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

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 588 458 500
Rank change year-on-year -130 +42 +56
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Deployment 55 310 217
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.10% 0.49% 0.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.56% 0.46%
Number of salaries quoted 31 136 167
10th Percentile £60,000 £48,242 £42,500
25th Percentile £66,250 £58,938 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,000 £67,500 £62,968
Median % change year-on-year +5.19% +7.20% -10.05%
75th Percentile £77,500 £92,819 £80,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £108,750 £96,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,500 £67,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.44% +17.39% -9.80%

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 45,523 54,873 47,405
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.89% 85.86% 93.74%
Number of salaries quoted 27,788 28,510 36,562
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,905 £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 £98,750 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -0.94%

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 2 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 2 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 -103 48 £75,000 +11.11% 30
London +9 29 £75,000 -16.67% 10
Work from Home -34 23 £70,000 +5.29% 45
UK excluding London -92 19 £70,500 +4.44% 34
South East -41 11 £70,000 +1.82% 11
North West +33 3 £75,000 +14.57% 7
West Midlands +28 3 £71,000 +8.46% 4
Midlands +24 3 £71,000 +8.46% 4
North of England -15 3 £75,000 +14.57% 9
Wales -1 2 £41,000 -22.04% 4

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 (14.55%) IIS
2 6 (10.91%) Confluence
3 4 (7.27%) nginx
3 4 (7.27%) Tomcat
4 2 (3.64%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 2 (3.64%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 25 (45.45%) AWS
2 19 (34.55%) Azure
2 19 (34.55%) GCP
3 17 (30.91%) SaaS
4 15 (27.27%) Amazon EKS
5 8 (14.55%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (12.73%) Azure Monitor
7 5 (9.09%) Azure AKS
7 5 (9.09%) Azure Service Bus
7 5 (9.09%) GitHub
7 5 (9.09%) OpenShift
8 4 (7.27%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 4 (7.27%) Azure Pipelines
8 4 (7.27%) Cloudflare
8 4 (7.27%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (5.45%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (5.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 3 (5.45%) Serverless
10 2 (3.64%) Power Platform
10 2 (3.64%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.27%) DNS
2 3 (5.45%) Firewall
3 1 (1.82%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (14.55%) SQL Server
2 4 (7.27%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (3.64%) BigQuery
3 2 (3.64%) Looker
3 2 (3.64%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.82%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (1.82%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.82%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.82%) MySQL
4 1 (1.82%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 14 (25.45%) TeamCity
2 13 (23.64%) Git
3 12 (21.82%) Jenkins
4 9 (16.36%) GitLab
5 7 (12.73%) JIRA
6 6 (10.91%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 6 (10.91%) Selenium
7 5 (9.09%) Bitbucket
7 5 (9.09%) Cypress.io
8 4 (7.27%) Octopus Deploy
9 3 (5.45%) Appium
9 3 (5.45%) SonarQube
10 2 (3.64%) SpecFlow
10 2 (3.64%) WebDriver
11 1 (1.82%) Cucumber
11 1 (1.82%) JUnit
11 1 (1.82%) LoadRunner
11 1 (1.82%) mountebank
11 1 (1.82%) REST Assured
11 1 (1.82%) TestNG
General
1 20 (36.36%) Finance
2 16 (29.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 16 (29.09%) Law
3 14 (25.45%) Back Office
3 14 (25.45%) Banking
3 14 (25.45%) Financial Institution
3 14 (25.45%) Retail
4 10 (18.18%) Social Skills
5 3 (5.45%) Health Technology
6 2 (3.64%) Aerospace
6 2 (3.64%) Legal
7 1 (1.82%) Advertising
7 1 (1.82%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.82%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 17 (30.91%) Software Engineer
2 9 (16.36%) Lead
3 8 (14.55%) Senior
4 7 (12.73%) DevOps Engineer
4 7 (12.73%) Java Engineer
4 7 (12.73%) Java Software Engineer
4 7 (12.73%) Senior Software Engineer
5 6 (10.91%) Developer
5 6 (10.91%) Platform Engineer
6 5 (9.09%) Test Engineer
7 4 (7.27%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 4 (7.27%) Azure Engineer
7 4 (7.27%) Test Automation Engineer
8 3 (5.45%) Automation Engineer
8 3 (5.45%) QA Automation Engineer
8 3 (5.45%) QA Engineer
8 3 (5.45%) QA Test Engineer
8 3 (5.45%) Senior Integration Engineer
8 3 (5.45%) Senior Java Engineer
8 3 (5.45%) Senior Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (18.18%) .NET
2 5 (9.09%) Kafka
2 5 (9.09%) Loki
2 5 (9.09%) RabbitMQ
3 4 (7.27%) ARM Templates
3 4 (7.27%) Middleware
3 4 (7.27%) Playwright
4 3 (5.45%) RESTful
5 2 (3.64%) React
5 2 (3.64%) REST
5 2 (3.64%) Web Services
6 1 (1.82%) .NET Core
6 1 (1.82%) AWS CDK
6 1 (1.82%) Laravel
6 1 (1.82%) Node.js
6 1 (1.82%) React Native
6 1 (1.82%) Symfony
6 1 (1.82%) Vue
6 1 (1.82%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 15 (27.27%) Cloud Native
2 6 (10.91%) Product Ownership
3 3 (5.45%) Distributed Architecture
3 3 (5.45%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.82%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 14 (25.45%) Windows
2 13 (23.64%) Linux
3 7 (12.73%) Windows Server
4 4 (7.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (7.27%) Windows Server 2012
4 4 (7.27%) Windows Server 2016
4 4 (7.27%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (1.82%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (81.82%) CI/CD
2 31 (56.36%) DevOps
3 29 (52.73%) Test Automation
4 28 (50.91%) Continuous Integration
5 26 (47.27%) Agile
6 24 (43.64%) Microservices
7 21 (38.18%) Deployment Automation
8 18 (32.73%) Software Engineering
9 17 (30.91%) Clean Code
10 15 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
10 15 (27.27%) Mentoring
11 9 (16.36%) Infrastructure Automation
11 9 (16.36%) Platform Engineering
11 9 (16.36%) Scrum
12 8 (14.55%) Continuous Improvement
12 8 (14.55%) Performance Monitoring
12 8 (14.55%) SDLC
13 7 (12.73%) Collaborative Working
13 7 (12.73%) Containerisation
13 7 (12.73%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 20 (36.36%) Java
2 16 (29.09%) Python
3 11 (20.00%) C#
4 10 (18.18%) PowerShell
5 8 (14.55%) SQL
6 6 (10.91%) Bash
6 6 (10.91%) TypeScript
7 5 (9.09%) JavaScript
8 4 (7.27%) Bicep
9 3 (5.45%) Go
9 3 (5.45%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.82%) PHP
10 1 (1.82%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (10.91%) Security Cleared
2 4 (7.27%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (7.27%) Degree
3 3 (5.45%) Azure Certification
3 3 (5.45%) Master's Degree
3 3 (5.45%) SC Cleared
4 2 (3.64%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (3.64%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.82%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (18.18%) QA
2 1 (1.82%) Accessibility
System Software
1 15 (27.27%) Docker
2 4 (7.27%) Active Directory
2 4 (7.27%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (7.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (5.45%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 31 (56.36%) Kubernetes
2 24 (43.64%) Grafana
2 24 (43.64%) Terraform
3 10 (18.18%) Ansible
4 7 (12.73%) Prometheus
5 5 (9.09%) Progress Chef
5 5 (9.09%) Puppet
6 3 (5.45%) Docker Swarm
6 3 (5.45%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 7 (12.73%) VMware
2 5 (9.09%) Atlassian
2 5 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 5 (9.09%) Oracle
3 4 (7.27%) Google
3 4 (7.27%) Red Hat
4 3 (5.45%) SolarWinds
5 1 (1.82%) CA Agile Central
5 1 (1.82%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.82%) Hitachi
5 1 (1.82%) OneLogin
5 1 (1.82%) Splunk