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 5 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 601 455 512
Rank change year-on-year -146 +57 +39
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Deployment 54 314 211
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.097% 0.50% 0.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.57% 0.45%
Number of salaries quoted 29 138 162
10th Percentile £59,250 £48,538 £42,500
25th Percentile £67,500 £58,938 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £67,500 £62,968
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +7.20% -10.05%
75th Percentile £77,500 £92,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £88,500 £108,750 £97,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,500 £67,500 £58,000
% change year-on-year +4.44% +16.38% -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 46,704 54,735 46,950
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.99% 86.52% 93.73%
Number of salaries quoted 28,159 28,437 36,165
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £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 £99,000 £99,700
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -1.15%

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 5 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Continuous Deployment in the UK

Continuous Deployment
Top 10 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 5 December 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 -119 46 £75,000 +11.11% 17
London +4 27 £75,000 -16.67% 6
Work from Home -39 25 £70,000 +5.29% 15
UK excluding London -105 20 £70,500 +4.44% 20
South East -37 11 £70,000 +1.82% 5
North West +29 3 £75,000 +14.57% 3
Midlands +22 3 £71,000 +8.46% 2
West Midlands +10 3 £71,000 +8.46% 2
Wales 0 3 £41,000 -22.04% 3
North of England -15 3 £75,000 +14.57% 5

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 (14.81%) IIS
2 6 (11.11%) Confluence
3 4 (7.41%) nginx
3 4 (7.41%) Tomcat
4 2 (3.70%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 2 (3.70%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 26 (48.15%) AWS
2 19 (35.19%) GCP
3 18 (33.33%) Azure
4 17 (31.48%) SaaS
5 16 (29.63%) Amazon EKS
6 8 (14.81%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (11.11%) Azure Monitor
8 5 (9.26%) Azure AKS
8 5 (9.26%) Azure Service Bus
8 5 (9.26%) OpenShift
9 4 (7.41%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 4 (7.41%) Azure Pipelines
9 4 (7.41%) Cloudflare
9 4 (7.41%) GitHub
10 3 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (5.56%) Serverless
11 2 (3.70%) Azure Data Factory
11 2 (3.70%) Dynamics 365
11 2 (3.70%) Power Platform
11 2 (3.70%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.41%) DNS
2 2 (3.70%) Firewall
3 1 (1.85%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (14.81%) SQL Server
2 4 (7.41%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (3.70%) BigQuery
3 2 (3.70%) Looker
3 2 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.85%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (1.85%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.85%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.85%) MySQL
4 1 (1.85%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 15 (27.78%) TeamCity
2 11 (20.37%) Git
2 11 (20.37%) Jenkins
3 9 (16.67%) GitLab
4 7 (12.96%) JIRA
4 7 (12.96%) Selenium
5 6 (11.11%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 5 (9.26%) Bitbucket
6 5 (9.26%) Cypress.io
7 4 (7.41%) Octopus Deploy
8 3 (5.56%) Appium
8 3 (5.56%) SonarQube
8 3 (5.56%) SpecFlow
8 3 (5.56%) WebDriver
9 1 (1.85%) Bugzilla
9 1 (1.85%) Cucumber
9 1 (1.85%) JMeter
9 1 (1.85%) JUnit
9 1 (1.85%) LoadRunner
9 1 (1.85%) TestNG
General
1 20 (37.04%) Finance
2 16 (29.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 16 (29.63%) Law
3 15 (27.78%) Back Office
3 15 (27.78%) Banking
3 15 (27.78%) Financial Institution
3 15 (27.78%) Retail
4 9 (16.67%) Social Skills
5 3 (5.56%) Health Technology
6 2 (3.70%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.85%) Advertising
7 1 (1.85%) Legal
7 1 (1.85%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 17 (31.48%) Software Engineer
2 9 (16.67%) Lead
3 8 (14.81%) Senior
4 7 (12.96%) DevOps Engineer
4 7 (12.96%) Java Engineer
4 7 (12.96%) Java Software Engineer
4 7 (12.96%) Senior Software Engineer
5 6 (11.11%) Developer
6 5 (9.26%) Platform Engineer
6 5 (9.26%) Test Engineer
7 4 (7.41%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 4 (7.41%) Azure Engineer
7 4 (7.41%) Test Automation Engineer
8 3 (5.56%) Automation Engineer
8 3 (5.56%) Integration Engineer
8 3 (5.56%) QA Automation Engineer
8 3 (5.56%) QA Engineer
8 3 (5.56%) QA Test Engineer
8 3 (5.56%) Senior Java Engineer
8 3 (5.56%) Software Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (18.52%) .NET
2 5 (9.26%) Kafka
2 5 (9.26%) Loki
2 5 (9.26%) RabbitMQ
3 4 (7.41%) ARM Templates
3 4 (7.41%) Middleware
3 4 (7.41%) Playwright
4 3 (5.56%) REST
4 3 (5.56%) RESTful
4 3 (5.56%) Web Services
5 2 (3.70%) React
6 1 (1.85%) .NET Core
6 1 (1.85%) AWS CDK
6 1 (1.85%) Laravel
6 1 (1.85%) Node.js
6 1 (1.85%) React Native
6 1 (1.85%) Symfony
6 1 (1.85%) Vue
6 1 (1.85%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 16 (29.63%) Cloud Native
2 7 (12.96%) Product Ownership
3 3 (5.56%) Mobile App
4 2 (3.70%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.85%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 13 (24.07%) Linux
1 13 (24.07%) Windows
2 6 (11.11%) Windows Server
3 4 (7.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (7.41%) Windows Server 2012
3 4 (7.41%) Windows Server 2016
3 4 (7.41%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (79.63%) CI/CD
2 31 (57.41%) DevOps
3 30 (55.56%) Test Automation
4 27 (50.00%) Agile
5 25 (46.30%) Continuous Integration
6 24 (44.44%) Microservices
7 21 (38.89%) Deployment Automation
8 18 (33.33%) Clean Code
8 18 (33.33%) Software Engineering
9 16 (29.63%) Mentoring
10 13 (24.07%) Infrastructure as Code
11 10 (18.52%) Scrum
12 9 (16.67%) Infrastructure Automation
13 8 (14.81%) Continuous Improvement
13 8 (14.81%) Platform Engineering
14 7 (12.96%) Configuration Management
14 7 (12.96%) Containerisation
14 7 (12.96%) Performance Monitoring
14 7 (12.96%) SDLC
15 6 (11.11%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 20 (37.04%) Java
2 15 (27.78%) Python
3 11 (20.37%) C#
4 9 (16.67%) PowerShell
5 8 (14.81%) SQL
6 6 (11.11%) Bash
6 6 (11.11%) TypeScript
7 5 (9.26%) JavaScript
8 4 (7.41%) Bicep
9 2 (3.70%) Go
10 1 (1.85%) PHP
10 1 (1.85%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (12.96%) Security Cleared
2 4 (7.41%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (5.56%) Degree
4 2 (3.70%) Azure Certification
4 2 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (3.70%) DV Cleared
4 2 (3.70%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.85%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (16.67%) QA
2 1 (1.85%) Accessibility
System Software
1 14 (25.93%) Docker
2 4 (7.41%) Active Directory
2 4 (7.41%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (7.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (5.56%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 31 (57.41%) Kubernetes
2 25 (46.30%) Terraform
3 23 (42.59%) Grafana
4 10 (18.52%) Ansible
5 6 (11.11%) Prometheus
6 5 (9.26%) Puppet
7 4 (7.41%) Progress Chef
8 3 (5.56%) Docker Swarm
8 3 (5.56%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 7 (12.96%) VMware
2 5 (9.26%) Atlassian
2 5 (9.26%) Microsoft
3 4 (7.41%) Oracle
3 4 (7.41%) Red Hat
4 3 (5.56%) Google
5 2 (3.70%) SolarWinds
6 1 (1.85%) CA Agile Central
6 1 (1.85%) Hitachi
6 1 (1.85%) OneLogin