Continuous Deployment Job Trends

Continuous Deployment
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Continuous Deployment skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 597 455 513
Rank change year-on-year -142 +58 +18
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Deployment 56 318 213
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.10% 0.47% 0.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.56% 0.44%
Number of salaries quoted 31 143 163
10th Percentile £60,000 £49,437 £42,500
25th Percentile £66,250 £58,938 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £62,968
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +7.20% -9.33%
75th Percentile £76,250 £91,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £108,500 £97,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,500 £66,482 £58,000
% change year-on-year +6.04% +14.62% -10.77%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Continuous Deployment 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 45,560 57,007 47,921
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.92% 84.85% 93.78%
Number of salaries quoted 27,788 29,760 36,892
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £54,439 £52,500
% change year-on-year -12.75% +3.69% -0.19%

Continuous Deployment
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Continuous Deployment job vacancy trend in the UK

Continuous Deployment
Salary Trend

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Continuous Deployment

Continuous Deployment
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Continuous Deployment over the 6 months to 26 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Continuous Deployment in the UK

Continuous Deployment
Top 11 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Continuous Deployment within the UK over the 6 months to 26 November 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 -117 50 £75,000 +11.11% 40
London +4 32 £75,000 -16.67% 15
Work from Home -33 23 £70,000 +6.93% 26
UK excluding London -104 19 £70,500 +6.04% 34
South East -33 10 £70,000 +1.82% 15
North of England -9 4 £75,000 +14.57% 10
West Midlands +34 3 £71,000 +8.46% 2
North West +29 3 £75,000 +14.57% 9
Midlands +23 3 £71,000 +8.46% 2
Wales +2 2 £41,000 -22.04% 4
Yorkshire -16 1 - - 1

Continuous Deployment
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 8 (14.29%) IIS
2 6 (10.71%) Confluence
3 4 (7.14%) nginx
3 4 (7.14%) Tomcat
4 2 (3.57%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 2 (3.57%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 26 (46.43%) AWS
2 21 (37.50%) Azure
2 21 (37.50%) GCP
3 17 (30.36%) SaaS
4 14 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
5 8 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (14.29%) Azure Monitor
6 6 (10.71%) GitHub
7 5 (8.93%) Azure Service Bus
7 5 (8.93%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (7.14%) Azure AKS
8 4 (7.14%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 4 (7.14%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (7.14%) Azure Pipelines
8 4 (7.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 4 (7.14%) Cloudflare
8 4 (7.14%) OpenShift
9 2 (3.57%) Power Platform
9 2 (3.57%) PowerApps
9 2 (3.57%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.14%) DNS
1 4 (7.14%) Firewall
2 1 (1.79%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (14.29%) SQL Server
2 4 (7.14%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (3.57%) BigQuery
3 2 (3.57%) Looker
3 2 (3.57%) NoSQL
3 2 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.79%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (1.79%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.79%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.79%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 14 (25.00%) Git
1 14 (25.00%) TeamCity
2 11 (19.64%) Jenkins
3 8 (14.29%) GitLab
4 7 (12.50%) JIRA
5 6 (10.71%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 6 (10.71%) Selenium
6 5 (8.93%) Bitbucket
7 4 (7.14%) Cypress.io
7 4 (7.14%) Octopus Deploy
8 3 (5.36%) Appium
8 3 (5.36%) SonarQube
9 2 (3.57%) SpecFlow
9 2 (3.57%) WebDriver
10 1 (1.79%) Cucumber
10 1 (1.79%) JMeter
10 1 (1.79%) JUnit
10 1 (1.79%) LoadRunner
10 1 (1.79%) Subversion
10 1 (1.79%) TestNG
General
1 21 (37.50%) Finance
2 17 (30.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 17 (30.36%) Law
3 14 (25.00%) Back Office
3 14 (25.00%) Banking
3 14 (25.00%) Financial Institution
3 14 (25.00%) Retail
4 9 (16.07%) Social Skills
5 3 (5.36%) Health Technology
5 3 (5.36%) Legal
6 1 (1.79%) Advertising
6 1 (1.79%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (32.14%) Software Engineer
2 11 (19.64%) Lead
3 8 (14.29%) Senior
4 7 (12.50%) Developer
4 7 (12.50%) Java Engineer
4 7 (12.50%) Java Software Engineer
4 7 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
4 7 (12.50%) Senior Software Engineer
5 5 (8.93%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (7.14%) Analyst
6 4 (7.14%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 4 (7.14%) Azure Engineer
6 4 (7.14%) Infrastructure Analyst
6 4 (7.14%) Test Automation Engineer
6 4 (7.14%) Test Engineer
7 3 (5.36%) Integration Engineer
7 3 (5.36%) Lead Developer
7 3 (5.36%) Lead Software Engineer
7 3 (5.36%) QA Engineer
7 3 (5.36%) Software Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (17.86%) .NET
2 6 (10.71%) Loki
3 5 (8.93%) Kafka
3 5 (8.93%) RabbitMQ
4 4 (7.14%) ARM Templates
4 4 (7.14%) Middleware
4 4 (7.14%) RESTful
5 3 (5.36%) Playwright
6 2 (3.57%) Node.js
6 2 (3.57%) React
6 2 (3.57%) REST
6 2 (3.57%) Web Services
7 1 (1.79%) .NET Core
7 1 (1.79%) AWS CDK
7 1 (1.79%) Laravel
7 1 (1.79%) React Native
7 1 (1.79%) Symfony
7 1 (1.79%) Vue
7 1 (1.79%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 15 (26.79%) Cloud Native
2 6 (10.71%) Product Ownership
3 4 (7.14%) Distributed Architecture
4 3 (5.36%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.79%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 15 (26.79%) Windows
2 11 (19.64%) Linux
3 8 (14.29%) Windows Server
4 4 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (7.14%) Windows Server 2012
4 4 (7.14%) Windows Server 2016
4 4 (7.14%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (1.79%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (82.14%) CI/CD
2 31 (55.36%) DevOps
3 30 (53.57%) Test Automation
4 29 (51.79%) Continuous Integration
5 26 (46.43%) Microservices
6 23 (41.07%) Agile
7 22 (39.29%) Deployment Automation
8 19 (33.93%) Software Engineering
9 18 (32.14%) Infrastructure as Code
10 17 (30.36%) Clean Code
11 15 (26.79%) Mentoring
12 11 (19.64%) Platform Engineering
13 9 (16.07%) Continuous Improvement
13 9 (16.07%) Scrum
14 8 (14.29%) Performance Monitoring
15 7 (12.50%) Configuration Management
15 7 (12.50%) Infrastructure Automation
15 7 (12.50%) SDLC
15 7 (12.50%) Task Automation
16 6 (10.71%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (35.71%) Java
2 17 (30.36%) Python
3 11 (19.64%) C#
4 9 (16.07%) PowerShell
4 9 (16.07%) SQL
5 6 (10.71%) Bash
5 6 (10.71%) JavaScript
6 5 (8.93%) Go
6 5 (8.93%) TypeScript
7 4 (7.14%) Bicep
7 4 (7.14%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.79%) PHP
8 1 (1.79%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (8.93%) Computer Science Degree
1 5 (8.93%) Degree
1 5 (8.93%) Security Cleared
2 4 (7.14%) Azure Certification
2 4 (7.14%) Master's Degree
3 3 (5.36%) SC Cleared
4 2 (3.57%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (3.57%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.79%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (17.86%) QA
System Software
1 15 (26.79%) Docker
2 4 (7.14%) Active Directory
2 4 (7.14%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (5.36%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 31 (55.36%) Kubernetes
2 26 (46.43%) Grafana
3 23 (41.07%) Terraform
4 8 (14.29%) Ansible
4 8 (14.29%) Prometheus
5 5 (8.93%) Progress Chef
6 4 (7.14%) Puppet
7 3 (5.36%) Docker Swarm
7 3 (5.36%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 7 (12.50%) VMware
2 6 (10.71%) Microsoft
3 5 (8.93%) Atlassian
3 5 (8.93%) Google
3 5 (8.93%) Oracle
4 4 (7.14%) Red Hat
4 4 (7.14%) SolarWinds
5 2 (3.57%) Hitachi
6 1 (1.79%) CA Agile Central
6 1 (1.79%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.79%) Splunk