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 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 607 489 530
Rank change year-on-year -118 +41 +54
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Deployment 123 163 367
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.38% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.41% 0.44%
Number of salaries quoted 45 92 258
10th Percentile £47,415 £57,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £48,289 £65,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £74,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.46% +14.62% -3.70%
75th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £75,772
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,528 £92,854
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £75,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.33% +25.00% -

All Process & 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 68,523 39,694 83,256
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.83% 93.27% 84.12%
Number of salaries quoted 44,541 20,818 60,168
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,750 £29,250
25th Percentile £40,875 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +6.36% -9.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £51,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +1.94% +3.00% -9.09%

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 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Continuous Deployment in the UK

Continuous Deployment
Top 13 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 May 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 -93 105 £65,000 -13.33% 23
Work from Home +45 80 £52,130 -21.02% 66
London -37 55 £100,000 +37.93% 12
UK excluding London -94 41 £65,000 -13.33% 14
South East -2 18 £85,000 +17.24% 2
North of England -45 16 £52,130 -41.20% 3
North West -17 8 £52,130 -41.20% 3
Yorkshire -51 6 £52,130 -44.92%
Wales -32 3 £52,585 -
South West -74 3 - - 7
Midlands -43 2 £65,000 -27.78%
West Midlands -45 2 £65,000 -27.78%
North East - 2 £52,130 -

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 1 (0.81%) Cloud Foundry
Cloud Services
1 86 (69.92%) AWS
2 62 (50.41%) Amazon EKS
3 56 (45.53%) GCP
4 41 (33.33%) SaaS
5 28 (22.76%) Azure
6 12 (9.76%) GitHub
7 10 (8.13%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (6.50%) AWS CloudFormation
8 8 (6.50%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (4.07%) OpenShift
10 4 (3.25%) Azure AKS
10 4 (3.25%) Serverless
10 4 (3.25%) Snowflake
11 3 (2.44%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (2.44%) Amazon S3
11 3 (2.44%) Datadog
11 3 (2.44%) PaaS
12 2 (1.63%) AWS Lambda
12 2 (1.63%) IaaS
13 1 (0.81%) Azure Logic Apps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (17.89%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (11.38%) MongoDB
2 14 (11.38%) NoSQL
3 11 (8.94%) MySQL
4 4 (3.25%) Redis
4 4 (3.25%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.81%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 55 (44.72%) TeamCity
2 15 (12.20%) Jenkins
3 13 (10.57%) GitLab
4 10 (8.13%) Git
5 6 (4.88%) Selenium
6 5 (4.07%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 5 (4.07%) Visual Studio
7 4 (3.25%) Cucumber
7 4 (3.25%) JIRA
7 4 (3.25%) SpecFlow
8 3 (2.44%) Cypress.io
8 3 (2.44%) JMeter
8 3 (2.44%) WebDriver
9 2 (1.63%) Appium
9 2 (1.63%) NUnit
9 2 (1.63%) Postman
9 2 (1.63%) REST Assured
9 2 (1.63%) Serenity BDD
9 2 (1.63%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.81%) CircleCI
General
1 58 (47.15%) Law
2 56 (45.53%) Banking
2 56 (45.53%) Retail
3 55 (44.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 46 (37.40%) Finance
5 37 (30.08%) Back Office
5 37 (30.08%) Financial Institution
6 15 (12.20%) Public Sector
7 9 (7.32%) Social Skills
8 8 (6.50%) Aerospace
9 3 (2.44%) Analytical Skills
9 3 (2.44%) Local Government
10 2 (1.63%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.81%) Marketing
11 1 (0.81%) Military
Job Titles
1 64 (52.03%) Software Engineer
2 29 (23.58%) Lead
3 28 (22.76%) Senior
4 26 (21.14%) Java Engineer
4 26 (21.14%) Java Software Engineer
5 19 (15.45%) DevOps Engineer
6 17 (13.82%) Lead Software Engineer
7 16 (13.01%) Senior Software Engineer
8 15 (12.20%) Developer
9 13 (10.57%) Software Developer
9 13 (10.57%) Software Team Leader
9 13 (10.57%) Team Leader
10 12 (9.76%) Customer Engineer
10 12 (9.76%) Customer Service Engineer
11 7 (5.69%) Integration Engineer
11 7 (5.69%) Lead Developer
11 7 (5.69%) Senior Integration Engineer
11 7 (5.69%) Senior Java Engineer
11 7 (5.69%) Senior Java Software Engineer
11 7 (5.69%) Software Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (15.45%) RESTful
2 8 (6.50%) React
3 7 (5.69%) Sass
4 6 (4.88%) REST
5 5 (4.07%) .NET
5 5 (4.07%) Web Services
6 4 (3.25%) ARM Templates
6 4 (3.25%) Node.js
6 4 (3.25%) Vue
7 3 (2.44%) CSS
7 3 (2.44%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (2.44%) HTML
7 3 (2.44%) JSON
7 3 (2.44%) Playwright
7 3 (2.44%) YAML
8 2 (1.63%) .NET Framework
8 2 (1.63%) Nightwatchjs
8 2 (1.63%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (1.63%) WinForms
9 1 (0.81%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 76 (61.79%) Cloud Native
2 21 (17.07%) Product Ownership
3 18 (14.63%) Blog
4 5 (4.07%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.63%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.81%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.81%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.81%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.81%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 10 (8.13%) Linux
2 2 (1.63%) Windows
2 2 (1.63%) Windows 10
2 2 (1.63%) Windows Server
2 2 (1.63%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (82.11%) CI/CD
2 90 (73.17%) Test Automation
3 71 (57.72%) Software Engineering
4 65 (52.85%) Deployment Automation
5 63 (51.22%) Clean Code
6 61 (49.59%) Microservices
7 59 (47.97%) DevOps
8 51 (41.46%) Agile
9 46 (37.40%) Mentoring
10 38 (30.89%) Coaching
10 38 (30.89%) Fintech
11 36 (29.27%) Continuous Improvement
11 36 (29.27%) Continuous Integration
12 31 (25.20%) Disruptive Innovation
13 21 (17.07%) TDD
14 18 (14.63%) Collaborative Working
14 18 (14.63%) Infrastructure as Code
15 17 (13.82%) Containerisation
16 14 (11.38%) BDD
16 14 (11.38%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 75 (60.98%) Java
2 18 (14.63%) Python
2 18 (14.63%) SQL
3 16 (13.01%) JavaScript
4 15 (12.20%) TypeScript
5 9 (7.32%) C#
5 9 (7.32%) PowerShell
6 8 (6.50%) Bash
7 2 (1.63%) Groovy
7 2 (1.63%) Perl
8 1 (0.81%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 20 (16.26%) Security Cleared
2 10 (8.13%) Degree
3 8 (6.50%) DV Cleared
4 7 (5.69%) SC Cleared
5 5 (4.07%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.44%) ISTQB
6 3 (2.44%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 2 (1.63%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.88%) QA
2 3 (2.44%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 14 (11.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 76 (61.79%) Kubernetes
2 75 (60.98%) Terraform
3 59 (47.97%) Grafana
4 12 (9.76%) Ansible
5 5 (4.07%) Prometheus
6 3 (2.44%) Puppet
7 2 (1.63%) Packer
8 1 (0.81%) Argo
8 1 (0.81%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 4 (3.25%) Microsoft
2 2 (1.63%) AppDynamics
2 2 (1.63%) IBM
3 1 (0.81%) OneLogin