Continuous Deployment Job Trends

Continuous Deployment
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Continuous Deployment skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 595 469 538
Rank change year-on-year -126 +69 -122
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Deployment 81 357 247
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.46% 0.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.56% 0.43%
Number of salaries quoted 52 176 197
10th Percentile £60,000 £48,750 £43,115
25th Percentile £64,938 £53,750 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,465 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.93% +0.71% -5.13%
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £89,750 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +7.69% +13.04% -8.00%

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 43,869 63,416 56,859
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 88.70% 81.19% 94.35%
Number of salaries quoted 24,728 36,039 42,828
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% -2.78% +2.86%

Continuous Deployment
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Deployment 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 18 September 2025.

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 18 September 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 -124 69 £70,000 +6.93% 42
London +23 49 £70,000 -17.65% 20
UK excluding London -104 23 £70,000 +7.69% 27
Work from Home -95 17 £66,000 +1.54% 32
South East -51 9 £70,000 +9.80% 3
North of England -37 6 £74,500 +13.80% 10
Scotland +25 5 £66,000 -30.26% 4
North West -15 5 £74,500 +14.21% 3
South West +54 1 £75,000 +3.45% 2
Midlands +29 1 - - 4
West Midlands +24 1 - - 2
Yorkshire +5 1 - - 6
Northern Ireland - 1 - -

Continuous Deployment
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 4 (4.94%) IIS
1 4 (4.94%) nginx
2 2 (2.47%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (1.23%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 45 (55.56%) Azure
2 33 (40.74%) AWS
3 18 (22.22%) GCP
4 13 (16.05%) Azure Monitor
5 12 (14.81%) GitHub
6 11 (13.58%) Azure DevOps
7 10 (12.35%) SaaS
8 9 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
8 9 (11.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 8 (9.88%) AWS CloudFormation
9 8 (9.88%) Pulumi
10 7 (8.64%) GitHub Actions
10 7 (8.64%) Serverless
11 6 (7.41%) Azure Pipelines
11 6 (7.41%) PaaS
12 5 (6.17%) Amazon S3
12 5 (6.17%) Azure AKS
12 5 (6.17%) BlazeMeter
13 4 (4.94%) Cloudflare
13 4 (4.94%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 9 (11.11%) Firewall
2 2 (2.47%) Broadband
2 2 (2.47%) Modbus
2 2 (2.47%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.23%) Network Security
3 1 (1.23%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.41%) Azure SQL Database
2 5 (6.17%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (4.94%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (4.94%) SQL Server
4 3 (3.70%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.23%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.23%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.23%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.23%) MySQL
5 1 (1.23%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 22 (27.16%) Git
2 14 (17.28%) Jenkins
3 10 (12.35%) JIRA
4 8 (9.88%) Selenium
5 7 (8.64%) Cypress.io
6 6 (7.41%) Appium
6 6 (7.41%) GitLab
6 6 (7.41%) Octopus Deploy
7 3 (3.70%) SonarQube
8 2 (2.47%) JUnit
8 2 (2.47%) TestNG
9 1 (1.23%) Bugzilla
9 1 (1.23%) JMeter
9 1 (1.23%) LoadRunner
9 1 (1.23%) SpecFlow
9 1 (1.23%) Subversion
9 1 (1.23%) TestComplete
General
1 21 (25.93%) Social Skills
2 13 (16.05%) Finance
3 9 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (8.64%) Law
5 6 (7.41%) Health Technology
6 5 (6.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (4.94%) Legal
8 3 (3.70%) Financial Institution
8 3 (3.70%) Front Office
9 1 (1.23%) Aviation
9 1 (1.23%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.23%) Retail
Job Titles
1 16 (19.75%) Senior
2 14 (17.28%) Lead
3 12 (14.81%) Developer
4 9 (11.11%) Analyst
5 8 (9.88%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 8 (9.88%) Software Engineer
6 7 (8.64%) DevOps Engineer
6 7 (8.64%) Platform Engineer
6 7 (8.64%) QA Engineer
6 7 (8.64%) QA Test Engineer
6 7 (8.64%) Test Engineer
7 6 (7.41%) Azure Engineer
7 6 (7.41%) QA Automation Engineer
7 6 (7.41%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 6 (7.41%) Test Automation Engineer
8 5 (6.17%) Applications Support
9 4 (4.94%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 4 (4.94%) Full-Stack Developer
9 4 (4.94%) Lead Software Engineer
9 4 (4.94%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (14.81%) Loki
2 10 (12.35%) .NET
2 10 (12.35%) RESTful
3 7 (8.64%) Playwright
3 7 (8.64%) React
4 5 (6.17%) Middleware
4 5 (6.17%) RabbitMQ
4 5 (6.17%) React Native
5 4 (4.94%) ARM Templates
6 3 (3.70%) AWS CDK
6 3 (3.70%) Laravel
6 3 (3.70%) Node.js
6 3 (3.70%) OAuth
6 3 (3.70%) OpenID
6 3 (3.70%) Vue
6 3 (3.70%) WebSockets
7 2 (2.47%) JWT
7 2 (2.47%) OAuth2
7 2 (2.47%) REST
7 2 (2.47%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.88%) Distributed Architecture
2 6 (7.41%) Mobile App
3 4 (4.94%) Cloud Native
3 4 (4.94%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.70%) Cloud Security Posture
4 3 (3.70%) Machine to Machine
4 3 (3.70%) Product Ownership
4 3 (3.70%) Public Cloud
4 3 (3.70%) Security Posture
5 2 (2.47%) Algorithms
5 2 (2.47%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.47%) Device Driver
5 2 (2.47%) Embedded Systems
5 2 (2.47%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.23%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.23%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 15 (18.52%) Windows
2 10 (12.35%) Linux
3 8 (9.88%) Windows Server
4 5 (6.17%) Unix
5 2 (2.47%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (1.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.23%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (86.42%) CI/CD
2 61 (75.31%) Continuous Integration
3 38 (46.91%) DevOps
4 34 (41.98%) Agile
4 34 (41.98%) Infrastructure as Code
5 23 (28.40%) Mentoring
6 21 (25.93%) Test Automation
7 19 (23.46%) Microservices
8 18 (22.22%) Containerisation
9 17 (20.99%) Problem-Solving
10 13 (16.05%) Platform Engineering
10 13 (16.05%) SDLC
10 13 (16.05%) Stakeholder Management
11 12 (14.81%) Change Management
11 12 (14.81%) Task Automation
11 12 (14.81%) Validation
12 11 (13.58%) ITIL
12 11 (13.58%) Security Testing
13 10 (12.35%) Computer Science
13 10 (12.35%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 26 (32.10%) Python
2 14 (17.28%) SQL
2 14 (17.28%) TypeScript
3 13 (16.05%) Go
4 12 (14.81%) JavaScript
4 12 (14.81%) PowerShell
5 11 (13.58%) Java
6 10 (12.35%) C#
7 9 (11.11%) Shell Script
8 8 (9.88%) Bash
9 6 (7.41%) Bicep
10 5 (6.17%) PL/SQL
11 3 (3.70%) PHP
12 2 (2.47%) C
12 2 (2.47%) C++
12 2 (2.47%) Rust
Qualifications
1 14 (17.28%) Degree
2 10 (12.35%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (9.88%) Azure Certification
3 8 (9.88%) Master's Degree
4 3 (3.70%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 3 (3.70%) CCSP
4 3 (3.70%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (3.70%) CISSP
4 3 (3.70%) SC Cleared
4 3 (3.70%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.23%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.23%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (19.75%) QA
2 4 (4.94%) GDPR
3 3 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (3.70%) NIST
3 3 (3.70%) SOC 2
4 1 (1.23%) ISO 9001
4 1 (1.23%) PMO
System Software
1 18 (22.22%) Docker
2 5 (6.17%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (3.70%) vCloud
4 2 (2.47%) Embedded Firmware
4 2 (2.47%) Firmware
5 1 (1.23%) Active Directory
5 1 (1.23%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (1.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 27 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 26 (32.10%) Grafana
3 24 (29.63%) Terraform
4 12 (14.81%) Prometheus
5 10 (12.35%) Progress Chef
6 5 (6.17%) Ansible
7 3 (3.70%) Docker Swarm
7 3 (3.70%) Puppet
7 3 (3.70%) Rundeck
8 2 (2.47%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 8 (9.88%) Hitachi
2 8 (9.88%) SolarWinds
3 7 (8.64%) Google
4 5 (6.17%) Dynatrace
4 5 (6.17%) Oracle
4 5 (6.17%) Splunk
5 4 (4.94%) VMware
6 3 (3.70%) Alibaba
6 3 (3.70%) ServiceNow
7 2 (2.47%) ForgeRock
7 2 (2.47%) Ping Identity
8 1 (1.23%) CA Agile Central
8 1 (1.23%) Citrix
8 1 (1.23%) Palo Alto
8 1 (1.23%) Red Hat