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

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 587 444 538
Rank change year-on-year -143 +94 +75
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Deployment 109 189 334
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.46% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.49% 0.44%
Number of salaries quoted 45 98 255
10th Percentile £46,833 £49,975 £45,000
25th Percentile £48,289 £57,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £73,500 £65,465
Median % change year-on-year -18.37% +12.27% -6.48%
75th Percentile £78,000 £90,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,500 £97,528 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £61,250 £69,263 £65,000
% change year-on-year -11.57% +6.56% -

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 59,772 38,266 76,279
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 77.27% 93.41% 86.72%
Number of salaries quoted 36,377 22,223 57,143
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.29%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £101,250 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.42%

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 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Continuous Deployment in the UK

Continuous Deployment
Top 12 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 March 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 -90 97 £65,000 -13.33% 31
Work from Home +10 69 £52,130 -21.02% 21
London +2 62 £85,000 +6.25% 7
UK excluding London -152 30 £61,250 -11.57% 26
South East -29 13 £81,500 +33.06% 8
North of England -77 10 £52,130 -41.20% 13
Yorkshire -53 5 £52,130 -44.92% 4
Wales -31 4 £46,500 -11.58% 1
West Midlands -9 3 £71,000 +9.23% 1
North West -43 3 £52,130 -41.20% 4
Midlands -45 3 £71,000 +9.23% 1
North East - 2 £52,130 - 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 5 (4.59%) Confluence
2 4 (3.67%) IIS
2 4 (3.67%) Tomcat
3 2 (1.83%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 1 (0.92%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 74 (67.89%) AWS
2 54 (49.54%) Amazon EKS
2 54 (49.54%) GCP
3 36 (33.03%) SaaS
4 26 (23.85%) Azure
5 9 (8.26%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (8.26%) GitHub
6 8 (7.34%) OpenShift
7 7 (6.42%) AWS CloudFormation
7 7 (6.42%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (2.75%) Azure AKS
8 3 (2.75%) PaaS
9 2 (1.83%) dbt
9 2 (1.83%) Fivetran
9 2 (1.83%) IaaS
9 2 (1.83%) Serverless
10 1 (0.92%) Azure Functions
10 1 (0.92%) Power Automate
10 1 (0.92%) Power Platform
10 1 (0.92%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.67%) DNS
2 1 (0.92%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (19.27%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (13.76%) MongoDB
2 15 (13.76%) NoSQL
3 12 (11.01%) MySQL
4 4 (3.67%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.83%) BigQuery
5 2 (1.83%) Looker
6 1 (0.92%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.92%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 51 (46.79%) TeamCity
2 16 (14.68%) GitLab
2 16 (14.68%) Jenkins
3 10 (9.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 9 (8.26%) Git
5 8 (7.34%) Selenium
6 7 (6.42%) JIRA
7 6 (5.50%) SpecFlow
8 5 (4.59%) Bitbucket
8 5 (4.59%) WebDriver
9 3 (2.75%) Cucumber
9 3 (2.75%) Cypress.io
9 3 (2.75%) JMeter
9 3 (2.75%) REST Assured
9 3 (2.75%) Visual Studio
10 2 (1.83%) Appium
10 2 (1.83%) NUnit
10 2 (1.83%) Postman
10 2 (1.83%) Serenity BDD
11 1 (0.92%) Subversion
General
1 52 (47.71%) Banking
1 52 (47.71%) Retail
2 51 (46.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 51 (46.79%) Law
3 46 (42.20%) Finance
4 36 (33.03%) Back Office
4 36 (33.03%) Financial Institution
5 13 (11.93%) Public Sector
6 7 (6.42%) Social Skills
7 6 (5.50%) Aerospace
8 3 (2.75%) Local Government
9 2 (1.83%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.92%) Advertising
10 1 (0.92%) Military
Job Titles
1 58 (53.21%) Software Engineer
2 26 (23.85%) Java Engineer
2 26 (23.85%) Java Software Engineer
3 24 (22.02%) Senior
4 20 (18.35%) Lead
5 17 (15.60%) Senior Software Engineer
6 13 (11.93%) DevOps Engineer
7 12 (11.01%) Lead Software Engineer
8 10 (9.17%) Customer Engineer
8 10 (9.17%) Customer Service Engineer
9 8 (7.34%) Integration Engineer
9 8 (7.34%) Senior Integration Engineer
9 8 (7.34%) Senior Java Engineer
9 8 (7.34%) Senior Java Software Engineer
9 8 (7.34%) Software Integration Engineer
9 8 (7.34%) Software Team Leader
9 8 (7.34%) Team Leader
10 7 (6.42%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 6 (5.50%) Developer
11 6 (5.50%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (16.51%) RESTful
2 7 (6.42%) React
2 7 (6.42%) Sass
2 7 (6.42%) Web Services
3 5 (4.59%) Kafka
3 5 (4.59%) REST
4 4 (3.67%) Middleware
5 3 (2.75%) .NET
5 3 (2.75%) Playwright
6 2 (1.83%) Nightwatchjs
7 1 (0.92%) ARM Templates
7 1 (0.92%) CSS
7 1 (0.92%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (0.92%) HTML
7 1 (0.92%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (0.92%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 68 (62.39%) Cloud Native
2 17 (15.60%) Product Ownership
3 15 (13.76%) Blog
4 2 (1.83%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.92%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.92%) Low-Code
5 1 (0.92%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.92%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 10 (9.17%) Linux
2 4 (3.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (3.67%) Windows
2 4 (3.67%) Windows Server
2 4 (3.67%) Windows Server 2012
2 4 (3.67%) Windows Server 2016
2 4 (3.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (78.90%) CI/CD
2 84 (77.06%) Test Automation
3 60 (55.05%) Software Engineering
4 58 (53.21%) Deployment Automation
5 54 (49.54%) Clean Code
6 52 (47.71%) Microservices
7 50 (45.87%) DevOps
8 49 (44.95%) Agile
9 36 (33.03%) Mentoring
10 31 (28.44%) Fintech
11 30 (27.52%) Continuous Integration
12 29 (26.61%) Coaching
13 23 (21.10%) Disruptive Innovation
14 21 (19.27%) Continuous Improvement
15 18 (16.51%) BDD
15 18 (16.51%) TDD
16 14 (12.84%) Collaborative Working
16 14 (12.84%) Infrastructure as Code
17 13 (11.93%) Scrum
18 11 (10.09%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 71 (65.14%) Java
2 20 (18.35%) SQL
3 16 (14.68%) Python
4 10 (9.17%) JavaScript
4 10 (9.17%) TypeScript
5 9 (8.26%) PowerShell
6 8 (7.34%) Bash
7 7 (6.42%) C#
8 1 (0.92%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 19 (17.43%) Security Cleared
2 9 (8.26%) DV Cleared
3 7 (6.42%) SC Cleared
4 4 (3.67%) Degree
5 3 (2.75%) ISTQB
5 3 (2.75%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 2 (1.83%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.92%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.50%) QA
2 3 (2.75%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 12 (11.01%) Docker
2 4 (3.67%) Active Directory
2 4 (3.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 69 (63.30%) Kubernetes
2 65 (59.63%) Terraform
3 52 (47.71%) Grafana
4 13 (11.93%) Ansible
5 7 (6.42%) Puppet
6 4 (3.67%) Progress Chef
7 2 (1.83%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.92%) Argo
8 1 (0.92%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 5 (4.59%) Atlassian
1 5 (4.59%) Microsoft
2 4 (3.67%) Oracle
2 4 (3.67%) Red Hat
2 4 (3.67%) VMware
3 2 (1.83%) Google
4 1 (0.92%) CA Agile Central
4 1 (0.92%) OneLogin