Continuous Delivery Jobs

Continuous Delivery
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Continuous Delivery skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Continuous Delivery over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 419 278 192
Rank change year-on-year -141 -86 -11
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Delivery 308 1,059 1,892
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.56% 1.03% 1.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.59% 1.22% 2.04%
Number of salaries quoted 129 455 736
10th Percentile £47,500 £47,513 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% -6.67% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £91,934 £92,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £100,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £68,505 £65,000 £69,447
% change year-on-year +5.39% -6.40% +6.84%

All Process and 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 51,902 86,889 92,846
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.67% 84.13% 95.56%
Number of salaries quoted 25,611 60,763 54,796
10th Percentile £28,822 £29,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,443 £55,000 £60,899
Median % change year-on-year +4.44% -9.69% +1.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,574 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.15% -9.09% +4.76%

Continuous Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Continuous Delivery as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Delivery in the UK

Continuous Delivery
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Continuous Delivery.

Salary trend for Continuous Delivery in the UK

Continuous Delivery
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Continuous Delivery over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Continuous Delivery in the UK

Continuous Delivery
Top 16 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 30 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
England -4 263 £65,000 -10.34% 707
London +110 158 £64,000 -24.71% 93
UK excluding London -185 145 £68,505 +5.39% 706
Work from Home 0 140 £65,000 -7.14% 569
North of England -4 43 £70,000 +12.00% 155
Scotland -74 41 - - 35
Midlands +28 28 £60,000 -7.69% 127
West Midlands +3 27 £60,000 -7.69% 71
South East +64 22 £62,500 -21.88% 201
Yorkshire +62 20 £127,680 +143.20% 62
North West -45 18 £68,505 +8.98% 74
South West +52 8 £85,253 +17.59% 88
North East +43 5 £69,384 +23.35% 19
East of England +28 3 £55,000 -4.35% 103
East Midlands +43 1 £80,000 -23.81% 48
Wales +43 1 £67,626 +30.06% 17

Continuous Delivery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 8 (2.60%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (1.95%) Apache Spark
3 5 (1.62%) Confluence
4 3 (0.97%) CMS
4 3 (0.97%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.65%) Cloud Foundry
5 2 (0.65%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.65%) WebSphere
5 2 (0.65%) WebSphere Application Server
6 1 (0.32%) CICS
6 1 (0.32%) nginx
Applications
1 6 (1.95%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (3.90%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.65%) Cloudability
2 2 (0.65%) Salesforce CRM
2 2 (0.65%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 153 (49.68%) AWS
2 104 (33.77%) Azure
3 67 (21.75%) GCP
4 36 (11.69%) Serverless
5 30 (9.74%) AWS Lambda
6 29 (9.42%) AWS CloudFormation
6 29 (9.42%) SaaS
7 26 (8.44%) Azure DevOps
7 26 (8.44%) PaaS
8 22 (7.14%) Cloud Computing
9 21 (6.82%) Power Platform
10 19 (6.17%) Amazon ECS
10 19 (6.17%) Amazon S3
11 18 (5.84%) GitHub
12 13 (4.22%) Dynamics 365
13 12 (3.90%) Amazon ElastiCache
14 11 (3.57%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 11 (3.57%) AWS CodeBuild
14 11 (3.57%) dbt
14 11 (3.57%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 18 (5.84%) TCP/IP
2 8 (2.60%) HTTP
3 7 (2.27%) Software-Defined Networking
4 6 (1.95%) Firewall
5 5 (1.62%) LAN
5 5 (1.62%) WAN
6 4 (1.30%) BGP
6 4 (1.30%) Cisco IOS
6 4 (1.30%) NX-OS
6 4 (1.30%) OSPF
6 4 (1.30%) VXLAN
7 3 (0.97%) FTP
7 3 (0.97%) Internet
8 2 (0.65%) FCoE
8 2 (0.65%) Fibre Channel
8 2 (0.65%) iSCSI
8 2 (0.65%) NAS
8 2 (0.65%) SAN
8 2 (0.65%) SSL
8 2 (0.65%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (9.74%) Elasticsearch
2 28 (9.09%) NoSQL
3 25 (8.12%) DynamoDB
4 19 (6.17%) Amazon RDS
5 18 (5.84%) PostgreSQL
6 14 (4.55%) Power BI
7 11 (3.57%) Redis
8 8 (2.60%) Tableau
9 7 (2.27%) Amazon Redshift
9 7 (2.27%) Data Warehouse
9 7 (2.27%) SQL Server
10 6 (1.95%) Amazon Athena
10 6 (1.95%) Hadoop
11 5 (1.62%) Apache Hive
11 5 (1.62%) Big Data
11 5 (1.62%) BigQuery
11 5 (1.62%) Data Lake
11 5 (1.62%) Relational Database
11 5 (1.62%) Sqoop
12 4 (1.30%) KDB
Development Applications
1 49 (15.91%) Git
2 41 (13.31%) Jenkins
3 16 (5.19%) CircleCI
4 15 (4.87%) JIRA
5 13 (4.22%) GitLab
6 12 (3.90%) JUnit
7 9 (2.92%) Cucumber
7 9 (2.92%) NUnit
8 6 (1.95%) SonarQube
9 5 (1.62%) Appium
9 5 (1.62%) Selenium
10 4 (1.30%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 4 (1.30%) Cypress.io
10 4 (1.30%) Mocha
10 4 (1.30%) Vite
11 3 (0.97%) Bitbucket
12 2 (0.65%) Sonatype Nexus
12 2 (0.65%) Spinnaker
13 1 (0.32%) Postman
13 1 (0.32%) TestRail
General
1 93 (30.19%) Finance
2 90 (29.22%) Social Skills
3 82 (26.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 72 (23.38%) Law
5 64 (20.78%) Banking
6 50 (16.23%) Analytical Skills
7 26 (8.44%) Marketing
8 24 (7.79%) Publishing
9 16 (5.19%) Health Technology
10 15 (4.87%) Tech for Good
10 15 (4.87%) Telecoms
11 11 (3.57%) Investment Banking
11 11 (3.57%) Public Sector
12 8 (2.60%) Games
13 5 (1.62%) Financial Institution
13 5 (1.62%) Legal
14 4 (1.30%) Front Office
14 4 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
15 3 (0.97%) iGaming
15 3 (0.97%) Retail
Job Titles
1 84 (27.27%) Senior
2 67 (21.75%) Developer
3 60 (19.48%) Software Engineer
4 57 (18.51%) Lead
5 35 (11.36%) Analyst
6 33 (10.71%) Lead Software Engineer
7 32 (10.39%) Senior Developer
8 29 (9.42%) Architect
9 26 (8.44%) Java Engineer
10 24 (7.79%) Java Software Engineer
11 16 (5.19%) Cloud Engineer
12 15 (4.87%) DevOps Engineer
12 15 (4.87%) React Developer
12 15 (4.87%) Senior Cloud Engineer
13 14 (4.55%) Site Engineer
13 14 (4.55%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 14 (4.55%) Software Developer
14 13 (4.22%) C# Developer
14 13 (4.22%) Solutions Architect
15 12 (3.90%) Software Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (17.21%) React
2 43 (13.96%) RESTful
3 38 (12.34%) Kafka
4 35 (11.36%) Node.js
5 33 (10.71%) .NET
6 32 (10.39%) Spring
7 22 (7.14%) REST
8 20 (6.49%) Swagger
9 18 (5.84%) Jest
10 14 (4.55%) .NET Core
10 14 (4.55%) Middleware
10 14 (4.55%) RabbitMQ
11 13 (4.22%) Django
12 10 (3.25%) .NET Framework
12 10 (3.25%) CSS
13 9 (2.92%) ARM Templates
14 8 (2.60%) gRPC
14 8 (2.60%) Web Services
14 8 (2.60%) web3js
15 7 (2.27%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 61 (19.81%) Cloud Native
2 32 (10.39%) Public Cloud
3 29 (9.42%) Management Information System
4 16 (5.19%) Distributed Systems
5 15 (4.87%) Product Ownership
6 14 (4.55%) Mobile App
7 11 (3.57%) Private Cloud
8 10 (3.25%) Greenfield Project
9 9 (2.92%) Blockchain
9 9 (2.92%) Data Centre
10 8 (2.60%) Algorithms
10 8 (2.60%) Data Structures
10 8 (2.60%) Onboarding
10 8 (2.60%) Web3
11 7 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
11 7 (2.27%) Virtual Team
12 6 (1.95%) Derivative
12 6 (1.95%) Equities
13 5 (1.62%) CMDB
13 5 (1.62%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 42 (13.64%) Linux
2 22 (7.14%) Windows
3 17 (5.52%) Unix
4 11 (3.57%) Android
5 9 (2.92%) Apple iOS
6 7 (2.27%) zOS
7 4 (1.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (1.30%) Solaris
8 2 (0.65%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.32%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 229 (74.35%) CI/CD
2 199 (64.61%) Agile
3 169 (54.87%) DevOps
4 139 (45.13%) Continuous Integration
5 107 (34.74%) Software Engineering
6 83 (26.95%) Operational Stability
7 75 (24.35%) Microservices
7 75 (24.35%) Roadmaps
8 67 (21.75%) Containerisation
9 58 (18.83%) SDLC
10 51 (16.56%) Stakeholder Management
11 48 (15.58%) Continuous Improvement
11 48 (15.58%) Problem-Solving
12 46 (14.94%) Scrum
13 45 (14.61%) Infrastructure as Code
14 44 (14.29%) TDD
15 42 (13.64%) Analytics
16 41 (13.31%) Artificial Intelligence
17 38 (12.34%) Machine Learning
18 37 (12.01%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 99 (32.14%) Python
2 78 (25.32%) Java
3 42 (13.64%) TypeScript
4 37 (12.01%) JavaScript
5 33 (10.71%) SQL
6 26 (8.44%) C#
7 20 (6.49%) Go
8 8 (2.60%) Scala
9 7 (2.27%) Kotlin
10 5 (1.62%) C++
10 5 (1.62%) PowerShell
11 4 (1.30%) Bash
11 4 (1.30%) C
11 4 (1.30%) Swift
12 3 (0.97%) Lua
12 3 (0.97%) Ruby
13 2 (0.65%) Groovy
13 2 (0.65%) PHP
13 2 (0.65%) Rust
13 2 (0.65%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 29 (9.42%) Degree
2 26 (8.44%) Security Cleared
3 16 (5.19%) SC Cleared
4 9 (2.92%) AWS Certification
5 7 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (1.95%) Azure Certification
7 5 (1.62%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.62%) CSPO
8 2 (0.65%) CCNA
8 2 (0.65%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.65%) ISTQB
8 2 (0.65%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 2 (0.65%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 2 (0.65%) MCSE
8 2 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.32%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.32%) CISSP
9 1 (0.32%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.32%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.32%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (11.04%) QA
2 25 (8.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 11 (3.57%) Accessibility
4 6 (1.95%) NCSC
5 1 (0.32%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.32%) GDPR
5 1 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 73 (23.70%) Docker
2 5 (1.62%) Apache Flume
3 3 (0.97%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.65%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.65%) KVM
4 2 (0.65%) NFS
4 2 (0.65%) RACF
4 2 (0.65%) SRDF
4 2 (0.65%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 2 (0.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.65%) Xen
5 1 (0.32%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 106 (34.42%) Kubernetes
2 79 (25.65%) Terraform
3 36 (11.69%) Ansible
4 19 (6.17%) Prometheus
5 11 (3.57%) AWS Copilot
5 11 (3.57%) Grafana
6 7 (2.27%) Argo
7 5 (1.62%) Oozie
7 5 (1.62%) Puppet
8 4 (1.30%) Consul
8 4 (1.30%) Istio
9 3 (0.97%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.65%) Kustomize
10 2 (0.65%) Mesos
11 1 (0.32%) HP Quality Center
11 1 (0.32%) Packer
Vendors
1 24 (7.79%) Google
2 22 (7.14%) Microsoft
3 20 (6.49%) ServiceNow
4 18 (5.84%) Oracle
5 10 (3.25%) Cisco
6 8 (2.60%) Okta
7 7 (2.27%) Splunk
8 6 (1.95%) Databricks
8 6 (1.95%) Dynatrace
8 6 (1.95%) Salesforce
9 5 (1.62%) Avaloq
9 5 (1.62%) Cloudera
9 5 (1.62%) F5
9 5 (1.62%) VMware
10 4 (1.30%) Red Hat
11 3 (0.97%) Fortinet
11 3 (0.97%) MKS
11 3 (0.97%) MuleSoft
11 3 (0.97%) New Relic
11 3 (0.97%) SAP