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 3 (1.06%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (0.71%) Apache Spark
2 2 (0.71%) Confluence
3 1 (0.35%) Apache
3 1 (0.35%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (0.35%) IIS
3 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (0.35%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 35 (12.37%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (3.18%) SAP ERP
3 2 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.35%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.35%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 137 (48.41%) AWS
2 83 (29.33%) GCP
3 74 (26.15%) Azure
4 65 (22.97%) Azure DevOps
5 38 (13.43%) GitHub
6 35 (12.37%) Serverless
7 33 (11.66%) Datadog
8 29 (10.25%) GitHub Actions
9 28 (9.89%) AWS CloudFormation
10 24 (8.48%) PaaS
11 22 (7.77%) Amazon S3
11 22 (7.77%) AWS Lambda
12 19 (6.71%) SaaS
13 16 (5.65%) Amazon EC2
13 16 (5.65%) Cloud Computing
13 16 (5.65%) dbt
14 14 (4.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 8 (2.83%) Amazon ECS
15 8 (2.83%) Amazon SQS
16 6 (2.12%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 77 (27.21%) Broadband
2 23 (8.13%) TCP/IP
3 21 (7.42%) DNS
3 21 (7.42%) Firewall
4 19 (6.71%) HTTP
5 3 (1.06%) VPN
6 2 (0.71%) DSL
6 2 (0.71%) SSL
7 1 (0.35%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (10.95%) NoSQL
2 21 (7.42%) DynamoDB
3 16 (5.65%) Amazon RDS
4 13 (4.59%) SQL Server
5 11 (3.89%) Redis
6 10 (3.53%) Metadata
6 10 (3.53%) PostgreSQL
7 8 (2.83%) Relational Database
8 6 (2.12%) MySQL
9 5 (1.77%) Couchbase
9 5 (1.77%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (1.06%) Amazon Aurora
10 3 (1.06%) MariaDB
11 1 (0.35%) Amazon QuickSight
11 1 (0.35%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (0.35%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.35%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.35%) Power BI
11 1 (0.35%) Power Query
11 1 (0.35%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 82 (28.98%) Jenkins
2 64 (22.61%) GitLab
3 41 (14.49%) SonarQube
4 40 (14.13%) JIRA
5 35 (12.37%) eCATT
6 27 (9.54%) NeoLoad
7 19 (6.71%) CircleCI
8 15 (5.30%) Git
9 13 (4.59%) JMeter
10 12 (4.24%) Cucumber
11 11 (3.89%) Locust
12 6 (2.12%) Selenium
13 5 (1.77%) NUnit
14 4 (1.41%) Cypress.io
15 3 (1.06%) Postman
15 3 (1.06%) SpecFlow
16 2 (0.71%) MSTest
16 2 (0.71%) Octopus Deploy
16 2 (0.71%) Subversion
16 2 (0.71%) TestNG
General
1 75 (26.50%) Marketing
2 65 (22.97%) Finance
3 63 (22.26%) Social Skills
4 53 (18.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 42 (14.84%) Games
6 36 (12.72%) Manufacturing
7 23 (8.13%) Analytical Skills
8 21 (7.42%) Law
9 20 (7.07%) Telecoms
10 19 (6.71%) Presentation Skills
11 16 (5.65%) Banking
12 13 (4.59%) Public Sector
13 11 (3.89%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (0.71%) Advertising
14 2 (0.71%) Automotive
14 2 (0.71%) Investment Banking
14 2 (0.71%) Pharmaceutical
15 1 (0.35%) Retail
Job Titles
1 75 (26.50%) Senior
2 55 (19.43%) Architect
3 50 (17.67%) Lead
4 38 (13.43%) Salesforce Architect
5 37 (13.07%) Test Leader
6 34 (12.01%) DevOps Engineer
7 33 (11.66%) Developer
8 25 (8.83%) Scala Engineer
9 23 (8.13%) Technical Architect
10 21 (7.42%) Software Engineer
11 20 (7.07%) Salesforce Technical Architect
12 17 (6.01%) Senior Developer
13 16 (5.65%) Automation Test Lead
14 15 (5.30%) Product Manager
15 14 (4.95%) Solutions Architect
16 13 (4.59%) Scala Developer
17 12 (4.24%) Salesforce Solution Architect
17 12 (4.24%) Scala Software Engineer
17 12 (4.24%) Senior Architect
18 10 (3.53%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (16.96%) gRPC
1 48 (16.96%) REST
2 41 (14.49%) SOAP
3 40 (14.13%) Lightning Web Components
3 40 (14.13%) Visualforce
4 26 (9.19%) Elastic Stack
5 25 (8.83%) Kafka
6 17 (6.01%) RESTful
7 14 (4.95%) .NET
8 13 (4.59%) Node.js
9 12 (4.24%) RabbitMQ
10 11 (3.89%) Gherkin
10 11 (3.89%) React
10 11 (3.89%) web3js
11 9 (3.18%) .NET Core
11 9 (3.18%) CSS
11 9 (3.18%) HTML
12 7 (2.47%) Playwright
12 7 (2.47%) Spring
13 5 (1.77%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 60 (21.20%) Product Ownership
2 48 (16.96%) Distributed Systems
3 37 (13.07%) Video\Live Streaming
4 36 (12.72%) Over-the-Top Content
5 24 (8.48%) Cloud Native
6 11 (3.89%) Blockchain
6 11 (3.89%) Web3
7 10 (3.53%) Public Cloud
8 6 (2.12%) Virtual Team
9 5 (1.77%) Data Structures
9 5 (1.77%) Linux Command Line
10 4 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (1.06%) Onboarding
11 3 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
12 2 (0.71%) Data Centre
12 2 (0.71%) PMI
13 1 (0.35%) Fixed Income
13 1 (0.35%) Hybrid Cloud
13 1 (0.35%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 18 (6.36%) Linux
2 8 (2.83%) Unix
3 3 (1.06%) Android
4 2 (0.71%) Windows
5 1 (0.35%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 199 (70.32%) CI/CD
2 161 (56.89%) DevOps
3 138 (48.76%) Agile
4 116 (40.99%) Containerisation
5 114 (40.28%) Continuous Integration
6 112 (39.58%) Roadmaps
7 84 (29.68%) Continuous Improvement
8 76 (26.86%) Problem-Solving
9 75 (26.50%) Infrastructure as Code
9 75 (26.50%) Microservices
10 70 (24.73%) Test Automation
11 69 (24.38%) Scrum
11 69 (24.38%) Software Engineering
12 61 (21.55%) Event-Driven
13 58 (20.49%) Static Code Analysis
14 54 (19.08%) Coaching
15 52 (18.37%) Product Roadmap
16 51 (18.02%) Mentoring
17 50 (17.67%) Design Patterns
18 47 (16.61%) OO
Programming Languages
1 94 (33.22%) Python
2 76 (26.86%) Go
3 43 (15.19%) Scala
4 40 (14.13%) Apex Code
4 40 (14.13%) SOQL
4 40 (14.13%) SOSL
5 36 (12.72%) Java
6 34 (12.01%) Bash
7 18 (6.36%) SQL
7 18 (6.36%) TypeScript
8 17 (6.01%) C#
9 10 (3.53%) JavaScript
10 8 (2.83%) Kotlin
11 5 (1.77%) PHP
11 5 (1.77%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.35%) Bicep
12 1 (0.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.35%) Ruby
12 1 (0.35%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.35%) X++
Qualifications
1 23 (8.13%) Security Cleared
2 19 (6.71%) SC Cleared
3 10 (3.53%) Degree
4 9 (3.18%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.47%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.06%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.71%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.71%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.35%) ISEB
8 1 (0.35%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.35%) MCSE
8 1 (0.35%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (11.66%) QA
2 16 (5.65%) Accessibility
3 12 (4.24%) WCAG
4 11 (3.89%) GDPR
5 8 (2.83%) GRC
5 8 (2.83%) PCI DSS
5 8 (2.83%) SOC 2
6 4 (1.41%) Data Quality
7 3 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 91 (32.16%) Docker
2 2 (0.71%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 74 (26.15%) Terraform
2 47 (16.61%) Grafana
2 47 (16.61%) Kubernetes
3 40 (14.13%) Prometheus
4 39 (13.78%) Ansible
5 35 (12.37%) HP ALM
6 5 (1.77%) AWS Copilot
7 4 (1.41%) Argo
8 3 (1.06%) Puppet
9 2 (0.71%) Istio
9 2 (0.71%) Packer
9 2 (0.71%) Rancher
9 2 (0.71%) yum
10 1 (0.35%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 44 (15.55%) SAP
2 42 (14.84%) Salesforce
3 40 (14.13%) Splunk
4 36 (12.72%) Typelevel
5 35 (12.37%) HP
6 17 (6.01%) Microsoft
7 14 (4.95%) Google
8 2 (0.71%) CA Agile Central
8 2 (0.71%) ServiceNow
8 2 (0.71%) VMware
9 1 (0.35%) Charles River
9 1 (0.35%) CrowdStrike
9 1 (0.35%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.35%) Murex
9 1 (0.35%) OneLogin
9 1 (0.35%) Oracle
9 1 (0.35%) Pega
9 1 (0.35%) Tenable
9 1 (0.35%) TIBCO
9 1 (0.35%) YouTube